Immigration reform faces much tougher path in GOP House

If Senate Democrats assumed that getting 70 votes to advance an immigration-reform package would pressure House Republicans to vote on the Gang of Eight bill, they’re going to be disappointed.

Knowledgeable Republican sources believe it’s still possible for the GOP House and Democratic Senate to land in a conference committee negotiating a final immigration bill that could clear both chambers and garner President Obama’s signature. But getting there is probably going to require Senate Democrats and the White House to accept the politics of immigration reform for House Republicans and what it would take for Speaker John Boehner to move such a bill.