House GOP Will Hold Symbolic Vote on Immigration

“House Republicans on Tuesday emerged from a closed-door meeting determined to avoid a government shutdown,” the New York Times reports.

“The lawmakers began coalescing around a two-part plan that would allow a symbolic vote to show their frustration with President Obama’s executive action on immigration, before funding the government ahead of a Dec. 11 deadline. The proposal, presented by Speaker John A. Boehner, first calls for House Republicans to vote on a resolution proposed by Representative Ted Yoho, Republican of Florida, that says that the president does not have the power to take the executive action he took last month.”

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