House Judiciary Marks Up GOP Immigration Bill Tuesday as Johnson Races to Clear 4-Bill Agenda
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Updated · POLITICO · Jul 20
House Judiciary Marks Up GOP Immigration Bill Tuesday as Johnson Races to Clear 4-Bill Agenda
2 articles · Updated · POLITICO · Jul 20
Summary
Tuesday’s House Judiciary markup of a GOP immigration bill is set to deliver on Mike Johnson’s promise to hard-liners who had frozen floor business for weeks.
The measure will include pieces of the prior Congress’s H.R. 2 border package, but moderate and senior Republicans are already warning it lacks the votes to pass the chamber.
Johnson is trying to use that concession to steady his conference before a four-day sprint to summer recess that includes the NDAA, a stopgap funding bill through Dec. 4, a $95 billion budget resolution and a GOP stock-trading ban.
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