Obama Defends Executive Action On Immigration: Bill Would ‘Supercede’ It

House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, right, watches President Barack Obama speak, as golfer Zach Johnson watches at left, during a ceremony honoring the 2013 Presidents Cup U.S. team during a ceremony in the East Room... House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, right, watches President Barack Obama speak, as golfer Zach Johnson watches at left, during a ceremony honoring the 2013 Presidents Cup U.S. team during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House, Tuesday, June 24, 2014 in Washington. The U.S. team beat an international squad during the Presidents Cup matches in October 2013. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin) MORE LESS
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President Obama on Sunday defended his decision to use executive action to address immigration, arguing that he’s been waiting a while to act on immigration.

“I presided over a process in which the Senate produced a bipartisan bill. I then said to John Boehner, ‘John, let’s get this passed through the House.’ For a year I stood back and let him work on this. He decided not to call the Senate bill and he couldn’t produce his own bill,” Obama said in an interview with CBS” “Face the Nation,” which aired Sunday.

And Obama said he still wants Congress to pass a comprehensive bill that would take the place of his executive action.

“What I’m saying to them, actually, their time hasn’t run out. I’m going to do what I can do through executive action,” he said. “And in the interim, the minute they pass a bill that addresses the problems with immigration reform, I will sign it and it supercedes whatever actions I take.”

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  1. Oh for God’s sake, do it already. Quit being a chicken-shit and take executive action on immigration. The only bill that this GOP congress will pass is one that will spend billions on some stupid fence while slapping around the ‘Browns’. If BO does sign anything passed by this congress, it’s guaranteed to be one shitty bill that will define Obama’s legacy…

  2. He’s being way too professorial, but it’s not his job to be friendly with boner, so he will do it and it will inflame the Rs. Result, the Latinos will hate the Ds a little less than they do the Rs

  3. Avatar for pine pine says:

    Just do it,SWOOSH !!

  4. Avatar for livi_o livi_o says:

    Yeah, a misspelling in the article text is bad enough, but a misspelling in the headline… oof.

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