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In fact, a third vote on the same question is scheduled for Thursday and the same outcome is likely.
One reason for the multiple votes is so Senate GOP leaders can showcase for House Republicans that despite their efforts to pass the House bill, it can’t get enough Democratic votes to pass in the Senate as long as it carries the immigration provisions. That might force House Republicans to rethink their position on immigration and decide to take that fight up later.
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One House Republican, Texas Rep. John Carter, said he was open to the Collins approach. But another Texas GOP member, Rep. Bill Flores, chair of the conservative Republican Study Committee, was not.
Flores urged all his members at a lunch on Wednesday to lobby their senators – both GOP and Democrats alike – to stay the course and insist the Senate pass the House bill, including all the immigration restrictions.
