"My wife and I make choices each day about what we have to give up to be able to pay the medical costs that our insurance doesn't cover.

We also work hard to change the things we feel are wrong by making our opinions known to you and our Senators. We follow a process.

So, imagine our shock and disgust at the mess we saw on Lou Dobbs Friday night. My God,... our elected officials acting like drunken judges at a wet t-shirt contest. And then to find out that you won't take the steps to fix it.
I know you voted not to extend benefits to the criminals politically referred to as "illegal aliens". Thank you for that.

Let me make our position clear. We live in Hardee County which I believe is more that 60% Hispanic and probably 80% of that is ILLEGAL.
To all the Hispanics and for that matter anyone who has immigrated to this county LEGALLY... welcome to the red white and blue rat race.

To all the rest of you that have broken the law to get here... get your stuff and GO HOME. I don't care if you have been here 20 yrs... have five kids, a business and a house. It is ill gotten gains. Drug dealers have their assets seized are sent to jail. We could be more understanding and give them 1 year to settle their affairs before they leave.

Thank you again but please remember... there is no room for legislators that want to give away our heritage."

EXACTLY....

And CNN dutifully hides the story for the Democrats. We know what you are up to.

But, I do laugh that the Republicans are raising such a stink as they did the exact same thing with the Medicare Drug bill and the stonewalling on Gonzales (as well as the other political maneuvering of this administration). If the tables were turned, they'd be singing the same turn as the Democrats and claim that it was a mistake.

However, dear Americans, Democrat or Republican, we can be certain that the interest they hold are not ours, but rather to the special interest group that funds their coffers. Just shut-up and pay the bill.

This furthers the Dems agenda to give priority to the illegals in this country over our American citizens!! OUr tax dollars will be spent on the anchors who haven't earned the right to have anything in our country.

What about the American citizen? What about our seniors? What about our indigent? How about it, Dems? Who will take care of us? When will you start thinking about the American tax payer who is paying your salaries and benefits when we citizens are going without healthcare or the benefits you so eagerly give to the illegals?

I thought there was supposed to be a procedure in the House to make decisions spending the tax payers money. Why are the Dems allowed to manipulate the procedures to benefit those very people the AMerican tax payers no longer will tolerate supporting?

Shameful Congress. You will all be voted out and be replaced with someone who cares about the American constituents who will elect the new Congress.

Members of Congress often don't even reside in the chamber until the vote alarm rings, and many take their time in the hallways or in their office before moseying on down to vote. It would be wildly impossible for McNulty to just stop voting while those said "seven members" were in the middle of using the voting machines. My guess is those seven arrived in the room late and began protesting that they still had time.

Produce grown in California has killed and made Americans sick this year, so there doesn't seem to me to be a reason to denie Mexicans JOBS at home and demand instead that they risk their lives to be=reak the laws to come here to work in fields.

The truth ( I realize that is not important to people with an agenda )is that after Cesar Chavez made illegal alien grape picking too expensive, farmers changed to mechanical means to keep the prices down and compete.

If we stop allowing the slavery ( low wage illegal workers) some farmers will go by the wayside, some will move thier operations to countries where they can continue to exploit workers, and some will develope lawfull ways to compete.

As to those workers needing housing , the populace as a whole does not have the obligation to suppliment farmers labor costs by extending benifits to migrant workers so that farmers can continue to reap the rewards of "cheap labor". The farmers must either pay a living wage, or find another way to accomplish farm tasks.

No one would agree to extending federal benefits to auto workers so that manufacturers could build cars using below minumum wage assemblers to compete.. There is no difference here!

It was about giving services to illegal workers who do nothing positive for this country. Any savings a shopper might get passed along to them by the people who are exploiting these workers is more than canceled out by the costs all citizens pay for this lawlessness.
The primary function of government is to protect the rights of one individual from being denied by another 'more powerful" agency. The reality is that our government has for all to long allowed looter exploiting employers to deny decent wages to workers, by allowing them to import and exploit foriegn workers.

This has got to stop, it never should have been allowed to start. The fact that the laws have been broken in the past, and poor citizens from other countries have been allowed to die struggling to get here only to be robbed of thier value and a mandated minimum living standard here canot be used as an excuse to allowe this to continue!

Dont worry, company's like Walmart are already importing product from South America...

I rather eat produce grow on American farms using immigrant workers, than IMPORT produce from Mexico or other countries.

The Republicans are again using a wedge issue to grandstand.

This bill had nothing to do with amnesty. The illegal workers are already here working on farms. They need someplace to stay don't they?

It's either that or American produce won't be competitive enough and supermarkets will start to import from Mexico, where they use a lot of pesticides that are not regulated.