Playbook: Inside the House GOP's big immigration meeting
Source: Politico
House Republicans, facing an immigration revolt from both poles of their conference, will meet this morning in the basement of the Capitol to try to settle some of the most nettlesome migrant policies that have felled party leaders for more than a half-dozen years.
REPUBLICAN LEADERS are looking to wrestle back control of the House floor, by orchestrating a series of GOP immigration votes that relegates the so-called discharge petition to the dustbin. In short: Republican leaders want the power of their majority back.
KEEP YOUR EXPECTATIONS LOW. Meetings with upwards of 230 members of Congress, dozens of aides and a hallway full of reporters waiting to pounce are typically not fruitful or helpful. Gatherings of this nature typically devolve into hours of grandstanding and screaming matches
Read more: https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2018/06/07/house-republican-immigration-meeting-279111
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so they wouldn't have to face the reality of how fucked up their ideas are.
