Senate Defeats Cloture Motion to Begin FY 2011 Defense Authorization Debate, Measure Needed for Subsequent DREAM Act Amendment
Washington, D.C.- The Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) commends the 56 members of the Senate who voted for cloture on the Department of Defense Reauthorization legislation (S.3454 – see voter roster, below). The sixty votes needed for cloture would have enabled the Senate to proceed to vote to pass S.3454, which in turn would have paved the way for the Development, Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act to be presented as an amendment offered by U.S. Senator Harry Reid to S.3454.