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To: concernedcitizenusa
Lugar needs to be replaced. A Republican at that.
No one in this area wants that!!!!
2 posted on
06/10/2006 4:27:18 PM PDT by
Battle Axe
(Repent for the coming of the Lord is nigh!)
To: concernedcitizenusa
What Senate bill was this vote conducted on?.. Got a link
Welcome to FR
3 posted on
06/10/2006 4:27:32 PM PDT by
deport
To: concernedcitizenusa
Putrid bastards. RINOs and Libs, all after the ILLEGAL VOTE. Maybe we should make it LAW that these traitors SHOULD PAY FOR THE ILLEGALS FREE BENEFITS -- exclusively.
4 posted on
06/10/2006 4:28:39 PM PDT by
EagleUSA
To: concernedcitizenusa
Hmmmm... maybe there actually is a difference between Pubbies and rats.
To: concernedcitizenusa
To: concernedcitizenusa
nZOT? Garde la Foi, mes amis! Nous nous sommes les sauveurs de la République! Maintenant et Toujours!
(Keep the Faith, my friends! We are the saviors of the Republic! Now and Forever!)
LonePalm, le Républicain du verre cassé (The Broken Glass Republican)
7 posted on
06/10/2006 4:33:30 PM PDT by
LonePalm
(Commander and Chef)
To: concernedcitizenusa
I'm amazed Brownback voted for this miserable POS. Also, I'm amazed Mark Dayton didn't vote for it.
8 posted on
06/10/2006 4:34:28 PM PDT by
lesser_satan
(EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
To: concernedcitizenusa
11 Republicans voted for this. Shame.
To: concernedcitizenusa
12 posted on
06/10/2006 4:42:31 PM PDT by
ThreePuttinDude
().....Zarq down, ..Binny's next .....()
To: concernedcitizenusa
I wonder how many of these jackasses voted FOR giving benefits to illegal aliens, but voted AGAINST ending the grave robber tax.
16 posted on
06/10/2006 4:44:42 PM PDT by
Enterprise
(Let's not enforce laws that are already on the books, let's just write new laws we won't enforce.)
To: concernedcitizenusa
I see my two dimwits were on the list. That old homo, Kohl is up for re election this year.
17 posted on
06/10/2006 4:45:51 PM PDT by
satchmodog9
(Most people stand on the tracks and never even hear the train coming)
To: concernedcitizenusa
New Hampshire:
Good, I thought Judd might sell me out.
Massachusetts:
Kennedy (D-MA), Yea Kerry (D-MA), Yea
Don't know why I even bothered to look.
18 posted on
06/10/2006 4:48:13 PM PDT by
MAexile
(Bats left, votes right)
To: concernedcitizenusa
Sorry for the dumb question but did this pass or not
To: concernedcitizenusa
Snopes
Social Security
Claim: E-mail lists senators who "voted to give illegal aliens Social Security benefits."
Status: Partly true.
Example: [Collected via e-mail, 2006]
THESE ARE THE SENATORS WHO VOTED TO GIVE ILLEGAL ALIENS SOCIAL SECURITY BENEFITS. REGARDLESS OF POLITICAL PARTY, THESE POLITICIANS NEED TO BE DEFEATED IN 2006, 2008 OR 2010 WHENEVER THEY COME UP FOR OFFICE. SEND THIS TO ANYONE YOU KNOW IN ANY OF THE STATES LISTED. THE ENTIRE POPULATION OF THE UNITED STATES NEED TO KNOW THIS INFORMATION. THAT IS UNLESS THEY DO NOT MIND SHARING THEIR SOCIAL SECURITY WITH FOREIGN WORKERS WHEN AMERICAN CITIZENS ARE BEING LEFT OUT.
Grouped by Home State:
Alabama: Alaska: Stevens (R-AK), Yea Arizona: McCain (R-AZ), Yea Arkansas: Lincoln (D-AR), Yea Pryor (D-AR), Yea California: Boxer (D-CA), Yea Feinstein (D-CA), Yea Colorado: Salazar (D-CO), Yea Connecticut: Dodd (D-CT), Yea Lieberman (D-CT), Yea Delaware: Biden (D-DE), Yea Carper (D-DE), Yea Florida: Martinez (R-FL), Yea Georgia: Hawaii: Akaka (D-HI), Yea Inouye (D-HI), Yea Idaho: Illinois: Durbin (D-IL), Yea Obama (D-IL), Yea Indiana: Bayh (D-IN), Yea Lugar (R-IN), Yea Iowa: Harkin (D-IA), Yea Kansas: Brownback (R-KS), Yea Kentucky: Louisiana: Landrieu (D-LA), Yea Maine: Maryland: Mikulski (D-MD), Yea Sarbanes (D-MD), Yea Massachusetts: Kennedy (D-MA), Yea Kerry (D-MA), Yea Michigan: Levin (D-MI), Yea Stabenow (D-MI), Yea Minnesota: Mississippi: Missouri: Montana: Baucus (D-MT), Yea Nebraska: Hagel (R-NE), Yea Nevada: Reid (D-NV), Yea New Hampshire: New Jersey: Lautenberg (D-NJ), Yea Menendez (D-NJ), Yea New Mexico: Bingaman (D-NM), Yea New York: Clinton (D-NY), Yea Schumer (D-NY), Yea North Carolina: North Dakota: Dorgan (D-ND), Yea Ohio: DeWine (R-OH), Yea Voinovich (R-OH), Yea Oklahoma: Oregon: Wyden (D-OR), Yea Pennsylvania: Specter (R-PA), Yea Rhode Island: Chafee (R-RI), Yea Reed (D-RI), Yea South Carolina: Graham (R-SC), Yea South Dakota: Johnson (D-SD), Yea Tennessee: Texas: Utah: Vermont: Jeffords (I-VT), Yea Leahy (D-VT), Yea Virginia: Washington: Cantwell (D-WA), Yea Murray (D-WA), Yea West Virginia: Rockefeller (D-WV), Not Voting Wisconsin: Feingold (D-WI), Yea Kohl (D-WI), Yea Wyoming: |
ORGINS: On May 2006, the
U.S. Senate, by a
62-36 bipartisan vote, passed the
Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 a controversial bill which proponents touted as providing comprehensive and humane immigration reform, and which opponents criticized as unfairly rewarding illegal aliens by allowing them to obtain legal status.
On 18 May 2006, while the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act was still under consideration, Senator John Ensign of Nevada proposed an amendment to the bill to "ensure that persons who receive an adjustment of status under [the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act] are not able to receive Social Security benefits as a result of unlawful activity." The crux of Senator Ensign's argument was that immigrants who had entered and worked in the
U.S. illegally and paid into the Social Security system using fraudulently-obtained Social Security numbers should not be allowed to receive credit for those payments:
[Illegal immigrants] paid into the system simply because that was the price to pay to get a job in the United States. The immigrant knew they were using an illegal Social Security number but without regards of the impact of the victim. I have reviewed case after case related to identity theft and Social Security fraud. These cases are occurring all over the United States. In every case, in every State, where someone's Social Security number was stolen by an illegal immigrant to use to find work, the victim's credit history is destroyed. Sometimes their work history is too. Earlier I talked about Caleb, a gentleman in Nevada. The illegal immigrant who used Caleb's Social Security number was not trying to harm that person but he did. Caleb applied for unemployment but couldn't get it because the agency said he was working when, in fact, he wasn't. He lives in Reno. They said he was working in Las Vegas. It was an illegal immigrant using his Social Security number in Las Vegas.
I never said this amendment is going to prevent identity theft. What I have said is that it is not right for somebody to steal somebody else's identity granted for the noble purpose of getting a job and reward the theft by giving work credit that counts towards Social Security. We should consider the victims who are forced to deal with the terrible consequences of the crime.
The Senate
vote on this amendment is what is reproduced in the
e-mail quoted in the example block above. Although the message's text accurately reflects the roll call vote that took place, the accuracy of its characterization of those senators who voted "Yea" as voting "to give illegal aliens Social Security benefits" is problematic for a number of reasons:
- The subject of the proposed amendment was not about giving (or denying) Social Security benefits to illegal aliens; it was about whether a select group of formerly illegal workers (i.e., those who might obtain legal immigration status if the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006 were enacted) should be able to receive credit for payments they made into the Social Security system using phony Social Security numbers (i.e., numbers that were invalid or had been assigned to others). Such persons would still be eligible to collect Social Security benefits in the future; they just wouldn't receive credit for payments they had already made into the system.
- The senators named didn't technically vote against Senator Ensign's amendment itself; they voted (by a 50-49 margin) in favor of a Motion to Table (i.e., a motion to permanently kill the pending matter and end any further debate on the subject).
- It was the potential passage of the Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act that created the situation Senator Ensign's amendment sought to prevent in the first place (i.e., allowing formerly illegal workers to receive credit for earlier Social Security payments), so the senators who ultimately voted in favor of the immigration reform act might logically be considered at least as responsible for the outcome as those who voted to table the Ensign amendment.
If all of the above made your eyes glaze over, it boils down to this: While the list of who voted which way is accurate, what was being voted on was a motion to
table (that is, stick in a closet in hopes that it will never be seen again) a motion to deny former illegals credit for the Social Security payments they made while in the U.S. illegally.
Last updated: 4 June 2006
26 posted on
06/10/2006 4:56:49 PM PDT by
deport
To: concernedcitizenusa
ELEVEN republican Judas Goats.............
To: concernedcitizenusa
The title of the thread keeps changing. Personally, I don't think that the original title was that far off the mark. The Administrator ought to leave it alone.
To: concernedcitizenusa
Remember they are in the process of raising the full benefits age to 67 to "save" S.S.?? Fo de chillins, right? Wrong! So they can extend benefits to illegals!!! A pure crime in progess.
31 posted on
06/10/2006 5:20:49 PM PDT by
Waco
To: concernedcitizenusa
34 posted on
06/10/2006 5:22:42 PM PDT by
freedumb2003
(Bipartisanship is when the Stupid Party and the Evil Party agree to do something that is both stupid)
To: concernedcitizenusa
CAPS LOCK is cruise control to coolness.
39 posted on
06/10/2006 5:27:18 PM PDT by
Spruce
(Keep your mitts off my wallet)
To: concernedcitizenusa
41 posted on
06/10/2006 5:31:34 PM PDT by
Delta 21
( MKC USCG - ret)
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