Posted on 01/08/2015 12:04:45 PM PST by jazusamo
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(CNSNews.com) - House Speaker John Boehner (R.-Ohio) vowed today to fight “tooth and nail” against President Obama’s unilateral amnesty of up to five million illegal aliens—an amnesty the administration has been able to move forward with because Boehner’s House permitted funding of it. The 1,603-page omnibus spending bill that Boehner pushed through a lame-duck Republican-controlled House last month put no prohibition on Obama using government funds to implement the amnesty. That omnibus funded almost all the government through the end of this fiscal year on Sept. 30 and the Department of Homeland Security through Feb. 27.
“The House will soon take action aimed at stopping the president’s unilateral action when it comes to immigration,” Boehner said at his press briefing today. “Republicans are in agreement that this is a gravely serious matter.”
“The president's unilateral actions were an affront to the rule of law and our system of government,” Boehner said. “The American people don't support it and as their representatives we cannot let it stand.”
“I said we'd fight it tooth and nail when we had two majorities in the House and Senate and I meant it,” Boehner said. “What is at risk is the rule of law and the sanctity of America’s Constitution. The president has taken action that is beyond the scope of his ability and the Congress cannot just sit here and look the other way. We have to take action.”
Because last month’s omnibus put no restriction on Obama using money to implement his amnesty, the president is free to do so at this time. Had the Republican-controlled House attached language to last month’s omnibus prohibiting spending on the amnesty, Obama would have needed to shut down the entire government (by vetoing the bill) to try to force the Republican House to give him the money.
Now, the only funding bill the Republicans in Congress can use to stop Obama’s amnesty is the bill that will be needed to fund the Department of Homeland Security after Feb. 27. If the Republicans attach language to that bill prohibiting Obama from spending money to implement his amnesty, Obama will only need to shutdown DHS to try to force the Republicans to give him the money to implement it.
At his briefing, Boehner said he did not think the funding of DHS was "at risk" and said that Republicans wanted to fund the department.
A reporter asked: "Is this a wise time to be putting the budget of the Homeland Security Department at risk? The head of the department said it poses a real risk to have a continuing resolution without any certainty. Does he have any validity to his argument?"
"I don't believe that the funding of the department is in fact at risk," Boehner responded. "What is at risk is the rule of law and the sanctity of America's Constitution. The president has taken actions that are beyond the scope of his ability. And Congress cannot just sit here and look the other way. We have to take action, and we will."
The reporter, who made no mention of the fact that it would take a presidential veto to stop the DHS funding bill, followed up, saying: "Can you imagine something like this happening after 9/11 though. Given the attacks yesterday in Paris can you imagine the Homeland Security budget being up for debate a month after, or a day after, something like that happened here."
Boehner responded: "The issue isn't about funding the Department of Homeland Security. Members of Congress support funding the department. But we cannot continue to allow the president to go around the Congress and go around the law and take unilateral action as he has."
Another reporter asked if the House would "never pass a DHS funding bill that doesn't include some sort of provision" to stop Obama's unilateral amnesty.
"The House is going to work its will," Boehner said. "The way the process works is once the House works its will, the Senate will work its will. And then we have options. We can go to conference. We can take the Senate bill. There are a lot of options available to us. When we pass our bill, we'll see what the Senate can do with it and then we will act."
A third reporter asked if Boehner would allow an "open rule" on the DHS bill, which would let members freely offer amendments to the bill.
"I don't know what the Rules Committee will decide," Boehner said. "But I've got my doubts that it will be a truly open rule. But I do suspect that there will be amendments allowed."
If the Republicans pass a stand-alone bill to stop Obama’s amnesty, the president can simply veto that stand-alone bill. It would then take a two-thirds majority in both houses to enact it.
To infinity! AND BEYOND!!!!
(Except we really can fly)
I’ll change mine too in honor of the blind devotion to the GOP
Empty words from a sellout.
By Golly Mom ... am sensing some Eagles are taking flight.
I promise to be one bird you cannot change!
or ?
1)” We need to pick our battles “
2) “We need to give Boehner a chance...I mean, maybe we DID need to FUND it, in order to KILL it”
3) “Keep your powder dry! “
4) “ We tried “
5) “ Yeah, they funded Obamacare, and amnesty, which will destroy the country. But a Democrat would have been WORSE !
” The lesser of two evils” “
“He is either a liar or insane.”
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I’d say the crying Cheeto is both.
yep, I'm extinct ... Am a Ghost ... Tired of your ways D.C.!!!!
I changed my tag too!
Stephen, Stephen, Stephen...(sigh)
The time to sort this out is in the primaries. not now. We have to go to war with the army we have. There are 320,000,000 people in America, of which about 50,000,000 are eligible to run for office. I think it’s fairly obvious we have exactly two choices here unless you want Hillary to win. Your vote against Hillary is what really matters even if you lose. If you vote for someone not of the body, then your vote was for Hillary and gets counted for her and you hate your country. Because the terrorists will have won.
You mean this time he really, really, really, REALLY means to keep his promises?
Welcome to the fold Brother ;)
Its a lesser evil. Just believe him. He;s a Republican.
Thanks “Prophet Lenhart”
Boehner is a brain addled alchoholic with extremely intense control issues. He is also a profoundly ignorant person with no ability to understand reality. He says he is antiestablishment. Nothing could be further from the truth. For him to believe this he must be impossibly deluded.
Boehner is a one man wrecking crew destroying conservatism and constitutional government. He is easily the most dangerous person in government.
Fragging? Who is doing the fragging again?
The GOP hate you with a passion, they hate your values, they mock your religion, they work with the MSM/Dems to defeat your Conservative candidates and Conservative legislation.
You have already been fragged, your Conservative officeholders have already been marginalized, your Party has already walked away from you, and their country.
Conservatives have given DECADES to this party, be careful not to use the same talking points that the establishment uses.
” Boehner is a brain addled alchoholic”
Leave it right here.
Obama is his pal “ He feeds me booze every time we meet! “
Bonehead is joking again, again, again. Never ends.
Just call me “Wrong”. Half of FR does, all facts and evidence to the contrary... ;) Speaking of which...
Hey Bert! Another thread needing your wisdom of my predictive prowess! I was “Wrong” again! The world must know!
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