THE HILL – The Senate will vote Monday on ending debate on a border security deal supporters hope will bring more GOP support to the immigration bill.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) announced the vote Friday as he filed a cloture motion on a border security amendment to the bill.
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The amendment, sponsored by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), includes language representing the deal worked out by Sens. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and John Hoeven (R-N.D.) and the authors of the Senate bill.
Reid praised Corker and Hoeven’s work on the legislation, describing them as a “Gang of Two,” a wordplay on the “Gang of Eight” that crafted the underlying bill.
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