Thread: MORE INFORMATION ON THE SAVE ACT PROGRESS

1 more SAVE signer
NumbersUSA : May 5 , 2008 -- by Roy Beck


From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Sunday 4MAY08 11:30 p.m. EDT

One more Congressman signed SAVE petition -- only 31 to go to victory in U.S. House

DEAR FRIENDS,

Send your congratulations to all of our NumbersUSA faxer/phoners in Idaho:

After all the phone calls and faxes in last week's surge effort, the hold-out Rep. Bill Sali (R-Idaho) has signed the Discharge Petition to force a House floor vote on the SAVE Act (H.R. 408.

(Look at the petition list as well as details about the Save Act.)

http://www.numbersusa.com/interests/attrition.html

The freshman was one of only a few Republicans who still had not signed. The states of Idaho, Montana, Nebraska, Wyoming and Delaware (with small delegations) now have no Representative who has NOT signed the Discharge Petition. Congrats to all of you from those states.

It will take 218 signatures to go around Speaker of the House Pelosi (D-Calif.) who thus far has refused to allow a vote unless an amnesty is attached to the bill.

The fact that we are up to 187 signatures is really quite phenomenal. Now, it is mop up time in which we have to fight for every new petition signer.

CONGRESSMEN SAY THEY AREN'T GETTING ENOUGH PRESSURE FROM VOTERS

There are well more than 31 U.S. Representatives who tell our NumbersUSA lobbyists that they would vote for SAVE if it comes to the floor -- but they won't sign the Discharge Petition that would force the vote.

The main reasons these Members of the House aren't signing the petition?

# Some Democratic Representatives indicate they really want to sign the petition but they are nervous about how the House's Democratic leadership would respond to their going against the leadership's opposition to passing SAVE and taking jobs away from illegal workers. These Members are asking for a lot more pressure from their constituents so they can tell Speaker Pelosi that they had no choice but sign the petition.

# Quite a number of other Democrats say they likely will vote for SAVE if forced to vote but oppose the idea of going around Speaker Pelosi. They say they have no interest in signing the Discharge Petition because they are hearing from so few of their constituents that they want the petition signed.

# Some of the remaining Republican Representatives not on the petition are getting much pressure from business lobbyists NOT to sign. They say the only way they would defy the business lobbyists by signing the petition is if they hear from a lot more constituents than they've been hearing from.

We will be sending most of you very specific instructions on what we desperately need you to do in your part of the country to keep the pressure on passing SAVE (led by Rep. Heath Shuler, D-N.C., and Rep. Brian Bilbray, R-Calif.).

But for Monday, please do this:

1. Take any actions shown on your Action Buffet corkboard.

2. Look on the list of Discharge Petition signatures to see if your own U.S. Representative is shown there. If not, phone his/her office and make a quick case for signing the petition.

If your Representative has signed but another Representative in your part of the state has not, consider phoning his/her office.

CONGRESSIONAL SWITCHBOARD: 202-224-3121

We cannot let up now. As you can see in the New York Times article below, I commented on last week's pro-amnesty marchers as pushing for amnesty to reward illegal aliens so they can STAY, while most Americans want more enforcement that causes illegal aliens to LEAVE.

That is what the SAVE Act would do. That is the reason why Speaker Pelosi and her fellow House leaders do not want to risk a vote on it.

But large numbers of her Democratic Members would like to vote if they just get enough pressure from voters back home. Let's give it to them.

THANKS FOR STARTING OFF THE WEEK WITH A PUSH FOR THE SAVE ACT

The numbersusa site says;


Click to view the 188 bi-partisan signers of the discharge petition.


Let's hope the total continues to rise this week.

Originally Posted by fedupinwaukegan

The numbersusa site says;


Click to view the 188 bi-partisan signers of the discharge petition.


Let's hope the total continues to rise this week.

Did you see the other Numbers alert. They are trying to squash it. We need to be active tomorrow.

What about the biometric id that's required of US that I've heard is in this bill? Anybody know anything about it?

As of today (5 May 200, Add Mark Souder of IN to list of Discharge Petition signers.

Total Signatories: 188

http://clerk.house.gov/110/lrc/pd/petitions/Dis5.htm

Here is the PDF file for you to read about the SAVE Act.

http://www.numbersusa.com/PDFs/SAVEActSBS.pdf