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  • Victory! House approves bill rescinding driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants, 42-28

    03/05/2011 1:07:41 PM PST · by A_Cougar · 75 replies
    http://newmexico.watchdog.org/6073/ ^ | March 4th 2011 | Rob Nikolewski
    The blast worked. A bill carried by Rep. Andy Nuñez (I-Hatch) that would rescind the state’s policy allowing illegal immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses successfully bypassed the committee process — a rarely used parliamentary procedure called “blasting a bill” — Friday (March 4) when the House floor voted 42-28 to move the measure onto the Senate. Eight Democrats defected to the side of the Republicans and Nuñez, completing two arduous days of deliberation that saw the 75-year-old Nuñez stay on his feet, verbally punching and counterpunching opponents, some of whom bitterly complained about the bill skipping committees and the passage...