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Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) would not outline leadership's plan b for an immigration bill if the conservative measure that is currently being whipped in the House can’t get enough support to pass. “At the end of the day, we want to have a solution," he said at a press briefing. Conservatives say that the only solution is Goodlatte's bill that provides a temporary, renewable legal status — not citizenship — for hundreds of thousands of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients. House GOP leaders said they would begin whipping the bill on Wednesday, fulfilling a promise to the House Freedom Caucus to build support for the legislation. The Senate is scrambling this week to come up with a bipartisan solution for the Obama-era DACA, which protects young immigrants who came to the country illegally as children. But it's far from clear that a resolution will be reached in the Senate. President Trump rescinded the program and gave Congress until March 5 to come up with a permanent legal fix, though court rulings have so far blocked the administration’s move. “We clearly need to address this issue in March.” Complicating the DACA issue is that Ryan has long promised conservatives that he would only put an immigration measure on the House floor if it has a majority of the GOP’s support. Whatever DACA bill comes out of the Senate, if any, is likely to take a far more narrow approach since it needs to have the support of nine Democrats to overcome a filibuster. “What we always want to do in the House is have a House Republican position, so we which can start from for negotiations,” he said.