Then we can vote for it with pride instead of trying to sneak it through this Senate without anybody knowing what is actually in it. As I said last week when I heard about this plan. the Democratic leadership acts as if this is another piece of everyday legislation. but it is not. The immigration bill is one of the most important to come through th Senate in the decade I have been here I believe that. I think the American people understand that. So this option is not new. In April. we heard news reports that the Democratic majority would be abandoning efforts to write a new bill and would be starting with the fatally flawed bill produced by the Judiciary Committee last Congress. "Immigration Daily." an online immigration law publication. reported: There is good reason to believe that the CIRthat is the Comprehensive Immigration ReformLanguage will finally be introduced on the Senate floor within 2 weeks or less. What will the dIR language look like? dIR begins with S. 2611. the McCainKennedy bill which cleared the Senate last year. The New York Times reported a similar story: Senator Edward M. Kennedy has abandoned efforts to produce a new immigration bill and is proposing using legislation produced last March by the Senate Judiciary Committee as the starting point for negotiations this year. Mr. Kennedy dismissed the notion that his efforts to produce a new immigration bill had failed. He said he had decided that the committee report was the best starting point. We have had extensive hearings on the essential aspects of this bill.
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