Posted on 03/21/2021 10:54:53 AM PDT by RandFan
Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin said Sunday that he thinks he is "close" to securing the Republican votes needed to overcome a Senate filibuster to advance a key immigration measure that would provide a pathway to citizenship for undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children.
"I've been stopped by the filibuster five times from passing it. I had a majority, I didn't have 60 votes. Do I have 60 now? I think I'm close," the Illinois Democrat told CNN's Dana Bash on "State of the Union" Sunday.
Durbin, the Senate's second-ranking Democrat, said he plans to sit down with Republican members and ask if they would consider supporting the DREAM Act, which would allow the young undocumented immigrants known as "Dreamers" permanent residency -- and potentially citizenship.
"I think I'll have some support. Whether it's enough remains to be seen," he said.
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These dirty s.o.b’s
Good for you ‘dick’. What a durbin.
How hard can it be to find 10 RINO squishes in the Senate?
May Durban be personally surrounded on all sides with German comedians, French drivers, Scottish cooks and Italian bankers.
Burr and Tillis (NC) will probably be two of them who vote to end debate...
... and then will immediately vote against the bill when it comes to the floor vote.
Hey Burr, Tillis, if you vote to end debate you want the bill to pass.
Don’t give me that “But I voted against the bill” crap.
It’s is not sufficient to punish only those Republicans that go along with this treason.
The ENTIRE PARTY must lose. All of them. Even the “good ones”.
For only they have any influence on the traitorous remainder.
Write your Rep and Senator. Let them know that you will hold THEM directly responsible if any form of amnesty or open borders is codified. Not just the few jerkwads that vote for it.
They will never see another vote or another dime from you. Whether Primary or General election.
Which means “moderate” Joe Manchin is about to roll over and vote
how Chuckie tells him to vote. Manchin is no moderate.
In primaries, obviously.
Otherwise unfortunately the evil that stands to win in their place, the Democrats, is vastly worse, even satanic.
Translated: “I’m close to having extorted and heavy-handed my way into forcing senators into supporting something that goes against my constituents wishes”
I had a dream too, that everyone too stupid to speak english would GTFO.
Manchin is a true Dem weasel posing as a "moderate" to appease the good but oddly trusting GOP voters in WV. One predicts that after much pretend "soul searching" he'll vote along with his fellow traveling Dems.
But what do the voters who elected you think about this issue post-17th Amendment ratification Sen. Durbin?
I got your DREAM ACT right here Durbin!
Durbin thinks? Stop right there.
Rubio will be a yay
I agree with you completely. Having said that, though, I’m not sure what I’ll do in the next election. I don’t want any percentage of my vote to be disbursed to the Democrats as happened in 2020. And I want the Republicans to lose, just so that a whole new batch of people watching will know to whom it is that they will be accountable should they run and be elected in 2024. And yet, I don’t know that I will be able to vote Democrat.
“Burr and Tillis (NC) will probably be two of them who vote to end debate...
... and then will immediately vote against the bill when it comes to the floor vote.”
That kind of deception has been going on forever and is why I am not so worried if the democrats get rid of the filibuster.
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