The Senate soundly defeated an immigration bill Thursday that Lindsey Graham helped craft but Jim DeMint helped bring down by branding it "amnesty."
While his legislative peers said DeMint played a huge role in the Senate's 46-53 vote against the immigration overhaul, the first-term Republican from South Carolina deflected credit to the American people.
Despite strong pressure from Bush and members of his Cabinet, the bill fell 14 votes shy of the 60 its backers needed to end Senate debate and vote on final passage.
"The people responded to this issue in a very emotional and just a very engaged way, which changed the minds of many people here in the Senate," DeMint told reporters shortly after the vote.
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Graham, also an S.C. Republican in his first Senate term, couldn't hide his disappointment over the failure of a complex measure he and a bipartisan group of senators ...
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