Chris Van Hollen to Mitt Romney: A GOP-Led Senate Means More Gridlock, Not Less

"You’ve seen over the last four years the president has been seeking a partner in Congress who is willing to compromise. There have been been numerous occasions where the president has sought middle ground, whether it's on budget issues, whether it's on immigration. And immigration is a really good example. The president’s exactly right. On a bipartisan basis, the Senate passed comprehensive immigration reform over a year ago. We haven’t even gotten a vote on that in the House today.

And Mitt Romney is just dead wrong on this issue because the reality is that the incoming class of Republican members are even less compromising than some of their predecessors who didn’t want to move at all on things like immigration reform. So I am concerned that if we have more and more people elected on a platform of no compromise, the result you get is gridlock, which is why voters should listen carefully to candidates. And those who are willing to move the country forward, if that means crossing the aisle on some issues, should be people they support."