Senate blocks immigration bill (cloture vote fails, 14 votes short, 53-46)

AP on Yahoo ^ | 6/28/07 | Charles Babington - ap

[BlueOneGolf]

Enjoy this victory my fellow Patriots but the fight continues. Homeland Security and the White House have the funding from last year's bill to build 800 miles of border fence. They've only built a few miles. Time to shift our efforts to pressuring DHS to accelerate construction. No time to rest...time to double down.

[IndyTiger]

Good news! No bill is better than a bad bill. Why can’t we get a bill that is border control only? Let’s shut off the flow first, then deal with those that are here second.

[RightWhale]

postponing major action on immigration until after the 2008 elections

By then twenty miles of the fence will be complete and another couple dozen ICE raids.

[NormsRevenge]

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=110&session=1&vote=00235

Domenici voted
NO..

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

Well, they’re probably going to have to keep their gloating short since I have know doubt that the Shamnesty RINOs and the Swimmer Libs will be gunning hard now for Talk Radio to exact retribution.

[snuffy smiff]

Amen! Build the fence but even nore importantly....

ENFORCE CURRENT LAWS AS IS WRITTEN!!!!!!!!

Problwem will then solve it’s self!

[Virginia Ridgerunner]

"know" = "no"

Duh!

[NormsRevenge]

Two fossils of the Senate weigh in..

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“Year after year, we’ve had the broken borders,” said Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass. “Year after year, we’ve seen the exploitation of workers. Year after year, we’ve seen the people who live in fear within our own borders. This is the opportunity to change it. Now is the time.”

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., told colleagues that if the bill faltered, the political climate almost surely would not allow a serious reconsideration until 2009 or later.

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Senator Kennedy, you are as much responsible for this mess as anyone. and DiChiFi aka Lady MILCON,, a lot of us will be working hard to make sure you are sent packing to China, better yet Leavenworth.

[glorgau]

The bill would have toughened border security and instituted a new system for weeding out illegal immigrants from workplaces. It would have created a new guest worker program and allowed millions of illegal immigrants to obtain legal status if they briefly returned home.

What a miserably misleading description of that legislative sham.

[bankwalker]

Senator Kennedy, you are as much responsible for this mess as anyone.

He started this crap in 1965.

[TWohlford]

YEAs -—46
Akaka (D-HI)
Bennett (R-UT)
Biden (D-DE)
Boxer (D-CA)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Clinton (D-NY)
Conrad (D-ND)
Craig (R-ID)
Dodd (D-CT)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Inouye (D-HI)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lott (R-MS)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Obama (D-IL)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Schumer (D-NY)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)

NAYs -—53
Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Bond (R-MO)
Brown (D-OH)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Byrd (D-WV)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Dole (R-NC)
Domenici (R-NM)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Grassley (R-IA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Landrieu (D-LA)
McCaskill (D-MO)
McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Smith (R-OR)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Stevens (R-AK)
Sununu (R-NH)
Tester (D-MT)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)
Webb (D-VA)

Not Voting - 1
Johnson (D-SD)

[Star Traveler]

Yeah, the people won last time, too — and it came up again, this time. And so, once again, the people won — for a day or two — until the next time it gets pushed through again, probably attached to something else, this time...

Regards,
Star Traveler

[amihow]

DON’T BE FOOLED

There were many Senators who voted against the immigration bill today cynically.. Many of them were reading the tea leaves and figured that
they would save their skins by voting no now. Make no mistake, had they gotten the yes vote today, they would vote yes on the bill.

Who are those senators? Kyl, McConnell, Lott, Domenici, Brownback, Rockefeller, Voinovich and Warner to name a few.

[dangerdoc]

Maybe the democrat with the brain injury, uhhhh, the one hospitilized with the brain injury.

[Star Traveler]

Yeah, the vote to preserve America for one day (or maybe two days...). I’m wondering about the other 363 or so days of the year....

Regards,
Star Traveler

[Star Traveler]

Yeah, sounds about right, just jumping on the bandwagon for this particular vote, once you see how it’s going. It’s like getting a “get out of jail card” for free — means nothing for those guys...

Regards,
Star Traveler

[ExTexasRedhead]

Adolf Feinstein will be pushing for the Fairness Doctrine to be re-instituted. Afterall, her highness thinks we’re the uneducated “unwashed” masses that she has to decide what we listen to. Her office needs to hear from us.

[wastedyears]

Of course, both of my turds from CT voted for it.

[Dark Wing]

Lindsey Grahamn’s days in the Senate are numbered.