CNN breaking news today said the Dream Act is dead for this year because the Senate will NOT BE VOTING ON IT.
We’ll see whether they can pass a verison or not. We’ll know in a few days or less than a couple of weeks.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and Sen. Dick Durbin, the No. 2 Democrat in the upper chamber, said in a joint statement that they will work with House leaders and the administration to ensure that the bill, which would carve out a path to legalization for hundreds of thousands of foreign-born youngsters brought to this country illegally, will be law by the end of the lame-duck session.....
The House passed its version on Wednesday night, prompting Reid to try and shelve a different version of the bill introduced by a fellow lawmaker. But when Republicans refused to let Reid take up the House version, he effectively let the Senate kill the older version, potentially clearing the way for a DREAM Act vote on the House bill next week.
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