{"id":3814,"date":"2010-12-03T17:28:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-03T22:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thedustininmansociety.com\/blog\/?p=3814"},"modified":"2010-12-03T17:29:22","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T22:29:22","slug":"jeff-sessions-dream-act-needs-vetting-politico","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/03\/jeff-sessions-dream-act-needs-vetting-politico\/","title":{"rendered":"Jeff Sessions: DREAM Act needs vetting &#8211; Politico"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n\u201cThis shell game makes it nearly impossible for members of this body, and their constituents, to properly review and consider the legislation prior to a vote,\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Politico<\/em><br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nJeff Sessions: DREAM Act needs vetting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By SCOTT WONG <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Alabama Republican Jeff Sessions urged his Senate colleagues Thursday to block a lame-duck attempt to pass the DREAM Act, warning that new versions of the immigration bill haven\u2019t received proper scrutiny. <\/p>\n<p>In the \u201cDear Colleague\u201d letter obtained by POLITICO, Sessions lamented that Democratic leaders have rolled out three Senate versions of the bill in the past two weeks, bringing the total to four. A fifth was included in a sweeping immigration reform bill sponsored by Sen. Bob Menendez (D-N.J.), the chamber\u2019s only Hispanic member. <\/p>\n<p>None of the bills has been reviewed by the Senate Judiciary Committee or undergone a cost analysis by the Congressional Budget Office, wrote Sessions, the ranking Republican on the Judiciary Committee. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis shell game makes it nearly impossible for members of this body, and their constituents, to properly review and consider the legislation prior to a vote,\u201d he said. \u201cIt is an abuse of the process and on that basis alone members ought to oppose cloture.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The legislation is \u201cpoorly drafted, filled with loopholes, and, by rewarding illegal behavior, will encourage future illegal immigration,\u201d he added. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/1210\/45878.html#ixzz175f0IJ4B\">Read more: <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThis shell game makes it nearly impossible for members of this body, and their constituents, to properly review and consider the legislation prior to a vote,\u201d Politico Jeff Sessions: DREAM Act needs vetting By SCOTT WONG Alabama Republican Jeff Sessions urged his Senate colleagues Thursday to block a lame-duck attempt to pass the DREAM Act, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thedustininmansociety.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}