Murphy on Obama immigration order: ‘partisan gridlock…forced the president to act’ | Post On Politics

On November 21, George Bennett of the Post On Politics blog, click title for link, reported this item related to Representative Patrick Murphy's thoughts on the immigration order by President Obama: 

Asked for Murphy’s response today [on President Obama's immigration order], his office sent a statement faulting the Republican-controlled House for not acting on a 2013 immigration reform bill passed by the Senate.
“The only true solution for immigration reform is legislative action, which is why the House should have voted on the bipartisan bill passed last year in the Senate.  This deal would have had major economic benefits, from retaining high-skilled workers to helping entrepreneurs and startups to cutting our deficit by $900 billion,” Murphy’s statement began.
“It is extremely unfortunate that partisan gridlock and the continued unproductivity of Congress has forced the President to act.  I remain hopeful that Congress can still come together to pass comprehensive immigration reform legislation because it is the right thing to do, both morally and economically, for our nation.”