House Republicans resist call to change course on DHS funding

The Hill ^ | 02/11/2015 | Rebecca Shabad and Cristina Marcos

[jospehm20]

Shut it down. It is not like DHS is actually securing the homeland anyways.

[Uncle Miltie]

Weenies.

They have an excuse for doing nothing forever.

[grania]

Okayyyy......so because the minority dems won't back down and reverse the invasion of the US, the majority Republicans are supposed to?

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

[originalbuckeye]

I thought the Dems did away with the Senate filibustering rules........no?

[grobdriver]

Just deem it passed.

[RckyRaCoCo]

Don’t we already pay for something called...”The Dept. Of Defense”?

[VideoDoctor]

Funding the DHS is simply PI$$ING money away in record amounts.

[elpadre]

smother the constituents of recalcitrant senators with info re their folly, asking them to apply pressure to pass the House bill.

[Jacquerie]

Hmmm. It was my impression that appropriations couldn't be filibustered. Isn't that the way the rats got Obamacare passed? I must have something wrong.

[hosepipe]

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

[Lazamataz]

Hmmm. It was my impression that appropriations couldn't be filibustered. Isn't that the way the rats got Obamacare passed? I must have something wrong.

Yes. You have it wrong.

Only conservative issues and agendas can be filibustered.

Progressive, socialist, or communist issues and agendas are totally filibuster-proofed.

[Logical me]

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.

[Rappini]

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.

[tanknetter]

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.

[hosepipe]

Immigration DEFORM...

[Sooth2222]

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.

[Wuli]

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.

[matthew fuller]

"They lamented the frustration they're having getting up to 60 votes."

Why does that moron McConnell need 60 votes? The dims didn't.

[drypowder]

Clearly the DHS is complicit (up to it's ears) in aiding the illegal alien problem we have in the US. Why on earth should we tax payers sit back and keep allowing these corrupted bastards in DC that allows the DHS and the obozo administration to continue to tare apart this country by flooding it with those who have as much loyalty to our constitution and the US as those in DC have, which is none? Common sense will tell anyone that once the US is gone, its gone for good and if something doesn't change in DC and soon, for certain it will be gone by Jan 20, 2017.