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Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty ImagesChances for advancing immigration reform this year were stopped short Wednesday when Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, said the House will not be negotiating the Senate-passed bill, the Associated Press reports.The idea that we ;re going to take up a 1,300-page bill that no one had ever read, which is what the Senate did, is not going to happen in the House, Boehner told reporters in a press conference. And frankly, I ;ll make clear: We have no intention of ever going to conference on the Senate bill. With 68 votes, the U.S. Senate passed a bipartisan overhaul of the U.S. immigration system in June, creating a pathway to citizenship for 11 m stanley cup illion undocumented residents.Despite attempts by House Republicans to address immigration reform throughout the year, Boehner has long held that the GOP would not take up the Senate-passed measure. The Speaker said Wednesday that he wanted to deal with the issue in a common-se stanley cup nse, step-by-step way. stanley cup He also did not answer a reporter question on whether the House will vote sometime in the last months of the year. GOP Majority Whip Kevin McCarthy said the House would not vote on immigration this year.Prior to Wednesday press conference, two immigration reform advocates approached Boehner as he was eating breakfast at a Capitol Hill diner. Activists with the Fair Immigration Reform Movement pressed for his plans for immigration reform..emb Ikle Tornado leaves deadly toll in Iowa
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley on Thursday signed the bill to remove the Confederate flag from the state Capitol.COLUMBIA, S.C. More than 50 years after South Carolina raised a Confederate flag at its Stateho af1 use to protest the civil rights movement, the state is getting ready to remove the rebel banner.A bill pulling down the flag from the Capitol front lawn and the flagpole it flies on passed the South Carolina House early Thursday morning. Gov. Nikki Haley said she would sign it into law at 4 p.m. Thursday in the Statehouse lobby. Her office didn ;t immediately say when the flag would be removed, but the bill requires that to happen within 24 hours of her signature. Then, it will be shipped to the Confederate Relic Room.There were hugs, tears and high fives in the House chamber after the vote. Members who waited decades to see this day snapped selfies and pumped their fists. But even among the celebrations, there was more than a bit of sadness.After the Civil War, the flag was first flown over the dome of South Carolina Capitol in 1961 to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the war. It stayed as a protest to the Civil Rights movement, only moving in 2000 from the dome to its current location.The Confederate flag that flies at mizuno the South Carolina Capitol could soon be making its last stanley cup stand. Photo by Jason Miczek/ReutersThe push that would bring down the Confederate flag for good only started after nine black churchgoers, including state Se