Contact Rep. Walden NOW About Exec. Amnesty D.C. Office: 202.225.6730 Bend Office:541.589.4408 Medford Office: 541.776.4646 LaGrande Office: 541.624.2400 Contact Rep. Walden Insisting on Short Term Spending Bill to Stop Executive Amnesty in DCRP News & Action Alerts November 12, 2014 From NumbersUSA: At this moment, House Speaker Boehner and Senate Minority Leader McConnell are both extolling the virtues of passing a long-term spending bill that would take away from the new Congress the power of the purse to affect much of anything until next October. And, for all practical considerations, a long-term spending bill would ensure that Pres. Obama could give millions more illegal aliens the ability to compete directly with American workers without any way for the new Congress to stop it. The key message to Representative Greg Walden when you start contacting him as soon as Congress arrives back in the Capitol on Wednesday, Nov 12 should be: · Don’t give away your power of the purse to defund amnesty. · Insist on a SHORT-TERM SPENDING BILL. · Reject any long-term omnibus spending bill that takes away your ability to stop an executive amnesty early next year. We need to impress upon our Members of Congress that they must leave on Thanksgiving vacation without passing an OMNIBUS SPENDING BILL. Why? Theoretically, the House of Representatives could start the omnibus spending bill with a provision prohibiting any money be used for an executive amnesty. But Senate Majority Leader Reid has shown in the past that he won’t bring up a bill like that. He is likely to force a shutdown of the government rather than accept defunding language, but the House would probably get blamed. As long as Reid and his Democratic colleagues are in the majority in the Senate (only through December), we cannot hope to get any spending bill to Pres. Obama’s desk if it includes any defunding language. That means a short-term spending bill also could not get to the President’s desk with defunding language. But a short-term spending bill would require the new Congress to pass another spending bill early next year. Reid would no longer be in charge of the Senate. It is assumed that the next spending bill would have defunding language in it and would go to Pres. Obama’s desk. At that point, it would be the President and not any chamber of Congress who would have a choice of signing or shutting down the government. ROY BECK is President & Founder of NumbersUSA Rep. Walden Contact Info: D.C. Office: 202.225.6730 Medford Office: 541.776.4646 LaGrande Office: 541.624.2400 Bend Office:541.589.4408
Posted on: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 21:31:42 +0000
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