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Senate set to take up immigration reform bill
[Washington Examiner] While politicians will be pressing the House to address expiring tax cuts and an arms treaty with Russia when Congress returns this week from its Thanksgiving break, Democratic leaders in the Senate plan to make one last effort to pass an immigration reform bill before their majority diminishes significantly in January.With just a few weeks left in the 112th Congress, it will be difficult for politicians to clear the DREAM Act in time for the president's signature this year, but it will nonetheless consume part of the shrinking lame-duck calendar. The DREAM Act would provide a path to citizenship for anyone under the age of 35 who came to the United States as a child and who enrolls in the military or college for two years. The proposal won its place on the agenda in part because Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, ... the charismatic former Senate majority leader ... D-Nev., promised on the campaign trail that he would take it up this year, arguably helping to secure the Hispanic votes he needed to overcome Tea Party candidate Sharron Angle. Immigration reform advocates see the lame-duck session as perhaps the last chance to pass such reforms since Republicans will take control of the House and expand their minority in the Senate in January. Posted by: Fred 2010-11-26 |
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