Sen. Harry Reid: Conference with House would be a 'win' for Schumer-Obama Amnesty Bill
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said last week that if the House and Senate went to conference over the Schumer-Obama amnesty bill, S.744, that the bill would ultimately pass. Two House Committee's have already approved several immigration-related pieces of legislation. Should the full House pass any one of the bills, the Senate could take up the bill, substitute it with S.744, and send it back to the House. In lieu of passing the bill, the House could opt to go to conference.
"If we go to conference, we would win," Sen. Reid said.
Sen. Reid says that since there's public support for the Senate-passed bill, a conference would pressure House leaders into taking S.744 back to the House for a full vote. However, polling that shows broad public support for the Senate bill is often flawed. It usually overstates the amount of enforcement included in the bill, overstates the process by which illegal aliens would receive citizenship, and omits the fact that 11 illegal aliens would be instantly legalized under the bill.
Polling also shows that the majority of Americans support securing the borders before dealing with the 11 million illegal aliens living in the United States, but the Senate bill puts the illegal aliens before any border security provisions.
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