Posted on 07/12/2013 8:34:40 PM PDT by South40
Boehner: 'Vast majority' of House GOP wants to act on immigration; Pelosi points to support from 'Bible folks'
After months of being told to hurry up on immigration, it's time to wait.
House Republicans said they plan to act, but not in haste, after huddling in a closed-door meeting to discuss how to proceed on an immigration bill.
While the chamber intends to proceed on immigration, Speaker John Boehner reiterated on Thursday that the House would not take up the Senate immigration bill that passed last month with bipartisan support. Several House Republicans offered their perspectives on the issue during their meeting, Boehner said, concluding that “a vast majority” of the conference wants to see a bill passed that addresses border enforcement and the approximately 11 million immigrants living in the U.S. illegally.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Look at it this way-——at election time a candidate’s “we tried” is better than nothing (cackle).
Cackle----nice going, guys. Don't make as many "mistakes" as the suckpup Senate did.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid Admits Senate-Passed Amnesty Bill Is UnConstitutional
Freedom Outpost | July 12, 2013 | Tim Brown / FR Posted by EXCH54FE
Texas Congressman Steve Stockman announced on Thursday that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid is now refusing to transmit to the House of Representatives the amnesty bill, which the Senate voted on and passed two weeks ago.
According to Stockman he believes Reid fears it will be returned to the Senate on a “blue slip” resolution, which he threatened to use to kill the bill in the House.
“Even Harry Reid now admits the Senate’s amnesty bill is unconstitutional and cannot become law. Any bill that raises revenue must start in the House” said Stockman. “By creating their own amnesty taxes Senate Democrats broke the rules. Senate Democrats were so hell-bent on ramming through a gift to radical political activists they didn’t bother to check if it was even legal.” “They got caught trying to sneak an illegal bill past the Constitution’s borders,” said Stockman.
A blue slip” is a resolution that automatically returns to the Senate any bill that violates the “origination clause” of the United States Constitution.
The crucial origination clause states “All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives.” The name comes from the blue paper the resolution is traditionally printed on. Blue slip resolutions are immediately considered as a matter of constitutional privilege, are debatable for an hour and are not subject to amendment.
According to Stockman’s press release, “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.(Excerpt) Read more at freedomoutpost.com ...
Code words for “he’s caved.”
Wrong body part.
We do want to act on it - seal the border, empty the jails to South of the border, then start working on anyone else who has been jailed. Meanwhile, be thinking on how to apprehend all those who are mostly under the RADAR.
The headline is an editor’s lie.
Bring it on you fake tan p.o.s. I will do everything I can to defeat every Republican .starting with my own feckless phony Congressman who votes to erase our borders and bring in 40 million new Democrats.
The GOP leadership are not weak kneed, or caving on their principles, they are New World Order Socialists/Fascists just like their buddies in the Democrat Party, we should refer to the republicans as Republocrats.
A bill requiring the expenditure of $50 billion for a Pacific to the Gulf wall...landmines,machine guns and all...would be great.That bill,of course,must authorize and additional $10 billion to deport every one of the 30 million wetbacks currently living here.
Then what was this dog-and-pony show Bohner put on, saying, “We will not take up the senate bill”? His intent was to say he would take up a bill only if the Hastert rule could be involked. I think the fix has been in for months. Now the lies and prevarications come to reeducate the American people.
These people are stunningly wicked traitors to America.
What does he care? He'll retire to a nice house in a gated community, with plenty of liquor and his own personal tanning bed. He'll never have to deal with the results of his actions. No, that's for the unwashed to worry about...
The headline says a vast majority of the “house gop” wants to act.....the article says a vast majority of “conference” wants to act. Apparently boner is trying to say the Hastert Rule will be in effect because he’s going to lie about the “vast majority”. Of course, after the vote he’ll say some changed their vote.
Amnesty will be granted. There is one party in D.C. And neither one wants what’s best for America.
What about what We the People want? Don’t we matter?
The answer to your question is a resounding NO! we don’t matter. You have to remember that when a politician(and it doesn’t matter who it is ALL of them do this)reads a document like the Declaration of Independence, or the Constitution, and reads the words WE, US, American’s, Citizens, etc.., they understand it as being one of them, ie. a politician. They do not read those words as WE the citizens of the United States inclusive. Remember they look at us as unwashed masses and only care about us so that we can keep working and paying taxes, which funds their paychecks and pet projects.
When you see them speak on television and they say “us”, “we”, “our”, they mean their vision of reality, not inclusive as all those humans currently living in the same nation state as them.
If only it were so, Doughty, if only it were so.
The GOP leadership are not weak kneed, or caving on their principles, they are New World Order Socialists/Fascists just like their buddies in the Democrat Party, we should refer to the republicans as Republocrats.
Enemies of the state works just as well.
Agreed...
There are things that the states who have the greatest problems with illegals could do that would not cast the federal government and would be as if not more effective than a fence.
Go via Google search to keep-the-republic.blogspot.com for an ezplanation.
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