Reid Angers GOP by Pushing Four Versions of DREAM Act Without Hearing

[AlphaCentauri]

Source: fuxnews

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has pushed four different versions of the controversial immigration bill known as the DREAM Act without a hearing on any of them, drawing outrage from the top Republican on the committee that would have handled the package.

The Nevada senator, who narrowly escaped a defeat in the November election, has pursued an unusual approach to advancing the bill that gives young illegal immigrants who attend college or join the military a pathway to legal status.

Since September, his deputy Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., has introduced four slightly different versions all bearing the same name. Reid has moved them all to the calendar -- he appears to be teeing up for a test vote, which could happen sometime later this week, on the latest version introduced on Tuesday.

But Republicans balked at the maneuvering. Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., ranking member on the Senate Judiciary Committee, railed against the bill and the process Democrats were using to push it.



Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/12/01/reid-angers-gop-pushing-versions-dream-act-hearing/

[givemebackmycountry]

1. Awww....They are angry.

FUCK YOU!

YOU ARE ANGRY!
GGGGGRRRRRRRRRRR!

My heart bleeds for you assholes.

[robinlynne]

2. lol

[Mosaic]

7. My feelings exactly.

And often.

[Tx4obama]

3. Go get 'em Harry. n/t

[unkachuck]

4. we wouldn't want to anger the Republicans....

....the pukes are our friends.

[No Elephants]

5. How can anyone anger people who have been perpetually angry since 2006?

Headline should be "Republicans still angry after all these years."

[naaman fletcher]

8. 2006?

Didn't you mean 1964?

[Hardrada]

10. Or 1960. Nixon Lost.

[Tx4obama]

6. Info regarding DREAM ACT number 5 - on link below

Dems roll out DREAM Act No. 5

SNIP

The DREAM Act would provide a path to legalization for immigrants who were brought to the country illegally as children, if they go to college or serve in the military for at least two years.

The latest version, filed by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) late Tuesday night, would bar illegal immigrants from receiving in-state college tuition; drops the age of eligibility to 29 from 34; would not grant permanent legal status to anyone for at least 10 years; would restrict eligibility for those who commit certain misdemeanor crimes; and would limit individuals from being able to sponsor family members for U.S. citizenship, among other changes.

Those who receive conditional legal status under the DREAM Act also would be ineligible for Medicaid, food stamps and other government-funded benefits.

The new bill “simply is an effort to deal with any potential costs estimates make it revenue-neutral,” said Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), the only Hispanic member of the Senate and an ardent DREAM Act advocate. “There wouldn’t be any reason for anyone to vote against it because it wouldn’t cost anything.”

SNIP

Full article here: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/45844.html

[COLGATE4]

9. Fuck them and the horse(s) they rode in on.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

11. Leave the Republicans to rot in their own sewer

[pampango]

12. "Activists across the country rallied on Tuesday in a day of support for the Dream Act...

the long-languishing bill that would open a path to legalization for young people and may finally come up for a vote in the next several days."

And even though the votes of most of the New York congressional delegation are no longer in doubt — nearly all seem poised to support the bill — civic leaders, immigration advocates and students in New York City contributed their voices to the national rallying cry. New York’s two senators and all but a handful of its House representatives have signaled their intent to support the bill. So New York activists were focusing their phone lobby efforts on the few Congressional delegates who had not clearly indicated their intent.

Chung-Wha Hong, executive director of the New York Immigration Coalition, said in an interview that the diverse, bipartisan New York alliance that has formed in support of the Dream Act could stand as an example for the rest of the country in the debate surrounding comprehensive immigration reform. “I feel like we’re modeling the kind of coalition that we need on the national level, the kind of trust and working relationships that we have among different sectors that are commonly perceived to have conflicting interests,” she said.

Elsewhere in New York, activists were working phone banks and swamping Congressional offices in New York and Washington, D.C. with appeals to pass the bill.

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/30/a-rallying-cry-in-support-of-an-immigration-bill/