Thread: ***Call Alert***Numbers USA***List of Senators to Target!!!

From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Tuesday 19JUN07 7:30 a.m. EDT


2 short papers with key points of bill & 14 major enforcement flaws -- Include in fax & phone today


"You want to get the Senate staffer to REALLY listen to you? Call and start reading a few of Senator Sessions' list of Loopholes in the Amnesty law. I have called long lists of Senators for many years, but have never had anything like the impact. This list is DYNAMITE! In a class by itself. Forget everything else, just print up that list, and start calling."
----------Terry
DEAR FRIENDS,

Voting on whether to bring the Kennedy/Bush Comprehensive Amnesty bill back to the floor of the Senate could begin as early as tomorrow (Wednesday). And if that wins, a cloture vote could occur Friday.

All of us must tell our Senators that any YES vote on any provision that puts the bill on the floor or moves it forward WILL be considered a VOTE FOR AMNESTY.

Insist on a NO for all procedural votes.

I'm including in this email links to two short papers that will be of great help (as Terry notes above) to you as you contact your two U.S. Senators today:


All the basic facts of the Senate comprehensive amnesty bill.


14 biggest flaws in the bill.

If you've ever lacked confidence in arguing for defeat of the S. 1348 amnesty bill, these are the short documents you've needed.

ACTION No. 1: Phone both of your Senators again today.

Choose one or two of the flaws to talk about in your call.

You can reach the D.C. office of ALL Senators at:

202-224-3121

Tell them it will not be enough to vote NO on the final passage. If they want credit for opposing amnesty, they have to vote NO on all clotures and other procedural votes that would allow the bill back on the floor in the first place.

Last year, several Senators voted YES on cloture when their NO vote would have made the most difference but then voted NO on the final vote when they had no chance of killing the amnesty.

We won't let anybody get by with that this year.

Many of you last week complained that your Senators seemed to have turned their phones off as you could never get through. We've talked with many staffers in the Senate who said that turning off the phones is just too radical and never really happens.

The staffers said you couldn't get through because the volume of phone calling was so high. There were Senate offices last week in which the phones rang as fast as they were hung up. Way to go!

If you have trouble getting through to the DC office, then call local offices in your state.

You can see all local phone numbers of Senators at:
http://numbersusa.com/congressinfo/


THESE SENATORS VOTED 'NO' TWO WEEKS AGO
BUT NEED A LOT MORE PUSH TO VOTE 'NO' THIS WEEK


Our coalition of advocacy and Senate allies say they are very hopeful to win these Senators over but that they also could easily vote YES at this point.

If we defeat the amnesty this week, it will be because you did a fantastic job in getting nearly all of these to vote NO.

Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-Calif.)
Burr (R-N.C.)
Chambliss (R-Ga.)
Cochran (R-Miss.)
Ensign (R-Nev.)
Gregg (R-N.H.)
Hatch (R-Utah)
Hutchison (R-Texas)
Isakson (R-Ga.)
Smith (R-Oregon)
Sununu (R-N.H.)
Sanders (I-Vt.)
Webb (D-Va.)

Thank these Senators for their NO vote and then read a couple of FLAWS to help them understand why they should keep voting NO.


VOTED 'YES' ON AMNESTY 2 WEEKS AGO BUT CONSIDERED GOOD POSSIBILITIES TO SWITCH TO 'NO' THIS WEEK IF THEIR CONSTITUENTS PROVIDE THEM ENOUGH REASON


Conrad (D-N.D.)
Levin (D-Mich.)
Nelson (D-Neb.)
Stabenow (D-Mich.)


CONSIDERED LONG-SHOTS FOR VOTING 'NO' THIS WEEK EVEN THOUGH THEY VOTED 'NO' ON AMNESTY 2 WEEKS AGO


These folks need a whole lot of help. Please give it to them. Tell them they were right to vote NO two weeks ago and that no amendment that has been proposed for this round will make the bill enough better to deserve a YES vote this week. Thus, they should vote NO on all attempts to even bring this bill to a floor and vote NO on any attempt to try to bring up a package of amendments.

Bennett (R-Utah)
Brownback (R-Kan.) -- didn't vote 2 weeks ago but generally pro-amnesty
Coleman (R-Minn.)
Collins (R-Maine)
Domenici (R-N.M.)
McConnell (R-Ky.)
Murkowski (R-Alaska)
Snowe (R-Maine)
Stevens (R-Alaska)
Warner (R-Va.)


PRO-AMNESTY SENATORS WITH A SLIGHT POSSIBILITY OF BEING SWITCHED


Because of opposition from labor unions to the guest worker provisions, a few of these Democrats might switch if they felt enough heat from their constituents.

You should not give up on these Senators. At the very least, make them feel nervous about casting a YES vote. Several of these are presidential candidates who have to be thinking how this will affect them in the general election.

Bayh (D-Ind.)
Biden (D-Del.)
Brown (D-Ohio)
Casey (D-Pa.)
Clinton (D-N.Y.)
Craig (R-Idaho)
Durbin (D-Ill.)
Dodd (D-Conn.)
Feingold (D-Wis.)
Harkin (D-Iowa)
Inouye (D-Hawaii)
Kohl (D-Wis.)
Kyl (R-Ariz.)
Lautenberg (D-N.J.)
Leahy (D-Vt.)
Lincoln (D-Ark.)
Lott (R-Miss.)
Murray (D-Wash.)
Nelson (D-Fla.)
Obama (D-Ill.)
Reed (D-R.I.)
Schumer (D-N.Y.)
Whitehouse (D-R.I.)
Wyden (D-Oregon)


SENATORS WHO APPEAR TO BE 'LOST CAUSES' BUT WHO SHOULD FEEL THE WRATH FOR THEIR ABSOLUTE CALLOUSNESS TOWARD AMERICAN WORKERS AND COMMUNITIES


Akaka (D-Hawaii)
Cantwell (D-Wash.)
Cardin (D-Md.)
Carper (D-Del.)
Feinstein (D-Calif.)
Graham (R-S.C.)
Hagel (R-Neb.)
Kennedy (D-Mass.)
Kerry (D-Mass.)
Klobuchar (D-Minn.)
Lieberman (I-Conn.)
Lugar (R-Ind.)
Martinez (R-Fla.)
McCain (R-Ariz.)
Menendez (D-N.J.)
Mikulski (D-Md.)
Reid (D-Nev.)
Salazar (D-Colo.)
Specter (R-Pa.)
Voinovich (R-Ohio)


THESE SENATORS ARE OUR CHAMPIONS AND DON'T NEED PHONE CALLS RIGHT NOW


Bunning (R-Ky.)
Byrd (D-W.Va.)
Coburn (R-Okla.)
DeMint (R-S.C.)
Dole (R-N.C.)
Dorgan (D-N.D.)
Enzi (R-Wyo.)
Inhofe (R-Okla.)
McCaskill (D-Mo.)
Roberts (R-Kan.)
Sessions (R-Ala.)
Shelby (R-Ala.)
Tester (D-Mont.)
Vitter (R-La.)


PROBABLY VOTING 'NO' BUT MAY NEED SOME EXTRA CALLS FROM YOU


Alexander (R-Tenn.)
Allard (R-Colo.)
Baucus (D-Mont.)
Bond (R-Mo.)
Corker (R-Tenn.)
Cornyn (R-Texas)
Crapo (R-Idaho)
Grassley (R-Iowa)
Landrieu (D-La.)
Pryor (D-Ark.)
Rockefeller (D-W.Va.)
Thune (R-S.D.)

ACTION No. 2: Visit your Senators' local offices today and tomorrow (unless your Senator is listed in GREEN above).

Print out the two-page talking-point papers we've provided you and take them with you to the offices.

Continuous phoning and faxing are needed. But those of you who will physically go to a Senate office in your home state will have a huge exra impact.

You can see the addresses of all your Senators' local offices by clicking here:
http://www.numbersusa.com/myMembers

It is always easier if you take something with you that you can read from or point to or just hand over to a staffer.

I think the message that staffers most need to hear is that you have to believe that the Senator has been misinformed if he/she is supporting S. 1348. Then point out one or two of the flaws we've listed on the print-outs.

Here are items you might want to print out and take with you:


All the basic facts of the Senate comprehensive amnesty bill.


14 biggest flaws in the bill.


Your Senator's entire record of immigration actions. Let the staffers know that they can't hide anything -- that NumbersUSA publicizes every move and never forgets. And you can pick out specific actions in the past that you laud or condemn.


Your Senator's overall immigration-reduction grade. If they have a good grade, tell them that the grade will plummet if they vote to bring this bill back to the floor. If they have a bad grade, tell them they have a chance to greatly improve the grade by just standing with the people of your state against all efforts to bring it to the floor.


Any kind of home made sign that you can hold up while waiting on the sidewalk would enhance the influence of your participation.


Print a still photo of our NumbersUSA ad that is running in Mississippi right now, challenging Sen. Lott (R-Miss.) for having led the effort to bring the amnesty back to the floor.

See the TV ad

Help your Senators' staffers imagine this kind of ad running in their state if they vote YES on amnesty.


THE DOZEN BIG FLAWS IN THIS BILL


You can view a cleaner copy of this and one that will print better for distribution by clicking here.

Many of the waffling Senators are giving as their excuse for considering a YES vote on the amnesty that this bill will begin to reduce future illegal immigration which is better than doing nothing.

I was on a radio show this morning in Jackson, Miss., in which the host repeatedly argued with me that anybody opposing this bill is supporting doing nothing because the Democratic leaders of Senate and House will not allow any enforcement to go through without an amnesty.

We at NumbersUSA reject this reasoning.

We confidently believe that if this grand amnesty compromise is defeated that the Democrats will feel enough pressure to start passing single initiatives that will gradually improve the tools of enforcement -- and that the American people and our allies in Congress can shame Pres. Bush into starting to implement more of the enforcement laws already on the books.

Please read, quote and paraphrase the following 14 flaws over and over to your Senators and staff.

Senate Proposal is Full of Holes

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) has been a stalwart proponent of curbing illegal immigration and reforming the legal immigration apparatus in a truly meaningful manner. To that end, on June 4, in the middle of the first round of floor debate on the so-called “grand bargainâ€

Make sure when calling Sen. Sanders that you drive home the point of how this bill and especially the guest worker program will hurt Americans workers and America's poor. He is very concerned about this.

Okay, with all due respect to NumbersUSA, Senator Lamar Alexander and Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee should be included in the very top tier of those likely to vote YES and need pressure. Numbers is not on the ground locally everywhere and this information needs to get out. And yes I have already placed a call to Numbers.

Senator Alexander voted YES on cloture the first time, then NO and now that he and Senator Bob Corker have linked with Senator Kay Bailey Hutchinson for a "touchback" amendment, the pressure and contacts need to increase.

Senator Alexander wants to vote for this bill or he would not be coming up with ideas like this - allow 3 out of 4 border governors to sign off on the security of the border, the $500.00 given for people to learn English, the "touchback" amendment, and his attachment now to Senator Hutchinson.

Senator Corker, is a junior, tag a long Senator, and apparently Alexander is going to use that as leverage.

This is two swing votes guys and believe me the pressure needs to increase.

Thank you.

We need to be all over this list!

Call them all and tell them to vote NO on cloture and enforce our exisiting laws!