to keep it going. jeff sessions is half correct in what he s saying here is that this compromise, it is totally driven by politics because if you look at it just in terms of the policy, it s not a good policy. we re practically militarizing the border. it s very safe already. we re putting a tremendous amount of money and resources there. a tremendous there s the potential for a great deal of government overreach to all the people who live along that area. those things, you know, the cost, the government overreach, the money we re spending, those are generally things that conservatives are against. yet that s necessary and purely driven by the necessity. hakeem, this was sort of the compromise. chuck schumer leading the charge and he said publicly he wants 70 votes, wants as many votes as possible. so he was and other democrats were eager or happy to go along with this deal, this border surge they re calling it, $30
different. what i m looking for is this group working on it for years. this deal that fell apart both in 2006 and 2007, a lot of people have really wanted to see something happen. they ve got the advocacy community on their side. i ve talked to a lot of different people over the last few days who are saying, this senate bill isn t perfect. they don t don t love all the border enforcement for the reason raul is talking about but they re willing to let it happen because they to want see something. if that bipartisan group can come to the table and compromise, you might see shifting. with all this talk about pressure and whether it s on boehner or on the rest of the house republican caucus who are in safe seats, they re not having to worry about the latino votes in their district, you know what else alleviates pressure is time. nothing says john boehner has to put a bill on the floor any time soon. the senate could pass this as early as thursday next week. the house does not have to put a
republican party has a lot to lose here. if it doesn t compromise, many hispanic voters will reject the gop entirely pretty much doing the party in the future. that s reality. it is time for the usa to pass immigration reform. for years i ve called for a more secure southern border. you know that. and now it looks like the secure border is in reach. at least somewhat. so i hope this bill does become law. you know, what strikes me about that is paul kahne had a good story and talked about how the average conservative member of congress doesn t feel any pressure to answer to leadership. they answer to external voices. external voess like bill o reilly, like sean hannity, the conservative masses listen to them. that seems to me maybe a big difference between now in 2007. hannity and now bill o reilly. the top two fox voices. senator rubio has been very critical. he s done a strategic outreach
reform, he s just being cagey how he ll move forward. that s an important distinction because john boehner, kevin mccarthy, you don t hear them railing against this bill. they re being cautious knowing how fragile the house conference is, how they move ahead. we talk about will they just vote in the senate. the republicans officially are talking about having their own bill coming out of the house. you have goodlatte, he has a piecemeal approach. the key is anything the republicans propose is not going to have the path to citizenship in it. that s right. so, officially how congress makes a law is that maybe the house passes something, the senate passes something, they come together and work out their differences. it doesn t always work all that smoothly. how do you come to an agreement or some sort of compromise in what s known as a conference report when they re so