Thread: In a 50-50 vote, Senate blocks effort to prevent executive amnesty.

		Media Response	jeremy beck
	In a 50-50 vote, Senate blocks effort to prevent executive amnesty.

Friends, commenters, tweeters, etc.: In a vote yesterday, U.S. Senators signaled their support for and opposition to President Obama's plan to open up U.S. jobs to millions of people in the country illegally. Now it is your turn to have your say. Please discuss this vote every way you can online and within your communities. Use the links below to get you started. Let's show Washington D.C. that voters paid attention to this vote. Yesterday Senator Sessions forced every Member of the United States Senate to take a vote on executive amnesty. This is a moment of choosing for every senator, Sessions said. Where will history record you stood?. Fifty Senators voted to debate an amendment that would prevent future executive amnesties; and 50 Senators signaled their intention to allow President Obama to move forward with his promise to grant work permits to millions of people in the U.S. illegally. NumbersUSA has a summary of the proceedings here. In "Sessions Forces Five Democratic Senators, GOP Caucus To Vote Against Obama Amnesty," Neil Munro of the Daily Caller says the vote was a "tactical victory" for Leader Reid but Sessions gained the strategic victory of a bipartisan and solid GOP vote against Obama's amnesty plans. Munro puts the President's plan to issue U.S. work permits to possibly four million illegal aliens in perspective: It is roughly equal to the young Americans who will begin looking for work in 2015, he says. Munro's colleague Rachel Stoltzfoos covers Sessions' floor speech in "Sessions Defends Americans Who Demand Immigration Enforcement" Seung Min Kim of Politico reports: All the Democrats who sided with Republicans - except for Manchin - waited until the last minute to cast their vote when it became clear the motion would fail.... ....As the politics of immigration turned against their party in recent months, vulnerable Democratic senators up for reelection have been under a barrage of attacks from Republican challengers accusing them of backing amnesty for immigrants here illegally. Lisa Mascaro of the Los Angeles Times reports: Democrats who sided with the Texas Republican were Sens. Kay Hagan of North Carolina, Mary Landrieu of Louisiana, Mark Pryor of Arkansas and Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire, all in tight races to retain their seats. Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.), who is not up for re-election in November, also voted for the measure. The National Review Online has an adaptation of Sessions' floor speech. Excerpts: "These immigration rules - who can come, work, and live in a country - are the bedrock of any nation's immigration laws, and indeed its very sovereignty. The president has already erased much of these rules - and his planned executive action would remove much of what remains of them. It would establish for people all over the world the principle that if you can get into America, you can stay in America and even be given the right to work in America.... "....No nation can have a policy where people can simply show up at the border and demand to be released into the country - especially since the policy is to never seek to apprehend and deport them. But that's what this administration is doing right now.... "....I also have a message for the American people: You have been right from the beginning. You have justly demanded that our borders be controlled and our laws enforced and that, at long last, immigration policy serve the needs of our own people first. For this virtuous demand, you have been demeaned, even scorned, by the governing class. They know so much, this cosmopolitan elite. "They want you to believe that your concerns are somehow illegitimate. That you are wrong for being worried about your jobs, or your schools, or your hospitals, or your communities, or your national security. These elite citizens of the world speak often of their concern for people living in poverty overseas, yet turn a blind eye to the poverty and suffering in their own country. They don't want you to speak up. They don't want you to be heard. They don't want you to feel you have a voice. "But you do have a voice. And your message is being heard. And I am delivering that message to the Senate today...." Keep making yourself heard. jeremy

If you are an one of the 97 Million Americans that are Unemployed / Under Employed ... I would suggest you get off your knees and put these corrupt Politicians in both parties in their place

Are you an

Un-employed African American
Un-employed Asian American
Un-employed Hispanic American
Un-employed Native American
Un-employed Caucasian American
Un-employed European American

and you say nothing you deserve the Poverty and Misery the D.C. Elites have planned for AmeriKa

Can anyone get us a list of the names of the US Senators that voted for or against this effort to stop Obama's amnesty?

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Looks like straight down party lines vote with only the Democrats up for reelection this year voting with Republicans!

Breakdown of votes for Sessions amendment for the prevention of exceutive amnesty

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LI...n=2&vote=00268


Breakdown of vote

Grouped By Vote Position
YEAs ---50For Sessions Amendment
Alexander (R-TN)
Ayotte (R-NH)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Burr (R-NC)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coats (R-IN)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Collins (R-ME)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
Cruz (R-TX)
Enzi (R-WY)
Fischer (R-NE)
Flake (R-AZ)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hagan (D-NC)
Hatch (R-UT)
Heller (R-NV)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (R-WI)
Kirk (R-IL)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lee (R-UT)
Manchin (D-WV)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Moran (R-KS)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Paul (R-KY)
Portman (R-OH)
Pryor (D-AR)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rubio (R-FL)
Scott (R-SC)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Shelby (R-AL)
Thune (R-SD)
Toomey (R-PA)
Vitter (R-LA)
Wicker (R-MS)



NAYs ---50 to Sessions Amnedment
Baldwin (D-WI)
Begich (D-AK)
Bennet (D-CO)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Booker (D-NJ)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (D-OH)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Coons (D-DE)
Donnelly (D-IN)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Harkin (D-IA)
Heinrich (D-NM)
Heitkamp (D-ND)
Hirono (D-HI)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kaine (D-VA)
King (I-ME)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Markey (D-MA)
McCaskill (D-MO)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Merkley (D-OR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murphy (D-CT)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Schatz (D-HI)
Schumer (D-NY)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Tester (D-MT)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Walsh (D-MT)
Warner (D-VA)
Warren (D-MA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)

The only Democrat that exercised free will to vote for it was Manchin. Reid then released Pryor, Landrieu, Sheehan and Hagan when he knew it would not pass. The four mentioned needed to be able to tell their constituents that they voted for it for their re-election. It was all another Democrat scam in my opinion.