Valerie Jarrett: 'We Have a Commitment' from Boehner on
Amnesty This Year
by Tony Lee 15 May 2014
President Barack Obama's top adviser and confidant told a group of global
elites on Thursday in Las Vegas,
Nevada that House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) has made a
commitment to the White House to try to pass amnesty legislation this year.
After hailing the Senate's amnesty bill that the Congressional
Budget Office determined would lower the wages of American workers, Valerie Jarrett, Obama's senior advisor,
told attendees at the yearly invitation-only SkyBridge Alternatives Conference
that Boehner would help the White House make a push get immigration reform
enacted in the next three months.
“I think we have a window this
summer, between now and August, to get something done,” Jarrett said, according
to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “We have a commitment from Speaker Boehner,
who’s very frustrated with his caucus."
Addressing attendees at an event
described as conference where "investors and elite political donors"
along with "hedge fund managers, political and business leaders and
celebrities" can "speak freely," Jarrett said that the Senate's
bill would pass in the House if Republicans brought it to the floor.
Jarrett, echoing the sentiments of
Rep. Luis Gutierrez (D-IL), who has said that Democrats would want a piecemeal
approach to immigration reform if they get all of the pieces of the Senate
bill, said that there were "a lot of ways to skin a cat" and that
there would be "mounting pressure" on amnesty legislation in the
coming months. She also reportedly claimed the high-tech industry needed more
"educated workers" even though numerous studies have debunked the
myth that there is a shortage of American high-tech workers.
The Senate's bill would double and
possibly triple the number of H1-B visas that high-tech lobbying groups like Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg's FWD.us covet even
though American colleges and universities graduate more workers in the science, technology, engineering, and math
(STEM) fields than there are job openings. In addition, illegal immigrants put on a path to citizenship
and given work visas could qualify for any job,
which would reduce the opportunities for Americans on the bottom rungs of the
economic ladder.
Boehner, who hired Sen. John
McCain's top amnesty adviser at the end of the last year, has previously told
fundraisers in Las Vegas that he was "hellbent" on getting amnesty
legislation done this year and then mocked conservative opponents of amnesty at
an event in his Ohio district. Boehner also said that when he and Obama agreed
the most on amnesty legislation when they met at the White House in February of
this year. Obama also indicated this week that there were only "two to
three months" to get amnesty legislation enacted this year.
House GOP leaders like Rep. Cathy
McMorris Rodgers (R-WA), the GOP Conference Chair, have also floated an August
deadline to get legislation on the House floor while business executives have
said they thought amnesty legislation would be the"final act" of the
lame-duck session. Even if Congress is pressured not to act on immigration
legislation this year, Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and GOP leaders said on
Wednesday that Republicans in the
Senate would "absolutely" try to pass amnesty legislation again in
the next Congress if Republicans win back the Senate in November.
Valerie B. Jarrett
Valerie B. Jarrett
is the senior adviser for the Barack
Obama administration, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Note: James S.
Crown is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, a trustee at
the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a director at the General Dynamics Corporation.
Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think
tank), Amnesty International, the
Brookings Institution (think tank), and
the Committee for Economic Development.
George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society.
Frank
Greer was the co-founder, Amnesty
International USA at Amnesty
International, and is a partner at GMMB.
Bill
& Melinda Gates Foundation is a GMMB
client, was a funder for the Aspen Institute (think tank), the Brookings Institution (think tank), and
the Committee for Economic Development.
Lester Crown
is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, was a lifetime trustee at
the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a director at the General Dynamics Corporation.
Jack
Valenti was a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and a
member of the Burning Tree Club.
John
A. Boehner is a member of the Burning
Tree Club, the House leader for the Republican
establishment, and the speaker for the U.S.
House of Representatives.
L.
John Doerr is a trustee at the Aspen Institute (think tank), and was
a member of the President's Council on
Jobs and Competitiveness.
George A. Joulwan
was a director at the General Dynamics
Corporation, and is a director at Alion
Science and Technology.
David
J. Vitale is a director at Alion
Science and Technology, and a member
of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
Sheryl K.
Sandberg was a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a member of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, and is the COO
& director for Facebook.
Mark
Zuckerberg is the co-founder & chairman & CEO for Facebook.
Lee
H. Hamilton is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a co-chair for the Independent Task Force on Immigration and
America's Future.
Laura D'Andrea
Tyson was a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), and a member of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.
Shirley Ann Jackson
is a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, and was
a trustee at the Committee for Economic
Development.
Donna
S. Morea was a trustee at the Committee
for Economic Development, and the EVP for the CGI Group Inc.
CGI Group Inc.
was the Obamacare contractor that
developed Healthcare.gov web site.
Obamacare
is Barack Obama’s signature policy
initiative.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Michelle
Obama was a lawyer at Sidley Austin
LLP, and her brother is Craig M.
Robinson.
Elizabeth Esty was
an attorney at Sidley Austin LLP,
and is a member of the House Committee
on Science, Space and Technology.
R.
Eden Martin is counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Newton
N. Minow is a senior counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.
Penny S. Pritzker
is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the secretary of the U.S.
Department of Commerce for the Barack
Obama administration, was the
national finance chair, fundraiser for the 2008
Barack Obama presidential campaign, a co-chair for the 2009 Barack Obama inaugural committee, a fundraiser, national
co-chair for the 2012 Barack Obama
presidential campaign, a contributor for the 2013 Barack Obama inaugural committee, the host for the Barack Obama fund-raising dinner, 7/2/2008,
Craig M. Robinson’s basketball coach
for the children's team, and a member of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness.
W. James
McNerney Jr. was a member of the President's
Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, is a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago, and the chairman
& president & CEO for the Boeing
Company.
Barbara G. Fast
was a VP at the Boeing Company, and
a VP for the CGI Group Inc.
CGI Group Inc.
was the Obamacare contractor that
developed Healthcare.gov web site.
Obamacare
is Barack Obama’s signature policy
initiative.
Barack
Obama was an intern at Sidley Austin
LLP.
Elizabeth Esty was
an attorney at Sidley Austin LLP,
and is a member of the House Committee
on Science, Space and Technology.
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