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Kyl: "I don't think the state party is doing everything it can"Republican Sen. Jon Kyl delivered the verbal broadside Saturday while visiting Sierra Vista as part of a breakfast meeting hosted by the Thunder Mountain Republican Women.
Permalink [Filed under: Kyl]Posted by Editor at 01:22 PM
Kyl can't win with AZ conservativesFunny how the facts can put a real damper on things. As Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl joined with a group of fellow Republicans this week in Washington to lobby for $3 billion in border-enforcement funding, conservatives in Arizona were on the verge of a tantrum.Permalink [Filed under: Kyl]Wait. Isn't this what conservatives wanted, you ask, when they launched attacks at Kyl last month for supporting an immigration compromise that included a path to citizenship? Yes, seemingly so.
But after learning that something was percolating on Capitol Hill, Republican Don Goldwater, on behalf of a group called Americans for Legal Immigration, forwarded an e-mail titled "Here We Go Again!"
Posted by Editor at 01:46 PM
McCain, Kyl sponsor land-swap billU.S. Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., have put forward a bill that would swap federally owned lands for private parcels in southeastern Arizona. The aim is to facilitate copper mining in Superior by Resolution Copper Co. while preserving other lands in the state.The McCain-Kyl bill has British-owned Resolution giving the federal government more than 4,500 acres near the San Pedro River for conservation purposes.
In exchange, Resolution will get 3,000 acres of federally owned land near Superior to for copper mining and exploration.
Permalink [Filed under: Federal Government, Kyl, Land, McCain, State]
Posted by Editor at 10:26 AM
Kyl hails $3B border allocation as victoryAfter 24 hours of partisan bickering and procedural floor tactics, the U.S. Senate agreed Thursday to spend $3 billion on border enforcement efforts backed by Arizona Sen. Jon Kyl.Permalink [Filed under: Border, Immigration, Kyl, Security]Included in that total is $60 million to improve a federal database of who can work here legally, specifically to help states like Arizona crack down on illegal entrants.
Kyl, who got the database money inserted into the overall border enforcement plan, said funding for the database — known as the Basic Pilot Program — is particularly crucial for Arizona.
Posted by Editor at 10:09 AM
Kyl tackles immigration through Homeland Security billU.S. Sen. Jon Kyl secured an agreement with Senate Democrats to pump up the Department of Homeland Security’s budget by $3 billion for immigration enforcement measures Wednesday.Permalink [Filed under: Immigration, Kyl]His next step is to propose separate legislation that will spell out how to spend the money. The Arizona Republican plans to introduce that bill before the Senate’s summer recess starts on Aug. 4.
The Senate, House and president still must give final approval to both portions of the package before the first new mile of border fencing can be built. However, Wednesday’s development was an important step that indicates a willingness by lawmakers to take an enforcement-first approach to immigration reform.
Posted by Editor at 01:24 AM
Kyl, McCain try again to win OK for new mine near SuperiorMESA — U.S. Sens. Jon Kyl and John McCain have introduced legislation for the third year in a row that would allow a new copper mine to be developed over a huge mineral deposit outside Superior.Permalink [Filed under: Economy, Kyl, McCain, Mining]The mine project proposed by Resolution Copper Mining, the Arizona joint subsidiary of Britain's Rio Tinto and Australia's BHP Billiton, needs the legislation to pass to acquire federal land over the underground mine site.
The bill introduced Tuesday by the two Arizona Republicans would give Resolution Copper about 3,025 acres three miles east of Superior in exchange for seven parcels totaling 4,583 acres of environmentally sensitive land throughout Arizona.
Posted by Editor at 01:18 AM
Kyl plans new, revised immigration reform billU.S. Sen. Jon Kyl plans to introduce an immigration enforcement bill before the Senate’s month-long summer recess starts on Aug. 4.Permalink [Filed under: Immigration, Kyl]The Arizona Republican’s new tactic will be more narrowly focused than the Senate’s previous and unsuccessful approach that tried to link immigration enforcement to immigration reform. The broader measure collapsed in June.
The new legislation will offer a selection of immigration enforcement options that were identified during and after debate surrounding the failed immigration reform bill, Kyl said.
Posted by Editor at 12:59 AM
Kyl votes against children's health funding through tobacco tax hikeU.S. Sen. Jon Kyl of Arizona was among a handful of Republicans to vote against a proposed expansion of children's health program by boosting tobacco taxes.Permalink [Filed under: Health Care, Kyl]The Senate Finance Committee voted Thursday to hike federal taxes on cigarettes and cigars, and to use those funds to allocate billions of dollars to the Children's Health Insurance Program, which offers health coverage for uninsured children of the working poor.
Democrats and some Republicans on the panel voted for the measure.
Posted by Editor at 08:09 PM
How migrant-reform effort changed Kyl's imageWASHINGTON - Democrats are praising Sen. Jon Kyl. Republicans are damning him.This topsy-turvy political scene would have been unbelievable a year ago, when the conservative Arizona Republican was facing his toughest challenge yet in his bid for a third term.
But Kyl's key role in this year's failed immigration compromise has former supporters howling, foes taking a second look and everyone re-evaluating his record and his legacy.
Permalink [Filed under: Immigration, Kyl]
Posted by Editor at 07:19 AM
Burned by immigration bill, Kyl turning to new issuesFollowing the collapse of the Senate’s immigration reform bill late last week, Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., said he’s prepared to move onto other issues.Permalink [Filed under: Immigration, Kyl]“We’ve got the defense authorization bill coming up the week after the recess,” he said Friday. “And we have a lot of work to do on it. So that’s what we’re working on.”
No wonder Kyl is preparing to move onto something else when the Senate resumes its schedule after the week-long Fourth of July recess.
The last issue exposed him to new levels of disrespect.
Posted by Editor at 10:10 PM
Arizona senators lend support as federal immigration reform regains steamImmigration reform has returned to life in the U.S. Senate.The Senate voted Tuesday to move the business-backed immigration package forward. Arizona Republican Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl voted with most Democrats and some Republicans in favor of the measure, which includes a foreign guest worker program, more security and enforcement and a legal path for many of the 12 million illegal immigrants already in the U.S.
U.S. Sens. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., Barack Obama, D-Ill., Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., and Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., were among those voting with McCain and Kyl. The Bush administration also supports the plan.
Permalink [Filed under: Immigration, Kyl, McCain]
Posted by Editor at 08:26 AM
Bill punitive enough to pass? Kyl hopes soNew requirements to track down, deport and permanently bar people who overstay their visas would be added to a broad immigration bill under a GOP bid to attract more Republican support.Permalink [Filed under: Immigration, Kyl]The amendment, which also would prevent illegal immigrants from gaining lawful status until they pass a background check, is one of those the Senate will consider next week when it returns its attention to the immigration measure. The bill is likely to see a final vote by month's end.
Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., an architect of a broader deal to legalize as many as 12 million unlawful immigrants, said Friday that the amendment "will help substantially" in persuading his Republican colleagues to support the compromise.
Posted by Editor at 11:36 PM
Kyl, McCain subject of recallA group calling itself Arizonans for Integrity and Justice has taken out recall petitions against Arizona's two U.S. senators.Permalink [Filed under: Immigration, Kyl, McCain]The group wants to oust Sen. John McCain and Sen. Jon Kyl, both Republicans for the same, identical offenses. The complaints are spelled out in tiny, hand-written lettering on the petition filed with the Arizona Secretary of State.
In brief, the Glendale-based group, headed by Leonard Clark, is upset with the senators' support for the Iraq war, their lack of reining in the president's power (referring to the president as King Bush) and their disrespect for the legal concept of habeus corpus.
Posted by Editor at 08:13 PM
Migrant bill hits dead endThe bill's sudden collapse was a setback for advocates for immigrants and business groups who called reform vital, as well as for President Bush, who has made the issue a priority for years. It also stung Arizona's two Republican senators, Jon Kyl and John McCain, who both pushed for passage despite furious opposition among grass-roots conservatives.Permalink [Filed under: Immigration, Kyl, McCain, US Senate]McCain, who has been hammered by his rivals for the Republican presidential nomination over his support for the bill, cut short a campaign trip to New York to return to Washington for the final vote. Afterward, he wouldn't answer questions about the outcome.
"I don't have anything to say," he said five times before stepping into an elevator in the Capitol. "I apologize, I do not have anything to say."
Posted by Editor at 07:08 AM
Kyl Asked to Abandon Immigration BillHundreds of Arizona Republicans, including 26 state lawmakers and Sheriff Joe Arpaio, have signed a letter asking Senator Jon Kyl to abandon his federal immigration reform bill.Permalink [Filed under: Immigration, Kyl]Mesa Senator Karen Johnson hand-delivered the letter to Kyl's Camelback Road office.
"I'm concerned and I'm disappointed," Johnson said. "I would hope he would open up his heart and his mind to what his constituents would really like to have him be doing."
Posted by Editor at 02:10 AM
Political ad asks, 'Where's the fence?'Grassfire.org, a conservative advocacy organization, has targeted Sens. John McCain and Jon Kyl of Arizona, among other U.S. senators, in television and Internet ads that ask, "Where's the fence?"Permalink [Filed under: Ads, Border, Immigration, Kyl, McCain, Security]The 30-second spots, filmed at South Mountain Park near Ahwatukee Foothills, debuted Monday on the Internet and will begin a three-day run on national cable news networks today.
"It's going to give folks the opportunity to see the spot multiple times and respond to it," said Ron De Jong, director of communications for Grassfire. "And there is no question that they are going to do it. There are going to be a lot of angry Arizonans calling the offices of Kyl and McCain."
Posted by Editor at 01:46 AM
Protest letter delivered to Kyl's office, reporters denied entryPolitical theater met the theater of the absurd Tuesday with a protest letter to Sen. Jon Kyl, a group of reporters and an armed guard.Permalink [Filed under: Immigration, Kyl]The scene was Kyl's central Phoenix office. That's where a dozen or so media members gathered for the promised handoff of a letter - signed by 26 GOP legislators and 302 elected officials, party dignitaries and regular citizens - from Sen. Karen Johnson, R-Mesa, to Kyl's staff (Kyl was not on site).
The letter was in opposition to Kyl's immigration bill, an issue that has generated emotional debate on all sides.
Posted by Editor at 01:42 AM
Feeling immigration heat, Jon Kyl schedules no public appearancesRed-state senators feel the heat of a fiery immigration debate
GREENVILLE, S.C., and PHOENIX - In South Carolina last week during the congressional break, Sen. Lindsey Graham generally avoided crowds. Likewise Sen. Jon Kyl, back home in Arizona, scheduled no public appearances, instead huddling with party officials in Phoenix.It could not have been an easy week for the two GOP senators, key brokers of the compromise immigration-reform bill that has infuriated so many of their red-state constituents. How well they and other senators in the hot seat endured the heat may become clear when the Senate resumes debate on the bill this week – and whether the amendments to come are designed mainly to alter it or, rather, to kill it.
The week at home made one thing evident: Senators who back this measure, especially Republicans, are taking a calculated risk.
Permalink [Filed under: Immigration, Kyl]
Posted by Editor at 02:11 AM
Senator Kyl’s Stockholm SyndromeU.S. Senator Jon Kyl of Arizona has outraged many Republicans by joining with Ted Kennedy in sponsoring and leading the fight for the new Senate amnesty bill. He has joined John McCain as the two most unpopular elected officials among rank and file Republicans in Arizona.Permalink [Filed under: Immigration, Kyl]Kyl has thus joined President Bush and Karl Rove in thinking that “statesmanship” means abandoning your party’s core principles in order to appease the National Council of La Raza. It is significant that neither Kyl nor Bush need face voters again.
Posted by Editor at 01:52 AM
Backers of Immigration Bill More Optimistic[..]Permalink [Filed under: Flake, Immigration, Kyl]"You just have to recognize you will get 300 calls, you'll get conflicts at town hall meetings -- all of them negative," said Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), who consulted with Kyl and hopes to carry a similar deal through the House in July. "The last few days have really turned things around."
Public opinion polls seem to support Kyl's contention that Americans are far more open to the deal than the voices of opposition would indicate. In a Washington Post-ABC News poll released today, 52 percent of Americans said they would support a program giving illegal immigrants the right to stay and work in the United States if they pay a fine and meet other requirements. Opposition to that proposal was 44 percent.
Posted by Editor at 01:45 AM
Kyl stymies vote on open records billWASHINGTON - Advocates of a bill promoting openness in government are fuming that an Arizona senator is blocking a vote.Dozens of journalism and advocacy groups supporting the Open Government Act argue it would speed up the government's response to public requests for information under the federal Freedom of Information Act.
Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., says the Justice Department is concerned that it could force it to reveal sensitive information.
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Posted by Editor at 07:30 AM
Kyl crucial in immigration reformSen. Jon Kyl's mandate could not have been clearer when he was elected last fall: Do something about our immigration problem.Permalink [Filed under: Immigration, Kyl, Opinion]With Republicans thrown out of control of Congress, the chances for an immigration-reform package that would reflect the border-security concerns of conservatives seemed impossible. Fortunately, Kyl emerged as the point person to ensure a federal immigration bill would include certain conservative elements.
Posted by Editor at 07:33 AM
Change on Immigration Turns Senator Kyl Into Lightning RodWASHINGTON, May 25 — Angry calls poured into Senator Jon Kyl’s office this week by the thousands, expressing outrage beyond anything he said he had witnessed in his 20-year political career. The callers were inflamed by Mr. Kyl’s role in shaping the bipartisan immigration compromise announced May 17, which lawmakers continue to debate.Permalink [Filed under: Immigration, Kyl]“Yes, I have learned some new words from some of my constituents,” Mr. Kyl, an Arizona Republican, said at a news conference on Thursday, drawing titters from those in the room.
Mr. Kyl, 65, who garners top ratings from conservative groups every year, is the unlikely linchpin to the fragile alliance of Democrats and Republicans trying to push the sprawling immigration bill through the Senate.
Posted by Editor at 06:24 AM
Republican Kyl's immigration stance splits ArizonaPHOENIX (Reuters) - Hard-liners in the immigration debate stood behind Sen. Jon Kyl for his tough stance on immigration last year, while undocumented immigrants thrashed a pinata bearing his image.Permalink [Filed under: Immigration, Kyl]Now the Arizona Republican's surprise support for a bipartisan Senate bill seeking to legalize some 12 million illegal immigrants and create a guest-worker program has bewildered friends and foes alike in the desert state.
The measure, which would tie tough border security and workplace enforcement measures to a guest-worker program and a plan to offer the millions of illegal immigrants a path to legal status, is under fire from the right and the left.
Posted by Editor at 11:14 PM
Franks: Stop "vitriolic rhetoric" toward KylU.S. Sen. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz., has taken some heat in recent days for his part in the Senate immigration deal. But Rep. Trent Franks, one of the delegation's most conservative members, has rallied to Kyl's defense with a letter to Republican activists. Franks represents Arizona's 2nd District, which includes western Maricopa County and northwestern Arizona.Permalink [Filed under: Immigration, Kyl]
Posted by Editor at 10:34 AM
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