A majority of U.S. senators have voted to pass a broad immigration bill with a new path to citizenship path for unauthorized immigrants, according to the Associated Press.

Reuters reporter Collin McDonald, who liveblogged the Senate roll call to pass the first major immigration reform bill proposed since 2008, also broke the news, reporting that the final vote count was 68-32.

Now, according to Politico, "the onus of immigration reform (is) on the Republican-led House, where leaders have been resistant to the Senate legislation."

Samuel Rodriguez, president of the National Hispanic Christian Leadership Conference (NHCLC), called for the House to "finish the work their Congressional colleagues started."

"At the end of the day," he said, "passing immigration reform is not about advancing the agenda of the donkey or the elephant, but rather about living out the agenda of the Lamb."

Prior to the vote, senators anticipatedreceiving at least ...

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