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Tue Jan 13, 2015, 03:37 PM Jan 2015

Pelosi Drills Republicans For Jeopardizing America’s National Security With Reckless Bill [View all]

Source: PoliticusUSA






Pelosi Drills Republicans For Jeopardizing America’s National Security With Reckless Bill
By: Sarah Jones



Tuesday, January, 13th, 2015, 12:47 pm




Nancy Pelosi Republicans jeopardize national security

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“Republicans are taking an extremely dangerous and cavalier approach to the safety of American families,” Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) charged Tuesday morning in a statement, citing a new report on President Obama’s Immigration Accountability Executive Actions.

The state-by-state report is referring to the crazy amendments House Republicans stuck onto their bill that is supposed to fund the Department of Homeland Security, which they deliberately left unfunded after February 27th in order to use it as a hostage in their war on Obama’s immigration actions. These amendments kill not just Obama’s latest executive action, but his earlier actions such as telling his administration to target felons for deportation instead of families. This makes Republicans pro-felon?

Pelosi’s office reports that the new report, based on data from the White House Council of Economic Advisors, shows that the President’s immigration actions will grow the economy by $90 to $210 billion over the next ten years and would not only not impact the likelihood of employment by U.S. born workers but would increase the averages wages for those workers by $170.00 a year. Naturally, Republicans are against these things.
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Read more: http://www.politicususa.com/2015/01/13/pelosi-charges-republicans-extremely-dangerous-cavalier-approach-safety-american-families.html

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