Thread: Three Border Security Amendments Fail in the Senate

Three Border Security Amendments Fail in the Senate

Thursday, May 27, 2010, 11:26 AM EDT - posted on NumbersUSA

Three border security amendments were defeated on Thursday morning after failing to reach the necessary 60 votes.

Originally, five border security amendments were offered the Emergency Spending bill now being considered in the Senate, but amendments offered by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) were kept off the floor by Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.).

•Senator John McCain's (R-Ariz.) amendment would have provided funding for 6,000 National Guard troops to help monitor the Southwest border. The amendment failed 46-to-51.

VOTE COUNT IS HERE:
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/r ... vote=00165

•Senator Jon Kyl's (R-Ariz.) amendment would have provided additional funding to the Department of Justice to help prosecute immigration-related cases along the Southwest border. The amendment failed 44-to-54.

VOTE COUNT IS HERE:
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/r ... vote=00166

•Senator John Cornyn's (R-Texas) amendment would have provided additional funding to help drug enforcement along the Southwest border. The amendment failed 43-to-54.

VOTE COUNT IS HERE:
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/r ... vote=00167

HARRY REID WONT LET US PROTECT OUR BORDER. HARRY REID WONT LET US PROTECT OURSELVES...

The guy wants Mexico to invade the U S. Isnt that treason? What am i Missing here?

Originally Posted by Tbow009

HARRY REID WONT LET US PROTECT OUR BORDER. HARRY REID WONT LET US PROTECT OURSELVES...

The guy wants Mexico to invade the U S. Isnt that treason? What am i Missing here?

Why can't Harry Reid be arrested for HIGH CRIMES AND TREASON?

McCain Amendment ---(vote 165) To provide for National Guard support to secure the southern land border of the United States.


NAYs ---46
Akaka (D-HI), Begich (D-AK), Bingaman (D-NM), Brown (D-OH), Burris (D-IL), Cantwell (D-WA), Cardin (D-MD), Carper (D-DE), Casey (D-PA), Conrad (D-ND), Dodd (D-CT), Dorgan (D-ND), Durbin (D-IL), Feingold (D-WI), Franken (D-MN), Gillibrand (D-NY), Harkin (D-IA), Inouye (D-HI), Johnson (D-SD), Kaufman (D-DE), Kerry (D-MA), Klobuchar (D-MN), Kohl (D-WI), Landrieu (D-LA), Lautenberg (D-NJ), Leahy (D-VT), Levin (D-MI), Lieberman (ID-CT), Menendez (D-NJ), Merkley (D-OR), Mikulski (D-MD), Murray (D-WA), Reed (D-RI), Reid (D-NV), Rockefeller (D-WV), Sanders (I-VT), Schumer (D-NY), Shaheen (D-NH), Specter (D-PA), Stabenow (D-MI), Udall (D-CO), Udall (D-NM), Voinovich (R-OH), Warner (D-VA), Whitehouse (D-RI), Wyden (D-OR)

Not Voting - 3
Byrd (D-WV), Chambliss (R-GA), Hagan (D-NC)

KYL Amendment--- (vote 166) To appropriate $200,000,000 to increase resources for the Department of Justice and the Judiciary to address illegal crossings of the Southwest border, with an offset.

NAYs ---44
Akaka (D-HI), Baucus (D-MT), Bennet (D-CO), Bingaman (D-NM), Brown (D-OH), Burris (D-IL), Cantwell (D-WA), Cardin (D-MD), Carper (D-DE), Casey (D-PA), Conrad (D-ND), Dodd (D-CT), Dorgan (D-ND), Durbin (D-IL), Feingold (D-WI), Franken (D-MN), Gillibrand (D-NY), Hagan (D-NC), Harkin (D-IA), Inouye (D-HI), Johnson (D-SD), Kaufman (D-DE), Kerry (D-MA), Kohl (D-WI), Lautenberg (D-NJ), Leahy (D-VT), Levin (D-MI), Menendez (D-NJ), Mikulski (D-MD), Murray (D-WA), Nelson (D-FL), Reed (D-RI), Reid (D-NV), Rockefeller (D-WV), Sanders (I-VT), Schumer (D-NY), Shaheen (D-NH), Specter (D-PA), Stabenow (D-MI), Tester (D-MT), Udall (D-CO), Udall (D-NM), Warner (D-VA), Whitehouse (D-RI)

Not Voting - 2
Byrd (D-WV), Chambliss (R-GA)

John Cornyn Amendment--- (vote 167) To make appropriations to improve border security, with an offset from unobligated appropriations under division A of Public Law 111-5.

NAYs ---43
Akaka (D-HI), Begich (D-AK), Bennet (D-CO), Bingaman (D-NM), Brown (D-OH), Burris (D-IL), Cantwell (D-WA), Cardin (D-MD), Carper (D-DE), Casey (D-PA), Conrad (D-ND), Dodd (D-CT), Dorgan (D-ND), Durbin (D-IL), Feingold (D-WI), Franken (D-MN), Gillibrand (D-NY), Hagan (D-NC), Harkin (D-IA), Inouye (D-HI), Johnson (D-SD), Kaufman (D-DE), Kerry (D-MA), Landrieu (D-LA), Lautenberg (D-NJ), Leahy (D-VT), Levin (D-MI), Menendez (D-NJ), Merkley (D-OR), Mikulski (D-MD), Murray (D-WA), Nelson (D-FL), Reed (D-RI), Reid (D-NV), Rockefeller (D-WV), Sanders (I-VT), Schumer (D-NY), Specter (D-PA), Stabenow (D-MI), Udall (D-NM), Warner (D-VA), Whitehouse (D-RI), Wyden (D-OR)

Not Voting - 3
Byrd (D-WV), Chambliss (R-GA), Shaheen (D-NH)

The two Udalls, one in Colorado and one in New Mexico, are consistently holding up any kind of border strengthening and enforcement.

Since New Mexico is a border state, its residents should take serious note of Tom Udall's long-term failure to vote immigration security measures for the protection of legal citizens. Udall is a liberal, he has always been a liberal, and he should be replaced.

Sen. Hutchison Introduces Amendment for Expanded Drone Presence to Help Protect Southern Border

Raises Aerial Coverage Along Texas, New Mex., Ariz., Calif. Borders to 7 Days a Week

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison (R-Texas) today introduced an amendment to the emergency war supplemental to make $144 million available to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to expand the presence of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, along the southwestern border of the United States. The funding would allow CBP to obtain and operate at least six new drone systems and hire systems pilots with the goal of covering the U.S.-Mexico border in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, and California every day of the week.

“Failure of the federal government to effectively secure our borders threatens the safety of border communities and puts our national security at risk. To address illegal immigration and to protect communities from the violence associated with narco-terrorism and drug and arms trafficking, we must employ state-of-the-art border monitoring and security techniques,â€

DeMint Amendment would have demanded the fence be finished and
improvements would be made in the areas that the fence was already built

Originally Posted by jamesw62

McCain Amendment Vote 165
NAYs ---46
Akaka (D-HI)
Begich (D-AK)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Brown (D-OH)
Burris (D-IL)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Conrad (D-ND)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kaufman (D-DE)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schumer (D-NY)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Specter (D-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)

Looks like Voinovich was the only traitor Republican (this time).