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    Congress Averts Homeland Security Shutdown

    http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...otes/24112159/

    Congress averts homeland security shutdown

    Susan Davis and Erin Kelly, USA TODAY 9:37 a.m. EST February 28, 2015

    WASHINGTON — Congress narrowly averted a partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security late Friday.

    Both the House and Senate passed a seven-day extension of funding for the agency, with the House acting just two hours before funding was set to expire at midnight. The House vote was 357-60. The Senate passed the measure by voice vote.

    The successful last-ditch effort came after House Republican leaders failed to muster enough votes earlier in the day to continue funding the agency for three weeks.

    House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., rallied Democrats to support the one-week extension before funding expired. She said that voting for the seven-day measure would put Democrats on a path toward possible passage next week of a $40 billion spending bill that would fund the agency through the end of September.

    The Senate passed that bill early Friday, but House Republicans refused to take it up.

    "This has been a day of confusion both here in the House and for the men and women of the Department of Homeland Security," said Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard, D-Calif., as she urged lawmakers to pass the one-week funding bill.

    House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers, R-Ky., also called for passage of the bill, saying that lawmakers would be abdicating their responsibility to the American people if they let DHS shut down.

    A shutdown would have resulted in the furlough of more than 30,000 of the agency's 240,000 employees. Most employees are considered too essential to the nation's security to be furloughed, so they would have had to work without pay.

    The department includes Customs and Border Protection, the Secret Service, the Coast Guard, the Transportation Security Administration and the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

    President Obama called Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., on Friday night to "ensure that the Department of Homeland Security does not shut down," said White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest.

    Earlier in the day, Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, under pressure from conservatives, attempted to advance the three-week funding measure to buy more time to fight over Obama's immigration policies. But 52 Republicans voted against his plan, and the bill was rejected 203-224. A dozen Democrats voted for Boehner's bill, but the rest opposed it.

    House Democrats said the chamber should instead support the Senate-passed bill to fund DHS through the end of the fiscal year. But a block of conservative Republicans wanted the House to hold firm and continue to demand that the Senate pass legislation the House had already passed that would derail Obama's immigration programs.

    Earnest said Congress' struggle to find a final resolution to the funding fight "exposes the danger of playing politics with our homeland security."

    At the heart of the funding fight was a battle over immigration.

    House Republicans wanted to use the DHS funding bill as leverage to stop Obama's executive orders on immigration. Obama issued those orders in November to protect about 4 million undocumented immigrants from deportation and allow them to work legally in the USA.

    Boehner is under pressure from conservatives and the party base to lead the fight against the administration, while McConnell has sought to position the new GOP-controlled Congress as a responsible governing party to build the GOP's case for winning the White House in 2016.

    Contributing: Gregory Korte and Associated Press
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    Boehner should not be under pressure to do his vocational and civic duty. If he is fit for the job and truly American at heart he should be welcoming the opportunity and performing admirable.

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    Boehner is under pressure from conservatives and the party base to lead the fight against the administration, while McConnell has sought to position the new GOP-controlled Congress as a responsible governing party to build the GOP's case for winning the White House in 2016.
    Really Mitch? You would put at risk the national security of our nation and the well-being of our citizens by funding the Department that through its illegal activities has created the greatest national security threat of our time, because you want to look like a "responsible governing party" to win the White House in 2016?

    ARE YOU KIDDING ME? Can you think of anything more IRRESPONSIBLE than authorizing and funding the Department that wastes $100 billion a year not securing our border, not stopping illegal immigration, not deporting illegal aliens, not enforcing US immigration law, and not protecting our citizens and nation? A department that commits deliberate subversive acts like welcoming illegal aliens at the border, catching and releasing illegal aliens, giving 7.4 million of them secret undisclosed work authorizations, preparing to give another 5 million illegal aliens the same deferred action, handing out work permits to spouses of H1B visa holders, and on and on and on?

    Mitch, I guess it's been awhile since you were in law school or actually practiced law, but what you've just done is the equivalent to welcoming the cartels into your chamber and reassuring them they won't be prosecuted. Instead of being prosecuted, you tell them we're going to give your people work permits, set them up with welfare and a big welcome basket with $35,000 in tax refunds in it if they'll file phony tax returns so "they can get right with the law". You say, we consider this an "act of love", and are doing this to appease people who admittedly can't vote so we can pretend we want to win the White House in 2016 even though we know we're pissing off our base who will vote Libertarian, Democrat or Just Stay Home, giving us absolutely no way to win the White House in 2016. And Paypal, Ole Buddy, if you don't understand this strategy, that's okay, it's just McConnell Wizardry, and the media is buying it up like free steaks at a homeless shelter. Now, you know it's all about love and money, so I've given you the love, now I want my money so I can pay for my ranch down in Paraguay next to the Bushes where we're all going when the shit hits the fan here.

    This scenario is more plausible than any excuse you want to try to feed the media for the inexplicable decision to sell US out and fund DHS which you know will proliferate, not stop, illegal immigration.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Judy View Post
    Boehner is under pressure from conservatives and the party base to lead the fight against the administration, while McConnell has sought to position the new GOP-controlled Congress as a responsible governing party to build the GOP's case for winning the White House in 2016.
    These two writers must have been drinking 'Bama's cool aid when they wrote this article.

    When the Repubs last "shut down" the government, voters became so angry that they forced the Repubs to accept majorities in both houses of Congress. If Repubs hold out again, the voters might force them to occupy the White House, as well.

    McConnell is trying to sell out Americans, to give the Repub leadership's big money donors the additional surplus labor that those donors covet, and to make it clear that the United States is being run for the convenience of corporations. Period.
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