Thread: Oppose S.729 The Dream Act

S.729
Title: A bill to amend the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 to permit States to determine State residency for higher education purposes and to authorize the cancellation of removal and adjustment of status of certain alien students who are long-term United States residents and who entered the United States as children, and for other purposes.
Sponsor: Sen Durbin, Richard [IL] (introduced 3/26/2009) Cosponsors (7)
Latest Major Action: 3/26/2009 Referred to Senate committee.
Status: Read twice and referred to the Committee on the Judiciary.

Cosponsors

Sen Feingold, Russell D. [WI] - 3/26/2009
Sen Kennedy, Edward M. [MA] - 3/26/2009
Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT] - 3/26/2009
Sen Lieberman, Joseph I. [CT] - 3/26/2009
Sen Lugar, Richard G. [IN] - 3/26/2009
Sen Martinez, Mel [FL] - 3/26/2009
Sen Reid, Harry [NV] - 3/26/2009

Judiciary Committee Members


Patrick J. Leahy Chairman, D-Vermont
Herb Kohl D-Wisconsin
Arlen Specter Ranking Member, R-Pennsylvania
Dianne Feinstein D-California
Orrin G. Hatch R-Utah
Russell D. Feingold D-Wisconsin
Charles E. Grassley R-Iowa
Charles E. Schumer D-New York
Jon Kyl R-Arizona
Richard J. Durbin D-Illinois
Jeff Sessions R-Alabama
Benjamin L. Cardin D-Maryland
Lindsey Graham R-South Carolina
Sheldon Whitehouse D-Rhode Island
John Cornyn R-Texas
Ron Wyden D-Oregon
Tom Coburn R-Oklahoma
Amy Klobuchar D-Minnesota
Edward E. Kaufman D-Delaware

Update: Still in Judiciary Committee

COSPONSORS(40), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]: (Sort: by date)


Sen Akaka, Daniel K. [HI] - 3/22/2010
Sen Bayh, Evan [IN] - 6/17/2010
Sen Bennet, Michael F. [CO] - 9/24/2009
Sen Bingaman, Jeff [NM] - 3/30/2009
Sen Boxer, Barbara [CA] - 3/30/2009
Sen Burris, Roland [IL] - 5/11/2009
Sen Cantwell, Maria [WA] - 4/22/2009
Sen Cardin, Benjamin L. [MD] - 9/30/2009
Sen Carper, Thomas R. [DE] - 4/26/2010
Sen Dodd, Christopher J. [CT] - 3/30/2009
Sen Feingold, Russell D. [WI] - 3/26/2009
Sen Feinstein, Dianne [CA] - 3/30/2009
Sen Franken, Al [MN] - 10/5/2009
Sen Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [NY] - 3/31/2009
Sen Harkin, Tom [IA] - 3/31/2009
Sen Inouye, Daniel K. [HI] - 6/25/2009
Sen Kaufman, Edward E. [DE] - 10/15/2009
Sen Kennedy, Edward M. [MA] - 3/26/2009
Sen Kerry, John F. [MA] - 3/30/2009
Sen Klobuchar, Amy [MN] - 5/27/2010
Sen Kohl, Herb [WI] - 11/4/2009
Sen Lautenberg, Frank R. [NJ] - 4/12/2010
Sen Leahy, Patrick J. [VT] - 3/26/2009
Sen Levin, Carl [MI] - 10/20/2009
Sen Lieberman, Joseph I. [CT] - 3/26/2009
Sen Lincoln, Blanche L. [AR] - 5/3/2010
Sen Lugar, Richard G. [IN] - 3/26/2009
Sen Martinez, Mel [FL] - 3/26/2009
Sen Menendez, Robert [NJ] - 3/30/2009
Sen Merkley, Jeff [OR] - 5/13/2010
Sen Mikulski, Barbara A. [MD] - 9/23/2009
Sen Murray, Patty [WA] - 3/30/2009
Sen Nelson, Bill [FL] - 3/30/2009
Sen Reed, Jack [RI] - 2/23/2010
Sen Reid, Harry [NV] - 3/26/2009
Sen Sanders, Bernard [VT] - 9/21/2009
Sen Schumer, Charles E. [NY] - 4/2/2009
Sen Specter, Arlen [PA] - 10/14/2009
Sen Udall, Mark [CO] - 4/29/2009
Sen Whitehouse, Sheldon [RI] - 3/30/2009

Attached as an amendment to Defense spending bill and failed. Sept. 21, 2010

My GOD!

Don't they get it?


It is coming back up in the lame duck!


Seriously?



I certainly hope, once the new congress takes office, heads roll and the laws get funding to be enforced. The earmark of all earmarks! Wait it is not an earmark if it is already a law!!!!!!!!!

ENFORCE THE DAMN LAWS!