Posted on 08/01/2014 5:58:02 PM PDT by mandaladon
The House late Friday revived and approved a Republican-authored border crisis bill after GOP leaders hurriedly resolved an internal battle that scuttled the vote a day earlier – but with the Senate on recess and the House soon to follow, there’s little chance of any bill reaching President Obama’s desk until the fall.
The president now is vowing to act unilaterally to address the illegal immigration issue.
The House legislation was approved on a 223-189 vote. The new version of the bill adds additional funding for the National Guard and includes policy changes meant to speed deportations of illegal immigrant children surging across the southern border.
However, a separate Senate bill died on a procedural vote a day earlier, and no more votes in that chamber are scheduled until early September.Even if the Senate were somehow to approve the House bill, Obama vowed Friday he would veto it.
In the absence of any legislation that all sides can agree on, the president threatened to act on his own to address immigration challenges, potentially during the five-week recess.
"I'm going to have to make some tough choices to meet the challenge, with or without Congress," Obama said Friday, speaking to reporters in the White House briefing room.
He later added: "I'm going to have to act alone, because we don't have enough resources."
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New national polling I just saw:
70% of all registered voters are against Obama’s Administrative Amnesty plan. And 52% of Black registered voters are against it.
Too bad the RINOs are on Obama’s side.
The stupidest president in the history of America walked Boehner and fellow RINOs right into his trap.
Good catch. ;-)
We all understand that the bill isn’t going to go anywhere but Conservatives/Republicans put themselves in a good position to capitalize on public opinion. It would have been more impactful if the Senate actually voted it down imo. I blame the RINO leadership for that. We(conservatives)will have to drag them along or cast them overboard in November.
“He later added: “I’m going to have to act alone, because we don’t have enough resources.””
Then why did you arrange for them to come here?
yes. the main thing is to defeat the liberal wing establishment. We are the establishment now, not Karl rove or a bush or Christie. Hillary is sick and floundering. This is our best chance to get a Ronald Reagan.
Boener got all but 4 Republican votes (i.e., 98% of them). For that we should give him credit. Most likely, he could have gotten 60% or 70% of the Republican votes, and nearly all of the Democrat votes...and MUCH EASIER.
That would have KILLED THE PARTY...but he held out until virtually every Republican was on board - including dozens of SOLID CONSERVATIVES.
I’m no fan of Boener...but I have trouble expecting more out of any House Speaker.
“We don’t owe them anything except a C-130 flight back to their country of origin.”
They walked here, they can walk back.
**The House legislation was approved on a 223-189 vote. The new version of the bill adds additional funding for the National Guard and includes policy changes meant to speed deportations of illegal immigrant children surging across the southern border.**
Would the Senate ever approve this?
Well, I have been busy but its not the usual disaster from Bonehead and McCarthy?
He later added: “I’m going to have to act alone ... and wish myself a happy birthday”
Sounds like good timing to me. Too late for the Senate to grab it and mutilate it and then innocently send it back.
Let Obama try acting alone on this with so much of the country against what he is doing. I think he will regret it.
The senate will never see the bill and Harry Reid says that anything done in the house will be dead in the water.
Legislatively its meaningless, strategically its a good move.
The word deportation is being used loosely for “get their a33e3 back over the border.”
agree...
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