Posted on 07/06/2013 11:20:33 AM PDT by onyx
While most Americans rank the economy and government spending as the top challenges facing the nation, the Senate last month rushed through a comprehensive immigration bill to give amnesty to 11 million illegal aliens. The effort was more about the perceived needs of the Republican Party than the nation as a whole. The swift Senate action was intended to pressure the House to pass amnesty into law. The House seems to have other ideas.
Last Friday, before Congress left for a week-long recess, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's office released to GOP House members a 3-page memo detailing issues that would be on the legislative calendar when Congress returned.
The memo discussed issues related to energy, education and government oversight. Immigration was only mentioned at the end, in a section headlined "a few additional items." This is not how a Chamber gears up for work on a complex legislative issue.
“The House may begin consideration of the border security measures that have been passed by the Homeland Security and Judiciary Committees and begin reviewing other immigration proposals,” Mr. Cantor wrote, noting that Republicans will hold an internal conference on the issue on July 10th.
Speaker Boehner has repeatedly said that the House won't consider the Senate bill. It's been working on several pieces of legislation that cover various aspects of our immigration system. This piecemeal approach provides greater deliberation and consideration than the 1,000+ bill approach embraced by the Senate. The public is still learning the details of the bill passed by 68 Senators last month.
The idea that Senate action would force the House's hand was always silly. The House doesn't simply act on the whims of Senators. Having to face voters every 2 years, the House is more sensitive to grass-roots sentiment than the Senate.
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Total idiots.
The ObamaCare fiasco is front and center in everyone’s minds and these fools are going to talk about immigration.
This garbage can take the back burner. ObamaCare needs to be looked at and nullified, delayed, etc.
Shut up Cantor. You’ve joined Rubio and McCain on our sh-t list!
It will go to conference and be watered down and eviscerated to the point of being as big a crap sandwich as the Senate bill.
Good gawd! What is up with these b@stards????? It is the end of 2 party system in this country, what little we have left.
Cantor is yet another disappointment. His career above America’s future, that’s him.
I concur.
Exactly so.
Right.
change(actually revolution)... but they are both very much socialists and statists. Both are proponents of abortion, socialized medicine,
homosexual marriageand judicial activism.
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BRILLIANT idea !!!
Good post, Absolutely.
Get off my lawn!like a 144mm howitzer-shell. ;)
* My mistake: it’s a 155mm shell.
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Is there a strategic or electoral reason to move some immigration legislation forward? Repairing our broken legal immigration system might be one. Another is building a fence for border security and moving to defund ‘sanctuary’ cities.
It's time to show 'em the rope and point at the branch.
Yeah ...the one that doesn't exist. There are other parties but that will just splinter the vote like Gingrich and Santorum did. Myself - I am focusing on other things besides politics. Screw all these people.
I'm getting tired of these sell-out RINO's. We don't even seem to want to hold on to the ONE branch of gov't we control :(
KILL THE BILL!! BLUE SLIP THE BILL!!
Eric CanNOT contact info:
@GOPLeader
Office of Majority "Leader": 202.225.4000
P: 202.225-2815
F: 202.225-0011
If the house passes any bill at all, the senate will gut it, fill it with its own crap, then pass it, and Obama will sign it.
The GOP is playing us for fools. They are our enemy.
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