WASHINGTON (CNN) -- House Republican leaders formally announced plans for a new
round of hearings on sharply different immigration reform plans Thursday, a move critics say is likely to kill any chance of a bill passing this year.
"We want to make sure that the Congress gets it done the right way, and
not to be rushed just because it's an election year," House Speaker Dennis
Hastert, R-Ill., told reporters.
Hastert and other Republican leaders say they're still pushing for a
compromise with a measure the Senate passed in May.
But House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-California, said the hearings will take the immigration issue "out of Washington and probably past the election."
