Illegal alien DREAM Act legislative alert: Vote imminent
The shamnesty wheels are turning. Harry Reid has been hard at work maneuvering to get his illegal alien bailout pay-off vote scheduled. The open-borders lobby is energized and mobilized. Are you?
I’ve been warning about how the DREAM Act agitators have been pressing squishy Republicans aggressively. I’ve posted phone numbers of the fence-sitters for you. We’re down to the wire.
Micheal Hill reports on all the overnight developments. As usual, THERE IS NO FINAL TEXT available of the actual legislation that will be voted on. It’s classic Dem obfuscation strategy and Obamacare redux. I’ve had DREAM Act agitators screaming that I’m “lying” about what’s in the bill — when they know there has been a deliberate effort to avoid settling on which of the three or four versions will be up for the vote.
Read:
Senator Reid took the first steps toward bringing the DREAM Act before the Senate on Tuesday evening, November 30, in a move that sets up a key procedural vote on the measure that could occur as soon as Friday, December 3, or early next week. But even while Senator Reid was maneuvering to bring the DREAM Act up for a vote in the Senate, the House Democratic Leadership was signaling its retreat from a parliamentary manuever that it had floated as a way of bringing the measure up for a vote in the U.S. House of Representatives.
The Senate. With mutliple versions of the DREAM Act to choose from, the Majority Leader chose to advance a new bill, S. 3992, a measure that was only introduced on Tuesday, November 30. The text of the new measure was not widely available at the time of this writing. (emphasis added)
…The text of the bill will not become available unil later today. Accordingly, a big unanswered question at the time of this writing is whether S. 3992 contains two provisions that were included in the original version of the DREAM Act but have been left out of subsequent versions. The first of these is a provision that would amend the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to repeal the provision in that law that effectively prohibit states from providing in-state tuition for undocumented aliens unless the state provides in-state tuition to all citizens and nationals of the United States. The second of these is the question of what the bill’s cut-off age is for DREAM Act beneficairies. The original version of the DREAM Act would have permitted persons who were up to age 35 to benefit from the bill. Subsequent versions of the bill reduced that cutoff age to 30 years-of-age.
Of course, it is possible that other significant changes have been made to the DREAM Act, as well, in this most recent version.
The impending Senate floor action on the DREAM Act was triggered when Majority Leader Reid arranged for the introduction of the new bill (S. 3992) and moved to have the bill “read” for the first time. It is likely that he will move to have the bill read a second time on Wednesday, December 1, file a motion to proceed to the consideration of the bill on Thursday, December 2, and then move to invoke cloture (shut down debate) on that motion. Under Senate rules, it takes two days for a cloture motion to “ripen” once it has been filed. Once it has ripened, a vote on cloture can occur. Thus, the earliest that a test vote on the DREAM Act can occur in the Senate is Saturday, December 4.
Senate rules require the affirmative votes of 60 senators in order to invoke cloture (shut down debate) on a measure. Accordingly, Majority Leader Reid will need to convince 60 senators to vote in favor of invoking cloture in order to bring S. 3992 before the Senate…
…Prior to Tuesday, November 30, Senator Richard Durbin (D-IL) had introduced four versions of the DREAM Act during the 111th Congress, a move that was made in order to keep his options open in case he needed to make changes to the bill in order to secure the votes of wavering senators. The four versions that he had introduced prior to Tuesday were S. 729, the original version of the measure, as well as S. 3827, S. 3962, and S. 3963. Each version made changes around the edges of the original version of the measure — some big and some small. In the end, the Majority Leader chose to attempt to bring a fifth version, S. 3992, before the full Senate for its consideration.
Two Republicans are stated AYES on the illegal alien DREAM Act bailout/amnesty — co-sponsor Dick Lugar and lame duck Bob Bennett.
Two Democrats are stated NAYS on cloture — Ben Nelson and Mark Pryor.
The ethnic tribalists and shamnesty peddlers have coordinated ad campaigns and organized feckless grievance-mongers on college campuses across the country. I’ve seen them and debated them. Their sense of entitlement and disregard for the rule of law would make Obama’s illegal alien auntie Zeituni Onyango proud.
If you like Zeituni, you’ll love the DREAM Act.
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No mas!
Vote buying is getting blatant.
But you can always just not hire them …
Please dear God, help those voting on this bill vote no. Thank you. I am getting sick at my stomach at this gosh horrible bill.
L
SEN. OLYMPIA SNOWE 202-224-5344; 207-874-0883: Staff says she “hasn’t released a statement.”
SEN. SUSAN COLLINS 202-224-2523; 207-945-0417: Staff says she “hasn’t released a public statement.”
SEN. LISA MURKOWSKI 202-224-6665; 907-271-3735: Staff says she’s “still reviewing the bill.”
Al Capone on the Saint Valentines Day murders of the North Side Gang: “hasn’t released a public statement”.
But I am not comparing Al Capone to the fence sitters-heavens no: to the best of my knowledge those old time gangsters mostly just killed each other. If only our CongressCritters would do the same.
These weak Republicans honor Abraham Lincoln yet do whatever they can to Render this Once Great Republic into it’s separate parts. Perhaps it has to happened-I can not imagine why honest people would want to share a country with the likes of these-and I am not planning on leaving.
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Don’t Leave home without it.
Resistance is mandatory
I just called the offices of Maine senators Snowe and Collins. Their office help “haven’t been told” which way they’re going to vote.
With these two, there’s never an opportunity to relax, confident that they’ll do The Right Thing. Wouldn’t you think that they’d have learned something on November 2nd? Well, you’d be wrong. They don’t have a clue….
They know that their past record of voting in favor of Dem bills will still get them re-elected.
A Maine republican is a lot like a rank and file democrat.
Each day, what comes out of Washington is like another shove to America-lovers; another middle finger-in-your-face moment, given to us by the America-haters and -destroyers.
Would it be unreasonable to get the impression that these America-destroyers are trying to carry out a type of coup, and perhaps to provoke a civil war…beyond the culture war they have been subjecting us to for the last 40-50 years?
More evidence that 2 Nov 2010 was just step 1.
Isn’t it amazing, that the party supposedly looking out for the little guy at the bottom of the economic ladder is the party that wants to fill up those lower rungs with slave labor from every 3rd world slum on the planet. Yo 18 year old bruthas and sistahs, ya’ll betta find a new gig, cause da man is takin up the college slots with wets, and he legalizin drugs. Ya’ll still got b-ball, cause those wets from down south and the chinese aint tall enough, but when the man start bringin in tall african wets, the way out of the ghetto goin be real tuff.
“They know that their past record of voting in favor of Dem bills will still get them re-elected.”
Didn’t Maine just elect an entire state cabinet chock a block full of Republicans? And a tea party governor too I think.
btw, Kay Bailey update:
Went along with the unanimous consent for the increased Pigford larceny.
“opposes the Dream Act in it’s current language”, can not get an answer on what’s objectional
Voted against the Food Safety Act.
It doesn’t matter. The blacks living in the metro areas will vote for the liberal candidate because the only thing they learned in public schools was that the Republicans want to make slavery legal again. This was never part of the curriculum because it’s the truth.
They’re taught about the KKK but never told it was created by the democrats to stop Republicans. Remember, all blacks elected to congress from 1865-1935 were Republicans.
None of that it taught in schools because it doesn’t fit the liberal socialist class-warfare agenda.
Yes, I believe they did. But it seems in Maine they just like the label “republican”. They don’t seem to devote much thought to actual conservatism.
I haven’t been able to reach Kay Bailey.. I hope that is good.
Get busy folks and call/fax/email…if passed you can count on millions over and above the illegal alien students coming in and staying and most won’t be self-sufficient and will rely on you to help them through your tax $$$.
For all here from FL, it seems that bho and team are really mad at you for voting for r’s last election. They have put a ban on all oil drilling for 7 years ‘because of the bp oil spill’! I just heard that on the top of hour news.
I sure do hope dear kay will not vote for this illegal alien bill. I have called, it is now up to her.
L
and the DREAM Act…
Does this guy work for any Americans?
The White House squatter/illegal alien will no doubt be thrilled to sign a document legalizing millions of additional illegals.
Too bad fear in the media is preventing open discussion of the grifters put in place to “fundamentally” change America.
The socialist/marxist/communist takeover marches on, gaining strength every day.
Sort of. We’re at the bottom of his, and too many politicians’, hierarchy. Naturally, he works for himself first.
Call and Fax all you want….I believe this is a done deal in this Senate session.
You can count the Imperial Senate among those groups senses of entitlement and disregard for, at least, our laws and Constitution. It is further removed from us and was far less affected by Nov. 2 than the House.
No worries now.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/gop-will-filibuster-all-bills-if-taxes-budget-not-addressed-20101201
Just read the article.
Hey, Harry! It’s the economy, stupid! Of course, for the socialists, it’s the stupid economy.
By the way, Harry. The Nightmare Act only has bipartisan support in the minds of the socialists. The intelligent Americans are against illegal immigration about 70%-30%.
Why yes. Thank you, Harry! The Republicans are showing transparency. What about you?
Is there a plaque on the tube-rack where Obummer was spawned?
My district is represented by a Blue Dog Dem, Tim Holden (PA). He voted against ObamaCare but voted for the revised TARP. I have no clue what he will do, but I’ve been in touch.
Durbin the Worthless is one of the sponsors of this travesty. Mark Kirk has been in the snate all of TWO DAYS and a lot of conservatives-including me-held our noses and voted for him. If NARAL’s Favorite Republican votes for this I PROMISE YOU we will make him pay-electorally-for it.
Looks like a letter signed onto by all 42 republican senators says nothing the Dems present will pass cloture until the tax cuts and the budget is handled.
While my confidence in what some of those 42 dems say is low, this could at least delay all Dem bills long enough to get through the current session with doing more damage to America.
And about those Dem bills…. the jobless benefits is starting to get a little ridiculous.
I know some people are legitimately having a hard time, but 99 weeks of unemployment benefits?
How about we deport 14 million illegals and offer the unemployed Americans the jobs they illegally held?
Just received this from NumbersUSA:
Please call people.
I wont bother calling my Senators (Murray who had illegals campaigning for her and Cantwell who will probably use the same illegals to campaign for her in 2012). Instead I will contact some of these squishy republicans in hopes that sanity will show up for once.
As for the house side, my rep is retiring so he has nothing to loose for voting yes if/when the time comes. At least my new Congressman is against amnesty which will help come next year.
If these illegal Mexicans(for the most part) are such hard workers why don’t they work at over turning their corrupt government. Hells, bells, they have a perfect example of the type government they want just north of Mexico. I did say type of government, not the people in that government.
Anyone voting for amnesty of any type are traitorous to America, it is a quick road to destruction of our country. that applies to you feel good so-called conservatives on here also.
We are supposedly a country of laws, if that being the case then we must live by these laws…start by getting rid of all illegals and I don’t care if they were born here, or came here when they were babies, it is not their home land.
GO HOME, come back the legal way.
Not any that we would care to associate-except on the dueling field or maybe an old time brawl-isn’t that still legal somewhere?
“”Lead with your left laddie, lead with your left”"
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