Friday, June 08, 2007

The Amnesty roll call vote...

Here, courtesy of FOX news is the roll call that put the Senate amnesty bill to sleep, at least for a while...and there are some surprises as well.

The Senators that voted for this nonsense were concerned primarily about campaign contributions from businesses that hire illegal aliens and like the idea of a continued flow of cheap labor, no matter what the effect on the country.

These weasels are, plain and simple, for sale...strip them down to the skin and you'd find a bar code. Here are the votes - Note that every Democratic presidential candidate voted for this nonsense, and I've highlighted them and some others in scarlet, so we remember:

A "yes" vote is a vote to cut off debate and shove this through the Senate:

Voting yes were 37 Democrats and 7 Republicans and one independent.

Voting no were 11 Democrats and 38 Republicans and one independent.

Alabama

Sessions (R) No; Shelby (R) No.

Alaska

Murkowski (R) No; Stevens (R) No.

Arizona

Kyl (R) No; McCain (R) Yes.

-Say goodbye to your presidential prospects, senator.

Arkansas

Lincoln (D) Yes; Pryor (D) No.

California

Boxer (D) No; Feinstein (D) Yes.

Now there's an interesting split..

Colorado

Allard (R) No; Salazar (D) Yes.

Connecticut

Dodd (D) Yes; Lieberman (I) Yes.

Joe, I'm surprised - shame on you...

Delaware

Biden (D) Yes; Carper (D) Yes.

And you want to be president,Biden?

Florida

Martinez (R) Yes; Nelson (D) Yes.

Ah,yes, the chairman of the Senate campaign committee. This speaks for itself

Georgia

Chambliss (R) No; Isakson (R) No.

I guess Chamblis getting booed in public had an effect.

Hawaii

Akaka (D) Yes; Inouye (D) Yes.

Idaho

Craig (R) No; Crapo (R) No.

Illinois

Durbin (D) Yes; Obama (D) Yes.

Being `presidential, eh, Obama? Not.

Indiana

Bayh (D) Yes; Lugar (R) Yes.

Iowa

Grassley (R) No; Harkin (D) Yes.

Kansas

Brownback (R) Not Voting; Roberts (R) No.

Kentucky

Bunning (R) No; McConnell (R) No.

Louisiana

Landrieu (D) No; Vitter (R) No.

Maine

Collins (R) No; Snowe (R) No.

Maryland

Cardin (D) Yes; Mikulski (D) Yes.

Massachusetts

Kennedy (D) Yes; Kerry (D) Yes.

What else would you expect?

Michigan

Levin (D) Yes; Stabenow (D) Yes.

Minnesota

Coleman (R) No; Klobuchar (D) Yes.

Mississippi

Cochran (R) No; Lott (R) No.

Missouri

Bond (R) No; McCaskill (D) No.

Montana

Baucus (D) No; Tester (D) No.

Nebraska

Hagel (R) Yes; Nelson (D) Yes.

Nevada

Ensign (R) No; Reid (D) Yes.

The Senator from slotsville, paying back his casino owner backers who like cheap hotel labor.

New Hampshire

Gregg (R) No; Sununu (R) No.

New Jersey

Lautenberg (D) Yes; Menendez (D) Yes.

New Mexico

Bingaman (D) No; Domenici (R) No.

New York

Clinton (D) Yes; Schumer (D) Yes.

Senator Clinton, paying for some of those campaign contributions from the big corporations shge hates so much.

North Carolina

Burr (R) No; Dole (R) No.

North Dakota

Conrad (D) Yes; Dorgan (D) No.

Ohio

Brown (D) Yes; Voinovich (R) Yes.

Oklahoma

Coburn (R) Not Voting; Inhofe (R) No.

Oregon

Smith (R) No; Wyden (D) Yes.

Pennsylvania

Casey (D) Yes; Specter (R) Yes.

Rhode Island

Reed (D) Yes; Whitehouse (D) Yes.

South Carolina

DeMint (R) No; Graham (R) Yes.

You're history, Senator.

South Dakota

Johnson (D) Not Voting; Thune (R) No.

Tennessee

Alexander (R) No; Corker (R) No.

Texas

Cornyn (R) No; Hutchison (R) No.

Utah

Bennett (R) No; Hatch (R) No.

Vermont

Leahy (D) Yes; Sanders (I) No.

A socialist with the intelligence to realize what this bill does to Labor.

Virginia

Warner (R) No; Webb (D) No.

Washington

Cantwell (D) Yes; Murray (D) Yes.

West Virginia

Byrd (D) No; Rockefeller (D) No.

And a couple of other senators who got the message from their Labor voters.

Wisconsin

Feingold (D) Yes; Kohl (D) Yes.

Wyoming

Enzi (R) Not Voting.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

i can not understand coburn not voting.
i just do not understand it.