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...President's own agenda), and they were not amused. Last January Tom Donohue, president of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, said of the House bill, "It is simply unworkable, unreasonable and fundamentally unfair." Asked to explain how big business could have been blindsided so badly by Sensenbrenner, Laura Foote Reiff, co-chair of the Essential Workers Immigration Coalition, a huge business lobby, said, "The House Judiciary Committee does not share and was not willing to share with...
...Monday night, Reiff and other business lobbyists broke into applause and embraced each other in the Dirksen office building as the Senate Judiciary committee voted 12-6 to send a bill sponsored by chairman Arlen Specter to the floor that swings the momentum back to their side. In a sharp rebuke to Senate majority leader Bill Frist, who had said he would introduce his own, tough counterpart to the House bill, Specter, three other Republicans and all the committee's Democrats united to force a pro-business, pro-immigrant bill through. Said a smiling Reiff minutes after the vote: "Specter...
...bottom line. California's agriculture industry alone is a $31 billion-a-year behemoth, a point made with more than a little intensity yesterday by California Senator Diane Feinstein as she put through an amendment opening the door for 1.5 million new agricultural workers to enter the country. Reiff of the Essential Workers Immigration Coalition claims 5% of the U.S. workforce are illegal immigrants and that industry needs 300,000 to 500,000 new workers a year in order to cover for retiring baby boomers. But with anti-immigration activists like Sensenbrenner getting the drop on business last year...
...shame. As much as we rely on the government for security intelligence, we rely on artists to offer moral intelligence about how evil works. "It's like they say, Know your enemy," says Ethan Reiff, a co-executive producer, with Cyrus Voris, of Sleeper Cell, a 10-hour Showtime mini-series (running over two weeks beginning Dec. 4) that goes inside an al-Qaeda cadre planning a WMD attack in Los Angeles. "In pop culture," says Voris, "terrorists have been simplistic bad guys who come from a country called Unnamedistan...
...Matt, the foundation wasn't about helping himself. It was about making a difference to other people," says Reiff. He and Jen Wiederkehr are raising money for a new cancer facility in New Jersey that they hope to name for Matt. "Of course, Matt was upset and angry about his illness," she says. "He was devastated. But being able to focus on this foundation helped channel those emotions in a positive direction...