From: Roy Beck <ImmigrationInfo@numbersusa.com> Add to Address Book
Date: 2006/05/22 Mon AM 03:06:11 EDT
Subject: Senate amnesty vote this week!!! Need Republican effort


From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Monday 22MAY06 2 a.m. EDT


Win over a few more Senate votes TODAY ... Only you can stop this amnesty

DEAR REPUBLICANS,

The final vote on S. 2611 will occur this week.

There really is not a minute to waste.

Please make some phone calls this morning.

If at all possible and there is a Senator's office in your local area, visit it -- TODAY or TUESDAY!

I am convinced that the outcome will be determined by whether the 195,000 registered faxers with NumbersUSA step forward first thing this morning with an incredible response of phone calls and personal visits to the Senators' offices ... and keep it up until the vote is finished sometime later this week.

We have to persuade 41 Senators to vote NO on "cloture" on the giant S. 2611 amnesty bill. (See below for more explanation and how it is entirely possible for us to do this.)

It is fairly clear that the only thing that can move most of the Senators is for them to believe that there is a true uprising happening in their states and that they may have to respond.

You have checked on the Interest Survey that you identify with the Republican Party.

We can't win this fight unless a lot of Republican Senators start to get spooked about whether their Party could lose the Senate majority this fall if the public see the current Senate pass an amnesty.

Please look through the lists below and determine which Republican offices you feel you could best help impress about the gravity of their political situation.

Remember that you can call all Senators in their DC offices by using the Capitol Switchboard:

202-224-3121

YOU CAN FIND ADDRESSES AND PHONE NUMBERS FOR HOME STATE OFFICES BY USING THIS LINK:

www.numbersusa.com/contactcongress.html

Use the lists below to decide which Senators most need to hear from you.

POOLS FOR 41 VOTES
(Below are a number of "pools" from which we must find a total of 41 votes against cloture on S. 2611 to stop the giant amnesty bill)

The 100 Senators are grouped below by their likelihood of voting against the giant S. 2611 amnesty bill.

The only thing that matters this week is persuading 41 Senators to vote against cloture on S. 2611.

(Cloture allows the final vote to take place. While a bill can pass with 51 votes in the final tally, the Senate can be forced to have to pass a cloture vote to even allow the final vote. The cloture vote requires 60 votes. If votes for cloture fall short, a bill is killed by virtue that the final vote has not been authorized.)

The summary of the Pools of Senators below is this:

33 voted for Vitter attempt to eliminate amnesty

10 more voted for Isakson attempt for long delay of amnesty

TOTAL---------------43 top prospects to be in the 41

5 did NOT vote for Vitter or Isakson BUT did vote RIGHT 5 times of the 9

11 were weaker than that with their votes but are from states like Arkansas where there is a remote chance that they could be made to realize that voting for a giant amnesty could be a big political problem down the line.

TOTAL---------------16 somewhat remote prospects

8 showed the slightest spark of interest by voting RIGHT 3 times

22 are nearly impossible as hopes for a NO vote with only 1 or 2 RIGHT votes

11 are part of the McCain/Kennedy open-borders cabal with commitment to stick together

TOTAL---------------41 committed to the dark side in this email:
Explanation of how 41 is the magic number ... and summary of how we can reach it

33 Senators most likely to vote against the amnesty

10 more who are good prospects

Where your phone calls may do the most good

Senators who are running the border-opening, amnesty show


actions in brief:
MONDAY & TUESDAY

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9 SENATE AMENDMENT ACTIONS USED IN ANALYSIS OF WHO MIGHT MAKE UP THE 41 VOTES NEEDED TO DEFEAT S. 2611


These 9 actions by the Senate last week were by far the most important in affecting how many millions of green cards could be added by this bill.

AMENDMENTS ABOUT THE GUESTWORKER PROGRAMS

1. WE LOST: Tabling of Dorgan amendment(which would have eliminated guest worker program)

2. WE LOST: Tabling of Kyl amendment (which would have denied green cards to guest workers.)

3. WE WON: Passing Bingaman amendment to cap guest workers at 200,000 per year.

4. WE WON: Passing Cornyn amendment to put some pretty strong protections for American workers when giving out visas (cutting numbers that would be let in)

5. WE LOST: Passing Kennedy amendment to gut a large part of the teeth in Cornyn amendment

AMENDMENTS ABOUT AMNESTY

6. WE LOST: Defeated Isakson amendment to delay all amnesty and guest worker programs until border fully secure.

7. WE LOST: Defeated Vitter amendment to delete the amnesty

AMENDMENT TO REMOVE OTHER REWARDS FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION

8. WE LOST: Defeated Ensign amendment to stop Social Security to illegal aliens

AMENDMENT TO ENHANCE ENFORCEMENT

9. WE WON: Passed Sessions amendment to construct few hundred miles of fence on Mexican border



BEST-CHANCE POOL .... 33 who voted for Vitter amendment (to delete the amnesty)


These should be sure votes to oppose final bill which will include amnesty for at least 10 million illegal aliens.

But anything can happen at the end. It is up to those of you in the states of these Senators to make sure that they absolutely are guaranteed to vote against S. 2611 later this week. Mainly, you will want to praise them for their vote FOR Vitter and for generally voting in favor of security, in favor of American workers and in favor of some stability in the quality of life of your communities.

We have to keep all 33 of these if we are to hope to stop S. 2611.

Alabama:
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Arizona:
Kyl (R-AZ)
Colorado:
Allard (R-CO)
Georgia:
Chambliss (R-GA)
Isakson (R-GA)
Idaho:
Crapo (R-ID)
Iowa:
Grassley (R-IA)
Kansas:
Roberts (R-KS)
Kentucky:
Bunning (R-KY)
McConnell (R-KY)
Louisiana:
Vitter (R-LA)
Mississippi:
Lott (R-MS)
Missouri:
Bond (R-MO)
Talent (R-MO)
Montana:
Burns (R-MT)
Nebraska:
Nelson (D-NE)
Nevada:
Ensign (R-NV)
North Carolina:
Burr (R-NC)
Dole (R-NC)
Oklahoma:
Coburn (R-OK)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Pennsylvania:
Santorum (R-PA)
South Carolina:
DeMint (R-SC)
South Dakota:
Thune (R-SD)
Texas:
Cornyn (R-TX)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Utah:
Bennett (R-UT)
Hatch (R-UT)
Virginia:
Allen (R-VA)
West Virginia:
Byrd (D-WV)
Wyoming:
Enzi (R-WY)
Thomas (R-WY)

All but 3 of the 33 voted RIGHT on all 9 amendments or voted wrong only on the Dorgan amendment.

The following 3 are a bit shakier because they voted the wrong way on 2 or 3 of the 9 most important amendments:

Alabama:
Shelby (R-AL) – Wrong on 3: Dorgan, Bingaman & Isakson

Kentucky:
McConnell (R-KY) – Wrong on 2: Dorgan & Kyl

Missouri:
Bond (R-MO) – 2: Wrong on: Dorgan & Bingaman

If we can keep all 33 on our side, we still will need 8 more NO votes on cloture on S. 2611 in order to stop the bill. Those 8 must come from the lists that follow.


POOL OF POSSIBLE ANTI-AMNESTY SENATORS .... 10 who did NOT vote for Vitter amendment to delete amnesty, but voted for Isakson amendment to seriously delay amnesty


The Isakson amendment failed, too. But it got 40 votes, rather than the 33 on Vitter.

Isakson would have effectively put an amnesty off for years by requiring implementation of enforcement and security first.

Persons in this list may have voted against Vitter for various reasons, but at least they showed willingness to break with the Bush/Kennedy/McCain open-borders cabal on this fairly tough Isakson amendment.

Most Promising Possibilities

Michigan:
Stabenow (D-MI) In a competitive re-election race (voted RIGHT 5 times; voted WRONG 4 times)

New Hampshire
Sununu (R-NH) Voted right 7 times & WRONG only 2 times

New Mexico:
Domenici (R-NM) Voted RIGHT 7 times & WRONG only 2 times

North Dakota:
Conrad (D-ND) Voted RIGHT 5 times & WRONG 4 times
Dorgan (D-ND) Up for competitive election; voted RIGHT 5 times & WRONG 4 times

Tennessee:
Alexander (R-TN) Voted RIGHT 6 times & WRONG 3 times
Frist (R-TN) Voted RIGHT 7 times and WRONG 2 times (wants to be a GOP nominee for President)

Tougher to Snag

Louisiana:
Landrieu (D-LA) Voted RIGHT only 3 times & WRONG 6 times (sensitive to hurricane issues)

Orgegon:
Smith (R-OR) Voted RIGHT 5 times & WRONG 4 times
Wyden (D-OR) Voted RIGHT 4 times & WRONG 5 times


WEAK BUT BROKE WITH THE OPEN BORDERS MAJORITY .... These 5 Voted RIGHT on 5 amendments and WRONG on 4 (did not vote for Vitter or Isakson)


These will be tough to get. But if we don't get a couple of these, it is doubtful we can get the 41 votes. Without these, we would have to get NO votes out of all but one in the pools above. That is probably too much to hope for.

The Senators in this pool voted against us on the two toughest amendments (Vitter and Isakson) and two other times. Still, they distinguished themselves from the open-borders Senators who overwhelmingly opposed any trimming of this massive expansion of immigration.

Maine:
Collins (R-ME)
Snowe (R-ME)

Minnesota:
Coleman (R-MN)

Mississippi:
***Cochran (R-MS) He missed 3 votes because of a funeral. He voted wrong on Kyl & Vitter, the 2 tough ones for which he was present. He voted right on Cornyn, Kennedy, Sessions and Ensign. Every indication is that he is as soft as the others on this list.

New Hampshire:
***Gregg (R- NH) Voted right 5 times. Voted wrong on Vitter, Bingaman and Dorgan. Skipped Isakson vote.


OUGHT TO BE A LOT BETTER IN THESE STATES .... 11 show a bit of openness to our side and are from states that should be getting a very different kind of Senator


Thus far, these are thumbing their noses at their constituents in their voting. But if the people of their state rise up in massive protest Monday and Tuesday over last week's voting, it is not inconceivable that any one of these could end up voting NO on cloture.

There is no solid reason why any of these Senators should be voting for a massive amnesty and doubling of importation of permanent foreign workers.

Alaska:
Murkowski (R-AK) -- 3 Right votes
Stevens (R-AK) -- 2 Right votes

Arkansas
Lincoln (D-AR) -- 2 Right
Prior (D-AR) -- 2 Right

Florida
Nelson (D-FL) -- 2 Right (in competitive re-election race)

Minnesota
Dayton (D-MN) -- 4 Right (retiring with better than most Grade Card)

Montana
Baucus (D-MT) -- 3 Right (one of best Democratic Grade Cards)

Ohio
Voinovich (R-OH) -- 3 Right

South Dakota
Johnson (D-SD) -- 2 Right (Democratic Minority Leader Dashle lost his seat here last election for supporting amnesties)

Virginia
Warner (R-VA) -- 4 Right (He is an aristocrat who cares little for what constituents think. But he's voted almost half the time with us.)

West Virginia
******Rockefeller (D-WV) He's missed all votes because of back operation. But he has one of the best Democratic Grade Cards and ought to be more like his Democratic colleague in the state, Sen. Byrd. If Rockefeller does NOT vote on final cloture, it will be the same as a NO vote.


IMPOSSIBLE? .... 11 Senators part of the McCain/Kennedy open-borders cabal


The Republicans in this groups have essentially promised that they will vote only the way that Sen. McCain (R-AZ) votes.

And the Democrats are taking their vote cues from Sen. Kennedy (D-MA).

These 11 are the Open Borders Cabal that has managed thus far to get the entire Senate to do its bidding.

McCain voted right only once -- on the Sessions fence. Here are his Republican minions that voted in lockstep with him:

Arizona
McCain (R-AZ)
Indiana
Lugar (R-IN)
Kansas
Brownback (R-KS)
Nebraska
Hagel (R-NE)
Ohio
DeWine (R-OH)
Pennsylvania
Specter (R-PA)
Rhode Island
Chafee (R-RI)
South Carolina
Graham (R-SC)

Kennedy never voted right. Here are his Democratic minions:

Connecticut
Lieberman (D-CT)
Massachusetts
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)


BARELY A SIGN OF BELIEF IN BORDERS & AMERICAN WORKERS .... These 22 Senators voted RIGHT only 1 or 2 times; they show little promise this time around


If you live in their states, please continue to hammer them. You never know when in the future your pressure may finally break through in some way.

But these are Senators who have sent nearly every signal that they do not believe it likely that massive new flows of foreign workers could hurt any Americans.

Colorado
Salazar (D-CO) -- Right 1 time (Sessions fence)
Connecticut
Dodd (D-CT) -- Right 2 times
Delaware
Biden (D-DE) -- Right 2 times
Carper (D-DE) -- Right 2 times
Florida
Martinez (R-FL) -- Right 2 times
Hawaii
Akaka (D-HI) -- Right 1 time (Bingaman cap)
Inouye (D-HI) -- Right 2 times
Illinois
Durbin (D-IL) -- Right 2 times
Obama (D-IL) -- Right 2 times
Maryland
Mikulski (D-MD) -- Right 2 times
Sarbanes (D-MD) -- Right 2 times
Nevada
Reid (D-NV) -- Right 2 times
New Jersey
Lautenberg (D-NJ) -- Right 1 time (Bingaman cap)
Menendez (D-NJ) -- Right 1 time (Bingaman cap)
New Mexico
Bingaman (D-NM) -- Right 1 time (Bingaman cap)
Rhode Island
Reed (D-RI) -- Right 2 times
Vermont
Jeffords (I-VT) -- Right 1 time (Bingaman cap)
Leahy (D-VT) -- Right 2 times
Washington
Cantwell (D-WA) -- Right 1 time (Bingaman cap)
Murray (D-WA) -- Right 1 time (Bingaman cap)
Wisconsin
Feingold (D-WI) -- Right 1 time (Bingaman cap)
Kohl (D-WI) -- Right 2 times


A REMOTE POSSIBILITY .... These 8 Senators don't present enough hope to be listed in the Pools of possibilities up above, but they show a spark of interest in protecting Americans from the floods of foreign workers. They voted RIGHT 3 times.


If you are in their states, do all you can to help them feel that voting NO on S. 2611 is the right thing to do politically -- even if they can't understand why it is the right thing to do for your state.

California
Boxer (D-CA)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Idaho
Craig (R-ID)
Indiana
Bayh (D-IN)
Iowa
Harkin (D-IA)
Michigan
Levin (D-MI)
New York
Clinton (D-NY)
Schumer (D-NY)

Please make as much difference today as you can.

Pick one or more of the Republicans on the lists above who seem especially crucial to getting 41 NO votes.

THANK YOU FOR IMMEDIATE ATTENTION TO THIS,

-- ROY
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