Easy to say when you have no shot at winning.

Via CNN:

CROWLEY: And so this — you know, between the war on women and the Republicans are racists, sort of blanketing all of them, oh, if this were Irish, they would have passed immigration by now, looked very much like election year strategy, trying to get your base out.

ISRAEL: Well, look, we don’t need to get our base out, because frankly, we’re ready to pass an immigration bill. And we’d rather pass an immigration bill than worry about the election. 

We have got 190 Democrats ready to vote on a comprehensive immigration bill today. We can do it today. And we know that not every Republican is going to agree with us on that. It passed the Senate with 67 bipartisan votes. All we need is 20 Republicans, just 20 to vote for that bill and it will be law and we don’t have to have this debate anymore.