DHS Shut Down Averted

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As the House is preparing to vote on a three-week funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security -- just hours before the agency is set to run out of money -- the Senate approved a longer-term funding bill even though it will be ignored by the House.


On a 68-31 bipartisan vote, the Senate cleared a so-called "clean" DHS bill, after stripping of provisions opposed by Democrats that would have blocked President Barack Obama's recent executive orders on immigration.

But the measure will be dead on arrival in the House, where conservatives are angry the Senate dropped the immigration provisions. The House will approve the short-term bill instead in order to keep fighting on the immigration issue.

The Senate is expected to clear a similar three-week bill later in the day, assuring the agency will stay open.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/26/politics/dhs-shutdown-vote-republicans/index.html

Bill to fund Department of Homeland Security for 3 weeks fails in House 203-224. DHS runs out of money at midnight.
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House OKs bill to fund Department of Homeland Security for 7 days. Bill now heads to President Obama.
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Congratulations, America. Unsurprisingly, the republican house majority has decided that your reward for (re-)electing them in 2014 is to go back to governing from crisis to crisis. DHS funding should be a noncontroversial manner. Instead, it's being held up in the long-term because of "muh executive order".

We're safe for now:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/04/us/house-homeland-security.html?_r=0

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

Bill to fund Department of Homeland Security for 3 weeks fails in House 203-224. DHS runs out of money at midnight.
www.cnn.com

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House OKs bill to fund Department of Homeland Security for 7 days. Bill now heads to President Obama.
www.cnn.com

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

The most pragmatic center right Republicans need to reach across the aisle to the pragmatic far right Republicans and hammer out a compromise that all Republicans can support. Americans are tired of the partisan division. Republicans or Republicans, we are all Republicans, and they need to remember that rather than focus on labels that divide us.

Really, this is a leadership failure on Barack Obama. As President, it is up to him to lead the Republican Party and, for some reason, he has show no interest in doing so.

wut? Not everyone is a republican, and Obama is the de facto DEMOCRATIC leader.

[Attorney General & PPT Dwarven Dragon]

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/04/us/house-homeland-security.html?_r=0

Passed 257-167, with 75 republican votes.