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Republican senators complained Wednesday that plans to hold just one hearing on a yet-to-be-unveiled immigration overhaul are "unacceptable" -- as they continued to press for more details on how much the legislation could cost taxpayers.Fox News has learned the proposed bill could be unveiled as early as Thursday. In anticipation of the release, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., announced his committee will hold a hearing on the legislation April 17.Though Leahy noted this hearing would be the committee's fourth on immigration this year, Republican senators complained it would only be the first -- and possibly last -- on this specific bill."A single hearing scheduled so quickly to discuss legislative language that is not yet even available is completely inadequate for senators or the American people to get answers to the many questions a bill of this magnitude will inevitably raise," Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, said in a statement. "We could not possibly have a meaningful hearing with a substantive discussion of what will surely be over 1,000 pages of provisions we haven't even yet seen."Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., called the hearing schedule "unacceptable.""We need a committee hearing on every component of reform, including the extraordinary potential costs to taxpayers, the impact on wages and job prospects for the unemployed, and the administration's continued refusal to enforce the laws previously enacted by Congr Texas. He said he will carefully evaluate the impact of a move on his business and its 150 employees."I have a very serious commitment to my employees, which is more than they got from their state legislators," he said.Malkowski and Scalise said they will meet with members of Connecticut's congressional delegation next Tuesday and Wednesday to counter lobbying from gun control advocates.An agreement between two conservative senators Democrat Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Republican Patrick Toomey of Pennsylvania was expected to make it likelier that the Senate's initial vote Thursday to begin debating gun legislation will succeed. But the fate of gun legislation remains unclear, clouded by opposition from many Republicans and moderate Democrats in the Democratic-led Senate and Republican-run House."I have a duty to make sure they hear something from our side," Malkowski said.