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Chances of that happening spiked significantly Sunday, when Sen. Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., announced on "Face the Nation" she will back the comprehensive bill, pushing the legislation past the 60-vote threshold that shields it from a GOP filibuster. Ayotte called the bill's most controversial tenet - a route to citizenship for the 11 million undocumented immigrants currently living in the United States - a "tough but fair way for them to earn citizenship: Go to the back of the line, pay taxes, pass a criminal background check, learn English."