Senate Adjourned at About 06:30 PM Without Taking Up H.R. 3012
Senate spent whole day today with FAA Reauthorization Conference bill and after passing it, adjourned until tomorrow. There is no known cause for the delay in H.R. 3012 bill on the floor but it may be related to the Irish lobby strategy to assure that E-3 visa bill is included in one form or another. There is a unconfirmed report of the Irish media that Senator Schumer had dropped Irisih undocumented relief provision to accomodate Sen. Scott Brown’s bill. It appears that Irish community is adding pressure on Sen. Brown to persuade Sen. Grassley not to filibuster. They are also looking forward to the Irish prime minister’s visit scheduled this week who reportedly wants to meet with Sen. Grassley to talk him out of the filibuster plan. Pending all these lobbying acitivites, it appears that the stand-alone H.R. 3012 may remain a hostage(?) to the resolution of the Irish E-3 visa legislation and pending their last-ditch effort to pressure Republican Senators including Sen. Grassley as it approaches one of the biggest ethinic celebration days in this country, the St. Patrick’s Day, very soon. If it is indeed true that Sen. Schumer has dropped from proposal the Irish undocumented Irish relief provision, it indeed is considered a good news for the H.R. 3012 supporters in that such bill is likely to face less resistance in the House as well.
Another update on the H.R. 3012 – Not a positive movement agaist the Bill…
The fact that Sen. Schumer dropped the undocumented Irish relief from his initial proposal has been confirmed not by one Irish media (Irish Central) but second media (Irish Emigrant). Accordingly, indeed a momentum is building for the bill to sail through the Senate in the near future.
