Discussion: Senate Passes Bill To Fund DHS Without Immigration Restrictions

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I’d love to see the Roll Call vote on that.

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RINOS!!! EVERY LAST ONE OF THEM!!! BLARGH! Also, ARGLE TRAITORS BARGLE UNCONSTITUTIONAL!

Oh, lord, I may die of schadenfreude.

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Its nice to see the chamber where legislation usually dies come up with something nice for a change.

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Your move, Mr. Speaker.

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You mean they passed the EAT IT!..EAT IT RAW!" Bill?

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Good Lord, - I almost gagged on my coffee with laughter on that!

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Good point. TPM is there any way you can list who voted against it? I wonder if it was bipartisan or mostly from one side?

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I couldn’t get the total vote breakdown, but Roll Call had this:

Senate Republicans who face the voters next year in states won by President Barack Obama split on funding for the Department of Homeland Security.

Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire, Ron Johnson of Wisconsin, Mark S. Kirk of Illinois and Patrick J. Toomey of Pennsylvania voted to advance the bill.

Rob Portman of Ohio, Marco Rubio of Florida and Charles E. Grassley of Iowa voted no.

The final vote on passage was also 68-31.

But even as the Senate was in action, the House was going in a different direction entirely, putting on the floor a three-week continuing resolution for the Department of Homeland Security, a move that could provide time for the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to act on the pending case brought by 26 states that is seeking to upend President Barack Obama’s executive actions on immigration.

On the House side of the Rotunda, Appropriations ranking member Nita M. Lowey, D-N.Y., called the newest one-page stopgap a “staggering display of legislative incompetence.”

But Sen. Charles E. Schumer of New York, the No. 3 Democrat, told reporters Friday that Democrats would not block the House’s three-week DHS CR, saying it is better than a shutdown.

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Thanks. You just answered my question. I was wondering if the Senate bill was also part of that 3 week bullshit that House Republicans want to use as a stop-gap measure. And Schumer clearly continues to be the asshole from Wall Street.

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Thanks for info. Looks like we will all be back here in 3 weeks with another round of the hit reality show Republicans Holding America Hostage.

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I thought my post was too long so I cut some of it out. The link for full text of article:

http://blogs.rollcall.com/wgdb/dhs-funding-senate-vote/?dcz=

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68-31. That is “check” to you, House GOP, with “mate” inevitable in 2 moves.

McC isn’t Tea Party and doesn’t want to let the House manipulate him into going big on a losing position.

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This is getting addicting…

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This is the Roll Call.

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=114&session=1&vote=00062#position

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http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=114&session=1&vote=00062#position

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I believe the story said funded until September.

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Apparently the House will only do stop-gap funding for three weeks though. (If it even does that, by the way).

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Looks like the Nays were all Republican.

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True, and some saner Rs voted Yea. But the treasonous House loves to jam up the works and I’m looking forward to Boner needing my Nancy and her caucus to bail him out…