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02-15-2015, 01:57 PM
The lack of funding for DHS is going to be a "rear end biter" if the Republicans cannot find a way around this.
After reading all I could on this....I still have one question. First let me say that this is what I would support at this point....
"Sen. Joe Manchin III (W.Va.), the conservative Democrat who opposes Obama’s immigration orders, said McConnell needs to convince Boehner that they have to pass the funding bill without any of the policy conditions and instead send over a discrete piece of legislation that would repeal the presidential orders."
I say that because I am not sure what the options are....the presidential orders are a disaster and must go away. Of course that is on the plate of the congress to pass a total immigration bill, but they got stymied by this proclomation.
If they fund DHS, as is.....does that put more in motion than can be stopped quickly ?
They, the Republicans, are in a corner..
"Conservatives are adamant that the security agency should be funded only if the legislation also overrules Obama’s orders, which prevent the deportation of millions of illegal immigrants. But Senate Democrats, even the few who oppose Obama’s moves, have blocked the House-passed legislation with repeated filibusters.
That has left McConnell trapped inside a legislative box that he had vowed to avoid — and one that for the previous four years his close ally, House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), frequently wandered into without an exit strategy.
McConnell was determined not to repeat those mistakes."
McConnell, after his no-shutdowns pledge, quickly finds himself boxed in - The Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mcconnell-after-his-no-shutdowns-pledge-quickly-finds-himself-boxed-in/2015/02/12/f8f36488-b2f6-11e4-827f-93f454140e2b_story.html)
After reading all I could on this....I still have one question. First let me say that this is what I would support at this point....
"Sen. Joe Manchin III (W.Va.), the conservative Democrat who opposes Obama’s immigration orders, said McConnell needs to convince Boehner that they have to pass the funding bill without any of the policy conditions and instead send over a discrete piece of legislation that would repeal the presidential orders."
I say that because I am not sure what the options are....the presidential orders are a disaster and must go away. Of course that is on the plate of the congress to pass a total immigration bill, but they got stymied by this proclomation.
If they fund DHS, as is.....does that put more in motion than can be stopped quickly ?
They, the Republicans, are in a corner..
"Conservatives are adamant that the security agency should be funded only if the legislation also overrules Obama’s orders, which prevent the deportation of millions of illegal immigrants. But Senate Democrats, even the few who oppose Obama’s moves, have blocked the House-passed legislation with repeated filibusters.
That has left McConnell trapped inside a legislative box that he had vowed to avoid — and one that for the previous four years his close ally, House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), frequently wandered into without an exit strategy.
McConnell was determined not to repeat those mistakes."
McConnell, after his no-shutdowns pledge, quickly finds himself boxed in - The Washington Post (http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mcconnell-after-his-no-shutdowns-pledge-quickly-finds-himself-boxed-in/2015/02/12/f8f36488-b2f6-11e4-827f-93f454140e2b_story.html)