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Thursday, April 04, 2013

White House Encourages Democrats To Rush Immigration Bill Through Congress

President Obama believes that the expected bipartisan immigration reform proposal should not receive extended scrutiny by lawmakers in committee, according to his spokesman, who said that immigration debates in past year should suffice.

“[A]s veterans of the Senate know, this issue has been under consideration at very serious levels periodically for a long time now,” White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said during the gaggle today. “There is a great need to act on comprehensive immigration reform and a great opportunity to do it now, as the President has made clear. It has been in the past, and seems to be now, a bipartisan priority. And that is as it should be, in the President’s view.”

Carney was rejecting Rubio’s call for “regular order,” which would entail multiple hearings on the bill and provide senators with greater latitude to offer amendments to the bill.

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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hmmmm.... "Rush it through..., rush it through....," Where have we heard that before? Oh, to see what's in it?

Anonymous said...

Remember - that's how we got Obamacare foisted on us.....

I'm glad we have a couple of representatives that know how the filibuster actually works!

Anonymous said...

Does anyone remember the fiasco called OBAMACARE?????