Sen. Richard Burr, R-NC, who voted for cloture on the immigration reform bill on Tuesday, after voting against cloture on June 7, now says on his Web page that he can’t support the current bill that comes up for another cloture vote tomorrow (emphasis added):
Tuesday’s vote was on whether the Senate should continue to debate immigration, not on the bill itself. I still have concerns about the immigration reform bill in its current form. Unless the bill changes drastically, I can find no way to support it.
Looks like the steam is coming out of the juggernaut that we saw on Tuesday. Reports are that several senators who voted yes on cloture on Tuesday plan to vote no tomorrow. Right now it looks as if there are only 60 votes for cloture. One more defection and it will fail. It would be nice if Burr provided that one crucial vote to kill this legislation that was conceived in secrecy and dedicated to the proposition that the U.S. Senate knows best what’s good for us.
