Dan Lipinski Votes "No" To Protect The Borders And Support Our Border Troops

LIPINSKI VOTES NO TO PROTECT THE BORDERS 

AND SUPPORT OUR BORDER TROOPS 

On the week of 8/1/14, Congressman Dan Lipinski (IL-3) released the following statement after voting AGAINST the Emergency Border Security Supplemental Appropriations Act. This Appropriations Act allocated $694 million for increasing the security of the US-Mexico Border. Lipinski’s statement was as follows:

"Following approval of the House Republicans’ border bill tonight, they approved a related piece of legislation, H.R. 5272, designed to keep the President from taking executive action on deportations. While I do not support further unilateral action by the President on immigration, this bill was too vague to support. So to signal my position on this issue, I voted present."

However, here are some of the details of this border bill which Lipinski fails to mention: 

“Our plan reallocates $694 million to secure the border, provide emergency care, and prevent future arrivals,” House Republican Conference Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) said after the vote. “This will ensure that children are reunited with families in their home countries. Our solution addresses the problem humanely, effectively, and expeditiously. The crisis at the border demands our attention. It demands our action. And it demands our immediate and unwavering leadership.” Included in this bill was $35 million to assist Texas in their costs for additional National Guard to secure our borders as assist with humanitarian efforts.

So in all, Lipinski votes "NO" to $694 million in aid. He failed to vote “for” humanitarian aid and border security, and, he voted "PRESENT" to stopping the President from taking actions, on his own authority, regardless of existing laws and congressional approval. No aid, no border security, no border troops… Why doesn’t Lipinski care about our southern borders?

"There is a crisis that still exists at our southern borders and particularly in Texas. Thousands of illegal aliens are crossing the border and Lipinski can't even be bothered to spend $694 million to assist this crisis? What is $694 million not enough? And his "PRESENT" vote did nothing more than let people know he was breathing! Is that a Representative with "character?" At times of crisis, we need some sort of action to help secure our borders and assist in the humanitarian efforts in Texas. Further supplemental bills may be proposed in the future, if needed. So, what's wrong with $694 million... really, Mr. Lipinski?

Lipinski acts as if there’s all the time in the world, that no crisis exists, so he feels he has the time to vote down emergency measures – this couldn’t be further from the truth! It's the real world and our American citizens needed some sort of immediate support in Texas (and across our southern border states). Lipinski's "no" and "present" votes helped no one whatsoever - not in the slightest fashion. He grants no humanitarian aid to immigrants, and more importantly, none to our own Americans! What Lipinski is saying with this vote is: "Sorry border control agents and citizens of Texas, I can't help you because I’m waiting for a perfect bill that has everything I want and since I can’t get it, you’re on your own!” One can sum-up Lipinski's term in office, and that is... PRESENT." -- Sharon Brannigan