The Immigration Kabuki Dance
On June 13, 2006, I blogged “Beware “Reids” Bearing Gifts” because the House of Lords (aka U.S. Senate) had “discovered” that the Reid-Kennedy Illegal Alien Bill had revenue components and such a Bill could only originate in the House of Representatives:
“Legislation has been stalled for weeks on constitutional grounds that prevent the Senate from writing bills that raise revenue.”
The Hill reported last week that the “majority of the majority” in the Senate have their own plans about this Kabuki Dance:
Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.) and Jim DeMint (R-S.C.) have yet to sign off on an elaborate parliamentary maneuver that would send the bill to conference.
A determined Republican opponent could delay the conference indefinitely because compound parliamentary machinations — taking up a separate House tax bill, replacing its provisions with the Senate immigration provisions and sending the new measure to conference — are vulnerable to repeated filibusters.
“There’s no time left in the session for those kinds of procedural tricks,” Reid spokesman Jim Manley said.
As an Infantryman, when I look at the many ways to end this terrible bill, I am reminded of a sentence in one every infantryman’s favorite manual, “The number of ways in which the CLAYMORE may be employed is limited only by the imagination of the user. ”
Tip of the hat to longtime reader “daniel” for the article in The Hill.
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