Monday, June 25, 2007
Last-Minute thoughts on Tuesday's cloture vote
National Review Online's "The Corner" has been running regular updates upon which I have relied for this overview.
What we are up against: President Bush has devoted four of his last eight Saturday Radio addresses to immigration, including the most recent one on June 23rd.
White House staff are stalking Senators on behalf of the Administration's number one legislative priority. Presidents tend to get what they want. That President Bush has yet to win on his immigration bill is a tribute to your tenacity and determination.
Why is this immigration bill still called a "grand bargain"?
Senator Richard Durbin told CQ on Friday: "The whole week has been spent on the conversation about family reunification and guest workers." The New York Times complained this morning that high-tech companies, who seek an increase in H1-B visas, have not been doing their part for the rest of the immigration bill.
This was the grand bargain in a nutshell: guestworkers, including highly skilled H1-Bs for one side, more family reunification and amnesty for the other side.
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