Senator Scott Brown pushing GOP to pass Irish visa bill reports Politico

Battling opposition from within his own party as he seeks way forward

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Deputy Prime Minister Eamon Gilmore met with Senator Brown in Brown's office last week

Photo by Marty Katz Boston Globe

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Brown stated “I’m working on using every mechanism and every means to address their concerns like I do on every bill,”I don’t do stuff based on campaign issues; I’ve been doing my job since I got here,” he said.

Brown denied claiming he had support for passage of the bill last week in the Boston Herald
“I said the issue is about to pop; I never said the bill was about to pop,” he said. “The fact that we’re talking about it, and it’s in the forefront, that’s about to pop.”

But Beth Levine, Grassley’s spokeswoman,said her boss is concerned that Brown's bill could “hurt high-skilled American jobs.” She stated that the two men had met to attempt to reach a compromise.

Asked by Politico whether passage of the bill would help Brown’s reelection, Senator Cornyn said: “It’s a little more complicated than that. It takes a majority of the Senate to pass a bill.”

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