Posted on 11/12/2014 12:30:15 PM PST by jazusamo
Dozens of House Republicans have signed onto a new letter that insists the GOP include language in the upcoming spending bill to prevent President Obama from taking unilateral action on immigration, escalating a simmering fight between Congress and the White House.
Rep. Matt Salmon, an Arizona Republican who organized the letter, said Congress needs to use its power of the purse to defend its own powers to write immigration policy — and he said he believes there could be enough support even in the Democratic-controlled Senate to win.
“I’m not going down without a fight,” he said in an interview with The Washington Times.
The letter is to be issued Thursday, but the debate is already heated.
Mr. Obama has vowed to claim executive powers to grant tentative legal status to potentially millions of illegal immigrants, and to act by the end of the year.
Republican leaders have warned him against that move, saying it would “poison” chances for getting a real immigration deal done in the next Congress, and could tarnish prospects for bipartisanship on a whole host of other issues when the GOP has control of both chambers next year.
“I think President Obama has a duty to help build the trust we all need to move forward together, not to double-down on old ways of doing business,” Sen. Mitch McConnell, the incoming Senate majority leader, said as he opened the lame-duck session on Wednesday. “That’s why I think moving forward with the unilateral action on immigration he’s planned would be a big mistake.”
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SEAL THE BORDERS FIRST!
I say with.
If the Republicans do nothing, it is up to us.
” Every murder, attempted murder, rape, assault, child molestation, armed robbery, burglary, intoxicated related death, tens of thousands of serious injuries, none of this would have taken place! NOT ONE INCIDENT!
Illegal aliens must go. Tens of thousands of injured or worse people deserve to have their deaths or personal injuries mean something.
How many people must die, how many individuals have to be seriously harmed, and their families lives changed forever, before the assholes on Capital Hill get it?”
I fear it will be up to “we the people” to march on DC.
I have censored my comment too.
I suspect the plan is that they’ll throw a visible temper tantrum and allow it to sail through claiming there was nothing they could do.
Along the way they may loft some clearly cosmetic tactics to oppose it, knowing full well that those things couldn’t stop him. They just want to make it look like they put up a valiant effort.
It will all be for show.
I have no idea what is going on here. Has the Republican leadership finally pulled it’s head out? I can’t believe that.
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No. You’ll notice that genuine conservatives like Sessions are making this effort. So called leaders like McConnell will make sure it never happens.
So do I.
Yes, I agree with your take on it.
Agreed.
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