Results 1 to 5 of 5
Thread Information
Users Browsing this Thread
There are currently 1 users browsing this thread. (0 members and 1 guests)
-
11-05-2009, 02:06 PM #1
- Join Date
- Aug 2009
- Posts
- 9,266
the Hispanic Caucus will ask the President to prove himself
Pleasing Hispanic Caucus or Being a Liar (Obama's healthcare/immigration tough choice?)
By Roy Beck, Thursday, November 5, 2009, 9:36 AM EST - posted on NumbersUSA
9:30 a.m. -- Pres. Obama has scheduled a meeting with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus for this (Thursday) afternoon.
Presumably, the Hispanic Caucus will ask the President to prove himself a liar to the American people.
Obama and his spokesmen have made a very clear promise to a joint session of Congress and in many national media appearances that illegal immigrants will not benefit from any new federal healthcare plan.
The authoritative news service Congress Daily reports that the Hispanic Caucus has threatened Speaker Pelosi with voting against a House healthcare bill if it requires full verification against illegal immigrant participation in all parts of the new federal plan.
At the moment, Pelosi is bowing to the pro-illegal-immigration Hispanic Caucus and turning a cold shoulder to all those moderate Democrats who say their constituents want the House bill to back up Pres. Obama's promises.
Vulnerable Democrats have launched a last minute push to include language
excluding undocumented immigrants from buying insurance in the exchange
with private money -- a provision included in the Senate Finance Committee
bill.
But adding the language to the House bill could jeopardize passage. Rep.
Ed Pastor, D-Ariz., said if the provision is included in the bill, a
majority of the 22-member Congressional Hispanic Caucus will vote against
the rule.
Losing those votes could combine with remaining anti-abortion Democrats to
leave leaders unable to bring the bill to the floor, said Pastor, a chief
deputy whip. "With the issue of pro-life and other people voting against
it, it becomes pretty difficult to deal with," he said.
-- Congress Daily
NumbersUSA members are continuing to phone Democratic Members of the House (202-224-3121), urging them not to make Pres. Obama a liar.
To fulfill the President's promise, the House bill needs to have full verification requirements for every single part of the federal plan -- not just one part as Speaker Pelosi has now accepted. And the bill has to bar illegal aliens from being part of the "exchange."
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) said those fulfillments of Obama's promise would be too much to swallow:
I have already said no tax dollars shall go to support healthcare for undocumented workers. What more do you want me to do?" Gutierrez said. "I'm being consistent. But now they want to feed the frenzy of the xenophobic, right-wing anti-immigrant. . . .
A Democratic aide said the CHC should focus any anger on the White House and the Senate, which added the (verification) language after President Obama addressed a joint session of Congress. "The reforms I'm proposing would not apply to those who are here illegally," Obama said, prompting Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., to shout, "You lie!"
-- Congress Daily
Guitierrez and other champions of illegal aliens are willing to have words that bar illegal aliens from benefits but not actual verification procedures.
Will the Hispanic Caucus this afternoon persuade Obama to prove Joe Wilson correct?
ROY BECK is Founder & CEO of NumbersUSA
http://www.numbersusa.com/content/nusab ... tid=807766
Kathyet
-
11-05-2009, 02:33 PM #2working4changeGuest
Please see alert here..help needed
http://www.alipac.us/ftopict-177012.html
-
11-05-2009, 03:02 PM #3
CALL, CALL, CALL ALL DAY TODAY!!!! YOU CANNOT CALL ENOUGH!!!! PLEASE HELP!!!
-
11-05-2009, 03:15 PM #4
- Join Date
- Jan 1970
- Location
- Murfreesboro, TN
- Posts
- 145
Perhaps calling your Black caucus members and emailing them this information might get some to act as well on our behalf.
Extreme racial stereotyping.
Just one look at that video, alleged "slap-stick" comedy or not, should let them know where their true alliance should be.
If not, they have no business in office.An American of Irish descent - NOT an "Irish-American".
He is my son. He currently serves for us in Iraq.
-
11-07-2009, 06:03 PM #5
i love how they call it the 'hispanic caucus' lol....i would like to sincerely thank the white house and all government officials for throwing hispanics in one huge bucket and assuming "hispanics" want amnesty...i know of a great deal of "hispanics" that consider themselves american and get offended if theyre called 'mexican american' or 'spanish american' and do not want anything to do with illegals. amnesty is not what "hispanics" want at all. not as a whole anyways.
Laura Loomer - Woke up this morning to a @nytimes article...
03-27-2024, 11:36 PM in General Discussion