CIR will pass-consensus from majority leader and demographics

Andrew Doughman(POLITICS & GOVERNMENT REPORTER for the los vegas sun), Dec-4-13,
http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2013/dec/04/reid-confident-congress-pass-immigration-bill/, Reid
Confident Congress Pass Immigration BillGH, Google, 12-5-13

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid predicted Tuesday that Congress will pass an overhaul of the
nations immigration system sometime next year. I feel positive we will get an immigration bill
passed, the Nevada Democrat said in an interview with the Suns editorial board Tuesday. Both Reid
and Sen. Dean Heller, R-Nev., voted in the Senate for an immigration bill that requires more spending for
Border Patrol activities and gives people in the United States illegally a pathway to citizenship. But the
House of Representatives has taken no action on that bill, nor have they delivered comprehensive
immigration proposals of their own. So immigration legislation has been stalled in Congress since June.
But Reid said hes confident the House will act. I think theres going to be so much pressure on the
House that theyll have to pass it, he said. Activists in Nevada have been lobbying Rep. Joe Heck, R-
Nev., to take action on immigration reform. But Reid said it will be the demographics of the United
States that will ultimately persuade the House to pass an immigration bill.

CIR will pass- new hires show Boehner is looking to move forward
Dan Nowicki (The Arizona Republic), 12-4-13,
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/12/04/boehner-hire-new-hope-immigration-
reform/3869145/,Boehner hire signals new hope for migrant reform, Google, GH

House Speaker John Boehner's hiring of a former top aide to Sen. John McCain to advise him on
immigration issues has renewed hopes that House Republican leaders are planning to move forward
on reform legislation next year. Boehner's hiring of Rebecca Tallent as assistant to the speaker for
policy handling immigration issues comes amid intensifying pro-reform activism on Capitol Hill as time
runs out on the 2013 legislative calendar. Tallent, most recently director of immigration policy at the
Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington, D.C., worked for McCain, R-Ariz., for years, including a stint as
his chief of staff. Before that, she was an aide to then-Rep. Jim Kolbe, R-Ariz., who, like McCain, was a
supporter of comprehensive immigration reform. "I'll be focusing on trying to get this sticky
immigration situation worked out," Tallent wrote in an e-mail announcing her final day at the Bipartisan
Policy Center. Reform supporters and opponents alike say the move by Boehner, R-Ohio, is the
clearest signal yet House GOP leaders are sincere when they say they want to act on a series of
immigration-reform bills.