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Republican senators demand votes on additional immigration amendments

By David M. Drucker
Published June 24, 2013 4:00am ET
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Republican senators demand votes on additional immigration amendments
Jacquelyn Martin/AP Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, is among the more than a dozen Republican senators asking Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to allow additional votes on amendments to the immigration-reform package. In this June 11, 2013, photo, Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, ranking Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. Grassley says the Internal Revenue Service is about to pay $70 million in employee bonuses despite an Obama administration directive to cancel discretionary bonuses because of automatic spending cuts. He says his office has learned that the IRS is executing an agreement with the employees’ union on Wednesday, June 19, 2013, to pay the bonuses. (AP Photo/ | Jacquelyn Martin

More than a dozen Republican senators are asking Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to allow additional votes on amendments to the immigration-reform package.

Fourteen Republcians complained in a letter that the last time the Senate took up major immigration legislation — in 2007 — there were 47 amendment votes, compared to fewer than 10 this time.

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