Starting today, after the cloture vote earlier, there will be 30 hours of discussion on the 20-25 amendments that were added to HR 1348, which is now called S 1639 with all the new amendments.
Then there will be a Cloture vote on Thursday, if that cloture vote passes, then the bill, S 1639, will go to the Senate floor for a final vote.
If it passes the Senate, then does it go back to a Joint Conference Committee of the House and Senate? and Then will it require the house to vote and approve this S 1639? Or is the Joint Conference Committee final? Say it passes the Joint Conference Committee, does it then go to the President for signature or to the House for another vote, before it goes to the President for signature?
They will sneak this thru like they did with the Federal Reserve act during Wilson administration.
After this bill passes, the Communists (Democrats) will forever hold the majority because all these ILLEGALS, who will have been given the same rights as you and I, will vote for the commies en mass. Then they will squash talk radio and any form of free speech by those who oppose them.
That is what this really boils down to.
If the Senate passes it, the House would have to pass its own immigration bill, after which it would move to a conference and both houses of Congress would have to have another, final vote on the conference version. Or the House could pass the Senate bill unchanged, verbatim, in which case they would not need to go to conference on it. It would just go to Bush’s desk.
Assuming it passes the House with a simple majority vote (not at all for sure!), it will go to the joint House/Senate committee for reconciliation. Trent Lott has assured the bill's supporters that all the shiny amendments that got the bill past the cloture vote will be stripped 8:00 AM, Day One of the committee meeting (which is not public). When the reconciled bill hits the Senate floor, only up or down vote, and no filibuster will be allowed.
Senators who were bought off on the cheap with the amendments can go ahead and vote against the bill, but it will pass with the simple majority required.
For Republicans in California the procedures consist of going to the Secretary of State’s web site, downloading the Voter Registration Application (http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/english.pdf), filling it out with “Decline To State” in Box 7 and mailing it in to the CA SOS.
I know of several Senators who voted for cloture on this round that are not locks for a yea on the next round of cloture. I spoke personally to one that wants this bill in the light of day for open debate - something that has not happened yet.
This is not a lock to get a floor vote, just floor debate.
Just say NO to Illegal Alien Amnesty!! Keep calling!! It’s NOT OVER!!
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Courtesy of a pro-amnesty group, no less!!