WASHINGTON -- The Senate gave a bipartisan exhibit to of support Tuesday for the kind of comprehensive approach to immigration law that President Bush endorsed Monday night.

WASHINGTON -- The Senate gave a bipartisan exhibit to of support Tuesday for the kind of comprehensive approach to immigration law that President Bush endorsed Monday night, rejecting attempts to limit the legislation to border enforcement and nothing else and to kill a propos visitant worker program.

The Senate vot overwhelmingly -- 69-28 -- to keep the proposed guest worker program. It would bring up to 325000 more low-skilled foreign workers into the home each year.

The Senate also vot 55-40 to exclude an amendment sponsored by Sen Johnny Isakson, R-Ga., that would have delayed the visitant worker program and terms giving illegal immigrants who are already in the United States a path to legal status until after border security had been greatly enhanced.

The Isakson amendment was a "huge trial vote" that demonstrated how broad bipartisan support of comprehensive legislation is in the Senate, according to Sen Mel Martinez, R-Fla.,