SC House Walks Out On Immigration Bill
House Walks Out On Immigration Bill
Ritchie vows to fight for strong illegal immigration reform
Columbia, SC – The House today walked out on illegal immigration reform. The Senate calls on the House to live up to its agreement. Less than 24 hours after agreeing to ask their members for a vote on private employer verification, the House failed to follow through on their agreement. After more than a week of political rhetoric, the House has failed again to take a decisive vote on legislation addressing private employer verification requirements.
“The people of South Carolina deserve better than what the House is doing,” says Senator Jim Ritchie (R-Spartanburg), Chairman of the Joint Legislative Conference Committee on illegal immigration reform. “The House has tried to kill this bill twice this year. They are hiding behind some strange interpretation of the rules to avoid delivering strong illegal immigration reform to the people of South Carolina”
The Senate has consistently led the effort on including private employer verification, while the House has offered little more than rhetoric and political maneuvering. The House had at least seven opportunities to vote on private employer verification and they have again failed to do anything to strengthen immigration reform.
Since 2006, the Senate has been working to deliver the strongest illegal immigration reform bill possible and remove the $186 million financial burden that illegal immigration places on the citizens of South Carolina.
After failing to secure the vote they had committed to yesterday, House conference committee members walked out on a conference committee meeting this afternoon.
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April 24th, 2008 at 10:19 pm
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April 26th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
RITCHIE is the one that fixed it so the senate could not vote on s392.by not signing it.robert harrel jr. wrote ritchie a letter asking why and to please do the right thing and get it to them.so they can vote on it and pass it..ritchie took money from the farm bureau,that wants him to put in the i9verify.too many people was watching him and it had to be taken out.now he is hiding some where.right after he was on word radio last week.saying he was going to leave the i9 out.he went and tried to ad it in.to bill s392..he lied
April 26th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
i can not beleive,a big group of men.go to columbia every week..to there job and get paid for failing.they dont produce.they dont get the job done and they get a pay check..for this..the important bills like s392 they just play with and stall it and keep slideing it all around and hope it will go away..they did this for a very long time.now a lot of them want to pass this and get it to the governor.but some dont.they create busy work and pass ..bills that just waste money to no end.so then they cant do the budget.because they wasted so much money.all year long.they get paid for doing this.what a sweet job..where in real world.could you keep a job.by not produceing results and geting the job done.they are creating a loss of revenue,all year long.they get a pay check.for doing this.keeping sc in the red..if they just stuck to bills and laws that really mattered and was needed.and passed them.they would not need to work.but two months out of the year.but they constantly create busy work.that waste money..bills like s392.older then a year now.does not get done.what ashame.