Posted on 06/26/2019 1:39:21 PM PDT by Innovative
The Senate on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bipartisan $4.5 billion bill to combat the escalating humanitarian crisis on the southern border, moments after rejecting a House version over its restrictions on enforcement efforts -- setting up a race to reconcile the two measures before Congress leaves town.
The Senate bill passed 84-8. That vote in the Republican-controlled chamber came minutes after the House version was voted down 55-37.
It's unclear what will come next. The Senate vote could put pressure on the Democrat-controlled House to pass its version before Congress breaks for the July 4 recess. Or the two chambers could try and hash out their differences in what is known as a conference committee.
Asked if they might consider this step, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., wouldn't say but vowed: "We're going to get this done."
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I’m not blaming him I’m blaming the RINOS who at every opportunity backstabbed this president!
Frankly, I'm all for planting bombs on our side and having gun towers all along our border, with orders to SHOOT ON SIGHT, any damned invader.
It makes it a LOT worse.
1. It invites them to do what they can to stay in the US when they are released. We’ve seen the ridiculous dust-up over people here with Deportation Orders that are being ignored all over the place. There’s zero repercussion if you simply ignore a Deportation Order.
2. It attracts new invaders to come and get their free stuff.
I thought they are going to start enforcing the deportation orders, by rounding up those who ignored it and get them out of the country, put them on the other side of the border.
My interpretation is there are multiple problems and this (the senate bill) only would a small part of those problems. The house bill would put on bad restrictions, but I believe that POTUS and DHS are telling congress they need the funds just to deal with the logistics of holding the illegals they are turning themselves in. Funny though that 4.5 billion is also what we needed for the wall.
I wish we could get more facts and insight into whats happening daily on the border. How many caught are being returned to Mexico to await their case vs how many are being held, then later released or relocated to the interior US? This should be trackable, and public, information, along with a whole lot of other stuff that should be available under FOI. But it seems like there are very few sources and infrequent reports as to what is happening. :(
“I’m beginning to think that it would be a good idea for this site to have a section that explains how our government works ( all branches ), for reference, for those who either never learned this in 5th and/or 9th grade.”
Actually you’d want two sections. One for how the government is SUPPOSED to work (per the intent of the Constitution), and one for how it really works (per the intent of big money).
But I keep seeing post after post post AFTER POST here, that shows that there are quote a few people who have less than NO idea how the government works/is supposed to work. And frankly, not only do I find that shocking, but disgusting.
And I've also been yelled and cursed at, when I've posted the correcting facts of the matter.
Hey he started that last Sunday, secretly I read it right here.
So then well-fed, tooth-brushed, showered, ingrates, ages 2, and up, sleep in beds, photography stops supporting bogus narrative of “concentration camps”.
And then, when Congress recesses for 4th of July, since wall, reforms, etc., are not passed, and crack-down originally scheduled for this week goes forward, and the already ordered deported are actually deported and good riddance. And in the interim, the wall continues to get built with the emergency money.
2020, with no more Nancy and unified Republicans, wall gets funded, reforms get passed, no more visa lottery, no more Flores, no more chain migration. No more human trafficking, no more drug smuggling, no more rent-a-kids, no more wet back work force. Four more years of winning!
“”I’m at my ends wit””
Now that’s funny - I guess you really are... I’m not even really sure what it means when it’s stated correctly and I’ve heard it all my years...but perhaps you meant it exactly as it turned out? Clever anyway!
Lets hope this Bill is missing A 2 Year Pilot Program whereby the UN TAKES OVER OUR DETENTION CENTERS! That was in the Dem Bill, according to Steve!
Heads up for anyone with connections.
Listen carefully, he mentions the UN provision:
https://twitter.com/AKA_RealDirty/status/1143593716336250881?s=09
Don’t take it out on the posters. US schools stopped teaching how the government works back sometime in the late ‘70s/early 80s. Civics became Social Studies, where students were later taught how to organize a protest and had to come up with an organized protest, complete with signs and slogans for part of their grade.
I became aware of it in 1980. Friends with younger children told me about the protest lessons in the early 2000s.
We rail at POTUS, but this has been going on for over 40 years.
No not really. We had the House and Senate and president Trump for a year and our party didn’t bother to write qny bills to change the immigration loopholes, asylum issues, etc. This happens every time we are in the majority; we act so powerless, we have our party leaders stab us in the back. Then they cry, they are helpless when they are in the minority.
You needed 60 votes in the Senate...
Nasty P. may very well be gone in 2021; however, to believe that the GOP will be united and pass Bills that give President Trump what he keeps asking for, I can only assume that you believe that the Easter Bunny lays chocolate eggs, which come out already wrapped in different colored tinfoil wrappers.
If I were to guess, I'd say that those who post here and neither know nor understand how our government works are mostly much older than you are assuming them to be.
I don't "rail against POTUS"; I rail against the posters who imagine that they know what they're talking about,are old enough to know better than what their posts claim, and then go bats**t crazy when told the facts.
Amazing how the Dems can browbeat/bribe/threaten their people to get the votes needed but not Repubs eh? Our party stabs our President in the back but licks the hind end of Dem President, especially like they did for Obama.
It’s always some excuse why our party can’t pass much of anything.
Well, I’m 76. I was not just taught Civics, in my time, it was common knowledge. Like speaking correctly, you just absorbed it.
My son is now 54. My friend’s child is 40. That’s plenty old.
The school in question is a rural consolidated school in a quiet, flyover area where most people are patriots.
The subversion is everywhere and has been for 2 or more generations.
It isn’t an excuse because we can all search out and read the facts.
I wasn’t saying you railed. I guess we’re all frustrated right now. Something needs to be done and we don’t seem to be able to do a thing. Personally, I’m sick at heart over what’s happening in our country. I’m just trying to hold my own little world together.
If/when schools abrogate their role ( teaching...really teaching children !) then it is up to the parents to do so. Actually parents should be teaching their kids at home; especially filling in the blanks that NO school has EVER completely filled! And it can/should be made fun and yes, even thrilling, for both parents and children to be with one another and just learn about things.
Some examples...when I was very little my grandmother would show me my mother's scrap book, from when she was little, that they did together. It was filled with all kinds of VERY interesting things...from just old magazine illustrations to little squibs about such things as Franklin's bathtub ( yes there was a drawing of him in the bath ), flying the kite, to a painting of the Lusitania, which was a jumping off point for my grandmother to tell me the factual history behind the painting.
Today there are T.V. programs which can and should spark such "talks"!
Parents do not have to "act" like a teacher and should NOT; they should just talk in a normal way, and/or bring up a topic, when with a child/children. The 4th of July would be a GREAT time to do so, as would many other "holidays"!
Sure parents are busy...THEY ALWAYS HAVE BEEN!
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