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June 26, 2007
Cloture Vote
Here's the roll call on today's cloture vote, which opens the door to granting amnesty to anyone who has seen fit to break into our country:
YEAs — 64
| Akaka (D-HI) Bennett (R-UT) Biden (D-DE) Bingaman (D-NM) Bond (R-MO) Boxer (D-CA) Brown (D-OH) Brownback (R-KS) Burr (R-NC) Cantwell (D-WA) Cardin (D-MD) Carper (D-DE) Casey (D-PA) Clinton (D-NY) Coleman (R-MN) Collins (R-ME) Conrad (D-ND) Craig (R-ID) Dodd (D-CT) Domenici (R-NM) Durbin (D-IL) Ensign (R-NV) |
Feingold (D-WI) Feinstein (D-CA) Graham (R-SC) Gregg (R-NH) Hagel (R-NE) Harkin (D-IA) Inouye (D-HI) Kennedy (D-MA) Kerry (D-MA) Klobuchar (D-MN) Kohl (D-WI) Kyl (R-AZ) Lautenberg (D-NJ) Leahy (D-VT) Levin (D-MI) Lieberman (ID-CT) Lincoln (D-AR) Lott (R-MS) Lugar (R-IN) Martinez (R-FL) McCain (R-AZ) McConnell (R-KY) |
Menendez (D-NJ) Mikulski (D-MD) Murkowski (R-AK) Murray (D-WA) Nelson (D-FL) Nelson (D-NE) Obama (D-IL) Pryor (D-AR) Reed (D-RI) Reid (D-NV) Salazar (D-CO) Schumer (D-NY) Snowe (R-ME) Specter (R-PA) Stevens (R-AK) Voinovich (R-OH) Warner (R-VA) Webb (D-VA) Whitehouse (D-RI) Wyden (D-OR) |
NAYs — 35
| Alexander (R-TN) Allard (R-CO) Barrasso (R-WY) Baucus (D-MT) Bayh (D-IN) Bunning (R-KY) Byrd (D-WV) Chambliss (R-GA) Coburn (R-OK) Cochran (R-MS) Corker (R-TN) Cornyn (R-TX) |
Crapo (R-ID) DeMint (R-SC) Dole (R-NC) Dorgan (D-ND) Enzi (R-WY) Grassley (R-IA) Hatch (R-UT) Hutchison (R-TX) Inhofe (R-OK) Isakson (R-GA) Landrieu (D-LA) McCaskill (D-MO) |
Roberts (R-KS) Rockefeller (D-WV) Sanders (I-VT) Sessions (R-AL) Shelby (R-AL) Smith (R-OR) Stabenow (D-MI) Sununu (R-NH) Tester (D-MT) Thune (R-SD) Vitter (R-LA) |
Some cowardly bureaucrats who voted for cloture will then vote against the bill itself, knowing that it will pass anyway, so they can bleat to their outraged constituents, "Hey, I tried to stop it." Hopefully voters will not be deceived. Any Senator on the YEA list above must be removed from office at the next possible opportunity for compelling reasons of national security.
Posted by Van Helsing at June 26, 2007 11:05 AM
Comments
Any Senator on the YEA list above must be removed from office at the next possible opportunity for compelling reasons of national security.
I disagree, any senator voting YEA should be tarred and feathered, than dragged out of town and left naked in a landfill.
Ask yourself this. If there were a bill in the senate to open ANWR to drilling and 80% of the public opposed it (just as 80% oppose this amnesty bill), would the Senate dare pass it? Would the MSM be burying public opposition to the bill and portraying those who opposed it as toothless bigoted hicks?? Somehow, I don't think so.
Posted by: V the K at June 26, 2007 12:15 PM
Casey(D-PA) and Specter (R-PA) voting YEA? Thats no surprise. Specter hasn't been right since he discovered that "magic bullet" back in 1963.
Casey is the son of the late Bob Casey, who was the democratic governor of PA back in the 1980s.
Old man Casey refused to sign any death warrants as governor, even though PA had a death penalty since 1976. He was a big reason Mumia has been alive so long.
Posted by: phil at June 26, 2007 1:16 PM
One thing in this bill stands out the most for me:
THEY SAY that that amnesty will not apply to any illegal who arrives in the U.S. after a certain date. Now just WHAT makes them think that the illeagals will TELL THE TRUTH about when they got here? Do they think that they can't get relatives or friends to swear that they were BORN HERE? Don't forget that there is a big market in forged documents!
Posted by: KHarn at June 26, 2007 1:56 PM
While we're proud of Alexander and Corker (from TN) for voting "Nay," Alexander is a notorious softie (to put it nicely) and may swing back to "Yea" on the actual floor vote next week, I fear. Corker, while not exactly what you'd call a staunch conservative, was the one and only Republican elected to the Senate in November '06 in a contested race for an open seat (defeating Harold Ford, Jr., Democrat, whose father is one of the greatest criminals in Tennessee history, coming in a close second to former Gov. Ray "Pardons for Sale" Blanton, [whom Fred Thompson helped remove from office, btw]). Corker's likely to stay "Nay" for the real thing.
Oh! If only we could run every one of the idiots on that "Yea" list out of town on a rail! Be alert, folks, and let's do everything in our power to defeat any Senator coming up for election in '08 who kow-tows to the whiners and ignores his or her constituents on such a critical issue.
Posted by: jc14 at June 26, 2007 2:15 PM
