Posted on 06/16/2007 2:49:20 PM PDT by new yorker 77
Call and keep calling.
There are no days off in this battle against amnesty.
The folks in the Senate building do not like that I am able to get through or that I continue to call.
Join me.
1-202-224-3121
Just wondering what your results were.
If this is a done deal, they are done.
Let’s let the Libs have until we can get consevatives back in office.
NO TO AMNESTY!!!!
OK State GOP is sending around the email with the Sen Inhofe petition against the immigration bill asking everyone to sign the Senator’s petition.
Ask you state GOP to do the same!
They have determine who will vote for which amendment.
They tried this once before and now they have scheduled their redux for the week Rush Limbaugh is off.
I wonder if Trent Lott is happy.
On a side note I received a reply from my House member Joe Barton and he gave assurances that he would not only vote against the bill should it reach house he will work for its defeat. It is hard to get upset when your guys are doing the right thing.
I am in violent agreement with you. By all means we should bury the Senate with calls, faxes and email expressing our revulsion at what is being done.
However.
I believe that this deal has already been cut. Reid wouldn’t be bringing this back if he didn’t think there was a very good chance that the votes were there.
For that reason, I believe that the time has come for us to begin to concentrate on our respective House members and their leadership.
I’ll be nice.
Except once when I called and left a message for Lindsay Graham, I asked him: how long after a person takes up residence in South Carolina, can they vote in elections?
I was considering moving there just to help him lose next year.
La Raza is operating on your dollars.
Did you know we give between 5 and 10 million Tax $$$$ per YEAR to LaRaza? LaRaza was in the negotions and helped write the senate bill.
April 23, 2007 - IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Sponsor: Rep Hinojosa, Ruben [TX-15] COSPONSOR Rep Renzi, Rick [AZ-1]
To authorize appropriations for assistance for the National Council of La Raza and the Raza Development Fund.
(b) Authorization of Appropriations- There is authorized to be appropriated for grants under this section—
(1) $5,000,000 for fiscal year 2008; and (2) $10,000,000 for each fiscal year thereafter.
http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=25447
Lots to do this week, phone calls, faxes personal visits, stock up on ammunition and food supplies, extra gas for vehicles, hmm maybe I’ll even buy a couple of fake id’s and amnesty kits from the street peddlers for my new Z visas that come with tax amnesty...With 20 million applicants it’ll take them about 10 years to figure it out and I’ll be in Paraguay.
I can’t wait to hear Tony “Isuzu” try to spin this one on the Sunday shows.
P.S. Still praying for you Tony, even though you have gone over to the dark side on this one.
P.P.S. What was Tony Snow’s position on Amnesty before going to work for GW.
Senate Strategy for Amnesty Bill Passage Next Week (my title)
National Review Online (The Corner) ^ | Jun 16,2007 | Kathryn Jean Lopez
Posted on 06/16/2007 6:26:20 PM EDT by Dat Mon
From a knowledgeable Senate source:
Here is what we expect to happen next week, though it is far from clear yet. In short, we expect it to come up this week, and if Senators (as we expect) object to unanimous consent agreements, it will take the better part of 6-8 days to get this done. They will not get it done this week (but Reid threatens to stay in next weekend).
1. We expect Reid, in conjunction with support from McConnell, Lott and Grand Bargainers Kyl, Martinez, Graham and McCain, to introduce a brand new piece of legislation - and use Rule 14 to put the bill immediately on the Senate calendar without going thru committee - which of course, the first bill did not do as well.
* It is possible that Reid will choose a different procedural path - but we expect the effect to be the same.
2. We expect that the new bill’s drafters (White House, Kennedy, Kyl, Graham, et. al.) will use close to the same language as the original substitute amendment (the first immigration bill) as amended by the 14 Democrat and 13 Republican amendments adopted the the first go round.
3. A new Rule 14 bill takes 1-2 days to ripen, and then we expect Reid to file cloture on the motion to proceed (a step he will need to take because numerous Senators are objecting to any unanimous consent agreements). The cloture motion takes time to ripen, so that adds a full day and change before the vote (60). Then, there is 30 hours of “post cloture debate” that a number of Senators will refuse to allow to be shortened.
4. When the 30 hours expire, Reid will have the vote on the motion to proceed to the bill (majority).
4. Once on the bill, Reid will again file cloture (to shut off debate - again, a number of Senators will continue to object to unanimous consent agreements) - this time on the bill itself.
5. The guessing begins at this point - but we expect Reid - with the help and support of certain Republican leadership and the Grand Bargainers - to do something that we believe has never been done in the history of the Senate... he will use an arcane Senate procedure that allows a single amendment to be divisible into many - in this case, into the 20-odd amendments the Grand Bargainers are trying to cobble together to keep 60 votes in support of the bill. Traditionally, that amendment has been used to protect minority rights - but in this case, it will be used to PREVENT the minority from getting additional amendments called up and from being able to fully debate the amendments in question. It is, to our knowledge, unprecedented.
6. Once the cloture motion ripens (again, another day and change), the cloture vote can occur (60 votes) and then, again, there is 30 hours of “post cloture debate” during which Reid will run, in order, through the panoply of amendments offered by way of the division.
7. Finally, there will be a vote on final passage.
If Reid does this, with the help of certain Republican leadership and the Grand Bargainers, they will shut off the ability of Senators with concerns of the bill to offer additional amendments and to debate the amendments in question.
In the end, this means that if they have 60 lined up to support it - there is little that can be done procedurally - so it has become far more important than ever for Senators to hear from their constituents.
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This is an attempted bloodless coup...a putsch....a takeover, via paper and pen, of the United States of America.
1 posted on 06/16/2007 6:26:21 PM EDT by Dat Mon
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I used to get a newsletter from a conservative talk radio station in Seattle (I forget the call letters). In that newsletter was an article from Tony Snow written in early 2005. He was discussing how the GOP should handle their new found majority. One of his items was “immigration reform” and he pretty much stated that those opposed to it were racist (in so many words).
Well at least he’s been a consistant Rockafeller Republican.
I don`t what polls Neil Gabler of FoxNews is looking at, but he just claimed the overwhelming majority of Americans of both parties support this bill.
Yes, I gave him credit for leading the charge against the bill then encourage him to do more and be tougher.
The emails that I sent to the Senators, I copy/pasted them to a program that I print off of, then printed and will send them the letters followed up with a call.
Neil Gabler is a member of the MSM.
Hence, he is a LIAR.
What do LIARS do?
They LIE.
I’ve been having better luck getting through by calling both house and senate members home state offices. I find I’m getting a lot of busy signals or being put on hold when calling Washington.
No, I already had my Senators’ numbers and I called them directly.It’s Saturday and the office is closed so I left a message. I saved their phone numbers on my cell phone so I can call again Monday.
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