Thread: Update: Whose Votes are Likely to Switch?

Fox News: Reid will reintroduce amnesty bill next week;

Update: Whose votes are likely to switch?

posted at 5:48 pm on June 14, 2007 by Allahpundit

He’s got the votes for cloture, according to Republican sources.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid will approve a new deal on immigration on Thursday and move to bring the once-dead legislation back to the Senate floor next week, Democratic sources told FOX News…
Based on the latest updates on the policy and amendments, Reid will approve the compromise and move late Thursday to put the bill back on the calendar for Senate consideration in the middle of next week…

The principal change to the bipartisan immigration compromise that Reid shelved last week is the addition of $4.4 billion in added border security spending. That money will be added to the base bill to return to the floor. Any other changes to the immigration bill will have to be made through the amendment process…

With the GOP votes in hand and a finite list of amendments to be offered by 11 Democratic and 11 Republican senators, Democratic sources said Reid is now determined to see whether the legislation can survive the amendment process intact. If it does, the Senate could vote on final passage of the bill by next Friday, Democratic sources said.

GOP sources tell FOX News that the new bill has enough support from Republicans for Reid to prevail on a procedural vote to get the bill to final passage.

[b][size=150][color=darkred]So obnoxious is this bill that they’ve actually engineered two separate layers of excuses to get fence-sitters to vote for it. The first is the $4.4 billion band-aid, which Kaus accurately described the other day as “a transparent ploy to give these [fence-sitting] senators pro-enforcement cover so they can vote for the bill.â€

For someone to switch there votes it would be a disaster for them. I say lets start sending those 10 people to our news stations, our talk radio stations, in e-mail, anyway we can get those names exposed. We need to expose them to everyone. The news media is quiet. We have to get it out. Please list the 10 names as a new discussion and lets spread the news everywhere we can and fast.

Paige

So any vote for cloture is a vote for Amnesty.

Just a thought: Cross-reference Noam Askew's list of those who may switch their cloture vote (if you think he is a fairly credible source) WITH the NumbersUSA list PLUS any info we can gather from news sources, then publish a list of senators to focus on.