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The call to not allow it to be voted on. today in the washington post interview, mr. cantor clarified he does agree with the principle of this bill. he does agree we should not deport u.s. military service members. and that honorable service in the military ought to be a path to a green card, of course it should. that s exactly what this bill would do and nothing else. it s the smallest immigration policy you could invent. but despite the fact that eric cantor says he agrees with it, he has no plans to allow it to be voted on. maybe after june 10th? maybe after his primary is over in virginia? maybe these principles that he says he has on this matter will come back into effect after june 10th? 50 years to the day after the launch of the great society and the most productive congress in american history, you and i are now living in the era of the least productive congress in american history and this is part of why. but even this congress does have to pass a few things. ....
Said they haven t really told us. we do know that there is sort of secretary led investigation under way. there s the inspector general s investigation and then of course congress continues to look into the situation as well. but as for immediate care or contact with veterans who might have been on those lists, i haven t seen any report that that s actually happening. the reason that we ve been trying to follow up on it is because in trying to cover this as a practical problem and not just an opportunity for political fight, it s hard to escape the fact that there are individually identified part of the scandal, individually identified veterans in specific need who are on wait lists that are too long. the guys and gals at the center of this are findable. it seems like the president s suggestion was not a bad one if it s not happening in real life, i wish somebody would explain that. it would be helpful. this is not the first time president obama has tapped a top aide to step in ....
Medicare. it was voting rights. it was civil rights. it was the head start program. it was that consumer product safety commission that we just heard about. it was college loans. it was the first environmental protections we ever had as a country. it was food stamps. lyndon johnson 50 years ago today laid out that vision of what he wanted to do as president and what he thought america could do with its wealth. and then the 89th congress, which met from 1965 to 1967 set about enacting that program. enacting that vision. to this day, that congress remains the most productive congress in the history of the united states. no legislative session has ever done more than that congress did. karen at the washington post did a look at that speech 50 years ago today and what president johnson promised and they did that lookback in part because president johnson said in that speech that if this program of his was going to be followed, he believed that it ....
Men of needed skill and talent were denied entrance because they came from southern or eastern europe or from one of the developing continents. this system violated the basic principle of american democracy. the principle that values and rewards each man on the basis of his merit as a man. it has been unamerican in the high sense. today, with my signature, this system is abolished. lyndon johnson in 1965 signing one of the hugely consequential pieces of legislation sent to him by that most productive congress in the history of congress. today 50 years later we currently have the least productive congress in the history of congress. ....
There s the inspector general s investigation and then of course congress continues to look into the situation as well. but as for immediate care or contact with veterans who might have been on those lists, i haven t seen any report that that s actually happening. the reason that we ve been trying to follow up on it is because in trying to cover this as a practical problem and not just an opportunity for political fight, it s hard to escape the fact that there are individually identified part of the scandal, individually identified veterans in specific need who are on wait lists that are too long. the guys and gals at the center of this are findable. it seems like the president s suggestion was not a bad one if it s not happening in real life, i wish somebody would explain that. it would be helpful. this is not the first time president obama has tapped a top aide to step in to try to fix a problem. he s done that before. notably at hhs with obamacare rollout but other agencies ....