House symbolically votes to block Obama immigration order
The House of Representatives on Thursday voted 219 to 197 to render President Obama's executive action on immigration "null and void."
The Democratic-led Senate is unlikely to approve the measure, and even if it did, President Obama would never sign it. The vote was a symbolic gesture by House Republicans to oppose the president on immigration without threatening to withhold federal funding and thus risk a government shutdown.
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