Once the House sends over a bill funding everything in government except the president’s executive action on amnesty, then Harry Reid could ignore it and create a government spending emergency
Conservatives Push Short-Term Funding to Block Obama on Illegal Immigrants
By Heritage Foundation Melissa Quinn——Bio and Archives--December 3, 2014
Breaking with House Republican leaders, conservatives are pressing for a short-term plan to fund the government while blocking President Obama’s move to grant legal status to millions of illegal immigrants.
The measure would allow the new Congress to weigh in on the president’s unilateral action and shape the spending debate.
Speaking yesterday during Conversations with Conservatives, a monthly Capitol Hill gathering with reporters, some of the House’s most vocal conservative Republicans pushed back on the option of a “continuing resolution,” or CR, to fund the government through the end of the fiscal year Sept. 30.
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