What you see is not always what you get. These two bodies of congress play high stakes poker and do not reveal their hands until they are ready. What we are seeing is a congress without the interference of Harry Reid beginning to come out of the shadows. You can bet that both the house and senate are in this game no matter how it may look from afar.
You are correct.
Un mentioned at present is the constantly repeated part of the Republican Immigration bill that there must be tight border security first with other provisions to follow.
The Republicans, GOPe and GOPc alike know with certainty that Obama will never enforce the border security provisions of a new law. We now have absolute proof of that treacherously deceptive and deceitful intent in the form of the Executive Order on amnesty.