Thread: GOP congressman: Immigration reform can happen in 2014

GOP congressman: Immigration reform can happen in 2014

By Molly K. Hooper - 12/20/13 06:00 AM EST

A key House Republican said that if Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) secures several legislative wins early next year, an immigration bill could clear the lower chamber by next summer.
Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) was careful to say that the battles ahead for Congress and the White House — such as raising the debt ceiling — could shape whether the House acts on immigration reform in early 2014. Cole serves as a deputy whip on Boehner's leadership team.
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With the caveat that the House will not vote on the Senate-passed bill, Cole envisions a situation where Boehner allows a vote on a couple or all of the four-House-Judiciary Committee-passed measures on immigration reform/border security.Noting that Boehner has made it “abundantly clear” that he’d like to move immigration bills, Cole said that “we just saw a budget deal that made progress that brought people together from both sides from very different perspectives and I suspect that can be done on immigration as well.”

video at link below

http://thehill.com/video/house/19369...happen-in-2014

Tom Cole (OK) knows that Oklahomans and the majority of Americans DON'T WANT AMNESTY FOR MILLIONS OF ILLEGAL ALIENS.

The GOP leadership apparently does ..