Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., when he used to be
Senate majority leader, changed that body’s rules simply so he could eliminate
GOP objections and Barack Obama could get his federal appointees approved, and
now a member of Congress now wants the rules changed again – this time to
protect Americans and America.
In a recent House floor speech, Rep. Mo Brooks,
R-Ala., noted the precedent that was set when Reid, in 2013, exercised what was
called the “nuclear option,” changed the rules so that Senate Democrats would
only need 51 votes, not 60, to approve nominees.
Brooks said the issue now is much more important
than nominees – it’s the future of the nation and its citizens who are
threatened by Obama’s executive memo-driven amnesty program.
That is expected to hand over to millions of
illegal aliens many of the rights of citizens and the House has voted to defund
the program. Those efforts are held up in the Senate by the lack of 60 votes,
so far.
“The Senate leadership claims they lack the 60
votes to overcome a Democrat filibuster and pass the House’s Homeland Security
funding bill,” said Brooks. “Yet a mere majority of the Republican Senate has
the power [to] overcome Democrat senator obstructionism.
“Just as Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and
the Democrat Senate majority in 2013 used the ‘nuclear option’ to change Senate
rules and cut off filibusters on presidential appointees, now-Senate Majority
Leader Mitch McConnell and the Republican majority has the power to exercise
the ‘nuclear option’ and eliminate filibusters for any bill that funds the
federal government.”
Yellowhammer
News, which is “all things”
Alabama, reported, “Brooks’ statement reflects the country’s growing
frustration with the inability of Congress to reform immigration.”
“I vote to put the jobs and wage interests of
struggling American families over the interests of illegal aliens,” Brooks
said. “I encourage all senators of both parties to do the same.
See his comments:
Brooks cited data from the Center for
Immigration Studies that revealed from 2000 to 2014, there were 5.6 million net
new jobs in America. But during the same time American-born citizens saw a net
loss of 127,000 jobs – because of all the hiring of illegal aliens as well as legal
immigrants.
“American-born citizens are still in a
recession,” he said. “The priorities of Obama’s executive amnesty do not lie
with American citizens. They lie with people of all kinds other than American
citizens.”
He explained the House has addressed the
problem, and now “it is time for the Senate to act.”
Brooks continued, “I would submit that it’s time
for the United States Senate to change their rules, to reflect the will of the
American people. And certainly if those rules can be changed for mere
appointments by the president, they can also be changed to protect the United
States Constitution and the separation of powers.”
WND
had reported on the CIS research, noting that the organization accused Obama of setting up a shadow
government program to operate where Congress had not authorized.
“This is a huge parallel
immigrant work authorization system outside the limits set by Congress that
inevitably impacts opportunities for U.S. workers, damages the integrity of the
immigration system, and encourages illegal immigration,” said the report by
Jessica M. Vaughan of the Center
for Immigration Studies.
“A huge number of work
permits, 1.7 million, were issued to aliens whose status was unknown, not
recorded by the adjudicator, or not disclosed by U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services, the agency that processes the applications,” the
report said.
“This should be a concern; work permits are
gateway documents to driver’s licenses and other benefits, and if the
government agency issuing them does not know or will not disclose how the
bearer arrived in the country, how can others rely on the authenticity of an
individual’s identity?
“It is equally disconcerting if the government
does know and chooses not to disclose it,” the report said.
Obama has issued a series of presidential memos
that defer deportation and offer privileges to several million illegal aliens,
effectively granting them amnesty, according to his critics.
The
chief of the CIS also told WND that the
fight over amnesty actually will determine whether the United States can be run
by a president and his decrees, or by a chief elected official who enforces the
laws Congress writes.
Mark Krikorian said earlier, “If I were a
Republican politician, I wouldn’t even be arguing this on the basis of
immigration. I would be talking about this as just the latest and most
egregious example of a president’s rule by decree.”
He said the coming dispute, which very well may
extend into the 2016 presidential election or beyond, is going to decide “the
balance of powers, whether Congress actually makes law or is an advisory body
like the U.N. General Assembly, which is how Obama sees it.”
Obama already has challenged America’s laws a
multitude of times, simply issuing orders to make changes to the Obamacare law,
and on a variety of other issues, all without the benefit of a decision by
Congress, which originally wrote the laws.
The fight over amnesty is one of two focal
points – the other is Obamacare – of a letter-writing campaign to encourage GOP
members of the U.S. House to replace Speaker John Boehner.
The “Dump Boehner Now” campaign allows voters to reach every single Republican
House member with hard-copy letters asking them to reconsider their choice as
speaker. The letter says House members had the chance to stop Obamacare and
amnesty, but Boehner failed to take advantage.
Joseph Farah, WND founder and campaign organizer,
set up the letters campaign. He said the opposition to Boehner is based on the
Obamacare and amnesty program that voters rejected in the 2014 midterm
elections.
The letter explains to members of the U.S. House
that two issues have “prompted Americans to turn in droves to the Republican
Party in November 2014 – Barack Obama’s blatantly unconstitutional executive
action to provide amnesty to millions of illegal aliens, and the deliberately
deceptive restructuring of America’s health-care system through Obamacare,
which threatens to unravel the greatest health delivery system in the world.”
Pointing out that Republicans before the
election “solemnly vowed to STOP this lame-duck president,” the letter states:
“Now you have the power, right and duty to stop him.
“But it won’t happen with John Boehner leading
you. You know this to be true. The trillion-dollar budget deal is just the
latest proof that Boehner is not capable of leading the House to victory during
this critical period.”
It’s because during the lame-duck Congress,
Boehner agreed to Obama’s plan to continue funding for Obamacare and amnesty
into 2015.
Source:http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/senate-told-to-go-nuclear-on-obamas-amnesty/
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