NPR
reports that the U.S. Senate begins its second round of debate regarding S 1438 this week:
The week begins with votes on a series of amendments followed by a procedural vote that determines if the compromise language has the 60 votes needed to keep moving toward final passage. The outcome is too close to call (...) But Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., a leading critic of the legislation, argued that support for the bill continues to plummet, both among senators thought to be behind it and among the public.
7 comments:
There is another bill out there with a different title and a different number S.1639. Aside from the title, the bill looks almost identical to S.1348. What's going on here? Is this another form of Kennedy treachery? Can MATT explain this development and the relationship between these two bills?
There has never been a good reason for comprehensive reform. The case for S.1348 is vastly overstated. Instead of legalizing all of the miscreants already here and establishing some more arbitrary quotas why not enact a process by which our needs can be matched more precisely with willing foreign labor and legal immigrants. Uneducated immigrants cannot replace the well-educated boomers when they retire.
Ultima,
Good question re: s 1348 v. 1349. Look to a new post for an answer.
1639 is just the new name for 1348. A trick indeed to fool us and put us off the scent.
Um, no. It's just a different number. If that sets you "off the scent", then, well, that's just you.
Nonsense, tyler. The bill's name change is part of a pattern of deliberate confusion that has been followed by the pro-amnesty forces for some time. Remember the original bill was crafted by the "grand bargainers" behind closed doors with zero input from American citizens. And the grand bargainers continue to try to shut down all discussion of this bill through the use of cloture and other procedural tricks. Why are they shutting down discussion of the bill? Because they don't want the American people to know what is inside of it.
The bill is available in its entirety online. A number and title change puts you off? I agree that more transparent deliberation would have been great, but it's not like we don't know anything that's going on. Things are not that opaque. Agree or disagree with the bill, all the information on it you need is out there, accessible to you and me.
Tyler,
If I had known about the number switch earlier, such as on Friday, it would have aided my lobbying efforts against cloture. I am sure the number change was deliberate to sow confusion in the ranks of the patriots trying to defend our country.
Post a Comment