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Senate Approves $3 Billion, $794 Million For Border Security

By Jeralyn, Section Legislation
Posted on Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 07:00:00 AM EST
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The Senate approved a $459 billion Pentagon funding bill Wednesday.

Included in the package: $3 billion for the 700 mile border fence and $794 million for border security along the Mexico-U.S. border.

This is what the Republicans wanted all along. Money for enforcement, none for immigration reform.

Did the Dems vote against it? Of course not. The border provisions passed on a vote of 95 to 1.

Also in the bill: $43 billion for new weapons systems.

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    Senate Approves $3 Billion, $794 Million For Border Security | 23 comments (23 topical)

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    I can just see it (5.00 / 2) (#1)
    by Saul on Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 07:47:56 AM EST
    Somewhere down the years a mexican president will come on a U.S. visit and will stand  in front of the wall and say to us:

    "Mr. President tear down this wall"  We just can't learn from history. We are also the same government that have gone on the record to tell Israel we do not appove of the wall they are building. I am so sick of this adminstration and so sick that the democrats have no back bone.  All the decsions made by Senators and Congressman are not based on their convictions of what they truly believe they just make decisions only if they are politically correct and do not damage their re election opportunities.  I have never understood why they call our govermnet: A government of the people, by the people and for the people.  The need to abide by this saying or strike it out forever.

    Huh??? (1.00 / 2) (#21)
    by jimakaPPJ on Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 08:56:26 PM EST
    Somewhere down the years a mexican president will come on a U.S. visit and will stand  in front of the wall and say to us:

    "Mr. President tear down this wall"  

    Huh???

    Not to be picky, but the wall is being built to keep people out.

    The wall you refer to was built to keep people in.

    You really should study history.

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    In/Out...Out/In..... (5.00 / 2) (#23)
    by kdog on Fri Oct 05, 2007 at 08:53:16 AM EST
    What's the difference?  All walls are meant to impede the movement of free people.

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    Bush will not veto money for a stupid fence (5.00 / 1) (#2)
    by Saul on Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 08:03:02 AM EST
    but will veto the money for the CHIP program.  Where are our priorities?  

    And the Democratic Party... (5.00 / 3) (#4)
    by dutchfox on Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 09:33:23 AM EST
    deserve the Ostrich Award of the Millennium.
    Amazing to watch (5.00 / 1) (#6)
    by DA in LA on Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 02:20:15 PM EST
    This is a sad time to be a Democrat.  Pelosi and Reid need to go.

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    But who's going to harvest my watermelons? (5.00 / 1) (#22)
    by glanton on Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 10:20:59 PM EST
    Long live the immigration debate!

    43 billion.... (none / 0) (#3)
    by kdog on Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 09:06:51 AM EST
    in welfare for weapons manufacturers.  And people are worried about the cost of the S-CHIP program.....I'll never understand that.

    Guns are our future (none / 0) (#5)
    by scarshapedstar on Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 09:47:24 AM EST
    Not children.

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    There is no reform (none / 0) (#7)
    by Pancho on Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 02:30:58 PM EST
    without enforcement.

    We need 43 billion.... (5.00 / 1) (#8)
    by kdog on Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 02:34:24 PM EST
    in new weapons systems to enforce immigration law?  Are the aliens from Mars with death ray-guns?

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    I don't think the 43B for weapons is (none / 0) (#10)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 02:45:13 PM EST
    for enforcing immigration law...

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    You're probably right.... (none / 0) (#12)
    by kdog on Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 02:55:34 PM EST
    but then again, you never know.  There has been talk of manless drones patrolling the border, I can't imagine those puppies are cheap.

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    I'm guessing drones, if they are in fact used, (none / 0) (#14)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 03:00:58 PM EST
    are part of the separate:
    $794 million for border security along the Mexico-U.S. border.


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    Even the hot-button.... (none / 0) (#15)
    by kdog on Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 03:13:25 PM EST
    border security issue can't compete with new weapons systems...49 billion to 794 million.

    Nothing competes with new weapons systems, it's like the Big Mac.  Too bad we couldn't get a side of S-Chip with that:(

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    It's a crazy old world we live in... (none / 0) (#20)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 03:26:24 PM EST


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    "passed on a vote of 95 to 1" (none / 0) (#9)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 02:42:13 PM EST
    And who was the lone "nay" vote?

    Sen. George Voinovich, R-Ohio.

    You may have found.... (none / 0) (#11)
    by kdog on Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 02:54:04 PM EST
    the lone conservative in the Senate!  Give that man a cigar.

    Or the cynical view, maybe the only reason he voted nay was there was no pork for Ohio in there.

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    Maybe he's the only progressive... (none / 0) (#13)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 02:58:40 PM EST


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    Maybe.... (none / 0) (#16)
    by kdog on Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 03:14:28 PM EST
    he was cybering with an intern at the time of the vote and hit the wrong button by mistake.

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    "oops" (none / 0) (#18)
    by Jen M on Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 03:22:21 PM EST


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    Maybe he was paddling an inmate (none / 0) (#19)
    by sarcastic unnamed one on Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 03:26:01 PM EST
    when he hit the wrong button...

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    All circus... (none / 0) (#17)
    by desertswine on Thu Oct 04, 2007 at 03:21:22 PM EST
    and no bread.

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