NRCC Chairman: House Will Take Up Immigration Reform Before 2014 Election

This Feb. 16, 2012 file photo shows Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., as he heads to the House Ways and Means Committee room on Capitol Hill in Washington. Walden faces a primary challenge form the right after the announceme... This Feb. 16, 2012 file photo shows Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., as he heads to the House Ways and Means Committee room on Capitol Hill in Washington. Walden faces a primary challenge form the right after the announcement by Klamath County Commissioner Dennis Linthicum that he will run for Congress. MORE LESS
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The chairman of House Republicans’ campaign arm expects for his chamber to take up immigration reform sometime before the 2014 elections.

“Between now and the election I think the House will take up immigration in a piece-by-piece approach,” National Republican Congressional Committee Chairman Rep. Greg Walden (R-OR) said Friday at a Christian Science Monitor breakfast.

But Walden said he expected Obamacare to be the dominant issue of the next election cycle.

“That being said Obamacare will live on,” Walden continued. “And I think that will be the dominant issue. Because that affects everybody.”

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