Nancy Pelosi sent a letter
to Speaker Boehner this morning calling for a bipartisan approach to
immigration reform in the House. Pelosi says she wants a comprehensive
immigration bill, and that if Speaker Boehner wants to create one by
passing parts, that’s his prerogative.
It’s easy to understand why Pelosi takes this position. Her overriding objective is to see the House pass something, so that there will be a House-Senate conference, which is probably the only realistic (though hopefully not very) pathway to the enactment of amnesty legislation. Indeed, Pelosi is so anxious to get to conference that she has stopped short of saying a pathway to citizenship would be required to for the Democrats to back legislation in the House.
But here’s the part that’s difficult to understand: the Republican leadership in the House reportedly is “reaching out to top House Democrats to assess their support for a piecemeal approach to immigration reform.”
www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/07/why-is-boehner-reaching-out-to-pelosi-on-immigration-reform.php
It’s easy to understand why Pelosi takes this position. Her overriding objective is to see the House pass something, so that there will be a House-Senate conference, which is probably the only realistic (though hopefully not very) pathway to the enactment of amnesty legislation. Indeed, Pelosi is so anxious to get to conference that she has stopped short of saying a pathway to citizenship would be required to for the Democrats to back legislation in the House.
But here’s the part that’s difficult to understand: the Republican leadership in the House reportedly is “reaching out to top House Democrats to assess their support for a piecemeal approach to immigration reform.”
www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2013/07/why-is-boehner-reaching-out-to-pelosi-on-immigration-reform.php
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