VICTORY: Cloture votes on AgJOBS defeated, but the battle goes on




1. VICTORY: CLOTURE VOTE ON CHAMBLISS-KYL SUBSTITUTE DEFEATED

The Senate has just voted 21 to 77 against invoking cloture on the Chambliss-Kyl substitute amendment on AgJOBS.

2. VICTORY: CLOTURE VOTE ON AGJOBS DEFEATED

Just after the roll call vote on the cloture motion on the Chambliss-Kyl substitute amendment, the Senate voted 53 to 45 against invoking cloture on the on Sen. Craig's AgJOBS amnesty.

We will be sending the roll call votes to you once they are available so you can see how your Senators voted.

This is a great victory for opponents of amnesty and illegal immigration. But please take just a minute to celebrate and then make another call to your Senators this afternoon!

3. BEFORE 4:30: CALL YOUR SENATOR TO OPPOSE MIKULSKI-GREGG AMENDMENT TO INCREASE FOREIGN-WORKER IMPORTATION

You can find the phone numbers for your Senators here:

http://www.numbersusa.com/myMembers



Your message can be as simple as:

"My name is _____. I am calling from ______ to ask Sen. ______ to oppose the Mikulski amendment (S. 359) to the Iraq\Afghanistan supplemental spending bill. Specifically, I am asking the Senator to vote NO on the cloture vote on the Mikulski amendment."

The vote is actually for "cloture" on the amendment to add the Mikulski-Gregg amendment to increase foreign-worker importation to the Iraq supplemental spending bill.

We want a NO vote on cloture as well as a NO vote on eventually.

If cloture passes (it needs 60 votes), the Mikulski-Gregg amendment will come to a vote after 30 more hours in which debate can continue. If that happens, we feel pretty certain that there are 51 votes to pass the amendment at the end of the debate. So, we do NOT want cloture.

If there are fewer than 60 votes for cloture, there is a strong sense that the amendment will be withdrawn and we will have won.

You can find more about the Mikulski-Gregg amendment online here: http://www.numbersusa.com/hottopic/H-2B030905.html


4. MORE LATER TODAY

We will come back to you later this evening and let you know the results of the cloture vote on the Mikulski-Gregg H-2B amendment.

THANK YOU

Thanks to your continued activism, we processed a record level of faxes overnight so Senate staffers were met with thousands of faxes from you this morning when they arrived. You are absolutely making a difference. Thank you for sticking with us throughout this battle.

ANNE