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12/06/2005: House and Senate are Miles Apart in Immigration Legislation
Report indicates that the House leaders are getting more and more against immigration reform, while the Senate is leaning toward the passage of comprehensive immigration reform legislation early next year. The House is moving against immigration reforms and may not do anything other than enforcement and security such that the comprehensive immigration reform legislation is growingly igniting political heat where the President and the Senate are losing the steam to aggressively push forward the immigration reform.
Reportedly, the House may introduce as early as day after tomorrow an immigration bill totally focusing on enforcement and security which they intend to pass before they go into the year-end recess. The White House and the Senate leaders hope to deal with such hawkish House next year through the conference process, but the chances for McCain-Kennedy bill appear to be waning. Read on.
12/06/2005: Conference Committee for Budget Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, S. 1932 as Amended
The House returns to the session today and the Senate will return to the session next Monday, December 12, 2005. We do not know which members of the House and the Senate will be asked to represent each house in the Conference Committee, but considering the fact that each house tends to pick from the committee in charge the members to represent in the conference committee, people may want to contact and be familialized themselves with the members of these committees:
House Budget Committee (that passed H.R. 4241, the House version of the legislation)
Senate Judiciary Committee (that passed S. 1932, the Senate version of th legislation)
We will post the names of the members as soon as each house asks the names to the conference committee. By now, people must have learned that the Comprehensive Immigration Reform legislation will turn into one of the hottest political battlefields in 2006 which may not be resolved for months and months to come. The "legal" immigration package in the S. 1932 is the legislation which will have to be resolved within this month as separate from the Comprehensive Immigration Reform legislation next year. People are reminded that when it comes to legal immigration, all segments of the political arena, including the White House, the Senate, the House, the media, and the public, agree to the needs for increase in legal employment-based immigrants and only anti-immigration forces are mobilizing strategies to quite down the immigration supporters with the argument that the immigration packet in S. 1932 should be handled as part of the Comprehensive Immigration Reform legislation just to delay and kill the debate on the issue in December. The business community and higher learning institutions should continue to contact the members of the Congress to educate them that S. 1932 immigration recapture legislation is a totally separate issue from the comprehensive immigration reform issues and the nation needs this legislation and cannot afford any delay in the legislation.
www.immigration-law.com
Report indicates that the House leaders are getting more and more against immigration reform, while the Senate is leaning toward the passage of comprehensive immigration reform legislation early next year. The House is moving against immigration reforms and may not do anything other than enforcement and security such that the comprehensive immigration reform legislation is growingly igniting political heat where the President and the Senate are losing the steam to aggressively push forward the immigration reform.
Reportedly, the House may introduce as early as day after tomorrow an immigration bill totally focusing on enforcement and security which they intend to pass before they go into the year-end recess. The White House and the Senate leaders hope to deal with such hawkish House next year through the conference process, but the chances for McCain-Kennedy bill appear to be waning. Read on.
12/06/2005: Conference Committee for Budget Deficit Reduction Act of 2005, S. 1932 as Amended
The House returns to the session today and the Senate will return to the session next Monday, December 12, 2005. We do not know which members of the House and the Senate will be asked to represent each house in the Conference Committee, but considering the fact that each house tends to pick from the committee in charge the members to represent in the conference committee, people may want to contact and be familialized themselves with the members of these committees:
House Budget Committee (that passed H.R. 4241, the House version of the legislation)
Senate Judiciary Committee (that passed S. 1932, the Senate version of th legislation)
We will post the names of the members as soon as each house asks the names to the conference committee. By now, people must have learned that the Comprehensive Immigration Reform legislation will turn into one of the hottest political battlefields in 2006 which may not be resolved for months and months to come. The "legal" immigration package in the S. 1932 is the legislation which will have to be resolved within this month as separate from the Comprehensive Immigration Reform legislation next year. People are reminded that when it comes to legal immigration, all segments of the political arena, including the White House, the Senate, the House, the media, and the public, agree to the needs for increase in legal employment-based immigrants and only anti-immigration forces are mobilizing strategies to quite down the immigration supporters with the argument that the immigration packet in S. 1932 should be handled as part of the Comprehensive Immigration Reform legislation just to delay and kill the debate on the issue in December. The business community and higher learning institutions should continue to contact the members of the Congress to educate them that S. 1932 immigration recapture legislation is a totally separate issue from the comprehensive immigration reform issues and the nation needs this legislation and cannot afford any delay in the legislation.
www.immigration-law.com