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¡¡La shamnistía es muerta!! ¿O es?
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Fifty, count 'em, fifty votes against cloture on the piece of shit bill Jorge and his amigos have been trying to stuff down our throats. Dirty Harry's already backing off his promise to table it for the year if it didn't pass this week. Senate tries to kick-start stalled immigration bill
By: Carrie Budoff
Proponents of the immigration bill that stalled in the Senate regrouped Friday, holding strategy sessions and conference calls aimed at salvaging the overhaul.
Sen. Edward M. Kennedy (D-Mass.), Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) and other key negotiators said they would return soon to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) with a plan to move the bill toward passage. ...
Below the fold:
- Senators Hope to Revive Immigration Bill in Future
- Senators play blame game on immigration bill
- What's Next For Immigration?
- Immigration bill fails key cloture vote
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Bush: Viva la amnistía!
Allahpundit
Oh, this amnesty is happenin’, baby. He and his 29% approval rating are going to see to that. President Bush considers it premature to declare the immigration reform bill dead in the Senate, White House adviser Dan Bartlett said Friday.
A motion to cut off debate on the measure failed Thursday night, stopping the proposal from coming up for a vote. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid had said earlier that if the motion was not approved, it would be “over with … gone.”
But Bartlett told CNN that Bush wants Reid to consider putting the bill back on the table.
No matter how it ends up, savor this: the longer it drags out, the longer Saint McCain spends eating shinola sandwiches. ...
Senators Hope to Revive Immigration Bill in Future
WASHINGTON — The lawmakers who failed Thursday to win a key vote on the immigration reform bill before the Senate said on Friday that they will continue to push the bill forward and believed they could still find a compromise that would pass.
"We are not giving up. We are not giving in," Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., told reporters. He is the chief Democrat at the negotiating table for the immigration bill. ...
Click here to see how your senator voted on ending the immigration debate.
Despite the fact that it was primarily Republicans who voted against the maneuver, all the GOP lawmakers who spoke with FOX News were upbeat that the legislation could be revived soon — even within a matter of weeks, with one negotiator noting that last year's bill was first pulled from the floor by then-Majority Leader Bill Frist before it was brought back up again and passed. ...
Senators play blame game on immigration bill
WASHINGTON (CNN) — Senators on all sides of the immigration bill were quick to assign blame for the bill’s defeat Thursday night.
“We just cast a dumb vote,” minority whip Trent Lott complained in the Senate hallway.
The veteran Republican from Mississippi blamed Reid for pushing for the vote too early. In fact, Lott said that just an hour before the critical vote he pleaded with Reid to give GOP leaders just 12 more hours to secure more votes. “He decided not to,” Lott lamented.
Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-South Carolina, who helped write the bill, also blamed Reid for curbing GOP amendments to the bill. He said 10 to 12 more amendments could have pushed support for the bill up to 65 to 70 votes.
“I still think that’s possible,” said Graham, who vowed to find a way to get the issue back on the floor. “I’m hopeful that we’ll get our act together and try to find a solution to this problem. We’re very close. That’s frustrating.”
But Democrats passed the blame to Bush, who they said sunk the bill with his hands-off despite his support for it.
“When the president calls Harry Reid and says I can get some more votes for you, we’ll come back to it,” said Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-New York, a supporter of the bill. “But until that time we can’t. They say he made some phone calls but he could only deliver six or seven votes.”
Schumer also doubted Lott and Graham’s contention that more time and more amendments would have won more votes. ...
What's Next For Immigration?
Ed Morrissey
The "grand compromise" died in an ignominious fashion last night, with supporters of the bill unable to garner even a simple majority to end debate in the Senate. In the end, the bill's overall opponents seized on a poison pill amendment that they knew would fracture the coalition supporting it, even though they themselves didn't really support the thrust of the amendment itself. Does that mean that they managed to kill the bill altogether, or will it arise from its current coma?
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Procedurally, the Senate can revisit the legislation any time they want. However, it seems unlikely that they will try again this session. The members of the coalition took a beating from their constituents over the last three weeks, and for some, the political moment has passed. They do not want to sail back into those waters, at least not without a guarantee of achieving something that would make the journey worth the pain. ...
Immigration bill fails key cloture vote
The Senate on Thursday night rejected an effort to shut down debate on comprehensive immigration legislation, casting doubt that the 110th Congress will hand President Bush a signature domestic achievement in his final two years in office.
Ending two weeks of emotional debate, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) is pulling the bill from the floor after the 45-50 vote. Supporters of the measure fell 15 shy of reaching the 60 vote threshold needed to move toward a final vote on the underlying bill. Reid said he may bring the bill back to the floor later this year if there can be an agreement with Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky on debating a set number of amendments. ...
See next: 2006.06.09 "No Illegal Left Behind" Roundup; It ain't over till the fat lady goes back to Mexico.
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