{"id":876,"date":"2007-07-04T21:36:38","date_gmt":"2007-07-05T01:36:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=876"},"modified":"2007-07-04T21:36:38","modified_gmt":"2007-07-05T01:36:38","slug":"press-release-from-georgia-senator-johnny-isakson-after-amnesty-again-was-defeatedagain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/04\/press-release-from-georgia-senator-johnny-isakson-after-amnesty-again-was-defeatedagain\/","title":{"rendered":"Press Release from Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson after amnesty-again was defeated&#8230;again"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE   <\/strong><br \/>\nContact: Joan Kirchner or Sheridan Watson, 202-224-7777 <\/p>\n<p>Thursday, June 28, 2007                                             <\/p>\n<p><strong>Isakson Urges Swift Action on Border Security, Renews Call for Emergency Supplemental to Secure U.S. Border<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u2018It Is Clear We Have a Crisis in Confidence\u2019<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) today said the President and Congress must commit to securing the border as the first step of immigration reform, and he renewed his call to secure the border by using a supplemental spending bill to fully fund the manpower and technology necessary to do so.<\/p>\n<p>Isakson today voted against a procedural motion to cut off debate on the immigration bill. The procedural vote failed 46 to 53. Senate rules required 60 votes to proceed with the bill.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is clear we have a crisis in confidence among the American people over our commitment to secure the border,\u201d Isakson said. \u201cBecause past promises have yet to be fulfilled, the confidence level in the Congress and in the Administration to secure the border and to pay for enforcement measures is too low for immigration reform to proceed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Isakson believes border security must be \u201cde-coupled\u201d from the rest of the immigration bill, and that it must be the first, separate step of reform, before anything else takes place. He believes this is the only way to assure the American people that the President and the Congress are serious about securing the border. <\/p>\n<p>Two weeks ago, Isakson and Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) sent a letter to President Bush urging him to request an emergency supplemental spending measure for border security. In the wake of today\u2019s vote, Isakson renewed his call for an emergency supplemental spending bill. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe pass emergency supplementals for various things in this body. We\u2019ve done it in response to Katrina. We\u2019ve done it in response to Iraq. I would submit that the American people would tell you there\u2019s no greater emergency right now than securing our border,\u201d Isakson said. \u201cAn authorization is a promise, and an appropriation is a commitment. It is time that Congress makes a commitment and makes border security a reality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>###<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Joan Kirchner or Sheridan Watson, 202-224-7777 Thursday, June 28, 2007 Isakson Urges Swift Action on Border Security, Renews Call for Emergency Supplemental to Secure U.S. Border \u2018It Is Clear We Have a Crisis in Confidence\u2019 WASHINGTON \u2013 U.S. Senator Johnny Isakson (R-Ga.) today said the President and Congress must commit to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}