Paul Ryan: ‘I Hate Omnibus Bill’ But I Did It Anyway
(Breitbart) – House
Speaker Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) told radio host Bill Bennett that he
hates Omnibus bills, but he passed a $1 trillion omnibus last week anyway.
“I hate omnibus bills
and I don’t like doing these last-second bills,” Ryan said. He added that he
blames Sen. Harry Reid (D-NV) who filibustered, “all but one
appropriations bill” and also his caucus who, “seized up in the middle of the
summer, unable to pass any appropriations bills because of some poison pill
amendments.”
Ryan was asked why
$1.6 billion was allocated to the refugee program, especially considering there
was support from dozens of Republican members of Congress for a proposal
introduced by Rep. Brian Babin (R-TX) that would temporarily halt the
refugee program. Despite the broad support, Ryan decided to fund President
Obama’s refugee program, which includes Syrian refugees. He argued that:
$1.6 billion is not
simply for Syrian refugees. It’s for the entire refugee program. You remember
the unaccompanied children that got dumped onto the border from Honduras and El
Salvador? We had to go do emergency legislation…and put new resources on the
border in anticipation of that. Well, there’s a fear that could happen again,
so that’s what this money is for, to prevent and prepare for any chance that we
might have a whole new raft of unaccompanied children getting put on the
border.
Ryan also discussed
what he hopes to accomplish in 2016, saying that Americans are, ” going to
see us put a bill on the president’s desk going after ObamaCare and Planned
Parenthood.”
He added that
Americans will “see a return to regular order, where men and women in Congress
can bring their bills to the floor, make their amendments in order, and we will
run Congress the way the Founders intended it to be run.”
Feeling the Heat: Paul Ryan Blames Sessions and Internet for Omnibus
Muslim Migration ‘Hyperbole’ In
a Tuesday morning interview with radio host Bill Bennett, House Speaker Rep.
Paul Ryan (R-WI) implied that prominent conservative lawmakers have helped
spread “misinformation” about his $1.1 trillion omnibus spending package–a bill
which presumptive Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer described as “a great
victory for the principles Democrats stand for.”
Ryan specifically
condemned what he termed “hyperbole” surrounding immigration provisions
contained within his 2,009 page bill, which fully funds all visa and refugee
programs for Muslim immigrants–including the President’s Muslim refugee
expansion.
When Bennett asked
Ryan about the immigration provisions in his bill– specifically the bill’s
expansion of the H-2B visa program–Ryan, without offering any evidence to
document his assertion, declared: There has been so much hyperbole about this
one provision pinging around the Internet, but that’s the problem with omnibus
appropriations. Big legislation leads to lots of confusion, lots of
misinformation. It doesn’t quadruple the program. It doesn’t allow hundreds of
thousands of people from Muslim countries into the country.
This is declaration
directly contradicts the statements of Senior Senate Appropriations
Subcommittee Chairman Sen. Richard Shelby (R-AL) 68% and Senate Judiciary
Subcommittee Chairman
Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) 80% , who issued a joint release declaring that
“the omnibus [spending bill] would put the U.S. on a path to approve admission
for hundreds of thousands of migrants from a broad range of countries with
jihadists movements over the next 12 months, on top of all the other autopilot
annual immigration.”
Moreover, in a
December 3rd letter to administration officials, Sens. Jeff Sessions and Sen.
Ted Cruz (R-TX) explained that Ryan’s omnibus would allow for the permanent
resettlement of 170,000 Muslim immigrants in the next year alone, in addition
to countless more temporary Muslim migrants. At that time, they wrote: Congress
is days away from consideration of an omnibus year-end funding bill that would
set the U.S. on an autopilot path to approve green cards, asylee, and refugee
status to approximately 170,000 migrants from Muslim countries during the next
fiscal year. In addition to that would tens of thousands of temporary visas for
entry and employment, and the entire sum is added to the rest of the annual
autopilot green card, asylee, refugee, and foreign worker flow.
As Breitbart News has
reported following Congress’s passage of Ryan’s omnibus: In passing this
legislation, the House has approved funding for the issuance of nearly three
hundred thousand visas to migrants from Muslim countries in the next year
alone. Ryan’s bill accomplishes this migrant surge by fully funding every U.S.
immigration program currently in existence, as well as funding the President’s
expansion of the refugee program through Syrian migrant resettlement.
The most recent
available data published by the Department of Homeland Security shows that in
2013, around 118,000 migrants from Muslim-majority countries were permanently
resettled within the United States on green cards, as well as approximately
40,000 refugees and asylees from Muslim countries. Additionally, according to
data from the State Department, in 2013 the U.S. voluntarily admitted
approximately 123,000 temporary migrants from Muslim countries as foreign students
and foreign workers. On top of those autopilot admissions, which will be funded
throughout all of 2016, the House is also funding the President’s plan to add
another 10,000 refugees from the Muslim country of Syria. As a result, Ryan’s
House-passed omnibus will bring in nearly 300,000 Muslim migrants in the next
12 months alone, including roughly 170,000 who will be permanently resettled
within the country.
Indeed, Ryan’s omnibus
not only fully-funds all visas for Muslim immigrants but funds the President’s
announced expansion of Muslim refugee admissions along with dramatically
increasing the caps on H-2B visa issuances. By definition, as Sessions, Cruz,
and Shelby all tried to warn Congressional Republicans, the omnibus will fund
the arrival of hundreds of thousands of migrants from Jihadi regions.
That is because Ryan
rejected multiple proposals to reduce visa issuances, while instead increasing
them. For instance, Ryan rejected a proposal introduced by Rep. Brian Babin
(R-TX) and supported by 74 House lawmakers to restrict President Obama’s
funding request for refugee resettlement in the omnibus legislation. Similarly,
Ryan thunderously denounced Trump for calling for a temporary ban on Muslim
migration, despite the fact that the U.S. has already admitted 1.5 million
lifetime permanent migrants from Muslim nations since the September 11th
terrorist attacks.
On the illegal
immigration side, Ryan’s omnibus funded tax credits for illegal immigrants, as
well as the resettlement of illegal immigrants arriving at the borders within
the United States. However, Ryan did not fund a requirement to complete the 700
mile double-layer border fence required by the 2006 Secure Fence Act, for which
funds were subsequently gutted. Ironically, Ryan has built a border fence
around his own mansion.
Paul Ryan has been
criticized in the past for not being straightforward in his factual
presentations of his legislation. For instance, during his effort to grant
President Obama fast-track trade authority, Paul Ryan declared that lawmakers’
warnings that the Trans-Pacific Partnership contained provisions related to
immigration were “absolutely not true” and were simply “the latest urban
legend.” However, Ryan’s assertion was later proven false following the release
of the text of the TPP. As Breitbart News has reported, “In Chapter 12 of the
TPP titled ‘Temporary Entry for Business Persons,’ the word ‘immigration’ is
mentioned nearly 10 times. Furthermore, both Chapter 12 and Chapter 10 in the
TPP deal with immigration law – specifically foreign workers entering the
United States.” NumbersUSA Director of Government Relations, Rosemary Jenks,
has explained, “TPP impacts immigration in a massive way,” specifically “by
increasing the number of L1 visas and the number of tourist visas, which can be
used for business purposes.”
As Sen. Sessions said
after the text of the omnibus was unveiled, “The voters put Republicans in a
majority in the 2014 midterm elections — a vote which constituted a clear
decision to reject the abuse of our immigration system. That loyalty has been
repaid with betrayal… There is a reason that GOP voters are in open rebellion.
They have come to believe that their party’s elites are not only uninterested
in defending their interests but – as with this legislation [i.e. the omnibus
spending bill], and fast-tracking the President’s international trade pact –
openly hostile to them. This legislation represents a further
disenfranchisement of the American voter.”
Sources:
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/22/paul-ryan-hate-omnibus-bill-anyway/
http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/12/22/feeling-the-heat-lyin-ryan-blames-sessions-and-internet-for-omnibus-muslim-migration-hyperbole/
http://www.teaparty.org/paul-ryan-hate-omnibus-bill-anyway-135921/
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