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02-25-2015, 02:59 PM #1
Senate Dems agree to GOP plan to fund Homeland Department
Breaking News:Senate Dems agree to GOP plan to fund DHS without immigration measures
Senate Dems agree to GOP plan to fund Homeland Department
By ERICA WERNER and DAVID ESPO12 minutes ago
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WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate Democrats have agreed to a Republican plan to fund the Homeland Security Department without the immigration provisions opposed by President Barack Obama.
Minority Leader Harry Reid told reporters on Wednesday that he welcomed the opportunity to vote on the measure and said every Democrat will back it.
Reid said he looked forward to working with Republicans to get the measure done in the next 24 hours.
Reid spoke after a closed-door Democratic meeting.
Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has proposed decoupling the DHS funding from immigration ahead of Friday's midnight deadline for the agency.
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02-25-2015, 03:16 PM #2
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Rep. Boehner: House Has 'Done Its Job' On Homeland Security Funding
February 25, 201512:15 PM ET
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House Speaker John Boehner told reporters Wednesday, "the House has done its job to fund the Department of Homeland Security and to stop the president's overreach on immigration. We're waiting for the Senate to do their job."
Susan Walsh/AP
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House Speaker John Boehner had a message for the Senate today: The ball's in your court.
Speaking after a closed-door Republican conference meeting on Wednesday, Boehner repeatedly insisted that the House had done its job, and that the Senate must now act in order to stave off a shutdown for the Department of Homeland Security. The Department is slated to run out of money in just three days.
"I'm waiting for the Senate to act," Boehner told reporters. "The House has done its job to fund the Department of Homeland Security and to stop the president's overreach on immigration. We're waiting for the Senate to do their job."
Just a short while before Boehner spoke to reporters, he addressed members of his party and told them that he had not spoken to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in two weeks, according to several lawmakers who were in the room.
Asked about his conversations with McConnell, Boehner would not clarify, only saying that the two staffs had been "talking back and forth" but that "in the end, the Senate has got to act."
Boehner's comments come one day after McConnell indicated that he would bring a so-called "clean" DHS funding bill to the floor for a vote, along with a separate bill that would target President Obama's 2014 executive actions on immigration policy. But Boehner himself has not weighed in on the merits of the McConnell plan — only saying that Senate Democrats are impeding progress, and that the plan appeared to be a hard sell in the House.
Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks declared that "there's no way on God's green earth" he would vote for a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security unless it included language defunding Obama's executive actions on immigration. He went so far as to say that the so-called "clean" bill McConnell has said he'd agree to a vote on, wasn't actually clean.
"The Senate is not sending over a clean bill. A clean bill is a bill that protects the United States Constitution and stops illegal actions of the executive branch as reflected by two different federal court decisions," he said. "That is a clean bill. A dirty bill is one that protects illegal conduct."
Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, who chairs the conservative House Freedom Caucus, said that "no one wants a shutdown," but that "the plan, as far as I'm concerned is our bill."
"The question you've got to ask Democrats is, how can you insist on language in a bill that a federal judge says is unlawful? That makes absolutely no sense," he said.
Arizona Rep. Matt Salmon went so far as to say that Republicans weren't running the show in the Senate.
"The voters believe that in November Harry Reid was going to be dethroned and the Senate was going to be controlled by Republicans," Salmon told reporters. "Right now, Harry Reid's still running the Senate. That's a sad day."
In the Senate, Democratic leader Harry Reid said he would not support McConnell's plan without Boehner's guarantee that a clean DHS funding bill could pass the House.
"You know we have to make sure that people understand the bicameral nature of this Congress that we serve in," Reid said Tuesday. "So to have Sen. McConnell just pass the ball over to the House isn't going to do the trick. I'm waiting to hear from the Speaker."
If House and Senate lawmakers do not reach an agreement, tens of thousands of employees would be furloughed immediately. The rest, considered essential workers, would be expected to continue working without paychecks.
If the department shuts down, it would be for the second time in 18 months. The entire federal government shut down for 16 days in October 2013.
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Lets hope and pray they mean it and hold the line.
Mo Brooks is so right, you can't have a "clean" bill that funds a dirty agency. This Department is funded with close to $100 billion a year plus the fees it collects to secure our borders and ports of entry and enforce US immigration law. If they were doing their job, we wouldn't have 20 million or more illegal aliens in the US. But we do, so they aren't. Even worse, they are using the money we give them to conspire with the lawbreakers and invaders by giving them secret permits to work and live here, to steal jobs from Americans, deflate our wages and salaries, sign up for welfare and tax credits, steal seats in colleges and universities, and bankrupt our people and nation.
So, not a dime, Republicans, not a dime. Hold the line. Stand your ground.A Nation Without Borders Is Not A Nation - Ronald Reagan
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02-25-2015, 03:56 PM #3
Senate Democrats Agree To GOP Plan To Fund Department Of Homeland Security
Posted: 02/25/2015 2:02 pm EST Updated: 5 minutes ago
WASHINGTON -- The Senate reached a deal on Wednesday on funding for the Department of Homeland Security, shifting the focus back on the House to prevent the agency from shutting down on Friday.
Senate Democratic leaders announced after a caucus meeting that they had agreed to an offer put forward Tuesday by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.). Under the arrangement, the Senate will vote to fund DHS without any measures to block President Barack Obama's 2014 executive actions on immigration, which have stood in the way of getting through funding legislation in past votes. Democrats have said for weeks that they would support only a "clean" bill without immigration measures, and would be open to discussing immigration separately.
After the DHS funding issue is resolved, the Senate will vote on a separate bill from Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) to block Obama's executive actions, which would grant temporary deportation relief and work authorization to as many as 5 million undocumented immigrants. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.), the number three Senate Democrat, told reporters they would not prevent such a bill from moving forward -- even though most oppose it -- after a DHS funding bill is on the president's desk.
A Senate GOP leadership aide said it remains unclear when the Senate will vote on final passage on a clean bill, but barring objections from any members the process could be sped up to try and avert a shutdown. The aide also confirmed the Senate would not move to the Collins bill until the chamber cleared funding for DHS.
If the Senate passes a clean bill, it would put House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) in a bind. Either he could allow a vote on the legislation, earning the ire of conservative members who say it would amount to caving on their principles, or block it and risk getting the blame for a shutdown.
Boehner repeatedly declined earlier Wednesday to comment on McConnell's plan for separate votes on DHS funding and Obama's immigration actions. He did not explicitly rule out supporting the package.
"I'm waiting for the Senate to act," Boehner told reporters after a meeting with House Republicans. "The House has done its job to fund the Department of Homeland Security, and to stop the president's overreach on immigration. We're waiting for the Senate to do their job."
This is a breaking story and will be updated.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/0...n_6753598.html
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02-25-2015, 04:01 PM #4NO AMNESTY
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02-25-2015, 05:02 PM #5
Of course Obama and the Democrats are happy about McConnell and the other GOP sellouts in the US Senate willingness to quickly surrender.
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02-27-2015, 12:30 AM #6
Well, the last time that the Republicans did this, voters punished them by forcing them to accept majorities in both houses of Congress;-)
What's next, forcing a Repub to occupy the White House?
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