Tell Senators: Vote “No on Amnesty, No on Cloture”
Last chance to kill Amnesty Bill with filibuster on Thursday June 28th
by James Buchanan
Why hasn’t the Senate killed the Amesty Bill yet? The American public has been screaming at the Senate for weeks to kill off the evil Amnesty Bill. Yet, the Senate appeared to prefer listening to a lame duck president rather than the people who will be voting them out of power at the next election.
Perhaps a few Senators had some strange delusion about this bill. There were stories that a number of Senators thought their amendments would be added onto the bill, and they literally got suckered into voting to bring back the Amnesty Bill.
The only worthwhile amendment (which would have taken the amnesty out of the bill) was defeated so it’s hard to imagine why any other amendment would be important.
While the American public wants the bill to be killed immediately, the Senate is dabbling about and rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic while missing the most important point.
There’s one thing the average Senator needs to know: The biggest factor that will determine if a Senator is voted out of office for the next six years will be how that Senator votes on the Amnesty Bill.
We’re sick and tired of the Senate keeping this bill alive. Any Senator who votes “yes on cloture” (to keep the bill alive) will be considered a “yes on Amnesty” Senator. We don’t care how you planned to vote on the final bill. We will condemn you based on your vote on cloture. If 41 Senators vote “no on Cloture” tomorrow and kill the Amnesty Bill, and you vote “yes on cloture,” you’re done!!! You will be voted out of power in the next election. We will remind voters of how you voted; just as we rallied people to fill up your phone lines for the last few weeks.
There are eight Senators who are uncertain on how they’ll vote. The voice mail has already been filled up for the Senators below (which is a good thing). You can still e-mail them using the links below:
Tell these Senators to vote “No on Cloture and No on Amnesty.”
THE AMNESTY EIGHT
According to National Review Online there are eight Senators who have profound doubts about the amnesty bill. It is likely they can be persuaded to vote no. Call them and derail amnesty!
Bond, Christopher (R-MO) (202) 224-5721 Voice Mailbox is full
E-mail
http://bond.senate.gov/contact/contactme.cfm
(St. Louis-63110)
Burr, Richard (R-NC) (202) 224-3154 Voice Mailbox is full
(Charlotte-28206)
E-mail
http://burr.senate.gov/index.cfm?Fus…n=Contact.Home
Coleman, Norm – (R – MN) (202) 224-5641 Voice Mailbox is full
(Minneapolis-55487)
E-mail
http://coleman.senate.gov/index.cfm?…ct.ContactForm
Ensign, John (R-NV) (202) 224-6244 Voice Mailbox is full
(Las Vegas-89165)
E-mail
http://ensign.senate.gov/forms/email_form.cfm
Pryor, Mark (R-AR) (202) 224-2353 Voice Mailbox is full
(Little Rock-72217)
E-mail
http://pryor.senate.gov/contact/
Brownback, Sam (R-KS) (202) 224-6521 Voice Mailbox is full
(Topeka-66667)
E-mail
http://brownback.senate.gov/CMEmailMe.cfm
Nelson, Ben (D-NE) (202) 224-6551 Voice Mailbox is full
(Lincoln-68542)
E-mail
http://bennelson.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm
Webb, Jim (D-VA) (202) 224-4024 not answering
(Arlington-22243)
E-mail
http://webb.senate.gov/contact
A recent news article reports “The Senate will conduct no more votes on nearly 20 more amendments to the Senate bill until it conducts the next procedural vote early Thursday. The vote, on whether to shut down debate and move to final passage, now appears likely to lose the extra bit of Republican support it had picked up during Tuesday’s vote to continue working on the comprehensive package. Tuesday’s vote to move onto the bill was 64-35, four votes more than was needed to keep the legislation alive. But if five Republicans are lost as a result of the amendment, then it’s bye-bye bill. Late Wednesday, two Republicans, Sens. Kit Bond of Missouri and Richard Burr of North Carolina, told FOX News that they will switch their vote and not try to prevent the filibuster. One Democrat who never votes against cloture, Sen. Ben Nelson of Nebraska, also told FOX News that he will vote “no” this time…. At least nine other senators told FOX News they are undecided or leaning toward a no vote.”
So we only need to persuade two more Senators to vote against cloture on Thursday, June 28th, to get 41 votes to filibuster the bill.