Thread: NOT A DIME TO SECURE AMERICA

BILLIONS TO SECURE IRAQ - NOT A DIME TO SECURE AMERICA
Jim Kouri, CPP
July 15, 2006
NewsWithViews.com
When the immigration issue was at the boiling point in the spring, the US Senate voted to erect a mere 370 miles of security fencing along the US-Mexican border. However, yesterday many of the same senators voted against providing funds to build it.
"We do a lot of talking. We do a lot of legislating," said Sen. Jeff Sessions, the Alabama Republican whose amendment to fund the fence was killed on a 71-29 vote.
"The things we do often sound very good, but we never quite get there," he told the Washington Times.
Sessions submitted his amendment to the Homeland Security Appropriations bill that would have authorized $1.8 billion to build the security fence as promised by the lawmakers and the Bush Administration. Two months ago members of the Senate voted 83-16 to build the fence along high-traffic areas of the border with Mexico. In the same vote on May 17, the Senate also directed 500 miles of vehicle barriers to be built along the border, as well.
But the May vote only authorized the fencing and vehicle barriers, and while the senators are on record as voting for border fencing and barriers, without the appropriations they've voted not to build the fence they've authorized.
"If we never appropriate the money needed to construct these miles of fencing and vehicle barriers, those miles of fencing and vehicle barriers will never actually be constructed," Mr. Sessions said on the floor of the Senate just prior to the vote, which was aired on C-Span, but not by any of the broadcast or cable news shows.
Democrats were joined 28 Republicans in opposing the Sessions amendment to the Homeland Security Appropriations Act. Senators Ben Nelson of Nebraska and Thomas R. Carper of Delaware were the only two Democrats who voted for funding the fence.
The senators -- including most of the Republican leadership -- voted in May to build the fence but yesterday opposed funding it.
The appropriations bill, which allocates over $30 billion to the Homeland Security Department -- which includes $2.2 billion for border security and control but no fencing --passed on a 100-0 vote last night.
Republican Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire, who in the past has fought to increase border security and enforcement of federal immigration laws, opposed Sen. Session's amendment.
"We should build these walls; there's no question about it. But the real issue here is the offset that's being used, and the offset creates a Hobson's choice for almost everyone here," Greg told the Washington Post.
Mr. Session's amendment would have required across-the-board cuts to the rest of the Homeland Security appropriations bill, Mr. Gregg said, which would mean cutting 750 new border-patrol agents and 1,200 new detention beds for illegal aliens that he included in the bill.
"Once again we see our government officials trying to provide security-on-the-cheap. Americans should be outraged," said a Border Patrol agent, who wishes to remain anonymous.
"Did anyone really believe these guys [senators] want to secure the border?" he said.
Another Border Patrol agent was less diplomatic: "Our leaders are not serious about border security. A few hundred more agents is a far cry from what they promised. It's a con-job on the American people."
© 2006 Jim Kouri- All Rights Reserved
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Is there any way to see the actual vote? I'd like to know who all the turncoats are.

Originally Posted by had_enuf

Is there any way to see the actual vote? I'd like to know who all the turncoats are.

HAD
it was posted in one of the threads yesterday.

"Did anyone really believe these guys [senators] want to secure the border?" he said.
Another Border Patrol agent was less diplomatic: "Our leaders are not serious about border security. A few hundred more agents is a far cry from what they promised. It's a con-job on the American people."

They knew the Poison Pence Plan didn't have the "fence" included so why vote to fund something that was NOT to be?

280 page Poison Pence Plan
for your 'light' reading pleasure
http://www.alipac.us/modules.php?name=F ... ic&t=34687

Originally Posted by had_enuf

Is there any way to see the actual vote? I'd like to know who all the turncoats are.

Here it is.

Vote Summary By Senator Name By Vote Position By Home State


Grouped By Vote Position YEAs ---29
Allen (R-VA)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burns (R-MT)
Burr (R-NC)
Carper (D-DE)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
DeWine (R-OH)
Dole (R-NC)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Lott (R-MS)
Nelson (D-NE)
Roberts (R-KS)
Santorum (R-PA)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Talent (R-MO)
Thomas (R-WY)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)

NAYs ---71
Akaka (D-HI)
Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Bennett (R-UT)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Bond (R-MO)
Boxer (D-CA)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Chafee (R-RI)
Clinton (D-NY)
Cochran (R-MS)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Dayton (D-MN)
Dodd (D-CT)
Domenici (R-NM)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Frist (R-TN)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inouye (D-HI)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Obama (D-IL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Smith (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Stevens (R-AK)
Sununu (R-NH)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)
Wyden (D-OR)

The ONE thing I do not understand is this...........
WE THE PEOPLE...........this is OUR COUNTRY.........
WE PAY THOSE SOB'S.............
WHY DO WE THINK WE DO NOT GET A SAY IN ONE SINGLE THING THAT EFFECTS US OR OUR COUNTRY?
SOMETHING IS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE.
WE HAVE A SAY ABOUT THIS.
THIS COUNTRY DOESN'T BELONG TO THEM.............
IT BELONGS TO US

THAT CONSTITUTION WAS MADE FOR US.........
TO PREVENT THIS MESS FROM HAPPENING....
IT'S GOING TO BE UP TO US TO GET THEM THE HECK OUT OF THAT OFFICE. THEY ARE STEALING FROM US BIG TIME AND WE THE PEOPLE, CANNOT SIT BACK AND LET THEM GET AWAY WITH IT.
OUR CONSTITUTION GIVES US THE RIGHT TO KICK THEIR SORRY, TRAITOROUS BUTTS OUT. IT IS OUR RIGHT
And if we don't do it soon..........our country isn't going to be here for us to do a darned thing with. TIME IS RUNNING OUT ON US QUICKER THAN WE ANTICIPATED.