SRES 551 · 109th Congress 2005–2007, ended

A resolution expressing the sense of the Senate that illegal immigrants should not receive Social Security benefits and that this prohibition should be strictly enforced.

Introduced Aug 3, 2006 Originated Senate Sponsor Harry Reid D-NV

Fact sheet

Latest action · Aug 3, 2006 Referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8859)

Progress

Where this resolution reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried. A simple resolution is the business of one chamber alone: it is not sent to the other chamber or to the President, and does not become law.

IntroducedAug 3, 2006
Agreed to in SenateNot reached

Summary

Expresses the sense of the Senate that illegal immigrants should not receive Social Security benefits and that this prohibition should be strictly enforced.

Cosponsors 11

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Aug 3, 2006 to Sep 6, 2006, with 10 there on the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-AR	Blanche L. Lincoln	Original	Aug 3, 2006
D-MI	Debbie Stabenow	Original	Aug 3, 2006
D-NY	Hillary Rodham Clinton	Original	Aug 3, 2006
D-NM	Jeff Bingaman	Original	Aug 3, 2006
D-CT	Joseph I. Lieberman	Original	Aug 3, 2006
D-AR	Mark L. Pryor	Original	Aug 3, 2006
D-LA	Mary L. Landrieu	Original	Aug 3, 2006
D-MT	Max Baucus	Original	Aug 3, 2006
D-OR	Ron Wyden	Original	Aug 3, 2006
D-SD	Tim Johnson	Original	Aug 3, 2006
D-ND	Byron L. Dorgan		Sep 6, 2006

Actions 2

Everything that happened, newest first.

Aug 3, 2006Introduced in Senate
Aug 3, 2006Referred to the Committee on Finance. (text of measure as introduced: CR S8859)

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Social Welfare.

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