Marco Rubio: Gang of Eight’s immigration bill can’t pass the House

Sen. Marco Rubio acknowledged Tuesday on a conservative radio talk show that the Gang of Eight’s comprehensive immigration reform bill won’t likely pass the Republican-led House.
The comments from Rubio, perhaps the most influential congressional Republican on immigration, illustrate the challenges facing the prospects for reform after months of private negotiations by a bipartisan coalition of senators produced a wide-ranging, 844-page bill.

“The bill that’s in place right now probably can’t pass the House,” Rubio told Mike Gallagher, a nationally syndicated talk show host. “It will have to be adjusted, because people are very suspicious about the willingness of the government to enforce the laws now.”
He continued: “That is a very legitimate suspicion, it’s one that I share, and if there’s anything we can do to make [the bill] even tighter … that’s exactly what we should be working on.”
The Florida Republican called the Gang of Eight bill a “starting point” and urged opponents to proposes changes to the bill, not try to kill it altogether.
“Let’s try to fix it,” Rubio said. “Let’s try to change it, but to just say let’s defeat the whole thing, I don’t think that’s a productive approach either.”
The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to begin marking up the bill next week, and it could hit the Senate floor in June. House Republicans have favored tackling reform in bite-sized pieces, rather than one omnibus bill.


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Republicans: screwing us again.

And again. And again.

Honestly, I think he's doing the only thing he can do at this point: encouraging these idiots to actually propose changes and become active participants in the debate vs. attempting to immediately kill the bill like they are right now.

If they kill CIR, it's over for the GOP. We know that and believe it or not, they know that.

The House has always been the problem,but I am willing to let the process play out and see what kind of bill comes out of the Senate first.I think Rubio is being a bit naive in his approach to be honest.

Yea, you can all just forget this whole immigration reform bull shit, these heartless republicans don't give a damn about this country or what's in the best interest of its people.. It's politicians and greed that made this country lose its #1 place in the world..

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Everyone calm down. We're getting to the point where DAP has more mood swings than a hormonal 14 year old. Just breath. Lets all just sit back and watch. No need to get overly pessimistic at articles like these (and no need to get overly optimistic about articles we like). Lets just stay neutral to keep our sanity.

Being white has nothing to do with it.. It's like me saying you heartless Hispanic man.. Why? Why do you have to throw ethnicity in there? I'm white.. Has nothing to do with my views.. God this is annoying because you know the second a white guy points anything about another persons ethnicity and when someone makes fun of a white guys its fine.. Damn double standard..

are you serious with this comment? lmao


sorry i can't see right thru your white privilege

If my memory serves me right, discrimination gets you banned around here