Is that an overstatement? Not really. because the tyranny means that you have something bad happening. and the strength is of the minority. and that has actually taken place. We have seen it play out over the course of the last 12 hours. almost exactly 12 hours after a vote today to oppose a bill that gives illegal immigrants. undocumented people. a direct special path to citizenship. Many thought it would be a new day and. indeed. shortly thereafter. a large number. a bipartisan group of people. rallied in support of proceeding to an amendment put forth by Senators HAGEL and MARTINEZ. broadly supported with a number of cosponsors on both sides of the aisle. That amendment. coupled with the work that the committee had done to date. that the Senate had done. did everything pretty much in terms of tightening the borders. worksite enforcement. looking at 12 million undocumented. illegal immigrants here and saying it is not a monolithic group and has to be addressed in a certain way and developing a temporary worker program. However. at that point. the minority. having said the amendments could be offered. reversed course. and over the course of today we have not had any amendments offered. We have had them offeredin fact. 396 amendments are at the deskbut we are not allowed to take any of those amendments out and debate and vote on them.
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