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Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) delayed until May 21 the cloture vote on the motion to proceed to S. 1348, immigration legislation very similar to last year’s Senate-passed amnesty bill (S. 2611). The vote was delayed to buy Senators more time to negotiate a “compromise” bill and draft its language.
The “cloture” vote is the rule that allows a bill to be brought to the Senate floor for a vote without going through the discussion, debate and amending of a committee. Because some Senators have promised to filibuster the Rule 14, Reid will need 60 Senators voting YES on cloture (which means an end to debate on the rule) to allow the debate on the actual bill to begin.
Our greatest hope is that Reid will fall short of the 60 votes.
If Reid gets the 60 votes, there will be several days of debate and probably a lot of amendments. Then, Reid will have to have another cloture vote to end debate and allow a final vote on the amnesty.
Your key request should be:
“Vote NO on cloture on Rule 14 on S. 1348 … and vote NO on cloture on any bill that would give legal residence to illegal aliens … Don’t let any of these bills be brought to a vote.”
You should constantly be saying that there is no reason to rush through an amnesty — especially hundreds of pages that haven’t even been passed out yet.
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