Posted on 04/15/2014 12:53:07 PM PDT by cotton1706
Democrats are holding out hope that their discharge petition on a comprehensive immigration overhaul bill can still work — or at least be used as election-year ammo.
House Democrats held a conference call Tuesday to announce their intention to distribute a memo in the districts of 30 House Republicans who have signaled support for an immigration overhaul previously. Democrats are calling on these Republicans, and others, to “put their pen where their mouth is,” as Colorado Democrat Jared Polis put it, and sign the discharge petition for HR 15, the companion bill to the Senate-passed immigration bill.
The discharge petition for the House bill currently has 191 Democratic signatures, meaning nine Democrats still haven’t signed on to the effort. There are, however, 200 co-sponsors for the bill, including three Republicans: Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida and Jeff Denham and David Valadao of California.
Democrats hope the additional pressure will move Republicans to sign on to the discharge petition.
“There are enough votes to get this done,” said Florida Democrat Joe Garcia. “There is a deaf ear. His name is John Boehner.”
Speaker John A. Boehner repeatedly has said he would prefer to do an immigration overhaul piece by piece. However, with Republicans saying they don’t trust President Barack Obama to implement the law as intended, the Ohio Republican admits it would be difficult to move any immigration legislation this year.
The president has said he will implement elements of an immigration overhaul through executive order if Congress doesn’t act, and the Democratic effort to bring the bill to the floor may provide some cover to the president if he does move unilaterally, signaling to Americans that Democrats at least tried to implement an overhaul legislatively before appealing to the president.
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I don’t see a benefit that Rs, even those Rs in heavily Hispanic districts, will get from signing it.
I mean if Pelosi was Speaker and held a vote they would be in a bad situation, buts she’s not.
Gee. Republicans with the astounding debacle of Democrat Obamacare, all its broken promises, terrible implementation, huge price tag, major fake enrollment numbers, democrats not even mentioning this in their re-election campaigns, and most people enrolled not in their prime target audience for doing all this,
vs Democrats and supposed support for immigration reform.
Wonder who’s gonna be better off this election. (I really don’t.)
Best immigration plans we could have are the ones of countries we share borders with.
The traitor Boehner will wait until after the November 2014 elections, and then, in the lame duck session, stab the American people in the back, ally himself with the D’s, and force thru immigration reform. You can take this to bank.
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"There are enough votes to get this done," said Florida Democrat Joe Garcia. "There is a deaf ear. His name is John Boehner." Speaker John A. Boehner repeatedly has said he would prefer to do an immigration overhaul piece by piece. However, with Republicans saying they don’t trust President Barack Obama to implement the law as intended, the Ohio Republican admits it would be difficult to move any immigration legislation this year.
If immigration was a big deal they already would have signed it.
If Paul Ryan and Jeff Denham sign a Pelosi amnesty bill, how are they going to con House Republicans into believing their conservative immigration plan?
I wish some of them would sign the discharge petition then they lose all credibility when they try to get movement from House GOP.
Some of these Republicans are going to win or lose in November based on GOP base turning out.
I dont know who Denham’s opponent is. But it is going to be some Wise Latina who thinks immigration reform and keeping Obamacare is important to the voters.
By default Denham is going to look conservative. But if enough Republicans stay at home because of his amnesty pandering he will lose GOP voters and swing voters.
Joe amnesty Heck has some moonbat who is doing this and he will probably win easily. Thuggish Grimm could win against a De Blasio stooge.
Coffman could lose because he alienates the Tancredo’s and Steve King’s in his district while Romanoff is a semi-moderate rat who says he is for amnesty but did good work in the CO legislature in 2006.
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