Posted on 02/24/2015 5:51:07 AM PST by cotton1706
Days from a Homeland Security Department shutdown, Senate Republicans sought a way out Monday by splitting President Barack Obama’s contested immigration measures from the agency’s funding bill.
It was not clear whether the gambit by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell would succeed ahead of Friday’s midnight deadline to fund the department or see it shut down. It was far from certain whether it would win any Democratic support, and House conservatives remain firmly opposed to any funding bill for the Homeland Security Department that does not also overturn Obama’s executive actions on immigration.
But with Senate Democrats united against a House-passed bill that funds the agency while blocking the president on immigration, McConnell said it was time for another approach.
“It’s another way to get the Senate unstuck from a Democrat filibuster and move the debate forward,” McConnell said on the Senate floor after a vote to advance the House-passed bill failed 47-46, short of the 60 votes needed. Three previous attempts earlier in the month had yielded similar results.
“This is our colleagues’ chance to do exactly what they led their constituents to believe they’d do: defend the rule of law, without more excuses,” McConnell said in a jab at the handful of Senate Democrats who have voiced opposition to Obama’s executive actions offering work permits and deportation deferrals for millions in the country illegally.
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Convenient!
McCain doesn’t love America.
What “courts”? The ones run by the DNC?
Shaddup, McDemocRat.
Tell me again....who won the last election?
Open this box and they will never see the “Freed” again. Stop it now in it’s tracks, then let the courts decide in 5 years. n/s
The courts can’t challenge Congress’s power of the purse, so they are just one avenue for telling Obama ‘no’.
Nobody expects a Republican to fight.
Pray America is waking
UniParty™ bump.
Kill the filibuster. The rats would.
Juan should just leave .
Ah, the new GOPe meme. The last time we left Congress’ job to the courts, we got ObamaCare.
Yeah, leave it to the courts because you refuse to fulfill your responsibilities and duties as a legislator. What if the court doesn’t rule your way? Oh, well, you “tried”. Violations of Constitutional authority be damned.
Are you suggesting that you no longer love “America”?
Abdicating power to others is the end product of being a moderate.
Liberals and criminals think they’re above the law...
And if it isn’t “the courts” leave it to the bureaucracy. Anything to not do your job.
McCain and Obama created ISIS and
they want the terrorists in America.
Thanks, Arizona and Illinois.
Gutless bastards all of them. Nobody to stand up for America anymore. Just a bunch of’”Let George do it,” morons prostituting themselves to the highest bidder. FED UP WITH ALL OF THEM!
The country seems yo asking if Obama loves America, I wonder if our politicians love America more than their positions.
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