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Senate moves toward votes on immigration bill

By Erica Werner
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senators prepared Monday for the first votes in the full Senate on a landmark immigration bill, readying amendments on contentious issues including border security, back taxes and health care coverage.

The two votes scheduled for Tuesday afternoon are on procedural measures to officially allow debate to move forward on the far-reaching measure to remake the nation’s immigration laws and offer eventual citizenship to some 11 million people now here illegally.

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