Posted on 02/11/2015 11:12:19 AM PST by GIdget2004
A pair of GOP senators implored House Republicans Thursday to soften their stance in the intra-party dispute over funding the Department of Homeland Security.
Sens. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.) and Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.), who both formerly served in the lower chamber, stressed to the House GOP conference behind closed doors that the Senate can’t get the 60 votes it needs to advance the House-passed DHS funding bill that includes language to reverse President Obama's executive actions on immigration.
"They lamented the frustration they're having getting up to 60 votes. But apparently that is the strategy now with the Democrat minority is to block everything over there," Rep. John Fleming (R-La.) said after the meeting.
Despite the senators’ appeal to their former colleagues, House Republicans said their conference is sticking with the original strategy.
They told Gardner and Capito to tell Senate GOP leaders to keep trying to move the House-passed bill, Fleming said, despite three failed votes last week.
"Our message back to them ... we asked them to take this back, our bill is our bill. This is what we passed. This is what we expect you to pass. So get it done," Fleming said.
Aides said GOP leaders' message to rank-and-file members was clear: We're staying the course.
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On Tuesday, however, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said it's "obviously" up to the House now to send a different spending bill back to the Senate because Senate Democrats have repeatedly blocked the bill in the upper chamber.
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Shut it down. It is not like DHS is actually securing the homeland anyways.
Weenies.
They have an excuse for doing nothing forever.
Only a traitor or an idiot would think that makes any sense. Close the government....just this time insist that the self-sufficient parks and monuments stay open. And defund AF1
I thought the Dems did away with the Senate filibustering rules........no?
Don’t we already pay for something called...”The Dept. Of Defense”?
Funding the DHS is simply PI$$ING money away in record amounts.
smother the constituents of recalcitrant senators with info re their folly, asking them to apply pressure to pass the House bill.
A republican controlled Congress that does nothing about Obamas obvious in your face INSURRECTION...
IS.......... VICHY.......... a mirage.. bad cop good cop..
A ......... CONSPIRACY........
AND should be called what it is....... sedition and TREASON... maybe even ESPIONAGE... a Potemkin Village..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potemkin_village
Yes. You have it wrong.
Only conservative issues and agendas can be filibustered.
Progressive, socialist, or communist issues and agendas are totally filibuster-proofed.
McConnell is a piece of crap. And many of the Republicans in the Senate are garbage and will not do a damn thing to upset King Obams. Much of America has been destroyed by a out of control Federal communists controlled Government.
It doesn’t even matter if the RINO’s have a majority they couldn’t find their a$$ in a lighted room with both hands.
Budgetary bills can be forced through by simple majority under reconciliation.
This is an Appropriations (actual funding) bill, which is different. I don’t think reconciliation applies.
Immigration DEFORM...
Why not just extend the “Reid Rule” to finance bills? Appropriation bills originate in the House, so it makes more sense than what Reid did. 51 votes and done.
Harry Reid - if her Senate GOP leader - would get the legislation approved by the Senate with 51 votes, but McConnel thinks he’ll be rewarded in heaven for not playing politics, not fighting for what his party wants, like Harry Reid did. He is dead wrong in thinking he improves the public image of the GOP or his conference in the Senate by playing nice the way the Democrats never do.
Why does that moron McConnell need 60 votes? The dims didn't.
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