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The president did something similar last year in 2012 when he bypassed congress and allowed young illegal immigrants brought here as children by their parents to stay here in the u.s. if they met certain qualifications. jenna. jenna: more on the story as we get it, molly. thank you. jon: lots of outrage from new york-area lawmakers pushing the house to hold a vote on aid for superstorm sandy victims bill. house speaker john boehner scheduling one vote for friday on some of the money and another later in the month for the rest of the funding. the move comes after widespread anger over his decision to cancel action onefof the last congress. it would have sent billions of dollars in aid to help with relief after superstorm sandy. let s talk about it with angela mcglowan. she is a fox news political analyst. what did the speaker do here? he incited the ire of many even within his own conference by shelving that bill until the new conference, the new congress ....
Jenna: apparently. hi, everybody, i m jenna lee. jon: i m jon scott. the 113th congress convenes today on capitol hill amid issues brst few weeks and months. take a look. we have at footage of the 112th congress, which is in its last hours right now. the new congress to be sworn in just a couple of hours. speaker john boehner, seen there, may be in for a fight as the house votes for its next leader today. frustration among the gop is fueling concerns that the republican speaker could actually lose his post. meanwhile outrage is growing over superstorm sandy funding. the house pledging to vote on the aid bill as leaders on both sides of the aisle expressed concerns over the delay. chief congressional correspondent mike emanuel live on capitol hill for us now. so, mike, give us the assessment. is speaker boehner in trouble? reporter: jon, we re told 25 or 30 conservative members who have reservations about speaker ....
Comes in. when you have 2010 election where tea parties took over congress, rather, dealing with dividing the party, they voted not to use earmarks. so on the bill on hurricane sandy you had members of congress putting things on this bill, jon, that didn t belong, poor boehner, darned in you do, darned if you don t, was trying to adhere to the party pushing the vote but instead he split the party with peter king and also with christie. you have tea partiers upset with him, dealing with the fact that he voted for obama s legislation to assist with the fiscal cliff. jon: right. i read one assessment said that is part of the reason that the speaker decided to shelf the vote because his caucus had just had to vote on the fiscal cliff deal, many of them didn t like it. they got it passed, mostly with democratic support. but he didn t feel it was appropriate to put them through another vote on $60 ....
Little bit of drama, that john boehner will continue on, jon. jon: one of the things he has done to stir the pot a little bit was to delay a vote on hurricane sandy funding. big controversy over that. where does that stand right now? reporter: well, that s right. there are some who say the bill that was sent over from the united states senate included items that were not related to the new york metropolitan area s recovery from superstorm sandy, such as alaskan fisheries, such as repairing rooftops for washington, d.c. museums. and bottom line a lot of people are questioning whether that pork is being stripped out. take a listen to this. we don t do earmarks in the house. you saw the other night, i know susan is going to talk about it, you saw what effectively was a ton of earmarks coming in from the senate. and hurricane sandy, it has got $30 billion worth of earmarks in it effectively. reporter: what i ve been told is, tomorrow we expect them to vote on some initial ....