CSPAN2: FINAL SENATE VOTE ON HOMELAND SECURITY & JUDGE SHEDD...THIS IS IT!

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[gorebegone]

Oh it feels great to have our country and constitution back, may the demoncrats just fade away.....

[gorebegone]

Who's the 9 traitors that voted against homeland security? Please post their names in red. Its time to clean out the country, let's start with these nine!

[GraniteStateConservative]

H.R. 3231 breaks the INS into two organizations that concentrate on different missions - administering immigration benefits and enforcing immigration laws. The Bureau of Citizenship and Immigration Services (BCIS), led by an expert in government benefits, will concentrate on improving immigration services and reducing adjudication backlogs for legal immigrants. Likewise, the Bureau of Immigration Enforcement (BIE), led by a law enforcement professional, will deny admission to aliens who should be kept out of the U.S., and apprehend and remove aliens along the border and in the interior who are deportable. Each bureau will have a distinct mission, will be able to craft its own policies, and will have its own budget and its own dedicated employees who cannot be shifted to the other agency.

H.R. 3231 also creates an Associate Attorney General in the Department of Justice who handles only immigration affairs. This will create more accountability for the actions taken by the two bureaus than currently exists in the INS. The Associate Attorney General will supervise the two bureaus and resolve conflicts arising between them. In addition, an Office of the Associate Attorney General is created under the control and primary responsibility of the Associate Attorney General. Created within the Associate Attorney General's Office is a Policy Advisor, General Counsel, Chief Financial Officer, Director of Shared Services, Office of the Ombudsman, Office of Professional Responsibility and Quality Review, and Office of Children's Affairs.

Finally, H.R. 3231 requires the application of internet-based technologies to track immigration applications as well as to eventually permit applicants to file applications on-line, thereby improving customer service and saving money.

[GraniteStateConservative]

It will. Bush may ask for other things, too, but all those things have passed the House already and Lott wants them passed in the Senate. Just remember how much we accomplished in the few short months we held both the House and Senate in 2001. We'll have two years!

Also, with CO-7 and LA-5 wins (which should occur), we'll be as strong as the 1994 tidal wave in the House. This GOP House is more conservative than that one, too. Many moderates like Connie Morella and Marge Roukema are gone, but we still have 230 Republicans.

[newzjunkey]

The NAYS are:

Akaka (D-HI)
Byrd (D-WV)
Feingold (D-WI)
Hollings (D-SC)
Inouye (D-HI)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Levin (D-MI)
Sarbanes (D-MD)

[InvisibleChurch]

well good, i'm not sure how to respond... it's a good thing, i'm just not used to it...republicans with a collective spine? yow!

[newzjunkey]

Can't believe Boxer actually voted in the affirmative. Scary. Scary. Scary. What's hiding in those 400 pages?

[alancarp]

Boxer is up for re-election in 2004, and even she can read tea-leaves...

[mysonsfuture]

90-9. Does anyone know who did not vote?

[Ole Okie]

Never have seen Zell up in the chair...nice to see him there.

After moving to Georgia, I have been critical of Zell at times. But he has certainly earned my respect.

My wife and I (she's a lifelong Georgian) both hope that Zell will switch to a Republican. But in some ways, he may be more valuable as a Democrat who can bless his fellow Dems out on things like this Homeland Security Bill.

We'd still rather see him as a Republican, though.

[BJClinton]

I want details on this. I hadn't heard their proposal...

The only specific I know that the Bush team wants is two seperate the INS into two branches, one that keeps illegals out and one that reviews/approves/denies visa and citizenship applications.

Currently the same people do the same job and that conflict of interest creates the "catch and release" problem.

[WOSG]

may your cynicism quotient is just triggered by senator L saying she wants to work with Prez Bush on sunday and voting against his nominee on Tuesday ... 48 hours... What does L stand for again????

[WOSG]

Very nice thoughts!!!

[WOSG]

Put Lott to the fire .. in 100 days the new GOP House did alot ... no reason why the new GOP Senate in 2003 cant have a disciplined and active first 100 days.

[Timesink]

Why did Barkley vote no? Has he said?

[Timesink]

90-9. Does anyone know who did not vote?

Murkowski of Alaska. Dunno why. Was he not in attendence?

[recalcitrant]

kennedy was in europe, they say.