"Clever, Ted. We'll pocket all the money, fire the TSA inspectors and just use HAMAS on Z-visas for airport inspections."
Posted on 06/15/2007 3:35:45 PM PDT by SmithL
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Architects of a revived immigration compromise are directing an intense behind-the-scenes bargaining effort to round up enough votes among wavering Republicans to keep it alive.
Senate leaders' announcement Thursday that they would allow the bill a second chance came after getting assurances from key negotiators that they could produce enough support to steer the measure through a procedural minefield, including attempts by conservatives to block it.
The fragile compromise would grant millions of illegal immigrants lawful status while tightening border security and creating new measures for weeding out illegal workers at job sites. Championed by President Bush, it has sparked an outcry among conservatives who regard it as amnesty for lawbreakers.
An appearance by Bush on Capitol Hill this week to prod action on the measure — and his subsequent OK to immediately pumping a new $4.4 billion into border security — helped set the stage for its resurrection. But it was raw trolling for votes by key Republicans and Democrats that made the difference, said lawmakers and senior officials involved in the talks.
The coalition drew up a tentative list of 22 amendments — divided equally between the two parties — whose consideration would give a handful of Republicans the comfort they needed to allow the bill to go forward. That would take 60 votes — a threshold the bill missed by 15 last week, when just seven Republicans backed ending debate and moving to complete the bill.
Allowing votes on the proposals "has as its goal bringing more people on board," Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a lead Republican negotiator, said in an interview Friday. "They're going to get input that will make them feel better," Graham said of wavering Republicans.
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Troll?
Yeah, that seems to fit.
Pretty accurate title.
Well it doesn't’t count if you are an illegal alien. The whors in congress will change the law to accomodate you.
With extreme sanction if necessary...
"Clever, Ted. We'll pocket all the money, fire the TSA inspectors and just use HAMAS on Z-visas for airport inspections."
What an appropriate title.
“They’re going to get input that will make them feel better,” Graham said of wavering Republicans.
How absolutely insulting! Especially, since Trent Lott has already opined that all these “strict enforcement” amendments will be stripped off the bill when it hits the committee. Graham and Lott need to be fired by the voters of SC and MS when they run for re-election.
Thanks!
I finally figured out why the GOP is doing this to themselves.
All the far-left Latino organizations are promising them votes.
LULAC and MALDEF and LaRaza and all the Soros-Ford Foundation funded Latino organizations are saying to them.
“If you will get this bill through we can promise you the Latino vote!”
I think that is the answer.
Maybe the BIGS in Washington think the law is only for the little people. Here's a flash guys, fatcats, the "little people" have more votes. And we have looooonnnnngggggg memories.
I have no idea how that tagline got there, sorry.
Maybe the BIGS in Washington think the law is only for the little people. Here's a flash fatcats: the "little people" have more votes. And we have looooonnnnngggggg memories.
Isn't that big of the dictator group. I've fed up with these backroom deals and these "groups" who are running all the shows instead of conducting business ethically and constitutionally.
Senators trolling for amnesty of millions of illegals....
Watch the vote, you are going to find a lot of the scoundrels voting for cloture and against final passage to cover their butts with the people back home. It’s going to be a carefully choreographed vote.
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