Comprehensive immigration reform "isn’t going to happen this year, a Democratic senator said over the weekend," The Hill reports.
Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) said he didn’t expect a comprehensive bill to make its way through Congress, which returns in September for several weeks of work before breaking again for midterm elections.
The freshman senator said he was working with Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) on a bill, but didn’t expect it to come up during 2010.
"Sen. Schumer and I are working to bring a package to Congress," Merkley told constituents at a town hall meeting, according to the Salem Statesman Journal. "But reform isn’t going to happen this year."
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