Showing posts with label illegal immigration. Show all posts
Showing posts with label illegal immigration. Show all posts
Sunday, July 15, 2007
Monday, July 09, 2007
National Review Online editor, Rich Lowry, calls the defeat of the amnesty bill a "techno-populist victory." In other words it was you, the American people that defeated it. Imagine that! Grass roots efforts work, now if we could just do the same thing with the FairTax.
Anyone care to read what the Mexican president thinks of the failure of the amnesty bill? Yeah, I don’t care either, but with over one tenth of his countries citizens residing in the United States, I guess he thinks he has some claim in this debate. Wow, it is like his own little country with in a country.
Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Last Chance to kill the Amnesty Bill
Today is the day that Congress will vote on cloture for the illegal immigration bill. I know some of you are thinking I don’t have a clue how my government works, what does that mean? Well that is sad, not knowing how your own government works, but I digress.
What it means is that if 60 Senators vote yes to cloture the debate on the bill will be closed and the bill will go to vote.
If cloture passes there will be:
No more than thirty hours of debate may occur.
No Senator may speak for more than one hour.
No amendments may be moved unless they were filed on the day in between the presentation of the petition and the actual cloture vote.
All amendments must be relevant to the debate.
Certain debates on procedure are not permissible.
The presiding officer gains additional power in controlling debate. [Democrats]
No other matters may be considered until the question upon which cloture was invoked is disposed of.
If the Senate gets all of the 60 votes it needs today the bill is expected to be passed, but if they fall short of the 60 votes then the bill is dead, adios amigos.
It is looking like a real, real close vote as well. So who hasn’t decided how they will vote?
The following 12 senators are leaning against the bill itself but so far are leaning toward the cloture motion — which means, in reality, that they would be helping pass the amnesty bill even though they would vote against the actual bill when it came up for a vote:
Bond (R-Mo.), Bingaman (D-N.M.), Burr (R-N.C.), Boxer (D-Calif.), Cochran (R-Miss.), Conrad (D-N.D.), Ensign (R-Nev.), Levin (D-Mich.), Gregg (R-N.H.), Nelson (D-Neb.), Hatch (R-Utah), Webb (D-Va.).
My prediction, cloture will pass and the bill will eventually become law. So practice up on your Spanish cause 12 million illegal immigrants are about to become legal.
los buenos días, Qué tal, me llamo tony, bienvenidos a América. Espero que usted trajera la tequila.
What it means is that if 60 Senators vote yes to cloture the debate on the bill will be closed and the bill will go to vote.
If cloture passes there will be:
No more than thirty hours of debate may occur.
No Senator may speak for more than one hour.
No amendments may be moved unless they were filed on the day in between the presentation of the petition and the actual cloture vote.
All amendments must be relevant to the debate.
Certain debates on procedure are not permissible.
The presiding officer gains additional power in controlling debate. [Democrats]
No other matters may be considered until the question upon which cloture was invoked is disposed of.
If the Senate gets all of the 60 votes it needs today the bill is expected to be passed, but if they fall short of the 60 votes then the bill is dead, adios amigos.
It is looking like a real, real close vote as well. So who hasn’t decided how they will vote?
The following 12 senators are leaning against the bill itself but so far are leaning toward the cloture motion — which means, in reality, that they would be helping pass the amnesty bill even though they would vote against the actual bill when it came up for a vote:
Bond (R-Mo.), Bingaman (D-N.M.), Burr (R-N.C.), Boxer (D-Calif.), Cochran (R-Miss.), Conrad (D-N.D.), Ensign (R-Nev.), Levin (D-Mich.), Gregg (R-N.H.), Nelson (D-Neb.), Hatch (R-Utah), Webb (D-Va.).
My prediction, cloture will pass and the bill will eventually become law. So practice up on your Spanish cause 12 million illegal immigrants are about to become legal.
los buenos días, Qué tal, me llamo tony, bienvenidos a América. Espero que usted trajera la tequila.
Oooops!!! Looks like President Bush had a little slip of the toungue and called the illegal immigration bill exactly what it is, amnesty. Although he has been trying to say that it is not.
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