Republican Gowdy Cites Optimism on House Immigration Plan

Representative Trey Gowdy, a leading Republican on immigration, voiced optimism that the U.S. House would pass a plan, be ready to negotiate with the Senate by year-end, and set the stage for enacting legislation in this Congress.

“I don’t know anyone who doesn’t think the current system is broken,” Gowdy, chairman of the immigration panel on the House Judiciary Committee, said in an interview on Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” airing this weekend. “So if you think the current system is broken, how can you then fashion an argument that we should do nothing?”