{"id":19397,"date":"2013-06-24T05:59:51","date_gmt":"2013-06-24T09:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19397"},"modified":"2013-06-24T05:59:51","modified_gmt":"2013-06-24T09:59:51","slug":"some-perspective-on-the-immigration-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19397","title":{"rendered":"Some Perspective On The Immigration Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The video below is posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?feature=player_embedded&amp;v=Ug5IAA-jKSA\">YouTube<\/a>. It makes some very good points about the need for <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"United States Congress\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=38.8897222222,-77.0088888889&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=38.8897222222,-77.0088888889 (United%20States%20Congress)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Congress<\/a> to take a little time to study the immigration bill before <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Voting\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Voting\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">voting<\/a> on it.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ug5IAA-jKSA?rel=0\" height=\"301\" width=\"490\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gop.gov\/indepth\/pledge\/readthebill\">Pledge to America<\/a> <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Website\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Website\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">websites<\/a> the Republicans promised:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\"><strong>We will ensure that bills are debated and discussed in the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Town square\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Town_square\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">public square<\/a> by publishing the text online for at least three days before coming up for a vote in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"House of Representatives (Japan)\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=35.6751666667,139.744944444&amp;spn=0.01,0.01&amp;q=35.6751666667,139.744944444 (House%20of%20Representatives%20%28Japan%29)&amp;t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">the House of Representatives<\/a>. No more hiding legislative language from the <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Two-party system\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Two-party_system\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">minority party<\/a>, opponents, and the public. Legislation should be understood by all interested parties before it is voted on.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The website states that the promise was kept on January 5, 2011. It might have been kept then, but it is about to be broken now! More than a thousand pages were added to the bill on Friday night. Do you believe anyone will have read and studied them by the vote on Monday? Please email your <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Senators\" href=\"http:\/\/www.senate.gov\/general\/contact_information\/senators_cfm.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"homepage\">Senators<\/a> (and any other Senators you know who are planning to vote for cloture) and ask them to read the bill before voting on it.<\/p>\n<div class=\"zemanta-pixie\" style=\"margin-top: 10px; height: 15px;\"><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" style=\"border: none; float: right;\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/img.zemanta.com\/zemified_e.png?x-id=711e9073-3948-4cb1-8508-1c519caa6286\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The video below is posted on YouTube. It makes some very good points about the need for Congress to take a little time to study the immigration bill before voting on it. On their Pledge to America websites the Republicans &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=19397\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[735,451,5780,365,285,44,300,368,999],"class_list":["post-19397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-congress","tag-house-of-representatives","tag-pledge-to-america","tag-republicans","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-congress","tag-united-states-house-of-representatives","tag-voting","tag-youtube"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19400,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19397\/revisions\/19400"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}