Posted on 02/27/2015 2:28:49 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Washington (CNN)The Department of Homeland Security moved closer to running out of money Friday after the House rejected a bill that would have kept the agency open for three more weeks.
Unless another deal is reached by midnight, DHS will fall into a partial shutdown, leaving thousands of workers furloughed while forcing others to show up on the job without being paid.
The House vote was a shocking twist to a dramatic day on Capitol Hill. For most of the day, lawmakers seemed poised to avoid a partial shutdown. The House cleared a procedural hurdle earlier in the day, indicating that final passage of the bill shouldn't be in doubt.
But when the legislation came to the floor, dozens of Republicans voted against it because the legislation doesn't address President Barack Obama's immigration orders. They were joined by nearly all Democrats, who opposed the measure because it doesn't keep DHS open through the end of the fiscal year.
House Speaker John Boehner has been here before -- wedged between his hard-right flank and the Senate. House conservatives want to continue fighting to block the President Barack Obama's actions on immigration and want to go to conference to work out differences between the House GOP bill and the Senate Bill passed bill earlier Friday.
A bloc of moderate House Republicans who back passing the clean DHS funding bill from the Senate are balking at voting on setting up a conference committee to hammer out the differences between these two bills.
But because Democrats are opposing the short term bill Boehner now needs support from both camps in the GOP conference to pass the short term bill.
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Only 17 I think voted for.
50 GOP voted no. 170 Dems and 50 GOP. Now which party had more say here in "shutting the gov't down?"
Boehner wouldn’t have a problem get his needed votes had the two faced bastard, his mini me Kevin McCarthy and Skalise hadn’t lied to their face last fall when they told members if they voted one way to save Face for the speaker they would table that bill and bring up a different one. They then screwed over their own members by bringing up for passage the bill they said they wouldn’t.
In other words the Membership doesn’t truth their own leadership and it is Justified.
Seems to me that CNN should be blaming House Democrats since they voted enmass against the bill
CNN is Democrat Blind
See also MrSmith’s post #30
it’s great isn’t it........ the House is controlling the appropriations
all the bogus arguments are being shown to be bogus
It's not quite as easy as you imply. Obama doesn't get to choose who are the "essential" employees. The bureaucracy has already designated who they are and any deviation would spark a judicial mess. Since, it's not a general government shut down, he can't close the National Parks and the WWII Monument, so he will need to search for creative ways to screw with conservatives. My guess, no background check approvals for gun purchases. I think that move might backfire, so I hope that he goes that route.
Democrats have successfully stopped bills that seek to overturn his actions, so to thwart the law, some Republicans have suggested defunding DHS.
Thwart what law?
The law says to deport illegal aliens.
The Usurper’s memo says don’t.
The Congress better not fund his illegal amnesty for illegal aliens or it may be seen by the courts as an endorsement of his power grab.
Presidents can’t make or change laws on their own.
He’s doing it and it must be stopped.
If it’s not, Emperor Sans-cullote will get more aggressive.
LOL, adult eunuchs...
Boo hoo.
PING!
How long before the CIA names the Tea Party a Terrorist Organization?
Mr. Broken Record here: Any agency which is more concerned with tracking the regime’s political opposition than securing the borders NEEDS to be defunded!
How long before the CIA names the Tea Party a Terrorist Organization?
The DHS fleet of tricked-out Escalades and Suburbans might have to be parked!
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