Dream on

Supporters of the Dream Act have failed to muster the votes required to invoke cloture, thus effectively killing the legislation for now. The vote was 52-44. Sixty votes were needed to call up the Act.
About an hour before the vote, the White House issued a statement opposing the Dream Act. It said:

By creating a special path to citizenship that is unavailable to other prospective immigrants

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