The SAVE Act of 2007 Discharge Petition
Below is part of an email that I received from a HUMAN EVENTS advertiser, the Center For Individual Freedom. (WWW.CFIF.ORG.)
They have published a list of members of Congress who voted for the SAVE Act bill, but who have as yet not voted for the discharge petition so that the bill can get a straight up or down vote.
Below is the list of the House of Representative members who need to get a letter or a phone call to let them know that their constituents are paying attention.
~~John Cronin~~
The Following Members of the House of Representatives: The Hon. Jason Altmire, The Hon. Michael A. Arcuri, The Hon. Brian Baird, The Hon. Melissa L. Bean, The Hon. Marion Berry, The Hon. Sanford Bishop, The Hon. Dan Boren, The Hon. Leonard L. Boswell, The Hon. Rick Boucher, The Hon. Allen Boyd, The Hon. Shelley Moore Capito, The Hon. Steve Cohen, The Hon. Jim Cooper, The Hon. Robert E. (Bud), Cramer Jr., The Hon. Artur Davis, The Hon. Lincoln Davis, The Hon. Kirsten E. Gillibrand, The Hon. Bart Gordon, The Hon. Brian Higgins, The Hon. Baron P. Hill, The Hon. Paul W. Hodes, The Hon. Tim Holden, The Hon. Steve Kagen, The Hon. Paul E. Kanjorski, The Hon. Ron Klein, The Hon. Jim Marshall, The Hon. Jim Matheson, The Hon. Jerry McNerney, The Hon. Charlie Melancon, The Hon. Patrick J. Murphy, The Hon. John P. Murtha, The Hon. Ed Perlmutter, The Hon. Ciro D. Rodriguez, The Hon. Mike Ross, The Hon. Tim Ryan, The Hon. Joe Sestak, The Hon. Zachary T. Space, The Hon. Bart Stupak, The Hon. John S. Tanner, The Hon. Mark Udall, The Hon. Don Young, The Hon. Peter J. Visclosky
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and a handful of her far-left cronies in Congress are plotting to put amnesty for 12-20 million illegal aliens back on the table!
And their first order of business is BLOCKING legislation that would finally beef up our nation’s border security and crack down on employers that hire illegal aliens.
We’re talking about the Secure America Through Verification and Enforcement Act of 2007 or SAVE Act of 2007 (HR 4088), an enforcement-only bill that will add 8,000 agents to secure our borders and implement systems that will allow employers to easily verify workers’ immigration status.
According to the Washington Times:
“But House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and the rest of the House Democratic leadership are open-borders advocates who want no part of the SAVE Act, and have thus far managed to keep the bill buried…”In other words, if Pelosi and company have their way, the SAVE Act of 2007 will NEVER get a vote on the floor of the House of Representatives!
But you have the power to STOP this obstruction!
A few days ago, Congressmen Brian Bilbray (R-California) and Heath Shuler (D-North Carolina) initiated what is called a “discharge petition.” Under House rules, if a simple majority, 218 Members, sign this discharge petition, the SAVE Act of 2007 will be FORCED to the floor of the House for a fair-up-or-down vote!To date, 181 Members have signed the discharge petition. So we are only 37 votes short from forcing a vote on the SAVE Act!
But, as radio personality Paul Harvey used to say; “just wait until you hear the rest of the story!”
38 Members of Congress who actually sponsored the SAVE Act of 2007 have NOT — as of yet — signed the discharge petition!
If these 38 Members simply moved to give the legislation they so proudly sponsored a fair up-or-down vote, the Pelosi-inspired obstruction would be stopped dead in its tracks!
And that’s where you come in!
If you take them to task — RIGHT HERE AND RIGHT NOW — they will do the right thing.
And if the SAVE Act of 2007 passes, we can thwart Pelosi’s plans to bring back amnesty!
March 31st, 2008 at 1:15 am
Thanks a lot for the heads up John - I read about this but your post ‘enlightened’ me. I recall reading somewhere that McCain called some of his buddies in Congress and told them to vote against it or something else like that. Maybe you could post that John - it’d be nice to show people that McCain is a bit hardheaded.