Reid files cloture as House, Senate poised to vote on DREAM Act
By Mike Lillis - 12/06/10 08:06 PM ET
Congress is poised to vote this week on contentious legislation carving a pathway to legal status for hundreds of thousands of undocumented students living in the United States.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) on Monday filed cloture on the DREAM Act, setting the stage for an upper-chamber vote as early as Wednesday morning. House Democrats, meanwhile, might vote on the measure even earlier the same day.

Because the bill has a much better chance of passing in the lower chamber, staging the House vote first would “give a little more pushâ€