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    Amendment 1161 http://www.govtrack.us/congress/amendment.xpd?session=110&amdt=s1161 If it is confirmed that this is one of the amendments that is shortlisted of 22, then it addresses the issue.
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    New Immigration Bill is S 1639 I just saw the text of this bill. Does not contain the 4 year citizenship rule. We have to take a look at the amendments. The amendments are listed in this link http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1853698/posts Not sure if any of these will address the...
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    how a bill is passed.. http://www.vote-smart.org/resource_govt101_02.php The chamber must approve, change or reject all committee amendments before conducting a final passage vote. This answers my own question.
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    There are a total of 185 amendments to the CIR. Will a vote need to be taken on all these amendments before the actual bill can be voted on?
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    may be its still on I havent seen S.1348 text being modified at all until now, even as amendments are being voted on.. Does this mean, the text will remain the same?? and amendments will be added? If that is the case, may be this thread may still be kept alive..
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    S.1348 The bill initially was the same as last year's. And that contained the 4 year cship amendment. But congress is now debating on a complete overhaul and the language has changed quite a bit. The 300 odd pages of PDF i posted above is the latest as of today. Thats the one the debate is...
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    This is as good as dead I somehow retrieved the full text of the immigration deal. http://www2.nationalreview.com/dest/2007/05/19/immigrationdraft051807.pdf It does not contain the faster citizenship part in it.
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    Immigration Deal reached Looks like a workable immigration deal reached between the Republicans and the democrats, Senate and Congress, which means, the bill presented earlier in the senate which was exact same as last years, may go through changes before being voted on.. We will have to look...
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    Any new information on this?
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    Give up I believe this will never happen. I was watching the State Of the Union Speech yesterday and Bush talked about Immigration Reform one more time.. Even if they would work on this again.. I dont even believe the contents of Senate bill which passed last year will be considered to be the...
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    http://www.govtrack.us/congress/billtext.xpd?bill=s109-2611 Please look at section 646 or search on faster.. This passed Senate and it has the faster citizenship amendment in it already. If this is introduced in the House.. which would be appropriate thing to do, then the amendment will...
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    http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20061109-124147-5586r.htm I am confident this would happen. The bill includes the 4 year citizenship amendment already in it.. Lets wait and see..
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    http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15566722/site/newsweek/
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    http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20061102-122225-2823r.htm
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    There is a hope that this issue will be addressed after the midterm elections. The bill already passed the Senate which is still gonna go republican. But the Congress may go Democrat the way things are looking. Immigration lobbyists will probably try and get the bill again for congress to...
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    It looks like the House and Senate are both done for this term. The new term will start after the elections are completed. Should we consider that this immigration reform to be dead. is there any chance that this will be reconsidered after the elections?
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    Not Looking Positive The House is holding immigration sessions all around the country trying to find out what the voters like. In all likelihood, House is not going to vote for this before the Elections. Now after the elections, if we have Republicans holding the House, there are slim...
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