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发帖数: 29846 | 1 President, VP May Differ on Immigration Strategy: 'Obama Angrily Cut Biden
Off'
10:31 AM, Nov 9, 2014 • By DANIEL HALPER
President Obama and Vice President Biden might not see eye-to-eye on
immigration strategy. A hint of an apparent disagreement was on display
during Obama's lunch with congressional leaders on Friday at the White House.
"The meeting was tense at times, according to a senior House Republican aide
. The aide was not authorized to describe the back-and-forth publicly by
name and spoke only on condition of anonymity," the Associated Press reports.
"Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid, about to lose his grip on the upper
chamber, barely said a word. The aide said at one point as House Speaker
John Boehner was making an argument on immigration, Obama responded that his
patience was running out and Vice President Joe Biden interrupted to ask
how long Republicans needed. Obama angrily cut Biden off, the aide said."
The Wall Street Journal reported similarly on the same exchange:
Mr. Obama told the lawmakers that he had already been patient waiting
for the GOP-controlled House to act since the Senate passed a sweeping
bipartisan immigration bill in June 2013.
At that point, Vice President Joe Biden asked how long Republicans might
need to bring up an immigration bill, according to multiple people familiar
with the meeting, asking if they might be ready by mid-February or another
time this spring. Mr. Obama gave him a look that ended that line of
discussion, the people said.
Democratic congressional aides said the president wasn’t cutting off Mr
. Biden, who was making a rhetorical point that Republicans refused to
commit to bringing an immigration bill to the floor by a specific time. |
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