Thread: NUMBERS USA ALERT CALL ON DREAM ACT

From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Friday 17SEP2010 7 a.m. EDT




SENATE SWITCHBOARD -- 202-224-3121

PHONE THESE SENATORS TO VOTE 'NO'
-- OR DREAM AMNESTY WILL PASS NEXT WEEK

Friends, we don't yet have the 41 sure NO votes that we must have to stop the DREAM Act amnesty in the Senate next week.

Scroll down to see the lists of the top phoning targets today. And don't put off your calls. They are desperately needed today.

Pro-amnesty forces claim that their super-expensive, special toll-free telephone system processed 5,000 pro-amnesty phone calls to Senators yesterday.

They brag that they expect to be handling 10,000 pro-amnesty calls a day until the DREAM Act amnesty passes!

Friends, we have to match them.

Please look at the target lists below and start phoning some Senators.

The pro-amnesty forces are throwing everything they have into beating us. And I'm talking tens of millions of dollars that are backing the nation's top union, religious, ethnic and academic leaders who are storming the offices of Congress with their last-minute, desperation push for this amnesty for an estimated 2.1 million illegal aliens.

YOU'VE ALREADY TALKED SEVERAL SENATORS
INTO OPPOSING THE 'DREAM' AMNESTY

You are making in-roads with your faxes and your phone calls since Tuesday.

Some Senators who previously have supported the DREAM Act amnesty have now publicly stated that they oppose DREAM as part of the Defense bill! Congratulations to all of you for these turnarounds:
Nelson (D-Neb.)
Hagan (D-N.C.)
McCain (R-Ariz.)
Graham (R-S.C.)
Bennett [R-Utah)
Hatch (R-Utah)
Hooray for all of you who made the calls and sent the faxes!

ACTION: If you live in those states, call their offices and take just a moment to thank them for their pledge to oppose the DREAM Act.

SENATE SWITCHBOARD -- 202-224-3121

Nelson's and Hagan's stated opposition, though, is not complete. It not clear if they will vote to kill the entire Defense bill in order to stop the amnesty. At present, it looks like there won't be a direct vote on the amnesty, requiring Senators to stop the whole Defense bill and force leaders to bring a new, clean bill back to the floor.

So, push for a full pledge when you call to thank Hagan and Ben Nelson.

TOP FENCE-SITTING PROSPECTS WHO NEED YOUR PHONE CALL BEFORE THEY WILL PLEDGE AMNESTY OPPOSITION

As far as we know, none of the following Senators has committed either to oppose or support the DREAM Act amnesty as part of the Defense authorization bill next week.

For a number of mixed reasons, we believe these Senators are the ones of the uncommitted who are most likely to listen to reasonable persuasion from constituents asking for a NO vote.

ACTION: Call the DC office of these Senators (the 202 number). Of calling the local offices (the number on the second line) will be most helpful, as well.

If you've never called a Senate office, it isn't hard. Just state your name to the staffer and quickly say you are calling to ask the Senator to OPPOSE the DREAM Act amnesty. Then give one reason for your opposition, say thank you and good-bye.

Find talking points in my blog.

DEMOCRATS ON THE FENCE WHO ARE GOOD PROSPECTS

Sen. Pryor of Arkansas 202-224-2353
501-324-6336

Sen. Landrieu of Louisiana 202-224-5824
225-389-0395

Sen. Stabenow of Michigan 202-224-4822
313-961-4330

Sen. McCaskill of Missouri 202-224-6154
314-367-1364

Sen. Baucus of Montana 202-224-2651
406-657-6790

Sen. Tester of Montana 202-224-2644
406-449-5401

Sen. Conrad of North Dakota 202-224-2043
701-258-4648

Sen. Dorgan of North Dakota 202-224-2551
701-239-5389

REPUBLICANS ON THE FENCE WHO ARE GOOD PROSPECTS

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

TOUGHER UNCOMMITTED TARGETS
-- CAN YOU PERSUADE THEM?

Your first and most important phone calls are to the Senators above.

ACTION: The following list is of Senators who have shown a real proclivity toward amnesty but seem to have remained uncommitted. Under the pressure of the impending November elections, some of these Senators could be persuaded to vote NO.

I would emphasize with them that a controversial bill like this has no business being put inside a Defense bill, regardless of how they may feel about the amnesty itself.

REPUBLICANS

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

DEMOCRATS

Sen. Begich of Alaska 202-224-3004
907-271-5915

Sen. Shaheen of New Hampshire 202-224-2841
603-647-7500

Sen. Tom Udall of New Mexico 202-224-6621
505-346-6791

Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio 202-224-2315
216-522-7272

Sen. Wyden of Oregon 202-224-5244
503-326-7525

Sen. Casey of Pennsylvania 202-224-6324
412-803-7370

Sen. Johnson of South Dakota 202-224-5842
605-332-8896

Sen. Warner of Virginia 202-224-2023
804-775-2314

Sen. Webb of Virginia 202-224-4024
703-573-7090

Sen. Goodwin of West Virginia 202-224-3954
304-342-5855

Sen. Rockefeller of West Virginia 202-224-6472
304-347-5372

SENATORS WHO ARE CO-SPONSORING THE 'DREAM' AMNESTY

Once you have done what you can with phone calls to the Senators on the lists above, you should look through this list to see who is causing all this problem by pushing so hard to give 2 million more permanent work permits to illegal aliens to compete with 22 million American and legal immigrant workers who can't find a job.

You can reach these through the Switchboard at 202-224-3121 or in our Congress directory (I apologize that this directory is loading sluggishly today).

Give special attention to Boxer, Gillibrand, Lincoln and Mikulski, all of whom are running for re-election in November.

(AR) Lincoln

(CA) Boxer
(CA) Feinstein
(CO) Bennet (not Bennett of Utah)
(CO) Udall (not Udall of New Mexico)
(CT) Dodd
(CT) Lieberman

(DE) Carper
(DE) Kaufman

(FL) Nelson

(HI) Akaka
(HI) Inouye

(IL) Burris
(IL) Durbin
(IN) Bayh
(IN) Lugar
(IA) Harkin

(MD) Cardin
(MD) Mikulski
(MA) Kerry
(MI) Levin
(MN) Franken
(MN) Klobuchar

(NV) Reid
(NJ) Lautenberg
(NJ) Menendez
(NM) Bingaman
(NY) Gillibrand
(NY) Schumer

(OR) Merkley

(PA) Specter

(RI) Reed
(RI) Whitehouse

(VT) Leahy
(VT) Sanders

(WA) Cantwell
(WA) Murray
(WI) Feingold

THANKS FOR CALLING TODAY.

WE CAN'T STOP CALLING . . . BECAUSE THE PRO-AMNESTY FORCES WON'T.


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I've called both my Senator's offices this week, both twice - Senators Ben Nelson and Mike Johanns. Also called a list above of senators under "Republicans on the Fence Who are Good Prospects".

I'm calling Hutchison. I'm sure I'm going to get the canned answer from her office that she will do everything possible to be moderate and when it comes time to vote, she'll do the Liberal Thing.

Dixie

Dems on the Fence Who are Good Prospects -

Sen. Pryor's (ARK) staff member said he was "leaning no". I then gave her a longer message with specific facts about why I opposed the DREAM Act and she seemed grateful that I had called. Arkansans and others, please call and give Sen. Pryor good reasons to vote No!

Sen. McCaskill's (MO) staff member said she has taken "no formal position", but said that "Sen. McCaskill opposes all legislation which rewards illegal immigration.". Again, Missourians and others, please call and support Sen. McCaskill to vote No!

Sen. Tester's (Montana) staff member said that he had taken no formal position on this vote, but that "Sen. Tester has opposed amnesty legislation in the past." Interested only in brief statement.

Sen. Conrad's staff member said she was not allowed to convey the senator's positions on legislation, but that his position on this was "posted on his website". I could not find it there; if someone else can, perhaps they can post it.
http://conrad.senate.gov/

Reps -

Sen. Johann's (NEB) staff member said he "will not support" the Defense Appropriations Bill with the DREAM Act attached.

Next week's schedule of actions on the Dept. of Defense Authorization Bill (S. 3454), to which the DREAM Act (S. 729) will be attached:

September 20, 2010:

The Senate will convene at 2:00 p.m. Following any leader remarks, there will be a period of morning business until 3:00 p.m. with Senators permitted to speak therein for up to 10 minutes each.

At 3:00 p.m., the Senate will resume consideration of the motion to proceed to S. 3454, the Department of Defense Authorization bill. There will be no roll call votes during Monday’s session of the Senate.

At 2:15 p.m. on TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 21, the Senate will proceed TO A ROLL CALL VOTE ON THE MOTION TO INVOKE CLOTURE on the motion to proceed to the consideration of S. 3454, Department of Defense Authorization.

(from the website of Sen. Kent Conrad, ND,
http://conrad.senate.gov/ )