June 07, 2007
Late-Night Vote Threatens Immigration Deal
A compromise immigration bill risks coming unraveled after the Senate voted to place a five-year limit on a program meant to provide employers with 200,000 temporary foreign workers annually. The 49-48 vote came shortly after midnight, and two weeks after the Senate, also by a one-vote margin, rejected the same amendment by Sen. Byron Dorgan, D-N.D.
The reversal dismayed backers of the immigration bill, which is supported by President Bush. Business interests and their congressional allies were already angry that the temporary worker program had been cut in half from its original 400,000-person-a-year target. Bill supporters will try as soon as today to convince at least one senator to change his vote to reverse the outcome.
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