Funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) runs out next Friday, February 27th. Republican Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is still trying to get Democrats to end their filibuster and vote to begin debate on the bill. As we explained here, the Senate has voted three times to proceed to the bill, but Democrats (and Senator Dean Heller (R-NV)) have blocked it.
Continue reading →UPDATE: Today, Wednesday, February 4th, the Senate again voted on cloture on the motion to proceed to debate H.R. 240, the House-passed bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). All Democrats and Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) once more defeated cloture by a vote of 53-47 (60 votes needed to proceed).
Continue reading →Earlier today, the U.S. Senate failed to proceed to debate on the House-passed Homeland Security appropriations bill that defunds President Obama’s amnesties. Senate Democrats and Senator Dean Heller (R-NV) decided that they would rather shut down the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) than have a debate on the president’s executive actions.
Continue reading →TODAY (Tuesday) at 2:30 p.m., the Senate will vote to begin debating a bill passed by the House of Representatives (H.R. 240) that funds the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) while defunding President Obama’s unconstitutional executive amnesty and winding down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.
Continue reading →Next week, the Senate is expected to vote on funding the Department of Homeland Security. It will consider the bill passed by the House of Representatives that funds the department while defunding President Obama’s unconstitutional executive amnesty and winding down the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The Senate must follow the House’s lead.
Continue reading →Tomorrow morning, Wednesday, January 14th, the House of Representatives will take up H.R. 240, which would fund the Department of Homeland Security. As you remember, Republican leadership decided in December that a “CROmnibus” would be the most effective strategy in stopping President Obama’s unilateral, illegal action on immigration. While passing the majority of the funding for the government, they placed appropriations for the Department of Homeland Security into a short-term bill that expires in February in hopes of defunding the President’s amnesty with a Republican-controlled Congress.
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September 29, 2014 President Obama continues to ignore the immigration laws and promote amnesty wherever he can. Although Congress heard the American people and did
Continue reading →While the House of Representatives has tried to clean up the mess created by the Administration’s non-enforcement immigration policies, President Obama and his friends in the Senate are refusing to debate the border crisis through an open process.
Continue reading →The final Cloture vote, the motion to end discussion and move to final passage of the Gang of Eight’s loophole and political payoff-ridden amnesty bill is scheduled for June 27th. Cloture is important, because it requires a 60 vote threshold, so it’s the only vote conservatives can win in the Senate.
Continue reading →Your Senators will be voting at 5:30 (ET) today on a bill that in all likelihood they have not read! The Schumer-Corker-Hoeven amendment is nothing but a fig leaf that promises strong border security but is full of loopholes to ensure the border never gets secured. It does not fix any of the problems in the underlying Gang of Eight bill, in fact, it adds to the cost and only makes the bill worse.
Continue reading →Our friends at NumbersUSA are hosting a special teletownhall this evening at 7:00 p.m. ET.
Continue reading →Senators Bob Corker of Tennessee and John Hoeven of North Dakota worked out a phony “border security” amendment that is acceptable to liberals but would give cover to Senators who want to claim they are defending border security. We need you to call Senator Ron Johnson and urge him to vote NO on the Corker-Hoeven amendment today!
Continue reading →Senators Bob Corker of Tennessee and John Hoeven of North Dakota worked out a phony “border security” amendment that is acceptable to liberals but would give cover to Senators who want to claim they are defending border security. We need you to call Senator Orrin Hatch and urge him to vote NO on the Corker-Hoeven amendment today!
Continue reading →Senators Bob Corker of Tennessee and John Hoeven of North Dakota worked out a phony “border security” amendment that is acceptable to liberals but would give cover to Senators who want to claim they are defending border security. We need you to call Senators Chambliss and Isakson and urge them to vote NO on the Corker-Hoeven amendment!
Continue reading →The Capitol Switchboard has been overloaded by people calling to express their opposition to the Senate Amnesty bill, but your Senators still need to hear from YOU! Please take a moment to e-mail your Senators by clicking here. Also, click here to find your Senators’ direct phone numbers.
Continue reading →Last week, Eagle Forum circulated a coalition letter to national and grassroots leaders throughout the country opposing the Gang of 8 immigration bill.
Continue reading →Senators are in their home states this week, and they need to hear your opposition to the Amnesty bill. Our Capitol Hill sources tell us Senators are not hearing much opposition to the Gang of 8 bill that would grant instant Amnesty to more than 11 million illegal immigrants!
Continue reading →Every week, we go to coalition meetings comprised of outside organizations and Congressional staff. Some leaders of the faith community have been saying that people of strong faith should support Amnesty, claiming it is a biblical mandate.
Continue reading →As you know, the immigration debate in Washington is in full swing. We know you are being inundated with information that is most likely hard to sift through, understand, and discern.
Continue reading →In the wee hours of the morning, the Gang of 8 released its 844-page amnesty bill, S. 744, titled “Border Security, Economic Opportunity, and Immigration Modernization Act.’’ It is being called the most sweeping piece of Amnesty legislation our nation has ever seen.
Continue reading →The so-called Gang of 8 Senators who have been working out a Comprehensive Immigration Reform bill behind closed doors is set to unveil their plan at any moment.
Continue reading →Harry Reid announced that the Senate will start debating immigration legislation after Easter, when it returns to Washington on April 6th.
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