Here is an article about the agriculture amnesty legislation, proposed by Senators Diane Feinstein and Larry Craig, dying in the Senate. The war funding bill is still moving forward, just without that gem added by America's most respected Senators.
Feinstein ag worker plan dies
The Associated Press
Article Launched: 05/22/2008 09:09:25 AM PDT
WASHINGTON—An attempt by California Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein to attach an agriculture guest worker program to a must-pass Iraq war spending bill has failed.
The Senate Appropriations Committee that Feinstein sits on agreed to the plan last week, but it was scuttled this week amid Senate negotiations on the multibillion-dollar bill to fund operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. There have been various disputes about attempts to add domestic programs to the bill.
Feinstein long has sought to create a guest-worker program to meet shortages of farm workers in California and elsewhere. Her latest plan would not have guaranteed permanent residency to the workers, but still met resistance from opponents who viewed it as amnesty.
2 comments:
you rock jordan ; )
And that's pretty much fantastic. Man that lady is dumb. How on earth is California filled with so many morons? Of course Nevada makes me scratch my head too with Harry Reid...
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