USA Today
By Catalina Camia
April 25, 2014
House Speaker John Boehner’s mocking of his own GOP members on immigration sparked a reaction from lawmakers in both parties.
Minority
Leader Nancy Pelosi turned Boehner’s words on him and urged the speaker
in posts on Twitter to bring an immigration proposal to the floor for a
vote. House GOP
leaders have said repeatedly they will not consider the Senate-passed
immigration bill.
Boehner
told a Rotary Club audience in his Ohio district on Thursday that some
House Republicans have this attitude about overhauling the nation’s
immigration policy:
“Ohhhh. Don’t make me do this. Ohhh. This is too hard.”
He
went on to say that he’s had “every brick and bat and arrow shot at me
over this issue just because I wanted to deal with. I didn’t say it was
going to be easy.”
One
of those Republicans jabbing at Boehner has been Rep. Raul Labrador,
R-Idaho, who once said Boehner should lose his speakership if he pursued
an overhaul of immigration
policy this year. The GOP-led House has only released a statement of
principles about what it would like to accomplish in an immigration
rewrite.
“I
was disappointed with Speaker Boehner’s comments, and I think they will
make it harder — not easier — to pass immigration reform,” Labrador
said in a statement Friday.
He said the “biggest obstacle” facing Congress is President Obama,
charging him with not enforcing the immigration laws that already exist.
“Speaker
Boehner should have made that point,” Labrador said, “instead of
criticizing the people he is supposed to be leading. … If he wants the
Republican conference
to follow him on this issue, he needs to stand up for House Republicans
instead of catering to the media and special-interest groups.”
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