Congressional leaders quietly slipped the provision into the 2,009-page funding bill, with rank-and-file lawmakers only discovering it Wednesday morning. The move immediately sparked protests from both ends of the political spectrum. …The Hill.
That is the line that kills me. So much information, so much to become angry about except the bits that are needed. What are H2B Visas, and who did this? It's important to know so they can be traduced.
First, H2B Visas are for low-skilled workers, The people who fly in to meet with senators to lobby for reform are all hotel owners and landscape companies.
I thought it was Silicon Valley and this does make some difference on who to be cross with but you still have to think the employers would make whatever adjustments necessary like pay people what their labor is worth. They cannot say they cannot find workers when the issue is salary.
I'm reading right side sites say whoever did this needs to come forward and have their positions known.
Well, who supports the legislation? Who was being lobbied?
That would be Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D, MD) Search results read like this:
* vice chair of Committee on Appropriations
* secures $390 million for new FBI headquarters in D.C. suburbs
* served in congress more than any woman in history, will retire after five terms
* served in U.S. Congress for 30 years as senator and a representative
* we've come to a standstill
* grabbed gavel of Senate Appropriations Committee, made history as first woman
* served longer than any other woman in history, won't run for re-election in 2016
This is a bit boring. And I'm becoming glad she's going away. There's more.
* Barbara Mikulski's announcement Wednesday that she'll be the decisive 34th vote for President Barack Obama's nuclear deal with Iran shifts
* The animated and occasionally irascible Democrat from Maryland who rose from being
* a friendship more epic than that between Hillary Clinton and Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski, you'd be hard-pressed to find it.
Ugh.
* announced her support for the Iran nuclear deal Wednesday, becoming the 34th senator to do so
* 78-year-old Maryland Democrat and longest serving woman in Congress, who announced Monday
* A lifetime of advocacy will be recognized Tuesday at the White House when Maryland Sen. Barbara Mikulski receives the Presidential Medal of
Yeah, it's like the Oscars. A plumber does a lifetime of advocacy. Electricians do. There is no medal-worth heroism here, just more knob polishing.
* On Wednesday, by a vote of 53 to 44, the Paycheck Fairness Act failed to pass in the Senate.
Because paycheck fairness is none of federal government's business. They would love to have it so. But it isn't. Anything named like that disingenuously will have the perverse opposite effect. Based on its name it needed to fail.
* who has served in the Senate and in Congress longer than any other woman
We get it, she has a vagina and she held steady. That's it for her. I'm glad she's gone. My guess, I'm a terrible guesser, Barbara Mikulski busted a move before she departs that august body -- what is it again? -- world's greatest deliberative body. Where budgets are not passed, only emergency omnibus bills with so much at stake and no one to blame.
Another person to blame, I'm guessing again, would be another senator heavily lobbied who proposed legislation. Thom Tillis (R. NC), a new guy. I'm curious what devious underhanded sneaky people look like, penis growing out the forehead, horns out the cheeks, pockmarks, scars, hair like Trump, bugs flying around. And I'm always disappointed they look normal.
He would be top suspect, due to reports of him being lobbied on H2B. Just curious what his search results say.
* junior United States Senator from North Carolina.
* committed to creating opportunities for North Carolina families and
Ha!
* is increasingly called on ...
* The hacker activist group Anonymous just claimed that U.S. Senator Thom Tillis
* Tillis' constituents might want to think twice before shaking his hand. The Republican senator from North Carolina said on Monday
* Sen. Thom Tillis (R- NC) described his own history of opposing certain health and ...
* In 1947, 14-year old Willis Lynch of Littleton, N.C., was asked by a nurse to sing a song as she placed a mask over his face. Lynch unknowingly ...
* A list published over the weekend that alleges nine politicians - topped by Republican U.S. Sen. Thom Tillis of North Carolina - are secretly ...
* and Preserving the Second Amendment Act of 2015, Amendment Rejected -
* a story circulated that North Carolina Senator Thom Tillis is a member of the KKK.
* Requiring restaurant employees to wash their hands is too much regulation, says Sen. Thom Tillis.
I feel like I know them.
NumbersUSA
Co-sponsership support from:
senators
Christopher Dodd (D-CT
Herbert Kohl (D-WI
Joseph Biden (D-DE)
Ted Stevens (R-AK)
representatives
Candice Miller (R-MI)
Dennis Moore (D-KS)
Frank Pallone (D-NJ)
Jerry Weller (R-IL)
Todd Platts (R-PA)
Ron Paul (R-TX)
Albert Wynn (D-MD)
Joe Schwarz (R-MI)
Steny Howery (D-MD)
Grounds magazine
The bill also fully funds the Refugee Resettlement program. It also contains billions of dollars of aid to Mexico and to Central America.
Unacceptable. The omnibus is unacceptable. Maybe there's a need for these visas and maybe not. The quadrupling does not allow an increase in visas, the cap is not raised, rather a requirement for renewal of expired visas is eliminated for some period and the need for going back and starting with new lottery is eliminated.
Conservatives are in angst because they feel Paul Ryan betrayed them by trading everything Democrats wanted for the benefit of selling American oil on the global market. And why American oil is not already on the global market is left unexplained. You'd think that would be only natural. I'm certain if we look there will be a perfectly good reason for that distortion and disruption in the market. Betrayed once again. And there is not an explanation good enough to satisfy critics for why after all this there still isn't a budget.
Democrats claim several significant policy victories, celebrating Republican policies not being in the omnibus bill.
Democrats get funding for Planned Parenthood just as if those devastating videos had no affect whatsoever on policy. Planned Parenthood is applauding.
Money for Climate Change.
Here is the list of things the very successful minority Democrats got in this lauded bipartisan agreement. It's long. The Daily Signal.
Harry Reid explains why this is a good thing, Free Beacon.
