Lee: Weekend Session For Immigration Vote 'Worth It'

Breitbart ^ | 15 Dec 2014 | Caroline May

[SoConPubbie]

Sen. Mike Lee is defending the weekend's acrimony-inducing Senate session, explaining that it was important to get a vote on the constitutionality of President Obama’s executive amnesty.

“It’s always worth it when you stand behind the American people, who want to make sure these that things are being voted on,” Lee said during an appearance Monday on Fox News. “When we have a president who engages in acts of lawlessness and behaves as if he were a government of one. It’s always worth it to stand up for the American people and get a vote on whether or not the president should have taken that action”

Sens. Ted Cruz (R-TX) and Lee forced a vote on Obama’s executive action on immigration over the weekend, after refusing to allow a quick vote on the must-pass government funding bill until their measure was allowed on the floor. 

Lee explained that he opposed the secretive process of the creation of the so-called cromnibus, a $1.1 trillion government-funding bill. He takes issue with the lack of transparency and amendment process both in committee and on the floors of the House and Senate. 

“So we felt that we should have at least one vote on some amendment, on some option somewhere to allow senators to signal their opposition to what the president was doing,” he said. 

The Lee/Cruz effort was ultimately defeated on a 22-74 vote. They were able to get senators on the record about amnesty. On the other hand, by keeping the Senate in session, they gave Majority Leader Harry Reid time to advance a number of Obama’s nominations.

Cruz and Lee took heat from both sides of the aisle for the strategy, which forced senators to cancel plans and stay in session on the weekend. 

[SoConPubbie]

"If we must have an enemy at the head of Government, let it be one whom we can oppose, and for whom we are not responsible, who will not involve our party in the disgrace of his foolish and bad measures." - Alexander Hamilton "We don't intend to turn the Republican Party over to the traitors in the battle just ended. We will have no more of those candidates who are pledged to the same goals as our opposition and who seek our support. Turning the Party over to the so-called moderates wouldn’t make any sense at all." -- President Ronald Reagan "A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice." - Thomas Paine 1792 "It does not take a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." - Samuel Adams "If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen." - Samuel Adams

[Gaffer]

In my lifetime, I’ve read of lots of accounts of individual Senatorial behavior on the part of some of our illustrious Senators. Cane beatings, fist de cuffs [shoot, nevermind about that. It was supposed to be a reference of ‘coming to blows’ but Google tells me it has some kind of pervert/queer meaning now... I digress..] eloquent verbal derision ..., absolutely combative behavior for those that could understand. Even maybe a duel or two.

Our Senators today, save Cruz or a Lee or a very few others, have little stomach for it and prefer to cringe behind their MSM sycophants and lies to their constuents about their vote trickery.

I think that I could safely say, however, that I think the citizens of Texas and Mike Lee’s state, sleep more content at night that at least one of their Senators has their back when it counts.

[Zenjitsuman]

Reid would have kept the Senate in session to pass his Judges and nominees for admin post anyway.

This is Palin style bashing by a biased media. The GOP doesn’t decide when the Senate goes home and they know it.

Harry Reid runs that show. Over 300 bills passed the House and died in the Senate. Not once did Reid produce a real budget in 6 years.

Cruz put the Rinos in a position where they were unmasked as the lying scum they are.

[txhurl]

Millions upon millions of Americans have had to take weekend jobs on top of their full-time job to make ends meet, what with skyrocketing health premiums. Whining about having work on a Saturday when they only work 26 week/yr is NOT going to play well, Ms. Ayotte.

[Georgia Girl 2]

So now we know every senator’s belief about whether Obama’s amnesty is constitutional or not. Of course it was worth it. Makin a list and checkin it twice. :-)

[itsahoot]

Makin a list and checkin it twice. :-)

Rush just said we would not believe how many friend who formerly opposed any attempt at third party, are now ready to jump if they have a leader to jump to.

[RinaseaofDs]

Hopefully, we get some version of a UKIP. The GOP will have to work with it or go nowhere.

I think it could happen.

[Georgia Girl 2]

It does not surprise me. As far as I am concerned this is the last hurrah for the GOP. If they screw us over again I am even willing to look at a third party.

[Patton@Bastogne]

Enthusiastically spread the word about the “Protest Against Obama Amnesty” rally across America for 2015-01-03 ... Ted Cruz, Jeff Sessions, Mike Lee (et al) will GREATLY appreciate our support ... A great Patriot turn-out WILL encourage the Senate and House GOP to dump McConnell and Boehner ... God Bless America ... Facebook page “Obama Amnesty National Protest : 2015-01-03” ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=680NlRI3v2I ... Thanks to All !!!