Passing It to Find Out What’s in It, Again

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Yuval Levin:

The Hoeven-Corker amendment to the Gang of Eight bill is essentially a new bill. It is almost 1,200 pages long. Some parts of it are identical to some of the provisions of the original Gang of Eight bill, some parts are very different, and some parts are slightly different in ways that could prove very important but difficult to understand in a hurry. But it has to be understood in a hurry. Given the length and complexity of this proposal, I think it is fair to say that not more than a handful of the senators voting on it on Monday—which is apparently when the vote is scheduled—will really understand it in any detail. There is almost no way any of the senators voting on it could have read it all, and it’s unlikely even their staff members could do so in a thorough and responsible way in that time. Only the people who wrote it will know what it says, and I imagine it was written in parts by numerous people from several Senate offices. That means there is probably no one who really knows what it says.

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Look within the Hoeven-Corker amendment.

A loophole in the new version of the “Gang of Eight” immigration bill allows Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano (or any of her successors) to nix the construction of a required border security fence if she does not find it to be an “appropriate” use of resources.
See page 35, line 24:

Notwithstanding paragraph (1), nothing in this subsection shall require the Secretary to install fencing, or infrastructure that directly results from the installation of such fencing, in a particular location along the Southern border, if the Secretary determines that the use or placement of such resources is not the most appropriate means to achieve and maintain effective control over the Southern border at such location.

And what does paragraph 1 say?

Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall establish a strategy, to be known as the ‘Southern Border Fencing Strategy,’ to identify where 700 miles of fencing (including double-layer fencing), infrastructure, and technology, including at ports of entry, should be deployed along the Southern border.

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The definition of INSANITY.. is making the SAME type MISTAKES over and over, and expecting Different results each time.

Yes Nan.. it seems buried deep in EVERY BILL submitted recently, are cute, hidden ESCAPE CLAUSES….. allowing those to choose, when it suits them, to IGNORE the law they just passed!!! So, WHY BOTHER???

As to the INSANITY… like you pointed out… Paragraph 1 ORDERS a FENCE BE BUILT… Paragraph 2 says.. unless we DON’T WANT TO!! Double speak FRAUD… the bill is a farce, just like Obama himself. OH, McCain now Joins Obama in that description now as well.

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The democrats voted for obamacare without reading it. Why would they want to read the amnesty immigrant bill?

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