DREAM Act cloture fails, 55-41

Harry Reid, DREAM ON Dream Act Blocked by US Senate 55 to 41
Hey Harry Reid and Democrats … DREAM ON!   “Dream On” - Live from Aerosmith Boston 2009 The  DREAM Act once again failed to break a Filibuster in the Senate on Saturday morning, effectively killing the bill this year. The next time this will be an issue is the 2012 election. The Senate blocked the Dream Act, a bill that was nothing more than backdoor Amnesty ,  that  would have created a path to Citizenship for certain young Illegal Immigrants wh

Another Harry Reid epic failure! DREAM Act cloture vote fails 55-41
Another Harry Reid epic failure! DREAM Act Cloture vote fails 55-41 This is the issue of the day that was most important to me, not the Don’t ask, Don’ tell Repeal. Thankfully the nightmare amensty “Dream Act” Cloture vote failed today 55-41. It needed 60 yes votes to go to a full vote. Had this bill passed, I think it would have done far more damage to the country than repealing Don’t ask, Don’t Tell. Of course, i’m not Military expert either. The RIN...

Utahs Bennett votes for DREAM Act; bill fails in senate
Utah’s lame-duck Senator Bob Bennett was one of three Republicans who voted for the DREAM Act Saturday, but in the end, the bill failed to pass. The other two Republicans were Alaska’s Lisa Murkowski and Dick Lugar of Indiana. Sixty votes were needed for the bill to overcome a Republican Filibuster, and the final vote was five short of that mark. Forty one senators voted no. Five Democrats voted no, John Tester and Max Baucus of Montana, Mark Pryor of Arkansas, North Carolina Senator...

Senate Roll Call: Falling short on Dream Act
The 55-41 roll call Saturday by which the Senate voted to pass the DREAM Act, which would give hundreds of thousands of young Illegal Immigrants a path to legal status if they enrolled in college or joined the Armed Forces. The vote fell five short of the 60 needed to enact the Legislation before Republicans take over the House and narrow Democrats' majority in the Senate next month. A "yes" vote is a vote to pass the bill. Voting yes were 50 Democrats, 3 Republicans and 2 Independents. Voting ...

Senate Roll Call: Falling short on Dream Act
The 55-41 roll call Saturday by which the Senate voted to pass the DREAM Act, which would give hundreds of thousands of young Illegal Immigrants a path to legal status if they enrolled in college or joined the Armed Forces. The vote fell five short of the 60 needed to enact the Legislation before Republicans take over the House and narrow Democrats' majority in the Senate next month. A "yes" vote is a vote to pass the bill. Voting yes were 50 Democrats, 3 Republicans and 2 Independents. Voting...

Senator Joe Manchin Skips DADT and DREAM Vote For a Christmas Party
washingtonpost When the Senate took two of its most highly anticipated votes of the lame-duck session on Saturday, West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin was nowhere to be found. Manchin, who was sworn into office last month after winning a Special Election for the seat of the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), was the only Senate Democrat to miss Saturday's votes on two of his party's signature pieces of Legislation, the DREAM Act and the Repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" law banning ga...

BREAKING: DADT repeal advances in the Senate, DREAM Act blocked
Good news, bad news. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the Senate will take a final vote Saturday afternoon on Legislation that would overturn the U.S. Military's ban on Openly Gay Troops. The vote on ending the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy is set for 3 p.m. (2000 GMT) before senators turn to a nuclear arms treaty with Russia. Passage would send the military measure to the White House. Senators cleared the way for final action with a 63-33 vote earlier Saturday to move the bill ahead. A ...

Why one is hard pressed to take the Democratic Party seriously
The egregious Senate (which does deserve credit for repealing Don't Ask Don't Tell, with the support of eight Republican senators), of course also refused to move forward with the "Dream Bill" because there were "only" 55 senators (out of 100, which in some countries that call themselves democracies would be a relevant data point) to support ending debate on the measure. Although, needless to say, most members of the Republican Party voted against Cloture, three did not: Senators Richard Lugar, ...

DREAM Senate Vote Fails
The DREAM Act Cloture vote just failed in the Senate, 55 to 41. The Cloture vote was on the version of DREAM that passed the House earlier this month. Among Republicans, only Sens. Bob Bennett of Utah, Richard Lugar of Indiana, and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska voted for the bill. On the Democat side, Sens. Jon Tester of Montana, Max Baucus of Montana, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Mark Pyror of Arkansas, and Kay Hagan of North Carolina voted against the bill. UPDATE : Forgot to note that Democrat Sen. Joe...

Dream Act fails to advance in Senate
Reporting from Washington and Los Angeles — The Senate rejected a path to Citizenship for some Illegal Immigrants on Saturday, a defeat that pushes any effort to reform Immigration into the next Congress where Conservatives will have even more influence. In a 55-41 vote, senators failed to advance the DREAM Act, which would have provided a way to legalize those immigrants who arrived in the United States illegally as Children and who attend college or serve in the Military. Three Republ...

The drive-by media shoots hard and fast (and falsely) *UPDATED*
Those evil Republicans, who are, of course, a minority in the Lame Duck Senate. On the Democrat side, Sens. Jon Tester of Montana, Max Baucus of Montana, Ben Nelson of Nebraska, Mark Pyror of Arkansas, and Kay Hagan of North Carolina voted against the bill. UPDATE : Forgot to note that Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia — who faces another election in 2012, and won this year by positioning himself to the right of many Democrats  (including running an ad in which he shot the ...

DADT No More
I spent today with the family (parents, brothers, wives, and kids) having our Christmas celebration, and I am pleased to see that we've finally repealed the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. (This is the roll call despite being labeled as a Small Business bill amendment). Surprise supporters were John Ensign of Nevada and Richard Burr of North Carolina, although they opposed Cloture before they supported Repeal. On the other hand, the effort to achieve Cloture on the DREAM Act failed, with five De...

Senator Joe Manchin Skips DADT and DREAM Vote For a Christmas Party
washingtonpost When the Senate took two of its most highly anticipated votes of the lame-duck session on Saturday, West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin was nowhere to be found. Manchin, who was sworn into office last month after winning a Special Election for the seat of the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), was the only Senate Democrat to miss Saturday's votes on two of his party's signature pieces of Legislation, the DREAM Act and the Repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" law banning ga...

The Associated Press Has a Bad DREAM
**Written by Doug Powers Tom Blumer at Newsbusters passes along this Associated Press headline/story about the DREAM Act being voted down yesterday: Republicans block youth Immigration Bill Senate Republicans on Saturday doomed an effort that would have given hundreds of thousands of young Illegal Immigrants a path to legal status if they enrolled in college or joined the Military Sponsors of the Dream Act fell five votes short of the 60 they needed to break through largely GOP opposition and...

DREAM Act Fails Cloture Vote
The so-called DREAM Act, which would have granted American Citizenship to Illegal Immigrants who go to college or serve in the US Military for two years, failed a vote for Cloture in the US Senate on Saturday morning. The final vote was 55 votes for Cloture and 41 against, leaving the bill supporters 5 votes short of what they needed. Senators Richard Burr and Kay Hagan from North Carolina were among those who voted against the measure. Cloture would have ended debate and brought the Legislation...

DREAM Act Fails Cloture Vote
The so-called DREAM Act, which would have granted American Citizenship to Illegal Immigrants who go to college or serve in the US Military for two years, failed a vote for Cloture in the US Senate on Saturday morning. The final vote was 55 votes for Cloture and 41 against, leaving the bill supporters 5 votes short of what they needed. Senators Richard Burr and Kay Hagan from North Carolina were among those who voted against the measure. Cloture would have ended debate and brought the Legislation...

After DREAM Vote, Immigration Reform Unlikely This Year
Hopes of Immigration Reform this year were basically ended on Saturday. There's no other way to put it. Democrats came five voes short of passing the DREAM Act, which would give young Illegal Immigrants the chance to obtain green cards by going to college or serving in the Military. Trying to overcome the 60-vote threshold to end debate and advance to a final vote, Democrats came up short. What's perhaps most troubling is that five Democrats voted against the bill. They were: Jon Tester (MT) Ma...

Republicans to Latinos: we dont want your DREAM Act children here
With Saturday’s Senate vote defeating the DREAM Act, Republicans dash the hopes and dreams of hundreds of thousands of innocent Children of undocumented aliens. In the end, Right Wing efforts to demonize entire groups of people and ignore facts countering GOP ideology were successful. For example, the Center for Immigration studies, a restrictionist web site popular with nativists and Far Right Conservatives, wrongly claimed the act would cost $6.2 billion a year despite a non-partisan Con...

Left To Die
This is from the leftist site Crooks and Liars, reporting on the death of the DREAM Act: Good news, bad news. First, the good news: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said the Senate will take a final vote Saturday afternoon on Legislation that would overturn the U.S. Military’s ban on Openly Gay Troops. The vote on ending the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy is set for 3 p.m. (2000 GMT) before senators turn to a nuclear arms treaty with Russia. Passage would send th...

DREAM Act Dies, DADT Passes Cloture
The DREAM Act which would have in essence granted Citizenship to any immigrant who completed two years of post-secondary schooling (I’m simplifying here) failed in the U.S. Senate by a vote of 55-41, while ending the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy of the U.S. Military regarding Homosexuals sailed through with a 63-33 vote: The Republican senators voting “yes” with the Democrats were Mark Kirk of Illinois, Scott Brown of Massachusetts, George Voinovich of Ohio, 

DREAM Act Fails
Senate Democrats could muster only 55 votes in support of the DREAM Act, "a measure that would have created a pathway to Citizenship for undocumented immigrants who were brought to this country as Children," the Washington Post reports. "Under Senate rules, Democrats needed 60 votes to overcome Republican opposition to the bill. The House of Representatives had passed the measure earlier this month, 216 to 198." "The irony of the DREAM Act's failure is that it had strong Bipartisan support at ...

DADT repealed, DREAM Act tabled indefinetely | START and budget next week
After months of debate and many years of Americans wanting to Repeal the policy, the Senate finally voted in favor of repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," 65-31 this afternoon. Senator Joe Lieberman said last week he believed that Republican senators - Collins, Olympia Snowe, Scott Brown of Massachusetts, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska, and Richard Lugar of Indiana may be willing to join Democrats and vote in favor of repealing the Controversial Military policy if the bill was introduced as a separate p...

Senate Roll Call: Lifting ban on gays in military
The 65-31 roll call Saturday by which the Senate agreed to lift the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy prohibiting gays from serving openly in the Armed Forces. A "yes" vote is a vote to Repeal the policy and to allow gays to serve openly. Voting yes were 55 Democrats, 8 Republicans and 2 Independents. Voting no were 0 Democrats and 31 Republicans. Alabama Sessions (R), No; Shelby (R), No. Alaska Begich (D), Yes; Murkowski (R), Yes. Arizona Kyl (R), No; McCain (R), No. Arkansas Lincoln (D), Yes...

Manchin On DADT Opposition: I Had Concerns Over 'Timing' And 'Implementation'
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin (WV) today released the following statement regarding his decision to not support the Repeal of the Military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy, which overcame a Republican Filibuster and will come up for a final vote later today. Manchin did not vote on the earlier Cloture vote today. Over the past several days, I have spoken with many passionate West Virginians who hold different views on this policy. I greatly appreciate all of the feedback that my office has recei...

Joe Manchin absent for two major Senate votes
When the Senate took two of its most highly anticipated votes of the lame-duck session on Saturday, West Virginia Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin was nowhere to be found. Manchin, who was sworn into office last month after winning a Special Election for the seat of the late Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), was the only Senate Democrat to miss Saturday's votes on two of his party's signature pieces of Legislation, the DREAM Act and the Repeal of the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" law banning gay people from serv...