STOP the Amnesty Bill S.744

From our fellow patriots in Pittsburgh (h/t Pat Rowlands):

Thanks to Chris Fromme for his summary of a call with Tea Party Patriots regarding the immigration bill (S. 744).  

PLEASE call your representative!!

On July 10 the Republican caucus will have a closed-door meeting on immigration, Leadership will speak: John Boehner, Eric Cantor, Kevin McCarthy, Trey Gowdy, Sub-committee on Immigration, and Bob Goodlatte Judiciary, Chairman. After that it is OPEN MIC where any Congressman can voice his/her opinion on S. 744 or any bills that the house has passed through committee.

The first reason to oppose S-744 was pointed out by Rep.  Steve Stockman (TX) here and here: 

Not only is the Senate amnesty bill an abuse of taxpayers and immigrants, it's unconstitutional. The Senate cannot invent its own amnesty taxes. I hope Speaker Boehner will immediately kill the amnesty bill through a constitutionally-required blue slip. As long as the amnesty bill sits in the House it poses a threat to taxpayers and immigrants.

Several provisions of the Senate amnesty bill create new taxes, a violation of the "origination clause," Article I, Section 7, Clause 1 of the United States Constitution, which states: "All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills."

Section 2102 of the amnesty bill requires the payment of certain taxes, and forgives the payment of other taxes as a condition of receiving amnesty and other benefits. The Constitution prohibits the Senate from approving bills that raise revenue.

The Congressional Budget Office flatly states "enacting S. 744 would have a wide range of effects on federal revenues, including changes in collections of income and payroll taxes, certain visa fees that are classified as revenues, and various fines and penalties. Taken together, those effects would increase revenues by $459 billion over the 2014-2023 period.   

S. 744 is all pork and Amnesty first --- and security maybe. In short, 744 should end up dead on arrival.

Steve King (R-IA) points out that the House should pass no bill that could ever be made to become part of S-744, because any such bill would go to a compromise committee that could get passed with a few RINO votes + 201 Democrat votes needed for passage.  And then Americans would be stuck with this monstrosity of a bill. That's why the House should pass NO immigration bill. Period.

Congressmen should be looking out for the people that cannot find work, most of all the veterans, not law-breaking illegals.   Another horror in S-744: as a perk to the Chamber of Commerce, the Senate bill provides that newly minted green card holders taking the place of a fired US citizen will not get Obamacare and the employer will not pay the $3000 fine.

Call GOP House representatives!  Contact info here. 

Call Ohio GOP representatives. Contact info here.

Do Not Pass ANY Immigration Bill

Updates from Tea Party Patriots, Ohio Tea Party Patriots, and The Mansfield Tea Party (h/t Marianne G):

"Needless to say we are focused and working hard to stop the monstrosity of an amnesty bill that passed out of the Senate, and was supported by 14 Republicans.

The House has said that this bill is "dead on arrival", but where there's a will, there's a way.

Even if the House passes a one page border security only bill, it can be mutated into something disastrous and unrecognizable when it goes into conference with the Senate.  The goal is to convince our Representatives to Pass Nothing before the August recess, creating a "cool down" period. 

When Congress convenes in September, the focus will then turn to the Debt Ceiling and the Continuing Resolution, once again.

What More Can We Do to Stop Amnesty? 

Tea Party Patriots has provided another tool kit to help us in our fight.

Today we are asking that you write a letter to the editor, and have provided talking points and samples Click Here

"Tweet it Tuesday" - Do you tweet?  Tea Party Patriots has provided messaging for Twitter and Facebook Click Here

Wednesday we are asking that you write postcards to your Representatives, Speaker Boehner, Rep. Paul Ryan and Rep. Kevin McCarthy.  We have provided sample letters, but it will get to them faster if you can make one or two points on a postcard. Click Here."

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To the US House: NO immigration “reform” bill

The House Republican Conference meeting focusing on immigration "reform" is this Wednesday, July 10th. Please contact your House Representative (note: if your Rep. is a Democrat, you may want to dial GOPs from Ohio instead) – and Speaker John Boehner - to tell them you want no amnesty bill – NO immigration “reform” bill - brought to the House floor. You can read more on the ramifications of a House Amnesty Bill from prior blogs here and here.

Speaker John Boehner

Ohio PH 513-779-5400

Email here

DC Fax 202-225-0704

Find an Ohio GOP Representative and contact details here.

Cleveland Welcomes Tall Ships

The Parade of Tall Ships sailed into the Port of Cleveland this afternoon, the day before Independence Day. The Rotary Club of Cleveland sponsors the Festival, today through July 7. Check out the Tall Ships website here. There's a page of invited ships that you can match up with some of the photos posted above and below. 

Message to US House: Immigration bill should be DOA

Gov. Palin on the immigration bill that passed in the Senate (and why we need to push the House to pass NOTHING):

Great job, GOP establishment. You’ve just abandoned the Reagan Democrats with this amnesty bill, and we needed them to “enlarge that tent” of which you so often speak. It’s depressing to consider that the House of Representatives is threatening to pass some version of this nonsensical bill in the coming weeks. [emphasis added]

Once again, I’ll point out the obvious to you: it was the loss of working class voters in swing states that cost us the 2012 election, not the Hispanic vote. Legal immigrants respect the rule of law and can see how self-centered a politician must be to fill this amnesty bill with favors, earmarks, and crony capitalists’ pork, and call it good. You disrespect Hispanics with your assumption that they desire ignoring the rule of law. 

Folks like me are barely hanging on to our enlistment papers in any political party – and it’s precisely because flip-flopping political actions like amnesty force us to ask how much more bull from both the elephants in the Republican Party and the jackasses in the Democrat Party we have to swallow before these political machines totally abandon the average commonsense hardworking American. Now we turn to watch the House. If they bless this new “bi-partisan” hyper-partisan devastating plan for amnesty, we’ll know that both private political parties have finally turned their backs on us. It will then be time to show our parties’ hierarchies what we think of being members of either one of these out-of-touch, arrogant, and dysfunctional political machines.

Two other excellent - if scary - analyses of the Immigration "Reform" bill are at American Thinker (“Immigrationists and the Death of America”) here and at Townhall by the blond bomb-thrower, Ann Coulter, here. 

Take your pick: all sorts of talking points when phoning Speaker Boehner and other members of the US House of Representatives to take the Senate Immigration bill and -- drive a stake through its heart. 

The Immigration Bill: Why a Vote for Nothing Makes Sense

Dear Cleveland Patriot,

As you know, the destructive amnesty bill passed the Senate last week, with 14 Republican traitors supporting it.

Now the fight in the House begins, and this is a very important week if we are to win this fight. 

The members of the House are home this week for Independence Day.  They return to DC next week to hold a special meeting on the 10th to discuss immigration only.

It is important that they hear from us this week, before that special meeting on the 10th.

Our Message to Our Representatives

Don't Vote for Anything

Right now we are being told that the House has flat out rejected the Senate bill, and that the goal of the House is to pass legislation through a piecemeal approach, making border security and enforcement a priority.

While I'm sure we all agree that border security and its enforcement take priority, if a bill gets put through the House it will go to conference.  At this point, what started as a good bill could be distorted by combining it with the Senate bill, and do we really want more empty promises on border control?  If they would just enforce the laws that have been put in place since 1986, our efforts could be better spent on the priorities of Americans like jobs and the economy.

Also, once a bill reaches conference we, as citizens, lose much of our control.  Speaker Boehner will decide who takes part in the conference, and we all know that he will not pick a strong conservative.  Not to mention that Paul Ryan appears to have become the "Marco Rubio" of the House. Click Here to Read More

The only way to stop this push for amnesty is for our Representatives to vote for nothing, even if it's a border protection bill.

Why a Vote for Nothing Makes Sense

It's All About the Timing

The goal of the House is to have the immigration issue settled by the August recess.

If we can stall the process long enough, whereas nothing gets voted on in July, the issue will lose steam over the break.

When Congress returns in the fall, they will have the debt ceiling and the continuing resolution to deal with, flatlining the immigration debate.

Call Your Reps Today, and Every Day This Week

Please click here to find contact information for your Representative.

Please remind your representative that their job is to REPRESENT their constituents, not illegals and big business.

Remind them that the purpose of immigration policy must be for the benefit of American society.  Many illegals don't want amnesty. They don't want to be Americans, pay taxes and assimilate Click Here to Read More

Remind them that our government serves at the consent of our citizens, not the consent of aliens and their governments.

Remind them that there are already laws that, if enforced, would solve the border security issue (see Failed Timeline article here).  

h/t Marianne G

And They Said There is No War on Coal!

This past Tuesday President Obama, again through regulation over legislation, unveiled new tighter rules for power plants that will include a push for more restrictive green building codes and costly restrictions on household appliances.

The economy of Ohio, the state that is America’s 4^th-largest user of coal, faces a grave threat from these proposed EPA regulations that would halt coal use in existing electric power plants and prevent the building of new coal-burning plants.

That’s a dangerous move with the economy still struggling to recover, especially in Ohio where an enormous share of our power – 78 percent – is generated with coal (nationwide, the share is 43 percent).

The rules will kill many of the 27,000 Ohio jobs dependent on the coal industry. Not to mention the devastating impact on jobs and the economy in other coal producing and coal dependent states. Business and residential utility customers will certainly face greater risk of electricity price spikes as we rely for power generation more on natural gas (with its historically volatile price) and less on coal (with its historically stable, lower prices).

While it is vital to the future of our country that we use our natural resources to diversify our energy portfolio, it is only prudent to allow the technology of these other sources to grow through free market investment by the private sector – not government mandates.

Advancing technology already allows utilities to burn coal cleaner than in the past. Soon, coal-fired power plants that emit virtually no carbon dioxide will be feasible. But with President Obama & his EPA continuing their War on Coal by trying to make air cleaner than God himself ever intended, that will never be allowed to happen.

For highlights of President Obama's new plan to cut carbon, click here.  For a PDF of the complete action plan (assault), click here.