The bipartisan Senate group, which planned to unveil legislation in March, now appears poised to do so in April, Mr. Durbin said.
The Senate group met behind closed doors Wednesday at the Capitol, seeking to forge legislation that could be introduced after the August recess.
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The Senate group met behind closed doors in the Capitol on Wednesday, hoping to forge legislation that could be introduced after the August recess.
The Senate group has gotten more attention because House GOP leaders are expected to wait to see what if anything the Senate passes on immigration before taking any action on the issue.
As an alternative to a biometric card, senators may move to strengthen the E-Verify system by, for example, requiring new hires to answer questions about previous addresses or other details, a person familiar with the Senate group's thinking said.
He was a key member of a bipartisan Senate group that put together the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2007, which would have beefed up border security and increased the number of Border Patrol agents, but also would have created a guest worker program.
"We are closer now than we have been in 25 years for serious immigration reform, " Durbin told reporters Wednesday after he and other Democrats in the Senate negotiating group briefed members of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus.
Creating greatly improved opportunities for real "advice" on the part of the Senate -- in particular via its new National Security Working Group (the successor to the Senate's Arms Control Observer Group), chaired by Senator Cochran -- during the crafting of negotiating positions and the conduct of the negotiations themselves.
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"The Conservative Defeat Project is yet another example of the Republican establishment's hostility towards its conservative base, " Matt Hoskins, executive director of the Senate Conservatives Fund group, said in a statement on Sunday.
Coleman was among a group of Senate Republicans who met today with National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley.
Mr. Obama discussed the issue with lawmakers when he met behind closed doors Tuesday with a group of Senate Democrats, participants in the meeting said.
The President will also host a small group of Senate and House members from both sides of the aisle at the White House for an immigration meeting.
In the halls of the US Senate, a bipartisan group of senators is close to a deal on legislation that would require tough border security measures to be in place before undocumented immigrants could gain legal status.
First elected to the Senate from Queens in 2000, the former Senate Democratic leader joined a breakaway group of Democrats in December to form a majority coalition with Senate Republicans.
That's the same timeline that a negotiating group in the Senate is on.
In the Senate right now a bipartisan group of lawmakers is working to reach some sort of compromise on health care reform.
The group in the Senate says its plan probably would allow drilling in new areas of the outer continental shelf, an idea vehemently opposed by Democratic leaders.
Keeping up the momentum, on the same day that I testified before the Senate last week, a bipartisan group of Senators re-introduced the Startup Act.
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Sandra Swirski, of Venn Strategies, a lobbyist for the manufacturing group, figures the Senate will likely pass the Finance-produced bill in late February, before the March 1 deadline.
Ms. Kliff next points out the findings of a senate committee which found that large group policies are already spending about 84 percent on medical care, just one percent short of the new requirement.
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An AMA board member told a Senate panel hearing last week that the group "strongly opposes" a public, government-run insurance plan that pays physicians at the rates of the Medicare programme for the elderly.
Commercial satellite imagery helps do that, one reason a bi-partisan group of Congressmen, including Senate Select Committee on Intelligence members Mark Warner (D-Va.), Mark Udall (D-Colo.), and Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), sent a letter to Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta requesting full support for the program.
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What is important is the massive footprint that Rubio is already leaving on the immigration debate, the value that he adds to the Senate's reform-minded "Group of Eight, " and the near-hypnotic effect he's having on some conservatives who -- while they don't like what he's proposing to fix the nation's immigration system -- do like him a great deal.
The imbroglio may not have much practical effect, as Senate Republicans share power with a more liberal group of five self-described independent Democrats who largely support the governor's agenda.
Meanwhile, a bipartisan group of six negotiators on the Senate Finance Committee -- the last committee that needs to clear health care legislation before it can be taken up on the Senate floor -- is aiming for bipartisanship and another viable option.
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But a bipartisan group of six negotiators on the Senate Finance Committee -- the last panel that needs to clear health care legislation before it can be taken up on the Senate floor -- is considering dropping a government-funded public option in favor of nonprofit cooperatives that would negotiate collective policies for members.
An immigration deal came close on the Senate floor in 2007 but collapsed amid interest-group bickering and an angry public backlash.
It's also the top donor to Patriot Majority, a leading Democratic outside group that is running ads to help Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada and other congressional Democrats.
Don Nickles, the Senate's second-ranking Republican, called a group of G.
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