Subject: Re: Trump: I Would Encourage Russia...
That is exactly what the Senate Bill attempted to perpetrate on the house republicans.....

Nope. If you had put that bill on the House floor, it would have gotten plenty of Republican votes. The National Border Patrol Union supported it. There was nothing in it that immigration hawks hated (like a pathway to citizenship or DREAMER normalization) - the objections were entirely that it didn't have enough of what they wanted. That the things they wanted didn't last long enough or were hedged in by conditions. But the Senate Bill was not a messaging bill - else they wouldn't have gotten even Lankford (no immigration softy) to support.