After it was announced last weekend that organized labor and big business had come to an agreement regarding guest workers – a crucial piece in the complicated mixture that will make up comprehensive immigration reform- Marco Rubio made sure to tamp down any euphoria about that long elusive achievement, making public a letter he wrote to Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy that "excessive haste" in proposing immigration legislation "would be fatal."
That led to several stories over the past week, many critical, about Rubio's reaction (The Times Alex Leary elaborates on this today).
On CBS' Face The Nation this morning, Arizona Senator John McCain seemed to be calling out the Florida Senator for overreacting last week regarding his fear that the immigration bill (which hasn't been finished yet) was about to be ramrodded through Congress.
This article appears in Apr 4-10, 2013.