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White House Suffers Blows on Key Issues

It was a day of difficult news for President Bush and his second-term agenda. The Senate killed his main domestic policy issue — overhauling immigration laws — as Republican support collapsed. News from Iraq was grim. And the White House claimed executive privilege to protect documents it does not want Congress to see.

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David Greene is an award-winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author. He is a host of NPR's Morning Edition, the most listened-to radio news program in the United States, and also of NPR's popular morning news podcast, Up First.
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