GOP plots blue-slip attack (may stop Immigration Bill)

Source: The Hill

May 30, 2007
House conservatives are ready to stop the Senate immigration bill in its tracks with a potent procedural weapon should the contentious measure win passage in the upper chamber.

The trump card conservatives may hold is a constitutional rule that revenue-related bills must originate in the House. The Senate immigration measure requires that illegal immigrants pay back taxes before becoming citizens, opening the door to a House protest, dubbed a “blue slip” for the color of its paper.



House Republicans used the same back-taxes mandate for a blue-slip threat that derailed last year’s immigration conference. The new Senate bill still must survive two more weeks of voter scrutiny and contentious amendments, but several conservatives already are lying in wait for the Senate to “make the same mistake twice,” as one House GOP aide put it.

“If we get an opportunity to do it, believe me, we’ll do it,” the aide said. “I think it’s going to be a matter of who will get there first. A number of people in the House are dying to be fingered as the person who killed .”

As the bill’s Senate supporters spend the recess fighting a wildfire of grassroots resistance to the immigration deal, which held together after an intense first week, some House Republicans are unconvinced by outreach from their Senate brethren. They acknowledge that a blue slip may be their only recourse to stop a process they believe Democrats will dominate in conference.




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never mind

Liberals?
Conservatives?
Immigrants?
The Deliverance / Tancredo crowd?

Anyone?

Anyone?

Not modified or changed, but defeated.

And if anyone can't think of a good reason, then what about:

"If the existing immigration bill is passed, it would require that EVERY AMERICAN receive approval FIRST from the Department of Homeland Security in order to get a new job????

The proposed legislation would require every job applicant in America to have their eligibility to work verified by the DHS, using the error-plagued Employment Eligibility Verification System (EEVS). EEVS creates a massive government database containing extraordinary amounts of personal information on everyone in America, tied to each individual’s Social Security number. If DHS makes a mistake in determining work eligibility, there will be virtually no way to challenge the error or recover lost wages due to the bill’s prohibitions on judicial review.

http://www.aclu.org/immigrants/gen/29878prs20070525.html?s_src=RSS

Freakin' insane.

If foreigners are here illegally, deport them. Period.

No immigration bill?

I could live with things as they are, but a whole bunch of people seem very upset. So our solution is to do nothing?

right before an election year -- it splits the Republican Party right down the middle.

But the Democrats, as usual, are too divided, too ineffectual, too impotent, to think and act in a calculated way.