Posted on 06/13/2007 9:55:28 AM PDT by 3AngelaD
Senior GOP senators are embracing an eleventh-hour plan to pass an emergency supplemental bill for more border security money as a strategy to win over Republicans who have balked at the bipartisan immigration bill languishing in the Senate.
But even as the emergency-spending approach gained momentum yesterday during President Bush’s rare visit to the Senate, the immigration bill’s strongest supporters warned that time is running out for an agreement to bring the measure back to the floor...
Senate GOP Conference Chairman Jon Kyl (Ariz.), along with Senate Minority Whip Trent Lott (R-Miss.), said they supported the idea of pushing ahead with an emergency supplemental...
At a minimum, aides said, the Republicans are seeking full funding for the border-security barriers and employer verification system authorized by this year’s immigration bill; the border fence approved by last year’s GOP-controlled Congress; and the thousands of new Border Patrol and customs enforcement agents authorized in 2004 but not yet paid for...
Bipartisan negotiations over the measure continued through yesterday, and aides and senators said they were nearing a dozen amendments to present to Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) in the hopes he would schedule floor time before the July 4 recess. Kyl, an influential emissary between conservatives and immigration negotiators, met late yesterday with a core group of allies to discuss a list of about a dozen desired amendments that Republicans could present to Reid.
The list, one Republican aide said, would cover “senators who needed to be heard and policy changes that appeal to our folks.” Yet it remains unclear whether votes on those dozen changes would secure enough Republican votes to overcome continued objections from a few stalwart opponents of the bill...
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
Why not just pass the border security bill and forget about the comprehensive amnesty bill?
The contempt for our intelligence is remarkable!
Read the Roll Call alert.
The bill is back !
It's starting to sink in. Enforcement of current laws, enforcement at the border first.
They are so used to the way they do biz in D.C. that they think they can throw a little pork at the American public to make the amnesty go down. Disgusting that it is OUR money to start with!
I called McConnell’s office and told them this exact thing and....what part of NO don’t they understand?
The whole bunch of them disgust!
Forget the money, send the senators to the border with shotguns, and tell them to seal it!
They did pass the immigration bill. October 26, 2006.
Can anybody be more obvious about tossing a bone? I don't like being pandered to.
“The whole bunch of them disgust!”
That they do!
hehe I forgot the me
Lott phone was busy all my lunch hour. Finally got his machine and left a little mean message for him.
I am thinking of going to Sams and buying an industrial size case of toilet paper to ship to him, with an note, “Something to clean up with as you send our country down the drain”.
Of what use is “more security money” to an administration that refuses to spend what it already has to protect the border, and instead, sends border agents to prison?? “Hello? Hello? Anyone home, McFly?”
America will have a futiure when the disgust reaches a point that we remove the whole stinking bunch and replace them with ordinary folks and not down on their luck lawyers and rich peckerheads witn royalty complex’s
“America will have a futiure when the disgust reaches a point that we remove the whole stinking bunch and replace them with ordinary folks and not down on their luck lawyers and rich peckerheads witn royalty complex’s”
We need a MAJOR house sweeping!!
I know I'm dreaming but we all need something to believe in. I suppose what I believe in is a folly, but I once believed senators cared about the nation and the nation's citizens. No longer do I believe this. Instead, I know senators work for foreign governments and invading armies. Our senators need white flags to wave. I'm thinking of sending my two their own little white flags.
Off the phone with Sen Norm Coleman’s DC office assistant.
He said they were VERY busy fielding calls against the Amnesty bill, and that the Senator is dead set against it, having voted against cloture twice last week and will oppose it if it comes back to life.
This is amazing. whew
Have you read the Roll Call article.
GOP leaders are bringing the Bill back with new threats for opposing senators !
Call or Fax Mitch McConnell and tell him what you think .
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