House GOP Leaders Forced To Again Delay Vote On Compromise Immigration Bill

House Speaker Paul Ryan, R-Wis., is trying to unite his conference around a compromise immigration bill.

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Updated at 7:40 p.m. ET

House Republican leaders delayed a vote on the “consensus” immigration legislation Thursday afternoon as they scrambled to convince enough GOP lawmakers to support the measure.

The vote on that bill was initially rescheduled for Friday morning. But after a closed-door meeting that lasted more than two hours, leaders delayed it even further — to next week, according to several House Republican sources.