Posted on 11/22/2014 8:32:30 PM PST by Tailgunner Joe
CULPEPER, Va. — The 7th District's newly elected Congressman vowed via Twitter Thursday night that he supports, "Not one thin dime," to fund the proposed actions outlined by President Barack Obama to deal with the broken immigration system.
"I support using the power of the purse to defund Obama's amnesty," tweeted Rep. Dave Brat, R-Richmond, the economist, replacing Eric Cantor, who recently took office in Washington.
Virginia Democrats, meanwhile, applauded the president's efforts attempting to bring some five million undocumented residents "out of the shadows." ....
Brat said he would not vote to fund a program "that subverts the law or encourages tens of thousands more people to risk their lives illegally crossing our border." He said the U.S. House should "use its power of the purse" to defund in the current budget bill "Obama's illegal executive action."
"We must fund the rest of government with a short-term bill while, in a separate bill, defund the appropriations for the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services programs that the president intends to use to carry out this act," Brat said.
The newly elected 7th District representative called the presidential action an "attempt to give amnesty to five million illegal aliens," saying it was unfair to others "waiting in line to become citizens the right way." Brat said the president's actions would encourage more children to attempt to illegally enter the U.S.
"In addition, crony insiders will now get the amnesty they lobbied for to provide a cheap supply of labor while millions of Americans remain unemployed," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at timesdispatch.com ...
Dave Brat is sounding all the right notes. I hope that if the multi-million dollar salaried lobbyist Eric Cantor is thrown out of Brat’s office should he try to “visit”.
Cantor losing that election was like an early Christmas.
That’s how it’s done! ‘RINO Hunting’, that is...
Here’s why Hal is not doing what is best for America:
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/11/16/Exclusive-GOP-Rep-Hal-Rogers-Campaign-Donor-Stands-to-Profit-from-Executive-Amnesty
A defense contractor and top campaign contributor to House Appropriations Committee chairman Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY) is in the running to get a contract to print millions of IDs and other government documents associated with the president’s planned executive amnesty, Breitbart News has learned exclusively.
The contractor, General Dynamics, is on the list of “interested vendors” for a draft solicitation that U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), an agency of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), sent out to vendors in October. If the president goes through with an executive amnesty for millions of illegal aliens and General Dynamics gets the contract, a top official with the firm told Breitbart News that he expects the printing of the documents — including ID cards, work permits and Social Security cards for illegal aliens — would occur at a facility inside Chairman Rogers’ congressional district in Kentucky.
I like this guy. Not many of these guys stand for anything. This guy stands for something and is consistent.
He stood for Bhoner returning to the top spot in Congress well enough. His first action actually.
Ummm.... how much does it cost to “NOT” enforce the law?
making these millions eligible for more benefits costs plenty
and they threatened to impeach Nixon for not spending what Congress allocated
a President that refuses to execute the law should be impeached
They cannot stop him from NOT enforcing the law unless they remove him from office.
That was my point.
unless he were a Republican, then it’d be stopped
How did they manage to get that into court? I remember they sued to force him to spend the money allocated, court agreed, he did not have a line item veto power.
I always said that if Cantor had lost and been replaced by a Pelosi-clone, it still would have been a MAJOR IMPROVEMENT for the Republicans and for the country.
This is only GOODNESS.
“He stood for Bhoner returning to the top spot in Congress well enough. His first action actually.”
You realize that there were a total of TWO PEOPLE that ran for the position: Boener or Pelosi.
Would you have preferred the second? Or maybe not vote, and if enough follow, Pelosi walks in (which is essentially what we have to deal with in the Texas State House right now)?
Dear Santa:
For Christmas, I want only two things....
Ted Cruz for Senate Majority Leader
and
Dave Brat or Louis Gohmert for Speaker of the House.
I’ve been a good boy.
I’ll leave out extra cookies and milk, and some Scotch to keep you warm.
Thank-you!
Because he said he would always support the most conservative person. The choice for Speaker was between Boehner and Pelosi. He chose Boehner.
I know Dave. I knocked on doors for him.
I will turn on him if he gets poisoned by the Potomac.
And I told him as much.
He’s already had more open meetings with constituents than Cantor ever did.
No doubt he’s better. I don’t dispute that at all. But there was a choice to stand on principle and say “No John, step aside, you F’d this up enough already and I’m not going to be responsible for more” and let the cards fall.
Someone has to. If no one ever stands up, how is anything ever going to get better? The 30 year fail in effect now is becoming 31 and 32 and 33.
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