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    The House GOP Lies in Wait...

    If this article has already been posted anywhere else on this site then please take this posting down.

    It seems that the House GOP isn't going to let this bill pass without pulling out all the stops

    [quote]GOP plots blue-slip attack
    By Elana Schor and Jackie Kucinich
    May 30, 2007

    House conservatives are ready to stop the Senate immigration bill in its tracks with a potent procedural weapon should the contentious measure win passage in the upper chamber.

    The trump card conservatives may hold is a constitutional rule that revenue-related bills must originate in the House. The Senate immigration measure requires that illegal immigrants pay back taxes before becoming citizens, opening the door to a House protest, dubbed a “blue slipâ€

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    I wish these guys would stop telling in advance what they plan to do. Nothing like giving the opposition time to plan a counter-attack.

    Can't any of these people keep their mouths shut?
    It's like hell vomited and the Bush administration appeared.

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    I'm really hoping and praying that the house kills this Shamnesty bill
    that the traitors are trying to force on the American people!

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    Ive never heard of it but I say BLUE SLIP THIS BASTARD!!!

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