Immigration legislation will be seen in Capitol Hill again soon, according to Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein. The California senator assured her constituency earlier this week that Congress will once again try to pass a large-scale guest-worker bill.  The Fresno Bee of California reports that Sen. Feinstein spoke at a town hall meeting in San Joaquin Valley , home to a large number of farmers in California . If passed, the comprehensive agricultural guest-worker bill, dubbed AgJobs, would offer legal residency, and eventually citizenship, to approximately 1.5 million undocumented immigrants now working in agriculture, as well as streamline a guest-worker program.  

The bill is considered a priority for the remaining legislative calendar, by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev.  "I am committed to doing something about AgJobs," Reid declared in late July.  "I hope we can do something soon."  Reid assured that he "will do everything" he can to include the agricultural guest-worker package as part of a larger farm bill.  

Thirty senators currently co-sponsor the AgJobs bill, although Feinstein said she believes she has the 60 votes needed to overcome a potential filibuster.  Even so, the House would have to approve its own version of the bill; The house has already passed a version of the farm bill, but theirs did not include immigration provisions. It is also not clear what the impact of the controversy surrounding Senator Larry Craig will be. Craig, a Republican, was the primary force behind AgJobs in the Republican Party.