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Posted on 05/23/2013 1:19:55 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
House Republicans vowed Thursday to have their own say in the debate over immigration reform, two days after a Senate committee gave approval to a sweeping border control bill.
GOP leaders said in a statement that the House “will not simply take up and accept the bill that is emerging in the Senate if it passes. … The House will work its will and produce its own legislation.” Speaker John Boehner (Ohio), Majority Leader Eric Cantor (Va.) and Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) issued the statement along with Conference Chairman Cathy McMorris Rodgers (Wash.) and Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (Va.).
The declaration represented a warning to Senate Democrats that they can expect a tough negotiation with the House even if both chambers produce immigration bills. Goodlatte, a staunch conservative, has begun holding hearings on smaller-scale immigration proposals, while a bipartisan group of eight House members continues private negotiations on its own comprehensive bill that is reportedly more conservative than the Senate plan. . .
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The Chamber of Commerce has a highly influential seat at this table. They stand to make a killing thanks to the readily available supply of low income workers. Its just about the $ lobbyists and politicians make after selling hard working Americans down the river.
One day we will realize how much cheaper it would have been to have 2$ apples. In a sense the immigration debate is similar to the housing bubble. Private companies and politicians reap the benefits/profits and the taxpayers eat the losses for generations to come.
Congress now belongs to the highest bidder.
Not since Citizens United. Now Congress belongs to the loudest speaker.
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