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Rand Paul Forces Mitch McConnell to Pull Bill Off Senate Floor Over Refugee Housing:
Breitbart ^ | 19 Nov. 2015 | Michelle Fields

Posted on 11/19/2015 3:28:28 PM PST by JSDude1

Senator Rand Paul forced his own party’s leadership to yank a bill off the floor of the Senate on Thursday over refugee housing, a significant political and policy victory for the Kentucky Senator and 2016 GOP presidential candidate.

Paul also blasted Senate leadership on Thursday for not considering his amendment to the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development funding bill that would have blocked any current refugees in the United States from getting public housing.

“Well I think what boggles my mind is the biggest issue in our country right now is keeping us safe from attack,” Paul told Breitbart News on Thursday afternoon when reached by phone. “My amendment tells the president that we don’t approve of bringing more people here from the Middle East until we have adequate controls on who’s here already. My amendment was not only pertinent to the biggest issue of the day, it was also germane to the bill. Both parties tried to stop me from offering it and that’s a tragedy.”

Paul’s amendment to the so-called T-HUD funding bill would have cut off public housing funding for refugees in America right now.

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: elections; paul; refugees; senate; sendthemback; syria; trojanhorse; trumpwasright
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1 posted on 11/19/2015 3:28:28 PM PST by JSDude1
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To: JSDude1

KEEP THEM IN SYRIA IN A SAFE NO FLY ZONE!!!!


2 posted on 11/19/2015 3:29:57 PM PST by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: JSDude1

Ditch Mitch.


3 posted on 11/19/2015 3:32:17 PM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: JSDude1

Let the churches, “charitable” organizations, and democrats out of their own pockets fully fund the invaders. No tax money and no entry to public assistance and schools.


4 posted on 11/19/2015 3:32:52 PM PST by RJS1950 (The democrats are the "enemies foreign and domestic" cited in the federal oath)
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To: JSDude1

I know Rand is despised by a lot of Freepers, and in no way is he fit to be POTUS, but he does possess a couple of virtues which are of utility to Conservatism. He should definitely stay in the Senate, and possibly serve as Sec. Treas. - not in a Trump administration He burned that bridge.


5 posted on 11/19/2015 3:37:26 PM PST by Sirius Lee (Cruz or Lose 2016)
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To: JSDude1

The tit’s run dry!


6 posted on 11/19/2015 3:38:09 PM PST by headstamp 2
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To: Sirius Lee

Rand has certainly been on a roll lately.


7 posted on 11/19/2015 3:48:08 PM PST by FerociousRabbit
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To: JSDude1

“public housing funding for refugees” A bad idea, as the Euros have learned. The first thing the moon worshippers do is set up Sharia zones. Then coms the rest of the nonsense: attacking infidel `whores’, honor killings, burning cars, etc. If ISIS is “contained” as Barry insists, send them back.


8 posted on 11/19/2015 3:51:29 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: JSDude1

Thank you Rand Paul. Now if you could just permanently pull McConnell off the floor....


9 posted on 11/19/2015 3:51:41 PM PST by publana (Beware the olive branch extended by a Dem for it disguises a clenched fist.)
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To: Ann Archy

Give them a No Fly Zone so we can have a No Flea Zone.


10 posted on 11/19/2015 3:53:18 PM PST by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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To: JSDude1
What's wrong with borrowing billions more in Chinese money to house Islamic terrorists and sympathizers in our own neighborhoods?

It's not like it's our money we are spending!

11 posted on 11/19/2015 3:53:54 PM PST by Gritty (The Barbarians Are Inside, And There Are No Gates. So screw the candlelight vigil. - Mark Steyn)
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To: tumblindice

Yes, well-catalogged in this article:

http://archive.frontpagemag.com/readArticle.aspx?ARTID=30675


12 posted on 11/19/2015 3:55:25 PM PST by JediJones (The #1 Must-see Filibuster of the Year: TEXAS TED AND THE CONSERVATIVE CRUZ-ADE)
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13 posted on 11/19/2015 4:01:30 PM PST by FreeReign
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To: JediJones

Barry doesn’t give a chit about the following facts. He described the muslim call to prayer as “One of the most beautiful sounds in the world.}

From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population.

(Like homosexuals)

They will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves — along with threats for failure to comply. ( United States ).

France — Muslim 8%
Philippines — Muslim 5%
Sweden — Muslim 5%
Switzerland — Muslim 4.3%
The Netherlands — Muslim 5.5%
Trinidad &Tobago — Muslim 5.8%

I know it isn’t popular with some of our more zealous;y religious freeper FRiends, but this is why it is important to enforce strict separation of church and state.
If you live in a small town and your church steeple speakers peal tunes to the general population on Sunday morning, when muzzies move in they will demand the `call to prayer’ five times a day, every day.
The best solution, of course, would be simply to ban the entry of dangerous religious bigots like fundamentalist muslims.
The first thing they try to do after escaping their particular hell-hole is to make their new Euro homes into fresh hell-holes.


14 posted on 11/19/2015 4:10:49 PM PST by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: publana

“Thank you Rand Paul. Now if you could just permanently pull McConnell off the floor....”

Or maybe he could just put him up on a post in the middle of the Senate Floor.


15 posted on 11/19/2015 4:16:47 PM PST by vette6387
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To: JSDude1

Cruz effect by way of the Trump effect. We’re going bare knuckle and I’m loving it.


16 posted on 11/19/2015 4:31:48 PM PST by Fhios
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To: RJS1950

Refugee “resettlement” is big biz for big religion. I doubt they would be so enthusiastic to do it if they were cutting the checks to move these folks over here.


17 posted on 11/19/2015 4:34:42 PM PST by lodi90
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To: RJS1950
These so called "charitable" organizations are technically "not for profit" entities that take government money and give it to refugees. The so-called "charitable" organizations are closer to government actors, than to charitable actors. There is no "charity" involved, they are using government money and getting paid to spread it around.

Cronies of a particularly underhanded sort.

18 posted on 11/19/2015 4:35:13 PM PST by Cboldt
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To: Sirius Lee

He is despised here? I thought he was a rational conservative.


19 posted on 11/19/2015 4:47:06 PM PST by Bodleian_Girl (Genesis 16:12)
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To: Sirius Lee

I don’t want Rand for President but he’s a darn good Senator and he fights everyday for our individual freedoms and conservative values. We a dozen more like him.


20 posted on 11/19/2015 4:59:31 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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