WASHINGTON — With the Senate about to vote with a supermajority to pass the border security amendment on the immigration reform bill, the GOP in the House feels no necessity to back the bill.
Speaker John Boehner has said that he will back the bill only if it gains the support of the majority of House Republicans, and the decision of the Senate will not sway him either way. Others, like Labrador (who quit the House committee responsible for its own version of an immigration bill) have scoffed openly at the Senate's hopes that a big enough majority in support of the bill would persuade Representatives to back their proposal.
“We have a minority of the minority in the Senate voting for this bill,” said Representative Tom Cole, Republican of Oklahoma, referring to the 15 or so Republicans expected to back the Senate measure. “That’s not going to put a lot of pressure on the majority of the majority in the House.”
Boehner has also made it clear that he would not jeopardize the conservative vote for 2014 in order to try for a larger Hispanic vote in 2016.
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