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DeMint to attach border fence language to financial bill
The Hill ^
| 05/05/10
| Jordan Fabian
Posted on 05/05/2010 10:59:41 PM PDT by FTJM
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) announced Thursday he will attach language to the financial reform bill that mandates that 700 miles of fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border within one year.
The senator's amendment would need 60 votes to be attached to the unrelated legislation.
“We’ve had rhetoric and promises for four years without results," he said in a statement. "It’s time we completed the fence and secured our borders to protect American citizens."
The conservative senator's request comes at a time when immigration has climbed to the top of the agenda on Capitol Hill.
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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; border; demint
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posted on
05/05/2010 10:59:41 PM PDT
by
FTJM
To: FTJM; 1_Inch_Group; 2sheep; 2Trievers; 3AngelaD; 3pools; 3rdcanyon; 4Freedom; 4ourprogeny; ...
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posted on
05/05/2010 11:03:35 PM PDT
by
HiJinx
(~ Illegal is a Crime, it is not a Race ~)
To: FTJM
Go DeMint!
Love that guy.
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posted on
05/05/2010 11:06:42 PM PDT
by
Windflier
(To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
To: upchuck; SC Swamp Fox
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posted on
05/05/2010 11:08:31 PM PDT
by
Jet Jaguar
(*)
To: HiJinx
incredible. thank you, Jim, for the effort. 6 months to go in an election year and he put the pressure on moderates and rinos to have to answer to their constituencies. brilliant. go jim!
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posted on
05/05/2010 11:09:30 PM PDT
by
wac3rd
(Prepare for the November 2010 Tsunami)
To: wac3rd
It’s the effort but votes are needed to insert it, as per article. I’m for placing landmines and motion-triggered machine guns but that’s just me..
To: FTJM
"The senator's amendment would need 60 votes to be attached to the unrelated legislation. "So why is he wasting time on this? He must see something that I don't.
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posted on
05/05/2010 11:25:49 PM PDT
by
matthew fuller
(Congratulations TCU Women's Rifle Team-2010 NCAA Men's and Women's Champs!)
To: matthew fuller
He gets vulnerable Senators on record being against it.
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posted on
05/05/2010 11:29:34 PM PDT
by
FTJM
To: HiJinx
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posted on
05/05/2010 11:50:52 PM PDT
by
dr_who
To: FTJM
Good for him. DeMint continues to impress.
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posted on
05/06/2010 12:04:20 AM PDT
by
Christian_Capitalist
(Taxation over 10% is Tyranny -- 1 Samuel 8:17)
To: FTJM
He might get some Dem senators to sign on to it if he tells them they can fund it again. /s
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posted on
05/06/2010 12:34:50 AM PDT
by
TigersEye
(0basma's father was a British subject. He can't be a "natural-born" citizen.)
To: FTJM
THIS kind of fence...(Israel)
...not THIS (our crappy fence)
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posted on
05/06/2010 5:20:08 AM PDT
by
RetSignman
(Tea Parties ..."We have seen the Patriots and they are us")
To: pissant
*ping*....Great on DeMint, but isn’t this the same thing Hunter got passed and was later changed by the Dems?
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posted on
05/06/2010 5:59:10 AM PDT
by
Kimberly GG
("Path to Citizenship" Amnesty candidates will NOT get my vote!)
To: Windflier
Me too!
But I don’t ever expect he’ll get any of the OBL’s GOP support for candidacy and rest assured the media will just pretend he doesn’t exist...just like Hunter.
Anyone know if DeMint is a CFR member?
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posted on
05/06/2010 6:03:20 AM PDT
by
Kimberly GG
("Path to Citizenship" Amnesty candidates will NOT get my vote!)
To: matthew fuller
Force the RATS and RINOS to take a stand that they will eventually pay for.
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posted on
05/06/2010 6:10:01 AM PDT
by
Redleg Duke
(RAT Hunting Season started the evening of March 21st, 2010!)
To: FTJM
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posted on
05/06/2010 7:15:43 AM PDT
by
pissant
(THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
To: AuntB; Just A Nobody
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posted on
05/06/2010 7:16:29 AM PDT
by
pissant
(THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
To: FTJM
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posted on
05/06/2010 7:16:50 AM PDT
by
pissant
(THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
To: Kimberly GG
Rick Perry, KBH and Cornyn killed it, not the dems.
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posted on
05/06/2010 7:17:44 AM PDT
by
pissant
(THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
To: RetSignman
You are oh so very right, because the smugglers are welding hand and foot holds to our fence, creating a ladder.
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THIS kind of fence...(Israel) 
...not THIS (our crappy fence)