National Review Editorial
Seven who could stop amnesty

Stopping amnesty is entirely within the power of senators who oppose it. Later today, the Senate will vote on whether to proceed on the bill. To revive the once-stalled bill will require 60 votes, which means that if the senators who vote no and the senators who don’t vote add up to 41, the bill is dead…< …MORE

Those votes are available from a bipartisan group of senators who say they oppose the amnesty bill. They are Sens. Kit Bond, Sam Brownback, Richard Burr, Thad Cochran, Norm Coleman, John Ensign, and Jim Webb

( Note from D.A. – after the vote:Bond (R-MO), Yea – Brownback (R-KS), Yea – Burr (R-NC), Yea – Cochran (R-MS), Nay – Coleman (R-MN), Yea – Ensign (R-NV), Yea – Webb (D-VA), Yea )

If any of these senators votes to revive the bill, his professions of opposition to amnesty should no longer be taken seriously. He will have done his crucial bit, when the amnesty bill was most vulnerable, to help shepherd it to passage.

We know how senators who claim to oppose amnesty will try to explain away a vote to revive the bill. They will rely on procedural obfuscation: They didn’t want to obstruct the process, they wanted to get a vote on an amendment, etc. But amnesty is staying in the bill — no amendment to strike the bill’s central features has any chance of passage — and it deserves to be obstructed.

Note from D.A. – the bill is not dead, but it is not over yet…KEEP CALLING MCCONNELL! I will post contact info for the above Senators later….

How they all voted here