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 Obamas 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. Obamas 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.
tridim
(45,358 posts)Wooohooooo, uhm.... NYT?
groundloop
(11,534 posts)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.
truebluegreen
(9,033 posts)annabanana
(52,791 posts)herding cats
(19,569 posts)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.