Posted on 06/27/2007 10:12:47 PM PDT by Oliver Optic
Illegals bill loses support in Senate
The Senate immigration bill lost supporters yesterday and hangs on by a thread heading into this morning's showdown vote, after lawmakers voted down amendments making illegal aliens show roots to get legal status and cutting off their path to citizenship.
This morning's vote is on a parliamentary question about limiting debate, but it boils down to a vote to block the bill.
Just two days ago, 64 senators voted to revive the bill, with many saying they wanted to give the Senate a chance to improve the bill through amendments. But after a messy day in the chamber yesterday, with dozens of objections, arguments on the floor and five amendments defeated, at least a half-dozen senators said publicly or privately that their patience has run out.
"The way this has been handled, I'm not going to take a leap of faith," said Sen. Richard M. Burr, North Carolina Republican, who voted to advance the bill on Tuesday but said the way Democratic leaders ran the floor yesterday left no room to "take a bad bill and make it better."
Sen. Ben Nelson, Nebraska Democrat, said he has voted to keep the bill moving a half-dozen times already on "cloture" votes, but yesterday's debate showed him the bill is probably unsalvageable.
"I've given them six or seven cloture votes," he said. "I think this clay pigeon is becoming a dead duck."
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No senator. If you vote for this, YOU are a dead duck. No more qwacks for you.
Stop the New World (B)order!
If your senator has felt your fire before, now it is time to give them an inferno. The rags are rattling about that this is done, time to get the fork, but insiders keep viewing tomorrow’s vote as being close, but one that will be a failure to protect this nation, a failure to punish the lawbreakers, a failure to do their sworn duty.
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Capitol Hill could see a phone/email meltdown of historic proportions tomorrow morning.
That could be the quote of the year. LOL
It sounds like some of them are coming to their senses.
Remember how we were told in recent days that left-wing immigration advocacy groups were very reluctant about the bill, because it was purportedly so unfavorable to the immigrants?
Looks like that was just PR spin to try to make people think the bill was centrist. Now when the fate of the bill hands in the balance, La Raza is pleading for its passage.
It ain’t over till the Hildabeast squeals
ok, bad visual... :p
Light up their fax machines, phones & emails!!!
Senator Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
Chief of Staff
stephen_ward@bingaman.senate.gov
Legislative Director
trudy_vincent@bingaman.senate.gov
Counsel
sunalei_stewart@bingaman.senate.gov
Press Secretary/Communications Director
jude_mccartin@bingaman.senate.gov
Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA)
Chief of Staff
laura_schiller@boxer.senate.gov
Legislative Director
polly_trottenberg@boxer.senate.gov
Press Secretary/Communications Director
natalie_ravitz@boxer.senate.gov
Senator Kent Conrad (D-ND)
Chief of Staff
bob_van_heuvelen@conrad.senate.gov
Legislative Director
tom_mahr@conrad.senate.gov
Press Secretary/Communications Director
chris_thorne@conrad.senate.gov
sean_neary@conrad.senate.gov
Senator Carl Levin (D-MI)
Chief of Staff
david_lyles@levin.senate.gov
Legislative Director
rich_arenberg@levin.senate.gov
Press Secretary/Communications Director
tara_andringa@levin.senate.gov
Senator Ben Nelson (D-NE)
Chief of Staff
tim_becker@bennelson.senate.gov
Legislative Director
christiana_gallagher@bennelson.senate.gov
Press Secretary/Communications Director
david_dimartino@bennelson.senate.gov
Senator Jim Webb (D-VA)
Chief of Staff
paul_reagan@webb.senate.gov
Legislative Director
mike_sozan@webb.senate.gov
Press Secretary/Communications Director
jessica_smith@webb.senate.gov
Senator Kit Bond (R-MO)
Chief of Staff
brian_klippenstein@bond.senate.gov
Legislative Director
kara_smith@bond.senate.gov
Communications Director
shana_marchio@bond.senate.gov
Senator Richard Burr (R-NC)
Chief of Staff
alicia_peterson-clark@burr.senate.gov
alicia_peterson-petersonclark@burr.senate.gov
Legislative Director
natasha_hickman@burr.senate.gov
Press Secretary/Communications Director
laura_caudell@burr.senate.gov
mark_williams@burr.senate.gov
Senator Thad Cochran (R-MS)
Chief of Staff
jenny_manley@cochran.senate.gov
Legislative Director
ta_hawks@cochran.senate.gov
Press Secretary
margaret_wicker@cochran.senate.gov
Margaret_mcphillips@cochran.senate.gov
Senator John Ensign (R-NV)
Chief of Staff
john_lopez@ensign.senate.gov
Legislative Director
pam_thiessen@ensign.senate.gov
Press Secretary/Communications Director
tory_mazzola@ensign.senate.gov
jack_finn@ensign.senate.gov
don_tatro@ensign.senate.gov
Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH)
Chief of Staff
joel_maiola@gregg.senate.gov
Legislative Director
nancy_perkins@gregg.senate.gov
General Counsel
christopher_gahan@gregg.senate.gov
Press Secretary/Communications Director
erin_rath@gregg.senate.gov
Senator Orrin Hatch (R-UT)
Chief of Staff
patricia_knight@hatch.senate.gov
Legislative Director
jace_johnson@hatch.senate.gov
Deputy LD
chris_campbell@hatch.senate.gov
Counsel
bill_castle@hatch.senate.gov
Press Secretary/Communications Director
peter_carr@hatch.senate.gov
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
We can’t let it advance! We need a new bill, one that covers putting a wall along the ENTIRE border with NO strings attached. And then, we need a second bill that deports every single illegal immigrant, no strings attached.
President Bush and Senators: Stop trying to win new votes and actually do what must be done to protect our country!!!!!
If the bill dies the next step is to pressure our arrogant, transnationalist, elected officials to actually enforce the immigration laws already on the books. All of ‘em. And then to rescind the anchor baby provision of the 1965 Immigration Act. Lotta work ahead of us.
Not to excuse Coleman at all ... but it sounds like in the event we lose tomorrow, there may be one more trench to fall back to in the Senate before we retreat to the House.
Praying it doesn't come to that ....
Not all senators consider this morning's vote the key showdown, and say if the bill survives, there are other chances to defeat it.Sen. Norm Coleman, Minnesota Republican, said he plans to vote to proceed with the debate, but expects another 60-vote showdown on another parliamentary maneuver, known as a "point of order." Mr. Coleman said if the bill is not changed to his liking by then, he could join in voting to block it.
To state that it lost support implies that it had support to begin with.
And someone call George Bush and tell him to clean up the grafitti off the walls of our public library. I stop by my local library today to return some books, and the entire street facing side of the building, and the front entry, as well as a near by home and fences, have Mexican gang grafitti. So while you all are calling the Congress critters, call that do nothing but big spending Bush to get over here and clean up this grafitti off the walls of our public library. In fact, get his whole family over here, and all of his relatives to clean up this crap, it’s his fault.
Hopefully the “kill-shot” will come tomorrow,,,till then...
Prayers Up for the USA...
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