A comprehensive immigration reform bill that can only pass through one congressional chamber “doesn’t do anybody any good,” Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., warned Sunday, two days before the Senate is slated to launch procedural votes on a weeks-long debate about legislation that would include a pathway to citizenship.

“We have to fix this system because it’s not good for anybody,” Johnson said on “Fox News Sunday.” “Hopefully we can pass a bill.”

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.”

via Immigration: House, Senate looking for common ground – CBS News.