Thread: Sens. Nelson and Baucus Block E-Verify Amendment

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Sens. Nelson and Baucus Block E-Verify Amendment
Updated Monday, February 9, 2009, 6:00 PM


Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) attempted to offer his E-Verify amendment (SA 239) to the economic stimulus package, but Sen. Max Baucus (D-Mont.) prevented him from doing so. SA 239 would have required all businesses and localities that receive stimulus money to use the E-Verify employment verification system. Sen. Ben Nelson (D-Neb.), who had earlier supported Sen. Sessions' efforts to mandate E-Verify for stimulus recipients, did not support Sen. Sessions' attempt to force the Senate to vote on SA 239. In fact, Sen. Nelson moved to end all debate on the economic stimulus package.

Senators subsequently voted 61-36 to cut off debate on the amendment containing the "compromise" Stimulus deal. While that deal secured enough votes for Senate passage, it does not include E-Verify protections for Stimulus jobs. NumbersUSA learned that Sens. Harry Reid (D-Nev.) and Robert Menendez (D-N.J.) had pledged this afternoon that they would have used their veto power under special procedures to block E-Verify if Baucus had not.

"At the moment, I am inclined to hold every Senator but Sen. Sessions responsible for this incredible affront to unemployed American workers, " said Roy Beck, NumbersUSA President. "Even Senators who support E-Verify did not speak on the floor or to the media to draw attention to the terrible injustice of using perhaps 10% of the Stimulus money to hire illegal foreign workers instead of unemployed Americans and authorized immigrants already here."

While it is difficult to believe that Senate leaders might insist that illegal aliens have the same chance at new Stimulus jobs as unemployed Americans, this scenario is now at hand. A vote on final passage is scheduled for Tuesday, Feb. 10.

Go to your Action Buffet and send a free fax to tell your Senators how disappointed/angry/baffled you are at their refusal to consider the E-Verify provisions.

There is some good news to report. On Feb. 6, Senators adopted an amendment (SA 306) sponsored by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) and Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) that would to bar bailed-out banks from hiring foreign workers, for just one year. Their measure was prompted by an Associated Press investigation that revealed how banks receiving the most federal aid had requested visas for thousands of foreign workers even as they laid off employees during the economic downturn.

http://bennelson.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm

http://baucus.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm

http://menendez.senate.gov/contact/contact.cfm

http://reid.senate.gov/contact/index.cfm


we all know that Menendez is an open borders loving MORON so i dont know how the email or phone calls to him will help.

Oh, boy howdy, this is the "change" we can count on. These crooks are still running rampant in the Senate. There isn't any change there.

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Originally Posted by tinybobidaho

Oh, boy howdy, this is the "change" we can count on. These crooks are still running rampant in the Senate. There isn't any change there.

Yup, the Democratic Party that is supposed to care about American workers, just blocked an amendment that would have protected 300,000 American jobs. It is simply disgusting that 1) they did this & 2) their allies in the MSM won't call them on this.

Harry Reid needs cheap illegal alien labor to install those neon signs for his casinos in Vegas provided for in this excrement of a bill along with a proposed mob museum also in Vegas depicting Reid's life...........

Originally Posted by jamesw62

we all know that Menendez is an open borders loving MORON so i dont know how the email or phone calls to him will help.

More like open borders loving TRAITOR, Reid also.

Originally Posted by retiredairforce

Harry Reid needs cheap illegal alien labor to install those neon signs for his casinos in Vegas provided for in this excrement of a bill along with a proposed mob museum also in Vegas depicting Reid's life...........

I am disgusted by this. I dare not tell my out of work cousin who is a construction worker.

Where is an investigative reporter or criminal agency that can get the real story out on why Reid does casino what casino he casino does casino?

You have to remember that they have told us that no white man will get jobs, so what is the surprise?

Should this not be "our hour" to make sure that other Americans learn about the coalition between the Big Business, wealthy liberals, and the ethnocentric organizations they fund which are working relentlessly to simply "erase" sovereign national borders in North America?

Since members of this coaltion also own our national media, I am surprised that the people here who usually organize calling drives and notify national conservative talk shows are not doing so now. In that way, the nation at large could learn of the danger of omitting E-Verify from this stimulus bill.

Just my thought.