The Republican House leadership, after giving so many concessions away to conservatives and their informal leader, Sen. Ted Cruz, still couldn’t pull together enough votes. A vote on its $659 million border supplemental was pulled from the floor minutes before it was scheduled, and then officially dropped. It’s a total embarrassment for Boehner and his new leadership team, Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy and whip Steve Scalise, who were relying on its passage as proof that they were “ready to govern.” Now, unless they can scramble something together to save face, they’ll head into the five-week August recess having agreed to sue President Obama but not on any immigration-related bill, no matter how hard-line it had become.
Posted on: Thu, 31 Jul 2014 21:35:57 +0000
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