There is a tremendous amount of confusion about what tonights bill did and didnt do. I want to clear that up and tell you why I supported it: 1. It does NOT fund Obama’s illegal amnesty. 2. Deportations are handled by United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and that agency is 100 percent funded by the fees they collect from visa and other applications. The money is paid straight into the Treasury and back to USCIS, bypassing the Appropriations Committee. We will fix this in January when we have a Republican Senate that will join us in putting all the fees under the control of the Appropriations Committee where we can restrict and cut the money off so it can’t be used to implement Obama’s illegal amnesty. 3. Tonight’s bill funds the Department of Homeland Security with a short-term continuing resolution (CR) that expires February 27 so the new Republican Senate can help us defund and block Obama’s illegal amnesty and ensure our existing immigration laws are fully enforced. 4. Obamacare is primarily funded with money straight from the Treasury that bypasses the Appropriations Committee. Any Obamacare funding that we could target in this bill, we have. We cut $10 million in funding from the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) death panels and stop the taxpayer bailout of insurance companies. In this bill, we flat-funded the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) which is the primary agency responsible for promulgating new Obamacare regulations. We slash funding for the IRS -- reducing their funding level to below where it was before Obamacare was signed into law. I supported this bill because I knew that the information being published about the bill was inaccurate. Nancy Pelosi and Sheila Jackson Lee and other liberal democrats opposed the bill because conservatives won so many concessions. We won concessions like: 1. Cutting the EPA back to 1989 staffing levels severely hindering their ability to enforce burdensome regulations. 2. Eliminating funding for the U.N. Arms Treaty. 3. Prohibiting the EPA from regulating lead as a pollutant when it is in ammunition or fishing tackle, plus the bill contained by amendment eliminating Obama’s hidden carbon tax. The bill also contained my language nullifying Obama’s budget and obligating agencies to follow the budget passed by Congress. The bottom line for me is that we gained a lot of ground in cutting spending and boxing in Obama’s ability to do more damage to our country. But above all, this detailed appropriations bill gives Congress tremendous leverage in stopping agencies from spending your hard earned tax dollars in ways not authorized by current law. The text of the bill was filed at 8:17 p.m. on Tuesday, December 9. You can read the bill text, overviews, and a section-by-section summary here: goo.gl/DkgAjK
Posted on: Fri, 12 Dec 2014 06:34:07 +0000
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