I don’t know what DOrgan wanted, but it is clear opponents saw this as their best shot at killing it. Because if you were going to PASS a bill, sunsetting the point system is a very BAD thing. The point system is one of the few good parts of the bill.
And yet Sessions voted to sunset it. That means HE saw the vote NOT as a welcome change to the bill, but a way to kill the bill.
Never mind. That’s was a DIFFERENT amendment. This amendment was to sunset the guest worker program, not the point system.
And I think it’s OK to sunset the guest worker program, because that means that in 5 years you have to justify it again on its own merits. However, since I support a guest worker program, I’d rather see a more pro-active re-authorization provision rather than a sunset provision that requires a new law to re-up the program.