From one Senate insider: “I like the scenario of a TEMPORARY worker plan, coupled with a trigger and strong enforcement. It would still be tough for the House to follow, and hard to get out of a biased (toward the Senate bill) conference committee. But it would be difficult for dems (especially sixers) to vote against if it ever got that far. Unfortunately, I think it is not likely. But I’m trying to stay optimistic.

Also, if you’re Reid, you know this bill is not going to get any better (from his perspective) than it is now. So it would be great for the GOP to kill it for him.”