Republican lawmaker: GOP members 'just don't want to vote for anything'

Republican lawmaker: GOP members 'just don't want to vote for anything'
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Republican members of the House are meeting later this morning in the hopes of salvaging a $695 million bill that was pulled from the floor at the last minute yesterday due to a conservative revolt, handing Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) the latest in a long line of humiliating rebukes.

The naysayers — led by Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who seems to have become a professional thorn in Boehner's side — have offered numerous reasons for their opposition to the bill, which would help deal with a border crisis prompted by an influx of tens of thousands of children from Central America. They say it doesn't go far enough in securing the border. They say it fails to curb President Obama's ability to offer immigrants "amnesty." They say they simply can't trust Obama to enforce the law.

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Ryu Spaeth

Ryu Spaeth is deputy editor at TheWeek.com. Follow him on Twitter.