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See if your Senators are voting as heroes or villains ... then, phone them with your response

YOU'LL BE SURPRISED HOW SOME OF YOUR SENATORS ARE VOTING THUS FAR ON AMENDMENTS TO THE GIANT AMNESTY BILL (S. 2611)

I want to give you a quick snapshot of the voting to help you with your phone calls that are needed immediately.

Few things are quite as influential as phone calls from constituents commenting on a Senator's vote soon after it is cast.

Please call today, Thursday and Friday.

So, I am lifting up for ridicule, scorn or praise the Senators who I think most deserve it right now. If one or more of your Senators is in this list, I hope you will really try to take time this afternoon to call an office and register your opinion.

If you get a busy signal at the DC office, immediately try one of the offices in the home state. Make sure all the staff know if the votes are angering or pleasing the voters.

(Lists of Heroes and Villains are below the following instructions for action.)

CALL THEM IN THEIR DC OFFICES

U.S. Senate switchboard:
202-224-3121

CALL THEM IN THEIR HOME STATE OFFICES

All of your two Senators' phone numbers are at:
www.NumbersUSA.com/myMembers

Get all home state numbers for other Senators at:
www.numbersusa.com/contactcongress.html

KEEP UP WITH SENATE VOTES
AS THEY HAPPEN ON OUR SPECIAL
'VOTE DAY ACTION CENTER'

Our NumbersUSA Capitol Hill staff is doing an extraordinary job of putting on line every amendment as it is offered, with a cogent and accurate summary. You will see all of them on the Vote Day Action Center page.

And you will see the results of all votes on each of the amendments (with links to the roll call tally).

www.numbersusa.com/hottopic/2454.html

THIS WEEK'S WORST OF THE WORST ENEMIES OF THE AMERICAN WORKER

Bond (R-MO)
Brownback (R-KS)
Chafee (R-RI)
DeWine (R-OH)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Salazar (D-CO)
Shelby (R-AL)
Smith (R-OR)
Specter (R-PA)
Stevens (R-AK)

The Senate is full of people who believe that American workers should have to compete with millions of imported foreign workers.

But on the Sen. Bingaman amendment to put some limits on the damage to the American worker, the 18 Senators above showed that they apparently have no limits.

Those 18 Senators voted to keep in the bill a provision that the Heritage Foundation announced on Monday would allow corporations to import more than 130 million foreign workers over the next 20 years!!!

Senators McCain and Kennedy are responsible for the original language that would have led to such an absurd conclusion. NumbersUSA has been railing against that provision for a year. But when the Heritage Foundation widely publicized the numerical impact on Monday, most Senators began to be concerned that the bill might be far more radical than they had realized.

Sen. Bingaman (D-NM) offered an amendment yesterday that would cap the guestworker program at 200,000 a year, allowing 2 million over 20 years instead of more than 130 million. We definitely don't want 2 million guestworkers, all of whom would be allowed under S. 2611 to become U.S. citizens. But the amendment showed some sanity.

I hope you will call the offices of those 18 Senators and let their staff know what you think about their insistence on giving corporations another 130 million foreign workers -- on top of the nearly 50 million foreign workers and dependents who already are here.

Just so you get your facts straight: The 18 Senators above voted to table (kill) the Bingaman amendment, which would have left the 130 million extra foreign workers in the bill.

These 18 Senators apparently would do anything the U.S. Chamber of Commerce asked them to do, regardless of what their constituents thing. Or would they? Your incredible outpouring of phone calls today and Thursday and Friday might just change the minds of some of them.

(When the 18 failed to table the amendment, it then passed on voice vote.)

HIDING?

Cochran (R-MS)
Lott (R-MS)
Rockefeller (D-WV)

If you live in Mississippi or West Virginia, find out why these three are not voting on any of the amendments.

Rockefeller has a history of avoiding tough immigration votes because he is torn between following Democratic open-border leadership and the overwhelming wishes for immigration restrictions of the West Virginia voters (as represented so well by the state's other Democratic Senator, Robert Byrd).

If we are to have any chance of blocking this terrible amnesty on the final vote, we are probably going to have to have Cochran, Lott and Rockefeller.

They need to hear from all of you who live in their states -- now.

THIS WEEK'S GREATEST FRIENDS OF AMERICAN WORKERS (OPPOSED MASS IMPORTING OF FOREIGN WORKER COMPETITION)

Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Boxer (D-CA)
Byrd (D-WV)
Clinton (D-NY)
Coburn (R-OK)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dayton (D-MN)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dole (R-NC)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Inouye (D-HI)
Levin (D-MI)
Nelson (D-NE)
Obama (D-IL)
Reed (D-RI)
Roberts (R-KS)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Sessions (R-AL)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Talent (R-MO)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wyden (D-OR)

You are going to see some names on that list that you usually don't see when we are praising Senators.

But praise where praise is due.

Chief hero in this fight was Sen. Dorgan (D-North Dakota) who is one of the five best immigration-sanity champions overall in the Senate.

Dorgan introduced an amendment to kill the guest worker provisions of S. 2611 entirely.

The 28 Senators in the list supported that effort by voting against a motion to table the amendment.

It was gratifying to see so many Democrats, for a change, living up to their reputation of supposedly being the champion of the working classes. Many of the Democrats on this list have been big supporters of amnesties for illegal aliens. It is assumed that even though this bill still has the guestworker program that they opposed that they will vote for the bill in the final ballot because they want an amnesty so badly.

When you call to praise them for trying to kill the guestworker program, urge them to be consistent and vote to kill the amnesty which will keep million of illegal aliens in unfair job competition with present American workers and will entice millions more illegal aliens to compete in the future.

Probably the biggest applause has to go to the few Republicans who totally defied the U.S. Chamber of Commerce (which usually has such a stranglehold on the Republican Party) and voted to kill the new mass guestworker program that will allow all to become permanent residents. Give a special thanks to Republican Senators Coburn, Dole, Inhofe, Roberts, Sessions, Talent and Vitter.

REWARDING ILLEGAL ALIENS MORE IMPORTANT TO THESE SENATORS THAN PROVIDING SECURITY

Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Bennett (R-UT)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brownback (R-KS)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Carper (D-DE)
Chafee (R-RI)
Clinton (D-NY)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Craig (R-ID)
Dayton (D-MN)
DeWine (R-OH)
Dodd (D-CT)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Graham (R-SC)
Hagel (R-NE)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Obama (D-IL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shelby (R-AL)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stevens (R-AK)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)

These 55 Senators voted against the amendment by Sen. Isakson (R-GA) that would have at least held off granting amnesty rewards to illegal aliens until after it could be certified that our borders are secure.

Since most of the supporters of amnesty claim they are equally in support of secure borders and enforcement against future illegal immigration, one would think they would be fine with guaranteeing that the security and enforcement provisions don't get left unimplemented as happened in the 1986 amnesty.

But the 55 Senators above said, "No way. Amnesty first and then you guys can just wait and see if any enforcement ever happens in the future." OK, nobody actually said that, but that's what I infer.

The vote on the Isakson amendment will probably be the clearest vote on S. 2611 to show you which Senators are the most supportive of amnesties and of helping illegal aliens.

If your Senators are on the list above, ask them why they were against the amendment. To support this amendment was not to even oppose amnesty but to say it has to come after enforcement. The 55 above wouldn't even go along with that. They are Amnesty Above All.

If we are to block S. 2611 in the final vote, we probably are going to have to win over at least five of the people on that list.

Maybe if you hammer them hard enough, you can deliver five!

Why is rewarding illegal aliens so much more important than the security of our country with these Senators?

NOT VOTING
Cochran (R-MS)
Gregg (R-NH)
Lott (R-MS)
McCain (R-AZ)
Rockefeller (D-WV)

ON THIS VOTE, THEY PUT SECURITY AHEAD OF AMNESTY

Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Allen (R-VA)
Bond (R-MO)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burns (R-MT)
Burr (R-NC)
Byrd (D-WV)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Conrad (D-ND)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Dole (R-NC)
Domenici (R-NM)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Frist (R-TN)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Landrieu (D-LA)
McConnell (R-KY)
Nelson (D-NE)
Roberts (R-KS)
Santorum (R-PA)
Sessions (R-AL)
Smith (R-OR)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Sununu (R-NH)
Talent (R-MO)
Thomas (R-WY)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wyden (D-OR)

If these 40 Senators, plus 1 more would vote against the final bill, we would block its passage.

But you can't read too much into the fact that these Senators voted to require border security before they hand out the amnesty.

Nonetheless, this vote for the Isakson amendment is a sign that these are our most likely allies.

Because giving an amnesty and rewarding illegal aliens is such a high priority of the national Democratic Party, I want to especially salute the Democrats who opposed their Party and stood for security ahead of amnesty. Give especially high praise to Democratic Senators Byrd, Conrad, Dorgan, Landrieu, Nelson (NE), Stabenow and Wyden. If you live in their states, it is essential that you keep them on the NO side on the overall bill.

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