Republican leaders are planning to assemble a GOP immigration reform bill to fend off a forced vote this month on a trio of reform bills, but Speaker Paul Ryan would not say definitively on Thursday when or if the House would take up a measure.

“Obviously time is of the essence if we want to have a legislative process we can control,” Ryan, R-Wis., told reporters after a two-hour immigration reform meeting with GOP lawmakers on the Thursday morning.

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