Posted on 02/14/2018 9:17:32 AM PST by SeekAndFind
A bipartisan group of senators on Wednesday said they have reached an immigration deal as lawmakers try to break a logjam on the Senate's debate.
"It's going to be ready today. It's going to be ready today," Sen. Tim Kaine (D-Va.) told reporters after a closed-door meeting.
Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), who was also in the meeting, confirmed that they would be releasing an agreement on Wednesday saying members were working to "tidy up the language."
But members remained tight-lipped about the content of the deal and if it would line up with President Trump's demands that any agreement include a fix for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), border security, and changes to family-based immigration and the State Department's Diversity Visa Lottery.
GOP Sen. Lindsey Graham (S.C.) said the agreement would be a "two pillar" proposal dealing only with undocumented immigrants and border security.
But several other members of the working group declined to discuss what was included, noting they were still working to finalize language.
"We're very optimistic about getting an agreement on a bill. Of course, it's never complete until everyone has a chance to see the language. ... [But] I believe our group has come together on an approach," GOP Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) told reporters.
The group of roughly 20 senators has been meeting in Collins's office for weeks to try to find an agreement ahead of the immigration fight.
But the Senate's immigration debate has stalled this week with Democrats blocking Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell's (R-Ky.) efforts to set up votes, including an amendment from GOP Sen. Pat Toomey (R-Pa.) cracking down on cities that don't comply with federal immigration law.
The Senate formally started the immigration debate on Wednesday after a round of partisan fighting Tuesday.
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If it’s Flake and Linda it’s not bi partisan. Can we just get that out there. It won’t go anywhere
The Chamber of Amnesty version.
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A group of senators that includes GOP Leftist Lights who have acquiesced to the Hard Leftist demands.
Veto it. It will be a “give us what we want now, later we will have a vote on what you want.”
Kill it. Learn to use your power as a Majority GOP.
Two pillar? Probably more like one pillar (amnesty) and a promise of a future pillar (security).
Really? I would think Rush would be smarter then this.
Dems are 2 and 5 in special election. If they were a sports team, the would be considered losers. Winning 2 in a row hardly means Dems are on a rebound.
all 4 or show them the door...
Flake News.
Can’t be a good deal if the named parties think it is. Hold up doing anything until the Supreme Court rules the two judges endorsing DACA have been overruled.
Positive comments from Kaine, Flake, Graham and Collins.
Not ONE of them is interested in secure borders.
In November 1984, Kaine married Anne Bright Holton, the daughter of A. Linwood Holton Jr., a Republican who served as the 61st governor of Virginia from 1970 to 1974. The couple met while they were both students at Harvard Law School. Holton has been a judge for the Virginia Juvenile and Domestic Relations District Court in Richmond. After serving as first lady of Virginia during her husband’s term, she was appointed by Governor Terry McAuliffe in January 2014 to be Virginia’s secretary of education, and held that position until July 2016, when she stepped down after her husband was named as the Democratic vice presidential candidate. The couple has three children: Nat (b. 1990), Linwood Michael (”Woody”) (b. 1992), and Annella (b. 1995). Nat, the eldest son, is a United States Marine. Kaine and his wife have been congregants of the St. Elizabeth Catholic Church in Richmond, a mostly black congregation, for 30 years.—Wikipedia
Jim McGreevey
If it prevents even ONE school shooting, it is WELL WORTH deporting ALL the DACA “kids”!!
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