Posted on 06/06/2007 10:12:52 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON - A bipartisan immigration bill narrowly survived a potentially fatal challenge on Wednesday when the Senate turned back a Republican bid to limit the illegal immigrants who could gain lawful status.
The close vote on a proposal by Sen. John Cornyn (news, bio, voting record), R-Texas, to bar felons — including those court-ordered to be deported — from legalization reflected the delicate position of the contentious immigration bill, which remains under threat from the right and the left.
The vote was 51-46 against the amendment. Democrats succeeded in sucking support from Cornyn's proposal by winning adoption of a rival version that would bar a more limited set of criminals, including certain gang members and sex offenders, from gaining legalization. The Senate backed that amendment 66-32.
Cornyn had painted his effort as a key vote for any presidential candidate — a sign of the degree to which the contentious debate is bleeding over into the GOP campaign fray.
The amendment "is a defining issue for those who seek the highest office in the land to demonstrate their respect for the rule of law and to demonstrate their desire to return law and order to our immigration system," Cornyn said.
Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), R-Ariz., alone among his party's presidential aspirants in backing the immigration measure, opposed Cornyn's bid and backed the Democratic alternative offered by Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass.
Sen. Charles Schumer (news, bio, voting record), D-N.Y., called Cornyn's measure "a stealth, Trojan horse amendment to kill the bill."
Kennedy, an architect of the bill, said it "would exclude hundreds of thousands from the benefits in this bill and undermine the bipartisan compromise that (senators) worked so long and so hard to produce."
Johnson (D-SD) ??????? He’s back and voting????? Since when?
Oh, god. Somebody please tell me Tom Coburn is ill or legitimately indisposed in some other way, and did not deliberately abstain.
Sell? Heck, we’re paying them to take it.
I need to know how the two GA Senator’s, Isackson and Chambliss voted on this ??
Try this....
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00187
Four boxes:
Soap,
ballot,
jury,
ammo.
Use in that order.
He’s under “Did Not Vote” with Tom Coburn (R-OK).
Is it possible some of the R’s voted nay on this ammendment in order to make the bill MORE odious so it won’t pass?
And yet the President would sign this trash.
I want a bill calling for these politicians to be deported.
The people running the country don’t stand for anything anymore. They’re just a pack of whores.
The vote was 51-46 against the amendment.
So 51 of our "representatives" voted to allow in felons and those deported for violating our laws. Wonderful.
Gee, you think if I declared no income this year and used the tax savings to buy a post-'86 machine gun on a street corner that I'd get the same consideration? Corrupt, traitorous Murtha Phockers!!!!
Sen. John McCain R(INO)-Ariz., alone among his party's presidential aspirants in backing the immigration measure....
Buh-bye, nutball. Thanks for making it so much easier for Fred to take away a lot of your support, on his way to getting the nomination and winning next November.
Sen. Charles Schumer, D(IPSCHIT)-N.Y., called Cornyn's measure "a stealth, Trojan horse amendment to kill the bill."
Kennedy, Admiral-USS Oldsmobile, an architect of the bill, said it "would exclude hundreds of thousands from the benefits in this bill and undermine the bipartisan compromise that (senators) worked so long and so hard to produce."
Good job, McCain, throwing in with those traitors. Don't let the door hit you in the @ss on the way out, putz.
This is very important information. It needs to get on every major news media outlet. No regular person would support the bill knowing this.
They both voted "Yea" to the amendment.
Is it possible some of the R’s voted nay on this ammendment in order to make the bill MORE odious so it won’t pass?
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ssshhhh..
It’s just one of many stinkers in this monstrosity.
In time I'm sure you will see how the system works.
Larry Craig voted for this shiite?! WTF!
Bastards.
And don’t forget terrorists. They get to stay as well (well, people on the terrorist support list).
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