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Posted on 06/12/2019 5:32:42 PM PDT by jazusamo
Full title: Hans von Spakovsky: House Dem zealots ignore facts to wrongly cite Trump Cabinet members for contempt
A House committee vote Wednesday holding the attorney general and commerce secretary in contempt for failing to turn over confidential documents dealing with a lawsuit involving the U.S. census was political gamesmanship of the worst kind by Democrats.
In a 24-15 vote, all Democrats on the House Oversight and Reform Committee voted to hold Attorney General William Barr and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross in contempt of Congress for failing to respond to the committee’s subpoena.
Republican Justin Amash of Michigan – who has called for the House to hold hearings on impeaching President Trump – voted with the Democrats. The other 15 Republicans on the committee voted against the baseless contempt citation.
The vote by Democrats and Amash was itself contemptible – an example of out-of-control zeal to attack the Trump administration as often and as hard as possible, regardless of the facts.
The documents deal with a decision by the Commerce Department to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census.
“Why don’t the Democrats want to know how many citizens are in the country?” asked Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio.
Democrats have said they fear that asking people in the census if they are U.S. citizens will reduce participation in the census by immigrants, resulting in an undercount of the U.S. population in areas with large immigrant populations. However, there is no empirical data to support that claim.
President Trump quite properly asserted executive privilege over the subpoenaed documents Wednesday morning. The president took the action because Congress has no right to demand or receive the documents, since they are part of a lawsuit now before the Supreme Court.
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So file an ethics complaint against each and every miscreant.
If republicans treated Obama the way Dims treat Trump the media would cry racism non stop. The left wing media is the enemy of America.
To the Demoncrats, facts are irrelevant; power is all that matters.
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What they really meant to say.
Hey, Democrats?
If you’re an immigrant and are here LEGALLY, what would you have to hide from Census takers??
You nailed it, PDJT didn’t interfere in any way with the Mueller fiasco and the Rats can’t accept the truth.
Exactly! The Rats aren’t worried in the least about the legal immigrants here but I’d bet many of them don’t sleep well at night worrying about the illegal border jumpers, they’re relying on those illegals for votes.
My Wife is an Immigrant, She just got her new green card so I am stuck with her for 10 more years at least, but she doesn’t mind that the citizenship question will be on it,
Good for her, Congrats and don’t let her see the part about “stuck.” :^)
“Democrats have said they fear that asking people in the census if they are U.S. citizens will reduce participation in the census by immigrants, resulting in an undercount of the U.S. population in areas with large immigrant populations. However, there is no empirical data to support that claim.”
The RATs “real fear” is that in area with “large immigrant populations”( mostly illegal I’d guess) segregating them in the Census will result in a significant drop in House Seats. I have seen statistics that suggest that Los Angeles County alone will lose as many as SIX House seats with a census that eliminates the masking of illegals. There are millions living in LA County who are not citizens, but with a non-segregated Census they have been included in the tally and House seats allocated based on their being counted.
This is one area where we can do something to lessen the political impact of illegals, because they are cloistered in RAT-run big cities like Los Angeles. And it’s undoubtedly true of virtually all major cities in this country today. Lastly, The RATS don’t want the citizens to get a count that accurately shows just how many illegals reside here today.
“If you’re an immigrant and are here LEGALLY, what would you have to hide from Census takers??”
Actually, getting them counted as non-citizens, just like their illegal buddies, will help drive accurate counts to craft Congressional Districts. But I don’t think our “legal immigrant population” is all that large.
What is Amash doing here? This has nothing to do with Mueller’s report. Amash has evidently allied himself with the Democrats. The Democrats have no case here.
Yep, looks to me like Amash has decided to confirm he’s gone to the dark side because of his hatred for President Trump.
Thanks D1, we’re getting close and hopefully today we wrap this up!
Thanks, no problem...
My projection figures estimate tomorrow, but sometimes the end comes quick as momentum builds at the end.
Hope you’re right though...
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