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"The (House) appropriations committee voted in August
to determine how the agency spends those fees."...Too late for committee to claim it has no jurisdiction in CIS finances.
11/21/14, "Brat: 'Not one thin dime' for Obama's immigration plan," Richmond Times-Dispatch,
The
7th District's newly elected Congressman vowed via Twitter Thursday
night that he supports, "Not one thin dime," to fund the proposed
actions outlined by President Barack Obama to deal with the broken
immigration system.
"I support using
the power of the purse to defund Obama's amnesty," tweeted Rep. Dave
Brat, R-Richmond, the economist, replacing Eric Cantor, who recently
took office in Washington.
Virginia Democrats, meanwhile, applauded the
president's efforts attempting to bring some five million undocumented
residents "out of the shadows."...
Brat said he would not vote to fund a program "that subverts the law
or encourages tens of thousands more people to risk their lives
illegally crossing our border." He said the U.S. House should "use its
power of the purse" to defund in the current budget bill "Obama's
illegal executive action."
"We must fund the rest of government with a
short-term bill while, in a separate bill, defund the appropriations for
the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services programs that the
president intends to use to carry out this act," Brat said.
The newly elected 7th District representative
called the presidential action an "attempt to give amnesty to five
million illegal aliens," saying it was unfair to others "waiting in line
to become citizens the right way." Brat said the president's actions
would encourage more children to attempt to illegally enter the U.S.
"In addition, crony insiders will now get the amnesty they lobbied for to provide a cheap supply of labor while
millions of Americans remain unemployed," he said.
A statement Thursday from the House
Appropriations Committee indicated that Congress could not use the
budget appropriations process to cut funding for the president's
proposed actions through U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Brat
acknowledged that the agency is self-funded through immigration
application fees, but that the appropriations committee voted in August
to determine how the agency spends those fees.
The committee said in its statement Thursday that
the immigration services agency could continue to collect its fees,
operate and expand operations under the president's new executive order
"without needing legislative approval by the Appropriations Committee or
the Congress, even under a continuing resolution or a government
shutdown.""...
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