We lost today, but it’s not over

The bill passed the cloture vote today, which brings it back to the Senate floor, by a vote of 64 to 35. Five less votes for the other side, and the bill would have been dead.

Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, writes at The Corner:

Falling Back to the Next Trench [Mark Krikorian]
The second, and final, cloture vote is coming Thursday (that will be to end debate and proceed to a final vote on the bill itself), and only five votes need to shift from Yes to No to stop it. That seems like a good bet, with good candidates for switching including Brownback, Bond, Ben Nelson, Ensign, Burr, and Gregg. If they thought they’d gotten a lot of calls and faxes before, …

Posted by Lawrence Auster at June 26, 2007 02:54 PM | Send