Sessions opposed to farmworker provision of war funding bill

WASHINGTON - It was supposed to be a relatively quiet Friday, with no votes and most senators heading back to their home states.

But Sen. Jeff Sessions' office felt like a war room.

The Alabama Republican was marshaling his resources from the last immigration reform battle, which he won, and ramping up for a new fight, this one over a section on farmworkers that a Senate committee added Thursday evening to the bill paying for the Iraq war.

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