Posted on 10/27/2015 7:33:35 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Paul Ryan has signed off on a letter promising restless members of the House Freedom Caucus (HFC) that he won’t bring immigration-reform legislation to the House floor while President Obama remains in office.
The letter, obtained exclusively by National Review, formalizes pledges that Ryan made last week in a closed-door meeting with select members of the HFC who were skeptical of his promise to maintain an “open” and “inclusive” relationship with the caucus. Specifically, it extracts Ryan’s word that he will not bring up comprehensive immigration reform “so long as Barack Obama is president” and, as speaker, Ryan will not allow any immigration bill to reach the floor for a vote unless a “majority” of GOP members support it.
Alabama representative Mo Brooks wrote the letter and will enter it into the Congressional Record on Tuesday morning. He says his intention was to record the pledges Ryan made in the meeting and earn Ryan’s confirmation that the record was accurate, so he could vote for the Wisconsin Republican in good conscience come the congressional-floor election that will determine the next speaker.
It’s been widely reported that Ryan has promised to uphold the second promise in the letter — the so-called “Hastert Rule,” which is designed to ensure that legislation brought to the House floor has broad support in the Republican conference — but by agreeing to the letter’s substance, he’s giving his first endorsement of that policy as it specifically applies to immigration reform.
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It shouldn't even be brought up after Obama is out of office. Enforce the laws that are presently on the books. Period!
Ryan pledges?
What about the will of the voters, who have made their position clear?
Does that twerp think he is bigger than 315 million people?
Ryan is talking tough this morning. He doesn’t seem to like the way Boehner handled the budget negotiations.
We will see.
I am betting Ryan will turn into the same left-leaning compromiser Boehner was.
Ryan promised to get rid of 80% of Obamacare. If he doesn’t have bills heading to the president’s desk by the end of the year, he will show that he is nothing more than hot air.
Where’s the promise of fiscal sanity from “Mr. Budget”?
Which only means Ryan will propose amnesty on January 21st, 2017.
Big deal.
No amnesty, ever. Never.
Which only means Ryan will propose amnesty on January 21st, 2017.
Big deal.
No amnesty, ever. Never.
Didn’t Ryan make some “pledges” about the budget battle
that he didn’t keep?
I don’t want another Rino up there.
I want someone who can LEAD and FIGHT.
Now Ryan wants the Tea Party Caucus to “trust” him when he says he won't bring up amnesty for illegal aliens and won't pass congressional legislation with the help of liberal socialist democrats!
The Tea Party must support Daniel Webster and to hell with another GOPe RINO as Speaker of the US House of Representatives! America and the American people cannot tolerate and will not survive any more go along to get along GOPe RINO bought and paid for by the Chamber of Communist congressional legislation.
He doesn’t give a darn about what the American people want
He is doing the bidding of the pope that he helped invite to speak before congress
Ryan Celebrates Pope Francis’s Address to Congress
http://paulryan.house.gov/news/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=398373
Too late.
All bets are off though with a GOP-E president in 2017.
Trick…or treat? Not good enough Eddie Munster.
Get off my lawn little kid.
But Mr. Ryan, what about immigration reform and shamnesty under President Hillary?
What the letter doesn’t say is that if Obama goes at it alone, impeachment proceedings will begin immediately.
BFD.
Obama won’t be around that much longer.
It’s still good news GOPe won’t get steamrolled by democrats on illegals flooding the country...
Paul Ryan is a liar.
Yeh Paulie you can pitch amnesty to President Trump in 14 months from now. Good luck.
> “I am betting Ryan will turn into the same left-leaning compromiser Boehner was.”
Yes, he is a known liar.
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