Today the Senate, in it's infinite wisdom, successfully passed it's "Comprehensive Immigration Reform" bill, by a 62-36 vote, with two Senators abstaining. Below I list the voters by state, source being senate.gov To their party's shame, only four Democratic Senators (Byrd, WV, Dorgan, ND, Nelson, NE and Stabenow MI) voted against this travesty of a bill, with two more Democrats abstaining. And to the shame of their party, 23 Republicans, including Bill Frist and John McCain voted for this legislation. The sole Independant threw his vote in with the Amnestias, Mr Jeffords of Vermont.

This is the bill which originally, according to admittedly conservative estimates by the Heritage Foundation, would have let in 66 Million+ new Legal Immigrants, over the next 20 years, with more realistic estimates being 1-200 Million over 20 years, although this provision has since been altered to cut the number down to a slightly saner 30-60 Million, a drastic and nation-changing number nonetheless.

Senator Arlen Specter of PA has, evidently, tacked on a little number that will also require the US to to consult the government of Mexico before building any walls on the border, this bill also grants amnesty to any Illegal in the country more than five years, grants a path to citizenship for those here 2-5 years, and politely asks those here less than 2 years to show themselves to the door.

It also, as a sop to the right-minded, doubles the size of the Border Patrol over 5 years.

According to Dr. Robert Rector of the heritage Foundation, this bill's provisions and the immigrants that it allows will cost you, the AmericanTax-Payer, approximately $50 Billion a year for the next 20 years, and Professor George Grayson, one of the nation's foremost authorities on Mexico, says this estimate is most likely too conservative.

This cost will be in Welfare, out-of-wedlock birth aid, food-stamps, education and the various bureaucracies this bill creates to monitor the provisions relating to guest workers. The people let in by this bill, the aforementioned experts point out, will be low-income workers, and therefore will not pay much in taxes, so these various programs they utilise will primarily be paid for by the middle class.

The Congressional Budget Office claims instead that it will cost $13 Billion in "Direct" (or Mandatory) spending for the first ten years, and $54 Billion in "Direct" spending for the next ten, with an additional $25 Billion in "Discretionary" spending (spending subject to appropriations) in this second ten-year period. Somehow it predicts that the tax revenue will increase by $66 Million over the second ten years, giving no estimate for the first.

This, despite Mr Kennedy's assertions, is in fact a net loss, even were it accurate, which various authorities and experts, as noted above, dispute. It should be pointed out that one of those authorites, Dr. Rector, was responsible for the new insertion lowering the number of legal immigrants alowed by the bill, as before the Heritage foundation released it's projection (that a minimum of 66 Million, and a maximum of 200 Million, Legal Immigrants would be allowed to enter the US by the provisions of this bill) the Senate had not even bothered to calculate how many immigrants the bill's provisions would allow in to the country.

Thank God for the House! By all reports and opinions the House of Representatives will most certainly not allow this piece of garbage to become law. The House, with elections looming has miraculously decided to listen to the people's opinion, and the majority of americans think the President, the Democratic Senators and the Republican Leadership of the Senate are insane.

So, the House will not pass the Senate's new "Bill", but unfortunately neither will the Senate agree to Sensenbrenner's bill. Most likely, this will not be resolved by July, like so many of the Pro-Amnesty types in the Senate would like. Personally, I think we should all worry whenever the government tries to rush a bill through.

Below is a list of how YOUR Senators voted! Be sure to reward them appropriately next election.

Grouped by Home State:

Alabama:			Sessions (R-AL), Nay	Shelby (R-AL), Nay
Alaska:			Murkowski (R-AK), Yea	Stevens (R-AK), Yea
Arizona:			Kyl (R-AZ), Nay	McCain (R-AZ), Yea
Arkansas:			Lincoln (D-AR), Yea	Pryor (D-AR), Yea
California:			Boxer (D-CA), Yea	Feinstein (D-CA), Yea
Colorado: Conneticut:			Allard (R-CO), Nay Dodd (D-CT), Yea	Salazar (D-CO), Not Voting Lieberman (D-CT), Yea
Delaware:			Biden (D-DE), Yea	Carper (D-DE), Yea
Florida:			Martinez (R-FL), Yea	Nelson (D-FL), Yea
Georgia:			Chambliss (R-GA), Nay	Isakson (R-GA), Nay
Hawaii:			Akaka (D-HI), Yea	Inouye (D-HI), Yea
Idaho:			Craig (R-ID), Yea	Crapo (R-ID), Nay
Illinois:			Durbin (D-IL), Yea	Obama (D-IL), Yea
Indiana:			Bayh (D-IN), Yea	Lugar (R-IN), Yea
Iowa:			Grassley (R-IA), Nay	Harkin (D-IA), Yea
Kansas:			Brownback (R-KS), Yea	Roberts (R-KS), Nay
Kentucky:			Bunning (R-KY), Nay	McConnell (R-KY), Yea
Louisiana:			Landrieu (D-LA), Yea	Vitter (R-LA), Nay
Maine:			Collins (R-ME), Yea	Snowe (R-ME), Yea
Maryland:			Mikulski (D-MD), Yea	Sarbanes (D-MD), Yea
Massachusetts:			Kennedy (D-MA), Yea	Kerry (D-MA), Yea
Michigan:			Levin (D-MI), Yea	Stabenow (D-MI), Nay
Minnesota:			Coleman (R-MN), Yea	Dayton (D-MN), Yea
Mississippi:			Cochran (R-MS), Nay	Lott (R-MS), Nay
Missouri:			Bond (R-MO), Nay	Talent (R-MO), Nay
Montana:			Baucus (D-MT), Yea	Burns (R-MT), Nay
Nebraska:			Hagel (R-NE), Yea	Nelson (D-NE), Nay
Nevada:			Ensign (R-NV), Nay	Reid (D-NV), Yea
New Hampshire:			Gregg (R-NH), Yea	Sununu (R-NH), Nay
New Jersey:			Lautenberg (D-NJ), Yea	Menendez (D-NJ), Yea
New Mexico:			Bingaman (D-NM), Yea	Domenici (R-NM), Yea
New York:			Clinton (D-NY), Yea	Schumer (D-NY), Yea
North Carolina:			Burr (R-NC), Nay	Dole (R-NC), Nay
North Dakota:			Conrad (D-ND), Yea	Dorgan (D-ND), Nay
Ohio:			DeWine (R-OH), Yea	Voinovich (R-OH), Yea
Oklahoma:			Coburn (R-OK), Nay	Inhofe (R-OK), Nay
Oregon:			Smith (R-OR), Yea	Wyden (D-OR), Yea
Pennsylvania:			Santorum (R-PA), Nay	Specter (R-PA), Yea
Rhode Island:			Chafee (R-RI), Yea	Reed (D-RI), Yea
South Carolina:			DeMint (R-SC), Nay	Graham (R-SC), Yea
South Dakota:			Johnson (D-SD), Yea	Thune (R-SD), Nay
Tennessee:			Alexander (R-TN), Nay	Frist (R-TN), Yea
Texas:			Cornyn (R-TX), Nay	Hutchison (R-TX), Nay
Utah:			Bennett (R-UT), Yea	Hatch (R-UT), Nay
Vermont:			Jeffords (I-VT), Yea	Leahy (D-VT), Yea
Virginia:			Allen (R-VA), Nay	Warner (R-VA), Yea
Washington:			Cantwell (D-WA), Yea	Murray (D-WA), Yea
West Virginia:			Byrd (D-WV), Nay	Rockefeller (D-WV), Not Voting
Wisconsin:			Feingold (D-WI), Yea	Kohl (D-WI), Yea
Wyoming:			Enzi (R-WY), Nay	Thomas (R-WY), Nay