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Jack Chats Immig With John Hawkins
Washington, May 20 -
On Friday, Congressman Kingston had a telephone conversation with John Hawkins over at one of our favorite watering holes, Right Wing News, regarding illegal immigration. John Hawkins: Let me ask you one more question. You may not be able to answer, but give it your best shot. What do you think is going to happen if and when we get a bad Senate bill through and it goes into committee with the House Bill? Jack Kingston: The House will kill it. John Hawkins: You think so? You don't think the House would let something that conservatives would be really upset with get through? Jack Kingston: I don't think so. I think there is a lot of division in the House, but I think we would kill it. ...We don't want perfection to be the enemy of progress here because we didn't get into this situation overnight and we won't get out of it overnight.... John Hawkins: So you don't think amnesty will get through? Jack Kingston: No, and I can tell you that there are about 180 House members (who've) drawn a pretty strong line in the sand on that. (FULL TRANSCRIPT HERE)
Earlier that afternoon, Jack was briefed about America's border crisis by the national spokeswoman for the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps, Connie Hair. And perhaps ironically, Comedy Central's Stephen Colbert dropped by Congressman Kingston's office (sans cameras). We'll be Vcasting the briefing with Connie and some of the footage provided by the Minuteman in the coming days. And if you're good, we'll cut a segment of Connie, Jack, and Stephen Colbert which is hilarious. Watch this space for more.