Conservatives Kill Amnesty Bill —- For Now

My article from the Aug. 1, 2014 issue of FrontPage magazine: Conservatives Kill Amnesty Bill —- For Now By Matthew Vadum A conservative-led uprising among House Republicans scuttled Speaker John Boehner’s worse-than-useless border crisis and immigration legislation yesterday but party leaders vowed to try again today to pass the emergency funding bill. “The bill as it was had more loopholes than a knitted afghan,” Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-Texas) said in a statement released exclusively to FrontPage late yesterday. Tonight, many members were able to come together and hammer out many of those problems so that we could live with the … Continue reading Conservatives Kill Amnesty Bill —- For Now