Did McCain Block Vote on the SAVE Act?
"U.S. Rep. Heath Shuler says he believes Republican presidential
candidate John McCain blocked his immigration bill from getting a vote on the U.S. House floor. McCain's staff denies it. The Waynesville Democrat spoke to the Rotary Club of Hendersonville on Tuesday. He said the Republican leadership tried to bring the Secure America Through Verification and Enforcement Act to the House floor. They used a provision of House rules called a discharge petition, in which a simple majority can bring to the floor a bill that is stuck in committee," the Times-News reports. "The petition had 181 of the 217 signatures needed to force a vote on the bill. 'It was going great until McCain blocked it,' Shuler said. McCain, a U.S. senator from Arizona, called Republicans in Congress and asked them not to sign the petition, Shuler said. He said after McCain's intervention, Republicans in the House were less willing to sign onto the bill."
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