Kill the bill. Sorry, Marco, you can't get a reasonable bill past the loophole and exception obsessed democrat senate. It will fail in the House. There is too much crammed into this turkey, like Obamacare. We need a bill to secure the border, disincent illegal immigration, and provide criminal penalties for failing to enforce our laws. A separate bill could modernize legal immigration. WHEN THE BORDER IS SECURE we can talk about a path to citizenship for law-abiding illegal immigrants (sic).

All the troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan?? ...send them to the southern border. They will be in the USA, it will be orders of magnitude cheaper to support them THERE, they'll be safer (really, not safe, but safer), we still won't be spending 2/3 of our defense budget on cultural activities in Islamic countries, and the border can be SEALED. Also, end birthright citizenship and anchor babies.

This is good news. The REALLY good news will be when Germany comes to their senses and stops their luddite attack on clean nuclear energy. Will probably happen when they see China deploying LFTRs at home and in the third world (China bribes countries). They won't see it in the USA--we're Carternian radiophobes.

2. In 1952, Ike was drafted by an INDEPENDENT movement to run for president as a Republican. They overran the Convention and made him prevail over Bob Taft. Perhaps we need that sort of thing in 2016...a coalition of libertarians, tea party, and independents who find an honest, patriotic, magnetic leader who believes in first principles, and drive him to the Republican nomination past all the establishment contenders (who end up just getting mauled to death by the liberals and their media acolytes). Interesting note: In 1952, Hollywood supported Ike, and Ronald Reagan was a democrat. Imagine that.

Two things. I'll bury them here in this useless comment stream where they can die. 1. We can't survive the govt in its present form. Either the democrat socialists or the RINO republicans, both with their crony capitalism and refusal to reform govt will not solve anything. We need a shakeup. Rather than voting for one or the other, perhaps we need more attention to a third party, such as Libertarian, merely to mess up the status quo. continued

He's so PO'd that four dem senators defected. We should all be so PO'd that 54 dem senators supported this travesty.

Liberal progressive vision/consequence: We want to help the poor-->the Great Society creates wall-to-wall entitlements-->having kids entitles you to support, having fathers impedes this-->out-of-wedlock births triples-->poorly parented kids fail in school, turn to drugs and crime-->high murder and violence rates in affected areas, EVEN WITH GUN CONTROL. Liberal solution: Abort as many babies as possible, to minimize the mess (sic). It is unfortunate that this mechanism predominately (disproportionately) affects the African-American community. At the same time, there are a significant proportion of the African-American community that are successful, contributing members of society, many having risen from the situations outlined above.

Liberal progressive vision/consequence: We want to help the poor-->the Great Society creates wall-to-wall entitlements-->having kids entitles you to support, having fathers impedes this-->out-of-wedlock births triples-->poorly parented kids fail in school, turn to drugs and crime-->high murder and violence rates in affected areas, EVEN WITH GUN CONTROL. Liberal solution: Abort as many babies as possible, to minimize the mess (sic). It is unfortunate that this mechanism predominately (disproportionately) affects the African-American community. At the same time, there are a significant proportion of the African-American community that are successful, contributing members of society, many having risen from the situations outlined above.

Now for something completely different: A comment that is actually germane to this article. EPA subscribes to LNT--Linear No Threshold. This ridiculous policy says that if 10% of something will kill 1000 people, then 0.1% will kill 10 people. This assumption that the effect of something is purely linear is not scientifically sound in the majority of situations. However, the EPA, the Union of Concerned Scientists and the UN endorse it because it aids their radical agenda. Its worst effect is in nuclear energy policy, where it has basically halted development and scared whole populations constipated.

The majority of Americans are so cowed by the liberals "war on racism" that they won't even think about this. There is ZERO political advantage for dimocrats to address the problem...in fact, if the problem wasn't there, they'd have a harder time getting re-elected. Yet, their victims are so dependent they can't break free. See "Run Away Slave".