DHS Shut Down Averted

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former PPT Dwarven Dragon]

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

[Grumpier Than Uncle Joe]

Don't think the House pubs aren't taking as much of a shot at McConnell for backing down as they are at Obama.

[Beezer]

GOP calls own bluff and votes against 3-week bill. Hilarious...

[King]

The House Republicans need to respect that the Senate Republicans won a majority in midterms fair and square and compromise with them.

[Beezer]

Things getting heated on the Democratic side as well:

Rep. David Scott sat through a tongue-lashing from his Democratic colleagues Friday afternoon after casting one of the caucus's few yes votes in favor of a three-week funding bill for the Homeland Security Department.

Seated in front of the fireplace in the House Speaker's lobby—a position he'd held most of the afternoon—Scott suddenly found himself on the receiving end of a tirade from Rep. Corrine Brown. "You are making a mistake!" Brown shouted, in full view of reporters. "The strength of the wolf is in the pack. You are voting with these damn Republicans! What is wrong with you?"

http://www.nationaljournal.com/congress/after-dhs-vote-democrats-publicly-bash-one-of-their-own-20150227

[Attorney General, LGC Speaker, and Former 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

[Lief 🗽]

The Republican Party is an embarrassment. Remember how they were bragging about how they had the biggest majority since the Depression or whatever right after election day? Pelosi could have gotten 218 votes for a bill outlawing bald eagles and baseball and medicare if she wanted to. This idiot Boehner can't even pass this procedural nonsense bill.

[Stockdale for Veep]

The sad thing is that the average voter will forget about this in a few months. The only real electoral effect this has is the continued slide to the left by VA.

[porky88]

In the wake of the 2014 elections, republicans said they had a responsibility to show the American people they can govern. It's not looking too good two months into their reign. I hope Boehner does the right thing and give the senate bill a vote in the house. It'd probably pass.

[Maxwell]

Excellent News! DHS is an unnecessary department whose necessary roles could be rolled into Defense.

[stegosaurus]

All but 12 Democrats vote no and it's the Republicans' fault it failed? How exactly does that work?

[ag]

All but 12 Democrats vote no and it's the Republicans' fault it failed? How exactly does that work?

How does that work? Very simply. If you try to do something and fail, it is your failure, not somebody else´s. It was the bill that the Republicans wanted passed. Democrats wanted a completely different bill - well, they are in minority, they cannot be expected to pass their bills easily.

[Hash]

What does this mean, in practice? What essential services will be kept in operation? CBP/ICE?

[Miles]

The sad thing is that the average voter will forget about this in a few months. The only real electoral effect this has is the continued slide to the left by VA.

Meh, still gives Democrats a talking point to bring up in campaigns. This is smaller than last time, but there's no ACA rollout to cancel it out.

[NewYorkExpress]

If there is a terrorist attack in the US in this time, I will personally hold Ted Cruz and his ilk responsible.

[MaxQue]

All but 12 Democrats vote no and it's the Republicans' fault it failed? How exactly does that work?

Well, they have a majority, so they should be able to pass votes.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

All but 12 Democrats vote no and it's the Republicans' fault it failed? How exactly does that work?

For real? The fact that there are only 12 total DINOs somehow absolves the largest House Republican majority since the crash of '29 from being able to pass a budget bill?

[King]

The real loser is Obama's veto pen. For all the talk of him finally being in the spotlight, the GOP one party rule Congress has only been able to send 1 bill to him in 57 days for a veto.  Poor little guy.

[badgate]

All but 12 Democrats vote no and it's the Republicans' fault it failed? How exactly does that work?

G-O-V-E-R-N

[Stand With Israel. Crush Hamas]

One-week extension in the Senate. Not over yet.

http://news.yahoo.com/u-senate-passes-one-week-security-funding-extension-013312192.html

[anvi]

What a bunch of morons.  What the hell kind of a threat is this anyway?  "Either take back your immigration executive order or we'll defund a portion of national security"??  Asinine, irresponsible and incredibly ineffective.  Obama doesn't need to run for office anymore, these guys do.  "Yeah, we all need to be really afraid of terror attacks by ISIS agents, but that can wait till you send bunches of refugee children back across the border post-haste."  Wouldn't trust them to take care of my toothpicks, much less governing the country.

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

One-week extension in the Senate. Not over yet.

http://news.yahoo.com/u-senate-passes-one-week-security-funding-extension-013312192.html

The Democrats need to stop trying to bail the Republicans out.

[King]

One-week extension in the Senate. Not over yet.

http://news.yahoo.com/u-senate-passes-one-week-security-funding-extension-013312192.html

One week? lmao

[○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└]

One-week extension in the Senate. Not over yet.

http://news.yahoo.com/u-senate-passes-one-week-security-funding-extension-013312192.html

One week? lmao

They should have had it fund Homeland Security until the point in time at which a majority of the House of Representatives is not in their chamber. That would have been fun.

[© tweed]

What a bunch of morons.  What the hell kind of a threat is this anyway?  "Either take back your immigration executive order or we'll defund a portion of national security"??  Asinine, irresponsible and incredibly ineffective.

as has been pointed out before, the GOP as currently constructed is much better suited to be an opposition party.