“We hope and pray that our Republican colleagues will take up the issue, and we can join together, Republicans and Democrats. . . . We are not trying to dictate what the House of Representatives should do, and I believe that if they can come up with a bill, we would be more than eager to negotiate with them. A failure to act is de facto amnesty for 11 million people living in the shadows.” — Senator John McCain of Arizona, speaking on CBS’s Face the Nation