Where we are so far.......

As you all should know, the Senate voted to invoke cloture on the "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" (S. 1638) 64-35 on Tuesday June 26.

The Clay Pigeon amendment (S. 1639)
Both Hutchinson's "Touchback" Amendment (requiring illegals to leave and return) and Webb's 4 year rule (no illegals newer than 2003) failed on motions to table.

Vitter (R-LA) and Reid (D-NV) have been duking it out all afternoon, Vitter complaining ceaseless about the unfairness of the 27-amendment limit, oh yea and the fact that Reid keeps changing the wording of the near 400-pg amendment.

Last night, before debate began on the 'mega-amendment' aka claypigeon, opponents objected to waiving the Bill reading---(the bill is 800pgs written almost exclusively in legalese and euphenism--"nonimmigrants without legal status"). When the clerk went to read the bill, everyone discovered, even Reid, that Kennedy's hands hadn't finished redrafting the selected amendments.