House Speaker John Boehner has ruled out a vote on immigration reform before the end of the year and possibly until the next Congress. On Wednesday, Boehner said he would not allow talks with the Senate on a measure offering undocumented immigrants a path to citizenship.

House Speaker John Boehner: “The idea that we’re going to take up a 1,300-page bill that no one had ever read, which is what the Senate did, is not going to happen in the House. And frankly, I’ll make clear we have no intention of ever going into conference on the Senate bill.”

The Senate passed a bipartisan bill in June, but Boehner has refused to allow a vote in the House because it doesn’t have majority Republican support. His comments on Wednesday came hours after he told two young DREAM activists he would support immigration reform, after they confronted him in a Washington diner. With no vote this year, Congress could face a short window to pursue immigration reform in 2014 due to midterm elections.