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Thursday, November 14, 2013

Boehner Puts Brakes On Immigration Reform

House Speaker John A. Boehner on Wednesday flatly ruled out even entering into negotiations with the Senate on that chamber’s immigration bill, signaling that the issue is dead for this year — and setting up major hurdles for any action before the midterm elections.

Emerging from a meeting with fellow Republicans, Mr. Boehner said he won’t be bound by President Obama’s timeline on action this year, and firmly rejected the Senate’s approach, which would legalize most illegal immigrants and rewrite the legal immigration system.

“We’ve made it clear that we’re going to move on a common-sense, step-by-step approach in terms of how we deal with immigration,” Mr. Boehner, Ohio Republican, told reporters after the meeting. “The idea that we’re going to take up a 1,300-page bill that no one had ever read, which is what the Senate did, is not going to happen in the House. And frankly, I’ll make clear we have no intention of ever going to conference on the Senate bill.”

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4 comments:

  1. Good .....fix the budget and clean up obama care..first and of course READ ALL BILLS PASSED....

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  2. Boehner made a Good Call there, for once.

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  3. They will eventually cave...but hopefully they will have enough sense to just agree to permanent resident status, and NOT give them the right to vote! The dems are drooling over the thought of millions of instant democrat voters!

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  4. 5:44
    Yes instant democrats that will want more free handouts.

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