House Threatens Blue Slip in the Face of the Senate

By Don Wolfensberger
Roll Call Contributing Writer

July 28, 2006, 3:34 p.m.

The pending immigration bill is a veritable petri dish for a flourishing culture of procedural politics. Procedural ploys are proliferating and mutating like bacteria on steroids as partisans of the competing House and Senate bills employ a dazzling array of creative tactics to advance their causes.

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