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After blacking out all coverage of their proceedings the rest of the
month, the Senate Judicary Committee is now allowing C-SPAN to cablecast
their proceedings today as they try to pass a giant foreign worker bill.
You can see it right now on C-SPAN 1 TV.
If your computer can handle live feeds, you should also be able to see
it through the internet by going to:
http://www.c-span.org/watch/cspan_rm.asp?Cat=TV&Code=CS
All of your faxing
and phoning has had a good effect on the committee. Reports are that it
is having a hard time reaching a compromise.
The best hope is that Chairman Specter (R-PA) will fail to get 6 of the
10 Republicans to vote for any bill that comes out of the committee. In
other words, he may have to pass this as a primarily Democratic amnesty
bill.
If that happens, Senate Majority Leader Frist (R-TN) has said he will
try to block the bill from coming to the floor for a vote and instead
push his bill which stresses enforcement but which also has a gigantic
increase in green cards and H-1B visas. The good news, though, is that
Frist does NOT have any amnesty or mass blanket guestworker program in
his bill. That leaves our allies less to try to knock out of the bill on
the floor.
Mainly, though, we want to provide another defeat for the amnesty
movement as we did a year ago when AgJobs amnesty failed in a vote on
the Senate floor.
We have been sending
specialized Alerts to thousands of you this morning based on where you
live and answers you have given on your NumbersUSA Interest Survey. I
hope all of you who have gotten the Alerts have moved quickly to act.
If you haven't ever taken the Interest Survey or if you want to review
yours, click here:
http://numbersusa.com/survey?action=longlist
The rest of you
should be sure to check your NumbersUSA Action Buffet corkboard every
few hours to be sure you are caught up on requests for action.
www.NumbersUSA.com/actionbuffet
FROM THE WASHINGTON
TIMES TODAY
Mr. Frist has said, however, that he will include a guest-worker program
in his bill if a majority of the 10 Republicans on the Judiciary
Committee agree on one. Private negotiations among members and their
staffs continued through last week's recess, but staffers say no
consensus has been reached, suggesting that a compromise is highly
unlikely.
If you make any
calls to Senate Judiciary Members, you want to make absolutely sure that
if they say the Senator opposes amnesty that you followup with a
definition.
I recommend that
everybody read directly from this definition when you call congressional
offices so they get used to hearing it:
DEFINITION OF AMNESTY FOR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS WHO HAVE DIFFICULTY
UNDERSTANDING
“All proposals are AMNESTIES if they give illegal aliens the very thing
they broke the law to obtain ---- that is, the legal ability to live and
work in the U.S. indefinitely."
"A TEMPORARY AMNESTY is one that allows illegal aliens to live and work
here for a specified extended period of time (like five years) before
requiring them to return home.”
People like Sen. Kennedy (D-MA) and Sen. Graham (R-SC) say the bill they
are promoting is NOT an amnesty because it only lets illegal aliens stay
here permanently after they pay a fine, pay some back taxes and learn
English.
Our Media Coordinator Caroline Espinosa says this is what you should say
to Senate staffers who try to pull that one on you: Under the Kennedy
and Graham definitions of amnesty, if someone goes out and steals a car,
we let them keep the car if they pay a fine, pay any back taxes on the
car and pass a test on the car's maintenance manual.
To Senators who are thankfully saying they won't support the
Kennedy/Graham amnesty, you may want to especially want to point out
that it isn't just that bill that is an amnesty. The Specter proposal is
also an amnesty even though it doesn't give citizenship to illegal
aliens. Specter, nonetheless, allows 12-20 million illegal aliens to
live and work in the U.S. INDEFINITELY.
1. Here is the U.S. Capitol Switchboard phone number if you want to make
phone calls other than the ones I am specifically requesting through
specialized Action Alerts:
202-224-3121
2. Get any additional information about the layout of the Senate battle
and details about the bills in play by
going to our Hot Topics page.
Here is the side-by-side comparison of bills.
Here is the chart of the total
numerical impact of each bill.
WHAT ABOUT THOSE
GIGANTIC MARCHES THROUGH OUR CITIES OVER THE WEEKEND?
Many of you have written that these marches have truly frightened you
with the possibility that actual violent confrontations may be in store
for us down the line.
I agree that the images are frightening.
I saw photos of the 500,000 illegal aliens and their supporters in the
streets of Los Angeles and just kept thinking, "Thank you, President
Clinton and President Bush, for allowing a foreign occupying army to
invade many of our cities -- and thank you, U.S. Chamber of Commerce,
for paying for the invasion."
The marches should dispel any thought that the 12-20 million illegal
aliens in this country are just a lot of individuals without power.
Nonetheless, I think the last two weeks of demonstrations have been of
net benefit to our cause. They have awakened a lot more Americans to the
magnitude of the problem. And the arrogant demands by lawbreakers who
don't even have a right to be in this country are mainly convincing more
Americans that they need to join up with efforts like our own, I
believe.
You all have to feel pretty good about our growing army of activists.
NumbersUSA has added 3,440 new faxers just this weekend!
Since the start of last weekend (9 days), we have added a total of 8,004
new registered faxers.
Jim Robb, our Director of Technology, says we just crossed the 150,000
faxer activist mark. (That compares with around 55,000
just 15 months ago!)
We processed around 100,000 faxes into Congress and the White House the
last week alone.
NumbersUSA as a website has user activity that blows away all of the
activist websites of our open-borders opposition, according to the
objective research of Google at www.Alexa.com.
Later today, you
will get a "Viral Email" from us.
It will be an ad that we are asking you to send to every email address
you know to create a virtual march of 500,000 on-line faxers to match
the L.A. crowd.
We have no intention of trying to create those kinds of physical marches
to clog up cities across America. Rather, we intend to find 500,000
Americans who will be good citizens like all of you and take a small
amount of time each week to defend their country on the internet and on
the phone from the privacy and safety of their homes.
If all of your family and friends thought they were just too refined or
too busy to engage this battle before, maybe the marches over the
weekend and the prospect of the Senate giving citizenship to those
millions of illegal aliens will finally cause them to click an email
link and start sending faxes.
Thanks for all of your help.
-- ROY
P.S. Feel free to send this email on to your friends with an invitation
to SIGN UP FOR THE "VIRTUAL MARCH" at:
www.NumbersUSA.com/fax |