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HERSHEY, Pa.—After hearing a week's worth of complaints from his conservative members, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said Thursday that the Senate will attempt to approve a House-passed bill that guts President Obama's executive actions on immigration.
Months after the president announced his executive action to protect millions of illegal immigrants within U.S. borders, Senate Republican leaders have been cagey about how they will respond, raising concerns among border hawks within the conference. But McConnell affirmed at a joint House and Senate Republican retreat in Hershey, Pa., that he will work to get the House's bill—which passed that chamber Wednesday—to the president's desk. "We're going to try to pass it," he told reporters Thursday.
http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/senate-gop-leaders-won-t-pledge-to-follow-house-lead-on-immigration-20150115
To those of you who thought that now that repubs have the entire congress that things would change? Not so fast....Repub leadership doesn't have the stones to fight for what the people want.