Posted on 05/25/2013 8:17:55 AM PDT by Lakeshark
According to Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ), the so-called Gang of Eight’s immigration reform bill does not have enough votes at this point to pass the Senate. Even though the bill has exited the Senate Judiciary Committee with a 13-5 vote, Menendez says that it will not receive 60 votes thanks to Republican opposition. “We don’t currently have 60 votes identified in the Senate,” Menendez told Univision. “We need to add more votes on the floor. That means that the community in your state, in every state, should be contacting your state’s two US Senators saying that they want comprehensive immigration reform, that they are going to judge their political future based on this vote.”
Several Republican senators have expressed support for debating the bill, but do not support the bill itself yet, including Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-UT) and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY). Menendez does believe that by the time of the Senate vote, which he said will take place just after July 4, the votes will be there. “I believe that in those three weeks we can get the necessary votes and we will have the community. We are expecting that and working for that.”The goal, said Menendez, would be to pressure the House of Representatives to pass a version of the bill by creating widespread Senate support. “We want to push this bill forward with the most positive votes we can find, more than sixty, the sixty we need to be able to pass it here in the Senate, so we can put pressure on the House,” he explained. “Speaker Boehner, will have to decide how he will proceed.”
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*Must multi-task better*
The goal, said Menendez, would be to pressure the House of Representatives to pass a version of the bill by creating widespread Senate support. “We want to push this bill forward with the most positive votes we can find, more than sixty, the sixty we need to be able to pass it here in the Senate, so we can put pressure on the House,” he explained. “Speaker Boehner, will have to decide how he will proceed.”
Menendez’s statements on Univision are no coincidence – the Democrats’ plan for 2014 is largely built on the notion that by creating bipartisan support for immigration reform in the Senate, then forcing the House to stop a soft-on-border-security bill, they will be able to generate public support for taking the House back for President Obama
Good read ping
We are contacting them. That's why you don't have 60 votes. And we will keep contacting them to make sure you never get 60 votes.
Would do a happy dance, but Bonehead over in the House is having one written.
No telling what it will have, but we can anticipate that amnesty will be strong and securing the borders will be kicked down the road.
Politicians have been trying since 2001 to get all those illegals legalized? Why????? If they would spend as much effort representing the voters who sent them to Washington, the whole Nation would be better off.
My point is we need to put the pressure on, a full court press if we want to prevent this from happening.
I don’t trust that treasonous Menendez. He’s a lying crook. He is only saying this in hopes of lulling the American people into a state of complacency. Americans need to keep pounding these crooks on Capitol Hill and make sure they aren’t allowed to surrender our country to the sack and pillage invaders and Muslim Islamoterrorists.
Perfect, BUMP to your post!
Pressure Claire McCatskill?
I’m from Michigan, I understand, I can only work on my rep........
With my two senators brain stem I might just as well call Art Torres’ office.
I think Rubio and a few others will backtrack if they find a good excuse to question the intentions of those they thought they could trust, or whatever.
Hopefully so.
I really don’t want CW II to start until long after I am gone.
That way the welfare dorks can fight (and hopefully lose) the war caused by the Obamadork they voted for.
I hope you're right, I've lost a lot of respect for Rubio from his work on this issue, and no matter whether he is conservative on other issues, he has done himself a world of hurt.
Looks like they’re gonna have to enforce existing laws for now.
Not gonna happen any time soon with this group in power.
no time for us to slacken off putting our own pressure against another Obamacare type “reform” that is not real reform but more travesty
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