Yesterday, there was a group of events regarding attempts by the House and Senate to pass a bill to deal with aspects of the crisis caused by the wave of illegals flooding into the USA. Take a moment to think about what you have heard. If you follow most of the media, you probably heard that the House did not vote on a bill yesterday. House Republicans could not all agree on a bill that focused mainly on border security and modified the law to allow children from Central America to be treated in the same manner children from Mexico are handled. No votes were taken because the Democrats made clear that they would vote against any Republican bill. As a result, the House delayed its recess for a day and will meet again this morning to try again to come to some conclusion on the bill.
Here's the question, however: do you know what happened in the Senate? Did you see any articles or hear any coverage on TV about the Senate? Unless you dig really deep, the answer is most likely NO! But what happened in the Senate is extremely important. Here is the gist of those proceedings.
1. Harry Reid brought up the bill sought by president Obama to fund nearly $3 billion for costs of dealing with the illegal aliens streaming into the USA. He did so using a procedure that prevented any amendments from being offered to the bill by Republicans. One Republican senator had proposed an amendment to the bill that would have mandated that president Obama could not modify or relax immigration law to grant in effect amnesty to half of the illegals presently here. Reid's tactics blocked that amendment from being considered.
2. Senator Sessions then made a procedural move that would have allowed a vote on the amendment barring Obama from granting amnesty. To be clear, this was not a vote on the amendment itself, just a vote on whether or not the Senate would even get to consider that amendment. The vote lost with every Democrat except Joe Manchin of West Virginia voting to kill it. That means that Democrats like Mark Pryor voted to protect Obama's plan to grant amnesty to illegals. So did all the other Democrats up for re-election.
3. A point of order was then raised with regard to the bill. Since the bill resulted in the spending of $3 billion with no method for paying for that cost, the pay-go rules currently in force in the Senate require either that the rule be waived before the bill can be passed. The Senate then voted on a waiver of the pay-go rule and that vote failed. That meant that the bill was dead.
4. The Senate then recessed for 5 weeks.
So what happened yesterday is that the House was unable to pass an immigration bill and the Senate was unable to pass an immigration bill. Before failing to pass the bill, however, all of the Democrats except Joe Manchin voted to let Obama go ahead with his amnesty plan.
Do you wonder why all the coverage is about what happened in the House? It is because the accepted narrative is that it is Republicans who are preventing any action by Congress. The truth, however, is that it is a bipartisan effort.
Here's the question, however: do you know what happened in the Senate? Did you see any articles or hear any coverage on TV about the Senate? Unless you dig really deep, the answer is most likely NO! But what happened in the Senate is extremely important. Here is the gist of those proceedings.
1. Harry Reid brought up the bill sought by president Obama to fund nearly $3 billion for costs of dealing with the illegal aliens streaming into the USA. He did so using a procedure that prevented any amendments from being offered to the bill by Republicans. One Republican senator had proposed an amendment to the bill that would have mandated that president Obama could not modify or relax immigration law to grant in effect amnesty to half of the illegals presently here. Reid's tactics blocked that amendment from being considered.
2. Senator Sessions then made a procedural move that would have allowed a vote on the amendment barring Obama from granting amnesty. To be clear, this was not a vote on the amendment itself, just a vote on whether or not the Senate would even get to consider that amendment. The vote lost with every Democrat except Joe Manchin of West Virginia voting to kill it. That means that Democrats like Mark Pryor voted to protect Obama's plan to grant amnesty to illegals. So did all the other Democrats up for re-election.
3. A point of order was then raised with regard to the bill. Since the bill resulted in the spending of $3 billion with no method for paying for that cost, the pay-go rules currently in force in the Senate require either that the rule be waived before the bill can be passed. The Senate then voted on a waiver of the pay-go rule and that vote failed. That meant that the bill was dead.
4. The Senate then recessed for 5 weeks.
So what happened yesterday is that the House was unable to pass an immigration bill and the Senate was unable to pass an immigration bill. Before failing to pass the bill, however, all of the Democrats except Joe Manchin voted to let Obama go ahead with his amnesty plan.
Do you wonder why all the coverage is about what happened in the House? It is because the accepted narrative is that it is Republicans who are preventing any action by Congress. The truth, however, is that it is a bipartisan effort.
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Welcome to the Democratic controlled media releases---------YUCK
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