The continuing budget resolution has destroyed
Congress’ power to limit government, by Ann Corcoran, 9/9/16
Neither the Democrats
or the Republicans want to limit it!
Readers, you
might prefer juicy and outrageous stories about immigrant and refugee crimes,
about security screening, about what Trump and Hillary are doing today, about
resettlement contractors rolling in your money, about immigrant fraud, about
George Soros and his ilk, about progressives (Dems!) changing America by
changing its people, but there is only one issue now, as boring as it might be,
and that is that the Republican leadership in Congress has sold you out for more than
two decades and it is they who are changing America by changing its people by
not standing up for you and the US Constitution first!
This is the
next installment in my recent civics lesson (I’m learning this too!) in what I
hope is not
a vain (time wasting) effort to focus your attention on the Republicans in
Congress.
Below is an
excellent (2013) explanation by author Angelo Codevilla about how Congressional
leaders (Rs and Ds) have subverted the Constitution to advance permanent ruling
class control over our government and your money! Hat tip: Richard at Blue Ridge Forum.
From Library
of Law and Liberty (sorry to snip so much but please read this and then continue reading the
whole article):
The current
battle over whether the 2013 Continuing Appropriations Resolution (CR) should
de-fund Obamacare or not [substitute
this year’s battle over refugee funding—ed] is the latest instance in
which the CR mechanism is being used on behalf of a big government program the
demise of which would be certain were Congress to play its Constitutional role
by following its “regular order” as the keeper of the people’s purse – a role
fundamental to democracy.
Herewith, a
brief explanation of how new the CR system of funding the US government is, and
how radically subversive of republican government. Important to America as
Obamacare’s fate may be, the current battle’s stake is nothing less than whether the people can
control government through their representatives or whether government can
define its own scope and powers.
Since the Middle Ages, the first and most
basic restraint on arbitrary government has been the people’s power to decide
how much money the government will spend, and for what purposes. The US Constitution puts it this way:
“No money shall be drawn from the
Treasury but in consequence of Appropriations made by law” (Art. I
sect.9). Nowadays
however our bipartisan ruling class limits the Congress’ opportunity to
approve, disapprove, or modify what the government does, to voting on
“Continuing Appropriations Resolutions” – single, all-inclusive bills crafted
behind closed doors. Then it cynically asks the people’s
representatives: “will you agree to laws no one has read, to programs on the
continuation of which you have not voted, and to regulations that haven’t been
written yet, or will you shut down the government?” This turns democracy into a
choice between tyranny and anarchy.
Until circa 1990, Americans had taken seriously the
relationship between appropriations and democracy. House and Senate used to
divide the Executive departments’ requests for funds and programs into multiple
categories and sub-categories. Then many committees and subcommittees held
hearings on each item, followed by “mark-up” sessions in which each would be
modified and voted on. Thereafter, the full House and Senate would debate,
amend, approve or disapprove them, one by one. This was “regular order” – more
or less as described in civics books.
This changed at first gradually in the 1980s, when Democrats (and
Republicans) who were resisting the Reagan Administration’s efforts to trim
government figured out that individual appropriations bills delayed until the
end of the fiscal year could be rolled together into “omnibus” bills. These
could be advertised as merely “continuing” the current year’s programs and
spending levels. In reality, these all-in-one bills 1) protected current
programs from scrutiny, amendment, or repeal 2) were stuffed with new favors,
programs, provisions and priorities that could not have survived an open
process.…. the Republican leadership, by acquiescing in the practice of funding
the government by Continuing Resolutions rather than by individual
appropriations has emasculated the most virile means by which mankind has ever
limited government. Continue
reading here.
And, so here we are again, in
the fall of 2016, and Congress is doing the same damn thing! If you are saying, it is too
late this year (maybe next year will be a better year if Trump is President)
and these mostly globalists we have elected are never going to rein-in (in our
case) the out of control spending for the US Refugee Admissions Program, then
quit reading right now.
But, I say that even if we have not even a snowball’s
chance in hell of slowing the flow of our money to this program, we must still
let everyone of our Congressmen and US Senators know we are mad as hell about
it and we aren’t going to forget what they are doing to America!
At this point I should be linking
contact information for you to contact your Washington ‘lawmakers,’ but I won’t
because if you don’t know by now how to find them you are part of the problem.
Tell them to shut it down now!
Next, more on the House Freedom Caucus and how you are being played! See my tag ‘Where is Congress’ for more
on funding refugee resettlement. Forget Obama and forget the Dems, the power is
in the hands of the Republicans in the House and Senate!
See Letter:
Dear State Refugee
Coordinator,
As you know, the annual
ceiling for refugee admissions will be established by the President following
consultations with Congress towards the end of fiscal year (FY) 2016. Although
the FY 2017 appropriation and refugee ceiling have not yet been determined,
states and resettlement agencies should use a ceiling of 100,000 refugees for
planning purposes. The Department of State’s Bureau of Population, Refugees and
Migration (PRM) has engaged in discussions with the resettlement agencies to
propose expanded or new sites as part of their FY 2017 Reception and Placement
Program submission. ORR and PRM will work together to ensure that expansion
efforts, including timelines, are well coordinated. We encourage you to
discuss local capacity with the resettlement agencies, and as appropriate,
include any expansion or new sites in your ORR-1 and State Plan submissions due
August 15th. ORR’s FY 2017 budget request includes funding to support this
increase; however, this request is contingent upon approval and the overall
availability of funds.
We also expect
significant growth in the placement of unaccompanied refugee minors (URM)
through the Reception and Placement Program. PRM’s target goal for URM in
FY 2016 is 350, increasing to 500 in FY 2017. The URM Program’s capacity will
need to increase quickly to serve the increasing number of URMs, and we ask
existing programs to consider expansion options. If you do not have a URM
Program and are interested in opening a new site, please work closely with ORR
and the resettlement agencies (LIRS or USCCB) in developing a proposal for
consideration. The resettlement agencies will submit their proposals to PRM on
May 20th. Please consider the needs of these vulnerable children as you plan
for overall capacity for next year.
If you have questions
about capacity or your ORR-1 submission, please contact your Regional
Representative. If you have questions specific to the URM Program, please
contact your URM Analyst.
Thank you in advance
for your assistance.
Sincerely,
Robert Carey, Director
Office of Refugee Resettlement
Robert Carey, Director
Office of Refugee Resettlement
Last Reviewed: April
21, 2016
Comments
I have no
faith in the Congress to stop refugee resettlement in the US. Trump will need
to win in November and go back in to these issues to clean up the mess. If we want to change the policies, we need to
change the people who make the policies. This can be done with honest voter
polls on issues to identify the will of the people. Then we take those poll
results and beat politicians over the head with them. Their replacements should be exhaustively
vetted on these issues and then voted in to take their seats.
Norb
Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader
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