Posted on 06/08/2007 7:37:42 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
WASHINGTON – A tenuous compromise to overhaul the nation's immigration laws collapsed last night...
The defeat came after months of tedious negotiations and weeks of debate when a 45-50 procedural vote fell well short of the 60 needed to break the filibuster. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., then pulled the bill from the floor, while holding out hope that the Senate could resurrect the measure within weeks.
“I have every desire to complete this legislation. We all have to work, the president included, to get this legislation done,” Reid said last night, while cataloging a long list of futile efforts at compromise. “This bill is something that the country needs.”...
Democratic and Republican negotiators scrambled for the rest of the day to salvage the legislation, drafting lists of amendments to consider that would satisfy conservative opponents of the deal and trying to find a way to undo the guest-worker vote. But each time Reid presented an offer, DeMint and his allies rebuffed it. Their intransigence angered leaders from both parties...
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., made a last-ditch offer to try to persuade GOP conservatives to whittle down their expansive list of amendments if Reid put off the procedural vote, but Reid declined...
But in the end, the passions that swept the country after the deal was unveiled last month, especially among conservatives, proved too hard to resist. Democrats and their allies were never enamored with the deal either, and the legislation had grown more conservative before its defeat...
“It's becoming increasingly difficult to support this bill,” said Sen. Robert Menendez, D-N.J., a staunch advocate of expanding immigrant rights...Republicans, in concert with the Democratic architects of the bill, had defeated repeated attempts by Democrats to restore more family reunification rights...
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"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Let’s let our guard down. Sounds like Reid’s planning a “dark of the night” vote to ram this down our throats.
Stages of Grieving.
Denial
Anger
Barganing
Depression
acceptance
(though democrat party types accept only blaming republicans)
No slant here. Colors DeMint the villian instead of "Ram-it-Through-Damn-Your-Amendments" Reid.
Yes. My point in posting this is that this reporter has acted as an advocate for the bill, all along, and has never reported accurately. Also, he is in denial. He supposedly covers the Senate, yet he never wrote a word about how their offices were innundated in calls and emails opposing the bill. I guess this is the best the Wash Post can do these days.
This follows an old trend in reporting about how much could be accomplished in Government if it wasn’t for those damn conservatives getting in the way.
For a long time, McConnell has been a shill for China.
Now he’s a shill for another American enemy....Mexico!
What is this body of law that is referred to as immigration rights?
The only CRIMIMMIGRANT right I am aware of is the individual right to be out of range of my firearms.
HOPEFULLY MOST OF CONGRESS WILL FLEE SOUTH WITH THEIR PALS IN BIG BUSINESS. GET OUT NOW.
Just say NO to Amnesty!! Keep calling!!
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