Pelosi: House GOP’s ‘Ineptitude in Legislating’ Is ‘Endangering Our Entire Country’

PELOSI: "In terms of going to conference, Democrats will not dignify House Republicans' toxic anti-immigrant riders by supporting going to conference. House Republicans' ineptitude in legislating is endangering our entire country. I thank the Senate for their bipartisan action in passing a clean long-term Department of Homeland Security bill. A clean long-term Department of Homeland Security bill is clearly the only way to avert this crisis. We should be voting to pass a clean long-term Department of Homeland Security bill that the Senate is sending us today. They have done their work. We should do ours."

NN REPORTER: "You've talked about your frustrations with the Republicans holding this funding the hostage."

PELOSI: "Yes."

NN REPORTER: "Yesterday, Speaker Boehner held a news conference and he said, 'I just think it's outrageous that Senate Democrats are using the Homeland Security Department for blackmail, to protect the actions of the president when the president himself has said that he cannot have the authority to do this. What was your reaction when you heard that --"

PELOSI: "I didn't hear it but I really have pretty much lumped together the irresponsible statements that are made by many other Republicans on this subject because some of it is just not truth. I have heard some other things that some of their colleagues have said that the Republicans in the House are acting like crazy people -- that I thought is something I could identify with. But the fact is is that what the Senate Democrats are doing is what the Senate Republicans are doing: sending over a clean long-term Department of Homeland Security funding bill. Is he painting the House -- the Senate Republicans with that same brush?"