{"id":22159,"date":"2015-01-08T14:10:55","date_gmt":"2015-01-08T19:10:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=22159"},"modified":"2015-01-08T14:10:55","modified_gmt":"2015-01-08T19:10:55","slug":"rep-roby-files-bill-to-defund-obamas-amnesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/22159\/rep-roby-files-bill-to-defund-obamas-amnesty\/","title":{"rendered":"Rep. Roby Files Bill to Defund Obama&#8217;s Amnesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to know how Congress can stop President Barack Obama\u2019s unilateral amnesty plan, take a look at Rep. Martha Roby\u2019s (R-AL) new proposal \u2013 H.R. 31, the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/roby.house.gov\/press-release\/roby-bill-seeks-block-executive-amnesty \" target=\"_blank\">Prevention of Executive Amnesty Act of 2015<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Filed as a standalone bill, the measure could easily be rolled into the upcoming appropriations package for the Department of Homeland Security, the federal agency that is tasked with implementing Obama\u2019s decision to halt deportations for up to 5 million illegal immigrants and grant many of them work permits.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/house-republican-files-first-plan-to-defund-obama-immigration-action\/article\/2558286\" target=\"_blank\">Byron York explains<\/a>, \u201cRoby\u2019s bill is essentially a \u2018none of the funds\u2019 clause, that is, it forbids the executive branch from spending money for a particular purpose.\u201d In the so-called \u2018crominbus\u2019 bill passed in December to fund every other federal agency except DHS, Congress used the \u2018none of the funds\u2019 clause more than 450 times. Applying it to the directives that implement Obama\u2019s amnesty is a simple, straightforward way for Congress to use its power of the purse to block the move.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Obama can veto any bill with Roby\u2019s language. But since the president doesn\u2019t have a line-item veto, refusing to sign the law would defund DHS.<\/p>\n<p>For once, let this president get the blame for shutting down the government.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you want to know how Congress can stop President Barack Obama\u2019s unilateral amnesty plan, take a look at Rep. Martha Roby\u2019s (R-AL) new proposal \u2013 H.R. 31, the \u201cPrevention of Executive Amnesty Act of 2015.\u201d Filed as a standalone bill, the measure could easily be rolled into the upcoming appropriations package for the Department [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[515,143,84,4117,981,4638,2575],"class_list":["post-22159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-amnesty","tag-barack-obama","tag-congress","tag-dhs","tag-immigration","tag-martha-roby","tag-veto"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22159"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22162,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22159\/revisions\/22162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}