In 2007, the immigration legislation that Obama now says he wants so badly was on the verge of passing when North Dakota Sen. Byron Dorgan persuaded a majority of his Democratic colleagues to support an amendment designed to derail the carefully crafted compromise between liberals, the Oval Office and a bloc of Senate moderates in both parties. Acting at the behest of organized labor, Dorgan's amendment would have weakened the guest-worker provision of the bill. On Capitol Hill such amendments are called "poison pills" because their true aim is to kill the legislation.
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