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"....Lobbyists for resorts, au pair agencies, and the seafood industry successfully slipped special-interest perks into the Senate immigration bill, reports USA Today. And Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) successfully fought to include in the bill a $1.5 billion taxpayer-funded set aside for youth jobs programs.
The revelations are just the latest in what is shaping up to be a pork-laden immigration bill, says Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX).

“You're left with a bill that's chockfull of de facto earmarks, pork-barrel spending and special interest sweeteners, a bill that increase the on-budget deficit, but fails to guarantee a border that's secure and offers only promises, which historically Congress has been very, very, very, very bad about keeping,” said Cornyn on Wednesday......."

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Sadly, i'm not surprised.

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They all just can't help themselves

Another case where they vote on a bill that nobody has read

CASINO CRONY KICKBACK: Reid, Heller Slip Las Vegas Tourism Handout into Immigration Bill
Breitbart ^ | 6/22/13 | Matthew Boyle

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) and Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV) have inserted a provision that amounts to little more than a handout to Las Vegas casinos into the repackaged immigration reform bill, Breitbart News has learned.

This provision, a brazen example of crony capitalism, was inserted into the immigration law enforcement section of the bill despite the fact that it has nothing whatsoever to do with "immigration" or "law enforcement."

(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...

It passed 68-32. All 54 democrat senators voted for it. Only 14 of 46 republican senators voted yes.

".....The battle now shifts to the GOP-led House, where hours before Thursday’s final vote, Speaker John A. Boehner said the Senate bill is dead on arrival.

....“The House is not going to take up and vote on whatever the Senate passes,” the Ohio Republican said flatly at his weekly press conference, before going on to attack the Senate version as too weak on border security.

The path Mr. Boehner laid out appears to lean toward a piecemeal approach to the issue, rather than the broad approach the Senate took in mixing legal immigration, enforcement and the status of illegal immigrants into a 1,200-page bill....

.....The legislation creates several categories for future workers to come — many of them as new legal immigrants, and others as guest-workers, who are supposed to go home after their visa expire.
However the Congressional Budget Office said many of those guest-workers won’t go home, which means illegal immigration will continue even if the law is enacted. CBO said the bill would only cut down on about 25 percent of illegal immigration.....

....The 14 Republicans who joined with Democrats were: Sens. Lamar Alexander of Tennessee, Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, Jeff Chiesa of New Jersey, Susan Collins of Maine, Mr. Corker, Jeff Flake of Arizona, Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, Orrin G. Hatch of Utah, John Hoeven of North Dakota, Mark Kirk of Illinois, John McCain of Arizona, Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Marco Rubio of Florida.
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So Rubio didn't vote for his own bill?

BTW a couple of those "yes" voters need to be primaried over this. They ran on security before amnesty and their constituents need the opportunity to set an example.


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CID1990 wrote:So Rubio didn't vote for his own bill?

BTW a couple of those "yes" voters need to be primaried over this. They ran on security before amnesty and their constituents need the opportunity to set an example.


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Yes, Rubio voted for it. Along with Sarah Palin's favorite Alaska Republican, Lisa Murkowski, amd 12 others.