The U.S. House voted 219-197 and passed a bill this week declaring that the President's action on immigration was null and void and without legal effect. They admitted they wanted to send a message to the President. Obama actually sent the republicans a message with his actions, either the republicans act on immigration or he would. The bill will go now where in the U.S. Senate, there are too many importment issues to be settled this year.
Once again, Boehner and Scalise pushed legislation that was meaningless like the 50 plus times the House voted to repeal the ACA. Just think, those two republican legislators could have taken up the immigration bill passed by the U.S. Senate in June of 2013, debated, ammended, sent back to the Senate or passed the bill and immigration reform could have been accomplished before the end of the year and the President's executive action would have been mute.
The U.S. House's action is a prelude to what is to come in the new year when the republicans take control of both houses of congress. It will be important for the democrats to stick together and give the President enough votes to uphold the President's veto power when and if it needs to be used. There is one issue as American as apple pie that could pass both houses and signed into law before the end of the year but the republicans won't allow it. That issue is raising the minimum wage as the President proposed over 2 years ago.
The republican party continues to live its unAmerican conservative ideology and places America and its people in jeopardy. One of their latest reasons for voting the above bill on immigration was the congressional elections of last month was against Obama's policies. Not really in any sense, the people voted for the President's policies when he ran against John McCain and Mitt Romney and defeated them and their policy ideas.
Republicans think they should have power when they lose elections. When they win elections, they abuse power. Not a very good policy for success and it shows.
This commentary written by John Lucia
