Senate set for immigration vote today - Update: Bill Passed 62-36

AP on Yahoo ^ | 5/25/06 | David Espo - ap

[cardinal4]

Don't beat yourself up and welcome to the light!

Its more than the amnesty bill. The People (remember them?) are overwhelmingly against this. Yet they voted for it anyway. Ill bet Fox is having a great time on his listening tour. Scratch that-his gloating tour..

[MinuteGal]

Freepers....CALL TO ACTION!

For your childrens' sakes and your own, start bombarding your congresspeople tomorrow no matter how you think they are going to vote.

Even if you've never done this in your life, do it now. Take a half hour and just do it.....by phone, fax, or email.

In the email, show your rage in the title slot.

Freepers, this is our test. This is our reason for being here. This is where the rubber meets the road.

I'm phoning Martinez and Bill Nelson tomorrow. I'm going to show my rage. Forget the politeness this time. Be full of rage, but no name-calling or bad words. Righteous rage is what we HAVE to show.

Do the math. If 20 million illegals (a low number) choose to have their spouses and multiple children join them, I don't even want to publish the numerical figure of breathing humans that will descend upon us.

Then there's the subsequent immigration of parents, grandparents, sibling, aunts and uncles, cousins, etc.

Then there's the anchor babies phenomenom.

They will soon take the country over.

Do your bit tomorrow. Keep trying to get through. We're not getting a second chance if the House buckles.

Leni

[redfog]

Sorry, no spin intended.

I agree with you: it is indeed a betrayal.

I do believe, however, that it will be easier for the House to stand firm on "Enforcement first, Enforcement only, Enforcement Now" knowing that the majority of Republican Senators voted against the bill.

[Mo1]

I already answered your question

[MarcusTulliusCicero]

Chaffee, DeWine, Lugar and Snowe are up for re-election this November. It will be interesting to see what type of impact will be made as a result of this vote.

[dmanLA]

If Bush signs the Senate version of this garbage, I'm going to bury my American flag. America will be gone folks.

[steveegg]

Figures the RepubicRAT Senate "leader" would stack his side of the committee with the most-lieberal of his House of Congress.

[McGavin999]

OOOOOOK, now we have a list of those states who are willing to accept illegal immigrants. Those who have both senators who voted YEA. All we have to do is make sure that the illegals know where they are most welcome and the problem is solved.

[Paige]

RIGHT, MCCAIN pushed this with KENNEDY.

[Regulator]

Screw Bill Frist and the entire "Republican" leadership who did this to our country.

[steveegg]

So he'll skip straight to the end of the United States of America that the Senate bill represents rather than the 3/4ths-of-the-way-there that he pushed for?

[MinuteGal]

Bump

[deport]

There were 23.... You left out Hagel

[Mo1]

I don't expect Kennedy to follow what conservatives voted for and wanted

Kennedy is a liberal and I'm not surprised by his actions

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

.. and for other purposes. ???

Bringing on the "New World Order"?

[Mo1]

No .. what I said was he will wait to see what comes out of conference

This stupid Senate Bill is not law and hopefully the House will kill alot of things in it

[tabsternager]

I believe the chairman of the House committee that the bill first came out of, who in this case would be Sensenbrenner, picks the conferees but the Speaker (Hastert) has the overall say.

Anyway, I believe the House cannot appoint their own conferees until the Senate's version of the bill passes -- because, obviously, if the Senate's version of a bill is rejected in the Senate, then there would be nothing to have a joint conference on.

The joint conference is to merge both the Senate bill and the House bill.

All we, or at least I, can hope for is that the House conferees will kill the Senate's sham bill.

[Txsleuth]

Cornyn was one of the MAIN Senators in charge of the Immigration policy!!

HE doesn't get on the list???, but DEWENIE does???

Did I see Graham as well???

Boy, Frist sure is stacking the deck isn't he??

At least Sessions and Kyl are there...but that is only 2.

I am not going to even HOPE that the rest that he chooses MIGHT include someone that actually voted against this crap bill.

[Truth29]

Regarding the view that the bill will not pass the House, Bush today impounded the documentation obtained by the FBI from Congressman Jefferson's office. Hastert seems awfully strident in trying to get them back and not establishing a precedent of the Executive Branch executing a search warrant on a House of Representatives office. Could it be that Bush would let it be known indirectly that if he were to get an acceptable Immigration Reform bill, that the search warrant issue would be worked out acceptably for Hastert?? Sounds pparanoid, but Bush seems to want this bill more than almost anything else.

[deport]

If Bush signs the Senate version of this garbage, I'm going to bury my American flag. America will be gone folks.

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The two bills will have to go to a conference committee to be reconciled. Neither version will stand alone without changes, or else there will be no bill. So keep your flag...