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White House aims to help foreign college students, soldiers become citizens WASHINGTON (AP) - Presi- dent Barack Obama is promising to work with senators to help pass legislation allowing thousands of young people who attend college or join the military to become legal U.S. residents, according to Hispanic lawmakers who met yesterday with the president. "The president made it abso- lutely clear to us that he would leave no stone unturned" in push- ing for Senate approval of what's known as the DREAM Act, Rep. Luis Gutierrez, D-Calif., said. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., has said he wants to add the immigration measure to a defense policy bill the Senate plans to take up before lawmak- ers leave town to campaign for the November elections. Republicans oppose that move and have accused Reid of playing politics with the bills. Some military leaders support Reid because of the recruitment potential for the armed ser- vices. Under the bill, the young people must have come to the U.S. before age 16 and have lived here for five years. At least two years of military service would be required. "The president noted that it is time to stop punishing innocent young people for the actions of their parents, especially when those youth grew up in America and want to serve this country in the military or pursue a higher education," the White House said in a statement after Obama's meeting at the White House with Gutierrez, Rep. Nydia Velazquez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Robert Menen- dez, D-N.J. When Obama was a senator he supported the DREAM Act, which has been kicking around Congress for nearly a decade. The meeting followed Obama's speech Wednesday night at a Hispanic awards dinner, where he urged Latinos not to punish Democrats at the polls because he's been unable to keep his promise to sign a comprehensive immigration bill into law. Advocates, meanwhile, are launching a major lobbying effort for DREAM, enlisting educators, clergy and others to press sena- tors to back the measure. Velazquez said passing the bill "is the right thing to do. It's a matter of fairness for thousands and thousands of young kids" who entered the country illegally with their families: She and oth- ers say they should not be pun- ished. Republicans contend that the bill rewards law breakers. "The DREAM Act is yet anoth- er attempt by Washington Demo- crats to grant amnesty to illegal immigrants who have broken our laws," said Rep. Phil Gingrey, R-Ga. Carlos Saavedra, national coordinator of United We Dream, a coalition of student immigrant advocacy groups, said voters who care about the issue will be watching how senators vote on the bill. "Folks are literally dropping their lives right now to work on this," Saavedra said Thursday. "This is one of our last chances to get some justice to the immi- grant community and immigrant youth. It's huge." PABLO MARTINEZ MONSIVAIS/AP President Barack Obama speaks yesterday at a fundraiser with Richard Blumenthal, a Dem. candidate Conn. attorney general. Distraught gunman kills himself, mother at John Hopkins Hospital Senate passes $30 billion tax credit for small businesses Son reacts to news of mother's medical condition, also shoots surgeon BALTIMORE (AP) - A man who became distraught as he was being briefed on his mother's condition by a surgeon at Johns Hopkins Hospital pulled a gun and shot the doctor yesterday, then killed his mother and himself in her room at the world-famous medical center, police said. The doctor, who was wounded in the abdomen, was expected to survive. The gunman, 50-year-old Paul Warren Pardus, had been listen- ! ing to the surgeon around mid- day when he "became emotionally distraught and reacted ... and was overwhelmed by the news of his mother's condition," Police Com- missioner Frederick H. Bealefeld III said. Pardus pulled a semiautomatic gun from his waistband and shot the doctor once, the commissioner said. The doctor, identified by col- leagues as orthopedic surgeon David B. Cohen, collapsed out- side the eighth-floor room where Pardus' mother, 84-year-old Jean Davis, was being treated. Pardus then holed up in the room in a more than two-hour standoff that led authorities to lock down a small section of the Nelson Building while allowing the rest of the sprawling red-brick medi- cal complex - a cluster of hospital, research and education buildings - to remain open. When officers made their way to the room, they found Pardus and his mother shot to death, he on the floor, she in her bed. Bealefeld said he did not know what the woman was being treated for at Hopkins, a world-class insti- tution widely known for its cancer research and treatment. It is part of Johns Hopkins University, which has one of the foremost medical schools in the world. Harry Koffenberger, vice presi- dent of security, said the hospital uses handheld metal detectors to screen patients and visitors known to be high-risk. However, with 80 entrances and 80,000 visitors a week, it is not realistic to place metal detectors and guards every- where. "Not in a health-care setting," Koffenberger said. The hospital will review proce- dures and look again at the use of metal detectors, he said. Michelle Burrell, who works in a coffee shop in the hospital lobby, said she was told by employees who were on the floor where the doc- tor was shot that the gunman was angry with the doctor's treatment of his mother. "It's crazy," she said. Pardus was from Arlington, Va., and had a handgun permit in that state, police said. The gunman was initially identified as Warren Davis, but police later said that was an alias. Bill allocates $30 billion for small business lending WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate has passed a bill to create a $30 billion government fund to help open lending for credit- starved small businesses, cut their taxes and boost federal loan programs for them. The 61-38 tally rewards Presi- dent Barack Obama and his Democratic allies of Capitol Hill with a long-sought victory and sets the stage for a final vote in the House, which is likely to approve it for Obama's signa- ture. The new fund would help' community banks increase lend- ing to small businesses hurt by the recession and the 2008 Wall Street crisis. The bill would also provide about $12 billion in tax breaks over a decade to both large and small businesses and also boost the Small Business Administration's lending pro-' grams. "At a time when small busi- ness owners are still struggling to make payroll and they're still holding off hiring, we put together a plan that would give them some tax relief and make it easier for them to take out loans," Obama said Wednesday. 0I ''r