From NumbersUSA
The Senate just voted 67-27 to limit debate and amendments on the Corker-Hoeven amendment to the S. 744 amnesty bill.
That means the 1,100+ page bill as amended by 119 pages of amendments today can come to a vote as early as Wednesday morning. The final cloture vote (requiring 60 votes) on the whole bill could be as early as Thursday morning.
Some good news this evening is that we saw 12 additional Senators who were willing to defy an unprecedented crush of corporate lobbyists and stand against giving out 28-33 million more foreign work permits during a time of high unemployment.
Last week, only 15 of the 100 Senators were willing to make that kind of stand and voted to kill the S. 744 mass immigration/amnesty bill on the very first vote in the process.
One of those -- Sen. Kirk (R-Illinois) -- switched sides tonight and voted to keep the amnesty alive.
But the outpouring of grassroots opposition to this bill continues to move us toward the 41 votes needed to block S. 744 in the final cloture vote later this week. Believe me, we have a huge battle ahead of us to get to 41. But it is still possible if we can persuade enough more Senators that the voters of their state understand what an empty set of promises the Corker/Hoeven amendment really is.
Perhaps the most hopeful news this evening was that the entire leadership of the Senate Minority Party (Republican) voted against stopping debate on this substitute bill.
A month ago -- with all the pressure from the National Republican Establishment and corporate lobbyists -- we would not have been surprised to see the Senate Republican leadership backing this bill.
Instead, this evening the Minority Leader (McConnell), the Minority Whip (Cornyn), Policy Chair (Barrasso) and Conference Chair (Thune) all voted NO.
We have a fax for you to send to each of your Senators based on votes just cast on the floor.
Go to your NumbersUSA Action Board and find faxes prepared for you to send to Senators based on whether they voted for or against the giant amnesty and massive foreign labor importation in this evening's vote.
Thanks to all of you who have been calling -- many of you every day -- the last two weeks.
I have to tell you that we cannot stop asking you. We must keep the pressure up every single day this week.
Voted NO
AL Sessions (R-AL)
AL Shelby (R-AL)
AR Boozman (R-AR)
IA Grassley (R-IA)
ID Crapo (R-ID)
ID Risch (R-ID)
IN Coats (R-IN)
KS Moran (R-KS)
KS Roberts (R-KS)
KY McConnell (R-KY)
KY Paul (R-KY)
LA Vitter (R-LA)
MO Blunt (R-MO)
MS Cochran (R-MS)
NC Burr (R-NC)
NE Fischer (R-NE)
NE Johanns (R-NE)
OH Portman (R-OH)
OK Coburn (R-OK)
OK Inhofe (R-OK)
PA Toomey (R-PA)
SC Scott (R-SC)
SD Thune (R-SD)
TX Cornyn (R-TX)
TX Cruz (R-TX)
WI Johnson (R-WI)
WY Barrasso (R-WY)
Congratulations to all of you who live in the states above. The majority of those Senators have been in danger of going for the bill over the last month. I know that your phone calls and faxes and office visits have helped them make the decision to vote NO today.
Voted YES to keep AMNESTY alive
AK Begich (D-AK)
AK Murkowski (R-AK)
AR Pryor (D-AR)
AZ Flake (R-AZ)
AZ McCain (R-AZ)
CA Boxer (D-CA)
CA Feinstein (D-CA)
CO Bennet (D-CO)
CT Blumenthal (D-CT)
CT Murphy (D-CT)
DE Carper (D-DE)
DE Coons (D-DE)
FL Nelson (D-FL)
FL Rubio (R-FL)
HI Hirono (D-HI)
HI Schatz (D-HI)
IA Harkin (D-IA)
IL Durbin (D-IL)
IL Kirk (R-IL)
IN Donnelly (D-IN)
LA Landrieu (D-LA)
MA Cowan (D-MA)
MA Warren (D-MA)
MD Cardin (D-MD)
MD Mikulski (D-MD)
ME Collins (R-ME)
ME King (I-ME)
MI Levin (D-MI)
MI Stabenow (D-MI)
MN Franken (D-MN)
MN Klobuchar (D-MN)
MO McCaskill (D-MO)
MS Wicker (R-MS)
MT Baucus (D-MT)
MT Tester (D-MT)
NC Hagan (D-NC)
ND Heitkamp (D-ND)
ND Hoeven (R-ND)
NH Ayotte (R-NH)
NH Shaheen (D-NH)
NJ Chiesa (R-NJ)
NJ Menendez (D-NJ)
NM Heinrich (D-NM)
NM Udall (D-NM)
NV Heller (R-NV)
NV Reid (D-NV)
NY Gillibrand (D-NY)
NY Schumer (D-NY)
OR Merkley (D-OR)
OR Wyden (D-OR)
PA Casey (D-PA)
RI Reed (D-RI)
RI Whitehouse (D-RI)
SC Graham (R-SC)
SD Johnson (D--SD)
TN Alexander (R-TN)
TN Corker (R-TN)
UT Hatch (R-UT)
VA Kaine (D-VA)
VA Warner (D-VA)
VT Leahy (D-VT)
VT Sanders (I-VT)
WA Cantwell (D-WA)
WA Murray (D-WA)
WI Baldwin (D-WI)
WV Manchin (D-WV)
WV Rockefeller (D-WV)
DIDN'T VOTE
CO Udall (D-CO)
GA Chambliss (R-GA)
GA Isakson (R-GA)
OH Brown (D-OH)
UT Lee (R-UT)
WY Enzi (R-WY)
It appears that most of the Senators not voting were not able to get back to Washington in time for the roll call.
We feel reasonably sure that Sen. Enzi and Sen. Lee would have voted NO, which would have gotten the NO vote up to 29. That means we have to persuade 12 more Senators to see this bill as a giant amnesty and increase in foreign workers at the expense of 20 million American workers who can't find a full-time job and in exchange for promises of enforcement that are full of loopholes.
We still have a decent chance to change the minds of 12 more Senators who for some reason were enticed by the empty enforcement promises of this Corker/Hoeven amendment but who have never really wanted to be known in their states as the politician who helped pass the largest amnesty in history.
Keep in mind that on these procedural votes, people are not necessarily showing where they will be on the underlying bill.
Read Chris Chmielenski's blog on the vote here:
Please send the faxes and be ready to make some more phone calls tomorrow.
It is most important that every Senator who voted YES this evening should feel a lot of heat all tomorrow.
A very interesting post from www.thedustininmansociety.org about Senators to pressure for the upcoming amnesty bill votes. This follows this post about the latest vote on the amnesty bill. This follows this post about the release of illegal immigrant felons from prison by ICE. This follows this post about how to Report Illegal Immigrants! For more about what is happening in the nation now click here and you can read the two very interesting books that are shown HERE.
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