HERE'S THE UPDATE ON
HEALTHCARE/IMMIGRATION BATTLE IN THE U.S. HOUSE:
Please continue to phone Democratic Representatives from
your state and urge them not to make Pres. Obama a liar by
passing a healthcare bill that has loopholes for illegal
aliens.
202-224-3121
Find the Democratic Members from your state at
www.CongressGrades.org. Click
on your state to see the list.
Pres. Obama has scheduled a
meeting with the Congressional Hispanic Caucus for this
(Thursday) afternoon.
Presumably, the Hispanic Caucus will ask the President to
prove himself a liar to the American people.
Obama and his spokesmen have made a very clear promise to a
joint session of Congress and in many national media
appearances that illegal immigrants will not benefit from
any new federal healthcare plan.
The authoritative news service Congress Daily reports that
the Hispanic Caucus has threatened Speaker Pelosi with
voting against a House healthcare bill if it requires full
verification against illegal immigrant participation in all
parts of the new federal plan.
At the moment, Pelosi is bowing to the
pro-illegal-immigration Hispanic Caucus and turning a cold
shoulder to all those moderate Democrats who say their
constituents want the House bill to back up Pres. Obama's
promises.
But your phone calls -- especially to Democrats in
competitive Districts -- are creating great tension in the
House leadership.
Congress Daily reported today:
Vulnerable Democrats have launched a
last minute push to include language excluding undocumented
immigrants from buying insurance in the exchange with
private money -- a provision included in the Senate Finance
Committee bill.
But adding the language to the House bill could jeopardize
passage. Rep. Ed Pastor, D-Ariz., said if the provision is
included in the bill, a majority of the 22-member
Congressional Hispanic Caucus will vote against the rule.
Losing those votes could combine with remaining
anti-abortion Democrats to leave leaders unable to bring the
bill to the floor, said Pastor, a chief deputy whip. "With
the issue of pro-life and other people voting against it, it
becomes pretty difficult to deal with," he said.
To fulfill the President's promise, the House bill needs to
have:
full verification requirements for every
single part of the federal plan -- not just one part as
Speaker Pelosi has now accepted.
a bar on illegal aliens from being part of the
"exchange."
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-Ill.) said those fulfillments of
Obama's promise would be too much to swallow: "I have
already said no tax dollars shall go to support healthcare
for undocumented workers. What more do you want me to do?"
Gutierrez said. "I'm being consistent. But now they want to
feed the frenzy of the xenophobic, right-wing
anti-immigrant.
Guitierrez and other champions of illegal aliens are willing
to have words that bar illegal aliens from benefits but not
actual verification procedures.
Will the Hispanic Caucus this afternoon persuade Obama to
prove Joe Wilson correct?
Please keep pressure on all Democratic Members of the House
at 202-224-3121.
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