In case you haven’t heard, today the U.S. Senate is set to vote on whether to revive the immigration reform debate. 60 votes are needed to resurrect the bill that Republican hardliners (or hardheads depending on your pov) are calling amnesty. As I’ve reported before, what’s been holding the bill back is a series of amendments presented from both sides of the aisle. One of the most controversial:

A bipartisan amendment by Sens. Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, Barack Obama, D-Ill., and Max Baucus, D-Mont., that would change the bill’s new program for weeding out illegal employees from U.S. workplaces.
The amendment would free employers from a mandate to check the identities of all their employees and require them to verify only new workers and those the government has a reason to believe are illegal immigrants. It would allow employees to present any state-issued drivers license as proof of identity, rather than requiring the nationally standardized “REAL ID,” which some states have not adopted.

Via / Yahoo! News