It attained more than a
majority vote in the Senate, but it didn't get to the 60-vote
threshold, so that was insufficient for passage. In 2010, the House
passed the DREAM Act, but the Senate again failed to approve it with a
60-vote threshold. In 2013, just a few months after I came to the Senate, we
contemplated, debated, discussed, voted upon comprehensive immigration
reform in June. I was kind of proud then. I was a young Senator, had
been here a couple of months and stood in my chair and offered a speech
on the floor of the Senate in Spanish to describe what was in the bill
for the 45 million Americans who get their news every day in the
Spanish language.
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