GOP House leaders have bumped up against the Tuesday deadline set by moderate Republicans to come up with a compromise immigration proposal. Otherwise, the dissidents intend to act to force a vote on four immigration bills later this month. "We set a hard deadline, we're sticking to a hard deadline," Republican Rep. Jeff Denham of Turlock, a leader in the effort, said last week. Read more here: http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-immigration-house-deadline-20180612-story.html
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U.S. Representative Jeff Denham (R-Turlock) today released a new Thank-a-Vet Thursday (#TVT) video featuring Modesto native Captain Sam Satariano, an Army Air Corps bomber pilot who served in World War II. Shared on Rep. Denham’s Facebook, Twitter and YouTube pages, this #TVT video is an excerpt from a longer interview for the Library of Congress’ Veterans History Project. A graduate of Modesto High School and Modesto Junior College, Sam served in the Army Air Corps from 1942 to 1945 as a bomber...
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Jeff Denham doesn’t care about the political consequences. The congressman just wants to do what is right. It is why he’s part of a group of moderate Republicans pushing for a floor vote this month on immigration reform. “If this is the last thing I do as a congressman, I will be very happy,” Denham told a gathering of the Manteca Rotary last week of his bid to reform immigration. ... “Ninety percent of (the Dreamers) are in college of have a job,” Denham told Rotarians. ... "This was their offe...
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Our nation’s infrastructure has rarely received such attention as it has over the last year. The administration should be credited for helping to raise the profile of infrastructure, while taking direct steps to expedite the completion of projects. Time is money, and the longer it takes to bring infrastructure improvements on line, the higher the costs will escalate on taxpayer-funded projects. As leaders of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, we have worked to develop and pa...
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Rep. Jeff Denham, a Republican from California, discusses a push by Congressional Republicans to force a floor debate and vote on immigration. He speaks on "Bloomberg Markets: Balance of Power."
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House Republicans emerged from a meeting Thursday morning without clear agreement on immigration legislation, opening the door for a group of moderate lawmakers to move forward with a maneuver to force a vote — over GOP leaders’ objections — on the issue. ... “We're not willing to sit back and wait and see how politics plays out,” Denham said Thursday. “We're going to get this done. We have a firm deadline of next Tuesday." ... Read more here.
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House Republicans had a two-hour closed-door meeting Thursday morning that appears to buy more time before an immigration civil war erupts -- at least until next week. ... "The discharge petition gives us a timeline, which means we've got until next Tuesday, to get an agreement on paper that we know we've got whipped and have enough votes for," said California Republican Rep. Jeff Denham. ... At his weekly news conference, House Speaker Paul Ryan said he knows the Denham-led procedural petition ...
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