(CNN) -- Marco Rubio crossed his party again on immigration. The potential 2016 presidential contender from Florida was one of 11 Republican senators joining most Democrats to support a procedural vote this week on legislation aimed at stemming the tide of immigrant children crossing the southern border. The vote for the $2.7 billion Democratic bill aimed at meeting needs of the immigrant families in the surge and kids who arrived on their own, simply allowed lawmakers to begin debate on the measure. But it's significant as the Democrats needed the lofty threshold of 60 votes to move on to the border package that is in line with their priorities and basically those of the White House although it would spend $1 billion less than what President Barack Obama wants.
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Sen. Marco Rubio was one of 11 Republicans to back a procedural vote on the border crisis
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Fellow potential 2016 contenders, Sens. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, opposed it
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The House reworked its bill to appease conservatives
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Though it's not clear whether Congress will work out a compromise
@placeholder members and senators will be spend the rest of the summer amid constituents back home where polls show immigration overall is especially on the minds of voters.