WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. House of Representatives today passed H.R. 5759, the Preventing Executive Overreach on Immigration Act, rejecting the president’s unilateral actions on immigration.  Shortly before the vote, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) urged the outgoing Democratic majority in the Senate to take up and pass the bill:

“The president thumbed his nose at the American people with his actions on immigration, and the House will make clear today that we are rejecting his unilateral actions.  And then the United States Senate should take this bill up and pass it.   For the outgoing Senate Democrat majority to do anything less would be an act of monumental arrogance.  The American people elected us to heed their will and not bow to the whims of the White House that regards the legislative process established by the Constitution as little more than a nuisance.”