{"id":2446,"date":"2006-07-10T23:08:15","date_gmt":"2006-07-10T23:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zmetro.com\/?p=2446"},"modified":"2006-07-10T23:08:15","modified_gmt":"2006-07-10T23:08:15","slug":"sensenbrenner_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=2446","title":{"rendered":"Sensenbrenner on Immigration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/07\/11\/washington\/11sensenbrenner.html?ex=1310270400&amp;en=7ea2d51b8c20fdfd&amp;ei=5090&amp;partner=rssuserland&amp;emc=rss\">Mark Leibovich<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>In recent weeks, Mr. Sensenbrenner has refused to yield on anything, derided what he calls the &ldquo;amnesty&rdquo; of the Senate bill and warned that he is willing to walk away without a compromise. He says his views have been influenced by the flood of immigration-related cases coming through his office and what he sees as the failure of previous immigration reform efforts he has worked on.<\/p>\n<p>He is known as one of the toughest negotiators in Congress, which invites another canine metaphor from a colleague. &ldquo;Sensenbrenner is a pit bull,&rdquo; says Representative Ric Keller, a Florida Republican on the Judiciary Committee. &ldquo;And the Senate negotiators he&rsquo;s up against are wearing Milk-Bone underwear.&rdquo;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Sensenbrenner <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madisonblogs.com\/cgi-bin\/mt\/mt-search.cgi?IncludeBlogs=1&amp;search=Sensenbrenner\">has been a powerful friend of many Non-Wisconsin special interests<\/a> such as the recording industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Leibovich: In recent weeks, Mr. Sensenbrenner has refused to yield on anything, derided what he calls the &ldquo;amnesty&rdquo; of the Senate bill and warned that he is willing to walk away without a compromise. He says his views have been influenced by the flood of immigration-related cases coming through his office and what he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,9],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}