{"id":1768,"date":"2007-05-23T13:13:00","date_gmt":"2007-05-23T19:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/05\/senate-approves-bingaman-immigration-amendment\/"},"modified":"2007-05-23T13:13:00","modified_gmt":"2007-05-23T19:13:00","slug":"senate-approves-bingaman-immigration-amendment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/05\/senate-approves-bingaman-immigration-amendment\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate approves Bingaman immigration amendment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RlSShIrd27I\/AAAAAAAACaA\/15xA0T4nhQ0\/s1600-h\/Bingaman,+Jeff.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RlSShIrd27I\/AAAAAAAACaA\/15xA0T4nhQ0\/s200\/Bingaman,+Jeff.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5067836578661784498\" border=\"0\"><\/a>Senators approved today an amendment proposed by <a href=\"http:\/\/bingaman.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jeff Bingaman<\/a>, D-N.M., that would cut in half the number of temporary guest workers allowed under an immigration proposal they are considering.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It\u2019s the first major amendment to the bipartisan proposal by the White House and a number of senators, including <a href=\"http:\/\/domenici.senate.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pete Domenici<\/a>, R-N.M., to reform the nation\u2019s immigration system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">The amendment was approved today on a vote of 74-24, so the bill now proposes allowing 200,000 temporary guest workers into the <st1:country-region st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">United States<\/st1:place><\/st1:country-region> each year. The original proposal was to allow 400,000, with the number changing based on demand.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Approval of Bingaman\u2019s amendment was expected. A similar amendment passed when Congress debated immigration last year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">You can read the details of the immigration proposal being considered by the Senate by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.haussamen.com\/briefsectionbysection_5_17_07.doc\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. The Senate hopes to vote on the bill in June.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senators approved today an amendment proposed by Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., that would cut in half the number of temporary guest workers allowed under an immigration proposal they are considering. It\u2019s the first major amendment to the bipartisan proposal by the White House and a number of senators, including Pete Domenici, R-N.M., to reform the nation\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}