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I am no expert, but I think this may be correct:

“The Senate has dealt what almost certainly is a fatal blow to the DREAM Act for the 111th Congress.

Senate action in relation to the DREAM Act occurred on Saturday morning, December 18, 2010, when it failed to invoke cloture (thus, shutdown the debate) on a motion by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) that the Senate concur in a House amendment to the Senate amendments to H.R. 5281, a measure that now constitutes the text of the House-passed version of the DREAM Act. The affirmative votes of 60 of the Senate’s 100 members were needed in order to invoke cloture on the measure. The Senate failed to do so by a vote of 55-41. Four senators did not vote, all of whom would have voted against invoking cloture had they been present. Unless a dramatic turnaround in the minds of a number of senators occurs in the next several days, the DREAM Act will die at the end of the 111th Congress”

http://www.micevhill.com/

If you read through the earlier posts on this site you will see they were 3 or 4 bills floating around at one time, but I think the only one that made it to the senate was the one referred to above.

Thanks for explaining this to us. I cannot take anymore “Dream Act” votes.

So, in a nutshell, any reference to a Dream Act in the CR is irrelevant since nothing has passed the Senate? Is that correct?