House Passes Amnesty--Senate to Vote Thursday Morning

[Cindy Seeley]

WE LOST IN THE HOUSE


Now We Have To Defeat DREAM Act Amnesty In The Senate Thursday Morning.

Start calling your own U.S. Senators at 8 Thursday morning until we announce the vote.

202-224-3121

• We will be providing you faxes of thanks and disgust to send to your U.S. Representatives later to make sure they know that you were watching.
  
  
  For now, though, focus your attention on the Senate.
  
  You can find the Senate target list on our www.NumbersUSA.com
  
  
• The House vote at 9:01 p.m. EST tonight was 216-198 in passing the amnesty in the House.
  
  But the amnesty won't actually happen if if the Senate fails to get 60 votes for cloture Thursday. We only have to win once to win the whole
  thing.
  
  
  
• The Senate cloture vote is required to allow the debate to start on the amnesty. If it gets less than 60, the bill is dead.
  
  If cloture DOES pass, there will be a debate on the bill and then another cloture vote in which we can again have a chance to kill the
  bill by keeping the vote below 60 (of the 100 Senators).

WE'LL WEBCAST SENATE VOTE AND OUR COMMENTARY LIVE

We invite you back into our conference room Thursday morning to watch the Senate vote with our NumbersUSA staff.

Note that the address is not dot com, but dot tv:

www.NumbersUSA.tv

The Senate schedule states that the amnesty will be taken up after the Senate convenes at 9:30. That could easily change, but we'll be
live then in case things start happening that early.


OUR LIVE WEBCAST OF HOUSE AMNESTY VOTE
WAS NO. 1 USTREAM IN THE WORLD WEDNESDAY NIGHT

Thanks to all of you who joined us in our conference room via www.NumbersUSA.tv tonight.

We started at 3:30 p.m. just before Senate Majority Leader Reid had promised to have a Senate vote. We stayed live until we lost the House
vote after 9 p.m. We were amazed how many of you stuck with us for
hours.


During most of the early part, we were ranked No. 2 in the world. And during the final couple hours we were ranked No. 1 in viewership.


20 House Members Failed To Vote

The usual 218 vote majority was not needed tonight because 20 Representatives failed to show up to vote:

DEMOCRATS: Berry (Ark.), Cohen (Tenn.), Delahunt (Mass.), Kilpatrick (Mich.), Marshall (Ga.), Mollohan (W.Va.), Schiff (Calif.) and Wu
(Oregon)


REPUBLICANS: Bilbray (Calif.), Blunt (Mo.) Buyer (Ind.), Fallin (Okla.), Gingrey (Ga.), Granger (Texas), Griffith (Ala.), Marchant
(Texas), McMorris Rodgers (Wash.), Radanovich (Calif.) and Stutzman
(Ind.)


It is doubtful that these absences affected the final outcome.

8 REPUBLICANS Broke With Their Party Leadership
And Voted FOR The Amnesty

Our chances to defeat the amnesty were sunk with the defection of these 8 Republicans in favor of amnesty:

DELAWARE - Castle
FLORIDA - L. Diaz-Balart
FLORIDA - M. Diaz-Balart
FLORIDA - Ros-Lehtinen
HAWAII - Djou
LOUISIANA - Cao
MICHIGAN - Ehlers
SOUTH CAROLINA - Inglis

38 DEMOCRATS Broke With Their Party Leadership And Voted AGAINST Amnesty

We almost did as well with Democrats as I had hoped. I had always said we needed at least 42 Democrats to vote for unemployed Americans
and against the amnesty, although I felt 45 probably was needed.
Because of so many Republican defections, we actually needed more.


These were both re-elected Democrats and Democrats who were defeated, all of whom went against incredibly emotional appeals from
their Party's top leaders in floor speeches tonight.


It is quite rare for a Speaker of the House to go to the floor and make a speech. But Speaker Pelosi made it clear that passing this
amnesty is one of the dearest things to her heart in an impassioned
speech that seemed to laud as a hero every citizen of another country
who is courageous enough to break our immigration laws.


Nonetheless, these Democrats OPPOSED the amnesty:

ALABAMA - Barrow
ALABAMA - Bright
ARKANSAS - Ross

ILLINOIS - Costello
ILLINOIS - Lipinski

INDIANA - Donnelly
INDIANA - Ellsworth
INDIANA - Visclosky

KENTUCKY - Chandler
MARYLAND - Kratovil
MICHIGAN - Stupak
MINNESOTA - Peterson

MISSISSIPPI - Childers
MISSISSIPPI - Taylor

NEW YORK - Arcuri
NEW YORK - Higgins
NEW YORK - Owens

NORTH CAROLINA - Kissell
NORTH CAROLINA - McIntyre
NORTH CAROLINA - Shuler

OHIO - Boccieri
OHIO - Kaptur
OHIO - Space
OHIO - Wilson
OKLAHOMA - Boren

PENNSYLVANIA - Altmire
PENNSYLVANIA - Carney
PENNYSLVANIA - Critz
PENNSYLVANIA - Dahlkemper
PENNSYLVANIA - Holden
PENNSYLVANIA - Kanjorski
PENNSYLVANIA - P. Murphy

UTAH - Matheson
VIRGINIA - Boucher
VIRGINIA - Nye
WASHINGTON - Baird
WEST VIRGINIA - Rahall

No matter what you may think about the rest of the politics of these Members, I hope those of you in their states will give them major pats
on the back for taking this stand.


Notice how they are from all over the country.

Special thanks to all of you Pennsylvanians who outdid yourself with 7 Democrats voting NO.

And how often do you New Yorkers have something to be proud about when it comes to immigration voting? But you did well tonight. So did
those of you from Indiana, Ohio and North Carolina.


I'm especially proud of all the Democrats who lost their seats in the November elections and still voted against their Party leaders and
against the amnesty tonight.


Most Senate voicemail boxes are full. So, you won't be able to leave messages. You need to start calling after 7 a.m. EST Thursday for
a last chance to affect the outcome.


SEE YOU ON THE LIVE WEBCAST THURSDAY MORNING,