Thread: MENENDEZ: 'CONFERENCE' WILL GET AMNESTY PAST HOUSE GOP

MENENDEZ: 'CONFERENCE' WILL GET AMNESTY PAST HOUSE GOP




by MATTHEW BOYLE
24 Jul 2013

Sen. Bob Menendez (D-NJ), a member of the Senate’s “Gang of Eight,” told liberal activists at the Center for American Progress (CAP) on Wednesday how the Democrats plans to enact amnesty for the 11 million illegal immigrants: Get the House to pass whatever immigration bills it likes, then go to “conference” with the Senate bill.

“Get us to a conference," Menendez pleaded with the liberal activists, according to Slate’s Dave Weigel. "In a conference, we can negotiate the notion of bringing all those bills together and get to common ground."

As Breitbart News reported this weekend, conservatives fear that House Speaker John Boehner and Majority Leader Eric Cantor, and other members of GOP leadership, will use a conference committee, either advertently or inadvertently, to pass an amnesty.

In conference, representatives for House GOP leadership would negotiate with Senate Democratic leadership, and possibly the White House, on what they would call a “compromise” on immigration reform. Conservatives worry that the legislation that would come out of conference would look more like the Senate bill than not or, worse, potentially be exactly the same as the Senate bill.

Now that Menendez is asking CAP activists to help get him and rest of the Gang of Eight there, it is becoming clearer that is the left’s end game on the path to an amnesty.

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...GOP-Conference

Reading stuff like this is really scary. Michelle Bachman (God bless her) has advised patriots to "melt the telephones" of congressional offices. I suspect we have not been doing that, or we would not have, tweety bird brains, like Mendendez running of at the mouth like we see in this article -- damn is that man ugly, with all due respect, or what?

Bachman "gets it" she understands that amnesty will destroy the country and the conservative/patriotic movement. She can pick up the telephone and talk directly to Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Laura Ingram; we can not.

She is a very influential in the Tea Party movement, and Tea Party people will listen to her. And she has announced her retirement from political office. We will loose her soon.

Quite frankly many Tea Party groups have giving only tepid support to fighting amnesty, and we need them to join us and work like fanatics. She needs to help us by going on a campaign (the way Obama is incessantly doing) and rabble rouse conservative talk show listeners to get more active, get on the telephones to Congress. Look at how Marko (The Punk) Rubio made the rounds of conservative talk shows to peddle his political suicide of amnesty.

Please, Michelle Bachman rouse the lazy Tea Party people who should be engaged in a pitched battle with us.

I am asking everyone reading this post to ask for her energetic involvement in this fight. Help me "melt her telephone" to go around to all the talk shows and help us get more people on the telephones.

Congresswoman Michelle Bachman, telephone 202 225 2331 (Washington DC office)

Pelosi urges House to move quickly on immigration to get to conference


By Mike Lillis - 07/11/13 02:04 PM ET

Warning that a delay in the immigration debate "can create problems," House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) Thursday urged the House to move quickly on "areas of agreement" in order to proceed to a conference with the Senate.

Some Democrats — notably Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) — have suggested that the conference negotiations are doomed if the House package excludes a citizenship pathway for the nation's illegal immigrants.But Pelosi, who has long made the citizenship pathway a condition of any reform law, has been less adamant that such a provision be a prerequisite for a House bill prior to conference. Instead, the usually opinionated Pelosi has steered clear of making specific demands, saying the Democrats are waiting to see what Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) brings to the floor before playing their hand.

"I have said to the Speaker, I'm respectful of any way that he wants to bring it to the floor — in parts or in whole or whatever it is," she told reporters in the Capitol. "But we really should get moving on it and see where there's areas of agreement where we can pass a bill so that we can go to conference and then have the further discussion."

The issue of citizenship benefits has long been among the most contentious elements of the immigration debate. President Obama and Democratic leaders have insisted that those benefits be offered to eligible illegal immigrants before they'll support any final bill. Conservative Republicans, on the other hand, are hinging their support on the exclusion of any citizenship benefits, which they consider "amnesty" for lawbreakers.

The Senate included the citizenship pathway in its immigration reform bill, which passed the upper chamber last month with a 68-32 vote. Schumer, one of the authors of that proposal, warned this week that, unless the House passed a similar citizenship provision, the conference negotiations would fail.

"To go to conference with various pieces without a path to citizenship … is a path to a cul-de-sac, to no immigration bill," he said Tuesday. "Without a path to citizenship, they [Republicans] will go to conference and just say, 'Well, take our bill without a path to citizenship.'"

Some House conservatives, meanwhile, are voicing a very different concern. They don't want to send any House proposal to a Senate conference – even those focused solely on greater enforcement efforts – for fear that the citizenship benefits will inevitably become a part of the final package.

“Any vehicle that we send over to the Senate is potentially a conference-able bill," Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) told Newsmax TV this week. "And if we send that over to the Senate, you know Harry Reid can just put a little bit of language in there that guts it or actually strikes it all out, put in the Senate's Gang of Eight amnesty bill and send it back to us."

House Republicans huddled in the Capitol Wednesday for a two-and-a-half hour meeting that did more to highlight the party's divisions on the issue than it did reveal a strategy for responding to the Senate bill.

Pelosi on Thursday urged GOP leaders to put aside those differences and let the legislative process work itself out.

"Why would we delay? Why don't we just get about the business of doing a bill?" she asked.

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/31...-to-conference