#sen. Richard Shelby

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Hot Daddy Politicians: Alabama

The major politicians that I’d fuck from Alabama.

Sen. Richard Shelby I've been wanting the senior senator from Alabama for years. He lost some weight over the years but that doesn't mean I wouldn't take him to bed on a very regular basis.

Sen. Tommy Tuberville He's what you think a senator would look like. I'd love to fuck around in bed with him for a weekend.

Jerry Carl, Mo Brooks, Robert Aderholt

Gary Palmer and Barry Moore

All of Alabama's representatives here, Jerry Carl, Mo Brooks, Robert Aderholt, Gary Palmer and Barry Moore could get some kind of "favor" from me with Jerry Carl being my favorite.

Rick Pate Alabama Commissioner of Agriculture and Industries

Now here's a guy I could spend a weekend with.

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KEVIN FREKING

Thu, December 22, 2022 at 11:27 AM EST

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Senate passed a massive $1.7 trillion spending bill Thursday that finances federal agencies through September and provides another significant round of military and economic aid to Ukraine one day after Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy's dramatic address to a joint meeting of Congress.

The bill, which runs for 4,155 pages, includes about $772.5 billion for domestic programs and $858 billion for defense and would finance federal agencies through the fiscal year at the end of September.

The bill passed by a vote of 68-29 and now goes to the House for a final vote before it can be sent to President Joe Biden to be signed into law.

“This is one of the most significant appropriations packages we have done in a very long time,” said Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y. “The range of people it helps is large and deep."

Lawmakers were racing to get the bill approved before a partial government shutdown would occur at midnight Friday, and many were anxious to complete the task before a deep freeze and wintry conditions left them stranded in Washington for the holidays. Many also want to lock in government funding before a new GOP-controlled House next year could make it harder to find compromise on spending.

Senators heard from Zelenskyy about the importance of U.S. aid to his country for its war with Russia on Wednesday night. The measure provides about $45 billion in military, economic and humanitarian assistance for the devastated nation and NATO allies, more than Biden even requested, raising total assistance so far to more than $100 billion.

“Your money is not charity,” Zelenskyy told lawmakers and Americans watching from home. “It’s an investment in the global security and democracy that we handle in the most responsible way.”

Lawmakers were in disagreement over which amendments were to be voted upon to lock in a final vote on an expedited basis. The impasses had the potential to prevent passage of the bill before the midnight Friday deadline. But negotiations overnight led to a breakthrough and senators gathered early Thursday morning to work through more than a dozen amendments before getting to a final vote.

The House won't be able to take up the bill until Friday morning, and while it is expected to pass, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., said the chamber will also approve a stopgap spending resolution to ensure government services continue without interruption before the bill is signed into law.

The spending bill was supported by Schumer and Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell, though for different reasons.

McConnell cited the bill's nearly 10% boost in defense spending, which he says will give America's Armed Forces the funding and certainty needed to ensure the country's security.

“The world’s greatest military will get the funding increase that it needs, outpacing inflation," McConnell said. “Meanwhile, non-defense, non-veterans spending will come in below the rate of inflation, for a real-dollar cut."

McConnell faced pushback from many Republicans who don’t support the spending bill and resent being forced to vote on such a massive package with so little time before a potential shutdown and the Christmas holiday.

“There has not been enough time for a single person to have read this entire bill. The bill and process ignores soaring inflation, rising interest rates and our ballooning debt of $31 trillion," said Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky. “Enough is enough."

Eighteen Republican senators joined with Democrats in voting for the bill.

For two senators, the bill puts the finishing touches on their work in Washington. Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., is retiring after serving some 48 years in the Senate and as the current chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee. He negotiated the bill for months with Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama, the committee's ranking Republican, who was elected to the Senate in 1986 and is also retiring.

“What a capstone to a brilliant career," Schumer said.

The bill also contains roughly $40 billion in emergency spending in the U.S., mostly to assist communities across the country recovering from drought, hurricanes and other natural disasters.

And, of course, it includes scores of policy changes unrelated to spending that lawmakers sought to include in what is going to be the last major bill of the Congress, else they start from scratch next year in a divided Congress where Republicans will be returning to the majority in the House.

One of the most notable examples was a historic revision to federal election law that aims to prevent any future presidents or presidential candidates from trying to overturn an election. The bipartisan overhaul of the Electoral Count Act is in direct response to former President Donald Trump’s efforts to convince Republican lawmakers and then-Vice President Mike Pence to object to the certification of Biden’s victory on Jan. 6, 2021.

The bill also allowed Congress to follow through on some of the most consequential bills it had passed over the past two years, such as a measure aiming to boost computer chip production in the U.S. and another to expand health care services to veterans exposed to toxic burn pits. Some $5 billion was provided help the VA implement some of the changes called for in the PACT Act, and the amount of money provided specifically for VA health care soared 22% to nearly $119 billion.

“These benefits are deserved," Leahy said. “They were earned, and they are owed."

To put this in perspective, this bill is roughly the size of all seven original Harry Potter books combined and about as dry as the Sahara. Rand Paul is right: absolutely no one read this garbage.

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t’s interesting that the majority of them switch for “opportunism”.

It’s interesting that the majority of them switch for “opportunism”.

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Plus, if we want to talk about opportunistic, how about someone like Sen. Richard Shelby of Alabama?  Elected twice to the Senate as a conservative Democrat, Shelby switched to the Republican Party on Nov. 9, 1994 -- exactly one day after the GOP won control of Congress.  By switching, Shelby remained in the majority.  That is opportunistic.

He won re-election as a Democrat in 1992 with 65 percent of the vote, and won two more terms as a Republican, with 63 percent in 1998 and 68 percent in 2004.

Ben Nighthorse Campbell, a Democrat from Colorado, switched to the GOP on March 3, 1995, shortly after the Republicans took control of the Senate.  Campbell was probably too independent for either party's taste but that didn't hurt him at the polls.  In 1998, his first election since his switch, he easily won the Republican primary with some 71 percent of the vote, and in the general election he took more than 62 percent over his Democratic opponent.  He retired in 2004.

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Questions that have not been answered.

From Business Insider: Senators struggle without their phones at Trump's impeachment trial, where all electronics are banned

Rosie Perper 

Jan 23, 2020, 3:14 PM EST...

[picture of cellphone bin] A storage unit for phone stands next to the entrance of the Senate chamber on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020.Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

Some US senators seemed to have a hard time following the strict no-phone policy while listening in on 12-hour days of arguments during the impeachment trial.

The Senate prohibits members from bringing cell phones into the chamber, and the decorum guidelines for the trial specifically said all electronic devices were banned.

It was previously reported that Sen. Ted Cruz had his phone on the Senate floor, but his communications director later clarified that he did not.

_____________________ The following video clip was made in the minutes before the Vote to Impeach Trump was taken in the Senate, on February 5th, 2020. The cellphone ban was in place - the trial had not been taken to its conclusion, when, as Senate Majority leader McConnell was talking,... Senator Richard C. Shelby, of Alabama, seated behind McConnell, pulls a phone out from his shirt pocket on the floor of the Senate,... makes 5, rapid, sideways swipes on his phone, puts phone back in his shirt, then presses his palms together as if praying, then quickly rubbing palms, presses his fingers into his chin. He then looks across isle in front of him, as he palms one fist, then after a seeming knuckle-crack gesture, he raises his right hand, assisted by his left, raises up, to point his index finger, with an upward, moving fashion, along the right side of his nose,... then palms a fist again, and then lightly adjusts the collar of his shirt at his tie, (with a slight sideways index finger gesture at his throat) as he displays a wry smile, and a sideways face-pull,... palms his fist again, and follows it with both hands fingers pressing on his lower lip, as he forms a scowl, and scans the room, after which he seems 'resigned', then, makes to close up his jacket so the cloth covers his shirt pocket which contains the illegal cell phone. This happened, here is the clip. @arimelber and @msnbc adding your names because you are the news folk I have shared most. I think this was forgotten, on that day.

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..."Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) lost a significant battle to former President Trump and his supporters with the collapse of the bipartisan border bill Tuesday, underscoring how his control of his conference is increasingly on difficult ground.

McConnell argued to colleagues last week that the border legislation would crack down on the huge flow of migrants across the border and possibly would be the last chance for years to reform outdated immigration and asylum law.

But he faced a big political headwind from Trump, who repeatedly called on GOP lawmakers to reject any deal that didn’t give them “everything” they wanted.

Trump on Monday declared on social media that “only a fool, or a Radical Left Democrat, would vote for this horrendous Border Bill” and blasted it as “a great gift to the Democrats, and a Death Wish for The Republican Party.”

In the end, McConnell acknowledged there was no path forward for the bill, a turn of events that left serious questions over whether Congress would approve new funding for Ukraine in its war with Russia, a key priority for the Senate GOP leader.

There are a couple of big factors that explain why it is becoming more difficult for McConnell to steer the GOP in his preferred direction.

He’s certainly feeling the absence of longtime allies who have retired from the Senate and could be counted on in the past to get major bills passed: former GOP Sens. Roy Blunt (Mo.), Rob Portman (Ohio), Richard Shelby (Ala.), Richard Burr (N.C.), Pat Roberts (Kan.) and Lamar Alexander (Tenn.).

Many of them have been replaced with more MAGA-aligned Republicans who won election to the Senate with Trump’s backing."

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Departing Senate budget chiefs leave a legacy of bipartisanship in a fraught era : NPR#Departing #Senate #budget #chiefs #leave #legacy #bipartisanship #fraught #era #NPR

Departing Senate budget chiefs leave a legacy of bipartisanship in a fraught era : NPR#Departing #Senate #budget #chiefs #leave #legacy #bipartisanship #fraught #era #NPR

Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., right, and Richard Shelby, R-Ala., worked together as the chairperson and ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee respectively on getting the spending bill through Congress. Both men are retiring from Congress. Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images Sens. Patrick…

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Alabama Election Results Midterms 2022

Alabama Election Results Midterms 2022

(NewsNation) — Alabama voters headed to the polls Tuesday to cast their ballots in some important races in the 2022 midterm elections.  Among the most watched races in Alabama’s midterm election was the race for retired Sen. Richard Shelby’s seat, pitting Democratic Will Boyd against Republican Katie Britt. The race is widely believed to be strongly in Britt’s favor after earning the endorsement…

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Fourteen Republican Senators, including Mitt Romney and Rand Paul, have voted against providing healthcare and benefits to US veterans who came home from America’s post-9/11 wars sick and dying from rare cancers and respiratory illnesses.

On Thursday, the Senate passed the SFC Heath Robinson Honoring Our PACT Act – a landmark bill that will presumptively link 23 conditions to a veterans’ exposure to burn pits while on deployment overseas.

Now, around 3.5 million US veterans who lived and worked next to the huge open-air pits will finally be given automatic access to healthcare and disability benefits if they develop one of these conditions on their return home.

The bill sailed through the Senate with largely bipartisan support, with 84 Senators voting in favour of its passage.

All Democrats voted yes to passing the bill – but 14 Republicans voted no.

The senators who voted against were: Mitt Romney and Mike Lee of Utah, Rand Paul of Kentucky, Richard Burr and Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Mike Rounds and John Thune of South Dakota, Richard Shelby and Tommy Tuberville of Alabama, James Lankford of Oklahoma, Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming, and Mike Crapo and James Risch of Idaho.

Senators Steve Daines and Roger Wicker were absent from the vote.

Despite the efforts of the 14 Republicans, the bill is likely just days away from being signed into law.

It first needs to go back to the House for passage before it can be sent to the desk of President Joe Biden.

However, passage in the House is almost certain as all Democrats and 34 Republicans voted in favour of its passage back in March, sending it sailing over the threshold with a 256 to 174 vote.

In that vote, the only lawmakers voting no were also Republicans.

Among them was Rep. Lauren Boebert, who was slammed for heckling as Mr. Biden spoke about burn pits in his State of the Union address.

The Senate has modified the House version to create a phase-in period for illnesses presumptively linked to toxic exposure, meaning a new vote is needed in the House.

During America’s post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, huge open-air pits were used to burn mountains of trash including food packaging, human waste and military equipment on US military bases.

Thousands of US service members returned home from deployment and developed health conditions including rare cancers, lung conditions, respiratory illnesses and toxic brain injuries caused by breathing in the toxic fumes from the pits.

But, until now, the burden of proof has always been on veterans to prove their condition is directly caused by this toxic exposure and almost 80 percent of disability claims mentioning burn pits were turned down by the Department of Veteran Affairs.

The bill was renamed in March after the Sgt First Class Heath Robinson who died in May 2020 from a rare cancer caused by breathing in toxic fumes from burn pits while serving in Iraq in the Ohio National Guard. He was 39.

Two years on from his death, the bill passed on his daughter Brielle’s ninth birthday.

Susan Zeier, his mother-in-law, said that the bill’s passage means she now no longer needs to “carry Heath on my shoulders”.

Ms. Zeier gave an emotional speech outside the Capitol after Thursday’s vote where she told how she has been wearing her son-in-law’s army jacket for the past four years to draw attention to the plight of veterans fighting for healthcare and disability access as she and other advocates lobbied the US government.

“I’ve been wearing this since the summer of 2018 and today, with this bill passing the Senate, I think it’s time to retire it,” she said.

“I no longer have to carry Heath on my shoulders while I’m advocating for all the other veterans who are out there sick and dying.”

Ms. Zeier described her son-in-law as a “wonderful father” who was “always helpful and always generous” and fought his cancer “valiantly” to “survive as long as he could for his daughter”.

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U.S. Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) recently sat down with the Huntsville Business Journal and discussed issues important to our state and nation. This is the second installment of five reports from the interview. Today’s topic is health care. HBJ: What can you tell us about health care in Alabama? Sen. Jones: Health care has been […]

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I happened to go though some pics of the Clarence Thomas Confirmation Hearings which got me thinking. Politicians from the 80s to the mid-2000s were way more fuckable. Both Republicans and Democrats. Seriously, I can name ten politicians who were in office during that time who had some kind of sex scandal.

Anyway, back to the senators on this Judiciary Committee Hearing for Clarence Thomas. You have Sen. Patrick Leahy, Sen. Howard Metzenbaum, Sen. Strom Thurmond, Sen. Chuck Grassley, Sen. Orrin Hatch, Sen. Mitch McConnell,  Sen. Paul Simon, Sen. Alan Simpson, Sen. Arlen Specter and Sen. Richard Shelby. All of whom could catch a dick from me and here are few who popped out to me.

Senator Edward Kennedy

It's Ted Kennedy. Hairy chest, thick ass, drunk half the time, single, no pants wearing Ted Kennedy. Nuff said.

Sen. Howell Heflin

I know most you think I have great taste in men, but I do have contradictions to that with Heflin being one of them. I see potential with him. Sure it might not be a lot of potential, but I do see it.

Senator Joe Biden

Funny how I find Sen. Biden here, hotter and more fuckable than President Biden. So much so that I’m touching myself right now.

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But Feinstein is also not alone when it comes to aging lawmakers in powerful positions.

Feinstein is the second-oldest member of Congress behind Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska), who is almost two weeks older. Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chair of the Finance Committee, is also 87, while Appropriations Chair Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) is 86. Armed Services Chair Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.), who is seeking reelection this year, is 85. The top three House Democratic leaders — Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Majority Whip Jim Clyburn (S.C.) — are all 80. Former Vice President Joe Biden will turn 78 shortly after Election Day and Trump is 74.

New York Times, March 7, 1976:

The clique of elderly gentlemen that has ruled the Soviet Union so far during the 1970's remains in control.

The marginal changes announced last week involve the removal of the “young” Dmitri S. Polyansky who is still on the right side of 60, and the election of Dmitri F. Ustinov, now 67, and Grigory V. Romanov, a mere stripling of 53. But the real kernel of power remains the hands of Messrs. Brezhnev, Kosygin, Suslov and Podgorny, a quartet whose average age exceeds 70....

But what the actuaries call “the force of mortality” acts upon elderly Kremlin leaders just as it does upon their contemporaries everywhere else. There is a substantial probability that by 1980 several present members of the Politburo will be dead. Precisely because Mr. Brezhnev and his colleagues have hoarded power so long and are so clearly reluctant to share it with a new generation, when the time comes for new leaders, the battles in the Kremlin will be more difficult than they would have been had today's gerontocrats been willing to retire gracefully before death or illness forced them to.

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It is worth noting that seven Republican senators did vote to convict Trump for inciting the January 6 insurrection on the US Capitol:

Sen. Richard Burr

Sen. Bill Cassidy

Sen. Susan Collins

Sen. Lisa Murkowski

Sen. Mitt Romney

Sen. Ben Sasse

Sen. Pat Toomey

And while two of these senators (Burr and Toomey) are retiring at the end of their current term (and thus not worried about re-election), the other five are not. They will likely be running for re-election in a couple years, and I think we would all do well to remember which Republican senators still have a spine. Because make no mistake, their votes did not come without consequence. All seven senators above got backlash from their party for voting the way they did, several of which got formal censures from their state parties.

Unforunately, that leaves the 43 Republican senators who decided to vote to acquit Donald Trump. Their names are worth remembering as well:

John Barrasso 

Marsha Blackburn 

Roy Blunt 

John Boozman 

Mike Braun 

Shelley Capito 

John Cornyn 

Tom Cotton 

Kevin Cramer 

Mike Crapo 

Ted Cruz 

Steve Daines 

Joni Ernst 

Deb Fischer

Lindsey Graham 

Chuck Grassley 

Bill Hagerty 

Josh Hawley 

John Hoeven 

Cindy Hyde-Smith 

Jim Inhofe 

Ron Johnson 

John Kennedy 

James Lankford 

Mike Lee 

Cynthia Lummis 

Roger Marshall 

Mitch McConnell 

Jerry Moran 

Rand Paul 

Rob Portman 

James Risch 

Mike Rounds 

Marco Rubio 

Tim Scott

Rick Scott 

Richard Shelby 

Dan Sullivan

John Thune 

Thom Tillis 

Tommy Tuberville 

Roger Wicker 

Todd Young

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The Democrats’ draft spending bill still includes huge changes to the nation’s migration laws, even after the Senate’s parliamentarian removed several amnesties from the multi-trillion dollar spending bill.

The bill would dramatically push up housing prices by expanding the inflow of chain migrants, and also would slash white-collar salaries by creating a new and uncapped migration category of college-educated workers for a huge variety of Fortune 500 jobs from coast to coast.

Together, both migration rules will transfer wages and wealth from employees to coastal investors, and will also shift corporate investment, real estate wealth, government spending, and political power from heartland states — such as Ohio, Montana, West Virginia, and Arizona — to the major coastal states of California and New York.

But the parliamentarian’s decision to exclude the amnesties from the bill may prompt Democratic leaders to drop the uncapped white-collar giveaway for the Fortune 500 companies and their investors.

“If we’re talking about getting [white-collar] visas so we can take care of businesses’ problems, I’m not supportive — in the absence of getting anything else done,” Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ) told Bloomberg Government.

Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) also suggested that he might oppose the white-collar giveaway to the Fortune 500 if Democrats do not get their amnesties and new voters. “Bob [Menendez] and I have the same goal, which is to get as many people as possible on a path to citizenship,” he told Bloomberg.

However, Democrat leaders still want to turbocharge the chain migration process, even without the amnesties, Menendez indicated. “If we’re talking about recapturing visas for family backlogs … I certainly would consider that,” even without the amnesties, Menendez said.

For many years, Democrats have blocked business efforts to import more white-collar workers unless business leaders help them win more voters from amnesties. In January, for example, Menendez said, “we need the high-tech community who will benefit from the reforms we are proposing, to be an advocate of the overall [amnesty] reform movement.”

But “the chain migration [expansion] is something that is supported by the same left-wing activist community as the [excluded] amnesty, and so, as long as they get the chain migration, then the activist left will consider it a fair deal if the business community getting uncapped foreign workers,” former White House advisor Steven Miller told Breitbart News.

The underlying bargain– more cheap workers and consumers for the Fortune 500 in exchange for more poor voters for the Democrats — is cementing the strategic alliance between the progressives who run the Democratic Party and the corporate investors who run the Fortune 500, said Miller:

There’s a progressive-corporate alliance that has been forged inside of the Democratic Party and nowhere can it be seen more clearly than on migration and the current reconciliation bill. The progressive left wants unlimited chain migration and the corporate donors and lobbyists want uncapped foreign workers. The reconciliation bill delivers both. And if they’re also able to get an amnesty from the parliamentarian, which I fear they will be able to do in some form, then that will just further cement the alliance between powerful progressive and powerful corporations.

The Fortune 500 giveaway will allow companies to recruit an unlimited number of foreign graduates with dangled promises of green cards and citizenship, said Rob Law, the director of regulatory affairs and policy at the Center for Immigration Studies. “It will be the equivalent of having unlimited legal immigration for [foreign] college graduates,” he said.

The plan rewards the investor-run corporations that already use the green card workforce of at least one million imported H-1B, J-1, L-1, and OPT workers to drop white-collar salaries. The cheap and compliant workforce also excludes many outspoken American graduates from rewarding careers in healthcare, business, technology, design, or science.

Law continued:

These are the companies that have intentionally discriminated against American workers, have subjected American workers to training their unqualified foreign replacements as a condition of getting severance packages, and, and now it is going to be a permanent loop where they will have as many cheap foreign workers — with at least a college degree — as they want, and that will just further suppress wages.

Both of the huge immigration changes have been ignored by the establishment press, partly because their immigration reporters prefer to cover the fears and hopes of Haitians as they try to move from home in South America to jobs throughout the United States.

The proposed changes have been ignored by journalists even though they will damage the income and status of journalists — and of their friends and peers. With lower income and status, fewer journalists will be able to buy good homes and get their children into high-status universities.

The journalists have also failed to quiz critical swing-vote Democrats about the migration changes that would divert investments and jobs away from their homes states. So far, Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV), Krysten Sinema (D-AZ), Sen. Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT), and Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH) have said little or nothing about the chain migration change or the white-collar indentured worker rule.

GOP leaders have also not challenged these proposed changes as violations of the Senate’s debating rules, even though both changes will damage GOP electoral support, and redirect wealth and political power from GOP-run states to Democrat-run coastal states.

GOP leaders have persuaded the Senate’s debate referee, the parliamentarian, to dismiss the Democrats’ proposed amnesties as policy changes disguised as budget changes. “The policy changes of this proposal far outweigh the budgetary impact scored to it and it is not appropriate for inclusion in reconciliation,” the parliamentarian wrote.

The amnesties are a direct threat to the jobs of GOP Senators because they would create many new Democratic voters.

But the silence about the chan migration plan and the white-collar giveaway reflects the reluctance of GOP legislators to protect Americans’ popular pocketbook interests amid donor demands for more migrants.

For example, on Wednesday, 34 House Republicans and 14 GOP Senators stayed silent as GOP leader Mitch McConnell approved a massive, expensive, and open-ended inflow of Afghans into Americans’ homes and jobs. The Senators were:

Roy Blunt (R-MO)

Richard Burr (R-NC)

Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV)

Bill Cassidy (R-LA)

Susan Collins (R-ME)

John Cornyn (R-TX)

Lindsey Graham (R-SC)

John Kennedy (R-LA)

Lisa Murkowski (R-AK)

Mitt Romney (R-UT)

Mike Rounds (R-SD)

Richard Shelby (R-AL)

Thom Tillis (R-NC)

Todd Young (R-IN)

In September, Breitbart News described the still;-hidden chain migration expansion in the spending bill:

The Democrats’ amnesty bill quietly invites three million chain migration arrivals into the U.S. workforce, likely forcing Americans to pay higher rents.

“It’s a huge deal,” said Jessica Vaughan, the director of policy studies at the Center for Immigration Studies.

About four million people are now waiting many years to get one of the roughly 240,000 cards annually available for the foreign siblings and adult children of legal immigrants. The new bill would allow them to “Early File’” for conditional residency and work permits if they have been waiting for more than two years and can also fly into the United States.

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The amnesty’s offer of residency to the 3 million chain migration migrants likely could create an additional inflow of 1 million per year — and an extra shortfall of roughly 800,000 apartments or homes.

Many states’ residents are already suffering from high housing costs. For example, several low-income Americans and immigrants died in early September when a storm flooded their affordable basement apartments in New York.

Breitbart has also described the bill’s plan to flood the job market for U.S. graduates with a massive supply of foreign graduates who will work for low wages plus the promise of U.S. citizenship for themselves and their families:

Democrat leaders “are blowing away all the numerical limits” on employers offering green cards to [college graduate] employees, said Rosemary Jenks, policy director for NumbersUSA. “There’s no limit anywhere.”

The pending bill would allow U.S. investors and executives to import and pay an unlimited number of foreign workers with the dangled reward of citizenship. That citizenship-for-work law would minimize executives’ need to recruit Americans or even offer good salaries.

The bill was revealed Friday, and on Monday, was quickly rushed through the House judiciary committee without C-SPAN coverage. Mark Zuckerberg’s astroturf empire is marketing it as a relief bill for deserving illegal migrants — but it boosts investors by dramatically expanding the flow of cheap workers, government-funded consumers, and room-sharing renters into the U.S. economy. Democrat leaders hope to squeeze the bill through the Senate via the 50-vote reconciliation process.

The expanded foreign worker pipeline will remain open until at least September 2031, even though many millions of Americans will need jobs during the next ten years after they graduate with debts and degrees in health care, accounting, teaching, business, design, science, technology, or engineering. “If you’re in the pipeline by September 30, 2031, you’re in [the 2021 amnesty bill],” Jenks added.

The push for cheap workers and more chain migration is being led by Mark Zuckerberg’s FWD.us network of coastal investors. They stand to gain financially from more cheap labor, government-aided consumers, and urban renters.

Their network has funded many astroturf campaigns, urged Democrats to not talk about the economic impact of migration, and manipulated coverage by the TV networks and the print media.

Migration is deeply unpopular because it damages ordinary Americans’ career opportunities, cuts their wages, raises their rents, curbs their productivity, shrinks their political clout, widens regional wealth gaps, and wrecks their democratic, equality-promoting civic culture.

For many years, a wide variety of pollsters have shown deep and broad opposition to labor migration and the inflow of temporary contract workers into jobs sought by young U.S. graduates.

This pocketbook opposition is multiracial, cross-sex, non-racist, class-based, bipartisan,  rational, persistent, and recognizes the solidarity Americans owe to each other.

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Someone should check on Sen. Richard Shelby.