House passes one-week funding extension for Homeland Security

[Lucille]

That's a shame. I should know better than to get my hopes up.

http://news.yahoo.com/u-senate-passe...013312192.html

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The U.S. House of Representatives passed a one-week funding extension for the Department of Homeland Security late on Friday, in time to avert a partial shutdown for the agency at midnight.

The two-thirds majority vote, which came with support from Democrats a few hours after the House failed to pass a three-week extension, buys time for Congress to sort out a longer-term funding solution for the domestic security agency.

What a bunch of drama queens.

[Dianne]

It's scarey these traitors in the House the only line of defense between the people and King Obama. Giving amnesty and up to $35,000 taxpayer cash per illegal, including thousands of terrorists? Not only is Obama allowing terrorists to sweep in from the Mexico border but he is funding them with our tax dollars. Now the King is outlawing certain ammunition? Taking over the internet? Obama must be stopped somehow. Obama has broken the law over and over and should be impeached, rather than remaining in a position to blackmail the Congress.

[tod evans]

It's scarey these traitors in the House the only line of defense between the people and King Obama. Giving amnesty and up to $35,000 taxpayer cash per illegal, including thousands of terrorists? Not only is Obama allowing terrorists to sweep in from the Mexico border but he is funding them with our tax dollars. Now the King is outlawing certain ammunition? Taking over the internet? Obama must be stopped somehow. Obama has broken the law over and over and should be impeached, rather than remaining in a position to blackmail the Congress.

You grant too much credit to dear-reader.

I don't, for even a minute, think that idiot is capable of authorizing or stopping any of the actions his administration has instituted or tried to institute.

Look for the puppets string pullers, they are to blame not the puppet.

If a person could wiggle their nose like Tabitha Stephens and make Obama disappear these behaviors would continue.

[angelatc]

That's a shame. I should know better than to get my hopes up.

I admit I was pleasantly surprised when I saw a small rogue group turn down the deal. But we all know they will cave. The GOP does not want to defund DHS, nor do they want to stem the flow of illegals coming into the country. Boehner will end up crafting a deal that engages just enough of the dissident Democrats to get it through.

[angelatc]

It's scarey these traitors in the House the only line of defense between the people and King Obama. Giving amnesty and up to $35,000 taxpayer cash per illegal, including thousands of terrorists? Not only is Obama allowing terrorists to sweep in from the Mexico border but he is funding them with our tax dollars. Now the King is outlawing certain ammunition? Taking over the internet? Obama must be stopped somehow. Obama has broken the law over and over and should be impeached, rather than remaining in a position to blackmail the Congress.

This is what Democrats do. They bully their legislation through, then while the GOP pretends to attempt to dismantle it piecemeal they shove something else through.

[CPUd]

Hill fight features rumblings of Boehner coup

By Dana Bash, Deirdre Walsh and Alexandra Jaffe, CNN

Updated 11:09 AM ET, Sat February 28, 2015

Source: CNN
Political News and Notes

Washington (CNN)House Speaker John Boehner faces a looming threat from conservatives to oust him as speaker, and it's tying his hands on funding the Department of Homeland Security.

Congress passed a one-week extension of funding just hours before the deadline on Friday night. It was that fear fueling Boehner's resistance to a longer-term bill, as it might prompt backlash from conservatives. President Barack Obama signed the bill, which funds the Department of Homeland Security through Friday.

Two senior House Republican sources tell CNN there's a serious concern among those close to the Speaker that if he allowed a vote on a clean DHS funding bill, conservatives would make a motion to vacate the chair, a direct challenge to his job.

Conservatives have demanded that any funding bill include a provision rolling back President Barack Obama's executive action delaying deportations for illegal immigrants. Democrats, meanwhile, remain staunchly opposed to tying the two together, and that fight has kept Congress in a stalemate over the bill all week, sending DHS right up to the funding deadline.

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http://www.cnn.com/2015/02/27/politi...lot/index.html