Third House Republican signs on to sweeping immigration bill

[Eugene]

Source: Reuters

Third House Republican signs on to sweeping immigration bill

WASHINGTON | Wed Oct 30, 2013 6:24pm EDT

(Reuters) - David Valadao of California on Wednesday became the third Republican in the House of Representatives to join Democrats in backing a sweeping immigration bill that includes a path to citizenship for immigrants who are in the country illegally.

Valadao, who represents a district where more than 70 percent of residents are Hispanic, joins fellow Republicans Jeff Denham of California and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida in supporting the plan introduced by House Democrats.

The immigration bill still has little hope of success in the Republican-controlled House, where most Republicans strongly oppose any plan that would give millions of undocumented immigrants a potential path to U.S. citizenship.

But Valadao said he hoped to show House Republican leaders, who have rejected taking up a comprehensive Senate immigration bill, that there is support in the party for taking up the issue this year.

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Read more: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/30/us-usa-immigration-congress-idUSBRE99T1GS20131030

[davidpdx]

1. I don't think Boner is going to let the bill come up unless they get the watered down version

they want. Maybe he ought to start watering down his bourbon instead.