[Politics_CurrentEvents_Group] Dream Note and personal Ruthie Note

Dear Members

Reminder - no The Ruthie Report on 12/16/10

Do not forget the SB 1070 Minnesota Style actions

Website does not yet have the petition online - tech should have

it up and running shortly.

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PERSONAL RUTHIE NOTE

For reasons beyond my control - I will be unavailable to respond to and

will not be sending out emails for the next few days.

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Please see Numbers message on Dream Act below

One week left and this NIGHTMARE will be over - contacts Senators

and let them know - WE SAY NO TO THE DREAM ACT.

	From: Roy Beck, President, NumbersUSA
	Date: Thursday 9DEC2010 2 p.m. EST

SENATE TABLES ITS OWN DREAM AMNESTY

Reid Plans Vote On House-Passed DREAM Amnesty Next Week
As He Hopes To Use Time To Gain More Votes

SORRY, BUT WE NEED MORE CALLS AND FAXES TO THE SENATE

All of you who watched our live web-streaming this morning during the Senate proceedings know that it was a complex and confusing mess. But here is where we are in several nutshells:

Our NumbersUSA Hill Team was convinced that we had enough votes to kill the DREAM amnesty if there had been a vote at 11 a.m. as promised.
Reid obviously knew pretty much what we knew. He didn't want to accept that his amnesty dream was lost and moved to buy another week of time, showing that one of his top priorities continues to be adding millions more foreign-born workers with work permits to compete with unemployed Americans.

He moved to table the Senate's DREAM amnesty bill.
A motion to table only required a majority vote. It passed 59-40.

It is very difficult to read into what each individual YES and NO vote meant. Each Senator seemed to have different ideas in mind. We had several strong anti-amnesty Senators voting with Reid to table and some strong pro-amnesty Senators voting against tabling.
The result, however, is that we were not able to kill the DREAM amnesty once and for all today.

The pro-amnesty side is crowing that it has another week to change the minds of some Senators to pass this next week.

If Congress can't come to an agreement on the tax issue by the end of next week, passage of the amnsty will be pretty much impossible.

But if there IS a tax agreement, the pro-amnesty people are hoping to peel off a number of Senators who now are saying they plan to vote NO.

ACTION: We need you to continue to come back to your customized Action Board every day to take action until Congress adjourns or deals with the amnesty.

www.NumbersUSA.com/actionbuffet

For today, every single Senator needs to hear from you again to help guard against listening to bargaining offers. So, call your two Senators again. Consult your Phone Action Notes on the Action Board for talking points.

202-224-3121

Also, send new faxes we've posted there for key Senators.

Then, tomorrow, we will switch you back to target lists.

Remember that it has been the grassroots mobilization over the last 10 years, and especially this year, that has stalled the amnesty push to this point.

Just a little more effort, and we will have beaten this thing.