Numbers USA: I called Feinstein to thank her for voting for the E-Verify bill because her Washington office lied to me and told me she did vote for the E-Verify bill. Her answering service needs to tell the truth and stop misleading American citizens. What are they afraid of? Iris

It is only appropriate that since Schumer votes against Americans working, I think we should all join in and be sure that Schumer becomes unemployed in his next election. Let him feel what it is like to take taxpayer hard earned money, and put it in a stimulus that helps only those who disregard the law. Obviously Schumer has been in congress much too long and has become so arrogant as to vote against what the majority of people in New York want.
New Yorkers, let Schumer know that you are keeping track of his voting records, and anyone who votes against Americans to keep jobs, it is their time to resign. There is NO excuse for any Senator who represents the American people, and is paid by them to VOTE AGAINST E-VERIFY!!!

Wake up Schumer, you are promoting anti-American attitudes and politics. Hopefully this will be your last session, the American people are fed up with anti-American senators.
I can understand why you do not have anyone answering your phone in Washington, shame on you!!!!!!!!!!

Most of the Democrats who voted "No" this time probably did so to keep from getting into trouble with their constituents. They are counting on e-verify being defeated in conference. They hope to add more democrats to their party via amnesty. Maryland's two Dem senators both voted against e-verify. Maryland's population of illegals is approaching 500K people and these two senators look on them as potential votes for their party. Sending these two senators e-mails produces nonsensical responses. They can get away with this as democrats outnumber republicans by at least 2 to 1. Candidates for president never campaign here; they know it's in the bag for democrats.

NumbersUSA Moderator: There are some Democrats who support these amendments but are afraid to buck their leadership. There are other Democrats who oppose these amendments, but face a close re-election next year. We can win the votes of many in these two groups by making a lot of noise and putting them on notice that we are watching.

P.S. I am working right along with and supporting NumbersUSA to the best of my ability. Besides here, I also go to the individual Senator and Representative official web sites, including others than my own representatives, and use their form to address the issues. Consequently, I receive future email messages from many of them. I think they appreciate hearing from out-of-state citizens. My own belief is that they must represent the best for all of United States, not just the welfare of one state.

I see this 'victory' just like so many others - it is an act by liberals to deceive their constituents.

I want to know: How many of them are running for reelection in 2010? Which ones have the smallest 'war chest', and need donations? In the past, such votes were an exchange among the liberal members, only so some can look good to their constituents. They do one thing, while plotting to achieve something else. After 50+ years of taking part in our great electoral processes, and observing what happens later, I know enough to not expect miracles. Only time will tell what the real outcome will be.

NumbersUSA members have continuously worked hard to uphold the principles of the Constitution, but their 'representatives' have done all they can NOT to do their Constitutional duties!

I receive solicitations for help from a great number of other organizations who are fighting for the same thing as is NumbersUSA. They also are sending tens, and hundreds, of thousands of faxes and emails to Congress. Our Constitution says we can petition our government for redress of greviances, but NOWHERE does it say Congress has to respond to them, OR even read them. Obama knows that, and just what he and Congress can get away with, without crossing the line to treasonous acts.

Whenever I read that Obama has said such & such, the writer assumes that Obama meant it. OBAMA SAYS WHAT THE PUBLIC WANTS TO HEAR, most of the time. That's what Alinsky taught him in his "neighborhood organizer" training. He has his idol worshipers mesmerized, and they are drunk with the power they now wield.

I took the time to write the following thank you to each of the eight Senators who switched to support E-Verify (easily reached via web form at http://senate.gov/general/contact_information/senators_cfm.cfm). I think they have served us well and deserve a pat on the back.
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Dear Senator XYZ:

Thank you on behalf of all the American people and your constituents too for finally mandating that government contractors must use E-Verify to avoid hiring illegal aliens.

You showed true courage and wisdom by joining the historic effort to keep US citizens gainfully employed, correctly putting their interests above those of the illegal alien/undocumented worker and the big business lobby.

With the utmost gratitude and admiration,

Phil McQuillan

VERY THOROUGH STORY NUMBERSUSA

I like the way you emphasized the unemployment rate making immigration law enforcement more of a priority.

Imagine if we simply did a Zogby poll sampling of Americans and we simply asked them if they were unemployed or severely underemployed. I'd bet money the real unemployment rate done in this more neutral method would be at least twice the 9.5%....Great Depression sized and using a historical Great Depression comparable statistical method.

Thank you Roy, for giving us this website. And for giving us the names of Senators and Congressmen and states that need work on these issues. I write down the names from states that I know somebody living in and e-mail them to start sending e-mails to their Reps and Senators. also try to sign them up to NumbersUSA.

Everytime you say" We Did IT!" I feel great all day!
I live on a very fixed income so can't afford to donate monetarily, but I do put a lot of time into working for these issues, and I will work hard, just to hear you say those three little words. WE DID IT!

Thank you.

In the states where the senators have listened to their constituents and voted to support their will, deserve to be remembered and returned to office by the people of their state in 2010. I know I will remember my senators' votes on this topic in 2010, I'm from New Jersey where our Governor is a billionaire, our senators millionaires many times over, and they could care less that we pay the highest taxes in the nation, that jobs are leaving New Jersey daily, that is, the ones who are not going under or only staying in business thanks to the cheap labor provided by illegal aliens.

I,m grateful for all of the support we got on this piece of e-verify legislation so far. I have already contacted Reid and told him that with a hard election campaign coming up for him it would be political suicide for him to shelve this bill.
We just got done submitting I-1043 petitions here in WA., where we needed 260,000 signed petitions to get this iniative on the ballots. It would have:

Prevented illegals from getting state drivers licenses, now legal in WA

Prevented taxpayer dollars from going to sanctuary cities. We have more sanctuary cities every year.

And made E-verify mandatory.

In the three months we had to get petitions signed, we only got 181,000 signatures. We employed a strategy of putting the petitions in the newspapers and having signers mail them in. Unfortunately, as well as this strategy seemed to work, we employed it a little late due to our working on a shoestring budget. Next yr. we will try to have funds up sooner so we can get the petitions in the newspapers sooner. If this iniative makes the ballot...it will pass by voters.
Thanks NumbersUSA for helping us to get the word out. We almost made it this yr.

Ed Dost

NumbersUSA Moderator: Thank YOU, Ed.

Praise be that we have someone keeping track of what our congresscritters are up to. I would offer one small detail, however; unemployment is not 9.5%, it is 100% for 9.5% of the people. With 38 years in the construction trades I am not unfamiliar with the prospect of 6 months behind on the mortgage to catch up on. But what of the guy who has had 52 weekly paychecks for each of the last 25 years? Now in his 50's and competing with younger guys for a job and trying to live on unemployment compensation (which is taxable)while the slug whom he is paying $170k/yr with his tax dollars sells his job down the river so as to buy votes for his own benefit.

Truly, we have the best government that money can buy. And a pretender-in-chief who spits on the Constitution on a daily basis.

God Bless all who work at Numbers USA. Without you our Government would walk all over us while giving our jobs to the illegals. Thank you for letting us know who voted for and against E-Verify. Looking forward to trying to oust Boxer, and Feinstein. They will stand every time with the illegal, and pro illegal groups. I hope every politician we have that are traitors to American citizens lose their seats when they come up for re-election.

I am so glad that that spineless, gutless Specter came over to the democratic party. Now I can vote against him and Casey twice (Primary and regular). Yes, I am a Democrat but a very CONSERVATIVE one.

Bill W.

This is a major victory for American workers! Who would have ever thought that people like Sen. Sessions would have to work so hard to get our own government to ensure that Americans got a fair shake at job opportunities created via their own tax dollars ?

Still it is a victory and I am appreciative to
Sen. Sessions, Sen. De Mint and all those political leaders that stood up for the American people.

Horray!

Good job everyone, but the battle rages.

It makes NO sense to pay our unemployed to sit home while illegals and foreign workers take their jobs. Their unemployment will run out, and they lose everything.

Most foreign workers send the majority of their money back home, that's another blow to OUR economy. Everybody loses except foreign workers and the employers that sabotage OUR workers.

E-Verify for contractors is a great accomplishment, but the IMAGE Program should also be mandatory. We shouldn't have to wait up to 4 years to weed out illegals when there is another perfectly good program available now. If Congress and our president, current and past ones, really cared about our security and economy, other elements of The SAVE Act would already be implemented and properly funded.

http://www.ice.gov/partners/opaimage/

E-Verify and the IMAGE Program:
1-Costs the government no additional dollars because it saves states and federal across the board
2-Offers two layers of protection from identity theft via the SSA and IRS
3-Protects our sovereignty by stimulating jobs and growth which prevents our nation from having to borrow more money
4-Reduces the cost that states incur having to deal with illegals and their dependents
5-Protects our unemployed by giving back at least 5-6 Million job opportunities that are in the hands of illegals
6-Reduces document fraud
7-It's free, easy and fast to use, workers cannot be fired while they correct errors, if they choose to challenge them
8-Reduces the cost to states paying unemployment benefits
9-Brings in more payroll and tax revenue because of the increase in salaries
10-Prevents home foreclosures for many who will be back to work
11-Creates fair competition for legal businesses so they can grow and hire more employees
12-Reduces the cost to hospitals having to treat illegals, which turns around and pass that cost onto the rest of us whether we have insurance or not, and businesses that carry insurance also pass that onto us as well as state and federal governments that purchase their goods and services. We get hit on multiple levels!
13-Costs businesses less than $2 per employee to verify their status because they are already suppose to have completed I-9's and supporting documents on file.

Our economy and citizens, including legal immigrants, deserve the protections and the jobs that come from mandating E-Verify and the IMAGE Program.

Mary Steele
Office Support Services
Yorktown, VA
866-887-6629

Roy. You have been supplying information to me for a long time, and I do appreciate all your hard work.
Could it be possible for Numbers U.S.A. to some how join with The National 912 Coalition in supplying all these 912 members with this same information, so they too can join you in your efforts in notifying all the congressmen, house and senate, as to what their constituents want in the way they vote on matters that concern the people.
There is strength in numbers, while a single voice is hard to hear, millions of voices sound like a freight train, and that noise means beware of where you are standing, because you might be right in front of it's path.
it would sure be nice if this was possible. Rod az.

I was a legal immigrant and now I am an American for more than 25 years, and very proud to be one.
I cannot understand the mind of all this "Liberal" who put their Socialist agenda against the people who elected them to protect the right of the American people and the Constitution. They are so brain washed by Pelosi, Rev. Right, the Underground, the Kennedy's, that they will destroy the best Country in face of the World. We the Cuban people living in freedom, see how the Communist work and how they began to put their base so people do not see what they are trying to implement, so when they control everything is too late for those Countries see Cuba, Nicaragua, Venezuela Paraguay Argentina, etc. Please America open your Eyes before is too late.

I see no one from Michigan has posted anything; what a travesty! We have the worst unemployment rate in the country and our two "do nothing" Senators continue to vote against E-Verify. One of them has been in office so long (30+ years) that he feels it is his "God given" right to be there, the other constantly touts how she is for "families" yet just loves to stab them in the back. As others here have said, I am ashamed to say that these two traitors (Debbie Stabenow and Carl Levin) represent me in our Senate. Like the old saying goes, it's time to "throw the bums out". We can turn over the entire House and 1/3 of the Senate next year. Let's do it people!

Until our two Senators do some thinking on their own they will continue to vote the party line with no thought.