Thread: House votes to overturn Obama immigration actions; bill now goes to Senate

It would be great if this could pass. But,
Not likely to pass in the senate.
And if it does Obama will veto it
and they don't have to votes to over ride a veto.
So this all just a show for the voters back home
so they can say, "We tried".

"Though the Senate is now in Republican hands, there is little chance it will adopt the House approach."

http://www.alipac.us/f12/boehner-pre...n-plan-316686/


Senate GOP Leaders Back Obama Amnesty, Oppose Cruz Vote

@ http://www.alipac.us/f12/boehner-pre...n-plan-316686/


"the plan would fail to gain the 60 votes needed to break a Democratic filibuster"

http://www.alipac.us/f9/house-gops-i...senate-316717/

http://www.alipac.us/f9/26-republica...mnesty-316800/

. . . U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Huntsville, said in a speech Tuesday that legislative efforts are nothing more than "well-intentioned political theater" and that the only avenue to stop Obama's plans on immigration are to take the president to court. . .

http://www.al.com/news/index.ssf/201..._obama_im.html

Obama has threatened to veto the House bill, and Democrats roundly denounced it, even as immigrant advocates warned Republicans they risked alienating Latino voters who will be crucial to the 2016 presidential election.

"Just two weeks into this new Congress, Republicans have turned a bipartisan issue, funding our Department of Homeland Security, into a cesspool of despicable amendments that cater to the most extremist anti-immigrant fringe," Rep. Ted Deutch, D-Fla., said in a House debate.

Were Latino voters not crucial to the 2014 elections? It seems that worked out quite well for the "extremist anti-immigrant fringe."

Everyone needs to remember that this isn't an issue about voters. The majority of voters including Hispanic/Latino and other Minority groups have no affinity at all for this massive immigration, not the legal kind and most certainly not the illegal kind. American voters are sick and tired of the deceit, the lies, the special attention, the cost, and the aggravation and daily expense associated with dealing with this illegal alien population and yes even much of this extraordinarily excessive legal immigrant population. This issue is about donors, not voters. These crazy Democrats are collecting billions a year for campaigns not from voters, but donors, many of them probably in the country illegally or in the country on a visa or green card or in the country from a previous amnesty and of course and it must be said money from the drug cartels who need a large alien population devoted to their drug business as well as a steady stream of carriers hauling the drugs in and the money out.

by Charlie Spiering
14 Jan 2015

White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest used a bit of colorful language aboard Air Force One this afternoon, calling on Republicans to stop “mucking around” with the Department of Homeland Security funding bill.
“House Republicans … are mucking around with DHS funding just weeks before the funding deadline,” Earnest said.
“There’s never a good time to muck around with the funding of the Department of Homeland Security, but given the events of the last week, this seems like a particularly bad time to do so,” he added alluding to the recent terrorist attacks in Paris.

Republicans, led by House Speaker John Boehner, passed the funding bill earlier today. It includes an amendment to defund President Obama’s executive amnesty. House Republicans also passed an amendment killing Obama’s 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

Earnest argued that the bill passed by the House was unlikely to get enough Democrat support in the Senate.

By restricting funds to the DHS, Earnest argued that Republicans were effectively blocking funding for border enforcement and returning to a broken immigration system.

“This vote is bad policy. It is essentially a vote for amnesty. It is also bad politics,” he said.

http://www.breitbart.com/big-governm...e-for-amnesty/

5:07 PM 01/14/2015
Al Weaver

On his Wednesday program, conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh questioned whether Speaker John Boehner’s recent tough talk on President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration is “just for show” or if he’s actually “following through” on his rhetoric.

On the House floor Wednesday morning prior to their vote on the Department of Homeland Security, Boehner read aloud for nearly five minutes the 22 times Obama intimated that he was unable to go it alone on immigration reform via executive reforms.

“To think that the president of the United States studied constitutional law!” Boehner said lambasting Obama. “He didn’t just learn constitutional law. He taught it himself.”

“Enough is enough!” Boehner added.

However, Limbaugh was skeptical of Boehner’s sudden anti-amnesty rhetoric. The conservative titan told his audience that what happens after either Obama vetoes the bill or it dies in the Senate, which does not fund segments of DHS that deal with Obama’s executive action, will be “the moment of truth.”

“I think the House is gonna pass a bill. I don’t know what the Senate’s gonna do, but I know Obama’s gonna veto it, and I know that that will then be the moment of truth,” Limbaugh said.

“That’s when we’re gonna find out what the House Republican leadership is all about, after Obama vetoes it. In other words, is all of this just for show for us?” Limbaugh explained.

“It won’t be long before we find out. By ‘us’ I mean conservatives who keep electing Republicans, keep demanding that they finally get in gear and stop this stuff,” Limbaugh said. “Are they just playing games with us or do they really now understand what we want and are prepared to act on it? There’s a lot of doubt about that.”

http://dailycaller.com/2015/01/14/li...just-for-show/