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Boehner hires ex-McCain aide to lead House immigration efforts (Amnesty Director, Becky Tallent)
The Hill ^ | 12/3/13 | Russell Berman

Posted on 12/03/2013 12:27:54 PM PST by jimbo123

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has hired a new expert on immigration policy, a move that could signal a renewed House effort to act on the issue in 2014.

Rebecca Tallent, director of immigration policy at the Bipartisan Policy Center, will start her new job as assistant to the Speaker on Wednesday. Her arrival was one of a series of personnel moves Boehner announced on Tuesday.

Former Gov. Haley Barbour (R-Miss.), a co-chairman of the think tank’s immigration task force, said Boehner’s decision to bring in Tallent was “affirmation of his strong desire to move legislation in 2014.”

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


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KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; amnestydirector; beckytallent; collaborator; gopamnestydirector; houseamnestydirector; johnboehner; lameduckamnesty2014; rebeccatallent; rino; sellout
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1 posted on 12/03/2013 12:27:54 PM PST by jimbo123
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https://twitter.com/beckytallent

Bipartisan Policy
@BPC_Bipartisan
The Bipartisan Policy Center is a think tank founded by former Senate Majority Leaders Howard Baker, Tom Daschle, Bob Dole & George Mitchell.

Washington, DC · bipartisanpolicy.org

https://twitter.com/beckytallent


2 posted on 12/03/2013 12:28:44 PM PST by jimbo123
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Traitorous, cowardly scum!


3 posted on 12/03/2013 12:31:55 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: jimbo123

I loathe, dispise, and f*rt in the general direction of this smegma-lipped piece of excrement.

May he lie just a bit lower in hell than Mohammed, Obama, and Dead Ted.


4 posted on 12/03/2013 12:32:45 PM PST by Da Coyote
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To: jimbo123

May she be as successful as anything else McCain has been involved with….


5 posted on 12/03/2013 12:33:02 PM PST by Yossarian
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To: Yossarian

She was the brains behind the “border fence”.


6 posted on 12/03/2013 12:33:42 PM PST by jimbo123
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To: jimbo123

No longer a registered Republican and with this kind of person in charge its no wonder the party of Stupid continues its downhill slide
Freegards
LEX


7 posted on 12/03/2013 12:33:51 PM PST by lexington minuteman 1775
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To: jimbo123

Where’s the FENCE!


8 posted on 12/03/2013 12:34:00 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: jimbo123

Why bother to pass any legislation when we have an administration that will only follow the parts of it that they like and ignore the rest?


9 posted on 12/03/2013 12:36:52 PM PST by oldbrowser ("From each according to their ability, to each according to their needs" .....Marx)
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To: Paladin2

“Where’s the fence?”

It is right on top of the tunnels underneath it.


10 posted on 12/03/2013 12:41:37 PM PST by forgotten man
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To: jimbo123

John Boehner - The Marshal Pétain of the GOP.


11 posted on 12/03/2013 12:43:48 PM PST by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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Just another day representing the American People. Thanks a bunch, John!


12 posted on 12/03/2013 12:44:23 PM PST by Third Person (Welcome to Gaymerica.)
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My first rule, if McCain is for it, I am not.


13 posted on 12/03/2013 12:46:21 PM PST by hadaclueonce (Because Brawndo's got electrolytes. Because Ethanol has Big Corn Lobby)
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To: jimbo123

Time for the people to hire a new Speaker of the House.


14 posted on 12/03/2013 12:50:24 PM PST by armydawg505
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Great. The GOPe is going to trade Amnesty for additional cuts to the military.


15 posted on 12/03/2013 12:54:09 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz ("Senator Cruz basically made the Democrats fight for a whole bunch of things that they already had.")
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To: Army Air Corps

MarshallPetain
Benedict Arnold
Guy Fawkes
Jane Fonda
Judas Escariot
Vidkun Quisling
Julius Rosenberg
Brutus

All rolled into one cowardly idiot calling himself Speaker of the House. Selling us out again. F the Republican Party , I have had enough.


16 posted on 12/03/2013 1:05:20 PM PST by Venturer (Keep Obama and you aint seen nothing yet.)
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To: jimbo123

Article says early next year is when there is a window of opportunity. I think it will instead be in the lame duck session. That’s when all those rinos we unemploy will gang up with the rats for a final screwing of the base.


17 posted on 12/03/2013 1:12:35 PM PST by Stalwart
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To: Yossarian

She was the author of the McCain-Kennedy Amnesty Bill in 2005.


18 posted on 12/03/2013 1:13:14 PM PST by jimbo123
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Is bonehead THIS #$%king dumb? Or could he be stringing the Democrats and the media along. He HAS to know he and the Whigs we lose in Nov if he pulls a stupid stunt on amnesty - doesn’t he?


19 posted on 12/03/2013 1:16:22 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Army Air Corps

the Amnesty and GOP suicide act.

How much are the Dems paying Boner to shaft the 24 million
LEGAL Americans who are unemployed or working part time because the Government has the USA taxes higher than any western industrial country?


20 posted on 12/03/2013 1:18:09 PM PST by Zenjitsuman (New Boss Nancy Pelosi)
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