Immigration Bill Expected To Pass Senate This Week

Immigration Bill Expected To Pass Senate This Week
Hastert May Block Version That Divides House GOP

By Charles Babington
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, May 23, 2006; Page A03

Backers of President Bush's bid to revamp immigration laws scored another small victory in the Senate yesterday, but they are increasingly concerned about a House Republican policy that could block final agreement even if a bipartisan majority is within reach.

Speaker J. Dennis Hastert's insistence that major legislation reach the House floor only if it appears to be backed by a "majority of the majority" could throw a high hurdle in front of efforts to reach a House-Senate compromise on immigration later this year, lawmakers said. Hastert (R-Ill.) has invoked the policy in blocking bills that appeared likely to win approval from more than half of the House's 435 members but less than half of its 231 Republicans.

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We still have a very small window of opportunity here. Bush & Co have sold-out, the US Senate led by that barrel of suet Ted Kennedy have sold-out, now only the House bars the way from a complete sellout the likes of which this nation hasn't seen since the War Between The States.