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House will not vote on Senate immigration bill

House Speaker John Boehner has told President Obama the House will not vote in the immigration reform bill passed by the Senate last year. At a White House press conference, the President said “There are enough Republicans and Democrats in the House to pass an immigration bill today and I would sign it today.” Mr. Obama called-out House leadership saying “It’s just politics, plain and simple.”

National Council of Farmer Cooperatives president and CEO Chuck Conner says they are very disappointed as he saw the Senate package as a good compromise package. “This inaction squanders the best opportunity we have had in a generation to fix a problem of critical importance to agriculture and bolster the economy across rural America.” Conner ads, “What farmers, ranchers and growers need, and what the American people deserve, is for policy makers in Washington to do their jobs and act to solve the country’s broken immigration system.”

President Obama says he is forced to take Executive Action to do what he can but Conner says the President is quite limited in what he actually can do. Conner says we are an economy that needs a boost and until we fix these problems “we will continue to have stagnant growth.”

AUDIO: President Obama talks about the development 3:03 mp3

Conner talks about the issue 6:29 mp3