Posted on 06/26/2013 6:55:31 AM PDT by Smokeyblue
Updated: Wednesday, June 26, 2013, 9:05 AM
Today may be your last chance to make a difference in the Senate amnesty fight. Three votes are scheduled for today with the final cloture vote likely to come tomorrow morning.
Call your Senators NOW toll-free at 888-995-8349. Tell them to vote NO on S.744. The bill grants amnesty first with only promises of future enforcement, and, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, it increases unemployment while decreasing wages.
Please see Smokeyblue’s excellent compilation of Senate contact information and explanations of imminent votes.
Calls are very much needed today. Thanks.
It was just announced on the radio that Boehner is NOT going to bring the bill to the floor! If true - HOORAY!
Let them all go home for the August recess and face their constituents which is what Reid did not want.
Immigration reform critics flood Senate with phone calls
http://dailycaller.com/2013/06/25/immigration-reform-critics-flood-senate-with-phone-calls/
Critics of the Democrat-led immigration rewrite are bombarding Senate offices with thousands of phone calls, and advocates say those calls are keeping numerous wayward GOP Senators from joining the Democrats’ immigration bill.
“Five hundred [calls] yesterday, and right now, they’re just ringing non-stop,” said an upset staffer at the office of Mississippi Republican Sen. Roger Wicker, who has voted on both sides of the dispute.
Protestors have sent “hundreds or thousands” of calls to Ohio Republican Sen. Robert Portman’s Republican office, a staff member told The Daily Caller.
“That vast majority of calls today have been on that… [and] we’ve been getting calls on that for a couple of weeks,” said a staffer working for Pennsylvania Democrat Sen. Robert Casey.
The calls have stiffened the spine of GOP Senators who might otherwise bend to pressure from business groups and from influential people in their home state, such as editorial writers and clerics, said Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, which provides a free phone service for Americans who oppose the massive rewrite.
“Our lines sent in hundreds of thousands of calls in the last month,” said Beck. “The senators spend most of their time with big-time donors, and lobbyists and leaders of special-interest groups, and they don’t have much time to spend with voters in their states… [so] faxes, phone-calls and emails are virtually the only way that voters can have access, “ Beck said.
Whoops! Rush is the one who announced it from a National Review article and Daily Caller. May be true and may not be so we can’t let up!!
You are right. They should hear from us during this recess. Loud and clear.
I don’t want any bill coming out of the house either.
This is just a game. Start with the horrible version first in the Senate so that later everyone will acquiesce to milder abomination coming from the house.
But we got to stop ALL amnesty from both the Senate and House.
The Rube’s staff are awfully testy, today. Claiming the Corker amendment will ensure border security, don’t have an answer as to why The Rube has flip flopped on the *no amnesty before securing the border* stance and demanding to know first and last names of callers.
Heh!
Rubio, Marco (R) Senator, FL
Palm Beach Gardens, FL
ph: 561-775-3360 adr: 4580 PGA Blvd., Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33418
Jacksonville, FL
ph: 904-398-8586 adr: 1650 Prudential Drive, Suite 220, Jacksonville, FL 322078149
Washington, DC
ph: 202-224-3041 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 205100001
Pensacola, FL
ph: 850-433-2603 adr: 1 N. Palafox Street, Pensacola, FL 32502
Tampa, FL
ph: 813-977-6450 adr: 3802 Spectrum Boulevard, Tampa, FL 33612
Miami, FL
ph: 305-418-8553 adr: 8669 NW 36th Street, Miami, FL 33166
Orlando, FL
ph: 407-254-2573 adr: 201 South Orange Avenue, Orlando, FL 32801
Orlando, FL
ph: 866-630-7106 adr: 201 South Orange Avenue, Orlando, FL 32801
Tallahassee, FL
ph: 850-599-9100 adr: 402 South Monroe Street, Tallahassee, FL 32399
Naples, FL
ph: 239-213-1521 adr: 3299 E. Tamiami Trail, Naples, FL 34112
Corker, Bob (R) Senator, TN
Washington, DC
ph: 202-224-3344 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 205100001
Chattanooga, TN
ph: 423-756-2757 adr: 10 West MLK Boulevard, Chattanooga, TN 37402
Knoxville, TN
ph: 865-637-4180 adr: 800 Market Street, Knoxville, TN 37902
Memphis, TN
ph: 901-683-1910 adr: 100 Peabody Place, Memphis, TN 38103
Jackson, TN
ph: 731-424-9655 adr: Ed Jones Federal Building, Jackson, TN 38301
Nashville, TN
ph: 615-279-8125 adr: 3322 West End Avenue, Nashville, TN 37203
Blountville, TN
ph: 423-323-1252 adr: Tri-Cities Regional Airport, Blountville, TN 37617
Hoeven, John (R) Senator, ND
Minot, ND
ph: 701-838-1361 adr: 315 Main Street, South, Minot, ND 58701
Bismarck, ND
ph: 701-250-4618 adr: Federal Building, Bismarck, ND 585013869
Washington, DC
ph: 202-224-2551 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 205100001
Fargo, ND
ph: 701-239-5389 adr: 1802 32nd Avenue South, Fargo, ND 58103
Grand Forks, ND
ph: 701-746-8972 adr: Federal Building, Grand Forks, ND 58203
Ayotte, Kelly (R) Senator, NH Senator
Berlin, NH
ph: 603-752-7702 adr: 19 Pleasant Street, Berlin, NH 03570
Washington, DC
ph: 202-224-3324 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, DC 20510
Portsmouth, NH
ph: 603-436-7161 adr: 14 Manchester Square, Portsmouth, NH 03801
Nashua, NH
ph: 603-880-3335 adr: 144 Main Street, Nashua, NH 03060
Manchester, NH
ph: 603-622-7979 adr: 1200 Elm St, Manchester, NH 031012503
Flake, Jeff (R) Senator, AZ
Phoenix,
ph: 602-840-1891 adr: 2200 East Camelback Road, Suite 120, Phoenix, 850163455
Washington,
ph: 202-224-4521 adr: U.S. Senate, Washington, 205100001
Tucson, AZ
ph: 520-575-8633 adr: 6840 Oracle Road, Tucson, AZ 85704
Tell them you're an undocumented voter that wants to come out of the shadows.
LucyT could you ping your lists to this thread?
Thanks!
Immigration reform critics flood Senate with phone calls
The calls have stiffened the spine of GOP Senators who might otherwise bend to pressure from business groups and from influential people in their home state, such as editorial writers and clerics, said Roy Beck, executive director of NumbersUSA, which provides a free phone service for Americans who oppose the massive rewrite.
“The calls [to Congress] are going our way… and if the bill can be delayed another week, it probably won’t pass,” Gheen said.
Republican supporters of the Gang of Eight's amnesty bill, S.744, have fought tirelessly to convince their GOP counterparts that the 11 million illegal aliens who receive amnesty under the bill won't be eligible for ObamaCare until they receive green cards 10 years down the road. But as Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) pointed out yesterday, however, that's not the main "ObamaCare" concern with the bill. Instead, S.744 inadvertantly penalizes companies that hire American workers over amnestied illegal aliens beacuse of the "ObamaCare" tax.
Under ObamaCare, companies with 50 or more employees must provide all low-wage workers with a sufficient health insurance policy. If the company fails to do so, it faces a $3,000 fine per worker that's not tax deductible, so that actual penalty could be as much as $5,000 per employee when you consider the tax consequences.
As Sen. Cruz pointed out yesterday, S.744 grants legal status and work permits to most of the 11 million illegal aliens currently living in the United States. But the bill also exempts them from ObamaCare, so if an American company with at least 50 employees has a job opening for a low-skilled worker, the company would actually benefit financially by hiring the amnestied illegal alien over a U.S. citizen or legal permanent resident who also wants the job.
Here's how Sen. Cruz explained it on the Senate floor on Tuesday:
I would ask you to envision a small business: Joe's Burger Shack. Joe's Burger Shack is owned by a small business owner. It is a series of small fast food restaurants in any given State. It could be my home State of Texas or any State across the Union.
Let's assume that Joe's Burger Shack has 100 employees and that at Joe's Burger Shack, with 100 employees, business is doing relatively well, people are eating more hamburgers, and Joe decides he wants to hire 5 more people. If Joe and Joe's Burger Shack decide they want to hire five more people, if Joe chooses to hire five U.S. citizens or if he chooses to hire five legal permanent residents--five legal immigrants--Joe faces a penalty of $25,000 for doing so--$5,000 apiece right off his bottom line to the IRS. In contrast, if Joe decides instead to hire five RPIs, who came here illegally among those 11 million who are here illegally but granted RPI legalization under the Gang of 8 bill, Joe pays a penalty of zero dollars.
Let me ask a simple, commonsense question. In this instance, who is Joe, the small business owner, going to hire? This bill creates an enormous incentive to hire those here illegally, and at the same time it does it by creating a statutory penalty for hiring U.S. citizens and for hiring legal immigrants. That makes no sense.
-- Sen. Ted Cruz, Senate floor, June 25, 2013
This "ObamaCare" loophole isn't some hypothetical example conjured up by Sen. Cruz. He became aware of the situation when a restaurateur in Texas sent him a letter explaining how the loophole would benefit him as a business owner. (I've edited down the letter, but the full letter can be found in the Congressional record.)
My name is Allen Tharp. Since 1985, I have been the sole owner and CEO of Allen Tharp LLC, as well as the Lion and Rose restaurant chain, and a partner in the Golden Chick restaurants. Our corporate restaurants provide well over 1,000 jobs to fellow Texans, and our franchise restaurants provide many more.
I've been following the current debate over immigration reform very closely and want you to be aware that this bill, coupled with the new ObamaCare legislation, makes it much more affordable for a business like mine to employ Registered Provisional Immigrants than American workers. I do not believe that was the intention of either legislation, but it is the irrefutable effect of both. . .
If the current immigration bill before the Senate, however, is made law, a business could hire Registered Provisional Immigrants instead of U.S. citizens and avoid triggering ObamaCare regulations and fines.
Hiring RPIs over American workers, from a purely economic point of view, would be the best thing for my business. . .
Mr. Tharp wrote that he doesn't think taking advantage of the loophole is the right thing to do, and he likely won't, but he's more concerned about his competitors.
It's unlikely that the loophole will be closed up in the final hours of the Senate's consideration of S.744, so it's just one more reason to oppose the bill. Not only will the bill increase unemployment and decrease wages for American workers, but it will also provide an incentive for companies to hire amnestied illegal aliens over U.S. citizens and legal immigrants.
CHRIS CHMIELENSKI is the Director of Content & Activism for NumbersUSA
I basically did just that. I said my name was Jane Americanworker.
Well, hopefully that will inspire Rush’s audience to call their representative to vote against it.
My reps are Schumer and his side ditz. They are ignoring everything. I feel like my hands are tied.
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