Thread: Boehner's Border Group Delays Report As It Broadens Focus, Reviews 'Wish Lists'

by Jonathan Strong 16 Jul 2014, 1:29 PM PDT
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A small group of lawmakers appointed by Speaker John Boehner to craft a response to the tens of thousands of illegal alien children streaming across the southern U.S. border has delayed a report of its recommendations while officials consider a broader response, according to the leader of the group, Rep. Kay Granger (R-TX).

Granger referred obliquely to a major new proposal issued behind the scenes that was under consideration.

“Someone introduced something new we haven't got into,” she said, explaining why the group hadn't issued its report today, as lawmakers had vowed Tuesday.

Asked what the proposal was, Granger said “I can't tell you that.” Asked what topic it concerned, she said “I can't tell you that either.”

“More than anything,” Granger said, the negotiations are over “how broad or narrow the bill will be, how much we stick to just a few things or do we go into some wish lists of other members.”

“It's still a negotiation,” she said.

Noting the group had failed to meet prior self-imposed deadlines, Granger said Wednesday only that she hoped the House would pass the resulting bill – or, potentially two bills, she allowed – before lawmakers depart for the August recess.

“I think it's important that we vote on the bill before we leave for August,” she said.

She also offered one specific example of an issue the group might still be deliberating. “We say, for instance, we want to get the children back to their home countries, and we want to do that as quickly as we can. Now how do you do that? And under what circumstances? If you do it as quickly as you can, how do you keep the safeguards in it. That's where we are right now,” she said.


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Boehner: House Has No Plans to Defund Unconstitutional Acts by Obama


July 17, 2014 - 3:37 PM

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House Speaker John Boehner applauds during President Barack Obama's second inaugural address on Jan. 21, 2013. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

(CNSNews.com) - House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) indicated today that if President Barack Obama takes actions that exceed his constitutional authority, the House of Representatives has no plans to use its own constitutional authority to withhold funding from those actions.
At his weekly press briefing, CNSNews.com asked Boehner: “You’ve said you disagree with calls to impeach the president over abuse of power via executive actions. But under the Constitution the House actually has the power of the purse. So, if the President takes actions that exceed his Constitutional authority, will you withhold funding for those actions in the next must-pass appropriations bill?
“There’s a lot of ways to deal with this issue,” Boehner responded. “But we’ve got a Republican House and we’ve got a Democratic Senate. And there are a lot of things we’ve passed here that the Senate clearly has not passed.

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“Now, when it comes to that issue, some of these actions that you could defund, there clearly isn’t, I wouldn’t guess, an appetite in the United States Senate to withhold those funds,” Boehner continued. “That’s why we’ve decided that the more direct approach of suing the president is the right path to go down here.

“Listen, I’m for upholding the Constitution,” said Boehner, “and I’m for protecting the interest of the House vis-à-vis the power grab that’s going on by the White House. And while he has the authority to issue executive orders, he does not have the authority to unilaterally change laws in our country, which he has done.”
Article 1, Section 9, Clause 7 of the U.S. Constitution says: "No Money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law; and a regular Statement and Account of the Receipts and Expenditures of all public Money shall be published from time to time."
Federal spending laws regularly include language prohibiting the Executive Branch from using funds for certain purposes.
Appropriations bills must be passed by both the House and Senate and be signed by the president—or overcome his veto—before they become law. This means that the House has the constitutional authority to pass a bill that withholds funding for executive actions, including those they believe exceed the president’s constitutional authority.
The Senate can refuse to pass, or the president can refuse to sign, a bill passed by the House that prohibits funding for Executive actions the House deems unconstitutional or outside the scope of the Executive’s legal authority, but unless the House relents and agrees to fund that activity, the Executive cannot engage in it.
At the end of the last fiscal year, the Republican-controlled House initially passed a continuing resolution to fund the government that denied funding for implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The Senate refused to pass a CR with that language, and President Obama refused to accept one. After 16 days, the House backed down and passed a CR that permitted implementation of Obamacare.
Boehner announced this June that the House now plans to sue President Obama for taking unilateral actions that exceed his legal authority, saying at the time that abuse of power affords Obama “king-like authority at the expense of the American people and their elected legislators."
"On matters ranging from health care and energy to foreign policy and education, President Obama has repeatedly run an end-around,” Boehner said, adding the President has a habit of "ignoring some statutes completely, selectively enforcing others and at times, creating laws of his own."
When he was asked earlier this month if he agrees with calls by some Republicans to impeach President Obama for executive overreach, Boehner simply answered, “I disagree.”


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He must still be reviewing the "wish List" Well that is what "wishing doesn't make it so" means to him!!! They all need to be fired for dereliction of duty!!! They are a sickening bunch of traitors!!

I have a wish to add to the wish list. Since you are incapable of responsibly governing, rush quickly getting the hell out of Washington!!