Senate Passes Immigration Bill in 'Do Something' Spirit

[dogday]

(CNSNews.com) - The Senate voted 62-36 to pass an immigration reform bill on Thursday, with 23 Republicans voting for it, four Democrats voting against it, and just about everyone saying it's unclear what the final bill will look like, once the Senate and the House try to hammer out a compromise on their very different bills.

The Senate bill establishes a path to citizenship (amnesty, critics insist) for millions of people who came to this country illegally, and that provision is anathema to some conservatives.

Nevertheless, Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist (R-Tenn.), who voted for the bill, said he's "proud" that the Senate has acted.

"We've taken a bill, and we've made it better ," Majority Leader Frist said in a statement. "We've taken a bill that the American people would have concluded was amnesty -- and by my lights, we took the amnesty out while we put the security in."


http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200605/NAT20060526b.html

[durrrty libby]

1. Pundits never ask the cost of legislation, except last night on CNN,

a visiting “expert” (sorry don’t know the name) said this particular piece of legislation was a horribly written piece of crap and would cost a gazillion dollars. (Paraphrased)
He said that he had never seen anything this badly written.