Shock: House passes Tancredo measure to deny emergency funds to sanctuary cities
posted at 3:41 pm on June 15, 2007 by Allahpundit
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He’s offered similar proposals at least seven times in the past three years and they’ve always failed by big margins. Today? 234-189, with no fewer than 49 Democrats voting in favor. The Rocky Mountain News says all sides are “stunned”; his own press release describes him as “exuberant.” Not necessarily because he thinks the Senate’s going to pass this but because of a certain Larger Truth that might just have materialized. From the RMN:
Tancredo said he thinks his amendment is an indicator that the House would crush the reform plan [i.e., amnesty bill] if it passes in the Senate.
“If I were (Speaker of the House) Nancy Pelosi, I’d be asking if she could pass a vote on amnesty on the House side,” Tancredo said. “If she lost 50 Democrats on this one, and she says she needs 70 Republicans to pass the immigration plan, this is an interesting indicator of things coming down the pike, and that the times, they are a-changing.”
Follow the first link and read Noam’s post. Exit question: Did Tancredo just slay the dragon?
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Tanc is da man. This isn’t the end of ShAmnesty of course but it is a body blow to the open borders movement, a sign that there are people on the hill, from both parties, that hear the voters. Thanks Tancredo for leading the charge.
Buzzy on June 15, 2007 at 7:33 PM
I know they threatened to cut some colleges off, but school administrations are still allowing students to run off the military, and so far as I’ve heard no school has been denied funds yet.
But will they give the extra to Gorham, Standish, Sebago and other nearby towns to rub Portland’s nose in it? That would take the “beautiful thought” and turn it into art.
Laura on June 15, 2007 at 7:40 PM
Another Mainer?
And yes, that would be art. I wonder if it would count toward the mandated one percent, though?
Slublog on June 15, 2007 at 7:49 PM
Compare their voting records, and you can lose the worry that there’s any similarity to McCain. One is squishy, one is not.
Freelancer on June 15, 2007 at 7:51 PM
No, I’m from N’awlins and that’s where I am again, but I’ve also lived in Maine (Sebago Lake, and a teeny little town called E. Baldwin) and I dearly love it. It has to be the most beautiful state in the country.
Laura on June 15, 2007 at 7:55 PM
It’s about time. IMO, they should cut all federal funding from these sanctuary cities who defy obeying federal laws. It’s ridiculous. Since when is it alright to pick and choose which laws people have to obey?
Very happy to finally get some good news on the illegal immigration front. Now all we have to do is have the government actually enforce the laws they pass. Radical concept. Apparently the government also chooses which laws need to be obeyed and let others slide. Appalling.
katieanne on June 15, 2007 at 7:55 PM
From Maine to N’awlins? Quite a jump.
Sebago is a beautiful part of the state. Never been to E. Baldwin, though.
It’s unfortunate that this beautiful state is run by amnesty-loving Dems and RINOS.
Slublog on June 15, 2007 at 8:00 PM
I have a boatload of family in Maine and I sometimes think my relatives are the only conservatives in the state. :-) Good to know there are a few others of you out there. At least you can make Baldacci work for it a little bit.
Laura on June 15, 2007 at 8:14 PM
Well, we scared the “Bald Nazi” into looking at tax cuts with TABOR. As much as I love it up here, though, I’ll have to move if property taxes get much higher.
Slublog on June 15, 2007 at 8:16 PM
Yeah, definitely, fellow Mainahs. Fund emergencies in Bangor, Sebago, East Baldwin, etc. and don’t fund anything that happens in Portland. Ask the illegals in that sanctuary city to do the jobs the liberal Portlanders don’t want to do. See what happens. I love it.
Tom McLaughlin on June 15, 2007 at 8:24 PM
OMG! If it was April, I’d think you were fooling me!
SouthernGent on June 15, 2007 at 8:45 PM
YES!
petefrt on June 15, 2007 at 9:19 PM
Allah must look at every newspaper in the country. Searching Fox, CNN, etc. I can’t find this story anywhere. However while looking I stumbled across this article. There’s still hope.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/06/15/bloggers.bush/index.html
repvoter on June 15, 2007 at 9:58 PM
BOUT TIME you all listened to me.
Tanc ‘08.
Fred/Tanc…..I do like it.
shooter on June 15, 2007 at 10:13 PM
I dont know where HA got it for sure, but I sent them the official announcement press release from Tancredo’s office about 10:45 am today.
shooter on June 15, 2007 at 10:15 PM
WOW! I’m late to the party, but go TANC!
Spirit of 1776 on June 15, 2007 at 10:23 PM
Dear God! let’s hope so.
thedecider on June 15, 2007 at 10:57 PM
THat.. is.. Amazing. Can he pull anymore off.. because I would be there cheering.
Noelie on June 15, 2007 at 11:52 PM
Wow! Stunner. Good man!
lynnv on June 16, 2007 at 8:01 AM
go thank a democrat
tomas on June 16, 2007 at 8:19 AM
This is liberals’ scheming returning to bite them. Their strategy was to run all these conservative Democrats last election in the South and West and have them beat Republicans. . .and then trick gullible Americans though the MSM into thinking they had a far-left mandate to raise taxes, grant amnesty, pull out of Iraq, etc.
Americans weren’t as gullible as they thought, and now they are “stunned.” Wishy washy “moderate” Republicans better take note.
januarius on June 16, 2007 at 9:18 AM
What we have always believed and always knew, the rest of the country is catching on…secure the borders first, then we talk about the other problems.
Control the situation by first eliminating sanctuary, then we can begin to evaluate the internal problems.
Secure the borders, then identify the illegal aliens, register them, and then we can analyze what step to take and how drastic it needs to be. Case by case…takes ten years? so what.
right2bright on June 16, 2007 at 9:49 AM
Here are the NO votes on the Tancredo amendment. The Tancredo amendment bars Homeland Security funds being given to sanctuary cities. Ask your congressman below why he thinks a sanctuary city in flagrant violation of immigration laws should receive any federal funding.
It is not too early to put pressure on the House ro stop the shamnesty bill.
Abercrombie
Allen
Arcuri
Baca
Baldwin
Bean
Becerra
Berkley
Berman
Berry
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Bordallo
Boucher
Boyd (FL)
Brady (PA)
Brown, Corrine
Butterfield
Cannon
Capps
Capuano
Cardoza
Carnahan
Carney
Carson
Castle
Castor
Chandler
Christensen
Clarke
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Conyers
Costa
Costello
Courtney
Crowley
Cummings
Davis (AL)
Davis (CA)
Davis (IL)
DeGette
Delahunt
DeLauro
Diaz-Balart, L.
Diaz-Balart, M.
Dicks
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle
Edwards
Ellison
Emanuel
Engel
Eshoo
Etheridge
Farr
Fattah
Filner
Fortuño
Frank (MA)
Gonzalez
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Hall (NY)
Hare
Harman
Hastings (FL)
Herger
Herseth Sandlin
Higgins
Hinchey
Hinojosa
Hirono
Hodes
Holt
Honda
Hoyer
Inslee
Israel
Jackson (IL)
Jackson-Lee (TX)
Jefferson
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Jones (OH)
Kagen
Kanjorski
Kaptur
Kennedy
Kilpatrick
Kucinich
Langevin
Lantos
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lee
Levin
Lewis (GA)
Loebsack
Lofgren, Zoe
Lowey
Maloney (NY)
Markey
Matsui
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum (MN)
McDermott
McGovern
McNerney
McNulty
Meehan
Meek (FL)
Meeks (NY)
Michaud
Miller (NC)
Mollohan
Moore (KS)
Moore (WI)
Moran (VA)
Murphy (CT)
Murtha
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal (MA)
Oberstar
Olver
Ortiz
Pallone
Pascrell
Pastor
Payne
Price (NC)
Rahall
Rangel
Reichert
Reyes
Reynolds
Rodriguez
Ros-Lehtinen
Rothman
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Salazar
Sánchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schwartz
Scott (GA)
Scott (VA)
Serrano
Shea-Porter
Sherman
Sires
Slaughter
Snyder
Solis
Stark
Sutton
Tauscher
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Towns
Udall (CO)
Udall (NM)
Van Hollen
Velázquez
Visclosky
Walz (MN)
Wasserman Schultz
Waters
Watson
Watt
Waxman
Weiner
Welch (VT)
Wexler
Wilson (OH)
Woolsey
Wu
Wynn
Valiant on June 16, 2007 at 10:17 AM
Tancredo…YOU DA MAN!!!
I think I’ll support to nominate and vote for the first upper-tier candidate who says “Tancredo will be my Homeland Security chief” because I know he’ll kick some serious butt at getting things done.
Planet Boulder on June 16, 2007 at 10:52 AM
Hey Shooter. I still haven’t seen the story anywhere. CNN reported on the bill but no mention of Tanc’s provision and went on to say Bush was going to veto the whole thing anyway.
repvoter on June 16, 2007 at 11:23 AM
Thus spake one of the very best among us.
Thanks Entelechy for your level-headed compassion, wit, and wisdom. You set an excellent example and I’m glad you’re here.
Goes for Lim and several of the other fine minds here as well.
/just needed to be said
techno_barbarian on June 16, 2007 at 11:36 AM
It’s a dumb bill. Cities can remove their “sanctuary city” proclamations but not make any real chances in enforcement policy. It doesn’t actually mandate any real change, it simply mandates a change of rhetoric. The reason it passed is because it doesn’t really DO anything. Plus there might be some pork attached someplace.
crosspatch on June 16, 2007 at 11:48 AM
The roll call shows us who the traitors are in the new House of Representatives.
Valiant on June 16, 2007 at 12:45 PM
It’s so rare that a story like this gets ink, Tancredo’s own office believes its a “double victory” for winning the votes AND getting published (at least once).
Sadly ,almost no one else is running this story, but the Rocky Mountain News did. ( unusual for lefty owned RMN)
Here.
shooter on June 16, 2007 at 1:52 PM
repvoter
p.s. Allahpundit has three links high-lited in the top paragraph for references, including one to the rocky mtn news story.
He/H.A. always shows sources of their material thru links as such…. for numerous reasons.
shooter on June 16, 2007 at 2:09 PM
Understood. I guess my point is the lack of reporting by the msm. Perhaps by Monday, I’m tired of searching.
repvoter on June 16, 2007 at 2:39 PM
About freaking time someone put some teeth into this … geesh, in the 70’s when Wyoming said “no” to the mandatory 55mph speed limit it didn’t take but a few days for the Feds to threaten to cut off highway funds. The crux of this whole problem is not a lack of means, but entirely a lack of will … Go Tranc!
Paul
pbary on June 16, 2007 at 2:43 PM
Sometimes it’s easy to forget that the Senate is the jackass brigade of the Senate and thus assume that the House is just as bad.
Wolfman on June 16, 2007 at 7:15 PM
As might be clear, the second time I said ‘Senate’, I meant Congress.
Wolfman on June 16, 2007 at 7:16 PM
Ya know, if every immigrant magically becomes legal, no “sanctuary city” will suffer consequences from this amendment.
Big S on June 16, 2007 at 9:49 PM
Just in case you missed it on the post regarding Reid’s shady tactics, I am saying it on this post too…
Well folks, sad news. The March for America was overwhelmingly small today. There were several signs and American flags, but sadly only about 100 people, if even that many. While it was a better turnout than Thursday’s, which only produced about 30 people, it wasn’t much better.
The speakers were on point and had good messages. There were several cops there and I don’t know if that’s standard or if they were expecting more people. A few college-aged guys from California wandered over to check it out, as well as other passersby, and they were very nicely told what we were doing there and why it was important. At least word is getting out to those who already don’t know how catastrophic this amnesty could turn out for America.
Keep calling, e-mailing, writing, faxing, whatever, do everything you can!!
hollygolightly on June 16, 2007 at 10:06 PM
Sanctuary cities are a perversion of the Biblical sanctuary cities provided for the purpose of giving a person a fair hearing – chipping away at the custom of “blood debt” that persists in and makes the Middle East today so nasty.
The Left always twists decent concepts into perverted forms. Any city that operates with “sanctuary” rules that hinder law enforcement should lose a lot more federal funding than just FEMA. All of it, plus prison time for the political and bureaucractic tools who are not upholding their oaths of office.
This goes beyond illegal aliens, this is the foundation of the “Rule of Law” that American society depends on for every single transaction in every single day.
It’s travesties like this that are part and parcel of why Third World countries are the way they are. They don’t have Rule of Law.
naliaka on June 17, 2007 at 12:29 AM
Bush will veto.
pat on June 17, 2007 at 4:23 AM
Veto what? He is not in the decision-making loop regarding this amendment. If it gets added to the final bill, getting the President to veto the full bill because of the Tancredo amendment would be perfect, because a brand new bill would have to go back through the full process again. This one would be finally dead, presuming that the veto couldn’t be overriden, and currently, it couldn’t.
Freelancer on June 17, 2007 at 11:57 PM
Wish we could have done that here in Wisconsin! Had control of both houses of the state legislature and a RINO leader of the senate wouldn’t bring our version of the Tax Payer Bill of Rights Amendment to a vote to protect the rest of the RINOs. She got defeated handily (80-20) in her primary a couple of months later but we couldn’t get it passed in 2 straight years before the Dems took over the senate last year.
Now our governor Doyle is raising every tax and fee besides income tax and the Dems haven’t shoot a single one down. Republicans in the assembly have been talking tough about opposing all tax increases but a few RINOs we’re not too sure about!
SSG Fuzzy on June 18, 2007 at 2:27 PM
I called my Rep (Reichert), and told him he’s lost my vote, that he’s been on the wrong side of this too many times, and this is the last straw.
I had such hopes for him.
linlithgow on June 19, 2007 at 10:36 AM
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