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escribing it alternately as a friend on life support, a long shot and a poison pill, Bay Area lawmakers are not optimistic about a favorable compromise immigration bill. The Senate's Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act hammered out of more than 200 amendments in the past two weeks now joins the House's Border Protection, Antiterrorism and Illegal Immigration Control Act in a committee tasked with finding common ground. "The conference is where the obituary for these bills has been written," said Rep. Ellen Tauscher, D-Alamo. Tauscher, like most House Democrats, favors the Senate package but said it appears to be on life...