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.
LOL....but a harmonic tone for the drones to sway by.
I’m sensing you are not of the body, brother...
I’m still too busy tweaking Captain Pike’s cage to get him back to Vina on Talos IV to be bothered with Landru’s campaign speech.
Bohner speaks with two tongues. He has the power to tell congress to defund it in a heartbeat. If he means what he says THIS TIME, do it! Put up or shut up.
“Talos IV”
There can be only one Talos...and he is mighty. This Talos IV nonsense is clearly a Thalmor plot to undermine my proud Nord heritage.
If ???
What evidence have you seen that Boehner will do anything but further and propel Obama's radical agenda? He just threw away the only weapon the incoming House Republicans had, and you're telling us to support him?
Yours is the most uninformed comment I've seen on Free Republic in months.
Here’s all you need to know windy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=m2XMgNL3sZY#t=74
Well, admittedly Talos IV is one giant center of illusion - kinda like D.C.
Hahahahahhahahaha!!!
Well, life often imitates art...
But as long as I have Lydia with me, I’ll rule both ;)
Do you not understand that the Cromibus bill passed during the lame duck
session funded spending for the entire year?
And that everything else that now follows is nothing more than Kabuki Dances
and “show votes”? If you think the coming Kabuki Dances and show votes
is “fighting”, your definition of fighting is different than most.
Exactamundo, FRIend. This hot air in the House is building up to a fake border security bill “crisis” that Boehner will roll out shortly.
The kenyan will get every dime he wants for DHS to implement the Obama-Boehner quid pro quo amnesty. Guaranteed. That cake is already baked.
I can imagine no possible metaphor that fits blind GOP loyalty better.
Too bad your hero John Boehner doesn't.
What's it going to take for you to understand that Boehner stabbed America in the back by fully funding Obama's radical agenda for ANOTHER YEAR?
Why do you continue to ignore the fact that Boehner could have easily offered a short term Continuing Resolution that would have funded the government just long enough for the new Congress to be sworn in?
Do you not understand that a Republican dominated House and Senate could have ripped the wheels off Obama's agenda, had they simply done that?
John Boehner is a traitor to his party and the American people - as proven by DEED!
Good grief, you're exasperating.
He’s simply of the body. literally and figuratively. We both know why. they are liberals. It’s their job to come to FR and USE FR to spread liberalism, then point to FR and say “SEE? Even the hard right supports John Bhoner!”
It was revealed he worked with Obama, et al, all summer on an amnesty plan.
He is either a liar or insane.
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He’s an insane liar.
You are not serious. You cannot be.
So far Boehner is the best 'republican' Speaker that Obama and the democrats could have ever dreamed of. You can see that, can't you?
The 'action' will be to say "we don't have the Presidency so we're going to cave. Again."
yada, yada, yada...
We've heard that scare talk from the GOP-e and their minions for years and years. Elect RINOs (who bear no discernible difference to actual Democrats) because.....Democrats.
Hey genius. John Boehner just gave Obama nearly a Trillion Dollars to carry out his radical leftist agenda against America for the next full year! What, pray tell, would Nancy Pelosi have done differently under the same circumstance?
I know. This stuff is hard, but you can figure it out if you really concentrate.
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