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MILLER AND STEPHEN DINAN through the end of the fi scal year, reluctant to wait until March, THE WASHINGTON TIMES while carving out funding for and others said they couldn’t vote BY STEPHEN DINAN Obama’s 2010 prediction that an homeland security programs in a for any bill that didn’t try to ban THE WASHINGTON TIMES amnesty would lead to a surge House Republicans vowed separate measure that would last Mr. Obama’s policy — leaving in illegal immigration, and ques- Tuesday to confront President until early next year, when Con- Republican leaders wondering President Obama’s own words tioned the veracity of one law- Obama’s temporary amnesty for gress would revisit the amnesty whether they had enough support continue to be a major prob- maker who played a clip of Mr. illegal immigrants, but they con- controversy. to move ahead. lem for his defenders, including Obama’s words from last week, tinued to wrestle with how to do The approach would avoid a “This is a serious breach of our Homeland Security Secretary when the president said he’d it, as conservatives balked at the government shutdown and pre- Constitution. It’s a serious threat Jeh Johnson, the administra- taken “action to change the law” INSIDE GOP leadership’s plan to put off serve the GOP’s chance to fi ght to our system of government and, tion’s top immigration lawyer, on immigration. the fi ght until March. the president when the next Con- frankly, we have limited options who spent much of his Capitol “Listen, I’ve been a lawyer SPECIAL SECTION Leaders were counting noses gress convenes in January and and limited abilities to deal with Hill testimony Tuesday parsing 30 years. Somebody plays me Immigration: Defeating to see whether they had enough when Republicans will control it directly,” House Speaker John or disagreeing with his boss’s an eight-word excerpt from a support for a three-pronged ap- the House and Senate, giving A. Boehner, Ohio Republican, fl ip-fl ops. broader speech, I know to be amnesty and restoring proach, which would include them more leverage for a battle said of the president’s executive In a testy House hearing, common sense. D1 passing an omnibus spending bill with the White House. Mr. Johnson disagreed with Mr. » see JOHNSON | A7 to fund most of the government Some conservatives were » see IMMIGRATION | A7 CALIFORNIA ENERGY Hunters: Clinton dodge Legislators on Keystone misled on vexes coal, anti-lead conservation ammo bill Cites clash of interest with former State job Not source of BY BEN WOLFGANG condor poisoning THE WASHINGTON TIMES BY VALERIE RICHARDSON Hillary Rodham Clinton’s refusal to even men- THE WASHINGTON TIMES tion the Keystone XL pipeline — let alone take a public position on the project — during a high-pro- A pro-hunting group is up in arms fi le speech Monday night underscores the mystery after obtaining emails that it says indicate surrounding her energy platform, with both envi- that a federal offi cial withheld critical ronmentalists and data on lead blood levels in the California coal advocates be- condor until after gun control advocates lieving the former in the California state legislature used the ASSOCIATED PRESS secretary of state iconic bird’s plight to help push through CUT OFF: Syrian refugees in Lebanon panicked at news the U.N. was suspending aid to 1.7 million refugees due to lack could be an ally of a law last year to ban lead ammunition. of funds, a decision offi cials say threatens to starve thousands of families and add pressure on hosting countries. theirs if she seeks The National Shooting Sports Foun- the White House dation obtained the emails as part of in 2016. a Freedom of Information Act request MIDDLE EAST Mrs. Clinton’s showing that John McCamman, Cali- address to the fornia condor recovery coordinator for powerful League the Fish and Wildlife Service, did not of Conservation make the report public until the bill DEADBEAT DONORS Voters demon- was on its way to the desk of Gov. Jerry strated her appeal ASSOCIATED PRESS Brown. Mr. Brown signed the measure to environmen- NO ANSWER: Former in October 2013. U.N.: Nations renege on billions in pledged Syria aid talists, who hope Secretary of State Hillary The annual update, which had been BY GUY TAYLOR by the crisis. the Netherlands and Saudi Arabia the Democratic Rodham Clinton continues to previously issued in June, found little THE WASHINGTON TIMES Offi cials with the program have so leading the charge. Party’s presiden- take no stance on Keystone XL. change in the condor’s blood lead levels far refused to pin a $64 million fund- According to OCHA documents tial front-runner despite a 2007 ban on lead ammunition Wealthy nations that pledged hun- ing shortage on any individual nation published this week, those four na- would stick with in the “condor zone,” a lengthy swath dreds of millions of dollars in hu- and claim the defi cit is best explained tions have collectively come up some President Obama’s ambitious climate change poli- of habitat along the coast from Ventura manitarian aid to refugees of Syria’s by a failure of many governments $335 million short of what they’ve cies if she becomes the next president. County to Santa Clara County. The civil war haven’t come through with to come through on promises for a promised at international confer- Environmentalists’ faith in Mrs. Clinton comes California state legislature acted at the the money, according to data com- broad humanitarian response to the ences on Syria since the civil war despite her decision to remain mute on Keystone, urging of wildlife and animal rights piled by the top U.N. agency tracking Syria crisis. began more than three years ago. perhaps the single biggest energy-related issue in advocates, led by the Humane Society, the funds. But a close examination of data Separately, the European Union has America today. which argued that the California condor The situation has triggered an compiled by the U.N. Office for delivered $97 million less than what She’s explained away her lack of a position by and other species were being poisoned unusually tense round of interna- the Coordination of Humanitarian its offi cials have pledged. claiming confl ict of interest, since the State Depart- by ingesting lead shot, fragments or tional fi nger-pointing since Monday, Aff airs shows some countries are The four nations and the EU have ment, which Mrs. Clinton led from 2009 to 2012, is contaminated prey. when the U.N. World Food Program guiltier than others. collectively delivered well over $1 overseeing environmental reviews and permitting Lawrence Keane, NSSF senior vice announced that unfulfi lled donor While many have lived up to aid billion in Syrian humanitarian aid, processes for the pipeline. president and general counsel, accused commitments were to blame for the promises — including the United spread across the World Food Pro- During her address, Mrs. Clinton did indicate the Fish and Wildlife Service of delib- organization’s sudden suspension of States, which, at $3 billion, has funded gram and other U.N. agencies, in- energy and climate change would be priorities of erately sitting on the report in order to a critical voucher program serving nearly half the total humanitarian cluding the U.N. Refugee Agency hers if she ends up in the Oval Offi ce. more than 1.7 million people across response — several are delinquent, » see CONDOR | A4 the Middle East who were displaced with Kuwait, the United Kingdom, » see REFUGEES | A5 » see CLINTON | A5 HEALTH CARE Vitter: Congress must feel pain of Obamacare BY TOM HOWELL JR. all lawmakers list their employees THE WASHINGTON TIMES Wants staffs to also use exchange as offi cial — drawing a rebuke from Mr. Vitter — as the Senate prepares When Republicans take control make a nonbinding rule that all Senate to vote on a bill halting the to vote on its version next week. of the Senate next month, their fi rst senators must designate all of their subsidy that lawmakers and their “The House of Representatives Obamacare fi ght may actually be staff members as “offi cial,” there- staff s get to pay for insurance on had an opportunity to change with themselves, in a clash test- fore making them have to buy in- the exchanges, saying that’s a ben- course [that day], but instead they ing just how far to go in forcing surance on the Aff ordable Care efi t no other American receives, so protected their exemption under lawmakers and their staff to live Act’s health exchanges. Congress shouldn’t either. Obamacare,” Mr. Vitter said. “Con- under the law. But Sen. David Vitter, the Loui- It’s fi xing to be an uphill battle. gress gave America Obamacare, ASSOCIATED PRESS First up will be a decision within siana Republican who is driving the House Republicans last month re- PAIN SHARE: Louisiana Sen. David Vitter says Congress must the Senate GOP on whether to issue, also says he’ll try to force the jected their own proposal to make » see VITTER | A4 experience Obamacare’s “train wreck” along with constituents. POLITICS ECONOMY COMMENTARY SPORTS VOLUME 32, NUMBER 241 Deal gives Obama Iraqi government Carson: Ferguson Terrapins freshman permission to train, reaches oil deal with destroyed itself at the faces tough challenge equip Syrian rebels.