Dawn of the Immigration Reform Bill

Ezra Klein explains a bit about its rise from the dead: "The key is a pay-to-play structure, in which precisely 22 amendments will be offered, and every Senator who offers an amendment agrees to vote for cloture in return. This, theoretically, will get the bill through cloture -- and Reid and McConnell wouldn't be bringing it back if they believed it would fail a second (well, technically, a fifth) time." I'm fine with the bill, as amended by Byron Dorgan to sunset the guest worker provisions. Of course, for those of us who are neither deeply opposed to anything including an amnesty, nor committed to an amnesty above all else, the bill that matters will be the one that emerges from the inevitable House-Senate conference committee.

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