As the clock struck 12:00 p.m. in Washington, D.C., today, the 114th Congress officially began. This means that all bills that did not become law essentially vanish and the legislative process is reset. Importantly, this means that S. 744, the mass guest worker amnesty bill rammed through the Senate in June 2013 is officially dead!
In case you forgot, S. 744 was referred to as the “Gang of Eight” bill after the Senators who drafted it behind closed doors with the amnesty and business lobbies: Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), Marco Rubio (R-Fla.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), John McCain (R-Ariz.), Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Lindsay Graham (R-S.C.), and Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.). The bill would have given amnesty to 12 million illegal aliens, significantly increased legal immigration, and jeopardized national security.
Throughout the Senate debate, the Gang of Eight was deceptive about the contents of the massive bill. For example, they broke their promises on requiring payment of back taxes, barring criminals from receiving amnesty, barring gang members from receiving amnesty, and requiring amnestied illegal aliens to learn English, just to name a few.
With the bill’s passage in doubt, Sens. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and John Hoeven (R-N.D.) took it upon themselves to garner more support by selling out the American people. Through an amendment sold as a “border surge”—that ballooned the bill from 844 pages at introduction to more than 1,200 pages—they proclaimed their language as a silver bullet improvement to the bill. In reality, the Corker-Hoeven amendment was a mirage that kept the amnesty-first core and still did not actually secure the border. In truth, the additional pages added to S. 744 contained kickbacks, carve-outs, and buy-offs that benefited specific Senators. In the end, that was enough for the bill to pass 68 to 32 despite at least 16 Senators disregarding their constituents’ clear opposition to S. 744, and voted for amnesty.
The death of S. 744 is a victory to true immigration reformers everywhere who voiced their opposition to this monstrosity in 2013 and used the power of the ballot box in 2014 to fire many of the Senators who voted for the mass guest worker amnesty bill.
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WAS DOUG COLLINS ONE OF THE ONES THAT SOLD US OUT?..
I am from north Dakota and am sorry to say John Hoeven is from here, he should never have been voted in if this is how he intends to vote, this is a disgrace.
Question is if the congress has the balls to wipe out the veto?
all should be chargedwith thids horriblev act of trewason and trewason against the usa demands a death sentence for aLL WHO DID IT AMENN . WE MYUST TASKE BACK OYUR GREWAT CONSTITUTION BY TRYING EWVERYONEV OFV THEM WITH TGHIS HORRIOBLE CRIME AT ONCE QWE TRHE PEOPLE WANT AMERICAN JUSTICEC AT ONCEC TRY THEM NOW. AMEN .
Wilmot, what the hell is trewason? Jeeze man, read it before you post it, total gibberish!!!
As I read his post, i too considered why all the spelling issues. It occurred to me that maybe he was intentionally trying to masks some words so that the government computers wouldn’t flag his message as radical or extremist.
Amen!
Open Border Pundits
Hate things like Constitutional Laws on the books and national security policy in writing. They prefer organized crime tactics of making up illegal rules to change as required and please them as they go along.