Congress passes 'em all the time: matter of fact, government operations are being funded right now by a Continuing Resolution signed by the President last Friday, December 11th. If they can't meet tonight's deadline, they'll pass a Continuing Resolution to plug the gap, and do the omnibus thing later.Īnd please don't worry that this Continuing Resolution will be some kind of extraordinary emergency measure. As at midday on Friday, it doesn't look as though they will.ĭon't panic, though, citizens! Your elected legislators are working hard to get the job done. Current funding for government operations runs out tonight, Friday midnight, so Congress needs to pass a bill before then. That's a problem for the cheap-labor lobbies because the hope has been to slip this legislation into an omnibus spending bill. The latest news I have, from Wednesday this week, is that they haven't yet been. There are of course differences between the two bills, the House bill and the Senate bill and those differences have to be reconciled.
1044, the Fairness for High-Skilled Immigrants Act, proposed by Democratic Representative Zoe Lofgren of California, and passed by the House way back in July last year. citizens getting access to good middle-class jobs. They have their own version of a cheap-labor bill to prevent U.S. The reason I can't tell you is that the bill has gotten all tangled up in the weeds of congressional procedure.įor one thing, there is another house in Congress, the House of Representatives. Well, how are the congresscritters doing at getting that bill to the President's desk for signing? I wish I could tell you. They are all bought and paid for by the cheap-labor lobbies. A single Republican dissenter could have stopped this monstrosity but nobody spoke up. The bill means, as I said then, quote: "a massive loosening of the rules for foreign workers to take up white-collar jobs in the U.S.A." End quote.Īlong with the unspeakable awfulness of the bill itself, the Senate's action revealed once again, if further revelation were needed, the utter uselessness of the Republican Party. Senate passing on December 2nd, by unanimous consent-no debate, no vote-the horrible and anti-American bill called S.386.
With those formalities out of the way, let's take a glance at the news.Ġ2-Congress versus American white-collar workers (cont.) In my December 4th podcast I railed against the U.S. Please make a note of this for purposes of future correspondence. So I think I should most properly be addressed as Mr John Derbyshire, Esq., B.Sc., P.G.Dip.Chin. Some years later I acquired a Postgraduate Diploma in Chinese. When she sent me letters thereafter she would write my name on the envelope thus: " Mr John Derbyshire, B.Sc." My mother, a coal-miner's daughter, was deeply impressed. When I graduated university I was the first person in my family to have done so. Wait a minute I think I can claim more than that. And Radio Derb is on the air! Greetings, listeners, from your credentially genial host John Derbyshire, Esquire. (Die, white geezers!)Ĥ9m04s Headline of the week. (A rogue iceberg.)Ĥ5m00s War of the generations. (John Le Carré, RIP.)Ĥ3m09s One more thing to worry about. (Ray Wolters, RIP.)Ĥ0m55s So does a psychometrist … (James Flynn, RIP.)Ĥ1m41s … and a novelist. (Toil, envy, want, the patron and the jail.)ģ9m37s A friend passes.
(Blackening up history.)ģ0m14s Back to the garret. (Deplatforming at Eton.)Ģ3m36s Worst casting decision of 2020. (The continuing saga.)ġ4m32s Jolly woke boating weather. 02m05s Congress versus American white-collar workers.