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By a vote of 55 to 41, a cloture vote on the DREAM Act failed in the Senate this morning. That brings an end to the push for the legislation -- which would provide a pathway to legal status for illegal immigrants who serve in the military or earn college degrees -- until the 112th Congress, which will convene Jan. 5. That Congress will have more Republicans than this one did, which doesn't bode well for the prospects of the DREAM Act passing in 2011. As expected, Republicans lined up to stop the cloture vote on DREAM, fearful of being singed by a conservative base that has zero tolerance for immigration reform beyond the type favored in the Grand Canyon State. Ironically -- or perhaps predictably in the current Senate environment -- DREAM was a bipartisan bill when it was introduced in the Senate in 2007 by Sens. Dick Durbin (D-IL), Chuck Hagel (R-NE) and Richard Lugar (R-IN). Now, defeat of the bill has fallen along largely partisan lines as expected. |
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