Boehner: Pass Clean DHS Bill Today

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http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/414728/boehner-pass-clean-dhs-bill-today-joel-gehrke

by Joel Gehrke March 3, 2015 9:58 AM

 House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) announced that the House will vote on a clean Department of Homeland Security funding bill, which marks the conclusion of the Republican attempt to block funding for President Obama’s executive amnesty orders.

 In the words of one House Republican, Boehner told the Republican conference that the “full cave” will get a vote on Tuesday.

 “He said Pelosi could [force a vote] but he hoped it would be done by a GOP appropriator,” another Republican congressman in the meeting tells National Review Online.

 The GOP lawmaker is referring to a little-known rule, known as Rule 22, that allows any House member to force a vote on a bill if the Senate refuses to create a conference committee. Senate Democrats filibustered the creation of a conference committee on Monday evening, thwarting the process by which the House and Senate might have ironed out the differences between the DHS appropriations bills passed by the two chambers. The original House bill blocked funding for the implementation of Obama’s 2012 and 2014 executive orders on immigration. The Senate bill did not block funding for the president’s amnesty.

In Tuesday morning’s conference meeting, House majority leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) reiterated his belief that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) should have used the nuclear option to eliminate the filibuster in response to the Democratic votes to block debate on the House-passed DHS bill.

[Longiron]

Caved again!!!! No Surprise!!!! We have no one to blame except the REPS we sent to Congress. They voted for HIM and those that did need Primary. Keep doing the same thing over and over and EXPECT different results. That is a sign of something. Hope the Freedom Caucus  tries a coup? They will not succeed because you need all of the House But it sure will send a signal to the RINOS if that would mean anything ???

[mystery-ak]

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/414730/boehner-executive-amnesty-will-continue-be-litigated-courts-joel-gehrke

by Joel Gehrke March 3, 2015 10:26 AM

House Speaker John Boehner (R., Ohio) told the GOP conference that they needed to pass a clean Department of Homeland Security funding bill because Senate Republicans “never found a way to win this fight” and because some House conservatives killed a three-week DHS funding measure last week.

“I am as outraged and frustrated as you at the lawless and unconstitutional actions of this president,” Boehner told House Republicans during a conference meeting Tuesday morning, according to a source in the room. “I believe this decision – considering where we are – is the right one for this team, and the right one for this country. The good news is that the president’s executive action has been stopped, for now. This matter will continue to be litigated in the courts, where we have our best chance of winning this fight.”

 Boehner also said that Senate Republicans couldn’t break a Democratic filibuster of the House-passed DHS funding bill, which denied funding for the implementation of Obama’s executive amnesty orders.

 “As you’ve heard me say a number of times, the House has done its job by passing legislation to fund DHS and block the president’s executive actions on immigration,” he reminded the conference. “Unfortunately, the fight was never won in the other chamber. Democrats stayed united and blocked our bill, and our Republican colleagues in the Senate never found a way to win this fight. The three-week CR we offered would have kept this fight going and allowed us to continue to put pressure on Senate Democrats to do the right thing. Unfortunately, that plan was rejected.”

[mystery-ak]

Gonna leave it to the courts....that was their plan with the ACA and now it is law....these people are useless...