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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.

Thanks so much. Someone sent me the 511 in Freepmail and I agree, some wording seems designed to ‘clear the path’ so to speak. Sounds like the bill S 2678 is where the rubber meets the road. Just knowing that will help alot in my search.

Thanks again.

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.

Despite his reputation and his many admirers on FR, Tom Coburn is no ally of conservatives, I'm now firmly convinced. What are the chances, that both major party presidential candidates would be in favor of undermining national sovreignty by favoring liberal citizenship requirements for illegal aliens, and also undermine national sovereignty by being of questionable eligibility for office under the Constitution? They're both globalist shills, and so is anyone who voted for this.

http://frwebgate6.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/TEXTgate.cgi?WAISdocID=8548749399+12+1+0&WAISaction=retrieve
Resolution in the Senate on McCain’s citizenship that says, among other things that: “The term `natural born Citizen’, as that term appears in Article II, Section 1, is not defined in the Constitution of the United States”