October 05, 2011....."The measure, called the "Continuing Resolution Act, 2012," ends the latest threat of a government shutdown.
This bill originated in the GOP-e controlled HOUSE. Did it defund Obamacare? NO Did it defund Dodd Frank? NO
Posted on 06/19/2012 9:17:43 AM PDT by Cheerio
Rep. David Schweikert (R-Ariz.) on Monday proposed legislation that would block enforcement of President Obama's new policy of letting certain illegal immigrants request temporary relief from deportation.
Schweikert's bill would specifically prohibit the Department of Homeland Security from allowing that relief, which Obama described on Friday as an option for up to 800,000 immigrants who came to the United States illegally at a young age. Schweikert said his bill would prevent Obama from "dictating" immigration law from the White House.
Do both. Put the rats on the spot on this. As for funding, I would first reduce funding for all the ‘feel-good’ offices in DOJ before going after INS.
That won't be the case until the next administration takes office.
So long as the Democrat Senate refuses to pass a budget and departmental spending is automatically renewed via the baseline budget, the House is powerless to remove the authorization from these expenditures as they were essentially authorized by the last budget that was passed (FYE 2009).
It's now evident that the Democrats knew exactly what they were doing when they failed to pass a FYE 2010 budget. They knew they were going to lose the House in the 2010 mid-terms...but they conspired not to lose control of government spending in the process.
INS stopped in 2003 and became ICE.
This is asinine. I am not even reporting it on our page. Harry Reid would bury it, Obama would never sign it, and the press will never report it. The best bet is a legal fight, behind Steve King. Speaker Boehner MUST get behind that, because otherwise a judge might rule King does not have sufficient standing to sue on behalf of the House.
Zero's exec order is about blocking enforcement of deportation. Now Schweikert proposes we block the blocking---how does one enforce that?
The best response is all routes—legislative and legal!
My bad. Thanks.
That was precisely my point, the money has already been appropriated...by default.
The debt limit, then, is the only mechanism that the House has to control spending in any way. Don't mistake me. I'm not saying the House leadership has done anything like a good job in this regard.
But, if you're talking about defunding a specific program, the debt limit is a sledge-hammer when the job calls for a scalpel. And, when you start the negotiations by promising you won't shut down the government, well...you don't have nmuch leverage.
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