NILC's weekly update for 5/27

http://www.nilc.org/immlawpolicy/DRE...am013.htm#5-27

we're not picking up one republican cosponsors in the house :/

As far as I know we do not need one republican vote in the house, Democrats got an overwhelming majority. Recalling back to the stimulus package, not one republican voted for it in the house and it passed.

still, it shows that DREAM has more of a partisan support than bipartisan.

Except for political junkies, no one is going to care how many Democrats or Republicans voted for a bill. All people will care about is if a bill passed or not.

The numbers should be there in the House. There's 256 Dems and 178 Repubs in the House with only a majority needed for passage.

I don't think we'll get a single Republican to cosponsor there (other than Latinos).

Since the election, no single Republican in the House has crossed party lines on controversial legislation.

I say, fuck them.

We don't need them because of the huge Democratic majority.

Lets hope we don't eat up our words. Lets stay quiet and continue to garner support for it regardless of party affiliations. Just like every vote counts, every vote against it hurts.

Well said debtbeta every vote counts, lets not get overconfident.

It does not matter if we have enough vote already in the house or not. I am just glad that another person ( republican or democrat) now sympathize with us. That means alot to me. It is not all about just votes.