Friday is to be the last day before the spring recess.

(Day 100 actually falls during the spring recess, on April 13.)

Now we are well into spring recess with March 29.

House leaders had planned to debate a 13-bill package this week and to pass it before the spring recess, which begins this weekend.

The campaign was timed to coincide with legislators' visits home during the spring Congressional recess.

But the legislation will face a higher hurdle in the Senate after the spring recess.

Unfortunately, this date is also the first day that the students return from a 10-day spring recess.

The Senate is expected to take up immigration again when it returns from its spring recess next week.

But parliamentary procedures allow even a small number of senators to prevent a vote from occurring before the spring recess.

It is good that we are doing this now, particularly in preparation for the spring recess this March.