Re: Separate chambers:

It was a conscious decision in order to signify that both chambers are equally important to research. Legislation does not have to start in the senate and it often doesn't (health care anyone? or the awful HR. 4437? etc.) Generally people find it more manageable to focus on the senate since its just 100 members and one person can grasp that much in their mind. In effect, however, no work would be done on the House. That would be a huge mistake in my book.

Having said that, I do want to add a live co-sponsor count in separate chambers on the today page at http://dreamact.info/today so we don't have to search on LOC every other day.
Per your suggestion (and those of others) I will also add either a separate page or visual ques to break-down the research done by members into separate chambers, but it won't be center stage as I explained above.

Re: CIR count:

Our focus has always been and always will be DREAM Act as a practical path to CIR. In my opinion the DREAM Act has a better chance in 2010 than CIR. I don't buy it for a minute that the majority would act on major immigration reform on the verge of midterm elections. Of course they say they will, they say a lot of things. DREAM Act on the other hand is a "down payment" on comprehensive reform and is starting to get backing as such from CIR groups (see MALDEF) -- that might make sense on the verge of a midterm election. The DREAM Act hit the senate floor in 2007 as a stand alone and it had a very good chance; that much hasn't changed.

I'm all for being optimistic, but it's just not smart to change our thinking for convenience or comfort. In Fall 2008 it was accepted as truth that, and I'm paraphrasing many news outlets, "our best chance for immigration reform is in 2009, 2010 is unlikely due to midterm elections". If anything, the weak vote on health care made CIR even less likely. Introduction of CIR ASAP is irrelevant, since they could have put space-shooting-laser-monkeys in there and no one would care since there is simply no time for the bill to go anywhere. Aside from these two events I see nothing that should change how we felt about prospects of CIR in 2010 back in 2008 -- not likely.

Which brings me back to DREAM. The majority failed to deliver on their Fall 2009 promise. DREAM Act means progress in 2010. DREAM Act is our focus and will stay our focus.