[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 10]
[Senate]
[Page 14351]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                SCHEDULE

  Mr. REID. Mr. President, the Senate will immediately resume 
consideration of the immigration bill. We have the two managers of the 
bill here. There will be two amendments from each side to be offered 
today.
  Mr. President, in anticipation of coming back the week after our 
break, which starts this afternoon, we are going to finish the 
immigration bill. I hope that we will not have to file cloture. There 
have been enough amendments offered. I hope we can have a final vote on 
passage. If things are not going well on Tuesday and Wednesday when we 
get back, I will consider filing cloture. I will certainly discuss this 
in detail with the Republican leader, Senator McConnell.
  We have made a lot of progress on this bill. It is according to whose 
view you have as to whether it is forward or backward. As far as I am 
concerned, the bipartisan agreement that was reached by Democrats and 
Republicans has put us on a path for resolving one of America's big 
problems, immigration.

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