Posted on 12/08/2014 5:49:43 AM PST by bestintxas
In a lengthy interview on Friday afternoon, Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) exposed how House Speaker John Boehner, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and Majority Whip Steve Scalise strengthened President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty with procedural trickery former Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber would envy—and they did it all in the name of pushing a bill that they told Republicans would block Obama’s executive amnesty.
What’s more is that a series of interviews and recent developments indicate that Boehner’s gambit here is placing several of his top lieutenants—including at least two committee chairmen—at political risk of serious primary challenges just a few months after newly elected Rep. Dave Brat (R-VA) beat now former House Majority Leader Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) in a Republican primary.
Gohmert said most members had no idea what they were actually voting for when 219 members—216 of which were Republicans—approved a measure, H.R. 5759, first put forward by Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL), but subsequently dramatically altered by leadership officials in the Rules Committee process.
“I was a cosponsor of the original Yoho bill. I thought it was a very decent bill, it was very short—it was only about a page and a half—and it basically said that anything the president did in violation of current law including what he’s done with ordering work permits for people who are illegally here, it’s illegal,” Gohmert said.
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Procedurally, how can Boehner be removed at this point. TO me, there should be 216 pissed off rep’s ready to oust him. Boehner is obviously compromised at this point and could care less about doing anything right FOR the country. He’s playing to keep his own skin in the game.
I truly hope some hard investigative journo (a real one) can dig up dirt on this guy and disgrace him out of office.
But it sure has filthy GOP-e fingerprints all over it, donit. Boner is the owner.
Gowdy for Speaker!
(sorry)
Gohmert for Speaker!
Here is a TWITTER target list based on article:
@PeteSessions
@RepHalRogers
@HouseAppropsGOP
@Reince
@GOPLeader
@SteveScalise
@SpeakerBoehner
I will be at @Houstonpetitions if u wanna retweet what I come up with. I will hand paint an image to add a photo for more word power space. Be ready in a couple hours. In the meantime calling is always a great plan too.If I left a twitter address off let me know. Thanks!
Yes.
It is a 100 legged centiturd that carries the ability to bite but, is largely not a threat and would rather run off than fight or bite.
And that’s the problem, as I see it.
He’s a do nothiner...
No- where’s it from?
Well we are getting close to the point of no return so these people better wake up before it’s too late.
ABB, Anybody But Boner.
Beginning in 2009 the Congress the actual procedural rule of “Deem and Pass” to a whole new level of fiction.
I’m going by memory here but, if I recall the new house leadership (San Fran Nan) did not want to actually pass a lawful budget as called for in the constitution.
I believe it was because they didn’t want to strip out the new $1 Trillian dollars in baseline budgeting, which had as its progenitor TARP.
They wanted to bake into the budget without inspection or questions this “new and free money”.
They also wanted to protect their new boy king and shield him from any negativity in the press or jeopardy from actual taxpayers.
So, rather than go through the legislative process, they decided use an actual rule called deem and pass but, with a new twist.
You see “Deem and Pass” was basically a procedural rule that, for the purpose of expediency, made passing bills easier, particularly when the bill was going to be passed anyway. Thus avoiding debate, markups, reconciliation and the signature of the president.
No, no, no ,no!!!
What they started doing was simply waving their hands over the legislation and “Deeming it Passed”.
What is tbis America you speak of?
219 members—216 of which were Republicans
I want to know who the three were that caught it, and why they aren’t new leadership.
It needs to be brought back up for reconsideration by someone that was duped.
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There were 3 who voted present
Source:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/12/04/house-votes-down-obamas-immigration-plan/
it passed in a 219-197 vote. All but seven Republicans voted for it, along with three Democrats.
The seven Republicans voting against it were Reps. Mike Coffman (Colo.), Jeff Denham (Calif.), Mario Diaz-Balart (Fla.), Louie Gohmert (Texas), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Fla.), Marlin Stutzman (Ind.) and David Valadao (Calif.).
Three other Republicans protested the symbolic vote by voting “present”: Reps. Paul Gosar (Ariz.), Steve King (Iowa) and Raul Labrador (Idaho).
It was pure deceit by the leaders. It helps if you read.
Members were not provided the new text of the bill before they were asked to vote on it, either—something that should infuriate Americans, Gohmert said.
“I checked with the clerk before I left the House floor yesterday to see if there were any copies that were made available for members with these new changes on there,” Gohmert said.
The clerk said that they had to make the changes on their own copy but if someone wanted them to make them a copy, they’d certainly make them a copy—but they’d have to leave the floor and go into an adjoining office and make a copy. But the copies that were available did not have these changes in there. If you wanted to see this, you’d have to do it one of two ways—you’d have to know to go the Rules Committee website and download what they actually approved for the House floor very late Wednesday night. The only other way would be to go to the Clerk’s desk there right below the Speaker’s and say you would like a copy not of 5759, but of the amendment in the nature of a substitute. If you asked for the bill, you would get 5759—which we did not vote for. But if you asked for the amendment in the nature of the substitute, you would get the newly penciled language.
It was pure deceit by the leaders
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There were 3 other threads: (needs to be seen by everyone)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3234890/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3234853/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3234791/posts
See amendment here (full explanation paragraph 5 below first quote in article)
http://amendments-rules.house.gov/amendments/YOHO_087_xml122141859175917.pdf
From Waryone
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3234853/posts?page=30#30
As I see it, the exception is the rule. The new part of the bill is what they did not want anyone to see. The part they had not released inserts wording that grants an exception to the president so that he can ignore the fact that he is over reaching his powers if there are humanitarian reasons to do so.
Congress is abdicating their authority and giving their powers to the president, in other words the House has said it’s alright for the president to go beyond his Constitutional powers, when he feels there is humanitarian need.
This is the exact situation we have now with thousands of “youths” being allowed into our country because they are poor and there are drugs and crime in the countries where they live. There president never had that Constitutional authority before. The passage of this bill gives it to him.
This is precisely what that weasel Pete Sessions of Texas wanted when he started tinkering with things. I need to see some Texas politicians call that traitor out soon. He needs to be branded with his treason so no one ever forgets.
Yes I already knew all that because I carefully read the article and Gohmert laid out their deceit rather well.
Sorry about that, I picked the last response to reply.
Your post was great!
>>The seven Republicans voting against it were Reps. Mike Coffman (Colo.), Jeff Denham (Calif.), Mario Diaz-Balart (Fla.), Louie Gohmert (Texas), Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (Fla.), Marlin Stutzman (Ind.) and David Valadao (Calif.)
>>Three other Republicans protested the symbolic vote by voting “present”: Reps. Paul Gosar (Ariz.), Steve King (Iowa) and Raul Labrador (Idaho).
The only peopl ebeing tricked is anyone who believed that any republican was tricked.
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