No Senate Bill

Despite all the nice talk and press conference, the Senate bill collapsed, after Democrats refused to allow votes on a number of amendments. The most prominent was to have the Department of Homeland Security “certify the border was secure” before any guest worker program began. Tough call—that particular amendment is clearly intended to destroy the bill, but Senator McCain claimed the proposed amendments would be voted down, and so it was acceptable to allow a vote.

So we’re back to where we were when I blogged back on February 1.