House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) is pulling the plug on the Senate Gang of Eight\u2019s immigration bill.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe\u2019ve made it clear that we\u2019re going to move on a common sense, step-by-step approach in terms of how we deal with immigration,\u201d said Boehner, according to the Washington Times<\/a>. \u201cThe idea that we\u2019re 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\u2019ll make clear we had no intention of ever going to conference on the Senate bill.\u201d<\/p>\n That last line about having \u201cno intention of ever going to conference on the Senate bill\u201d might come as a surprise to those who remember the viability of that option prior to freshman Rep. Tom Cotton (R-AR) unleashing a public<\/a> and private<\/a> remonstrance against it.<\/p>\n I’m sure there were a lot of factors that went into Boehner\u2019s decision to put the kibosh on the Senate\u2019s version of immigration; not least of which is politics. Immigration reform splits the GOP to the advantage of Democrats. Focusing on all of Obamacare\u2019s failures unites Republicans ahead of the critical 2014 midterm elections.<\/p>\n Whatever the weight given to individual factors, it\u2019s good to see House Republicans opting for unity over division. On both issues, the conservative perspective wins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) is pulling the plug on the Senate Gang of Eight\u2019s immigration bill. \u201cWe\u2019ve made it clear that we\u2019re going to move on a common sense, step-by-step approach in terms of how we deal with immigration,\u201d said Boehner, according to the Washington Times. \u201cThe idea that we\u2019re going to take up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[84,4100,3949,1553,981,1057,38,4380],"class_list":["post-19425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-congress","tag-gang-of-eight","tag-house","tag-illegal","tag-immigration","tag-john-boehner","tag-senate","tag-tom-cotton"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19425"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19433,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19425\/revisions\/19433"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}