Posted on 06/28/2013 11:19:35 AM PDT by EXCH54FE
Following the passage of the Senate’s amnesty bill, Representative Steve Stockman (R-TX) sent a letter to House Speaker John Boehner. In the letter Stockman requested that Boehner immediately kill the Senate’s bill, S. 774, though a constitutionally-required ‘blue slip’ resolution.
A ‘blue slip’ is a resolution that automatically returns to the Senate any bill that violates the origination clause of the United States Constitution.
Blue slip resolutions are immediately considered as a matter of constitutional privilege, are debatable for an hour and are not subject to amendment.
“Not only is the Senate amnesty bill an abuse of taxpayers and immigrants, it’s utterly unconstitutional. The Senate cannot invent its own amnesty taxes,” said Stockman. “I hope Speaker Boehner will immediately kill the amnesty bill through a constitutionally-required blue slip. As long as the amnesty bill sits in the House it poses a threat to taxpayers and immigrants.”
Several provisions of the Senate amnesty bill create new taxes, a violation of the “origination clause,” Article I, Section 7, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution, which states “All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.”
Section 2102 of the amnesty bill requires the payment of certain taxes and forgives the payment of other taxes as a condition of receiving amnesty and other benefits. The Constitution prohibits the Senate from approving bills that raise revenue.
Stockman also points to the Congressional Budget Office, which flatly states “enacting S. 744 would have a wide range of effects on federal revenues, including changes in collections of income and payroll taxes, certain visa fees that are classified as revenues, and various fines and penalties. Taken together, those effects would increase revenues by $459 billion over the 2014-2023 period.”
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“Are you kidding?”
Read about Charles Manson and the apocalypse. It all had to do with the racial wars between blacks and whites and how black militants would rise up and kill the whites.
Remember the Philly polling place in 2008 with the Black Panthers outside? That was Manson’s prophecy.
I am referring to the black riots if Zimmerman is found not guilty. Not the immigration bill.
Pelosi was Speaker then. She passed it.
We need to blue slip the whole lot of them.
I also live in Stockman’s district. Love both him and Cruz. Voted for both.
Whenever I see the name Boehner, the first words that come to mind are “deceit” and “treachery”. But actually he is CONSISTENTLY deceitful and threacherous. People in Cincinnati like him.
He’s selling the people in Cincinnati out as much as he selling the rest of us out.
I have my own congressman who pretends to be a conservative and will never get my vote.
” Whenever I see the name Boehner, the first words that come to mind are “deceit” and “treachery”. But actually he is CONSISTENTLY deceitful and threacherous”
Yeah..
They may “Deem” it passed like Obamacare. They have tried that trick before.
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