Report: Boehner 'Hellbent' on Passing Amnesty This Year

breitbart.com ^ | 4/18/14 | Tony Lee

[cotton1706]

House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) is "hellbent" on passing amnesty legislation, and other GOP leaders are signaling to donors and lobbyists that they also want to pass legislation this Congress, even though attempting to do so would depress the GOP base and create divisions within the party ahead of 2014's midterm elections that could give Republicans control of Congress.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Boehner told donors at a Las Vegas fundraiser in March that he was "hellbent on getting this done this year." After he met with President Barack Obama at the White House in February, Boehner said that he agreed with Obama on immigration during the meeting.

Rep. Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), the Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, also reportedly delivered an "upbeat message about legislative prospects during a recent trip to Silicon Valley" where he attended a fundraiser in which donors who wanted more high-tech visas paid $10,000 to $40,000 to hear him speak. He told attendees that votes on five to seven pieces of legislation were "entirely possible," according to the Journal.

As Breitbart News has reported, Goodlatte's "SKILLS" Act, which is also backed by Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) and has passed out of committee, "would also double the number of H1-B visas that the high-tech industry covets." However, numerous studies have shown that the notion that there is a shortage of high-tech American workers is a myth.

In addition, the Journal noted that Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart (R-FL), who said that Obama would act unilaterally if amnesty legislation was not passed, is also drafting "legislation that would give qualifying undocumented immigrants legal status and the chance to apply for citizenship through existing channels." House leaders have reportedly told Diaz-Balart to have the legislation ready by June or July.

[dangus]

#4 accords with the doctrine of “subsidiarism:” that the smallest effective unit of organization should retain control. In government, it also provide for an internally logically consistent, naturally delimiting theory for limited government, whereas libertarianism has no natural delimit to anarchy*: all power should be retained by the individual, unless the nature a given task makes it inherently impossible to be achieved by individuals, in which case a village can act as a unit of cooperation of individuals.

But all such political power must be retained by the village, unless the nature a given task makes it inherently impossible to be achieved by such a local entity, in which case, a county can act as a unit of cooperation of villages.

And likewise, all such political power must be retained by the county, unless ... a state must act as a unit of cooperation among counties.

And likewise, all such political power must be retained by the state, unless ... a nation must act as a unit of cooperation among states.

(*I am NOT calling libertarians anarchists! I am only saying that the principle of libertarianism does not, in itself, define when government becomes allowable, or even necessary; and, therefore, there is no natural breaking point between libertarianism and anarchy except a pragmatism which is contrary to such idealism. The constitutional delimits of government authority — using the spirit of the constitution, rather than using the commerce clause as a loophole — would be an EXTERNAL, but highly reasonable guidance for the limits libertarianism, but Ron Paul and many other libertarians choose not to take advantage.)

[Conservative Gato]

The GOP never wanted to govern.

Oh, as statists and progressives, the Boehner types get exactly what they want. They may not get to govern but it does help keep the statist big government dream alive in Washington DC which way too many are a part of these days, regardless of political party.

Boehner and his cronies being hellbent on passing amnesty this year, tells me the statists are in trouble come November and they need all the votes they can get to counter us peons, LOL. FWIW, legal Hispanic Americans don't support amnesty, 2 to 1.

CGato