[EQAndyBuzz]

Go nuclear. The Harry Reid Gambit.

And tell the media that’s what you are doing. And be proud of it.

[a fool in paradise]

The DNC will never allow the DHS to be defunded, they protect Hollywood copyright.

[Logical me]

Why not accept it? It gives everything they wanted. And jackass second bill will just die. Whooooo! The great communists Democrat party will always win with the jackass we call Republican fools try to use a brain.

[southernindymom]

If I heard right, didn’t McConnell then say that he would follow this vote with a vote on overturning or blocking Obama’s executive action on immigration on a stand alone vote? Thus making the dem’s have to vote on that only? Am I mistaken? I don’t trust any of them any farther than I can pitch them.

[gaijin]

So happy I left the GOP..!!

Can’t wait to not vote for Jeb!!!

[Bubba_Leroy]

If the Senate passes an amended bill then it goes to a House-Senate budget conference committee (with a majority of the committee members being Republicans from the House and the Senate, since the Republicans now control both houses). The bill that comes out of the committee then goes straight to the floor of the House and Senate for a majority vote, with no amendments permitted.

Under the Congressional Budget Act, debate on budget conference committee bills is limited to 10 hours, so no Senate filibusters are permitted.

So if the Republican leadership wanted to (and unfortunately that does not appear likely) they could ensure that the identical bill that the House passed comes out of the conference committee, is passed by the House and Senate on a party line vote, and goes straight to Obama's desk (where he of course would veto it).