[Update] Obama didn't learn any lesson from the midterms and he is still anxious to finish up pushing his agenda using the lame duck session to do so for DREAM Act, instead of waiting for any major controversial legislation to be debated and voted on after the newly elected congress is seated, the congress the people have replaced the old one with.The White House readout of the meeting said Obama wants to see passage of the DREAM Act during the lame-duck session.
Contact information, names, phone numbers and web forms for every Democratic Senator up for reelection in 2012 as well as for Barack Obama and the White House, is listed at the end of the post.
The Politico is reporting that Barack Obama is meeting with proponents of the DREAM Act, Sen. Robert Menendez (D-N.J.), Rep. Nydia Velazquez (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.), to discuss moving it forward during the lame duck session (the time between the election and when newly elected members of Congress take their seats).
They want to get the outgoing congressional members to pass legislation in this time even after Americans made it clear they were ready for things to be done differently in Washington by handing control of the House of Representatives over to the GOP.
Voters deliberately made it clear on November 2, 2010 that they want congress to work for them not rubber stamp the Obama agenda.
Harry Reid has already stated, more than once, before and after his election that he was going to bring DREAM Act up again during the lame duck session.
Until the newly elected GOP takes control early next year, Pelosi and Democrats still have enough votes to pass this along a strict party line vote through the House of Representatives.
Which leaves the Senate where Republicans have managed to block the DREAM Act before but there is no guarantee that they will do so again.
Michelle Malkin helpfully provides the names and contact information for Senate members. (Scroll to the bottom of her earlier post from the last time Reid tried to sneak this through and failed)
No extremely controversial bills should be passed during the lame duck session, Democrats should not be trying to push through the remainder of their agenda before the new House members and newly elected Senators take their seats in January.
They are attempting to push through bills like this after such a massive "refudiation" (ok couldn't resist using Sarah Palin's New Oxford American Dictionary word of the year) from the public against Democrats and their party line partisan votes, many of which went against the opposition of the majority of Americans.
Reminder:
Polls, such as the Quinnipiac University poll, Sept. 2010, shows the majority of Americans believe immigration reform should focus on stricter enforcement over amnesty.The poll, released today, asked 1,905 registered voters if immigration reform should focus on "stricter enforcement of laws against illegal immigration" or "integrating illegal immigrants into American society" and 68% of respondents favored enforcement. Only 24% favored the amnesty option. In a breakdown of party affiliation, Republicans, Democrats, and Independents all favored enforcement over amnesty.
That September poll confirms an earlier CNN poll which found the majority of Americans, 66 percent, said the "U.S. should not make it easier for illegal immigrants to become citizens, with 33 percent disagreeing."
21 Democrats in the Senate, 2 Independents that caucus with Democrats who were not up for reelection in 2010, will be up for reelection in 2012 and the American public has already shown they remember, they are taking down names and they will replace those that go against the majority of American's wishes.
Time to let those Democratic Senators know we are watching, closely.
They are:
Daniel Akaka, Hawaii:
141 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-6361
Web Form: akaka.senate.gov/email-senator-akaka.cfm
Jeff Bingaman, New Mexico.
703 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5521
Web Form: bingaman.senate.gov/contact/
Sherrod Brown, Ohio.
713 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2315
Web Form: brown.senate.gov/contact/
Joe Manchin, West Virginia.
1 RUSSELL COURTYARD WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3954
Maria Cantwell, Washington
511 DIRKSEN SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3441
Web Form: cantwell.senate.gov/contact/
Benjamin Cardin, Maryland
509 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-4524
Web Form: cardin.senate.gov/contact/email.cfm
Thomas Carper, Delaware.
513 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2441
Web Form: carper.senate.gov/contact/
Robert Casey, Jr., Pennsylvania
393 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-6324
Web Form: casey.senate.gov/contact/
Kent Conrad, North Dakota
530 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2043
Web Form: conrad.senate.gov/contact/webform.cfm
Diane Feinstein, California
331 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3841
Web Form: http://feinstein.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=ContactUs.EmailMe
Kirsten Gillibrand, New York.
478 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-4451
Web Form: gillibrand.senate.gov/contact/
Amy Klobuchar, Minnesota.
302 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-3244
Web Form: klobuchar.senate.gov/emailamy.cfm
Herb Kohl, Wisconsin.
330 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5653
Web Form: kohl.senate.gov/contact.cfm
Claire McCaskill, Missouri
717 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-6154
Web Form: mccaskill.senate.gov/?p=contact
Robert Menendez, New Jersey.
528 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-4744
Web Form: menendez.senate.gov/contact/
Ben Nelson, Nebraska.
716 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-5274
Web Form: billnelson.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm
Bill Nelson, Florida.
720 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-6551
Web Form: bennelson.senate.gov/contact-me.cfm
Debbie Stabenow, Michigan.
133 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-4822
Web Form: stabenow.senate.gov/email.cfm
Jon Tester, Montana.
724 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2644
Web Form: tester.senate.gov/Contact/index.cfm
Jim Webb, Virginia.
248 RUSSELL SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-4024
Web Form: webb.senate.gov/contact.cfm
Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island
502 HART SENATE OFFICE BUILDING WASHINGTON DC 20510
(202) 224-2921
Web Form: whitehouse.senate.gov/contact/
Barack Obama is also up for reelection in 2012 and if he allows Senate and House Democrats to slam the DREAM Act through during the lame duck session, well perhaps letting him know we are watching and will remember in 2012 is in order as well.
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW
Washington, DC 20500
Phone Numbers
Comments: 202-456-1111
Switchboard: 202-456-1414
FAX: 202-456-2461
Web Form: http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact
These folks need to be reminded that Americans will remember in November 2012 just as we remembered in 2010.
More at Hot Air.
[Update 10/17/10] Malkin has provided an updated list of Republicans to target as well.
Sen. Murkowski of Alaska 202-224-6665
907-271-3735
Sen. Lugar of Indiana 202-224-4814
317-226-5555
Sen. Brownback of Kansas 202-224-6521
785-233-2503
Sen. Voinovich of Ohio 202-224-3353
614-469-6697
Sen. LeMeiux of Florida 202-224-3041
904-398-8586
Sen. Collins of Maine 202-224-2523
207-945-0417
Sen. Snowe of Maine 202-224-5344
207-874-0883
Sen. Brown of Massachusetts 202-224-4543
617-565-3170
Sen. Johanns of Nebraska 202-224-4224
402-758-8981
Sen. Gregg of New Hampshire 202-224-3324
603-225-7115
Sen. Hutchison of Texas 202-224-5922
214-361-3500
Sen. McCain of Arizona 202-224-2235
480-897-6289
Dial, dial, dial then dial some more.
(Correction and addition updates added to this post)