Morning Examiner: Farm bill failure shows how pointless Senate immigration debate is

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Like so many other pro-amnesty Republican promises, Sens. Bob Corker, R-Tenn. and John Hoeven, R-N.D., completely failed to produce any actual legislative text for their “border surge” amendment yesterday.

A pointless debate

As a result, the Senate will again spend another day debating an amendment no one knows what is in, all in an effort to bump the number of ‘yes’ votes for amnesty up from the 60 everyone knows Democrats already have now, to the 70 they want to put pressure on the House.

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