Rep. Kelly Discusses Future of Congress's Fight to Stop Executive Amnesty on Fox & Friends
Rep. Kelly: “January 6th starts an altogether new day for America”
WASHINGTON — U.S. Representative Mike Kelly (R-PA) – a member of the House Ways and Means Committee – appeared on Fox & Friends Weekend on Fox News Channel yesterday morning to discuss the recently passed Omnibus Appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2015 and the future efforts of the upcoming 114th Congress to halt President Obama’s recent executive action on illegal immigration amnesty.
Rep. Kelly on the importance of the upcoming Congress:
“Moving forward, we have to get into the next session when we have a majority in the Senate that we can actually work with on a more open basis. … When we get into the next session, we have a much different group to work with. … This is not over. This is not Republicans walking away from a very critical issue. However, we know where we are positioned right now, we’re still a minority. We won’t be that way after the [114th Congress is sworn in]. January 6th starts an altogether new day for America. We’re going to have to govern though, and Speaker Boehner has been very clear about this. These are not Republicans issues, these are not Democrat issues — these are American issues. And if we’re going to govern, we’re going to have to govern as Americans first, and we’re doing what’s right for the American people.”
“After the [new Congress is sworn in], we’ll be able to lay out a plan for America that makes sense, gets our economy up and rising again, gets our people to have faith in this form of government that we have, and [Americans will know] that they’re going to govern in Washington right now; they’re not going to be bumping heads all the time.”
NOTE: In addition to preventing a partial government shutdown, the Omnibus Appropriations bill for Fiscal Year 2015 – which has now been passed by both the House and the Senate – will achieve the following items through a long list of conservative policy provisions included within the budget (a more extensive list can be viewed here):
- Reduces federal discretionary spending to pre-President Obama, pre-Speaker Pelosi levels. (With this budget, Rep. Kelly and his colleagues have cut discretionary spending by $165 billion since 2010.)
- Continues the ban on federal funding for the U.N. Arms Trade Treaty, which Rep. Kelly has personally fought to include
- Protects the unborn by banning the funding of abortion in the District of Columbia, within the federal employee health benefits program, and for federal prisoners
- Forces all Obamacare plans to inform Americans if they provide any abortion services
- Prevents the taxpayer bailout of the Obamacare Risk Corridor program
- Massively cuts funding for the EPA and forces the agency to reduce its staff size to its lowest level since 1989
- Prohibits the EPA from regulating lead content in ammunition or fishing tackle
- Stops the Export-Import Bank from blocking any new or existing coal projects
- Prohibits the Department of Energy from forcing manufactures to stop making certain lightbulbs
- Bans federal funds from being used to transfer terrorists at Guantanamo Bay to our homeland
- Slashes the IRS by more than $345 million, bringing its funding to pre-Obama levels ($1.5 billion below the president’s request)
- Prohibits funding for the IRS to target any organization for regulatory scrutiny – even when ordered by the White House – based on its ideological beliefs or for exercising its First Amendment rights
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