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With a key Senate vote scheduled Tuesday, President Barack Obama sought to gain momentum for his top second-term legislative priority by urging Congress to pass a comprehensive immigration reform measure before the end of the summer, warning those who would oppose the bill that there is “no good reason to play procedural games or engage in obstruction.”“If you’re serious about actually fixing the ...    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

    

Pointing to its hundreds of pages of legislative minutiae, opponents of the immigration reform effort are painting the bipartisan Senate bill as the policy sibling of the Affordable Care Act, hoping that conservative distaste for the law dubbed “Obamacare” will bleed into President Barack Obama’s next attempt at legacy legislation.See Exhibit A: A new op-ed from bill opponent Sen. Mike Lee of Utah...    

Full Senate holds its first immigration vote at 2:15 pm ET… Obama makes immigration remarks four hours earlier (just his second official event on the issue, compared with as many as eight on guns)… Looking ahead to the amendment process… Not surprising a majority backs tracking phone records… Another dent in Hillary’s State Department armor?... Cook: GOP chances of an upset in MA SEN look unlikely...