Obama says he has urged both House Speaker John Boehner and House Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi to find a way to pass a bill. He says a sweeping immigration measure that cleared the Senate with a large bipartisan majority Thursday is a "sound framework" that has been debated for weeks.
Obama says the House has a "bunch of weeks" to get the bill done and "now's the time."
Boehner has said the House will craft its own bill and not simply take up the Senate version.