Freedom Caucus member becomes 200th sponsor of DREAM Act

A Texas member of the conservative Freedom Caucus on Tuesday became the 200th House member to endorse the DREAM Act, a bipartisan measure to protect from deportation people brought to the country illegally as children.

Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) signed on to the bill, first proposed in the House by Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-Fla.) and Lucille Roybal-Allard (D-Calif.), which Democrats are pushing as a replacement for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.


http://thehill.com/latino/352582-fre...r-of-dream-act

Freedom caucus = Koch brothers

They are for DACA legislation.

I fucking love my rep even if she's a republican, Ileana's been with what people wanted for most of her votes, health care and now us. <3

We need 18 more right ?

Yes, only 18 more but it doesn't look like Ryan will be bringing it to a vote.

Let's wait and see after 218 signatures

If all signatures are in it basically will bypass Ryan right ? Making them to force a vote on it ?

We need 27 more signatures for discharge petition to go through.

It doesn't matter how many cosponsor the Dream act. Ryan will not bring that bill to the floor for a vote because of the Hassert Rule (not really a rule, but people like to refer to it as one). It states that the house speaker will not bring a vote to a bill unless the majority of the majority party supports it.

His hands are in no way tied, he could bring any bill to the floor for a vote, but he has stated that he will not bring a bill to the floor that does not have the majority support of the Republican Party. 218 would mean only 24 republicans supported it (24 republicans would be 10%).


Now this is what we need to happen.

you are right, discharge is our only hope at this point