MR. SPEAKERRRRR...Can we have some action in the House finally please?!?!

http://thehill.com/homenews/house/37...migration-bill

House GOP leaders on Wednesday will whip a conservative immigration bill authored by Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.), GOP sources told The Hill.

Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) made the call Tuesday afternoon. And Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.) informed his whip team of the development during a meeting Tuesday evening, according to a source in the room.

The vote-counting effort fulfills a promise Ryan made to conservatives in the House Freedom Caucus, but there’s no guarantee the bill can secure enough votes to come to the floor.

Last month, the Speaker vowed that he’d only bring up the Goodlatte bill for a vote if it had the support of 218 Republicans — an extremely high bar. In exchange, Freedom Caucus members agreed to back a funding bill to avert a government shutdown.

The Goodlatte bill is more conservative than proposals being considered in the Senate, as well as President Trump’s own immigration framework.

The House bill calls for a path to legal status — not citizenship — for hundreds of thousands of young, undocumented immigrants who took part in the Obama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program.

The legislation also authorizes funding for Trump’s border wall, ends family-based migration and scraps the diversity visa lottery program.

It also includes tougher border-enforcement measures: The bill would crack down on sanctuary cities, boost penalties for deported criminals who try to re-enter the U.S. and requires that employers use an electronic verification system known as E-Verify to make sure they hire legal workers.

There are some discussions about removing the E-Verify language -- a concern for members from agriculture-heavy states -- and sticking it in the upcoming farm bill, some lawmakers said.

The House whip efforts come as the Senate debates how to provide protections for the 700,000 DACA recipients. Trump has unilaterally rescinded the program and has given Congress until March 5 to find a permanent solution for these undocumented immigrants, typically referred to as "Dreamers."