Immigration Bill quotes and notes

Sen. Ted Cruz

Sen. Ted Cruz

The betrayal of the Rule of Law and our Constitutional Republic continue in the time of leftist loons and a cowardly Congress.  Not all, however, have drunk the Kool-Aid of malicious manipulations by well-funded evil or the fools who worship fame.  At the moment, the battle is in the U.S. Senate.

Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), a senior member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, issued the following statement after Monday’s vote:

Sen. Jeff Sessions

Sen. Jeff Sessions

“The Gang of Eight and their allies revealed their true tactics tonight. They shut down debate and blocked amendments to a 1,200-page immigration bill that no one has read. It was anything but the open and fair process that they had promised.

“What we know for absolute certain is that this bill guarantees three things: instantaneous amnesty, permanent lawlessness, and a massive expansion in legal immigration that will reduce wages for working Americans. This legislation is a crushing blow to the working people of this country, a surrender to illegality, and a capitulation to special interests over the interests of the citizens we pledged to represent,” Sen. Sessions concluded.
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Shock pummels Seattle

ShockTulsaLogoTULSA, OK—It was a game of firsts on Saturday night in the BOK Center for the Tulsa Shock.

In addition to winning twice in a row for the first time in 2013 they handed a defeat to an opponent that was expected to hold a nearly 20 point advantage.  It was the first time since the Shock played in Detroit that such a milestone has taken place.  Finally, it was the first time since their relocation from Michigan that Tulsa has defeated the Storm twice in a season.

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Fresh opportunity for prison reform

PrisonCrowd1Our state leaders boast, and rightly so, about what is called “The Oklahoma Standard” — the compassion, speed and effectiveness of responses to natural disasters like spring’s tornadoes and acts of terror like the A.P. Murrah Building bombing in 1995.

Let’s apply that standard to counter the financial time bomb that lies at the end of the state’s unsustainable prison policies. Making the standard work for prison reform is both practical and principled — a moral response to a legal problem eating at the fabric of our society.

Oklahoma remains disastrously lost in the mire of one of America’s highest prison incarceration rates.
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Live Blog: Tea Party’s IRS, Immigration Rallies

Citizens rally to oppose, IRS, NSA, Immigration and other liberal policies

Citizens rally today in Washington

Breitbart.com and CSPAN are covering the Tea Party IRS, and Immigration rallies in Washington with live blogs and video.  Despite the early start on a day in the middle of the week, a couple hundred activists attended the beginning of the event and more are coming by the hour. It is a sign of growing anxiety in the grass-roots over the Senate amnesty legislation.

“Border security, Rule of Law Members of Congress are unlikely to get a full debate inside the halls of Congress,” King said. “So we are taking the debate outside it’s halls.”
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Obamacare will share private health info

HHS Secretary Sebelius with President Obama

HHS Secretary Sebelius with President Obama

A new 253-page Obamacare rule issued late Friday requires state, federal and local agencies as well as health insurers to swap the protected personal health information of anybody seeking to join the new health care program that will be enforced by the Internal Revenue Service.

Protected health information, or PHI, is highly protected under federal law, but the latest ruling from the Department of Health and Human Services allows agencies to trade the information to verify that Obamacare applicants are getting the minimum amount of health insurance coverage they need from the health “exchanges.”

The ruling, explained on pages 72-73 of the book-thick guidance, does not mention any requirement that applicants first OK the release of their PHI. HHS already allows some exchange of PHI without an individual’s pre-approval, especially when for a “government program providing public benefits.” Officials said the swapping of information is simply meant to help figure the best insurance coverge of Obamacare users.
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