Here is what Don Nickles proposed and why would you say so many Oklahoma Senators:
Senator Don Nickles, Republican of Oklahoma, wants to spell out, once and for all, who is a natural born American.
“We should not wait for an election to be challenged,” Nickles said when he introduced his legislation in February, “and the courts to then decide what ‘natural born’ means.”
His Natural Born Citizen Act would include children born outside the United States to citizen parents or parents able to transfer their citizenship. That would include McCain, whose parents were citizens, as well as an estimated two million others who, according to government figures, have been born to U.S. parents living and working overseas.
Such clarification “provides comfort and certainty to members of the American military and foreign services,” Nickles explained, “as well as expatriate families, that their children, too, are eligible to run for president.
“These children are no less qualified than children born on American soil, and they should not be treated differently,” he said.
Read carefully what Nickles proposed — he didn’t propose allowing a naturalized citizen the right to be President, he proposed that children born to military, foreign service, and anyone who could pass on citizenship to their children not born on foreign soil could run for President like they had been born here on the US soil. If you did not have the right according to law to transfer citizenship to your child, then your child could not run for President according to Nickles bill.
Hatch was the one that wanted a person to be able to run for President if they had been a citizen for so many years not Nickles.
Co-sponsors: Inhofe (R-OK) and Landrieu (D-LA).
Correction, Inhofe co-sponsored the Nickles proposal, which did in fact attempt to open the Presidency to citizens that can only be described as naturalized under the terms of the Constitution.
It was (and still is) Tom Coburn, who co-sponsored the Hatch proposal, opening the Presidency to naturalized citizens, outright, only limited by age and length of residency.