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WASHINGTON - The Senate’s comprehensive immigration bill, bolstered by new language meant to quiet accusations the bill delivers amnesty, passed a crucial procedural test Tuesday that vastly improves but does not guarantee its chances of passage. The Senate voted 64-35 to bring the bill back to the Senate floor from the legislative limbo to which it had had been exiled earlier this month, when it appeared to die after a bipartisan filibuster.

Once again, no matter what color one paints a turd, the turd is still a turd.

Bill supporters needed 60 votes to bring the bill back to the floor for debate. Had that threshold been missed, it’s likely the bill would have been dead for the remainder of the 110th Congress.

The vote came just a few hours after President Bush pumped up the rhetoric in support of the legislation.

“The immigration system needs reform,â€