Off-camera, on-mic: CHIP and kids of legal immigrants
If you were watching the House on TV last night, listening to the audio of the debate over the Linda Harper Brown amendment removing the children of legal immigrants from the CHIP rolls, (number 59), you were treated to a great dialogue off-camera, by the back mic, right before someone remembered to cut the audio.
If you were on the floor, you missed it.
While everybody was trying to figure out what to do after Dawnna Dukes moved to table LHB's amendment, a knot of Republicans and Dems stood around the back mic and talked to each other in disbelief.
I’m around these people a LOT and I’m about 99 percent sure that the guy I heard say the following quote was a certain Republican House chairman. But since I can’t be 100 percent sure, I won’t put his name here.
But I’m SO certain that it hurts … it HURTS … not to divulge his name.
Go the audio and go to hour 10:04 (that would be 7:04 p.m.) and listen for yourself. We can make it a game...
“You know, how .. how conservative is it to send everybody back to the emergency room with what we’re trying to do? It’s stupid.”
Another guy answers: “Not only, think how it’ll play in our newspaper tomorrow.”
First guy: “Oh, I know.”
“We’re not gonna do it.” “No.”
“I’m glad everyone seems to be coming around to our (position?).” No idea who said this.
Then a bipartisan group of reps asking each other: “These are legal residents?” “Legal residents.” “Yes, legal residents.” “Do you become a legal resident before you become a citizen?”
Then this, from a Democrat:
“You remember what happened in the election in Dallas. You all had half a million people marching, and all those have families that are citizens, vote.”
For those who weren't watching, the amendment died 136-5. More on that vote in the next post.
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Comments
Sure sounds like Jim Keffer to me...
Posted by: Anonymous | March 30, 2007 5:19 PM
Keffer, Geren, then Charlie Howard walked up and made the last comment.
Posted by: shades | April 2, 2007 6:32 PM