"We're working with our members [of Congress] and looking at the options that are available to us," Boehner said. "But I will say to you, that the house will in fact act."
Boehner said that President Obama's executive action had hindered any chances of the parties working together on any bipartisan immigration legislation in the future.
"With this action, the president has chosen to deliberately sabotage any chance of enacting bipartisan reforms that he [Obama] claims to seek," Boehner said.
The Speaker of the House did not outline any specific plan of action that Congress planned to take in response to President Obama's recent action, but pointed out that now, the president's action would encourage more undocumented immigrants to come to the United States illegally.
On Thursday night, President Obama announced his plan to pass an executive order that would help to grant legal status to some 5 million undocumented immigrants living in the US and secure the country's border.
During his speech, Obama said that he needed to use his executive authority to pass immigration before because Congress had failed to act.
''To those members of Congress who question my authority to make our immigration system work better, or question the wisdom of me acting where Congress has failed, I have one answer: Pass a bill," President Obama said during his primetime address on Thursday.
Other leading Republicans from the House and Senate have criticized President Obama's executive plan of action on immigration reform, but despite their outrage, the president claims that he is still willing to work with Congress to pass bipartisan legislation on immigration reform.
