Originally Posted by tays123

We needed 5 out of the 6 democrats to vote for cloture back in 2010, but Manchin chickened out and did not vote; and Tester voted No. The other 4 are no longer in the Senate. Therefore, Trump is correct when he says that they could have fixed it... Why couldn't Durbin whip the votes back then? It is all empty talk right now. Democrats have already lost the leverage by not forcing to attach it to the spending nill. They need to accept whatever comes with path to citizenship for us; and if they do not, then they are truly using us... But we already knew that! Didn't we?