Obama to push immigration reform 'day after' budget deal
Source: The Hill
Obama to push immigration reform 'day after' budget deal
By Justin Sink - 10/15/13 08:55 PM ET
President Obama vowed Tuesday that he would pursue an immigration reform vote in the House the "day after" Congress reached an agreement to reopen the government and raise the debt ceiling.
"Once thats done, you know, the day after -- Im going to be pushing to say, call a vote on immigration reform," Obama told Univision's Los Angeles affiliate. "And if I have to join with other advocates and continue to speak out on that, and keep pushing, Im going to do so because I think its really important for the country. And now is the time to do it."
The president reiterated his claim that the only thing holding back passage of the Senate's immigration bill is "Speaker Boehner not willing to call the bill on the floor of the House of Representatives."
Earlier this month, House Democrats introduced their own version of an immigration bill in an attempt to spur Republican action after it appeared that momentum had stalled for immigration reform. The bill largely mirrors the Senate effort, while stripping out some border security provisions added to win Senate GOP votes.
Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/328747-obama-to-push-immigration-reform-day-after-budget-deal-reached
onehandle
(51,122 posts)Fail. Fail. Fail.
yeswecanandwedid
(501 posts)nt
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)yeswecanandwedid
(501 posts)Egnever
(21,506 posts)Freaking brilliant! kick these fuckers whie they are down Mr. President! I love it!
What are they going to do after pissing off 70% of the country? Piss off minorities even more by voting against them.
Obama is giving them another awesome choice. Piss off thier base or piss away the 2016 elections.
Pure awesome!
Volaris
(10,271 posts)checkmate these motherfuckers for the next election and be finished with it.
This is pure awesome.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)telling ya...moving into Chuck Norris territory!
Hutzpa
(11,461 posts)this has gone on long enough.
1000words
(7,051 posts)There won't be any better time than now.
Left Coast2020
(2,397 posts)Well, uhh, the new guys offense
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SunSeeker
(51,559 posts)Left Coast2020
(2,397 posts)"The black guys did it. The black guy did it"!
"Impeach, impeach".
Whatever.
SunSeeker
(51,559 posts)NBachers
(17,110 posts)Stunned, shell-shocked, shellacked and stupefied
Fry their reptile brains with political neutron death rays.