Posted on 07/31/2014 8:19:29 AM PDT by Mariner
House Republican leaders abruptly changed their plan to deal with the crisis along the U.S.-Mexico border late Wednesday night, after they were not able to muster enough votes to pass the legislation before Congress leaves Friday for a five-week recess.
Conservatives in the House revolted against the Republican-led plan, which provides about $659 million in emergency spending for the border crisis through the fiscal year that ends Sept. 30.
As a result, the House will vote Thursday on two pieces of legislation, the first being the border plan. If that legislation passes, the House would be required to vote on legislation that would bar President Barack Obama from delaying the deportation of young, undocumented immigrants.
The Republican dissent was led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), the conservative freshman firebrand who has miffed House leadership before by meddling in the House's affairs (most notably, last year, ahead of the government shutdown).
Cruz met with a sizeable group of House conservatives in his Senate office Wednesday night, where they ate pizza and discussed the border crisis, according to sources. Some of the attendees, according to Roll Call, included Republican Reps. Steve King of Iowa, Michele Bachmann of Minnesota, Steve Stockman of Texas, and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee.
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The House holds the purse strings. It can quit funding anything it wants. It’s the ultimate fail safe for situations exactly like this.
If the House decides to defund something, it doesn’t go to the Senate for a vote. It’s a done deal. The funds are simply withheld.
Anything the House doesn’t like, it can just shut it down.
There’s a reason why folks out here have had it with the GOPe, and it centers on their refusal to muster the courage to defend Conservatism.
F the GOPe, and or the RNC.
I back Cruz’s play here. Excellent.
Pretty hard to process paperwork with an empty office.
If Obama wants to play hardball, the house can simply furlough all immigration services employees that process immigration paperwork.
How do you do that. You simply defund the employees that handle that paperwork.
Nobody gets a green card. Nobody is processed. End of argument.
Obama comes up empty.
Absolutely NOT.
Cruz supports the legalization of those illegals who have already established residence here.
But he's right on this one and he does support the rule of law, generally.
And then remind everyone that any monies spent against the ban represent felonies that will be prosecuted after Zero leaves office.
No H1B visas either: good way to peel off some of the Chamber of Treason types from a general amnesty push.
What a blessing that would be. So, curious and just for fun, who would you see as his VP?
What would his cabinet look like?
So.....don't mind if I start.
Ted Cruz / Trey Gowdy 2016
Ted Poe DOJ
Sarah Palin Sec. of State
Oliver North Sec. of Defense
Jeff Sessions FBI director
Rand Paul Paul Treasury Sec.
Dr. Ben Carson Surgeon General
Alan Keyes press secretary (just kidding / long winded)
Sheriff Joe Arpiao Atty Gen.
Bobby Jindal...EPA
Rick Perry...commerce dept.
Mike Huckabee...Amb to Israel
John Freakin Bolton...Amb. to the anti-American U.N.
DHS...shut it down
TSA...shut it down
Dept. of Energy....close the doors
IRS...putt’em in jail
” - - - “The evidence shows that the amnesty President Obama announced in 2012 is driving record numbers of immigrants to enter our nation illegally,” Cruz said in a statement Tuesday. “ Because of President Obama’s amnesty, children are being abused and exploited by dangerous drug cartels and transnational gangs.” - - - “
Lead on Ted, make us proud!
What no Allen West?
At the same time that our national Clown-In-Chief has suspended visas to Israel.
Senator Cruz you are a badass conservative!
Crap...well yea. Allen West would be a fantastic addition.
That’s pretty much the way I see it too.
I do want to say that I agree with H1-B Visas in principle, because there are times when we need to bring knowledgeable people in. It would be people well versed in any specialty that we didn’t have experts in. Wernher Von Braun would be a good example, leaving any side issues aside for the moment.
IMO, today we bring people in based on willingness to work for less rather than actual need for special expertise.
We have people let go in the same fields at times. Nobody can tell me they couldn’t be retrained and brought up to speed in a short period of time. We should be seeking to get people off welfare and unemployment rather than bringing in foreign nationals to will lock our citizens out of their field.
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