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Illegal Immigration Watch: Immigration Bill Advances in the Senate

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Immigration bill advances in Senate

The Senate voted Tuesday to jump-start a stalled immigration measure to legalize millions of unlawful immigrants.

The pivotal test-vote was 64-35 to revive the divisive legislation. It still faces formidable obstacles in the Senate, including bitter opposition by GOP conservatives and attempts by some waverers in both parties to revise its key elements.

Supporters needed 60 votes to scale procedural hurdles and return to the bill. A similar test-vote earlier this month found just 45 supporters, only seven of them Republicans. This time, 24 Republicans joined 39 Democrats and independent Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman of Connecticut, to back moving ahead with the bill. Opposing the move were 25 Republicans, nine Democrats and independent Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont.

But, the next hurdle are the amendments promised to Senators in order to obtain their vote for cloture.

The vote suggested that key senators and White House officials had succeeded — at least for now — in bargaining with skeptical lawmakers for a second chance to pass the bill. Several senators who have been promised votes on their amendments, including Sens. Kit Bond, R-Mo., Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., Norm Coleman, R-Minn., Pete Domenici, R-N.M., John Ensign, R-Nev., and Jim Webb, D-Va., switched their votes to support moving ahead with the measure.

And, then, there is the House……..

As senators were preparing for the showdown vote Tuesday morning, House Republicans meeting privately on the other side of the Capitol were plotting to register their opposition through a party resolution. The measure never saw a vote for procedural reasons, but an attempt to kill it failed overwhelmingly, signaling deep GOP skepticism.

“It’s clear there’s a large number of the House Republicans who have serious concerns with the Senate bill,” said Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, the minority leader.

Flap handicaps a better than even money chance that this bill passes the Senate with some GOP amendments. What will be the result:

1. A stake in the heart to John McCain’s GOP Presidential campaign

2. A House GOP revolt against President Bush reverberating from domestic to his Iraq War policy.

3. A campaign issue removed from the GOP table and resentment of the GOP by its base and loss of Independent voters in border states.

4. Continued Democrat Control of the Congress for the foreseeable future.

Stay tuned……..

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Update:

The list of GOP Senators to hold accountable:

Brownback

Bond

Burr

Coleman

Ensign

Gregg

McConnell

The complete list of GOP Senators voting for cloture:

Bennett, Utah; Bond, Mo.; Brownback, Kan.; Burr, N.C.; Coleman, Minn.; Collins, Maine; Craig, Idaho; Domenici, N.M.; Ensign, Nev.; Graham, S.C.; Gregg, N.H.; Hagel, Neb.; Kyl, Ariz.; Lott, Miss.; Lugar, Ind.; Martinez, Fla.; McCain, Ariz.; McConnell, Ky.; Murkowski, Alaska; Snowe, Maine; Specter, Pa.; Stevens, Alaska; Voinovich, Ohio; Warner, Va.

Is it time to exit the GOP and form a third CONSERVATIVE PARTY?

Indeed, this may jump start the movement.

Update #2

The American people oppose the Senate Immigration bill:

  • Based on what they “have read or heard about all the proposals in the Senate immigration bill,” 47% of Americans oppose the bill; 30% favor it.
  • 28% say they oppose the bill because it “goes too far toward helping illegal immigrants;” 15% say the bill “does not go far enough.”

Update #3

The Senate procedures and rules Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will use to RAM through S. 1639 for a Thursday final cloture vote.

Update #4

MM has the 373 amendment to S. 1639 that Harry Reid with help from the GOP will ram through the Senate. See how here.

The amendment is here.

Happy reading……you know the Senators won’t be reading it.

Looks like S. 1639 is a DONE DEAL in the Senate.

Will the House GOP have the Cojones to stop it? Or will they become ex-members of the House?

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