The attempts by the US House to avert the presidential executive order is nonsense. There is no point to attacking the presidential order, there will only be less border security and more people will enter the USA anyway. The Senate has to vote on the budget as well. The House is playing politics with the country which is an ethical violation at the very least.
December 5, 2014
By David Lawder
December 5, 2014
By David Lawder
(Reuters) - Overriding objections (click here) from some conservative Republicans, U.S. House Speaker John Boehner vowed on Thursday to plow ahead with a spending bill that averts a government shutdown while keeping some budget "leverage" over President Barack Obama's immigration order.
Boehner said he expected the bill, which provides full funding for all government agencies except the Department of Homeland Security through September 2015, to pass next week with some votes from Democrats, just ahead of a Dec. 11 deadline.
The department, which controls the agencies that would implement Obama's plan to allow millions of undocumented immigrants to stay and work in the United States, would get only a short-term funding extension, likely until sometime in February, Republican lawmakers said....
