From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Thursday 15DEC05 7 p.m. EST


You won a huge victory today on Flake ..... Voting on amendments has begun

GO NOW TO THIS LINK FOR ALL UPDATES ON VOTING THIS EVENING ... UPDATED THROUGH THE NIGHT

H.R. 4437 Vote Day Action Center
http://www.numbersusa.com/hottopic/4437.html

Many of you know that we have updated this page more than 50 times today.

You may still be able to get through the phone lines into congressional offices to have a final influence over tonight's amendment votes.

AND THEN TOMORROW, THERE WILL BE WHOLE OTHER SERIES OF VOTES THAT YOU WILL WANT TO INFLUENCE AS SOON AS YOU GET UP.

Please just use THE LINK and go back every hour to see if there are new requests or new results.

Then, please go back to THE LINK when you get up tomorrow.

You can also get to the Vote Day Action Center from the Home page of NumbersUSA at www.NumbersUSA.com.

VICTORY OVER FLAKE

We have asked you all day to call congressional offices and oppose Flake's language that was included in the Manager's Amendment which would come up tomorrow.

Well, you had a real impact.

After fighting for hours behind closed doors, the Republican majority of the U.S. House of Representatives has apparently persuaded its leadership to withdraw the Flake language from the Second Rule that will come up for vote later, according to Rep. Tom Tancredo.

Flake's language in the Manager's Amendment to be considered later indicated there is a need for an expanded foreign guestworker program. Our allies protested that they would kill the whole bill rather than include that invitation for the Senate to add a guestworker program to this enforcement-only bill.

As many GOP leaders begged their rank and file Members to accept Flake's language because it was just words that had no binding power, the Members shouted back that their constituents would consider them traitors if they passed a bill that acknowledged the need for something that the American people reject.

By taking Flake out of amendments to be covered by the Second Rule, leaders persuaded our allies to vote for passage of the First Rule late this afternoon.

Because of that, the debate for the whole bill finally began and has just ended. Debate has begun on the first of the 15 amendments in this first round. You may want to watch C-SPAN. You can keep up with the scorecard on THE LINK. We expect that votes will be taken on all of them before the evening is over.

Your NumbersUSA team are all seated at their computers and stationed in the Capitol as they have been since 7 this morning to provide you with as much as it is possible to convey until they turn the lights out at the Capitol tonight.

Use THE LINK and we'll be talking to you all evening.

Thanks to all of you have given this VOTE DAY your best effort; we have another VOTE DAY tomorrow,

-- ROY in this email:

actions in brief:
Phone your Representative to stand against weakening amendments and in favor of strengthening amendments.

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