Sentences with phrase «comprehensive immigration bill»

But Boehner and other House GOP leaders have repeatedly rejected calls to vote on a Senate - passed comprehensive immigration bill.

The bipartisan DREAM Act — a more comprehensive immigration bill that was proposed years ago but never passed — would be part of the proposed arrangement, a person briefed on the meeting said Wednesday night.

What they are failing to see is that most Americans support a comprehensive immigration bill, and they're ready for change now.

Schumer heads the Senate's Immigration, Refugees and Border Security Committee and is spearheading work on a comprehensive immigration bill.

More than 100 House Democrats, including many Hispanics, have signed on to the comprehensive immigration bill Gutierrez introduced last December.

Rubio urges his Republican colleagues to refrain from publicly endorsing a comprehensive immigration bill he helped write in hopes of bolstering its border security provisions.

The Senate passed a comprehensive immigration bill back in June that would help give the estimated 11 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S. a clear path to citizenship.

In a speech delivered from the White House on Thurs., Oct. 24th, he reiterated his call for a comprehensive immigration bill.

Senate Democrats are inching ever closer to pulling the trigger to limit the filibuster, even after a notable spate of bipartisanship in the chamber to pass the comprehensive immigration bill.

Supporters of the comprehensive immigration bill recently passed in the U.S. Senate stood outside the district office of a New York Congressman Monday, urging him to follow suit in the House.

Urged by anti-abortion rights groups and Republican lawmakers to take up their cause, the Florida senator is mulling over introducing legislation to ban abortions after 20 weeks nationally — just a few days after he helped pass a comprehensive immigration bill that created waves among conservatives.

Indeed, Obama cast his decision as the result of the Republican - led House's failure to act on a comprehensive immigration bill the Senate passed with bipartisan support in June 2013, or advance legislation of its own.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D - Nevada, said last week he will make passing a comprehensive immigration bill a priority once the Senate completes its work on a Wall Street reform bill.

The 4 - 4 vote leaves a lower court's ruling in place, ending the plan Obama put into place by executive action after Congress failed, yet again, to pass a comprehensive immigration bill.