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Off The Table

Posted on : 07-06-2007 | By : Jim Lynch | In : Illegal Immigration, Senate

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The day’s second cloture vote has also failed.

The sharply divided Senate refused to limit debate on the fragile compromise hammered out by a bipartisan group of senators and the White House. The vote was 45-50, 15 short of the 60 votes needed to advance major legislation in the Senate.

As a result of the action, the legislation was set aside and the Democratic-majority Senate moved on to other legislation.

The bill, which has drawn fire from both the right and the left, ties tough border security and workplace enforcement measures to a plan to legalize most of the 12 million illegal immigrants in the United States.

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