[C. Edmund Wright]

Okay, so four Repubs, not 2. Big deal.

[kabar]

The 2006 Secure Fence Act was introduced on Sep. 13, 2006 by Peter T. King (R-NY). In the House of Representatives, the Fence Act passed 283 -138 on September 14, 2006. On September 29, 2006 – the Fence Act passed in the Senate 80 -19.

Even Hillary and Obama voted for the bill, which was just before the 2006 midterms The elections resulted in the loss of Congress for the GOP. It was Kay Bailey Hutchinson who helped amend the law a year later that effectively neutered it. The Secure Fence Act was was passed for the optics it provided before the midterms. There is no real support for actually securing the border. It is just obligatory, meaningless political rhetoric.