Sen. Harry Reid, normally a Bush critic, had praise for the president after Tuesday’s meeting.WASHINGTON (CNN) — President Bush met Tuesday at the White House with a bipartisan group of senators to discuss ways to overhaul immigration, a chat that earned the president kudos from two men normally among his staunchest critics.

The discussion came as an immigration bill sits stalled in the Senate and as Majority Leader Bill Frist prepares to bring the issue back to the Senate floor by Memorial Day.

After the meeting, the senators said Bush expressed support for a package that would create a guest-worker program and would determine ways to address the status of more than 11 million illegal immigrants in the country.

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Members of the Wisconsin National Guard stand in formation during a deployment ceremony on Saturday.WASHINGTON (CNN) — More than half of Americans believe the United States erred in sending troops to Iraq, a poll released Tuesday said, indicating that recent White House efforts to rally support for the war have not been successful.

In the poll, carried out by telephone Friday through Sunday with 1,012 American adults, 55 percent said they believe the United States made a mistake in sending troops to Iraq, 39 percent disagreed and 5 percent said they had no opinion.

The poll, done for CNN by Opinion Research Corp., has a sampling error of plus or minus 3 percentage points for most questions. (The poll)

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President Bush lays out his four-point energy plan to the Renewable Fuels Association.WASHINGTON (CNN) — Calling the oil issue a matter of national security, President Bush outlined a plan Tuesday to cut gasoline costs and temporarily stopped deposits to the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve.

Bush is delaying this summer’s deposits to the reserve — an emergency stockpile of government-owned crude oil — as he faces political pressure from campaigning members of Congress and anger from consumers about high gas prices.

"So by deferring deposits until the fall, we’ll leave a little more oil on the market," Bush said during a speech in Washington at the Renewable Fuels Association, a trade group for the ethanol industry. "Every little bit helps."

"Our addiction to oil is a matter of national security concern," Bush said.

However, oil experts said the impact of withholding deposits, while positive, will have a negligible impact on gas prices.

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