41.   Kennedy drafted his proposed amendment earlier this month, after Sen. Alan Simpson, a Wyoming Republican, announced he would withdraw similar provision from the immigration bill.

42.   Labor Secretary Robert Reich made the point at a news conference with Sen. Edward Kennedy, who will push to add restrictions to the Senate immigration bill.

43.   Last year, they succeeded in keeping Simpson and Smith and company from passing their nasty legal immigration bill, but by then the political damage had been done.

44.   Kennedy is strongly opposed to a number of provisions of the immigration bill.

45.   Leaders in both the House and Senate have also set their sights on final passage of a compromise immigration bill that deals primarily with the problem of illegal immigrants.

46.   Many Michigan civil rights groups still have objections to the immigration bill, even after an amendment banning the children of illegal immigrants from public schools is dropped.

47.   Meanwhile, the immigration debate seems likely to come to a head later this year in Washington, D.C., when the immigration reform bill is debated.

48.   No one understood this strategy better than Simpson, who is retiring this year and would like to crown his legislative legacy with a major immigration bill.

49.   On Tuesday, Dole angrily pulled an immigration bill from the Senate floor to prevent Democrats from offering an amendment to raise the minimum wage.

50.   One congressional aide said it was conceivable, though far from clear, that Clinton would sign an immigration bill into law this election year.