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alcibiades_mystery

(36,437 posts)
Tue Mar 3, 2015, 04:24 PM Mar 2015

Ending Uncertainty, House Approves Year's Funding for Homeland Security

Source: The New York Times

WASHINGTON — The House on Tuesday passed a bill that would fund the Department of Homeland Security for the rest of the fiscal year, averting a partial shutdown of the agency after weeks of uncertainty, but inflaming conservative lawmakers.

The legislation passed, 257 to 167, with only 75 Republican votes, and it now heads to President Obama’s desk, where he is expected to sign it.

In the vote on Tuesday — an abrupt reversal of position by House Republicans — what started as an uprising by conservative lawmakers ended largely in a resigned whimper, with Speaker John A. Boehner pushing through a “clean” spending bill over the objections of his more hard-line members, who had hoped to use the measure to fight what they say are Mr. Obama’s unconstitutional executive actions on immigration.

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Using the cover of Bibi's ramblings for a mighty cave.

GOP is useless. May their conservative wing eat this (or some anagram thereof) for dinner.
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Ending Uncertainty, House Approves Year's Funding for Homeland Security (Original Post) alcibiades_mystery Mar 2015 OP
The repubs are still in charge but the uncertainty has ended!!!!1 tridim Mar 2015 #1
GOPers really should have thought this one through first groundloop Mar 2015 #2
Sweet. truebluegreen Mar 2015 #3
. . . . . about damn time. . .n/t annabanana Mar 2015 #4
K&R for a Republican cave and Democratic victory! herding cats Mar 2015 #5

groundloop

(11,534 posts)
2. GOPers really should have thought this one through first
Tue Mar 3, 2015, 04:34 PM
Mar 2015

Talk about poor planning!!!! Defunding Homeland Security is one of the stupidest moves ever tried by them. Their base LOVES everything about Homeland Security (deporting all those furiners and all), they'd be absolute idiots to shut it down.

herding cats

(19,569 posts)
5. K&R for a Republican cave and Democratic victory!
Tue Mar 3, 2015, 05:05 PM
Mar 2015

And, for another chance to laugh at the GOP for caving in on what was to be their BIG opening act of this session of congress.

I await, with bated breath, their next big act of legislative theater.

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