This entire Immigration Bill is Toxic!
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Posted on 05/25/2013 10:00:15 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
That Gang of 8 thing may not have been such a shoe-in after all. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.) has come back to report that, despite having sailed through the Judiciary Committee and garnering the support of at least four Republicans, they may still be coming up short..
“We don’t currently have 60 votes identified in the Senate,” Menendez said in an interview with Univision. “We need to add more votes on the floor. That means that the community in your state, in every state, should be contacting your state’s two U.S. Senators saying that they want comprehensive immigration reform, that they are going to judge their political future based on this vote.”
Supporters of the bill are pushing for a strong bipartisan vote of 70 or more to put pressure on the House to take up the legislation.
There was a time when getting a strong show of bipartisanship in the Senate might have actually “put pressure” on the House to take up a bill. But frankly, I think those days are in the past, at least for the time being. Particularly with control of the upper and lower chambers split between the parties, I honestly don’t see anyone on either side being interested in bowing to any sort of pressure at all. Getting the bill passed with 60 votes would probably be no different than getting 75.
Besides that, it looks like the Speaker has already sent some pretty clear signals on his position.
Boehner issued a statement Thursday signed by the members of his leadership team and Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., that takes a new approach and suggests Republicans want more ownership of the issue. Whether that will derail the fragile agreement forged across the rotunda remains unclear.
“While we applaud the progress made by our Senate colleagues, there are numerous ways in which the House will approach the issue differently,” they said. “The House remains committed to fixing our broken immigration system, but we will not simply take up and accept the bill that is emerging in the Senate if it passes. Rather, through regular order, the House will work its will and produce its own legislation.”
That about says it all. Even if the Senate comes up with 60 votes, it simply won’t get a straight up vote in the House on the Senate’s version. Boehner’s plan will no doubt include a lot more border enforcement and security up front, with a good measure of caution on the back end before we see any sort of path to citizenship. And given how much of a tightrope walk it was to find a bare majority in the Senate, it’s unlikely that a widely redesigned House bill will find a lot of love there.
The House will pass a bill but with logical changes and amendments that will not be palatable to most Democratic Senators. The bill will ultimately not become law.
So, that ends the thread, and when you close the border we will take up this discussion again.
They threw away 80% of submitted amendments so WTF do they expect
The bill must be a good one after they held all those public hearings and considered testimony from all elements of American society, just like with health care....
Oh, never mind.
How about Comprehensive Congressional Reform, you know the kind where they put Americans First.
If only the Senate consisted of Teenage Dominican Hookers instead of those mean Republicans.
The elite consensus.
So how is everyone viewing Rubio after all this nonsense?
Can’t answer for everyone..only myself.
Rubio screwed up..big time. It makes me pretty mad that the radio “talking heads” are covering for him.
Dang it Marco...ya coulda been a contender!
Trolls consistently try to put us to sleep with assurances that “it can’t happen here.”
We have seen unhappy surprises when we let down our guard. We can’t afford for the sake of our country to have the football pulled away again.
The pride of liberty is eternal vigilance.
They’re trolling for cash.
In case nobody has figured it out, Obama doesn’t want an immigration bill .. he wants the issue instead.
Boehner has already said it’s dead in the House.
We know immigration would have added 9-11 million voters for the dems .. meaning the repubs would probably not win another election for a generation.
With real 25% unemployment should we be bringing in predominately uneducated, unskilled workers from third world countries that hate America?
Only if you're a democrat.
With real 25% unemployment should we be bringing in predominately uneducated, unskilled workers from third world countries that hate America?
Only if you're a democrat.
With real 25% unemployment should we be bringing in predominately uneducated, unskilled workers from third world countries that hate America?
Only if you're a democrat.
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