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Bipartisan Senate Immigration Bill: House of Representatives

House of Representatives: And yet a sweeping, bipartisan Senate immigration bill is on the brink of death this week in the more conservative House of Representatives, eight months after Obama handily won the second term many of those same Republicans had vowed to deny him. , according to Winnipeg Free Press. "I'm much more concerned about doing it right than I am about meeting some deadlines." WASHINGTON - After U.S. President Barack Obama decisively won last year's election his victory fuelled, in particular, by Hispanics Republicans publicly declared the time had come to reach out to Latinos, with some openly stating the party had scant chance of ever winning back the White House unless they did so. "We are not going to do the Senate bill," John Boehner, Republican speaker of the House of Representatives, told a Capitol Hill news conference on Thursday, a day after he privately urged his caucus to embrace immigration reform. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.