Posted on 07/01/2013 7:02:57 AM PDT by Resettozero
(CNSNews.com) - Joking that he was "moved almost to the point of tears by Sen. (Chuck) Schumer's concern for the future prospects of the Republican Party," Rep. Trey Gowdy said on Sunday the immigration bill passed by the Senate is dead on arrival in the House:
"The Senate bill is not going to pass in the House. It's not going to pass for myriad reasons," Gowdy told "Fox News Sunday."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
I agree 100% ... No Bill is the Best Bill in the House... Why? Because Boehner and others will pass a Trojan Horse good sounding bill and it will go to House-Senate Conference where the Senate Bill will be stuffed into the House Bill and that will be it... voted on and passed and signed. It is TOO DANGEROUS to pass a Immigration/Amnesty Bill in the House - it will be misused. Better to HAMMER Boehner and Ryan and others - Hammer so hard as to get Boehner to resign as Speaker. This would throw the House legislative process into chaos for most of the rest of the summer and maybe beyond. Get new Speaker who will listen to Conservatives and go out to the states and have drawn out Town Hall meetings sames as was done before to kill the Senate Amnesty Bill. We need a Massive Phone campaign
Whatever works.
Couldn’t have said it better about Gowdy.
Yep.
I do not trust this government or anyone in it to do the right thing on anything.
Mr. Gowdy, you may have said some cool things that don’t matter a hill of beans in some pointless hearing, but you do not have my trust, and I am not sure that you ever will.
The best way for you to begin to earn that trust is to do NOTHING.
Just stop. The only thing this government has succeeded in creating is failure, and I have enough failure to last a lifetime.
Please, just go on vacation and stay on vacation.
[regarding immigration, Gowdy says] "I think you have to find a synthesis between the humanity that I think defines us as a people, and the respect for the rule of law that defines us as a republic"...
Gowdy... says three images come to his mind when he considers immigration: Vietnamese fleeing Communism in the wheel wells of airplanes; Cubans dying on makeshift rafts off the Florida coast; and a woman from Sierra Leone whose hands were cut off because she tried to vote.
"Peoples' desire to improve their lives resonates with me, no matter where they're from," Gowdy said.
...Gowdy said he expects to conduct his first few hearings as fact-finding missions to inform what he hopes will be a Republican-backed immigration reform bill...
...He disputes allegations that illegal immigrants are draining certain government services reserved for citizens, such as unemployment benefits and Social Security. Illegal immigrants don't qualify for such benefits.
And the farmers and growers in his Upstate South Carolina district can't find and keep American employees, so allowing immigrants to work here legally is essential, Gowdy said.
He said deporting all 11 million illegal immigrants would require government action that would "shock the conscience of some of the folks who are most forceful in arguing for it."
"You want them knocking on your front door?" he said. "You want them going to elementary schools and rounding up the kids?"
...[He's non-committal on amnesty right now, but regarding the "path to citizenship" says] "It would depend on what that path involved and depends on the factors you would immediately want to look at," he said. "Law-abidingness, for one. And connection to the community. I'd also be curious as to how many of them desire citizenship."
NO HOUSE BILL!! BLUE SLIP THE SENATE BILL!! STOP AMNESTY!!
Boehner:
202-225-0600
DC Fax: 202-225-5117
Gowdy:
202-225-6030
DC Fax: 202-226-1177
Greenville: 864-241-0175
@TGowdySC
Gowdy SC on FNS:
“ Virtually everyone agrees on the broad principles. Where we get ourselves into a little bit of a difference of opinion are the details.....So, you can agree in theory on border security but disagree very strongly on how it's achieved. You can agree on a path to legalization or citizenship. But whether border security is a condition precedent, which it would be in my case, is a very important distinction”
No-one opposed to giving illeagsl the vote would say that. This is exactly what Rubio was saying.
Bottom line ... watch and see (for the disbelievers)... Any House ‘Immigration’ Bill passed - means the Senate Bill will become law. Goudy and the rest of them need to be sobered up ... threatened with replacement if any bill is passed.
This would be very similar the same tactic used when Hastert was Speaker ... 2006
http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2006/06/sweet_column_gop_house_leaders.html
Sweet Column: GOP House leaders stall immigration bill. Death by hearings. Hastert slap to Bush.
By Lynn Sweet on June 21, 2006 6:42 AM | 17 Comments
House Speaker J. Dennis Hastert and GOP House leaders virtually killed chances wide-ranging immigration legislation — supported by President Bush — will be considered this election year.
In a highly unusual move, Hastert (R-Ill.) said Tuesday there will be hearings this July and August in Washington and across the nation on the immigration bill passed by the Senate. Conservatives favor the tough enforcement-only House version, which subjects illegal immigrants and those who help them to felony charges.
“I think the action by the House of Representatives to reopen a series of hearings on comprehensive immigration reform is a cynical effort to delay or kill a comprehensive immigration bill,’’ said Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.).
I am not trying to attack your buddy but I would like to know up front if each of these House members are for giving them the vote or not,
clearly Rubio, Mccain and Grahamnesty were for giving them the vote and full citizenship and they got no challenges on it in the Senate,
People’s desire to improve their lives resonates with me too. They can start by being law abiding as they seek citizenship in my country, which takes a long time, and I am just fine with that.
Mr. Gowdy, you work for an entity that has earned my distrust. You personally do not have my trust, and you have not earned it.
You can start by representing the people of this country, and not representing the citizens of another country who came here illegally.
If you do not do this, then as far as I am concerned you are a traitor, and I do not care at all what lovely and sentimental words you choose to hide your treachery in, because it is still plainly visible to those of us you are selling out and disenfranchising.
Your reply is deceptive and wrongly leading. Go to the blackboard and diagram this:
“You can agree on a path to legalization or citizenship. But whether border security is a condition precedent, which it would be in my case, is a very important distinction”.
The clause “which it would be in my case” refers to “whether border security is a condition precedent” and not to the part you underlined.
Either your understanding of English is flawed or you intended to deceive just to make a silly point on FR.
WHAT are you talking about? WHO are you talking about? Not Trey Gowdy.
it is clear he wanted viewer to take away that citizenship was OK with him as long as the border was first(before any legalization too) Trey: 'You can agree on a path to legalization or citizenship'. This is the type of lawyer words Rubio was using.
His only disagreement with Rubio on that show was that the Senate bill failed to live up to that,.
Now maybe he has a enough poison pills to kill that bill, if so good.
Where and when did Trey Gowdy say that he intended to make certain that there would be a House bill to be reconciled with the Senate version? He hasn’t. He said he desires for the House to do things incrementally and in small steps and in the right order. One of those increments could be requirement that present laws be enforced.
Some of you just aren’t listening very carefully to what he is saying.
Yes.
Trey Gowdy.
He has done nothing to warrant placing my trust in him. He has not earned my trust.
Words do not mean anything to me anymore, only actions count, and I see no action being taken by him or anyone else to help America or her citizens.
None.
chris37, since you have not created an About Page on FR, I cannot see if you are a resident of S.C. or not. Either way, you are free to campaign against him or anyone for any reason. Because it is still, for the time being, America. And Trey Gowdy, as my U.S. Representative, is pleasing me in helping to keep this...The United States of America.
Obviously, your mileage does vary.
would LOVE to see him take on Graham next year. He is forceful in his statements during the hearings and every other time I’ve seen him on TV or in various House activities.
I thought I read (on FR?) that Rep Gowdy will not challenge Sen Grahamnesty.
Forget the parades of horribles scare tactic.
Deport on contact.
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