May 26, 2008

ISSUE 1220

SENATE DROPS FEINSTEIN GUEST-WORKER BILL

A bill that would have streamlined the H-2A guest-worker program died in the Senate on May 20. Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., had sought to add the provision to the Iraq spending bill, but Sen. Robert Menedez, D-N.J., lodged a parliamentary objection against it, saying it violated a rule against legislating on an
appropriations bill. No other lawmakers objected, so the measure was dropped.
The bill had gained some momentum earlier when the Senate Appropriations Committee supported it 17-12.
 

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