Article snippet: On their first day back at work since voting to reopen the federal government, senators spent Tuesday regrouping on immigration reform. Congress voted to end the three-day shutdown Monday after Republican leaders provided assurances to Democrats that issues like immigration reform - especially the fate of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients - would be addressed soon. But the path forward remained murky Tuesday as lawmakers on both sides of the aisle couldn’t give details on what a possible compromise would look like nor was there clarity on who in the Senate was leading the effort. “There’s a lot of good ideas out there,” Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., who is part of a bipartisan group of senators working on a deal, told ABC News. “There’s no base bill we’re starting with.” At the same time, lawmakers appeared to have little appetite to force another government shutdown to get a deal. “We’re not talking in those terms,” said Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill. The current agreement funding the government expires Feb. 8 and there are just a relative few working days for Congress between now and then. The House, which would need to approve any Senate deal before it goes to the White House, is not in session this week. And during the first two weekends of February the parties hold annual retreats to discuss policy plans for the year, with Republicans meeting the first weekend and Democrats the second. “We ought to be skipping the party retreats a... Link to the full article to read more