(Breitbart) – In a free-wheeling discussion
that touched on dozens of proposals for how to address the tens of thousands of
illegal immigrant children streaming across the southern U.S. borders, one
thread connected the calls to add to or change a border crisis proposal from
GOP leadership: President Barack Obama.
The proposals included trying to prevent a
future executive amnesty by Obama, telling the president what he should do to
enforce the law in a non-binding resolution, and even putting impeachment on
the table.
Rep. Ted Yoho (R-FL) told colleagues that
the House should pass legislation with new steps to secure the border, and tell
Obama if he didn’t implement it, they would impeach him. “He either enforces
the laws on the books—as he was hired and elected to do—or he leaves Congress
no option. This is not our choice, this is the President’s choice and I would
advise him to uphold the law on the books,” Yoho said in a written statement
after the meeting.
“People were hissing at that because they
don’t want to go there,” said a GOP member who was in the room. At the other
end of the spectrum, Rep. Jeff Denham (R-CA), a top proponent of comprehensive
immigration reform, expressed befuddled frustration with conservative
colleagues resistant to passing the package put together by a working group of
members appointed by Speaker John Boehner. “I have all my ideas about this, a
lot of you guys – what you tell me is, we gotta secure the border and send ‘em
home. Now you have a chance to secure the border and send ‘em home, but you’re
saying we can’t do it,” he said, to laughter.
There were divergent views from lawmakers
on whether the meeting produced a strong impetus to pass a bill in the House
next week, with some lawmakers saying the conference had achieved a consensus
on moving forward while critics of the border package raised questions about
whether it could secure the necessary votes. The discussion is, at this point,
about optics, since it’s widely regarded that the House bill will not be
enacted into law. “Whatever we do, we gotta figure Reid isn’t going to go ahead
with it, so basically it’s a message bill, well we’re going to go tell our
constituents, ‘well here’s what we’ve done, Reid won’t do it.’ So this is kind
of just political blame shifting,” said Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-FL).
One option discussed is a resolution
outlining steps Obama should take to secure the border. “Trent Franks mentioned
he has a resolution that specifically lists all the ways the president has
failed and invited the crisis, lists a number of things that the president
could actually do to solve the crisis. I think there’s a lot of sense that
that’s a good idea, right out of the gate, to do that. And then whatever you do
after that, we’ll see,” DeSantis said. Another was addressing the push to
address a future executive action by Obama in a stand-alone bill. “We could at
least put it on the floor separately. That’s what my recommendation has been to
the task force: if you don’t want to put it in the bill, at least let us vote
on it,” said Rep. Bill Flores (R-TX). Rep. Peter King (R-NY) said he supported
addressing Obama’s executive actions in the package. “I think we should, but
we’ll see. I think we should, but I would vote for it anyway. Whatever comes
out is a step in the right direction. You can’t let the perfect be the enemy of
the good,” he said. Members remarked about a very wide array of ideas being
proposed. “Every subject under the moon” was discussed, Rep. Lamar Smith (R-TX)
said. “Oh, yeah – too many,” King said when asked if many views were expressed.
Source:http://www.teaparty.org/rep-puts-impeachment-table-closed-door-immigration-meeting-49138/
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2014/07/25/GOP-Special-Immigration-Conference
Comments
Ted Yoho’s option is the best. It is crisp and doesn’t depend on the “what
ifs” that have stymied the House all these years. It better be comprehensive
and should include funding and repeals of laws that don’t allow our Military to
protect our border. They would watch the Senate ignore their new border closing
law and begin impeachment proceedings in the House prior to November. That would get out the base and should help
secure a Republican Senate in November.
Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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