House Democrats Won’t Walk the Plank Anymore
They’re finally afraid of their constituents:
House Democrats have hustled through President Obama’s agenda all year, only to see it stall in the Senate. They say they’re done with that and now it’s the Senate’s turn.
From spending bills and tough votes on major legislation such as climate change and health care, the House Democratic Caucus has been forced to walk the plank and then wait.
The Hill reported this week that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is assuring members privately that won’t be happening in 2010.
“The Speaker has told members in meetings that we’ve done our jobs,” a Democratic leadership aide said. “And that next year the Senate’s going to have to prove what it can accomplish before we go sticking our necks out any further.”
Though there are always cross-chamber grumbles, the move carries significance in that the agenda is already moving at a snail’s pace on the Senate side. If 2009 seemed slow, look out, Democrats say.
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[Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-MD)] said when it comes to immigration – a heated debate in years past that broke down after months of negotiations – that bill will originate in the Senate for sure.
“We recognize that at the end of a two-year period all the bills that have been debated and passed by the House lapse and you have to start over again,” he said.
“If they have ability to deal with what we’ve already given them and immigration reform we stand ready to work with them. There’s no point sending another bill over there until they’ve completed action on the House bills that have already been delivered,” he said.
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December 18th, 2009 at 3:39 pm
E-Verify–IS–the answer to illegal immigration because it WORKS! It–MUST–and should be permanent, with sufficient penalties for violations. Blogger’s have demonstrated to me that if employers explain to old and new hires, that the US government is implementing audits of companies throughout America. That any time ICE agents might appear without any warning and run an audit on any business at any time. That their 1-9′s will be submitted to ICE, including photocopies of documents that–YOU–gave to us at the beginning of employment. ICE seems to be the magic word that means detention and deportation for anybody working under assumed Social Security cards, ID and other ill-gotten documentation if caught. Once alerted to this implication, those in this country illegally will be absent from work the next day. E-VERIFY IS THE ANSWER TO THE DESPERATE JOBLESS AMERICAN WORKERS AND MUST BE MADE PERMANENT. AN E-VERIFY LAW IS WHAT WE NEED, NOT ANOTHER OBNOXIOUS AMNESTY, THAT WAS NEVER ENFORCED AS IN 1986. DON’T CONDEMN US LABOR AGAIN , ENFORCE THE 1986 LAW.
We all know the astronomical costs attributed to the illegal immigration invasion over many decades in education, health care and incarceration. So get on the phone and insist as a voter for your lawmaker to vote for
THE SAVE ACT (H.R. 3308) and be relentless.One main enforcement tools is E-Verify, that discloses and removes illegal workers from job locations. The capitol switchboard number is 202-224-3121. Also bombard the House-Senate policy makers with 28 cent postcards, to stop the open border organizations from engineering another Comprehensive Immigration reform or AMNESTY. GOOGLE and investigate the terrible consequences of illegal immigrants and families, demanding rights in the–SANCTUARY STATE OF CALIFORNIA. On the brink of bankruptcy, overcrowded schools where English is a second language, and Liberal-Marxist-Extremist politicians in Sacramento, spending the peoples money to subsidize the low incomes of millions illegal foreign nationals. EXPECT A FINANCIAL cataclysmic nightmare, if AMNESTY passes.
Bad as it is now millions more will enter America without permission causing even more chaos. Honest legal immigrants will be dumbfounded, when they learn illegal aliens will pay only $500 dollars to get legitimate status, While those people who went through the government inspection process and attorney filling fees for $2,500 dollars or more waiting for years to be accepted.
Tell them to amend the 1986 Immigration Reform Act and not another travesty that was a total disaster to taxpayers. Virginia Abernethy, Ph.D., former chief statistician for the Bureau of the Census said in September 2006 at a speech in Washington DC, that there has been a intentional undercount going on, so that the claimed figure over the 305-million population did not happen in 2005 but instead as early as– 2001. Those who believe in America’s survival, without OVERPOPULATION as stated by the US Census bureau better read the facts, not the lies at NUMBERSUSA. Those who want details of corruption in WASHINGTON and state government go to JUDICIAL WATCH. For Overpopulation statistics, should go to CAPSWEB. Other sites of interest on Immigration enforcement is ALIPAC and AMERICAN PATROL
Anybody can copy and paste. We need to warn the general public?
December 30th, 2009 at 8:03 am
i dont uunderstand the language clearly , but nice writing