Posted on 08/02/2006 6:07:41 PM PDT by Aussie Dasher
THE US Senate has approved $US2 billion ($2.6 billion) in emergency spending for the construction of a fence along the US southwest border with Mexico.
The funds were approved as an amendment to a $US435 billion defence spending bill being debated this week.
"The Senate acted today to fund a border fence, fulfilling its commitment made in the comprehensive immigration reform bill that authorised the funding," Senate Republican Majority Leader Bill Frist said.
Senator Frist described the vote as "another step forward in securing our borders".
"With the current National Guard deployment dramatically driving down illegal border crossings by 45 per cent, we need to continue to improve our work to protect the border," the Senate's top Republican said.
"Getting border security right, including building fences, is a key component to securing our homeland, which also helps open the door to comprehensive immigration reform," Frist said.
I think they had to keep putting this kind of thing off until closer to the election.
How did this get in the Aussie news, and not here in CONUS?
Now the only problem will be the leeches who will find ways to grab money for their own pet projects.
This better be a real, Israeli-style fence, and not the fence found in suburban home backyards.
I think they didn't want to do it at all but are now BECAUSE of the election.
Let's hope so. I'm sure I'm not the only one calling and emailing he & his cohorts.
When they start passing or enforcing laws against the illegals currently here I just might start to believe them.....a itty bitty bit.
Til then.......................
Now, THAT is one of the better questions asked today!
It appears that he got the message. However, I still think the price of gasoline is weighing heavily on the minds of voters, and unless there is some sort of miracle there, it is going to hurt the Republicans.
About time! Lets get going.
One has to wonder what took so long. It is almost as if the Congress was trying to sabotage the President by letting him take the heat for unfunded directives.
Now, I wonder how contracts are going to be handled.
Since it was appropriated as an "emergency", let's see if construction is done as if it's an emergency.
The Bush administration wanted no part of a border fence, it's been Congress that has pushed it. Congress put a mandate for a fence in an earlier bill, but the Senate a couple weeks ago voted not to fund its actual construction. It's a measure of the kind of heat they've been getting after that that this new funding amendment passed, I think, 94 to 6.
Large fences make good neighbors.
Last time somebody posted one of those (in reference to Dems) the whole thread was pulled :o
You sure? That's not the way I remember it.
No, I suspect a rope-a-dope of some sort.
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