princessredtights
10-22-2007, 09:30 AM
It's time to put on our "Good Citizen Action Caps" and voice our opinions to our elected officials. Those sneaky pro-Amnesty Senators are trying ONCE AGAIN to push a vote thru Congress to allow Amnesty for illegals (again!) ~ and, if you read the email from NUMBERS USA, they might just do it very quickly!
I am forwarding the email from NUMBERS USA - if you haven't used their website, it's kind of cool! You can actually send faxes to your Senators from their site!
So, roll up your sleeves, make a few calls, use your political muscle and VOICE! You can use the fax services on www.numbersusa.com or go to www.senate.gov and find the phone numbers to your senator!
Here’s a snippet from the email from www.numbersusa.com
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Senate Majority Leader Indicates He May Bring Stand-Alone DREAM Amnesty To Vote Later This Week
Here is the scariest news yet:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has invoked Rule 14 on the new stand-alone DREAM Act amnesty!
That means he is setting up Senate procedure to spring the amnesty at any time without hearings or committee action. For the Majority Leader to invoke Rule 14 means that he can bring a bill to a floor without it going through the debate and markup of a committee.
Rosemary Jenks, our NumbersUSA Director of Government Relations, says, "Generally when Rule 14 is invoked, it means the leadership intends to have a vote on the bill in fairly short order."
Under the rule, the amnesty bill (S. 2205) can be brought up as early as Tuesday.
The rule also allows Sen. Reid to wait until our forces are distracted and bring it at any time in the future at the spur of the moment.
So, we need all of you hitting up your Senators' offices all over again starting Monday with phone calls and faxes.
Besides Reid, the chief culprits in this mess are Senate Assistant Majority Leader Durbin (D-Ill.), Sen. Hagel (R-Neb.) and Sen. Lugar (R-Ind.). I hope you will feel free from anywhere in the country to let these four Senators know how you feel about their aggressive leadership to pass this amnesty.
Phone Senate Switchboard
202-224-3121
You can see all the direct Capitol office phone numbers and the numbers for their offices back home at:
www.numbersusa.com/congressinfo/
1. A key thing to say to your two Senators:
S. 2205, the stand-alone version of the DREAM Act, has been placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar under Rule 14 because the Leadership knows that if the bill is out there long enough to go through the normal committee process, Americans will have a chance to express their overwhelming opposition to it and it will fail.
2. A second point to make:
This underhanded attempt to bypass the process and shove this through before the public catches on is shameful and must not be allowed to work.
3. Tell everybody, "NO amnesty!"
Then, if you want to and have time, make a couple of specific points about the DREAM Act that you can find on our website or on Phone Notes on your Action Buffet corkboard.
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Here’s some quotes from the founding fathers on citizen involvement! I find their words so wise even after all these years!
Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress, and Assemblies, Judges, and Governors, shall all become wolves.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Edward Carrington, January 16, 1787
We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1816
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Abigail Adams, February 22, 1787
Here sir, the people govern.
Alexander Hamilton, speech to the New York Ratifying Convention, June 17, 1788
A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.
Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1792
PLEASE REPOST!
I am forwarding the email from NUMBERS USA - if you haven't used their website, it's kind of cool! You can actually send faxes to your Senators from their site!
So, roll up your sleeves, make a few calls, use your political muscle and VOICE! You can use the fax services on www.numbersusa.com or go to www.senate.gov and find the phone numbers to your senator!
Here’s a snippet from the email from www.numbersusa.com
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Senate Majority Leader Indicates He May Bring Stand-Alone DREAM Amnesty To Vote Later This Week
Here is the scariest news yet:
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) has invoked Rule 14 on the new stand-alone DREAM Act amnesty!
That means he is setting up Senate procedure to spring the amnesty at any time without hearings or committee action. For the Majority Leader to invoke Rule 14 means that he can bring a bill to a floor without it going through the debate and markup of a committee.
Rosemary Jenks, our NumbersUSA Director of Government Relations, says, "Generally when Rule 14 is invoked, it means the leadership intends to have a vote on the bill in fairly short order."
Under the rule, the amnesty bill (S. 2205) can be brought up as early as Tuesday.
The rule also allows Sen. Reid to wait until our forces are distracted and bring it at any time in the future at the spur of the moment.
So, we need all of you hitting up your Senators' offices all over again starting Monday with phone calls and faxes.
Besides Reid, the chief culprits in this mess are Senate Assistant Majority Leader Durbin (D-Ill.), Sen. Hagel (R-Neb.) and Sen. Lugar (R-Ind.). I hope you will feel free from anywhere in the country to let these four Senators know how you feel about their aggressive leadership to pass this amnesty.
Phone Senate Switchboard
202-224-3121
You can see all the direct Capitol office phone numbers and the numbers for their offices back home at:
www.numbersusa.com/congressinfo/
1. A key thing to say to your two Senators:
S. 2205, the stand-alone version of the DREAM Act, has been placed on the Senate Legislative Calendar under Rule 14 because the Leadership knows that if the bill is out there long enough to go through the normal committee process, Americans will have a chance to express their overwhelming opposition to it and it will fail.
2. A second point to make:
This underhanded attempt to bypass the process and shove this through before the public catches on is shameful and must not be allowed to work.
3. Tell everybody, "NO amnesty!"
Then, if you want to and have time, make a couple of specific points about the DREAM Act that you can find on our website or on Phone Notes on your Action Buffet corkboard.
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Here’s some quotes from the founding fathers on citizen involvement! I find their words so wise even after all these years!
Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. Do not be too severe upon their errors, but reclaim them by enlightening them. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress, and Assemblies, Judges, and Governors, shall all become wolves.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Edward Carrington, January 16, 1787
We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Samuel Kercheval, July 12, 1816
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions, that I wish it to be always kept alive. It will often be exercised when wrong, but better so than not to be exercised at all. I like a little rebellion now and then. It is like a storm in the atmosphere.
Thomas Jefferson, letter to Abigail Adams, February 22, 1787
Here sir, the people govern.
Alexander Hamilton, speech to the New York Ratifying Convention, June 17, 1788
A little matter will move a party, but it must be something great that moves a nation.
Thomas Paine, Rights of Man, 1792
PLEASE REPOST!