Durbin: December Is Best Chance For DREAM Act - Page 3

Fuck him !

I second that! Both Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan have turned out to be BITCHES this year. They both support passing DA but they have no guts at all to bring the bill up for a vote.

Can someone please explain to me why the Dems didn't filibuster the tax bill? Repubes kept filibustering every single bill when Obama was in office.

Due to some crazy change in rules (Somebody else can explain) that was done this year or something only simple majority is currently required to pass the bills. That's not the case with the spending bill however which will require Democratic senators to join in in passing it!

they did it via reconciliation that only needed a majority.

so McConnell basically lied to Jeff Flake just to get his vote for the tax bill? typical.

As Republicans negotiated revisions to the GOP tax plan Friday to win their votes, Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona took another approach.

Flake won a commitment from Republican leaders — and the White House — to work on a permanent fix that would allow young immigrants known as Dreamers to stay in the U.S. as President Trump prepares to end the DACA program next year.

The Arizona Republican, who is retiring at end of his term, had been one of the leading GOP senators warning against rising deficits from the $1.5-trillion tax plan. He said he eliminated one budget “gimmick” as part of the agreement.

But Flake focused his attention late Thursday and Friday — in phone calls with Vice President Mike Pence — on the young immigrants who were brought to the U.S. illegally as children and now face deportation risk under Trump’s plan.

Congress has been working behind the scenes on a legislative alternative to DACA, the Obama-era program that provides recipients with permits to work and remain temporarily in the country.

Trump said he would end the program next year, but the president has also pushed Congress to figure out a solution for the Dreamers. Flake’s said he secured a seat at the table.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/wash...htmlstory.html

Bill still gotta pass both chambers after reconciliation. Flake can still take his vote back. Would still need one more vote to screw them over.

All for the sake of delay as was discussed earlier. This was expected!

It is as long as it includes aged out Dreamers.

Doesn’t mean he get his way though. If Dems stick together!