Amnesty Bill: More Senate Amendments

The following is a summary of the amendments to Senate Bill 1348 that were debated and voted on yesterday afternoon and evening in the U.S. Senate.

Roll Call Vote #188: SA #1197 offered by Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC)

To require health care coverage for holders of Z nonimmigrant visas.

Roll Call Vote #189: SA #1267 offered by Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)

To remove the requirement that Y-1 nonimmigrant visa holders leave the United States before they are able to renew their visa.

Roll Call Vote #190: SA #1250 offered by Sen John Cornyn (R-TX)

To address documentation of employment and to make an amendment with respect to mandatory disclosure of information.

Roll Call Vote #191: SA #1331 offered by Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV)

To clarify the application of the earned income tax credit.

Roll Call Vote #192: SA #1234 offered by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL)

To save American taxpayers up to $24 billion in the 10 years after passage of this Act, by preventing the earned income tax credit, which is, according to the Congressional Research Service, the largest anti-poverty entitlement program of the Federal Government, from being claimed by Y temporary workers or illegal aliens given status by this Act until they adjust to legal permanent resident status.

Roll Call Vote #193: On the motion to waive CBA on SA #1194 offered by Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ)

To modify the deadline for the family backlog reduction.

Roll Call Vote #194: SA #1460 offered by Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ)

To modify the allocation of visas with respect to the backlog of family-based visa petitions.

Roll Call Vote #195: On the motion to waive CBA on SA #1183 offered by Sen. Hillary Clinton (D-NY)

To reclassify the spouses and minor children of lawful permanent residents as immediate relatives.

Roll Call Vote #196: SA #1374 offered by Sen. John Ensign (R-NV)

To improve the criteria and weights of the merit-based evaluation system.

Roll Call Vote #197: SA #1384 offered by Sen. Ken Salazar (D-CO)

To preserve and enhance the role of the English language.

Roll Call Vote #198: SA #1151 offered by Sen. James Inhofe (R -OK)

To amend title 4, United States Code, to declare English as the national language of the Government of the United States, and for other purposes.

Roll Call Vote #199: SA #1339 offered by Sen. David Vitter (R-LA)

To require that the U.S. VISIT system- the biometric border check-in/check-out system first required by Congress in 1996 that is already well past its already postponed 2005 implementation due date- be finished as part of the enforcement trigger.

Roll Call Vote #200: SA #1202 offered by Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL)

To provide a date on which the authority of the section relating to the increasing of American competitiveness through a merit-based evaluation system for immigrants shall be terminated.

Roll Call Vote #201: SA #1316 offered by Sen. Byron Dorgan (D-ND)

To sunset the Y-1 nonimmigrant visa program after a 5-yer period.