Congress on Thursday passed and sent President Obama a $600 million bill to fund more border security, and Democrats said its passage proved they are "serious" about security and Congress can now restart talks on a broader bill to grant a path to citizenship to illegal immigrants.
President Obama is expected to quickly sign the measure, which enjoyed broad bipartisan support in both chambers of Congress.
The Senate called a special session in the middle of its five-week August break just to pass the bill, and the measure passed with the consent of all 100 senators. The House passed the bill earlier this week. The measure will fund 1,000 new U.S. Border Patrol agents, another 250 Customs and Border Protection officers and two more unmanned aerial vehicles.
Sen. Charles E. Schumer, New York Democrat and chairman of the Senate's immigration subcommittee, who shepherded the funding through the Senate, said the money takes care of border security and Congress can now turn back to efforts to legalize the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants already here.
"It will clear the path for restarting bipartisan discussions," Mr. Schumer said.
[Not so fast, Chuck. First, let's see some boots on the ground. Funding is only step 1. We've seen this hustle before-- Editor]
4 comments:
Who knows where this money will really go , this congress has been a joke of lies since your new obamie was elected.
Really? Since "obamie" was elected? Was it squeaky clean before that?
And what exactly is a "joke of lies?"
3:47
No it wasn't "squeaky clean" before that. The congress became corrupted whent he dumbocrats took over in 2006.
The "joke of lies" is many things.
1. Obamacare will save you money
2. You can keep you existing plan with Obamacare
3. This 800 billion dollar stimulis plan must be passed to stop unemployment from going above 8%
4. I will pull the troops out of Iraq within 12 months of my election.
5. I will close down gitmo by August 2009
Should I go on?
I can list lie after lie for hours about you dumbocrat idiots that you elected!
we all know why the animal logo for the libby dumbocrats is the jackass...
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