DREAM Act Vote In The Senate Saturday

Last night Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid announced that there would be a vote on the DREAM Act this Saturday. This is not a vote on final passage of the legislation, this is a vote on the motion to proceed to a final vote on the legislation. The full press release can be seen here:

Senator Reid proceeded to file cloture on the DREAM Act and a repeal of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.” The first vote on cloture on the DREAM act will occur Saturday morning.

“In addition, I filed cloture on two important bills tonight. We will soon vote on a bill that provides young people brought here by their parents with a path to citizenship through academic achievement or military service. After that, we will vote to determine whether we follow the advice of our military leadership and repeal ‘Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.’

So, just to break down what all of this means for a vote, below is a step by step guide to what the process going forward will look like:

1. Last night Senator Reid filed a cloture motion on the DREAM Act, which starts a 30 hour timer before an actual vote can occur.

2. The 30 hours behind the cloture motion ends Saturday, which means that the Senate can vote on the motion to proceed to the DREAM Act.

3. On Cloture votes, the Senate needs 3/5ths of the vote to proceed forward. That means in order to move on to a vote on the actual 60 Senators need to vote to move forward.  An absent Senator, or a Senator who does not vote one way or the other, counts as NO vote.
 
4. If the DREAM Act fails to gain 60 votes then the motion to proceed to an actual vote on DREAM will fail. That will be it.

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If there are 60 votes, the Senate will then have to burn 30 hours will before they can have a final vote on DREAM.
 
5. On the vote for final passage only 51 votes are needed.  If DREAM gets 51 Votes, then it is passed in both chambers of Congress and will move to the President for his signature and will then be law.

 

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