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Cruz, Lee Threaten 'Procedural' War on Senate Floor to Stop 'Lawless Amnesty'
CNSNews ^ | November 5, 2014 - 3:43 PM | Terence P. Jeffrey

Posted on 11/05/2014 2:01:18 PM PST by SoConPubbie

(CNSNews.com) - Republican Senators Ted Cruz of Texas, Mike Lee of Utah, Jeff Sessions of Alabama, Pat Roberts of Kansas, Mike Crapo of Idaho, and David Vitter of Louisiana sent a letter to lame-duck Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada today saying that if President Obama takes unilateral action to grant amnesty to illegal aliens it "will create a constitutional crisis."

The senators told Reid that they would assist him in enacting a measure to stop Obama from unilaterally granting an amnesty, but that if Reid lets Obama go forward with such an amnesty they "would use all procedural means necessary" to make the Senate focus on the constitutional crisis they say that this "lawless amnesty" would create.

On Dec. 11, the continuing resolution now funding the government will expire. Before that date, both Houses of Congress will need to approve a new continuing resolution to fund the government beyond that date.

If the CR does not permit the Executive Branch to spend money on some action, the Executive Branch cannot take that action.

"We write to express our alarm with President Obama's announced intention to take unilateral executive action by the end of this year to lawlessly grant amnesty to immigrants who have entered the country illegally," the senators wrote Reid.

"The Supreme Court has recognized that 'over no conceivable subject is the power of Congress more complete' than its power over immigration," the senators said. "Therefore, President Obama will be exercising powers properly belonging to Congress if he makes good his threat.

"This will create a constitutional crisis that demands action by Congress to restore the separation of powers," the senators told Reid.

"As majority leader of the Senate, you have the responsibility of not only representing the citizens of your state, but also of protecting the Constitution through vigilant exercise of the checks and balances provided under the Constitution," wrote Cruz, Lee, Sessions, Roberts, Crapo and Vitter.

"Therefore, we write to offer our full assistance in ensuring expeditious Senate debate and passage for a measure that preserves the power of Congress by blocking any action the president may take to violate the Constitution and unilaterally grant amnesty," the senators said.

"[H]owever," they continued, "should you decline to defend the Senate and the Constitution from executive overreach, the undersigned senators will use all procedural means necessary to return the Senate's focus during the lame duck session to resolving the constitutional crisis created by President Obama's lawless amnesty."


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: aliens; amnesty; cruz; executiveamnesty; mexico; tedcruz
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To: Usagi_yo

Fight or cave. Pick one.


41 posted on 11/05/2014 2:24:36 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Feet to the fire folks. YOU PROMISED!)
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To: Tzimisce
...don’t even promise this if in the end you’re just going to buckle.

Cruz, unlike most GOP Senators, is a Man of his word!
42 posted on 11/05/2014 2:24:41 PM PST by SoConPubbie (Mitt and Obama: They're the same poison, just a different potency)
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To: SoConPubbie
Cruz, Lee Threaten 'Procedural' War on Senate Floor to Stop 'Lawless Amnesty'

Good! Finally, some backbone in the Senate.

Say what you will about the late ole Senator Robert Byrd (D-WVA), but he knew the rules of the Senate and every nuance thereof. He used a 'technicality' to stop the 2001-2002 Senate attempt to pass CIR (a.k.a., amnesty for illegals).

I have a suspicion that Cruz is a similar kind of Senator. He probably knows the Senate rules backward and foreward. If so, he should be able to use nuances to stall and redirect legislation.


43 posted on 11/05/2014 2:24:51 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: Norm Lenhart

Good advice and why consultants like to keep their pets, er pols, in a bubble.


44 posted on 11/05/2014 2:24:57 PM PST by 1010RD (First, Do No Harm)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Cruz should hold a press conference and hold up Articles of Impeachment on the issue of amnesty. Say that within 30 seconds of any executive order he will have the House pass it.


45 posted on 11/05/2014 2:25:01 PM PST by mrs9x
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To: SoConPubbie

These two guys, along with Sessions, are the only bare-knuckle Republican fighters in the Senate.

The rest of them are milquetoasts.


46 posted on 11/05/2014 2:25:24 PM PST by SharpRightTurn (White, black, and red all over--America's affirmative action, metrosexual president.)
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To: mrs9x

-— Cruz should hold a press conference and hold up Articles of Impeachment on the issue of amnesty. Say that within 30 seconds of any executive order he will have the House pass it. -—

There’s a plan.


47 posted on 11/05/2014 2:27:11 PM PST by St_Thomas_Aquinas ( Isaiah 22:22, Matthew 16:19, Revelation 3:7)
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To: 1010RD

We have to use all the tools in the box. God gave us a reprive. Even though I bitch about the RINOs and always will, they won. So it’s now or never and Cruz and co need all the help we can give.


48 posted on 11/05/2014 2:27:17 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Feet to the fire folks. YOU PROMISED!)
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To: Norm Lenhart

as usual you illustrate in spades your total lack of understanding of the American political process

BTW........ Mitch won in spite of the non voters


49 posted on 11/05/2014 2:27:36 PM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: mrs9x

Or as close to that as he can legally do.


50 posted on 11/05/2014 2:28:04 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Feet to the fire folks. YOU PROMISED!)
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To: Ancesthntr

God in Heaven, what this country could be if Cruz were President. Safe, secure, free...


51 posted on 11/05/2014 2:28:08 PM PST by mrsmel (One Who Can See)
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To: mrs9x

bumping for picking up my place later..


52 posted on 11/05/2014 2:28:31 PM PST by jacquej ("You cannot have a conservative government with a liberal culture." (Mark Steyn))
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To: SoConPubbie

Yeah, but in the past Alfred E McCain and the usual band of idiots put the screws to this type of thing in midnight, backroom deals.


53 posted on 11/05/2014 2:28:38 PM PST by Tzimisce
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To: SoConPubbie
THIS ... is what a Majority Leader looks like.
54 posted on 11/05/2014 2:28:44 PM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Norm Lenhart

Me too. I’d almost forgotten what it feels like.


55 posted on 11/05/2014 2:28:46 PM PST by lonevoice (Life is short. Make fun of it.)
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To: bert

Political cowardice rears its head already.


56 posted on 11/05/2014 2:29:25 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Feet to the fire folks. YOU PROMISED!)
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To: Norm Lenhart

not cowardice, but wisdom and knowledge and understanding


57 posted on 11/05/2014 2:30:49 PM PST by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... Obama is public enemy #1)
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To: bert

Feet to the fire remember. YOU PROMISED!

So instead of flaming me, get to work fulfilling that promise.


58 posted on 11/05/2014 2:31:37 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Feet to the fire folks. YOU PROMISED!)
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To: Norm Lenhart
That's the way its done folks. No fear.

Or procrastination. Or unnecessary words.

59 posted on 11/05/2014 2:32:26 PM PST by Interesting Times (WinterSoldier.com. SwiftVets.com. ToSetTheRecordStraight.com.)
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To: Interesting Times

Yup. Some here need that engraved on their foreheads.


60 posted on 11/05/2014 2:33:07 PM PST by Norm Lenhart (Feet to the fire folks. YOU PROMISED!)
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