Friday - April 07, 2006

The Senate Fiddles …

Partisan bickering, my aching back! The Senate squabbling continues and while they fiddled around another 10,000 MESS-Cans crossed the border. We’ll be knee-deep in refried beans before the ass-clowns in Congress actually do something.

Face it, it’s an election year and neither party wants to piss off millions of Hispanic voters and neither party wants to piss off millions of legal Americans who are sick and tired of the flood of illegal immigrants. They will continue to fiddle-fart around unless somebody up there in DC decides to act like they got a pair. Unfortunately, I don’t think you could find a real pair of cojones in the entire town. Maybe they can hire some MESS-Cans for that too ...

Partisan Bickering Delays Immigration Deal
_{Apr 7, 7:09 AM (ET)}

WASHINGTON (AP) - A Senate breakthrough on an immigration bill praised by leaders in both parties appeared endangered by partisan bickering over amendments from opponents. Both sides acknowledged that if the Senate is going to pass a bill, it might not occur until Congress returns from a two-week Easter recess.

Republicans appeared united in blocking a final vote on a compromise proposal worked out among immigration leaders in the two parties until Democrats allow votes on amendments by opponents. A test vote was scheduled Friday on the compromise, as well as a bill by Majority Leader Bill Frist. Democrats said the amendments would undermine the immigration compromise that offered hope for American citizenship for millions of illegal immigrants.

“I know the reality, tomorrow we cannot finish it,” the assistant Democratic leader, Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., said late Thursday. Supporters of the compromise claimed 70 votes and said they could defeat all of the amendments offered by opponents. Republicans, however, closed ranks in insisting that at least some of those amendments get votes. Both sides indicated the Senate would complete the bill when Congress returns from the recess that begins Monday.

“The momentum can move either way. Who knows what we’ll face when we return,” Durbin said. President Bush had applauded the Senate’s efforts to draft a comprehensive immigration bill. “I would encourage the members to work hard to get the bill done prior to the upcoming break,” he said Thursday. The election-year legislation is designed to enhance border security and regulate the flow of future temporary workers as well as affect the lives of illegal immigrants.

It separates illegal immigrants now in the U.S. into three categories. Illegal immigrants here more than five years could work for six years and apply for legal permanent residency without having to leave the country. Those here two years to five years would have to go to border entry points sometime in next three years, but could immediately return as temporary workers. Those here less than two years would have to leave and wait in line for visas to return.

The bill also provides a new program for 1.5 million temporary agriculture industry workers over five years. It includes provisions requiring employers to verify they’ve hired legal workers and calls for a “virtual” fence of surveillance cameras, sensors and other technology to monitor the nearly 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexican border.

- Congressional Haggling To Read About Here ...

Posted by The Skipper     on 04/07/2006 at 07:57 AM   
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