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House Speaker John Boehner said Wednesday that the House of Representatives will not go to a conference committee with the Senate’s “Gang of Eight” immigration bill. “We have no intention of ever going to conference on the Senate bill,” Boehner said on Wednesday.
The remarks from the Speaker come several months after the Senate bill passed 68-32, with most Republicans including Senate Minority Leader Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) voting against it. Fourteen Republicans, including the four GOP members of the Senate’s Gang of Eight, voted for it.
Boehner’s promise against conference comes on the heels of Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL), the leading GOP sponsor of the Senate bill, publicly opposing conference in a Breitbart News exclusive and after scores of conservatives publicly demanded there not be a conference committee. Rubio’s opposition to conference, an effective un-endorsement of his own bill, was significant and followed calls opposing conference from Sens. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rand Paul (R-KY), as well as several influential House Republicans.
xuenchen
Now what ?
What is the *opposition* all about anyway ?
MOMof3
Borders and walls served dictators, communists, and nazis well. For a time.
MOMof3
reply to post by Helious
Old ideas die hard. What is wrong with Utopia?
Immigration was a problem long before Obama, even before I was born.
"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall". Once an old wise man said cause he did not like walls either. He knew it was a waste money.
MOMof3
Borders and walls served dictators, communists, and nazis well. For a time.