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Black Eye: GOP Leaders Nix Border Vote After Tea Party Revolt - NBC News
House GOP calls off vote on immigration bill - CNN.com
House GOP Abandons Border Crisis Bill Amid Conservative Opposition
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In another blow to House Speaker John Boehner, House leaders abruptly called off a vote on legislation to address the influx of unaccompanied undocumented children into the United States after failing to secure enough votes to pass it.
The vote had been scheduled for Thursday afternoon, just before members were scheduled to leave town for their summer recess. But conservative Republicans threatened to break with their own party to vote against the GOP-authored measure, arguing that the legislation doesnt do enough to stem the flow of new migrants into the United States. Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, a Tea Party leader in the Senate, had actively been whipping up opposition to the bill in the House.
In a last-ditch effort to shore up support, House leaders have scheduled a meeting with members for 3pm ET Thursday afternoon to discuss a way forward.
Failure to vote on the bill would represent another black eye for GOP House leaders, who had seemed confident Thursday morning that they would be able to pass the bill and tout at least some action to address what all sides have called a humanitarian crisis.
House GOP calls off vote on immigration bill - CNN.com
On the last day before summer recess, dysfunction reigned in Congress.
House Republicans called off a vote on their $659 million emergency response to the border influx from Central America overwhelming immigration resources, unable to agree among themselves about what to do.
After first saying the bill was pulled, the GOP leaders called a caucus meeting for later Thursday and said more votes could take place.
House GOP Abandons Border Crisis Bill Amid Conservative Opposition
House Republican leaders abruptly pulled their border supplemental legislation prior to a scheduled vote on Thursday, a sign that they lacked the votes to pass it. That means members would go home for recess without acting, a situation that GOP leaders wanted to avoid.
Immigration-weary conservatives said the $659 million supplemental, and the subsequent measure to end the Obama administration's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, didn't go far enough in rebuking the president's actions.
It was a remarkable defeat for the new GOP leadership team on the day that Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) stepped down as majority leader...
...House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) was relieved by the GOP's decision to pull the bill.
"Oh my god. It was so awful," she told reporters. "Thank god."
Adam Jentleson, a spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, told TPM in an email that the Nevada Democrat is pleased to see GOP leaders acknowledge that Obama has executive authority to act on immigration.
"Senator Reid agrees with House Republican leaders statement that President Obama has the authority to take steps on immigration reform on his own," Jentleson said.
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