Posted on 06/07/2007 6:17:41 AM PDT by Gulf War One
This is the homestretch.
Call and e-mail your senators today, Republicans and Democrats, urging them not to table debate on this critical piece of legislation.
It deserves a fair and open debate of all ramifications. To do otherwise is unamerican.
Ask them to vote "NO" on cloture.
Keep bumping this to the top.
Today is the day.
DRUDGE: IT’S OVER: IMMIGRATION BILL WITHDRAWN !
Kyl is another sell out.
Salazar they dont want no steeenkin green card...
They just want the freebies and they are not scared and hiding they are on the phone to the Senate and in our facves and driving on our roads and killing us
I wish they were hidden Americans would not be dead...
Never happen.
Senator Salazar has just demonstrated he is an arrogant betway SOB.
ANYONE coming out for this “moving forward” is a belway mental diseased arogant useful idot.
For now.
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Some more of Teddys little scared hidden in the shadow people...
Yeah Sally, i’m optimistic I have more calling to do.
Kyl... i’m soooo disappointed. I thought he was smarter... law wise. I really think most of those who wrote some of it (if La Raza and the ACLU didn’t write it for them), didn’t read it. Doesn’t make sense.
By JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS
(AP) In this video frame grab taken from C-SPAN2
WASHINGTON (AP) - A broad immigration bill to legalize millions of people in the U.S. unlawfully failed a crucial test vote in the Senate Thursday, a stunning setback that could spell its defeat for the year.
The vote was 45-50 against limiting debate on the bill, 15 short of the 60 that the bill’s supporters needed to prevail. Most Republicans voted to block Democrats’ efforts to bring the bill to a final vote.
The legislation, which had been endorsed by President Bush, would tighten borders, institute a new system to prevent employers from hiring undocumented workers in addition to giving up to 12 million illegal immigrants a pathway to legal status.
Conceived by an improbable coalition that nicknamed the deal a “grand bargain,” the measure exposed deep rifts within both parties and is loathed by most GOP conservatives.
Senate Majority Harry Reid, D-Nev., who had made no secret of his distaste for parts of the bill, said earlier he would move on to other matters if the immigration measure’s supporters didn’t get 60 votes Thursday night.
The defeat set off a bitter round of partisan recriminations, with Democrats and Republicans each accusing the other of killing it.
Most Republicans voted against ending debate, saying they needed more time to make the bill tougher with tighter border security measures and a more arduous legalization process for unlawful immigrants.
All but a handful of Democrats supported the move, but they, too, were holding their noses at provisions of the bill. Many of them argued it makes second-class citizens of a new crop of temporary workers and rips apart families by prioritizing employability over blood ties in future immigration.
Still, they had argued that the measure, on balance, was worth advancing.
“We can all find different aspects of this legislation that we differ with,” said Sen. Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the leading Democratic architect of the bill.
Reid, who had made no secret of his distaste for parts of the bill, quickly pulled it from the floor and moved on to other business, costing the measure perhaps its best chance at enactment.
He insisted that the immigration bill is not dead for the year. “I, even though disappointed, look forward to passing this bill,” Reid said.
Kyl is going down with the ship.
Arlen Spectre was one who voted Aye
True. But he voted no which shocked me.
We need to come up with something REALLY BIG next time. Somehow shout so Loud that these creeps shut up.
This is a great victory for the Conservative Movement over nominal party figures.
MCconnell is MARRIED to Elaine Chao. She would be in charge of many of the complexities with such legislation. She’d probably get a big pay raise from her boss. McConnell has a vested interest. Think of all their friends Elaine can hire to “look busy” and shuffle papers.
Fienstein has some really big decisions to make. Like how she’s gonna spend all that money she got for he WAR PROFITEERING husband!
The Titanic was less a disaster
wheres the Fence? IDIOT
I hope so.
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