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President Obama is taking time out from his much-trumpeted "year of action" to observe a period more important to his Democratic allies in Congress: the season of campaigning.

One by one, the Obama administration is setting aside key priorities, in the hope that voters won't do the same to his fellow Democrats.

Immigration reform, once deemed a pressing back-to-school item, will wait at least until the winter holidays.

Enrollment in Obamacare will start six weeks later than last year. The climate will warm at the same rate, with new regulations pending.

The latest addition to the not-to-do list came this week, when the White House put off an announcement on the president's nominee for attorney general, a pick he has been privately thinking about a long time.

White House aides smile and defend the strategy, saying privately that they're trying to be sensitive to the concerns of Democrats, especially senators in tough election races.

The White House is trying to avoid being held responsible for Democrats losing control of the Senate in the midterm election in three weeks, especially when administration officials still hope to get a few things done during the final two years of Obama's presidency and will need help from Democrats who remain in office.

But the delays frustrate some of Obama's most reliable allies, who fear he is squandering what little time he has left to act on their biggest policy priorities.

"We wish they would be as good as their rhetoric," said Frank O'Donnell, president of Clean Air Watch. "We want them to step up and deliver. If they don't, who's going to?"

The delaying tactics, others said, could shake the relationships Democrats rely on.

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Bruce Rauner says a push from the governor on members of Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform could motivate them to act on the issue.

Rauner says he's in favor on a comprehensive reform bill that includes a pathway to citizenship for those who are now illegal immigrants, though he hasn't specified what sort of pathway he would support. If he's elected governor, he promises he'll talk with members of Congress to try and get immigration legislation moving in Washington.

I know many of our representatives in Congress. I am very close and work closely with U.S. Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.). I've worked with (Sen.) Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and we know each other quite well, Rauner said. I will push our congressional delegation to push for comprehensive immigration reform.

Both Kirk and Durbin voted for the 2013 Senate immigration reform bill which has never been brought up for a vote in the House.

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Rep. Michael Grimm and Domenic Recchia are battling to represent Staten Island in Congress, but at least one topic on the campaign trail stretches beyond the district's borders: immigration reform and unaccompanied minors. NY1's Courtney Gross filed the following report.

The only border in the 11th congressional district is with New Jersey. Nonetheless, immigration reform is creeping into this race for Congress.

"Before we start talking about legalization and citizenship, really close the border," said Rep. Michael Grimm.

Grimm says close the borders. His Democratic challenger, Domenic Recchia, supports a path to citizenship.

"We need a path to citizenship. We need to secure our borders, but we need an immigration bill and we need it passed now," Recchia said.

Take the crisis over unaccompanied minors crossing the border, and positions are not quite as clear.

"When the mayor and the speaker of the City Council say that we should take these poor children from Central America that took that horrible trek across Mexico into our border, that we should house them here in New York City, that, to me, is a slap in the face of everyone here," Grimm stated.

Grimm is clearly against providing services to these children, which is what the de Blasio administration announced it would do last month.

"As bad as I feel that these families in Central America are living in poverty, I have to first, though, take care of my own," he said.

As for Recchia, on Wednesday, he declined to weigh in on whether these children should take refuge in the five boroughs.

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