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In an unusual breach of decorum, even for the divided Congress, House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi chased Rep. Tom Marino across the House floor, taking offense at comments by the Pennsylvania Republican during debate on the border funding bill Friday night.
“We don’t have law and order,” Marino began as he wrapped up his comments on the border supplemental. “My colleagues on the other side don’t want to do anything about it.”
“You know something that I find quite interesting about the other side? Under the leadership of the former Speaker [Pelosi], and under the leadership of their former leader [Rep. Steny Hoyer], when in 2009 and 2010, they had the House, the Senate and the White House, and they knew this problem existed,” he continued. “They didn’t have the strength to go after it back then. But now are trying to make a political issue out of it now.”
Off-mic, Pelosi then approached Marino, crossing the aisle in view of cameras, and apparently challenged Marino’s assertion that Democrats did not do anything about the issue when they had majority control.
“Yes it is true,” Marino replied directly to Pelosi, who was House speaker in those years. “I did the research on it. You might want to try it. You might want to try it, Madam Leader. Do the research on it. Do the research. I did it. That’s one thing that you don’t do.”
Marino then urged lawmakers to support the border supplemental “because apparently I hit the right nerve.”
After Marino concluded his remarks and as many Republicans applauded their colleague, Pelosi crossed the chamber again in view of cameras, enraged, pointing and sticking her finger at Marino.
She then followed Marino up a Republican aisle, gesturing and arguing with him. Lawmakers on the GOP side gathered in dismay as one spoke out to tell the chair that the House was not in order, in an effort to halt the bickering.
Pelosi finally relented after Republicans tried to get between Pelosi and Marino, and she returned to the Democratic side of the chamber. The House then promptly voted to approve the $694 million border supplemental, 223-189.
Rep. Pelosi called me an 'insignificant person' on the Floor of the House. I'll ponder that for a while driving to Williamsport tonight...
originally posted by: marg6043
a reply to: guohua
I tell you, while we struggle with a healthcare system enforced by mandate robbing the working class from their hard earned dollars, our tax dollars goes to finance, increase and nurture the welfare system and well being of none American citizens.
What is wrong with our country?
originally posted by: guohua
originally posted by: marg6043
a reply to: guohua
I tell you, while we struggle with a healthcare system enforced by mandate robbing the working class from their hard earned dollars, our tax dollars goes to finance, increase and nurture the welfare system and well being of none American citizens.
What is wrong with our country?
You're Right!!!!
You also Know Who's Suffering,,,,, You and Me and All of America's Tax Payer's, Obama and the Progressives are Leeches Sucking us Dry for their Agena and Now the illegals are just another Tax Drain,,,,,,
originally posted by: marg6043
a reply to: xuenchen
So in other words the toad president wants to stick the voters and tax payers with his mighty pen taking yet another executive order to force the tax payer to pay for the "Obama rights of immigrants" because after all under Obama mighty pen illegals will have tax payer funded lawyers, housing and welfare benefits.
Well I guess this what happen when we the people just bend over and let Obama mighty pen do a job on all of us.
originally posted by: muse7
Republicans passed their usual sphincter gas. They knew full well that this had no chance in the Senate let alone with the president.
Anyone that truly believes that republicans passed this with hopes of fixing the problem at the border is deluding themselves.
This was a merely symbolic piece of legislation just so they can say they passed something. Even if it's their sphincter gas.
They passed what the people who elected them wanted them to pass.
The slave trade is alive and well, and "legal" too.
The total number of working-age (16 to 65) immigrants (legal and illegal) holding a job in Tennessee increased by 94,000 from the first quarter of 2000 to the first quarter of 2014, while the number of working-age native-born Americans with a job declined 47,000 over the same time.
The fact that all the long-term net gain in employment among the working-age went to immigrants is striking because the native-born accounted for 60 percent of the increase in the total size of the state's working-age population.