Posted on 02/04/2015 9:01:49 AM PST by SeekAndFind
House conservatives are doubling down in their efforts to undo President Obama's lenient new deportation policies as part of a bill funding the Homeland Security Department.
The Republicans, including Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), are vowing to hold the line on tying funding for the Homeland Security Department to language reversing Obama’s executive actions on immigration — even after Senate Democrats blocked their bill from being considered in the upper chamber.
“There’s not a Plan B, because this is the plan," Scalise said minutes after the Senate vote, according to Fox News's Chad Pergram. Rep. John Fleming (R-La.) echoed that message, saying “many of us agree that we should stand behind the one bill that we sent over there.”
“Most of us feel that way,” he said just before the Senate vote. “Anything less than that, we're not going to get any better result anyway. So why not just go for what's really right?”
Tuesday's Senate vote was 51-48 to end debate on the House-passed Homeland Security bill — far shy of the 60 supporters GOP leaders needed to move to a vote on final passage.
Every Senate Democrat voted against proceeding to the package, as did Dean Heller (R-Nev.).
It’s unclear how GOP leaders intend to proceed. Republican leaders in both chambers are under pressure to stand firm in opposition to Obama’s actions.
DHS funding is set to expire on Feb. 28, and Republicans are also wary of the political blowback if they're seen as threatening shutdown of the agency, particularly in the immediate wake of the deadly terrorist attacks in Paris last month.
Democrats, who are calling for a clean bill to fund the Homeland Security Department, have used every opportunity to hammer the Republicans for risking the nation's security to score political points with their conservative base.
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“...“There’s not a Plan B, because this is the plan,”Scalise said...”
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Scalise, of Boehner’s leadership team, lacks imagination as do ALL the GOPe. Ted Cruz, who actually has a brain that can think strategically, has a “Plan B” they can follow. But will they? Probably not.
God gives the ball to Patriots at the last minute ...
Never forget that
We don’t need a damned “Plan B”......enforce the current law, period. If you want to stop this, put the employers that hire these infesting rats in jail.....
RE: Shut it down, start the war, we will win
As I said before, with Obama and his veto pen being the obstacle, there are only two options ( both of which sounds anathema to the GOP ):
1) Impeachment
2) Government shutdown
RE: If you want to stop this, put the employers that hire these infesting rats in jail.....
That requires ENFORCEMENT of the law. Guess who is the chief enforcer of the law in this country....
They may have those words in their minds, but not in their hearts and NEVER will they be uttered ... not even Cruz could muster that ... at least .. I don’t think so
Yes, I intimately understand this point of fact. My point is that Republicans don’t need a “plan” for illegal immigration. The President is the culprit here and that’s how this should be reported and asserted - vehemently.
“immigration executive action”
Democrat Election Drive
here’s the plan B that most Americans want to see: remove all of the criminals in DC and enforce the rule of American law.
The Establishment had no plan B because they were all in on Obamas plan.
So why is it that 51 was always enough for Harry Reid but NOT Mitch McConnell?
Since the GOP has 54 seats, we have one absent and one turncoat. So who abstained?
Yup, Super Bowl 49 proved that! (Pats fan here :o)
McConnel would have changed his vote to no so it could be brought back up, but there must have been one R absent.
If McConnell had any guts, he’d bring it back up as a reconciliation bill, and pass it with 51 votes and then send it to Obummer for a veto. And after Obummer vetoed it, if McConnell had any guts, McConnell would grab every microphone he could get and beat Obummer about the head and shoulders for shutting “Homeland Security” down just because Obummer didn’t get his illegal executive amnesty funded. And, if McConnell had any guts, he would tell Obummer that the Senate would continue to pass the same reconciliation bill every day and send it over and scream “Obummer’s shutting down “Homeland Security”” everytime Obummer vetoes the bill.
But that all is based upon the assumption that McConnell had any guts.
Kill it!
Heller is my Senator. I am ashamed of him. There is a serious problem here in Nevada with illegals.
The corrupt GOP unsurprisingly ignores that plan B is to admit that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constituton, the specific power to regulate immigration.
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