Speaker of the House Paul Ryan called-out Democrats and former President Barack Obama during a press conference Thursday; reminding the liberal lawmakers they had a ‘huge majority’ just years ago and did nothing to fix the nation’s immigration system.
Ryan was speaking with reporters ahead of a House vote on two separate immigration bills, slamming left-wing legislators who had 60 votes in the Senate and a “huge majority” in the House yet failed to pass comprehensive immigration reform.
"Don’t forget for a second here, when Barack Obama was president for a while he had 60 votes in the Senate and a huge majority in the House, and he didn’t do anything to fix the broken immigration system. Nothing. And they had total control of government,” said the Speaker.
Obama and the Democrats had a reliable filibuster proof majority for only about 10 weeks from the beginning of the 2009 Congressional class to the mid terms of 2010. You can only push so many pieces of legislation at once, and at the time priorities were considered healthcare and helping to jump start the terrible economy they were left with.
This. People don’t realize how long Al Franken was held up as the good people of Minnesota debated the intent of someone who voted for Franken but also wrote in “lizard people”.