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With immigration reform stalled in the House, Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, mocked his Republican colleagues in remarks on Thursday, suggesting that they are afraid to address the controversial issue.

"Here's the attitude. Ohhhh, don't make me do this. Ohhhh, this is too hard," Boehner whined during a campaign stop in his home district in southwestern Ohio.

"We get elected to make choices. We get elected to solve problems and it's remarkable to me how many of my colleagues just don't want to," he added. "They'll take the path of least resistance."

Boehner said he's been working for more than a year to try to reach a deal on immigration reform despite the resistance from members of his own party.

"I've had every brick and bat and arrow shot at me over this issue just because I wanted to deal with it," Boehner said. "I didn't say it was going to be easy."

While the Senate passed a comprehensive immigration reform bill almost a year ago, House Republicans have failed to take action on the bill due in part to GOP opposition to providing a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants.

Boehner has previously indicated that he prefers a piecemeal approach to reform that starts with securing the borders and enforcing existing immigration laws.

At the same time, the House Speaker has suggested that a lack of faith in President Barack Obama's willingness to properly enforce the laws has held up progress on reform.

Heritage Action, a prominent conservative group, was highly critical of Boehner's remarks about his fellow Republicans, with CEO Michael Needham calling the Speaker's comments "disappointing, but by now not surprising."

"The Republican Party should be large enough for fact-based policy debates," Needham said. "Unfortunately, John Boehner is more interested in advancing the agenda of high-powered DC special interests than inspiring Americans with a policy vision that allows freedom, opportunity, prosperity and civil society to flourish."

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Boehner Mocks Republican Colleagues On Immigration Reform