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GOP amnesty paranoia erupts: How a border security bill is roiling the right

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The winter storm that was supposed to pummel the Northeast thoroughly #disrupted the House's exhausting 2.5-day workweek plan. The House was originally going to vote Monday night through Wednesday before Democrats go on their retreat later in the week. That means votes that had been scheduled for Monday will move to either today or Wednesday, and certain votes scheduled for Wednesday will be pushed back indefinitely.

Cynics might say that since Washington was only expected to get about an inch of snow, they could probably have managed to squeeze everything in before the end of Wednesday, and maybe the only reason they didn't is because one of those votes originally scheduled for Wednesday was in Trouble.

House majority leader Kevin McCarthy has pulled that high-profile measure in question, the Secure Our Border First Act, from the Wednesday schedule. No word yet on when the vote for this border security bill will be rescheduled -- most likely McCarthy was hoping that the blizzard would destroy human civilization once and for all so he wouldn't need to worry about it anymore. We prayed for the end times too, brother.

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