Sen. Hutchison (R-Texas) — Favors Guest-Worker Program

Hutchison made clear the GOP plan, shaping up as the rival to Feinstein’s AgJobs bill, would not offer citizenship to the temporary workers.

“The problem we had in the last bill was the controversy over amnesty,” Hutchison said when asked how her legislation could avoid the fate of the proposed comprehensive immigration fix.

Sessions, who called AgJobs a “massive amnesty,” is pressing for a program that would allow foreign workers to stay in the U.S. for as long as 10 months and then return home before applying to re-enter for another temporary work cycle…

…Hutchison is making no promises. “I don’t know if we are going to be successful,” she said. But, she added, “Let’s try taking it in smaller pieces and do what, really, Congresses in the past should have done.”http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5139911.htmlHouston Chronicle