"The controversial measure is being pushed by Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), who bypassed usual Senate procedures by including it in a defense reauthorization bill." ---Wapo
The vote has been pushed back to 2:30pm and your calls jamming the phone lines could be all that stands in the way of Harry Reid's plot to sneak the Amnesty language called "DREAM Act" into the defense bill, holding it hostage to Reid's own social political agenda in hopes of garnering more Hispanic votes for himself in the Nevada Senate race in which he trails his Republican rival, Sharron Angle.
Reminder from Malkin to keep melting those phones.... Numbers below courtesy of Michelle Malkin:
Keep melting the phones (h/t NUMBERSUSA):
DEMOCRATS ON THE FENCE WHO ARE GOOD PROSPECTS
Sen. Pryor of Arkansas 202-224-2353
501-324-6336Update MM: Pryor is a NO on the DREAM Act
Sen. Landrieu of Louisiana 202-224-5824
225-389-0395Sen. Stabenow of Michigan 202-224-4822
313-961-4330Sen. McCaskill of Missouri 202-224-6154
314-367-1364Sen. Baucus of Montana 202-224-2651
406-657-6790Sen. Tester of Montana 202-224-2644
406-449-5401Sen. Conrad of North Dakota 202-224-2043
701-258-4648Sen. Dorgan of North Dakota 202-224-2551
701-239-5389REPUBLICANS ON THE FENCE WHO ARE GOOD PROSPECTS
Sen. LeMeiux of Florida 202-224-3041
904-398-8586UPDATE MM: STILL A FENCE SITTER AS OF TUESDAY 11:13am
Sen. Collins of Maine 202-224-2523
207-945-0417Sen. Snowe of Maine 202-224-5344
207-874-0883Update MM: Snowe will vote AGAINST cloture for the bill based on process objections.
Sen. Brown of Massachusetts 202-224-4543
617-565-3170Update MM: Brown will vote AGAINST the bill.
Sen. Johanns of Nebraska 202-224-4224
402-758-8981Update MM: Johanns’ office tells callers Monday morning that he will vote AGAINST the bill.
Sen. Gregg of New Hampshire 202-224-3324
603-225-7115Sen. Hutchison of Texas 202-224-5922
214-361-3500Update MM: Hutchison will vote AGAINST cloture for the bill.
TOUGHER UNCOMMITTED TARGETS
– CAN YOU PERSUADE THEM?Your first and most important phone calls are to the Senators above.
ACTION: The following list is of Senators who have shown a real proclivity toward amnesty but seem to have remained uncommitted. Under the pressure of the impending November elections, some of these Senators could be persuaded to vote NO.
I would emphasize with them that a controversial bill like this has no business being put inside a Defense bill, regardless of how they may feel about the amnesty itself.
REPUBLICANS
Sen. Murkowski of Alaska 202-224-6665
907-271-3735Sen. Brownback of Kansas 202-224-6521
785-233-2503UPDATE MM 11:15am Tuesday: Brownback will vote against cloture based on process objections
Sen. Voinovich of Ohio 202-224-3353
614-469-6697DEMOCRATS
Sen. Begich of Alaska 202-224-3004
907-271-5915Sen. Shaheen of New Hampshire 202-224-2841
603-647-7500Sen. Tom Udall of New Mexico 202-224-6621
505-346-6791Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio 202-224-2315
216-522-7272Sen. Wyden of Oregon 202-224-5244
503-326-7525Sen. Casey of Pennsylvania 202-224-6324
412-803-7370Sen. Johnson of South Dakota 202-224-5842
605-332-8896Sen. Warner of Virginia 202-224-2023
804-775-2314Sen. Webb of Virginia 202-224-4024
703-573-7090Sen. Goodwin of West Virginia 202-224-3954
304-342-5855Sen. Rockefeller of West Virginia 202-224-6472
304-347-5372SENATORS WHO ARE CO-SPONSORING THE ‘DREAM’ AMNESTY
Once you have done what you can with phone calls to the Senators on the lists above, you should look through this list to see who is causing all this problem by pushing so hard to give 2 million more permanent work permits to illegal aliens to compete with 22 million American and legal immigrant workers who can’t find a job.
You can reach these through the Switchboard at 202-224-3121 or in our Congress directory (I apologize that this directory is loading sluggishly today).
Give special attention to Boxer, Gillibrand, Lincoln and Mikulski, all of whom are running for re-election in November.
Sen. Lugar of Indiana 202-224-4814
317-226-5555
GOP co-sponsor of the DREAM Act with Durbin—
(AR) Lincoln(CA) Boxer
(CA) Feinstein
(CO) Bennet (not Bennett of Utah)
(CO) Udall (not Udall of New Mexico)
(CT) Dodd
(CT) Lieberman(DE) Carper
(DE) Kaufman(FL) Nelson
(HI) Akaka
(HI) Inouye(IL) Burris
(IL) Durbin
(IN) Bayh
(IN) Lugar
(IA) Harkin(MD) Cardin
(MD) Mikulski
(MA) Kerry
(MI) Levin
(MN) Franken
(MN) Klobuchar(NV) Reid
(NJ) Lautenberg
(NJ) Menendez
(NM) Bingaman
(NY) Gillibrand
(NY) Schumer(OR) Merkley
(PA) Specter
(RI) Reed
(RI) Whitehouse(VT) Leahy
(VT) Sanders(WA) Cantwell
(WA) Murray
(WI) Feingold
Call, call, call, then start over and call again.
Do not let Reid hijack the Defense bill for his own political gain.
Dialing yet?
[Update] We rejected this before and we need to take the same stand now and reject it again.
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