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| Title | DREAM Changes - Still More to Come |
| Body | From: "Patricia Loera" DREAM Markup Summary The Senate Judiciary Committee voted to support the DREAM Act by a 16-3 margin but not before agreeing to significant changes. The changes were included in an amendment sponsored by Senators Dianne Feinstein and Charles Grassley. The amendment passed on an 18-1 vote. The following is the substance of the Grassley-Feinstein amendment agreed to by the Committee. The amendment changed the DREAM Act in the following ways: (1) Deleted the community service option to qualify for Lawful Permanent Resident status, so that the only two options for removing conditional status are college attendance or military service; (2) Required DREAM beneficiaries to register in SEVIS, the system for tracking students who are in the U.S. and attending college or university with a student visa; (3) Made DREAM Act beneficiaries ineligible for federal financial aid grants, including Pell Grants and Federal Special Educational Opportunity Grants, while retaining eligibility for federal loans and work study; (4) Modified the "retroactivity" provision so that DREAM beneficiaries who have already satisfied the education or military service options before the date of enactment of the act would be required to wait at 3 years in conditional status before qualifying for full LPR status; (5) Clarified that the high school graduation requirement must be satisfied by graduation from a US High School; (6) Added a new requirement for DREAM beneficiaries to list all secondary education institutions attended in the US on the petition to lift their conditional status. VOTING RECORD VOTING YES Joseph Biden (D-DE) 202-224-0139 (fax) Larry Craig (R-ID) 202-228-1067 (fax) Mike DeWine (R-OH) 202-224-6519 (fax) Richard Durbin (D-IL) 202-228-0400 (fax) Russ Feingold (D-WI) 202-224-2725 (fax) John Edwards (D-NC) 202-228-1374 (fax) Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) 202-228-3954 (fax) Charles Grassley (R-IA) 202-224-6020 (fax) Orrin Hatch (R-UT) 202-224-6331 (fax) Edward Kennedy (D-MA) 202-224-2417 (fax) Herbert Kohl (D-WI) 202-224-9787 (fax) Patrick Leahy (D-VT) 202-224-3479 (fax) Charles Schumer (D-NY) 202-228-3027 (fax) Arlen Specter (R-PA) 202-228-1229 (fax John Cornyn (R-TX) 202-228-2856 (fax) John Kyl (R-AZ) 202-224-2207 (fax) VOTING NO Sessions (AL) Graham (R-SC) Chambliss (R-GA) |
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| Inputdate | 2003-10-27 13:20:00 |
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