YOU SPOKE - THEY LISTENED - SB 1348 WAS PUNCHED DOWN AND KNOCKED OUT - STONE COLD DEAD ON THE FLOOR at least for now !!
NumbersUSA
Roy Beck
Senate amnesty bill got only 45 of needed 60 votes tonight that would have broken the filibuster and allowed a final vote for passage. Because of the 45-50 vote, the bill may be dead for the year.
"There is no question that citizens using the NumbersUSA activist mobilization system were the key to this tremendous victory tonight," Rosemary just told me from our Capitol Hill office. She noted that many Senators in their speeches mentioned the overwhelming unpopularity of S. 134 8 as their offices were flooded with phone calls and faxes.
Senate Majority Leader Reid (D-Nev.) sounded mighty discouraged after losing the cloture vote 45-50 tonight. If we are lucky, he won't try again this year to pass the Bush/Kennedy Comprehensive Amnesty Bill. He had earlier promised to hold the Senators at work late into the night Friday and even into Saturday if needed to get S. 1348 passed. But when he got only 45 of the 60 votes needed to stop debate and allow a final vote on the bill, he sent the Senators home for a long weekend and has set other issues for consideration next Monday.
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