The Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a markup of S.744, the Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act, on Thursday at 9:30 a.m. in Room 216 of the Hart Senate Office Building.

This is the immigration reform bill that includes farmworker provisions negotiated by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, and Sen. Michael Bennet, D-Colo.

All amendments to the bill must be filed and circulated by 5 p.m. Tuesday, according to a Judiciary committee news release.

Signals from farm groups also point to the Senate Agriculture Committee holding a markup of the farm bill on Thursday, but the office of Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Debbie Stabenow, D-Mich., has declined to announce a firm date.

Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., said in a radio interview last week about the House Agriculture Committee markup scheduled for May 15, “We're going to do our darndest to beat them to the punch.”

Hoeven said that if the markup is not held this week, it would be held the week of May 13 because members of the Senate Agriculture Committee want to bring the bill up on the Senate floor this month.

Congress is scheduled to leave for a Memorial Day recess on May 24.

• S. 744 — Border Security, Economic Opportunity and Immigration Modernization Act