Immigration bill stalls in Senate

[cal04]

A White House-backed bill revamping U.S. immigration laws stalled in the U.S. Senate on Thursday, handing President George W. Bush a major legislative setback.

The sharply divided Senate refused to limit debate on the fragile compromise hammered out by a bipartisan group of senators and the White House. As a result, the legislation will be set aside and the Senate is expected to move on to other matters.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070608/pl_nm/usa_immigration_dc

Senate Majority leader Reid withdraws immigration bill
"We bent over backwards" to accommodate Republicans who disliked the bill, Reid said, according to an early report by Politico. "We have to figure out a way to get this bill passed."

"People worked very, very hard on this bill," Reid added.

According to the Associated Press, "Reid said he believed the bill would eventually pass and that he would keep working toward a 'grand bargain' between liberals and conservatives on immigration.

http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Democratic_leader_withdraws_immigration_bill_0607.html

[jefferson_dem]

1. Another cloture vote just went down (only 45 supported cloture).

I think we can safely say this sucker's a dead letter at this point.

[cal04]

2. thank you jefferson_dem

It disappeared from the MSNBC page

[flpoljunkie]

3. Thanks, jefferson_dem. Missed vote. Listening now to Reid talking about cloture failure.

[Double T]

6. harry reid is a mealymouthed disgrace sucking up to bush!

I can't believe the Democrats are so willing to sell out the American workers. I can't believe this is my Democratic Party.

[flpoljunkie]

8. This bad bill, only big corporations could love, was stopped in its tracks. Bush lost.

[PsN2Wind]

4. Damn!!!!!

The Chamber of Commerce lost one. And importing labor to do the jobs they couldn't export would have been sooo good for The United States. :sarcasm:

[Double T]

7. You forgot "neocon" in front of chamber of (foreign) commerce

[Double T]

5. Great news! The fight against this legislation has only begun.

This nation will not be sold out to corporate criminals and a low wage replacement workforce; this legislation is a trojan horse conjured up by sellout corporatist legislators and wall street powered corporations. I'm very disappointed in the sellout Democrats, specially the leadership, harry. I would expect this from many of the corporate owned and operated rethugs.