Posted by
Always To The Right on Wednesday, May 30, 2007 7:32:07 PM
The below from a Captain's Quarters blog post about how the Senate immigration bill [if passed] might be sent back to square one.
The Hill reports this morning that conservative Republicans in the House have plans to derail the Senate immigration compromise
based on a procedural matter. The bill includes tax policy, which
according to the Constitution, has to originate in the House, and some
Republicans have lined up to issue a "blue slip" stop to the
legislation on that basis.
While any Representative can blue-slip a revenue-producing bill from
the Senate, it takes a majority to enforce it. Given the heat from both
sides of this debate, that may not be difficult to arrange, and it
would require the Senate negotiators to start from Square One.