Boehner: House will not Conference with Senate amnesty bill
House Speaker John Boehner told reporters this morning that the House will not conference with the Schumer-Rubio amnesty bill. Speaker Boehner has repeatedly said that they House will take a piecemeal approach to immigration reform, but this is the first time he has publicly said that the Chamber will not consider the Senate bill in any capacity.
Here's what Speaker Boehner said:
"We've made it clear that we're going to move on a common sense, step-by-step approach in terms of how we deal with immigration. The idea that we're going to take up a 1,300-page bill that no one had ever read, which is what the Senate did, is not going to happen in the House. And frankly, I'll make clear we have no intention of ever going to conference on the Senate bill.
"Let's understand something. I want us to deal with this issue. But I want to deal with it in a common-sense step-by-step way."
-- Speaker John Boehner
Speaker Boehner has not ruled out an amnesty for 11-18 million illegal aliens, and GOP Leadership has mentioned their desire to grant amnesty to illegal aliens who were brought to the United States at a young age. But the statement today is the best signal so far that the Senate amnesty bill may be dead.
For more information, see the Washington Times.