Thread: CSpan2 US Senate 10/18/07

Stabenow now on the veto upheld.

Originally Posted by April

Originally Posted by Gogo

McCaskill angry over S-chip veto. The House failed to override the veto.

"No wonder our phones are ringing off the hook."


Hey don't tell me its about the S-chip folks its about the Dream Act.

You are doing great with the updates, GOGO!!! Keep up the good work!

No problem your welcome. Easy right now.

Harkin whining about S-chip

Lautenberg introduces Amendment 3350

speaking on Autism
speaking on out of wed lock pregnancies
speaking against abstinence only programs

This amendment says that Federal money cannot be spend on deception in formation given by abstinence only programs.

Can someone take over the thread for awhile I need to step away.

They hope to start having four votes in about 15 minutes.

They are beginning votes on amendments.

They are voting but I don't know what on my computer keeps timing out on the C-Span. My hubby is watching the news. So someone else is going to have to take over.

Don't worry, I left you a message over on the Dream thread. sorry it took so long did not see your post!!

We will come back here and post if the dream act comes up!! Everything else they are doing is not worth reporting on Museums, miners etc. , they are using these to keep from having to do any thing of importance!! Like some laws to enforce and remove illegal immigrants, shut up judges,!

OK, so let me recap here and add a comment or two.

Notable things:

First, Durbin wrapped up daily business here this evening (they finished at 8:25pm ET / 5:25pm PT). In one of the very last acts of the day, he introduced (?) or referenced, 'an act pertaining to certain illegal alien students' as one of his last comments. Don't know if this was a sneaky introduction of the DA into the Labor/HHS bill, but we need to know FOR SURE what this was in reference to. Anybody up for some short turnaround research?

Second, Sen. Ensign introduced two amendments involving immigration. The amendments introduced are generally indirectly related to illegal immigration - they were:

a). Legislation to keep the US-Mexican SSTA (Soc. Sec. Totalization Agreement) from taking effect.

b). Legislation geared at prohibiting people that have illegally used SSNs from obtaining certain benefits or be eligible for other things (don't know the details of this well yet).

Third, (minus the *possible* exception listed in the first point above) there was no direct mention of immigration-related issues today.

5:38pm PT