This is the Trojan Horse.
Boehner should take up the Senate bill and vote it down, or blue slip it as being unconstitutional. Either way kill it.
If GOP passes its own house bill, no matter how favorable, then the 2 bills will go to a conference committee and a compromise bill will come out that House cannot then stop.
Boehner is pulling a fast one (he thinks).
Ryan is already on board with Gang of 8. It is a set up.
Thank you for explaining the process to me. I understand now why it is necessary for the Speaker to bring the Senate bill to the floor for a vote and vote it down.
Email/fax/phone Boehner and ALL R Reps up for re-election in 2014 and tell them this!!
House Republicans up for re-election in 2014 -
(* designates vulnerable/toss up):
AZ:
AZ 4 Gosar
AZ 5 Salmon
AZ 6 Schweikert
AR:
AR 1 Crawford
AR 2 Griffin
AR 3 Womack
AR 4 Cotton
CA:
CA 1 LaMalfa
CA 4 McClintock
CA 8 Cook
CA 10 Denham
CA 21 Valadao*
CA 22 Nunes
CA 23 McCarthy
CA 25 McKeon
CA 31 Miller*
CA 39 Royce
CA 42 Calvert
CA 45 Campbell
CA 48 Rohrbacher
CA 49 Darrell Issa
CA 50 Duncan D. Hunter
CO:
CO 3 Tipton
CO 4 Gardner
CO 5 Lamborn
CO 6 Coffman*
FL:
FL 1 Miller
FL 2 Southerland
FL 3 Yoho
FL 4 Crenshaw
FL 6 DeSantis
FL 7 Mica
FL 8 Posey
FL 10 Webster
FL 11 Nugent
FL 12 Bilirakis
FL 13 Young
FL 15 Ross
FL 16 Buchanan
FL 17 Rooney
FL 19 Radal
FL 25 Diaz-Balart
FL 27 Ros-Lehtinen
IL:
IL 13 Davis*
IN:
IN 2 Walorski
IA:
IA 3 Latham
KY:
KY 6 Barr
MA:
MA 1 Andrew P. Harris
MI:
MI 1 Beneshek* MI 3 Amash MI 7 Walberg MI 11 Bentivolo
MN:
MN 2 Kline
NE:
NE 2 Terry
NV:
NV 3 Heck
NJ:
NJ 2 LoBiondo
NJ 3 Runyan
NJ 5 Garrett
NY:
NY 11 Grimm
NY 19 Gibson*
NY 23 Reed
OH:
OH 6 Johnson
OH 7 Gibbs
OH 14 Joyce*
OH 16 Renacci
PA:
PA 7 Meehan
PA 8 Fitzpatrick
PA 12 Rothfus
TN:
TN 4 DesJarlais
VA:
VA 1 Wittman
VA 2 Rigel
VA 4 Forbes
VA 5 Hurt
VA 6 Goodlatte
VA 7 Eric Cantor
VA 9 Griffith
VA 11 Connolly
Vulnerable Dems up in 2014:
AZ 1 Kirkpatrick
AZ 2 Barber
FL 18 Murphy
FL 26 Garcia
NH 1 Shea-Porter
NC 7 McIntyre
TX 23 Gallego
UT 4 Matheson
Thought about this some more. Seems to me that the Senate DEMS would LOVE for Boehner to bring the Senate Bill up for a vote. Then when it didn’t pass, the House Republicans would of course be trashed.
Boehner should do just what Reid does with EVERY bill that passes the House and goes to the Senate...Never bring them up. Reid refused to bring up EVERY bill the House passed (even with House Dems in agreement) to defund ObamaCare. But no one seems to mention that! It’s ONLY the Republicans who won’t do anything!
So I hope the Senate Immigration Bill is NOT brought up in the House. Let the House members send their Immigration Bill to the Senate and see what Reid does!!