Source: Jordain Carney, THE HILL, 9/13/21


The Senate referee who will decide if a $3.5 trillion spending plan can include long-stalled immigration reform is pushing Democrats for more details on their plan, as they weigh whether or not to give it the green light. Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), the No. 2 Senate Democrat and Judiciary Committee chairman, said Monday that Democratic staffers will present parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough with new information this week, after they initially briefed her Friday on their reasoning for including immigration reform in the spending bill. 

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