House Leadership Dooms Immigration Bill
House Speaker Denny Hastert and Majority Leader John Boehner have taken a decision that almost certainly means there will be no immigration bill passed by this Congress. Yesterday the leadership announced that House committees will hold a series of “field hearings” around the country during Congress’ August recess … meaning that a House-Senate conference to reconcile the different bills passed by each chamber wouldn’t be able to begin work until September – i.e. right before things ramp up for election time. Coverage of this can be had from the NYTimes, WaPo, LATimes, or pick your favorite.
Majority Whip Roy Blunt suggested that with this new timetable, final debate on immigration policy might come after the election, when Congress remains in lame-duck session – but this seems a poor alternative, if not completely unlikely.
The president’s spokespeople said yesterday that Bush will continue to push for a comprehensive bill along the lines of that passed by the Senate. Such a bill would almost certainly pass the House with the support of many Democrats and a fair number of Republicans. However, the leadership’s misguided and polarizing “majority of the majority” requirement continues to hobble the House unecessarily. There is no good reason for this delay (don’t be fooled by the “we want to know what you think” claptrap the leadership is spouting), and both the White House and the Senate should push back hard against this maneuver. It’s time for the negotiators to sit down and get it done.
4 Responses to “House Leadership Dooms Immigration Bill”
Hooray for House Speaker Denny Hastert and Majority Leader John Boehner…
for having the common sense to estop something that simply doesn’t need to be fixed.
All that needs to be done is to have current, already on U S Law books, enforced.
This “new” time wasting “let’s fix it even if it isn’t broke attitude” immigration issue in congress is a clear example that states that the people we’ve elected to office, Democrats and Republicans, don’t know their butts from a hole in the ground.
It also clearly states that the whole bunch, house and senate, our “Parliment of Whores,” have been bought and paid for by corporations and business oweners that employ illegal aliens and refuse to give up their hold on cheap, almost slavelike labor.
Every day congress and immigration law enforcers delay enforcing the law, is just one more day when Coyotes smuggle in illegals by the thousands, one more day where forgers here in the U S forge thousands more green cards, social security cards, and bought by illegals, that in turn used forged documents to illegally get drivers licenses, auto insurance, free or very low cost medical care, emergency services, meditines at tax payer funded public facilities.
Again I ask, especially to the liberal doves I ask,
“Just how many multiple laws, federal, state, and local, violated are you willing to tolerate.”
I would love to be afforded the right to obey the laws I like and the ability to ignore and/or violate the laws I don’t like with impunity…but as a native born U S Citizen I’m not afforded that right, all the while illegal aliens violating law live among us, work among us, march in protest and flaunt in our faces, the flags of their native lands in the streets of our cities and national capitol; all the while in anticipation of being granted amnesty and citizenship for their violation of U S Federal Law and the multiple crimes they’ve committed.
If folks don’t wake up soon they won’t have a country and will be strangers in their own homeland.
Simple really. Just bust the people who illegally employ undocumented workers. Of course that would include all Bush’s rich developer friends in Pearland, specificelly Mr. Perry of Perry homes.
So thats a no-go at the bahnhoff.
My colleague the Objectivist and I applaud the logjam, but for different reasons.
I say hell yeah!
As much as I can’t stand most of what comes out of the mouths of Denny Hastert and John Boehner, I applaud them when they get it right.
Fine the illegal employers! Then jail them!
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