Thread: MIGRATION TURNABOUT

Within two days last week, House Majority Leader John Boehner changed from sunny optimism about prospects for passing an immigration bill this summer to a bleak, negative outlook. The reason was that Boehner got the word from House Speaker Dennis Hastert.

Boehner on Tuesday was upbeat in addressing a breakfast forum at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, which supports a guest worker program. He indicated he would resolve differences between the restrictive House bill and the much more liberal Senate bill by the Fourth of July.

But at a closed luncheon Wednesday at Charlie Palmer's restaurant, attended by financial contributors to House Republicans, Boehner declared that the immigration bill was all but dead. That change followed Boehner's conversation late Tuesday with Hastert, who made clear he did not want to pursue the issue that splits the Republican Party.
http://www.townhall.com/opinion/columns ... 01642.html

This is good reading http://fas.org/sgp/crs/row/RL32735.pdf and may explain a whole lot.

Yes it did!

Originally Posted by nittygritty

Hastert, who made clear he did not want to pursue the issue that splits the Republican Party.

if congress cared as much about the American people as they do their political parties, we'd be in good shape