Bad news…
We regret that the vote for Cloture has passed with 69 Yea votes from the Senators. They voted this way even though the 20 offices we polled reported angry Americans calling against S. 1348 by 3 to 1 against! A source in Senator Richard Burr’s office in North Carolina told us their office was keeping a tally an on one sheet alone there were 200 calls against, 7 calls in favor of S. 1348.
Sellout Senators like Richard Burr and others are in for some hard lessons in the near future.
The good news is that Senator Reid has retreated on the Fast Track and has now asked for two weeks to discuss and change this bill including the week after Memorial Day weekend.
Since this bill contains so many unpopular provisions, this will hurt the effort supporting this Amnesty Bill as more information reaches the public.
Also, this bill faces another Cloture vote before it can be voted on and passed so that gives us another chance to pick up 9 votes!
Thank you to everyone that has worked so hard.
For a list of Senators that voted for or against S. 1348, we will post that information as we get it at this link. The list is under construction and names and votes will be added as the data comes in.
http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=360074#360074
We have yet begun to fight!
William Gheen
Americans for Legal Immigration PAC (ALIPAC)
www.alipac.us
There’s a link up there for the list of traitors to us citizens but it’s also below:
Sellout Pro Amnesty Senators that Voted against a majority of Americans by voting Yea on Cloture Round 1 for S. 1348 in Alphabetical Order.
Akaka (D-HI)
Alexander (R-TN)**
Bayh (D-IN)
Bennett (R-UT)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Bond (R-MO)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Brownback (R-KS)
Burr (R-NC)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Chambliss (R-GA)**
Cochran (R-MS)**
Coleman (R-MN)**
Collins (R-ME)**
Conrad (D-ND)
Craig (R-ID)**
Domenici (R-NM)**
Durbin (D-IL)**
Ensign (R-NV)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Graham (R-SC)**
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)**
Harkin (D-IA)**
Hatch (R-UT)
Inouye (D-HI)
Isakson (R-GA)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Landrieu (D-LA)**
Lautenberg (D-NJ)**
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)**
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lott (R-MS)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCaskill (D-MO)
McConnell (R-KY)**
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)**
Reed (D-RI)**
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)**
Salazar (D-CO)
Schumer (D-NY)
Smith (R-OR)**
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Stevens (R-AK) **
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)**
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
The Senators that voted against Cloture and Against Amnesty in S. 1348
Allard (R-CO)**
Baucus (D-MT)**
Bunning (R-KY)
Byrd (D-WV)
Coburn (R-OK)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)**
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Dole (R-NC)**
Dorgan (D-ND)
Enzi (R-WY)**
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)**
Roberts (R-KS)**
Sanders (I-VT)
Sessions (R-AL)**
Shelby (R-AL)
Sununu (R-NH)**
Tester (D-MT)
Thomas (R-WY)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Senators that did not cast a vote
Not Voting – 8
Biden (D-DE)**
Clinton (D-NY)
Dodd (D-CT)
Johnson (D-SD)**
Kerry (D-MA)**
McCain (R-AZ)
Nelson (D-FL)
Obama (D-IL)
** 2008 Senate Candidates
Presidential Candidates
And I just commented on another post here that I had a feeling they were going to shove this thing down our throats, didn’t I?
May 22nd, 2007 at 3:42 pm
http://cantotalk.blogspot.com/2007/05/disconnect-between-political-class-and.html
May 22nd, 2007 at 6:49 pm
I’ve left a call into Senator Burr’s office, but I’ll try calling him again.
He won’t get my support – and this state is really not a republican sure thing. Burr replaced Edwards. His seat can go back to a democrat if he loses much support.
Thanks for the information.
Great job.
May 23rd, 2007 at 2:56 am
It was cloture to begin debate is all, nothing to be worried about, they will get an earfull from constituents over the break. There are some good things and very bad things in the draft to be debated. It was not a vote for cloture on the bill itself just to open depate on it, there are still a couple hurdles including the House. Once the border is secure we can begin a regularization program for the productive illegals here already and clamp down on their reason for coming, employment. At least Sen.(R. Al.) Sessions from my home state and my congressman in my adopted state are on the right side, security first, then some form of regularization for the decent and productive. I am not a deport all of them now advocate though I have always been a huge advocate for proper border security especially for as an open a society as ours. IMO, Tom Tancredo should run BICE, The Bureau of Immiigration and Customs Enforcement and whatever program is enacted.
May 23rd, 2007 at 2:34 pm
I looked at this bill, what it says, what it doesn’t say, and thought about all the bills that came before it promising the same things… it’s just another stack of paper full of broken promises… before it even becomes law.
Rush Limbaugh says it right: http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_052207/content/01125106.guest.html
Or rather one of his callers did. The people in D.C. aren’t about the people in the country. They are about keeping their elite status and they see this bill as a way to do that.
We need whole new leadership ,or no federal government at all, and let the states deal with it as individual states. If they’d enforce the laws already on the books, this stupid bill wouldn’t even be a debate, it would be nonexistent. That tells you right there what their real intentions are: they plan to do absolutely nothing except broaden their voter base.
May 25th, 2007 at 2:13 am
You are correct and the fact that we are debating the biil with this much scrutiny at our level of the blogospere shows the people aren’t stupid and we do pay attention. I agree securing the border and enforcing existing laws would go a long way, many would just go home if there is no economic incentive to stay. With folks like AQ and MS13 coming across border security is first!
May 25th, 2007 at 2:27 am
Well, in spite of the socialist agendas of higher education, one perk from more people being able to get a college education is that some small group of us do learn to think critically in spite of all the professors do to “beat” it out of our heads.
Actually, I was fortunate in that regard. I was more inclined toward the sciences, research, and statistics. I also loved history and psychology (even though there were a lot of theories I didn’t agree with, deviant behavior was the bomb). You really have to be able to think critically in those curriculums or you’ll never survive with decent grades. I managed to scrape through with honors, barely. I shudder to think what those in the arts majors were put through.