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With other business like annual spending bills starting to pile up and the election drawing closer, some lawmakers said the best opportunity to approve legislation and start negotiations with the House might have been lost. A senior House Republican engaged on immigration issues, Representative Lamar Smith of Texas, also suggested that Congress might want to slow down. Republicans also criticized the Democratic leadership as insisting on assurances that members of the Judiciary Committee would serve as negotiators with the House over a final bill before the Senate even gave initial approval to the measure.