In a setback to Republican leadership, House postpones vote on a second immigration bill after voting down first
by Jazmine Ulloa and Eliza Fawcett, Los Angeles Times
Jun 22, 2018
3 minutes
WASHINGTON - With the family separations crisis still boiling on the border, the House on Thursday voted down a conservative immigration bill and abruptly postponed a vote on a more moderate proposal pitched as a compromise between battling Republican factions, an embarrassing setback for House leaders.
The first bill collapsed in a 193-231 vote, and the vote on the second was pushed back until next week to avoid back-to-back defeats. Both bills were largely seen as partisan measures with almost no path to becoming law, the latest failure in Congress to reach consensus on how to
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