Jordan on CNN: House and Senate should conference about DHS funding bill (VIDEO)

Congressman Jim Jordan (R-Urbana) appeared on CNN's State of the Union show today with host Dana Bash to discuss congressional efforts to fund the Department of Homeland Security while addressing President Obama's executive actions on immigration.

During the interview, Rep. Jordan made the following comments:

"We passed a bill at the levels that the Democrats wanted. What we did say was, we don't want to fund something that everyone knows is unconstitutional, legal scholars on the right and the left have said is unconstitutional, and a federal judge, a federal judge has said is unlawful. …

"We sent a bill over there [to the Senate] six weeks ago that did what I just described, fund it at the Democrats' levels, but said, we're not going to allow dollars to be used for something we all know is unconstitutional. And the Democrats said and the Senate said, for six weeks, oh, we can't bring it up. We can't debate it. We can't amend it. We can't pass it.

"And then guess what happened? The very last day, they brought up the bill. They debated it. They amended it. They passed it. … And now all we're saying is, let's go to conference committee. … We know how it works. We pass something, they pass something, you go sit around a table … and you work out the differences. … What's wrong with that process? That's how it's supposed to work. …

"We know that this is unconstitutional and we know it's unfair. Now, think about this. What the president did, how is it fair to citizens if you let noncitizens, illegals, go back and get tax refunds for the last three years, as Commissioner Koskinen has testified under oath? How is it fair to seniors if you let noncitizens, illegals, participate in our Social Security system? How is it fair to voters? Our secretary of state under oath came and testified in Congress and said, noncitizen illegals are going to have a potential now to be involved in our election process, to actually vote.

"And, most importantly, Dana, how is it fair, what the President did, how is it fair to those legal immigrants who did it the right way, who followed the law? How is it fair to them?"

VIDEO of the interview: http://youtu.be/w5zoL_4QrB0

CNN TRANSCRIPT: http://www.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1503/01/sotu.01.html

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