I expect so Rodger that is why we are getting prepared, we will be emailing, calling and faxing everyday:
S.2611
Title: A bill to provide for comprehensive immigration reform and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Specter, Arlen [PA] Chairman of Judiciary Comm
(introduced 4/7/2006)
Cosponsors (6)
Related Bills: H.R.4437, S.2454, S.2612
Latest Major Action: 4/24/2006 Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 414.
COSPONSORS(6), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]: (Sort: by date)
Sen Brownback, Sam [KS] - 4/7/2006
Sen Graham, Lindsey [SC] - 4/7/2006
Sen Hagel, Chuck [NE] - 4/7/2006
Sen Kennedy, Edward M. [MA] - 4/7/2006
Sen Martinez, Mel [FL] - 4/7/2006
Sen McCain, John [AZ] - 4/7/2006
There will be 26 Senate conferees, an unusually large group. The top seven Republicans and five Democrats from the Judiciary Committee will serve, along with seven additional senators from each party to be named by Frist and Reid.
http://judiciary.senate.gov/members.cfm 18 MEMBERS on judiciary alone
Arlen Specter
CHAIRMAN, PENNSYLVANIA
Orrin G. Hatch UTAH
Patrick J. Leahy RANKING DEMOCRATIC MEMBER, VERMONT
Charles E. Grassley IOWA
Edward M. Kennedy MASSACHUSETTS
Jon Kyl ARIZONA
Joseph R. Biden, Jr. DELAWARE
Mike DeWine OHIO
Herbert Kohl WISCONSIN
Jeff Sessions ALABAMA
Dianne Feinstein CALIFORNIA
Lindsey Graham SOUTH CAROLINA
Russell D. Feingold WISCONSIN
John Cornyn TEXAS
Charles E. Schumer NEW YORK
Sam Brownback KANSAS
Richard J. Durbin ILLINOIS
Tom Coburn OKLAHOMA
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{{{Speaker Hastert is indicating that he favors appointing members who support amnesty to the Conference Committee Both President Bush and Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist are pressuring Hastert to secure a guest worker amnesty for which the President can claim credit by stacking the Conference Committee with amnesty backers!
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Please call all four telephone numbers to tell Speaker Hastert that backers of H.R. 4437 should be in any Conference Committee! Strong enforcement-only Members of the House to represent the American people!
Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) Office Phone Numbers Speaker’s Office (202) 225-0600 Hastert’s Personal DC Office (202) 225-2976 Batavia District Office (630) 406-1114 Dixon District Office (815) 288-0680
Don't forget about Hastert and the Conference Committee. IMO we need HR 4313. I don't think that 4437 goes far enough but nevertheless. Contact Hastert early and often. We need strong appointees on that Committee.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1611802/posts?page=3684#3684
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House Judiciary Chairman James Sensenbrenner was one of the main
authors of HR 4437, and will be the lead representative reconciling
with the Senate. He's the man you all want to contact too.
Contact:
James Sensenbrenner, Jr.
2449 Rayburn House Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20515-4905
Telephone: (202) 225-5101
sensenbrenner@mail.house.gov
And then it's law, as Bush appears eager to sign an amnesty, any amnesty.
The demographic changes unleashed by this thing will be enormous and irreversible.
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If Hastert is committed to putting pro-Amnesty House Members to reconcile the HR 4437 with whatever shamnesty/amnesty bill that comes out of the Senate, then I doubt he will listen to what we "little people" have to say.
We need to REALLY put pressure on the Congressional Immigration Reform Committee (Tancredo, Hayworth, King, etc.) to start flexing some of their own political muscle.
Tancredo, Hayworth and the rest of the 90 + members of the Congressional Immigration Reform Caucus (CIRC) still have a very powerful ace up their sleeve, if they are willing to use it.
What they have to do is first go up to Hastert and warn him that if he packs the House side of the Conference Committee with those who favor amnesty, then they will do the following:
1. Immediately announce that they are publicly withdrawing their voting support for Speaker Hastert, probably by temporarily leaving the Republican Caucus. That would mean that Speaker Hastert would no longer have the majority of votes in the House to remain speaker. Remember, for voting on the Speaker of the House, the whole house votes for the Speaker, not just the majority party. Remember the bru ha ha a few years back when a Democrat crossed party lines to vote for Hastert as Speaker.
2. This would then force Hastert out as Speaker immediately, since he no longer has the majority of the House backing him as Speaker.
3. There would then be two possibilities of this:
a. This would mean that if the GOP wants the next Speaker to be from the GOP for the rest of this Congress, then they had better pick someone who the CIRC approves of. The CIRC can really show some leverage here, either they will cast their votes for someone who agrees with them on immigration or if they do not support whom the rest of the GOP puts up as Hasterts replacement, they then can:
b. The CIRC membership does not cast a vote for Speaker, sits out the election and Pelosi picks up the Speakership by default (YIKES). I doubt the rats would vote to retain Hastert or any other Republican as speaker.
The CIRC potentially holds an awful lot of leverage and power here, if they are willing to exercise it. I suggest we all contact the members of the CIRC and remind them of this. Give them the encouragement they need to pull this off. Below is the link to the CIRC membership where you can get contact info for their members:
http://tancredo.house.gov/irc/members.html
I know this is a stretch, but it can happen and should happen (option a. above, hopefully), if this story is true and Hastert intends on selling the American People out. If this story is true, then Hastert deserves to be fired IMMEDIATELY by his House collegues. Contact the CIRC members immediately and remind them of this.
