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Home Front: Politix
Hastert Deals Blow to Immigration Bill
2006-06-14
Hopes for a quick compromise on immigration were dealt a blow Tuesday after House Speaker Dennis Hastert said he wanted to take a "long look" at a Senate bill offering possible citizenship to millions of illegal immigrants. Hastert said hearings on the Senate bill should be held before appointing anyone to a House-Senate committee to negotiate a compromise immigration bill. Later, he said he was unsure what the House's next move would be. "We're going to take a long look at it," Hastert said late Tuesday.

House Majority Leader John Boehner agreed. "I think we should know clearly what's in the Senate bill," Boehner said. But he added there are lots of ways to understand its contents. Sen. John Cornyn, R-Texas, also scheduled a hearing for Monday to review provisions in the bill requiring employers to verify that their workers are legal. Cornyn said he opposes a provision allowing workers to use up to 20 documents to verify they are legal workers. Also, the Department of Homeland Security has raised concerns about how quickly it must have in place an electronic system that employers will use to verify their workers legal status, Cornyn's spokesman Don Stewart said.
Posted by:Fred

#8  Can Tom Tancredo and JD Hayworth lead the house team in the conference committee?
Posted by: eLarson   2006-06-14 17:35  

#7  this per Robert Novak:

Immigration: House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-Ill.) appears to be dragging his feet on compromising with the Senate's immigration bill. This is good news for House Republicans, considering the lessons of recent elections. Republicans win when they run away from Bush on immigration. If enough endangered House Republicans are arm-twisted into supporting a lax immigration bill, they will go down as a result.
The best outcome right now for the GOP, from a political perspective, is a failure to act, and that appears to be exactly what Hastert is encouraging.

Posted by: Captain America   2006-06-14 14:31  

#6  Frank, you're right. The Senate bill is a complete sham. Frisk has stacked the deck with RINOs. Haskert has no recourse.
Posted by: Captain America   2006-06-14 13:04  

#5  Or long meaning just before the election so all the donks can run on their vote in contested districts. Since there are only about 45 districts, it won't take that long to do the polling. It's the televised hearings leading up to the vote that will take a lot of time.
Posted by: Nimble Spemble   2006-06-14 09:30  

#4  And expose all the hidden little goodies for illegals they stuck in. The Senate is beyond shame.
Posted by: Frank G   2006-06-14 08:29  

#3  Anything to slow down the excreable Senate bill. Hastert has to do this to get the House version punched through.
Posted by: Steve White   2006-06-14 08:17  

#2  Hey 2b, where are you going with that box of feathers? ;-)
Posted by: Seafarious   2006-06-14 07:50  

#1  Long meaning until after the November elections. Long meaning that the public is boiling tar and they are getting a little scared. Long meaning that they think we have short attenction spans. Long meaning they need to actually do something this time cause the public is keeping lists and checking them twice.
Posted by: 2b   2006-06-14 06:33  

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