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Roughly 30 Republican senators are backing the House’s H.R.2 migration stabilization bill — but a gang of six senators, including three Republicans, are drafting a giveaway “compromise” bill. “H.R.2 should be the focus,” said a policy analyst who favors pro-American migration laws, adding: There’s no reason to preemptively surrender good border security legislation before we’re forced to negotiate [with the House]. What the Senators who are supporting that [compromise] package are doing essentially is preemptively surrendering, preemptively giving away very important pieces of H.R. 2 before they’re even being forced to do so. “They’re negotiating with themselves” instead of with...

Sacramento -- In a budget that eclipses $78 billion, the few key issues that lawmakers and Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger are deadlocked over don't add or take away a dime from the overall spending package. The fact that policy issues -- such as whether workers should be able to sue their employers for workplace violations -- are holding up the budget have some Capitol observers puzzled over why the deal hasn't been closed yet. "There seems to be a lot of confusion in the negotiations," said GOP political consultant Kevin Spillane. The battle over whether to raise taxes or how deeply...