The immigration debate is now squarely in the House of Representatives

  • The immigration debate is now squarely in the House of Representatives, with the Senate overwhelmingly passing its version of a comprehensive bill before the congressional break. ABC's RICK KLEIN notes that House leaders will begin to chart their next steps this week with a special meeting of House Republicans on Wednesday. Speaker John Boehner will ultimately face the big choice: Whether to  upport a path to citizenship or not, but until then there are plenty of little questions. Will the bipartisan "gang" in the House break through with something like a similar group did in the Senate? Will there be a Marco Rubio figure who brings conservatives along? One indication of the lack of House urgency, out of a relatively quiet break week of town-hall meetings, came from House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., who said: "Getting it right is more important than passing a bill."
  • CONSERVATIVE GROUP'S AD LOOKS TO SWAY GOP ON IMMIGRATION: Republican supporters of immigration reform are beginning to put their money where their mouth is by launching a television ad campaign designed to convince conservatives to get behind the Senate's immigration overhaul, FUSION's JORDAN FABIAN reports. The center-right super PAC American Action Network will run an ad this week on Fox News that calls on the House of Representatives to back the so-called "border surge" contained in the Senate bill. The plan would dramatically increase resources devoted to securing the southern border. The group said in a statement it is spending "$100,000 plus" to air the ad. The 30-second spot stresses the provisions of the "surge," calling it "the toughest border security plan ever passed by Congress." "Seven hundred miles of new fencing. Twenty thousand new border patrol agents. Radar. Night vision. Even drones," the narrator says during the ad. "And supported by conservative leaders like Marco Rubio, Jeb Bush and Paul Ryan."
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