European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 29, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                              June 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 11 in the states Senate immigration Bill Falls 14 votes Short vote pushes issues to Back Burner this year by Charles Babington the associated press Washington the Senate drove a stake thursday through president Bush plan to legalize millions of unlawful Likely postponing major action on immigration until after the 2008 the Bills supporters fell 14 votes Short of the 60 needed to limit debate and Clear the Way for final passage of the which critics assailed As offering amnesty to illegal the vote was 46 to 53 in favor of limiting the senators in both parties said the Issue is so volatile that Congress is highly unlikely to revisit it this fall or next when the presiden tial election will increasingly dominate american a similar Effort collapsed in the Congress last and the House has not bothered with an immigration Bill this await ing Senate the vote was a stinging setback for who advocated the Bill As an imperfect but necessary fix of current immigration practices in which Many illegal immigrants use forged documents or lapsed visas to live and work in the United it was a Victory for Republican conservatives who strongly criticized the Bills provisions that would have established pathways to lawful status for Many of the estimated 12 million illegal Immi they were aided by talk radio and to hosts who repeatedly attacked the Bill and urged listeners to flood Congress with faxes and voting to allow the Bill to proceed by ending debate were 33 12 republicans and Independent Joe Lieberman of voting to Block the Bill by not supreme court spares death Row inmate rules in pricing cases the associated press Washington the supreme court issued three Rul Ings including one about the use of race to assign students to Public thursdays session will Likely be the justices last until octo mental illness spares killer from execution a divided supreme court on thursday blocked the execution of a Texas killer whose lawyers argued that he should not be put to death because he is mentally the court ruled 54 in the Case of Scott Louis who shot his inlays to death 15 years ago in front of his wife and Young lawyers for the convicted murderer say that he suffers from a severe documented ill Ness that is the source of Gross this we should have been said Justice Anthony who wrote the majority a former ranch hand and native of Panetti had a history of mental prob including recording 14 Hospital stays Over 11 years before his school integration plans rejected the court also rejected Inte Gration plans in two major pub Lic school districts but left the door open for the limited use of to achieve diversity in the decision in cases affect ing How students Are assigned to schools in and Seattle could imperil similar plans in hundreds of districts a and it further restricted How Public school systems May attain racial the court with chief Justice John Roberts announcing the courts judgment the courts four Liberal justices the Way to Stop discrimination on the basis of race is to Stop discriminating on the basis of Roberts yet Justice Anthony Kennedy would not go As far As the other four conservative say ing in a concurring opinion that race May be a component of school plans designed to achieve minimum pricing ban on products scrapped the court on thursday abandoned a 96yearold ban on manufacturers and retailers setting Price floors for in a 54 the court said that agreements on mini mum prices Are Legal if they pro Mote the ruling Means that accusations of minimum pricing pacts will be evaluated Case by the supreme court declared in 1911 that  agreements violate Federal anti Trust limiting debate were 37 Republic 15 democrats and Independent Bernard Sanders of ver Tim did not the Bill would have toughened Border Security and instituted a new system for weeding out Ille Gal immigrants from it would have created a new guest worker program and Al Lowed millions of illegal Immi Grants to obtain Legal status if they briefly returned making a Las ditch bid to Salvage the called senators Early thursday morning to urge their Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff and Commerce Secretary Carlos Gutierrez approached senators As they entered and left the Cham Ber shortly before the we have been in Contact with members of Congress Over the past couple of Days and the presi Dent has made it Clear that this is Susan Edward is seen through the Lens of a video camera As he arrives wednesday for a news conference on immigration on Capitol Hill in important to White House spokesman Tony Snow said be fore the Elizabeth said Many americans dont have Confidence that especially with will be significantly its not just promises but proof that the Amer ican people Dole White House wont answer congressional subpoenas by Terence Hunt the associated press Washington president moving toward a constitutional showdown with asserted executive privilege thursday and rejected lawmakers demands for documents that could shed Light on the firings of Federal Bush attorney told Congress the White House would not turn Over subpoenaed documents for former presidential counsel har Riet Miers and former political director Sara congressional panels want the documents for their investigations of attorney general Alberto Gonzales stewardship of the Justice depart including complaints of undue political the Senate judiciary committee subpoenaed the White House and vice president Dick Cheney office wednesday for documents relating to Bush controversial eavesdropping pro Gram that operated warrant free for five also named in subpoenas signed by committee chairman Patrick were the Justice department and the National Security the four parties have until july 18 to com according to a statement by the office of Patrick the democratic chairmen of the two committees seeking the documents in the fired prosecutors Case accused Bush of Stone Walling and disdain for the and said they would press Forward with enforcing the with it is with much regret that we Are forced Down this unfortunate path which we sought to avoid by finding grounds for Mutual a commode White House counsel Fred Fielding said in a letter to the chairmen of the Senate and House judiciary we had hoped this matter could conclude with your committees receiving information in lieu of having to invoke executive Privi we Are at this con thursday was the deadline for surrendering the the White House also made Clear that Miers and Taylor would not testify next As directed by the sub which were issued june the stalemate could end up with House and Senate contempt citations and a Battle in Federal court Over separation of the president and vice president feel they Are above the Leahy he portrayed Bush actions As Nixon Nian his House judiciary democratic chairman John co Nyers said Bush assertion of executive privilege was unprecedented in its breadth and scope and displayed an appalling disregard for the right of the people to know what is going on in their gov scientists embryonic Stem cells created the associated press new York scientists say they have created embryonic Stem cells by stimulating unfertilized a significant step toward producing transplant tissue that is genetically matched to the Advance suggests that a woman who wants a transplant to treat a condition like diabetes or a spinal Cord injury could provide eggs to a which in turn could create tissue that her body would not ethicist disagreed on whether the strategy would avoid the longstanding ethical objections to creating embryonic Stem cells by other such cells can develop into virtually any tissue of the and scientists Hope to harness them for producing specialized tissues like nerve cells or pancreas cells to treat a Range of but the process of harvesting the Stem cells destroys which Many people the new work tries another tack stimulating a woman unfertilized egg to begin embryonic scientists believe this development cannot continue Long enough to produce a such an approach could not pro vide matched cells for the published online by the journal cloning and Stem is reported by scientists from lifeline cell technology of and from mos