Millions of Americans still looking for full-time jobs get hurt.
By Cong. Kevin Brady
Texas Insider Report: WASHINGTON D.C. The Republican House of Representatives moved swiftly last week to restore the Constitutions checks and balances by
prohibiting the President Obamas unprecedented and troubling Executive Amnesty. The Constitution is explicit on this issue and the
measure which I strongly support
prohibits the White House (or its agencies) from offering deportation exemptions or work permits to
large classes of illegal immigrants.
Again the Constitution is explicit on this issue:
Congress establishes the rules for immigration and the President enforces them.
Im not a constitutional law professor like the President but executive amnesty is unconstitutional. Its that simple."
As widely reported President Obama has publicly admitted this almost two dozen times in recent years.
The Democratically-controlled Senate is expected to bury the House prohibition as it has with more than 380 bills sent to them by the House. So some have called the measure symbolic.
I never believe that exercising my constitutional responsibility and fighting on behalf of my constituents to right the wrong actions of this White House is symbolic merely because Harry Reid refuses to allow the Senate to vote on it. Thats cowardly.
In a few short weeks the American people will have a Senate that actually votes on issues and tries to find solutions.
Its long overdue.
Presidents veto threat kills job-creating agreement rebukes Harry Reid
This was a first.
For the past two years Republicans on the House Ways & Means Committee have been making a compelling case to make permanent some of the 50 temporary tax relief provisions that expired earlier this year like the Research & Development tax credit.
Its vitally important to incentivize companies to create good paying research jobs here in America rather than overseas.
After months of negotiations with the Democratic leader of the Senate Harry Reid we agreed on a $450 billion tax relief measure that among other things makes permanent the R & D credit the state and local sales tax deduction so important to families in Texas and a small business tax relief measure that allows them to quickly write-off from their taxes investments in equipment and software a key to creating local jobs.
It was a bi-partisan jobs measure a rare occurrence in Congress.
Yet out of the blue without seeing the proposal President Obama quickly issued a veto threat against it rebuking the Democratic leader of the Senate and killing the agreement.
For a President who rails against outsourcing American jobs to other countries his veto threat ensures more research & development jobs are shipped overseas where taxes are lower and there
are more incentives for companies to create research facilities. Thats hypocritical.
What was the reason the White House gave for this jobs-killing action that also slapped the faces of Senators from his own party? The President wanted made permanent two stimulus-era tax credits which dont even expire until 2017.
- Federal auditors have determined that for the first program 1-of-every-4 dollars is paid out to fraudulent applicants;
- The second is a child tax credit that pays out billions of dollars to ineligible applicants for children who dont exist or who dont even live in the U.S.
Both are ripe for even more fraud and abuse due to the millions of illegal immigrants granted amnesty recently by the President.
Ive always known the President wont hesitate to kill job-creating proposals when Republicans make them. This is a first when he kills proposals that Democrat leaders also support.
Its millions of Americans who are still looking for full-time jobs that get hurt.
Cong. Kevin Brady a Republican representing Texas 8th Congressional District chairs the Joint Economic Committee of Congress and is a senior member of
the House Ways & Means Committee which has oversight of the IRS and jurisdiction over taxes health care Social Security Medicare international trade and welfare. He serves as chairman of
the Ways & Means Committees Health Subcommittee.
