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12-04-2014, 12:34 AM #1
McConnell: ‘Bust up’ immigration bill
By Alexander Bolton - 12/02/14 10:05 AM EST
Incoming Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) says the Senate should break up comprehensive immigration reform legislation and vote on it piecemeal in the next Congress.
McConnell said the Senate should “bust up” the omnibus immigration reform measure crafted last year by the bipartisan Gang of Eight and vote on its components separately.
He would vote first on legislation to strengthen border security.
“What I think we ought to do is bust it up, pass as much of it as we can, starting with border security, which is a way of reassuring the American people that we’re not going to have another calamity like we’ve had,” McConnell said at an event Tuesday sponsored by The Wall Street Journal CEO Council.
“I would bust it up if I were setting the agenda in the Senate, start with border security, H-1B visa expansion, H-2A ag worker provisions, E–Verify and some of the other things I think we can get pretty broad agreement on,” he said.
McConnell said he would allow a full debate on the Senate floor and give colleagues the opportunity to offer amendments.
But he declined to guarantee that Republicans would back controversial provisions that rank among the highest priorities for Democrats, such as granting illegal immigrants a pathway to citizenship.
“I don’t know what the fate of the provision that Senate Democrats are interested in would be,” he said.
He said his plan would “put on the president’s desk whatever we can get to him that improves the legal immigration system and, particularly, strengthens the border, which we have not yet done.”
E-Verify is an electronic employment-verification system used by the federal government to make sure employees are U.S. citizens. Backers have suggested its use be expanded to the private sector.
The H1-B visa program allows employers to temporarily employ foreign workers in specialty positions. Tech companies have been looking for changes to the program that would lead to more visas.
The H-2A program is specific to agricultural workers.
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12-04-2014, 01:24 AM #2He said his plan would “put on the president’s desk whatever we can get to him that improves the legal immigration system and, particularly, strengthens the border, which we have not yet done.”A Nation Without Borders Is Not A Nation - Ronald Reagan
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12-04-2014, 01:41 AM #3
Mitch McConnell is nothing but a shill for the US Chamber of Commerce and Obama's facilitator and he needs to be removed from his leadership position by the 2/3 GOP Senators that did not vote for the amnesty bill S. 744 that we stopped from becoming law!
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12-04-2014, 10:04 AM #4A Nation Without Borders Is Not A Nation - Ronald Reagan
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12-04-2014, 04:17 PM #5
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Leadership has powers of persuasion, such as f you want your bill to see the light of day, help me on this. With McConnell and Boehner both having leadership positions they do not even have to be the boogieman of their part of Congress, if they et newbies pass legislation, the other house leader can file it in a drawer, Reid taught that well.
I've seen no evidence yet that this most recent election has done anything to improve the border/alien situation. I'm listening for evidence if anyone can show me improvement.
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