Thread: Immigration Doesn’t Have the Votes Yet, Ryan Says

By Daniel Newhauser Posted at 11:57 a.m. on March 12


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House Budget Chairman Paul D. Ryan told his local newspaper that Republican leaders do not have the votes yet to pass a rewrite of the nation’s immigration system.

“We don’t have the votes right now,” the Wisconsin Republican told his local newspaper, the Janesville Gazette, in an interview Monday. “Right now, we’re working hard to find where that consensus lies.” Ryan said both the right and left are holding up an overhaul.

A poll of House Republican offices by CQ Roll Call found that just 18 members, including Ryan, publicly support the immigration principles Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio released in January.

http://www3.blogs.rollcall.com/218/r...tes-right-now/

Now, I am glad that he was not elected. During his campaign for VP he was singing a different tune.