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Counterintuitively, of what they want to do when you re working with a republican majority in the house. and what i mean by that, we re not going to see most of the primaries done until really closer to june, state primaries,s in general. so that s going to be the winner for immigration reform. if the president uses executive action too often or you see too many protests pushing the backs up against republicans, that s going to lead to more inaction. there needs to look like, and i think that s why speaker boehner made some indications, that they are working on something. let s not push too hard, too fast and back the republicans in a corner because at the end of the day, the republicans well, i should say there s a responsible group of republicans who do want to see reform. and the business community wants to see reform. so i want to talk about exactly those groups, amy, and i want to throw that to you. because i think you laid them out beautifully, susan. because on the one h ....
I think 2014 needs to be a year of action. we can get immigration reform done. we ve got a concept that has bipartisan support. let s see if we can break through the politics on this. that was one of president obama s stated missions when he gets back to washington, d.c., getting immigration reform done, and soon. but while the speaker of the house, john boehner, has indicated that he is potentially on board, house majority leader eric cantor told republicans in a memo friday that the party s agenda for january consists of obamacare, government fund iing iran, the farm bill, and epa reform. as for immigration, that may be brought to the floor, may. and only over the next few months. so, read the tea leaves, as we did on unemployment insurance. do you think, facing these political realities, that we re going to get action on immigration reform? yes, but two qualifications. one, second-term presidents don t usually have big breakthroughs. it s much more of a muddling through. oh, t ....
Think immigration reform the necessary. we need it because it is part of what i m sorry, that s chicago tribune, right? business groups actually bank on the house acting on immigration reform. on the other hand, we have heritage action, which is a powerful conservative group saying is, basically, you better not act on it or act on it in a particular way, because if you do, we re going to score you in a way that is problematic. and let s listen quickly to boehner, and although he was not talking about immigration reform in this case, was talking about what those outside interest groups do. and in this case, was yelling at them about it. there just comes to a point where some people step over the line. when you criticize something and you have no idea what you re criticizing, it undermines your credibility. so what do you think? do they go with business community pushing them from one side, or with the kind of heritage action pushing with the other? it was very interesting to s ....