the hill.com reported
EXCERPT Immigration reform is widely seen as dead in this Congress, and the finger-pointing has already started.
Both parties are responsible for the effort’s demise.
Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio), for example, refused pleas from GOP negotiators for a commitment to move the House bill. Republicans could never give Democrats a clear sense of how many GOP lawmakers might support the proposal if it ever reached the floor.
Inside the House Group of Eight, momentum toward a deal slowed as negotiations became bogged down in a dispute over healthcare. By the end of May, the group had lost its self-described conservative hardliner, Rep. Raúl Labrador (R-Idaho), who quit despite pleas from top Republicans, including Rep. Paul Ryan (Wis.), that he stay at the table.
The remaining seven met through the summer, but their moment had passed.
“I think Raúl figured that no matter what happened, we weren’t going to make a deal,” said Gutiérrez, one of four House Democrats in the group. “When he left, everybody said we were still alive, but I didn’t think we were.”
The group’s collapse after more than four years of talks left the House without a bipartisan immigration proposal to rival the Senate bill that passed in June, and a year after Obama’s re-election, the prospects for his top second-term domestic priority are bleak.
Abandoning the legislation in September, Texas Reps. Sam Johnson and John Carter cited a growing lack of trust in the Obama administration’s commitment to implementing the law.
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My list:
The Senate bill was another Obamacare like monstrosity, no GOP in House wanted to vote for that as is, only house Dems did.
Obama arrogantly flaunts his ability to pick and choose what laws Justice will enforce and when, so what good is a enforcement deal in a law?
Bad vibes between GOP and Obama after shutdown fight (The one good thing from it). So why give Obama any victory after he called you a terrorist child hostage taker?
Obamacare disaster : why change the subject from that continuing drama?
And time was short to begin with, and Bohner promised to NOT put a bill up wo GOP majority support and he is not known to lie.(I repeatedly said here that he would keep this one)