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I issued the following statement after introducing a budget amendment that will allow the Senate to express its support of the “No Budget, No OMB Pay Act of 2013.” This legislation would withhold the pay for the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and other Senate-approved OMB officials for every day the President’s budget is late.   Read more »

This online debate between Shirley Spellerberg and Norman Adams is a continuation from Feb. 9th.

In the Florida Debate, the topic of the DREAM Act resurfaced as Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich said they could support a version of the DREAM Act providing a fast-track citizenship path for those who enter the U.S. military. The original version of the DREAM Act allowed for a pathway to citizenship for children of illegal immigrants who had lived in the U.S. for many years and enrolled in college or signed up for the U.S. military.   Read more »

This post is one side of an ONLINE DEBATE between Norman Adams and Shirley Spellerberg.

Shirley, 

Times certainly have changed. Prior to 1923, when our ancestors came to America, we had no quotas! If our ancestors had been faced with America's current immigration laws and quotas, we would likely not be Americans. Thank God our ancestors managed to get to the "land of the free" before our immigration laws were screwed up.   Read more »

This post is one side of an ONLINE DEBATE between Norman Adams and Shirley Spellerberg.

My good friend Shirley Spellerberg has a problem with the two most likely presumptive GOP nominees for President. She is upset that both Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney have admitted that they would approve of a modified DREAM act that “focused on military service.”

For Shirley, that is tantamount to “amnesty” and dangerous to national security because she believes that it could allow jihadists to infiltrate our military and commit massacres similar to that perpetrated at Fort Hood.

But, Shirley what about the “rule of law?” I ask this question because current law already allows expedited naturalization through military service.

Immigration has now come front and center in the Republican primaries. One idea promoted recently has been the Red Card Solution, proposed by Helen Krieble and promoted by Michael Reagan. The Red Card Solution is not a solution to immigration but a first step toward a guest worker program and is connected to Newt Gingrich’s own ideas on immigration reform in general.

The content was more immediately relevant over the questions being raised over Newt Gingrich’s comments relative to immigration than of what I had mostly written, but can wait. In defending both his and Perry’s record and posture on immigration, I think we should have a fuller discussion on the entire state of the matter, which seems lacking in or amid this hornet’s nest that is so easily aroused.   Read more »

“The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil, but because of those who look on and do nothing.”  - Albert Einstein

In an effort to bring attention to an obvious problem, Newt Gingrich dared to walk the plank for the Republican Party and spoke up about immigration. "I don't see how the party that says it's the party of the family is going to adopt an immigration policy which destroys families