Ping to post 144. Somehow I missed this little ditty reading about this stuff.
Gemsbok...do you have a link to the bill and articles about the bill? Who else co-sponsored it? Who wrote it? This makes Obama and his supporters look even MORE guilty than they already do.
Donofrio also mentioned this resolution and that even if it had passed it would not have made moot the Constitution because it would not have been an Amendment to the Constitution which would require the states to ratify. Wonder if Obama himself sponsored the resolution? Nice that it did not pass anyway.
There are actually 2 pieces of legislation. The first one was a bill S 2678 introduced by MCaskill on February 28, 2008. According to Senate records this bill was introduced, read twice, and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary. It appears to have died there, as I can find no further action taken on it.
The second piece of legislation is S. Res. 511. There are three different versions of this bill that were considered, and there may have been more discussion behind the scenes than what actually appears in the Senate record. The final version of this resolution has a suffix of ATS following the resolution #. This version was sponsored by MCaskill, and cosponsored by Senators Leahy, Obama, Coburn, Clinton, and Webb. This resolution was Considered and agreed to on April 30, 2008.
You can look up all the versions of the legislation by going to the Senate website and then following the links to the Thomas record search. I just typed in the term “natural born” and everything came up for me.
As someone stated on one of the threads, Senate Resolutions are not law, just sort of a proclamation by the senate, so they are not really worth much. That said, the final resolution still has some wording that I don’t like. One of the FR threads has the entire piece of legislation that passed on it, but I don’t remember which thread. Perhaps another Freeper remembers where it was posted and can link to the post.
Sorry Miss Penny, I have gone back to July to get a closer look and I did find this, but there is much more on the topic and the 3 separate pieces of proposed legislation that culminated in this resolution 511.
From this post:
..why did Senators McCaskill and Obama reportedly insert the following Clause?”
10/14/2008 8:13:02 PM PDT · by ransomnote · 16 replies · 1,280+ views
texasdarlin.wordpress.com ^ | By Judah Benjamin,
“2d Session S. RES. 511: Recognizing that John Sidney McCain, III, is a natural born citizen.: In the Senate of the United States.” was Sponsored by Senator McCaskill and co-sponsored by Senators Leahy, Obama, Coburn, Clinton and Webb. Why? Why were Democratic Senators trying to pass a Resolution making Senator McCain undoubtedly Legally Eligible when this issue had already been cleared up in 2000 and again in 2004? And why did Senators McCaskill and Obama reportedly insert the following Clause? “Whereas previous presidential candidates were born outside of the United States of America and were understood to be eligible to...