Posted on 07/31/2014 8:00:34 PM PDT by kabar
There was high drama on the Senate floor this evening. Harry Reid brought on for a vote President Obamas $2.7 billion proposal to support illegals from Central America who are flooding across the border, in the form of a supplemental budget request. An extremely knowledgeable Senate insider offers this blow-by-blow account of what happened:
It required 60 votes to waive that point of order. After failing to table the filled amendment tree, Sessions raised the point of order. Appropriations Committee Chair Mikulski, author of the legislation, moved to waive all points of order on the bill. Dems failed to waive the point of order, by a vote of 50 yeas and 44 nays, with Manchin again voting with Republicans.
So the Senate immigration supplemental appropriations bill is dead.
This is very good news, although of course it would be better news if Congress would stand up to the presidents lawless and unconstitutional determination to repeal federal statutes by executive decree. For now, though, lets be grateful, once again, to Senator Jeff Sessions, who stood in the gap and, this time, prevailed.
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Good point. These “agreements” never involve cuts to obsolete or dysfunctional programs, actual reductions. (unless they’re military.)
Amen to that
“We don’t need a bunch of tattooed, snotty-nosed morons who get “offended” and become hysterical when they see a U.S. flag.”
Amen.
IMHO
Then a body showed up in a ditch. The police could not identify the person because he was an illegal alien with no documentation. Then a second body was found. Same thing. Then a third.
The law is still on the books and the town is now quiet and peaceful.
vaudine
Thank God for the real men who founded this country,
and for the real men who continue to sustain it
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Exactly. When it comes to open borders and boundless immigration and cheap labor, the Chamber of Commerce globalists that own the GOP-e and the commies that own the Dems are like DC zombies that keep coming back and back and back attempting to do anything to get their open border and amnesty and screw every American.
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