Thursday, December 4, 2014

Ted Cruz has a BOLD plan to deal with Obama's amnesty
House Votes Down Obama’s Immigration Plan

◼ link - CNS

Sen. Ted Cruz (R.-Texas) said today that Republicans in Congress should pass a short-term continuing resolution that defunds President Obama's unilateral amnesty for illegal aliens, and then use every constitutional means at their disposal to stop that amnesty.

This, Cruz said, would include blocking confirmation of President Obama's nominees to non-national-security-related Executive Branch positions.

The federal government is currently operating on a CR that expires on Dec. 11. Congress must pass a new CR to keep the government funded after that date. If Congress passes a CR that funds the entire federal government through the end of the fiscal year (Sept. 30, 2015), it will essentially strip the incoming Republican majority Congress (which will be seated in January) of its power of the purse.

A short-term CR would give the incoming Republican-majority Congress leverage over federal policy, including giving them the power to defund Obama's amnesty through all of this fiscal year....

◼ House Votes Down Obama’s Immigration Plan - The Blaze
The House voted Thursday to nullify President Barack Obama’s executive action on immigration — but the legislation members passed stands no chance of becoming law, and only served to prove that Republicans oppose Obama’s immigration plan.

Republican leaders called up the Preventing Executive Overreach on Immigration Act, which would stop Obama from implementing his plan to give safe harbor to millions of illegal immigrants, and let them work in the United States.
◼ Breaking: House passes symbolic bill to block Obama’s executive amnesty - HotAir
This was the bill proposed by conservative Ted Yoho that would, if also passed by the Senate and signed by Obama, block Obama’s authority to remake immigration policy on his own. I … thought we had a Constitution that does that, but I guess we don’t anymore. Obviously, a bill like this isn’t going to get past a Democratic Senate and a Democratic president, which means this was an empty gesture designed to show grassroots righties that the leadership shares their concerns about O’s power grab even if they’re not prepared to play hardball to stop it.






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