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Reid Blocks Senate Vote on Border Security Amendment to Immigration Bill
Breitbart ^
| 6/12/2013
| Matthew Boyle
Posted on 06/12/2013 4:34:53 PM PDT by Servant of the Cross
On Wednesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) blocked a vote on the border security amendment to the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill offered by Senate Judiciary Committee ranking member Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA).
Grassley was pushing for an up-or-down vote by the Senate on his amendment, which would have required the border to be secured for six full months before any legalization of illegal immigrants in America began. Reid objected to Grassley’s motion, effectively implementing a 60-vote threshold that completely blocked any attempt at a fair vote on the amendment.
Grassley protested Reid’s plan, which the Senate Majority Leader laughed off. “I’m somewhat surprised at this request,” Reid said in response. “How many times have we heard the Republican Leader say on this floor and publicly that the new reality in the United States Senate is 60?"
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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; blocks; immigration; reid
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Hopefully this will put an end to any GOPers going along with Dingy Harry on this. How stupid are they?
To: Servant of the Cross
Hopefully this will put an end to any GOPers going along with Dingy Harry on this. How stupid are they? You really believe they aren't that stupid?
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posted on
06/12/2013 4:37:02 PM PDT
by
greyfoxx39
(Thanks, Mitt.)
To: Servant of the Cross
How stupid are they?As immense as the stars
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posted on
06/12/2013 4:38:05 PM PDT
by
Theodore R.
("Hey, the American people must all be crazy out there!")
To: Servant of the Cross
“I was promised by leaders in the Gang of Eight they would work with me, that they would help me to get these things done,” Hatch said.
Orrin ... Orrin ... Orrin. Duh. You got played. Big time!
And I don’t want to be stiffed at this time and I’m not the kind of guy who takes stiffing lightly,” Hatch warned.
Harry: ... we’re having 60 votes on virtually everything. You're stiffed Orrin. Thanks for playing.
To: Servant of the Cross
Ye wee stupid beasties!!!
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posted on
06/12/2013 4:40:45 PM PDT
by
NonValueAdded
(Unindicted Co-conspirators: The Mainstream Media)
To: Servant of the Cross
How stupid are they?Evidently equally.
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posted on
06/12/2013 4:45:49 PM PDT
by
b4its2late
(A Liberal is a person who will give away everything he doesn't own.)
To: Servant of the Cross
REALLY Stupid, Harry a$$wipe Reid will do anything for more voters in the RAT party. The SOB has got to be the most arrogant $hit in the senate.
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posted on
06/12/2013 4:48:55 PM PDT
by
mongo141
(Revolution ver. 2.0, just a matter of when, not a matter of if!)
To: Servant of the Cross
Orin has a singular interest ~ getting plenty of Mexican indians to work or starvation wages in Utah’s agricultural interests.
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posted on
06/12/2013 4:52:23 PM PDT
by
muawiyah
(Git yer Red STATE Arm Bands here - $29.95 - NOT SOLD IN STORES - TAX FREE)
To: Servant of the Cross
The only thing we can do at the moment is to keep on these congresscritters relentlessly.
They are all talking like legalization is a done deal. It is not.
Contact everyone on your lists and have them contact 10 people who will contact 10 more.
Have them tell these politicos:
HELL NO to legalization of status for alien invaders!
Secure the border now!
Repeal obama's unconstitutional executive order granting amnesty to millions of "children".
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posted on
06/12/2013 4:53:48 PM PDT
by
Eagles6
(Valley Forge Redux)
To: Servant of the Cross
To: Servant of the Cross
Dingy put a stake through the heart of the bill. I guess the Ratz want the issue.
To: Servant of the Cross
I was listening to Sean Hannity interview rubio today. It was one of the most disgusting examples of a lying snake oil politician that I heave ever endured... clintonesque... slithering his forked tongue while trying to seduce the audience. He is now stating firmly that border security will take many years to accomplish and that we have to register and start tracking these people as soon as possible. This cannot wait on border security he claims. He also said that what he has said previously is exactly what he is doing in this bill. He swore an oath to Sean and Rush... and ALL of us... live... and he swore that he would “NEVER VOTE FOR ANY BILL THAT DOES NOT PUT BORDER SECURITY FIRST”. He tried to rationalize his lying by falsely promising the same promises that have been made in every amnesty since Reagan's amnesty in 1986 (which Reagan said was the biggest mistake of his presidency). rubio stated that this bill does put security first “by starting the process”.
He also tried to claim that the fines paid by these invading enemies will pay for all of the border security. He tried to say it was unfair for us to pay for our own security... but he is a hypocrite because he has voted to piss away trillions of our dollars... so his claims of frugality are just more lies from the rubio serpent. I cannot tell you how much I despise the gop/e and every dimrat in America.
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posted on
06/12/2013 5:02:31 PM PDT
by
LibLieSlayer
(FROM MY COLD, DEAD HANDS!)
To: LibLieSlayer
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posted on
06/12/2013 5:08:06 PM PDT
by
ak267
(THORIUM....ENERGY OF THE FUTURE!!!!)
To: LibLieSlayer
Rubio is a scumbag RINO. screw him.
To: Servant of the Cross
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posted on
06/12/2013 5:13:59 PM PDT
by
Yogafist
To: b4its2late
How stupid are they? Wrong question. How stupid are we to believe the Republican GOPe do not to have the same goals as the Progressive democrats?
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posted on
06/12/2013 5:31:22 PM PDT
by
itsahoot
(It is not so much that history repeats, but that human nature does not change.)
To: Servant of the Cross
Dingy Harry knows that Chuckie Schumer’s Republicans are going to pull this out for the ‘RATS. Passing amnesty is going to be a lot easier than ObamaCare was.
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posted on
06/12/2013 5:38:08 PM PDT
by
FlingWingFlyer
(23,116,441 households on Food Stamps! Now that's what I call HISTORICAL!!!)
To: FlingWingFlyer
By the time this bill gets to the house, the wall could already be built.
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posted on
06/12/2013 5:52:27 PM PDT
by
EQAndyBuzz
(The reason we own guns is to protect ourselves from those wanting to take our guns from us.)
To: Servant of the Cross
not stupid, the gop-e are in it with the democrats.
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posted on
06/12/2013 6:25:35 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
To: Servant of the Cross
hatch’s surprise at this, after a lifetime in the senate, is simpy not believable, kabuki theater. it’s phony surprise.
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posted on
06/12/2013 6:27:29 PM PDT
by
Secret Agent Man
(Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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