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House revives, approves border crisis bill – as Obama vows to ‘act alone’
Fox News ^ | 1 Aug 2014

Posted on 08/01/2014 5:58:02 PM PDT by mandaladon

The House late Friday revived and approved a Republican-authored border crisis bill after GOP leaders hurriedly resolved an internal battle that scuttled the vote a day earlier – but with the Senate on recess and the House soon to follow, there’s little chance of any bill reaching President Obama’s desk until the fall.

The president now is vowing to act unilaterally to address the illegal immigration issue.

The House legislation was approved on a 223-189 vote. The new version of the bill adds additional funding for the National Guard and includes policy changes meant to speed deportations of illegal immigrant children surging across the southern border.

However, a separate Senate bill died on a procedural vote a day earlier, and no more votes in that chamber are scheduled until early September.Even if the Senate were somehow to approve the House bill, Obama vowed Friday he would veto it.

In the absence of any legislation that all sides can agree on, the president threatened to act on his own to address immigration challenges, potentially during the five-week recess.

"I'm going to have to make some tough choices to meet the challenge, with or without Congress," Obama said Friday, speaking to reporters in the White House briefing room.

He later added: "I'm going to have to act alone, because we don't have enough resources."

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; borderbill; illegalsinvasion; obama
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To: Liz

New national polling I just saw:

70% of all registered voters are against Obama’s Administrative Amnesty plan. And 52% of Black registered voters are against it.

Too bad the RINOs are on Obama’s side.


21 posted on 08/01/2014 6:22:33 PM PDT by jimbo123
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To: mandaladon
How can you find out who voted for it? I have written my Republican Congress-critter and told them that if they vote for any immigration/amnesty bill I will do everything in my power to see that they are defeated by their Democrat opponent.
22 posted on 08/01/2014 6:24:23 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("The man who damns money obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it earned it." --Ayn Rand)
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To: mandaladon

The stupidest president in the history of America walked Boehner and fellow RINOs right into his trap.


23 posted on 08/01/2014 6:25:26 PM PDT by righttackle44 (Take scalps. Leave the bodies as a warning.)
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To: FlingWingFlyer
This is why the Founding Fathers wanted the U.S. President to always be an American

Good catch. ;-)

24 posted on 08/01/2014 6:28:40 PM PDT by doc1019
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To: rlapuma

We all understand that the bill isn’t going to go anywhere but Conservatives/Republicans put themselves in a good position to capitalize on public opinion. It would have been more impactful if the Senate actually voted it down imo. I blame the RINO leadership for that. We(conservatives)will have to drag them along or cast them overboard in November.


25 posted on 08/01/2014 6:29:04 PM PDT by calicard
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To: mandaladon
How do I know that Obama's tough choices involve subverting the Constitution and permanently damaging the rule of law?
26 posted on 08/01/2014 6:30:12 PM PDT by LucianOfSamasota (Tanstaafl - its not just for breakfast anymore...)
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To: mandaladon

“He later added: “I’m going to have to act alone, because we don’t have enough resources.””

Then why did you arrange for them to come here?


27 posted on 08/01/2014 6:31:23 PM PDT by yorkiemom ( "...if fascism ever comes to America, it will come in the name of liberalism." - Ronald Reagan)
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To: calicard

yes. the main thing is to defeat the liberal wing establishment. We are the establishment now, not Karl rove or a bush or Christie. Hillary is sick and floundering. This is our best chance to get a Ronald Reagan.


28 posted on 08/01/2014 6:31:53 PM PDT by rlapuma
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To: mandaladon

Boener got all but 4 Republican votes (i.e., 98% of them). For that we should give him credit. Most likely, he could have gotten 60% or 70% of the Republican votes, and nearly all of the Democrat votes...and MUCH EASIER.

That would have KILLED THE PARTY...but he held out until virtually every Republican was on board - including dozens of SOLID CONSERVATIVES.

I’m no fan of Boener...but I have trouble expecting more out of any House Speaker.


29 posted on 08/01/2014 6:35:10 PM PDT by BobL
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To: bakeneko

“We don’t owe them anything except a C-130 flight back to their country of origin.”

They walked here, they can walk back.


30 posted on 08/01/2014 6:38:57 PM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: mandaladon

**The House legislation was approved on a 223-189 vote. The new version of the bill adds additional funding for the National Guard and includes policy changes meant to speed deportations of illegal immigrant children surging across the southern border.**

Would the Senate ever approve this?


31 posted on 08/01/2014 6:39:25 PM PDT by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: rainee
Didnt Boner tell some Chamber of Amnesty group that he’d push something through in August? Well, here it is!!!

I remember.
And they can't understand why I'm so angry?


Now rainee, I'm reading posts from people here that say this is a good bill.
I don't know, but what will it look like by the time harry and friends are done with it?
32 posted on 08/01/2014 6:42:43 PM PDT by novemberslady
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To: cripplecreek

Well, I have been busy but its not the usual disaster from Bonehead and McCarthy?


33 posted on 08/01/2014 6:42:46 PM PDT by ncalburt ( Amnesty-media out in full force)
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To: mandaladon

He later added: “I’m going to have to act alone ... and wish myself a happy birthday”


34 posted on 08/01/2014 6:46:07 PM PDT by Red_Devil 232 ((VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!))
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To: ncalburt
Steve King and Michele Bachmann finalized the language of the bill which sent some white house staffers off the deep end.

(Twitchy) White House flack upset that House Republicans get a say in GOP border bill
35 posted on 08/01/2014 6:46:25 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: mandaladon

Sounds like good timing to me. Too late for the Senate to grab it and mutilate it and then innocently send it back.

Let Obama try acting alone on this with so much of the country against what he is doing. I think he will regret it.


36 posted on 08/01/2014 6:48:31 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: novemberslady

The senate will never see the bill and Harry Reid says that anything done in the house will be dead in the water.

Legislatively its meaningless, strategically its a good move.


37 posted on 08/01/2014 6:50:10 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Remember the River Raisin.)
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To: bakeneko

The word deportation is being used loosely for “get their a33e3 back over the border.”


38 posted on 08/01/2014 6:51:33 PM PDT by firebrand
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To: cripplecreek
The senate will never see the bill

Are you sure about that cripplecreek?
39 posted on 08/01/2014 7:00:12 PM PDT by novemberslady
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To: what's up

agree...


40 posted on 08/01/2014 7:03:59 PM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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