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Originally Posted by skysla
As long as there are enough votes for the DREAM Act in the House and as long as it is passed before the House adjourns, I think the timing of the vote on the DREAM in the House is not that important. The House can pass a bill very quickly if the Democratic leadership has enough votes and intends to pass it.
The Senate is the problem. The Democrats need to reach an agreement with the Republicans on the tax cuts and government spending. It is not clear that they can do it even by next week. If they can't reach an agreement, the Senate will run out of time for the DREAM Act.
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case in point, the house has been passing bill incredibly fast compared to the senate. I think there was a report on t.v. placing an estimate of about 400 bills waiting to be heard by the senate, not to mention that positions that used to be brought up during the bush administration and appointed as fast as the following day in the senate have been taking two years and at the current pace are expected to take as long as 8 years for people to get some key appointments, leaving a lot of very important vacant seats.
Today the democrats where outrage over the republicans holding back appointments of the number two position in the national policing force. not to mention judges. Rethugs are really making a serious mess of things in hopes the public will be stupid to not realize what they are doing, and chances are they will not know what is going on and blame it on the majority.