‘Illegal’ immigrants must be ‘illegal’ drivers

“Sixty-eight percent (68%) of Likely U.S. Voters think illegal immigrants should not be eligible for driver’s licenses in their state.  A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that just 22% favor allowing illegal immigrants to get licenses in their home state.”

 

http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/current_events/immigration/october_2013/68_oppose_driver_s_licenses_for_illegal_immigrants

Sen. Ted Cruz is leading Taxed Enough Already (TEA) Party Republicans in restoring America with common-sense budget cuts.

By Oscar Y. Harward

When President Obama criticizes Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), President Obama is criticizing middle Americans.

 

Since President Obama was sworn in as President in January 2009, the Senate majority Democrat Party has passed legislation in difference to the requests of Americans.  The Senate Democrat Party supports the radical socialistic ideals as instituted by President Obama. 

 

During many Senate hearings for originating new legislation, the Republican Party has offered amendments as supported by America’s taxpayers.  Senate Democrat leaders defeated GOP amendments in committees and on the floor of the US Senate.

 

Majority Democrats on Capitol Hill “crammed down our throats” ObamaCare while American were saying “NO” then and are still saying “NO”.  Americans are now witnessing radical costs as reflected by ObamaCare.  Even Labor Unions are now saying “NO” to ObamaCare.

 

Capitol Hill Democrats passed a $787 Billion “stimulus” bill that Americans were told was critical for immediate passage to create jobs.  Since passage, unemployment has increased, rather than decreasing.  Where are the jobs?

 

 

America is now facing a near $17 Trillion debt; an enormous debt outside any reasonable payback except for our children, their children, etc.  More than $6 Trillion debt has mounted during Obama’s less than 5 years as President.

Sen. Ted Cruz is promoting and practicing “test and proven” economic ideas to restore our nation’s economy.  These are the Tax Enough Already (TEA) Party principles most Americans understand and trust.

Building the Keystone pipeline is a known source of creating thousands of new jobs; however, President Obama continues to force Americans to purchase higher gasoline prices from Muslim nations who hate America.

 

 

"If the Keystone XL pipeline is not approved, Canadian oil will be shipped across the Atlantic and Pacific oceans on enormous tankers to Asia, where it will be refined at facilities with far less stringent standards than any in the United States," said Senator John Hoeven, a North Dakota Republican. "We will effectively create more emissions and lose an opportunity to create jobs and boost our economy."  http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/01/us-transcanada-pipeline-idUSBRE9700OZ20130801

 

“TEA” Party members and supporters are Conservative, usually Republican in political philosophy, and usually ‘middle class’ Americans.  Many “TEA” Party members and supporters are learning the political process for the first time.  “TEA” Party members and supporters are fed up with out-of-control ‘Liberal’ Democrats on Capitol Hill who spend without concern as to taxpayers’ costs and/or how and when the debt may or will be paid. 

 

“TEA” Party members and supporters truly believe they, as working Americans are Taxed Enough Already”.  TEA Party candidates are gaining ground and winning with election victories; America’s electorate is welcoming more TEA Party candidates and principles.

A huge majority House Democrats continue to vote ’NAY’ and against Veterans benefits.

 

Again, 167 voting House Democrats voted ‘NAY” on funding Veterans’ appropriations for FY 2014.

 

All 232 voting Republicans and 32 voting Democrats voted ‘YEA’ on funding Veterans’ appropriations for FY 2014.

 

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 518

(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)

 

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll518.xml

      H J RES 72      RECORDED VOTE      3-Oct-2013      4:48 PM
      QUESTION:  On Passage
      BILL TITLE: Making continuing appropriations for veterans benefits for fiscal year 2014, and for other purposes

	Ayes	Noes	PRES	NV
Republican	224			7
Democratic	35	157		8
Independent
TOTALS	259	157		15

 

---- AYES    259 ---

 

Aderholt Amash Amodei Bachmann Bachus Barber Barletta Barr Barrow (GA) Barton Benishek Bentivolio Bera (CA) Bilirakis Bishop (NY) Bishop (UT) Black Blackburn Boustany Brady (TX) Braley (IA) Bridenstine Brooks (AL) Brooks (IN) Broun (GA) Buchanan Bucshon Burgess Bustos Calvert Camp Campbell Cantor Capito Carter Cassidy Chabot Chaffetz Coble Coffman Cole Collins (GA) Conaway Cook Cooper Costa Cotton Cramer Crawford Crenshaw Culberson Daines Davis, Rodney DelBene Denham Dent DeSantis DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Duffy Duncan (SC) Duncan (TN) Ellmers Farenthold Fincher Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Fleming Flores Forbes Fortenberry Foster Foxx Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Gallego Garamendi Garcia Gardner Garrett Gerlach Gibbs Gibson Gingrey (GA) Gohmert Goodlatte Gosar

Gowdy Granger Graves (GA) Graves (MO) Griffin (AR) Griffith (VA) Grimm Guthrie Hall Hanna Harper Harris Hartzler Hastings (WA) Heck (NV) Heck (WA) Hensarling Holding Hudson Huelskamp Huizenga (MI) Hultgren Hunter Hurt Issa Jenkins Johnson (OH) Johnson, Sam Jordan Joyce Keating Kelly (PA) Kilmer King (IA) King (NY) Kingston Kinzinger (IL) Kline Labrador LaMalfa Lamborn Lance Lankford Latham Latta Lipinski LoBiondo Loebsack Long Lucas Luetkemeyer Lynch Maffei Maloney, Sean Marchant Marino Massie Matheson McCarthy (CA) McCaul McClintock McHenry McIntyre McKeon McKinley McMorris Rodgers Meadows Meehan Messer Mica Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Mullin Mulvaney Murphy (FL) Murphy (PA) Neugebauer Noem Nugent Nunes Nunnelee Olson Owens Palazzo Paulsen Pearce Perry

Peters (CA) Peters (MI) Peterson Petri Pitts Poe (TX) Polis Pompeo Posey Price (GA) Radel Rahall Reed Reichert Renacci Ribble Rice (SC) Rigell Roby Roe (TN) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rohrabacher Rokita Rooney Ros-Lehtinen Roskam Ross Rothfus Royce Ruiz Runyan Ryan (WI) Salmon Sanford Scalise Schneider Schock Schrader Schweikert Scott, Austin Sensenbrenner Sessions Shimkus Shuster Simpson Sinema Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (TX) Southerland Stewart Stivers Stockman Stutzman Terry Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tiberi Tierney Turner Upton Valadao Wagner Walberg Walden Walorski Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westmoreland Whitfield Williams Wilson (SC) Wittman Wolf Womack Woodall Yoder Yoho Young (AK) Young (FL) Young (IN)

 

---- NOES    157 ---

 

Andrews Beatty Becerra Bishop (GA) Blumenauer Bonamici Brady (PA) Brown (FL) Brownley (CA) Butterfield Capps Capuano Cárdenas Carney Carson (IN) Cartwright Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chu Cicilline Clarke Clay Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Connolly Conyers Courtney Crowley Cuellar Cummings Davis (CA) Davis, Danny DeFazio DeGette Delaney DeLauro Deutch Dingell Doggett Doyle Duckworth Edwards Ellison Engel Enyart Eshoo Esty Farr Fattah Frankel (FL) Fudge Gabbard

Grayson Green, Al Green, Gene Grijalva Hahn Hanabusa Hastings (FL) Himes Hinojosa Holt Honda Horsford Hoyer Huffman Israel Jackson Lee Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson, E. B. Kaptur Kelly (IL) Kennedy Kildee Kind Kirkpatrick Kuster Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lee (CA) Levin Lewis Lofgren Lowenthal Lowey Lujan Grisham (NM) Luján, Ben Ray (NM) Maloney, Carolyn Matsui McCollum McDermott McGovern McNerney Meeks Meng Michaud Miller, George Moore Moran Nadler Napolitano Neal Negrete McLeod

Nolan O'Rourke Pallone Pascrell Pastor (AZ) Payne Pelosi Perlmutter Pingree (ME) Pocan Price (NC) Quigley Rangel Richmond Roybal-Allard Ruppersberger Ryan (OH) Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sarbanes Schakowsky Schiff Schwartz Scott (VA) Scott, David Sewell (AL) Shea-Porter Sherman Sires Slaughter Smith (WA) Speier Swalwell (CA) Takano Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Titus Tonko Tsongas Van Hollen Veasey Vela Velázquez Visclosky Walz Wasserman Schultz Watt Waxman Welch Wilson (FL) Yarmuth

 

---- NOT VOTING    15 ---

 

Bass Collins (NY) Gutiérrez Herrera Beutler Higgins

Jones Lummis McCarthy (NY) Miller, Gary Pittenger

Rush Serrano Tipton Vargas Waters

164 of the 200 House Democrats voted “NAY” for ‘Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014’

By Oscar Y. Harward

 

Did you know?  Are you aware the record for Roll Call 506 on October 1, 2013, 164 of the 200 Democrats in the US House voted “NAY” for legislation to support ‘Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014’?

 

All 231 Republicans in the US House voted “YEA” for legislation to support ‘Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014’.

 FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 506

(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)

 

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll506.xml

 

      H J RES 72      2/3 YEA-AND-NAY      1-Oct-2013      7:44 PM
      QUESTION:  On Motion to Suspend the Rules and Pass
      BILL TITLE: Making continuing appropriations for veterans benefits for fiscal year 2014, and for other purposes  ‘Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014’

 

	Yeas	Nays	PRES	NV
Republican	231			1
Democratic	33	164		3
Independent
TOTALS	264	164		4

 

---- YEAS    264 ---

 

Aderholt Amash Amodei Bachmann Bachus Barber Barletta Barr Barrow (GA) Barton Benishek Bentivolio Bera (CA) Bilirakis Bishop (NY) Bishop (UT) Black Blackburn Boehner Boustany Brady (TX) Braley (IA) Bridenstine Brooks (AL) Brooks (IN) Broun (GA) Buchanan Bucshon Burgess Bustos Calvert Camp Campbell Cantor Capito Carson (IN) Carter Cassidy Chabot Chaffetz Coble Coffman Cole Collins (GA) Collins (NY) Conaway Cook Cooper Cotton Cramer Crawford Crenshaw Culberson Daines Davis, Rodney DelBene Denham Dent DeSantis DesJarlais Diaz-Balart Duffy Duncan (SC) Duncan (TN) Ellmers Farenthold Fincher Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Fleming Flores Forbes Fortenberry Foster Foxx Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Gallego Garcia Gardner Garrett Gerlach Gibbs Gibson Gingrey (GA) Gohmert Goodlatte Gosar

Gowdy Granger Graves (GA) Graves (MO) Griffin (AR) Griffith (VA) Grimm Guthrie Hall Hanna Harper Harris Hartzler Hastings (WA) Heck (NV) Heck (WA) Hensarling Holding Hudson Huelskamp Huizenga (MI) Hultgren Hunter Hurt Issa Jenkins Johnson (OH) Johnson, Sam Jones Jordan Joyce Keating Kelly (PA) Kilmer King (IA) King (NY) Kingston Kinzinger (IL) Kline Labrador LaMalfa Lamborn Lance Lankford Latham Latta Lipinski LoBiondo Loebsack Long Lucas Luetkemeyer Lummis Lynch Maffei Maloney, Sean Marchant Marino Massie Matheson McCarthy (CA) McCaul McClintock McHenry McIntyre McKeon McKinley McMorris Rodgers Meadows Meehan Messer Mica Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Miller, Gary Mullin Mulvaney Murphy (FL) Murphy (PA) Neugebauer Noem Nugent Nunes Nunnelee Olson Owens Palazzo Paulsen

Pearce Perry Peters (CA) Peters (MI) Peterson Petri Pittenger Pitts Poe (TX) Polis Pompeo Posey Price (GA) Radel Reed Reichert Renacci Ribble Rice (SC) Rigell Roby Roe (TN) Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rohrabacher Rokita Rooney Ros-Lehtinen Roskam Ross Rothfus Royce Ruiz Runyan Ryan (WI) Salmon Sanford Scalise Schneider Schock Schrader Schweikert Scott, Austin Sensenbrenner Sessions Shimkus Shuster Simpson Sinema Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (TX) Southerland Stewart Stivers Stockman Stutzman Terry Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tiberi Tierney Tipton Turner Upton Valadao Wagner Walberg Walden Walorski Weber (TX) Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westmoreland Whitfield Williams Wilson (SC) Wittman Wolf Womack Woodall Yoder Yoho Young (AK) Young (FL) Young (IN)

 

---- NAYS    164 ---

 

Andrews Bass Beatty Becerra Bishop (GA) Blumenauer Bonamici Brady (PA) Brown (FL) Brownley (CA) Butterfield Capps Capuano Cárdenas Carney Cartwright Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chu Cicilline Clarke Clay Cleaver Clyburn Cohen Connolly Conyers Costa Courtney Crowley Cuellar Cummings Davis (CA) Davis, Danny DeFazio DeGette Delaney DeLauro Deutch Dingell Doggett Doyle Duckworth Edwards Ellison Engel Enyart Eshoo Esty Farr Fattah Frankel (FL) Fudge Gabbard Garamendi

Grayson Green, Al Green, Gene Grijalva Gutiérrez Hahn Hanabusa Hastings (FL) Higgins Himes Holt Honda Horsford Hoyer Huffman Israel Jackson Lee Jeffries Johnson (GA) Johnson, E. B. Kaptur Kelly (IL) Kennedy Kildee Kind Kirkpatrick Kuster Langevin Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Lee (CA) Levin Lewis Lofgren Lowenthal Lowey Lujan Grisham (NM) Luján, Ben Ray (NM) Maloney, Carolyn Matsui McCollum McDermott McGovern McNerney Meeks Meng Michaud Miller, George Moore Moran Nadler Napolitano Neal Negrete McLeod Nolan

O'Rourke Pallone Pascrell Pastor (AZ) Payne Pelosi Perlmutter Pingree (ME) Pocan Price (NC) Quigley Rahall Rangel Richmond Roybal-Allard Ruppersberger Ryan (OH) Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sarbanes Schakowsky Schiff Schwartz Scott (VA) Scott, David Serrano Sewell (AL) Shea-Porter Sherman Sires Slaughter Smith (WA) Speier Swalwell (CA) Takano Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Titus Tonko Tsongas Van Hollen Vargas Veasey Vela Velázquez Visclosky Walz Wasserman Schultz Waters Watt Waxman Welch Wilson (FL) Yarmuth

 

---- NOT VOTING    4 ---

 

Herrera Beutler Hinojosa

McCarthy (NY) Rush

 

See and real the legislation summary:

 

“Veterans Benefits Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014 - Makes appropriations for FY2014 for veterans' benefits, specifically for entitlements and other mandatory payments whose budget authority was provided in the Military Construction and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2013 (division E of P.L. 113-6), to continue activities at the rate to maintain program levels under current law, under the authority and conditions provided in the applicable appropriations Act for FY2013, to be continued through December 15, 2013. Allows obligations for mandatory payments due on or about the first day of any month that begins after October 2013 but not later than 30 days after December 15, 2013, to continue to be made and makes funds available for such payments.

 

Provides amounts for "Department of Veterans Affairs--Departmental Administration--General Operating Expenses, Veterans Benefits Administration" at a specified rate for operations, subject to the authority and conditions as provided under P.L. 113-6, and makes them available to the extent and in the manner that would be provided by such Act.

 

Makes appropriations and funds made available and authority granted under this joint resolution available until whichever of the following first occurs: (1) the enactment into law of an appropriation for any project or activity provided for in this joint resolution, (2) the enactment into law of the applicable appropriations Act for FY2014 without any provision for such project or activity, or (3) December 15, 2013.

 

Expresses the sense of Congress that this joint resolution may also be referred to as the Honoring Our Promise to America's Veterans Act”  http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d113:HJ00072:@@@D&summ2=m&.

 

How disgraceful for Capitol Hill Democrats to turn their back on our Veterans who have served our nation!