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  • Boehner warns House GOP will be weaker without immigration reform

    07/10/2013 4:05:56 PM PDT · by jimbo123 · 98 replies
    The Hill ^ | 7/10/13 | Russell Berman, Molly K. Hooper and Erik Wasson
    Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) urged their House Republican colleagues to pass immigration reform legislation in a closed-door meeting Wednesday, with the Speaker arguing his conference would be “in a much weaker position” if it failed to act. A divided House Republican conference met for more than two hours in the basement of the Capitol to begin hashing out a response to the sweeping immigration bill the Senate passed last month. -snip- He (Issa) said the House would deal with the 11 million illegal immigrants, but that the conference viewed them not as a uniform block,...