Plan to send immigrants home is defeated (Hutchison amendment tabled by Senate vote, 53-45)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 6/27/07 | Julie Hirschfeld Davis - ap

[NormsRevenge]

Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., left, accompanied by Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., right, gestures during a news conference on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, June 27, 2007, to discuss an amendment to the immigration bill which would require biometic Social Security cards. (AP Photo/Dennis Cook)

[gubamyster]

ping

[SirJohnBarleycorn]

Also getting a vote was an amendment by Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., that would allow only those who had been in the country for at least four years to gain lawful status.

Webb amendment was just tabled (killed).

[Pete]

The Senate on Wednesday killed a Republican proposal to require all adult illegal immigrants to return home

Doesn't current law require the deportation of anyone found to be in the United States illegally? So, the Senate killed a proposal that simply restated (actually, in more lenient terms) the current law.

Oh, well. That's a shame.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

[Anonymous Rex]

This bill gets worse by the moment. Anyone who votes for cloture on Thursday should be recalled.

[Greg F]

They are letting this farce continue? They are voting on amendments they haven’t seen. Ried hasn’t even given the Republicans the amendments text. See this thread: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1857152/posts

[Greg F]

Awesome post/graphic/photoshop.

[skimbell]

I really don't think that these fools understand what they're doing. I don't believe that this P.O.S. bill is going to get through the House, but something REALLY needs to be done about the worms that are infesting the Senate.

[ScreamingFist]

Wasn't it cheerleader Trent Lott that said (paraphrasing)...”We’ll just kill all the amendments when it comes to the Floor”....?

[NormsRevenge]

Thanks.

Will post vote when it becomes available

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Check out Page S8433

TEXT OF AMENDMENTS — (Senate - June 26, 2007)
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/R?r110:FLD001:S08433

7 pages of amended legislation submitted from Kenndy to Reid to present today. includes info on amendments submitted by both sides, click on the page link to view

[azhenfud]

I’ve only this comment to the deceitful jackels aiming to shove this amnesty bill upon America -

“Anything conceived in spite will never prosper..” - Unaffiliated

Senator Spectacle says, “We’re in trench warfare.” Well Senator, quite a bit of that peril is of your own invention.

[rockinqsranch]

This bill is built on a foundation of litter therefore construction isn’t worth continuing. No foundation, no structure. What a grand waste of Taxpayer money this whole excercise has become.

Senate stop the debate now, vote NO, get on with necessary new business, and Mr. President enforce the existing laws NOW.

It seems so easy...bewildered!

[BarbM]

This morning, Senator Colemans office hung up on me when I called to politely voice my opposition to his voting for amnesty. Not only did the “honorable senator” stab me in the back, but his office staff was rude to me.

I dont know what offends me more. /sarc

[3AngelaD]

Hats off for that masterwork. Now can you put sombreros on all of them?

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Wow. I’d slam them with calls, then.

[getmeouttaPalmBeachCounty_FL]

Very clever!

[samadams2000]

“It’s going to be a rough ride,” said Sen. Arlen Specter, R-Pa., an architect of the bill. “We’re in trench warfare.” ....yes against our own citizenry. How sad and disgusting. Bush’s support for Sphincter was one of his first clueless tin ear decisions.

[Bladerunnuh]

Yeah, I like this graphic, I’m goign to post it everywhere I can