House immigration plan aims to halt Senate bill ...(swing batter batter swing batter)

Mercury News / Chicago tribune ^ | 06/20/2007 | Karoun Demirjian

[bcsco]

Why the “citizenship” issue.

They get to vote.

[bcsco]

Can you provide a link to Peter King’s website, please? Thanks!

http://peteking.house.gov

But I couldn't find anything posted yet.

[bcsco]

Interestingly, I received a letter dated June 13th from my congressman, Don Manzullo (R), IL, who espoused being totally against the Senate bill. He never mentioned anything of this sort, but I wouldn't be surprised if he was a member of the group behind this.

While we HAVE to keep up our pressure on the Senate, the House itself may well be a reserve force in stopping their bill. I understand that House Democrats are eying breaking up the Senate bill (if it comes to them) with the intent of passing sections at a time. But if the House Republicans hold together (with possible Democrat involvement) this could 'Kill The Bill' itself.

[bcsco]

I don’t understand this. Will the House and Senate fight against one another? Both sides can cancel either side bills out; and NOTHING will happen. These politicians are making the Congress constitutionally useless.

Nope. It happens all the time.

And, nothing happening is far better than the Senate bill 'happening'.

And maybe, just maybe, the House will get their way. Who knows?

So, what's the problem?

[bcsco]

These politicians are making the Congress constitutionally useless.

That's a bad thing????

[bcsco]

Do we have a troll here?

Admin, check out his 'In Forum' posts, especially http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1851264/posts

This guy is really for the Senate bill. Sheesh!

[bcsco]

Sheeesh...Should we trash the constitution??

In what way?

[bcsco]

Sheeesh...Should we trash the constitution??

You misunderstood my reply. I see nothing bad about the House entering their own proposed legislation on a given issue. So what if that issue is already being considered in the Senate? SO WHAT?

That's not 'trashing the constitution'. That's how government works! And that's NOT trashing the Constitution. And THAT's what I call a good thing.

[bcsco]

This look like a sham.

You've read it? Well, provide the link. We're all curious.

[Spottys Spurs]

Thanks for the link. Hope something will come from this. We need to vote all of them out of office!

[California Patriot]

E-MAIL TOP REPUBLICAN SENATE STAFF DIRECTLY!!!

The following are e-mails for the chiefs of staff of some key GOP senators. Be brief, clear, and polite:

tom_ingram@alexander.senate.gov

jenny_manley@cochran.senate.gov

john_easton@gsmith.senate.gov

Jennifer_lowe@coleman.senate.gov

paul_collins@sununu.senate.gov

steve_bell@domenici.senate.gov

glen_chambers@brownback.senate.gov

john_lopez@ensign.senate.gov

tim_glazewski@kyl.senate.gov

bret_boyles@lott.senate.gov

billy_piper@mcconnell.senate.gov

[bcsco]

Come on....even if both fails, we still have massive illegal immigration. If both bills passes, George can take his pick.

Again, have you read it? I haven't; I can't even find it. But on the surface it appears to be a cut above the Senate bill. So why, oh, why, are you so adamantly opposed to this? Why?

And why can't we see what it contains before we trash it? Again, why?

[romanesq]

Peter King’s website:

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/webreturn/?url=http://www.house.gov%2Fking

[GatorGirl]

Dude:

If both chambers pass different legislation, the bills must be reconciled. Both chambers have to approve it before it goes to the President. He can’t just “pick and choose”.

For someone who claims to want to adhere to the Constitution, you are woefully ignorant about the legislative process.

For a crash course in the above, I commend “I’m Just a Bill” from the “Schoolhouse Rock” collection to give you an overview!