Posted on 05/07/2015 5:32:25 AM PDT by cotton1706
Last week, the House Armed Services Committee voted 33-30 for an amendment to the fiscal 2016 National Defense Authorization Act that would encourage the Pentagon to affirm undocumented immigrants should be permitted to serve in the military.
This week, more than two dozen conservative House Republicans are threatening to derail the must-pass legislation unless that language is removed.
In a May 5 letter to Rules Chairman Pete Sessions, 25 GOP lawmakers have asked the Texas Republican to take out the amendment when his panel meets next week to set parameters for floor debate on the NDAA.
The amendment in question, introduced in the Armed Services Committee by freshman Rep. Ruben Gallego, D-Ariz., would not be backed by the force of law; that is, it would not put a specific program in place to grant stays of deportation to undocumented servicemen and women. That objective would actually be accomplished in the so-called ENLIST Act, a bill Rep. Jeff Denham has been pushing since 2013. The California Republican remains determined to see ENLIST come to the floor for a vote, either as standalone legislation or as an amendment to the NDAA.
Conservatives contend the Gallego language would run counter to multiple votes the House has taken to defund President Barack Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.
Co-signers of the letter to Sessions, first reported in Politico, called it “a severe threat to passage of the NDAA.”
“Especially in this time of increased terrorism, our national security should not be threatened by allowing such controversial language on a program we have rejected three times as unconstitutional,” they wrote.
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I hate those ‘RAT bastards. Only bottom feeding, sexual deviants would use our military as a tool to destroy America by flooding the country with freeloading thieves, murdrers and another misfits and human debris dumped by surrounding countries.
bttt
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