Phyllis Schlafly | Jul 30, 2013
The Gang of Eight pro-amnesty Senators are
trying to con the House of Representatives into passing parts of an
anti-American amnesty bill so they can get a Chuck Schumer-dominated conference
committee and bamboozle Representatives into going along with their sellout
plans. The few pro-amnesty Republican Senators had Marco Rubio as the salesman
for the unpopular amnesty bill, and the few pro-amnesty Republicans in the
House have Paul Ryan to play the same un-Republican role.
The Gang of Eight patted itself on the back
for successfully passing their bill in the Senate, but, funny thing, the bill
was never forwarded to the House for action. The explanation for this irregular
omission is fear that the House would "blue slip" the bill.
Article 1, Section 7 of the U.S. Constitution
gives the sole power to the House to originate all bills for raising revenue,
known as the Origination Clause. If the Senate oversteps and includes a
provision to raise some revenue (which it did in the Gang's amnesty bill), the House
can reject the bill and send it back to the Senate for correction in what is
known as a "blue slip" procedure.
The devious Ryan plan to circumvent this rule
is for the House to pass five or six bills on various aspects of amnesty and
then use that bunch of bills to call for a conference committee with the
Senate. Ryan let the cat out of the bag when he told a constituent audience in
Racine, Wis. on July 26 that his revised plan now calls for a House vote, not
before the August recess as originally expected but in October.
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