Amnesty Fails -- Senate Roll Call Vote
major
campaign by U.S. elites to legalize an estimated 10 million
to 13 million illegal aliens and create another sprawling
"guest worker" program to funnel even more cheap
labor to the U.S. went down to a crashing defeat in late
June as President George Bush and his Capitol Hill allies
failed to muster the votes needed to end debate on amnesty
legislation in the Senate.
The bill, which was backed by business groups and left-wing
multiculturalist organizations in an alliance led by President
Bush and Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-MA, would have imposed the
biggest changes to immigration law in more than 20 years,
offering amnesty to illegal aliens and granting a back-door
amnesty to their employers. But the Senate, overwhelmed
with letters, e-mails, and phone calls from outraged Americans
all across the country fueling the opposition, could never
unite on a single version of the bill's key provisions.
Rejecting the president's pleas and desperate political
maneuvering, the Senate voted 53 to 46 against a motion
to end debate and move toward final passage of the amnesty
bill.
Bush placed numerous telephone calls to lawmakers throughout
the week of the vote in an effort to garner support, but
members of his own party abandoned him in droves, revealing
how politically weak his presidency has become after years
pursuing unpopular neoconservative policies. Those policies,
including the perilously misguided and mismanaged invasion
of Iraq, free trade, and continuing support for mass immigration
in defiance of popular opposition, have driven the president's
job-approval rating down as low as 31 percent.
The president's defeat on immigration means the White House,
which has already given up on trying to reform Social Security,
has little prospect of winning any big legislative achievements
in the final months of his term.
Phil Kent, spokesman for Americans for Immigration Control,
which lobbied heavily against the bill, called the final
vote "a tremendous victory for the American people
and a victory for representative government."
Here is the Senate's roll call vote on June 28. A "Yes"
vote was to end debate and move the bill toward final passage,
in effect supporting amnesty for illegals. A "No"
vote was to permit further consideration of the bill, in
effect opposing amnesty.
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Voting
Yes --- 46
Akaka
(D-HI)
Bennett (R-UT)
Biden (D-DE)
Boxer (D-CA)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Clinton (D-NY)
Conrad (D-ND)
Craig (R-ID)
Dodd (D-CT)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Graham (R-SC)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Inouye (D-HI)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lott (R-MS)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Obama (D-IL)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Schumer (D-NY)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wyden (D-OR)
Not
Voting -- 1
Johnson (D-SD)
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Voting
No -- 53
Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Bond (R-MO)
Brown (D-OH)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burr (R-NC)
Byrd (D-WV)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Dole (R-NC)
Domenici (R-NM)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Grassley (R-IA)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Isakson (R-GA)
Landrieu (D-LA)
McCaskill (D-MO)
McConnell (R-KY)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Nelson (D-NE)
Pryor (D-AR)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Sanders (I-VT)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Smith (R-OR)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Stevens (R-AK)
Sununu (R-NH)
Tester (D-MT)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
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