There was high drama on the Senate floor this evening. Harry Reid brought on for a vote President Obama’s $2.7 billion proposal to support illegals from Central America who are flooding across the border, in the form of a supplemental budget request. An extremely knowledgeable Senate insider offers this blow-by-blow account of what happened: Harry Reid filled the amendment tree on the supplemental, meaning no amendments can get votes. Sessions offered a motion to table the filled tree with stated purpose of making room to get a vote on the Cruz amendment. “Filling the tree” has been Reid’s preferred strategy for years. It effectively shuts all Republicans out of the legislative process, while insulating Democrats from having to vote against popular proposals. No prior Senate Majority Leader has used this tactic with anything like Reid’s consistency. The Cruz amendment would have barred President Obama from granting illegal executive amnesty as he has repeatedly threatened to do. So – and this is critical – a vote against waiving the tree is THE vote on whether you support allowing the president to issue an administrative amnesty. Sessions’ motion to table failed by a vote of 43 yeas and 52 nays, with all Republicans supporting Sen. Sessions. This was Sessions’ effort to block Obama from issuing an unconstitutional amnesty to 5 to 6 million illegal immigrants, as he has promised activists he will do.
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 11:53:40 +0000
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