Posted on 06/21/2018 11:22:56 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
The House on Thursday rejected a hardline immigration bill — introduced by Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) — after leadership postponed a second vote on a compromise measure written with centrists.
The 193-231 vote came a day after President Trump signed an executive order ending the controversial practice of separating children from parents who cross the border illegally.
No Democrats voted in favor of Goodlatte's bill.
House leadership had expressed pessimism on the chances for either Goodlatte’s legislation or a second compromise bill written with centrists, both of which come as the growing crisis at the border dominated headlines.
The hardline measure faced sharp pushback from both Democrats and moderates, who took issue with a number of provisions including its cuts to legal immigration.
Both bills have the support of the administration, whose "zero tolerance" policy toward undocumented immigration has come under bipartisan fire over the separation of migrant families.
The vote effectively killed a discharge petition — introduced by Rep. Carlos Curbelo (R-Fla.) in April — that would have circumvented leadership and forced votes on four separate immigration proposals. The bill with the most votes over 218 would have then been sent to the upper chamber.
The discharge petition, backed by moderates Republicans and many Democrats, nearly had its required number of backers, forcing leadership's hand in bringing forth the Thursday votes.
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Most of the GOP reps are Cheap Labor Express stooges.
We will not get any reasonable legislation that favors the citizens until they are replaced.
WTH is your problem, sparky?
Are you dense, or just a troll?
Go climb a tall tree somewhere.
Yes, I do remember that.
Probably neither passes anyway (one failed already) and if one passes in House it still must be reconciled in Senate and THEN Trump must sign it and I continue to believe if he doesn’t get the wall, end to chain migration, the visa lottery and a legal DACA plan he will not sign anything.
You may disagree here but I am convinced Trump holds all the cards in this one. There is a sizeable number of Americans who want an end to illegal aliens traipsing across our border at will.
That’s why we have the Second Amendment to fall back on. We may need it sooner than later.
40 Republicans voted against this bill.
The poison dream of cheap labor is responsible for slavery.
The poison dream of cheap labor is responsible for the current open borders quagmire.
The poison dream of cheap labor is the gospel of the GOPe.
We already have an existing law, called The Border fence Act of 2006. Why doesn’t Trump just Sue to force every penny of funding that was specified in that bill, but was canceled by Nancy Pelosi when the Democrats took over the house? Or otherwise reallocate funds from other areas and forced Democrats to sue him to stop it.
Kozak, this is exactly what they want.
They don’t care about losing the majority. It would take a load off their back.
There is something very odd about what occurred on Friday .
After Trump left the Fox Guy that Raj came racing over to Trump and was
real worked up about something .
It was captured on camera and people here comments about that interaction.
Then Raj who is a former RNC and Never Trumper made that Trump was
misspoken Twit that night .
No, they have them by the wallet. An even more sensitive place and more fitting, since the number of congress critters with cajones would probably not fill up a booth in a Denny's.
What is the matter with the idiots who voted against it?
Yeah more comfortable as the minority and not expected the actually do anything.
Yep...
The real question that folks should be asking is:
Who are the Republican Traitors?
Name calling is for posters with no argument .
Just pathetic attacks .
Still is, note that nothing has changed and Congress is trying to make him do something he knows better than to do
I love a good game of chess
Shall we play?
This Ryan K street Amnesty has nothing but K street cheap labor ,
H 1 visas etc..
Trump should have not saved it .
This amnesty is what Rush called a Lobbyist give away bill and pure amnesty. Lou Dobbs said the midterms are lost with garbage bills like this .
That bill must be still short votes if they moved to Friday.
Call your reps .
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