Posted on 01/22/2015 1:46:36 PM PST by Red Steel
When Sen. Jeff Sessions stepped aside to make way for Wyoming's Mike Enzi to lead the Budget Committee, many wondered if there were bigger plans ahead for Alabama's junior senator.
It appears there is
Sen. Sessions is set to take over the Senate panel that oversees immigration, reports indicate. The move was first reported in Politico and while the senator's office can't confirm the move ahead of the official announcement, the change is a perfect fit for Sessions who has emerged as the leading opponent of the White House's immigration plans.
Sessions is set to take over chairmanship of the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration, Refugees and Border Security. Vice-chair will be Sen. David Vitter, R-La. Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, was the top Republican member of the committee under the Democrats but he's moving to take over the Judiciary subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights. That clears the way for Sessions' to sit in the chairman's seat.
So what does this move mean?
It means the GOP is sending a strong message to the White House. It shows Republicans aren't playing when it comes to immigration and President Obama's plan to allow as many as 5 million people currently in the country illegally to remain. Republicans have vowed to fight that plan and, by moving Sessions to the key immigration role, have thrown down the gauntlet that its standing firm.
Consider this statement, issued by Sessions after last night's State of the Union:
"On immigration, the President remains wedded to a lawless policy that serves only the interest of an international elite while reducing jobs and benefits for everyday Americans. All net employment gains since the recession in 2007 have gone to foreign workers, and yet the President has violated federal law in order to provide work permits to 5 million illegal immigrants--allowing them to take any of the few good jobs that exist. In effect, the President delivered an address tonight to a Congress whose authority he does not recognize and to a public whose votes he has nullified with an imperial edict. Congress must use every tool at its disposal to stop this unlawful edict, end the immigration lawlessness, and reverse our slide towards congressional irrelevance."
Sounds like fighting words to me.
First move in the rumble? Pass a bill with a provision removing border fencing.
Yup. they are REAL serious.
“On immigration, the President remains wedded to a lawless policy that serves only the interest of an international elite while reducing jobs and benefits for everyday Americans. All net employment gains since the recession in 2007 have gone to foreign workers, and yet the President has violated federal law in order to provide work permits to 5 million illegal immigrants—allowing them to take any of the few good jobs that exist.”
If the Republican presidential nominee runs on this in 2016 he will win.
But, of course, if the nominee is a pro-amnesty, pro-flood-the-country-with-cheap-labor-immigrants-to-replace-higher-paid-American-workers like Jebbie or Mittens, they’re toast.
The GOP has already signalled surrender, it even wants to tear down the border fences we have now
Pee on em. And the idiots that continue to vote for them.
Yeah, right. LOL!
Hardly a move to ‘marginalize’ Sessions who is IMO the one politician whose word will pass or sink immigration bills.
I guess they’re counting on Boehner to amend a bill from Sessions into amnesty and then try to force it through with Dem votes.
That would be underestimating Sessions IMO.
Jeff Sessions is a stand-up senator, a credit to the great state of Alabama and the USA, and the GOP-e would do well to emulate him.
I admire Jeff Sessions.
But his appointment is for political appearance only.
When it comes to substantive policy changes, the rest of the GOP Congress will disappear when it’s time to vote.
Blunt Political Reality:
The GOP leadership and a majority of GOP Congressmen support Amnesty and massive legal immigration.
Ready to Rumble?
They’re going to fight their own base for open borders, right?
When it comes to substantive policy changes, the rest of the GOP Congress will disappear when it’s time to vote.
I agree it's too early to uncork the champagne.
And lets not forget the GOP wants to increase tech immigration, bringing in people to take jobs university science students would get.
Every tool?
Is he impeached?
The enabling EXEMPT did not even ask for his
birth certificate or proof of citizenship
after he gave it up/if he had it at all.
Well ‘conservatives’ just compartmentalize that inconvenient truth and make it go away so they can support liberalism with a clean conscience. It’s the Right Wing way in 2015.
Mc nuts won’t even recognize it unless it gives obamination a free hand on amnesty
This is great news ! Go Republican Jeff Sessions !
There is no one who is more against illegals and Obama’s executive amnesty than Sessions is.
Republican Santorum is also against legal and illegal immigration. Since the democrats’ 1965 immigration bill there have been 80 million 3rd world immigrants invading America. Immigrants are taking most jobs and welfare.We Americans born in America have no jobs: No more immigrants legal or illegal. This issue decides all other issues as Mexifornia shows.
Sessions/Santorum in 2016!
Its a nice piece of cheese on a sh!t sandwich.And the gop wants conservatives to line up and take a big bite.
Read more here: http://www.thestate.com/2015/01/22/3942664_house-heads-to-vote-on-border.html?rh=1#storylink=cpy
House heads to vote next week on border security legislation
WASHINGTON — The House is moving toward a vote on a bill aimed at securing the U.S. border
with Mexico as majority Republicans try to show they can chart their own course on
immigration, not just oppose President Barack Obama’s.
The legislation passed the House Homeland Security Committee late Wednesday on
a party-line vote of 18-12, and the full House is expected to take it up next week.
....
The bill would require operational control of high-traffic areas of the border within two
years, and operational control of the full border within five years. The bill defines
operational control as stopping or turning back all attempted border crossers, which
Democrats said was unrealistic. Some past immigration and border bills, including one
advanced in the last Congress by McCaul’s committee, have sought to block 90 percent
of would-be crossers.
Go get ‘em, Jeff!
They also support abortion and ObamaCare if the bills coming out of the House mean anything.
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