Thread: 2PM Urgent Message From NumbersUSA

From: Roy Beck NumbersUSA
Date: 2006/09/29 Fri PM 03:10:55 EDT
Subject: Fence vote coming up -- make final calls

From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
Date: Friday 29SEP06 2 p.m. EDT

Great News: looks like Senate will vote on 700-mile fence -- need final phone calls

Keep up with all new developments in the House and Senate at www.NumbersUSA.com.
TIDE MAY BE TURNING OUR WAY

We just got word from a knowledgeable insider that Senate Majority Leader Frist (R-TN) has figured out a way to bring a "clean" fence bill to the floor of the Senate for a final vote.

1. IF YOU HAVEN'T CALLED YOUR 2 SENATORS, PLEASE PICK UP THE PHONE NOW AND URGE THEIR "YES" VOTE.

2. IF YOU ALREADY HAVE CALLED YOUR SENATORS, CONSIDER CALLING THE SENATORS FROM SMALL-POPULATION STATES IN YOUR PART OF THE COUNTRY (we have fewer members there, so those Senators probably need a lot more calls).

Just call the Senate Switchboard and ask for the Senator by name. Many of you have written that you can't afford to make these calls and are asking for faxes. It is too late for the fax attack. Only phone calls at this late moment will do the job on this vote. (But I certainly understand and accept that some of you can't afford the phone calls.)

U.S. Senate Switchboard
202-224-3121

If the Switchboard number is busy, you may want to call the direct line of the Senator. You can find that direct number at:

http://www.numbersusa.com/congressinfo/

As I told you very early this morning, the Senate voted 71-28 last night to stop debate and allow a vote to happen. But many of the ones who voted right did so to get public credit while working behind the scenes to procedurally keep a vote from happening before Congress leaves town this weekend until after the election.

I have no doubt that the fact that thousands of you have been calling Senators all day is part of the reason that Frist feels he can now bring the House of Representatives' fence bill to a final vote and prohibit any bad amendments.

We now need 51 votes.

It won't be easy. Democratic leadership seems to be pushing for a united Democratic stand against the fence.

We will need most Republicans to vote the opposite way. But between 15 and 20 Republican Senators are fairly committed to some kind of amnesty and hate the idea of slowing down the flow of cheap foreign workers at the Mexican border. Their corporate donors and friends are begging them to keep the smuggling paths open (few illegal aliens get across the border any more without the help of smugglers).

But those open-border Republicans have been under gigantic pressure from you and people like you. They have fought like crazy to keep from having a recorded vote on issues like the fence. Now, they will have to decide whether to please you or their outlaw corporate friends (as opposed to most business owners who obey the law and agree with us).

SENATORS WHO ARE MOST LIKELY TO BE ON THE FENCE AND WHO MOST NEED CALLING

This is a list of Senators whose combined immigration actions during this Congress (2005-06) have earned them overall grades of D+ through B-minus.

That means they have gone back and forth a lot between good actions and bad. The Republicans on this list are torn between their outlaw corporate friends and their voters. The Democrats on this list are torn between their voters and Democratic Party leaders who tell them that open borders provide a net increase of hundreds of thousands of new Democratic voters each year.

Your job this afternoon is to make sure both Republicans and Democrats on this list know just how much the voters in their state care about this.

B-
Cornyn, John (R-TX) - 70%
Allard, Wayne (R-CO) - 69%
Shelby, Richard (R-AL) - 68%

C+
Hatch, Orrin (R-UT) - 64%
Hutchison, Kay Bailey (R-TX) - 63%
Bond, Kit (R-MO) - 56%

C
Lott, Trent (R-MS) - 53%
Stabenow, Debbie (D-MI) - 51%
Thomas, Craig (R-WY) - 51%

C-
Craig, Larry (R-ID) - 38%
Domenici, Pete (R-NM) - 37%

D+
Alexander, Lamar (R-TN) - 35%
Carper, Thomas (D-DE) - 35%
Cochran, Thad (R-MS) - 35%
Landrieu, Mary (D-LA) - 33%
McConnell, Mitch (R-KY) - 33%
Mikulski, Barbara (D-MD) - 32%
Salazar, Ken (D-CO) - 32%
Feinstein, Dianne (D-CA) - 31%
Johnson, Tim (D-SD) - 31%

SENATORS MOST LIKELY TO VOTE "FOR" THE FENCE -- ESSENTIAL THEY STICK WITH US

We can't lose a single one of these.

Be sure to thank them for their great record thus far -- as indicated by the grade that NumbersUSA is giving them. You may want to mention the grade to the staffer.

A+
Inhofe, James (R-OK) - 95%

A
Coburn, Tom (R-OK) - 94%
Sessions, Jeff (R-AL) - 94%
Grassley, Charles (R-IA) - 93%
Vitter, David (R-LA) - 93%
Isakson, Johnny (R-GA) - 92%
Roberts, Pat (R-KS) - 91%
Chambliss, Saxby (R-GA) - 90%
Talent, James (R-MO) - 90%
Thune, John (R-SD) - 90%

A-
Bunning, Jim (R-KY) - 88%

B+
Byrd, Robert (D-WV) - 85%
Santorum, Rick (R-PA) - 85%
Dole, Elizabeth (R-NC) - 82%
Dorgan, Byron (D-ND) - 81%

B
Crapo, Michael (R-ID) - 80%
Burr, Richard (R-NC) - 79%
Ensign, John (R-NV) - 79%
DeMint, James (R-SC) - 78%
Rockefeller, John (D-WV) - 77%
Burns, Conrad (R-MT) - 75%
Allen, George (R-VA) - 73%
Kyl, Jon (R-AZ) - 73%
Sununu, John (R-NH) - 73%
Enzi, Michael (R-WY) - 72%
Nelson, Ben (D-NE) - 72%

THE MOST-COMMITTED SENATORS TO OPEN BORDERS

Even if every single Senator in the two lists above votes for the fence, we still will need 5 more Senators from the list below to pass it!!!!!

When you call these Senate offices, you will want to emphasize how harmful their immigration votes have been the last two years for working families whose wages have stagnated in part because of their insistence on flooding the country with both legal and illegal foreign workers.

Tell them that a vote for the fence today would go a long way in helping voters in their states think they have at least some compassion for regular American workers and for the people who live in the communities where the illegal immigration flood is the greatest.

D
Bayh, Evan (D-IN) - 30%
Baucus, Max (D-MT) - 29%
Boxer, Barbara (D-CA) - 29%
Nelson, Bill (D-FL) - 29%
Bennett, Robert (R-UT) - 28%
Conrad, Kent (D-ND) - 28%
Martinez, Mel (R-FL) - 28%
Dayton, Mark (D-MN) - 27%
Levin, Carl (D-MI) - 27%
Lincoln, Blanche (D-AR) - 27%
Snowe, Olympia (R-ME) - 27%
Dodd, Christopher (D-CT) - 26%
Kohl, Herb (D-WI) - 26%
Schumer, Charles (D-NY) - 26%
Akaka, Daniel (D-HI) - 25%
Gregg, Judd (R-NH) - 25%
Leahy, Patrick (D-VT) - 25%
Obama, Barack (D-IL) - 25%
Pryor, Mark (D-AR) - 25%
Bingaman, Jeff (D-NM) - 24%
Clinton, Hillary (D-NY) - 24%
Durbin, Richard (D-IL) - 24%
Kerry, John (D-MA) - 24%
Reed, Jack (D-RI) - 24%
Reid, Harry (D-NV) - 24%
Wyden, Ron (D-OR) - 24%
Biden, Joseph (D-DE) - 23%
Brownback, Sam (R-KS) - 23%
Hagel, Chuck (R-NE) - 23%
Harkin, Tom (D-IA) - 23%
Sarbanes, Paul (D-MD) - 23%
Frist, Bill (R-TN) - 22%
Inouye, Daniel (D-HI) - 22%
Lautenberg, Frank (D-NJ) - 22%
Murray, Patty (D-WA) - 22%
Kennedy, Edward (D-MA) - 21%

D-
Coleman, Norm (R-MN) - 20%
Feingold, Russell (D-WI) - 20%
Warner, John (R-VA) - 20%
Collins, Susan (R-ME) - 19%
DeWine, Mike (R-OH) - 19%
Cantwell, Maria (D-WA) - 18%
Graham, Lindsey (R-SC) - 18%
Lieberman, Joseph (D-CT) - 18%
Murkowski, Lisa (R-AK) - 18%
Lugar, Richard (R-IN) - 16%
McCain, John (R-AZ) - 16%

F
Chafee, Lincoln (R-RI) - 13%
Smith, Gordon (R-OR) - 13%
Specter, Arlen (R-PA) - 13%
Stevens, Ted (R-AK) - 13%
Voinovich, George (R-OH) - 12%

F-
Jeffords, James (I-VT) - 5%
Menendez, Robert (D-NJ) - 5%

HERE IS THE WAY EACH SENATOR VOTED YESTERDAY ON STOPPING DEBATE AND POTENTIALLY ALLOWING A FINAL VOTE

STATES IN REDThose of you who live in the states in red have a lot of work to do. Your states are the only ones that failed to provide even one vote for the fence. Nothing will change unless your state's pro-rule-of-law voters put a lot more pressure on your Senators.

STATES IN GREEN Congratulations for lots of hard grassroots work in your state. Both of your Senators voted last night to open the way to pass the fence.

Alabama: Sessions (R-AL), Yea Shelby (R-AL), Yea
Alaska: Murkowski (R-AK), Yea Stevens (R-AK), Yea
Arizona: Kyl (R-AZ), Yea McCain (R-AZ), Yea
Arkansas: Lincoln (D-AR), Yea Pryor (D-AR), Yea
California: Boxer (D-CA), Nay Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
Colorado: Allard (R-CO), Yea Salazar (D-CO), Nay
Connecticut: Dodd (D-CT), Nay Lieberman (D-CT), Nay
Delaware: Biden (D-DE), Yea Carper (D-DE), Nay
Florida: Martinez (R-FL), Yea Nelson (D-FL), Yea
Georgia: Chambliss (R-GA), Yea Isakson (R-GA), Yea
Hawaii: Akaka (D-HI), Nay Inouye (D-HI), Nay
Idaho: Craig (R-ID), Yea Crapo (R-ID), Yea
Illinois: Durbin (D-IL), Nay Obama (D-IL), Nay
Indiana: Bayh (D-IN), Yea Lugar (R-IN), Yea
Iowa: Grassley (R-IA), Yea Harkin (D-IA), Nay
Kansas: Brownback (R-KS), Yea Roberts (R-KS), Yea
Kentucky: Bunning (R-KY), Yea McConnell (R-KY), Yea
Louisiana: Landrieu (D-LA), Yea Vitter (R-LA), Yea
Maine: Collins (R-ME), Yea Snowe (R-ME), Not Voting
Maryland: Mikulski (D-MD), Yea Sarbanes (D-MD), Nay
Massachusetts: Kennedy (D-MA), Nay Kerry (D-MA), Nay
Michigan: Levin (D-MI), Nay Stabenow (D-MI), Yea
Minnesota: Coleman (R-MN), Yea Dayton (D-MN), Yea
Mississippi: Cochran (R-MS), Yea Lott (R-MS), Yea
Missouri: Bond (R-MO), Yea Talent (R-MO), Yea
Montana: Baucus (D-MT), Yea Burns (R-MT), Yea
Nebraska: Hagel (R-NE), Yea Nelson (D-NE), Yea
Nevada: Ensign (R-NV), Yea Reid (D-NV), Nay
New Hampshire: Gregg (R-NH), Yea Sununu (R-NH), Yea
New Jersey: Lautenberg (D-NJ), Nay Menendez (D-NJ), Nay
New Mexico: Bingaman (D-NM), Nay Domenici (R-NM), Yea
New York: Clinton (D-NY), Nay Schumer (D-NY), Nay
North Carolina: Burr (R-NC), Yea Dole (R-NC), Yea
North Dakota: Conrad (D-ND), Yea Dorgan (D-ND), Yea
Ohio: DeWine (R-OH), Yea Voinovich (R-OH), Yea
Oklahoma: Coburn (R-OK), Yea Inhofe (R-OK), Yea
Oregon: Smith (R-OR), Yea Wyden (D-OR), Yea
Pennsylvania: Santorum (R-PA), Yea Specter (R-PA), Yea
Rhode Island: Chafee (R-RI), Nay Reed (D-RI), Nay
South Carolina: DeMint (R-SC), Yea Graham (R-SC), Yea
South Dakota: Johnson (D-SD), Yea Thune (R-SD), Yea
Tennessee: Alexander (R-TN), Yea Frist (R-TN), Yea
Texas: Cornyn (R-TX), Yea Hutchison (R-TX), Yea
Utah: Bennett (R-UT), Yea Hatch (R-UT), Yea
Vermont: Jeffords (I-VT), Nay Leahy (D-VT), Nay
Virginia: Allen (R-VA), Yea Warner (R-VA), Yea
Washington: Cantwell (D-WA), Nay Murray (D-WA), Nay
West Virginia: Byrd (D-WV), Yea Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea
Wisconsin: Feingold (D-WI), Nay Kohl (D-WI), Nay
Wyoming: Enzi (R-WY), Yea Thomas (R-WY), Yea

THANKS FOR ALL THE CALLS EARLIER TODAY ....

... AND THANKS FOR ALL THE CALLS YOU CAN CROWD IN THIS LATE AFTERNOON,

-- ROY

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calling again
Reid has no answering machine set up
Obama..group dropped the line 3 times
Frist office denies they wants amnesty or worker program????

calling to. Not able to get through at all. Just rings, rings, rings. Although, I don't know if I should waste my time on my two at this point. Should I start calling others????

Don't give up calling just because it's late in the day.....if this info is correct they are staying late.