Conservatives Take Credit for Derailing Border Security Bill

rollcall.com ^ | 1/27/15 | Matt Fuller

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With inclement weather grounding planes across the country Monday, GOP leaders pulled a border security bill from the floor schedule this week, citing the weather and an already condensed schedule.

One day later, though there are no blizzards conveniently scheduled for next week, Speaker John A. Boehner wasn’t about to commit to a timeline for resurrecting the border bill — a delay that some hard-line conservatives are already chalking up as a victory.

“We’re going to continue to talk to our members about these issues,” Boehner said following a Tuesday morning conference meeting. “When you look at it, it wasn’t the border bill itself. Frankly, it was issues that weren’t even in the committee’s jurisdiction.”

The Ohio Republican was asked when the House would vote on the contentious border bill, but that wasn’t the question he answered. “We’re going to have to walk through all of this with our members, and when we’re ready to move, we will,” he said.

Boehner acknowledged that leaders had already faced a couple of revolts in the early weeks of the 114th Congress — “Yeah, there have been a couple of stumbles,” he said, referring to an abortion bill leaders pulled last week and the border bill they pulled yesterday — but he said it was all in an effort to listen to the American people.

“It’s all about working with our members, listening to our members, and working through what are some very difficult issues,” he said.

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Hurrah! But: the tortured DC games of the wicked, allow for these temporary loses, then regroup and come from another direction/time.