Posted on 02/27/2015 3:39:26 PM PST by maggief
Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) slammed House Republicans Friday after lawmakers failed to pass a short-term bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which runs out of money at midnight.
"The Republican Congress has shown that it simply cannot govern. Two months into the Republican Congress, we are already staring a Homeland Security shutdown square in the face, even as terrorists around the world threaten to strike America," the Nevada Democrat said in a statement after the House vote.
The bill failed 203-224. More than 50 Republicans voted against the legislation, which would have funded the department through March 19.
Reid wasn't wasn't alone in his criticism.
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) suggested that the failure to pass the DHS bill created a bleak outlook for how House lawmakers would handle larger budget debates expected this year.
“The DHS funding fight is the first test of the new Republican Congress, and so far they’re failing," the New York Democrat said in a statement. "If the Republicans can’t even fund something as simple as Homeland Security, we shudder to think what will happen when it’s time to fund the whole government or raise the debt ceiling.”
Schumer and Sen. Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said the failed vote left Boehner with only one option: pass a "clean" bill to fully fund the department through September. The Senate passed similar legislation Friday morning.
"Speaker Boehner is out of cards to play here—he must put the clean, Senate-passed bill on the floor now or risk a homeland security shutdown," Durbin said in a statement.
But what the next step is for funding the department, or if a partial shutdown would be avoided, wasn't immediately clear. The Senate recessed Friday afternoon waiting for the short-term funding bill to be taken up in the House. Senators were expected to pass the legislation, if it had passed the House.
Schumer, as well as Sens. Tom Carper (D-Del.), Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.), Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.) and Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), spoke to reporters ahead of the House vote on Friday. Though they all criticized House Republicans for taking up the stopgap legislation, they also said they would "reluctantly" support it in the Senate.
"We'd much prefer they pass full funding," Schumer said. "Obviously, we're not going to shut down the government. ... We'll support it, but very reluctantly."
Lead from behind. Start another dept/agency shutdown, like the BATFE.
Someone needs to give Boehner a package check, he might possibly have just managed to grow a pair of balls! It feels strange to say that about him, but even he’s getting tired of Harry Reid and Mcconnell.
As Mark Levin explained, all necessary personnel will be automatically funded. The longer this lasts, the more the general public will realize they were being manipulated by false hysteria and the better it will appear for Republicans. A canned Republican response would be: Today we voted not to fund activities which may be unlawful under our constitution. We offered a clean bill, void of what may be the funding of unlawful actions, and the Democrats refused to accept it.
There is no doubt the media is a problem, but the Republicans have had 50+ years to formulate a way to deal with them, and they haven’t. They continue to whine year after year. The media is only a part of the problem on this, the bigger problem is all the “Republicans” who will be running to a microphone to slam members of their own party. They won’t need Dem spin, they will have plenty of rino spin.
zactly. I’ve been thinking the same thing for days.
So what about the 150 Democrats who voted against the bill?
Terrorists?! Don’t you mean the terminally unemployed who have legitimate grievances? As far as I’m concerned, let DHS fold. Any department that can be headed by Jeh Johnson is irrelevant.
Roger that. I had the misfortune of catching a bit of Wolf Blitzer and he was almost orgasmic with excitement over the upcoming (complete with countdown clock) 'government shutdown'.
With few exceptions...I Hate the The Media.
Oh, no! Maggots like Reid and Schmucker and the NYTs disapprove. Whatever are REAL Americans to do?
Lol, Boehner should just go on the news and remind them that the Democrats voted against the DHS four times.
Shut it down and drive a stake in its heart. DHS does not keep us safe.
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2015/roll104.xml
FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 104
(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)
H J RES 35 YEA-AND-NAY 27-Feb-2015 5:13 PM
QUESTION: On Passage
BILL TITLE: Making further continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2015, and for other purposes
YEAS NAYS PRES NV
REPUBLICAN 191 52 2
DEMOCRATIC 12 172 4
INDEPENDENT
TOTALS 203 224 6
—— YEAS 203 -—
Abraham
Aderholt
Allen
Amodei
Ashford
Barr
Benishek
Bilirakis
Bishop (MI)
Bishop (UT)
Black
Blum
Boehner
Bost
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Brooks (IN)
Brownley (CA)
Buchanan
Buck
Bucshon
Burgess
Bustos
Byrne
Calvert
Carter (GA)
Carter (TX)
Chabot
Chaffetz
Coffman
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Comstock
Conaway
Connolly
Cook
Costello (PA)
Cramer
Crawford
Crenshaw
Culberson
Curbelo (FL)
Davis, Rodney
Delaney
Denham
Dent
Diaz-Balart
Dold
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Ellmers (NC)
Emmer (MN)
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Flores
Fortenberry
Foxx
Frelinghuysen
Garrett
Gibbs
Gibson
Goodlatte
Gowdy
Graham
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (LA)
Graves (MO)
Grothman
Guinta
Guthrie
Hanna
Hardy
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Heck (NV)
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Hill
Holding
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hurd (TX)
Issa
Jenkins (KS)
Jenkins (WV)
Johnson (OH)
Jolly
Joyce
Katko
Kelly (PA)
King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kline
Knight
LaMalfa
Lance
Latta
LoBiondo
Love
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Lummis
MacArthur
Marchant
Marino
McCarthy
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
McSally
Meehan
Messer
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Moolenaar
Mooney (WV)
Mullin
Murphy (FL)
Murphy (PA)
Newhouse
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Palazzo
Palmer
Paulsen
Peters
Pittenger
Pitts
Poliquin
Pompeo
Posey
Price, Tom
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Rigell
Roby
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Rouzer
Royce
Ruiz
Russell
Ryan (WI)
Scalise
Schock
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Scott, David
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Sinema
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Stefanik
Stewart
Stivers
Stutzman
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Trott
Upton
Valadao
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walorski
Walters, Mimi
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Westerman
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Wilson (SC)
Womack
Woodall
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IA)
Young (IN)
Zeldin
Zinke
—— NAYS 224 -—
Adams
Aguilar
Amash
Babin
Barletta
Barton
Bass
Beatty
Becerra
Bera
Beyer
Bishop (GA)
Blackburn
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Boyle, Brendan F.
Brady (PA)
Brat
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Brown (FL)
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Cárdenas
Carney
Carson (IN)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu, Judy
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Clawson (FL)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Conyers
Cooper
Costa
Courtney
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
DeFazio
DeGette
DeLauro
DelBene
DeSantis
DeSaulnier
DesJarlais
Deutch
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle, Michael F.
Duckworth
Duffy
Edwards
Ellison
Engel
Eshoo
Esty
Farenthold
Farr
Fattah
Fincher
Fleming
Forbes
Foster
Frankel (FL)
Franks (AZ)
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Gohmert
Gosar
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Griffith
Grijalva
Gutiérrez
Hahn
Hastings
Heck (WA)
Hice, Jody B.
Higgins
Himes
Honda
Hoyer
Hudson
Huelskamp
Huffman
Hunter
Hurt (VA)
Israel
Jackson Lee
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Johnson, Sam
Jones
Jordan
Kaptur
Keating
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
King (IA)
Kirkpatrick
Kuster
Labrador
Lamborn
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Larson (CT)
Lawrence
Levin
Lewis
Lieu, Ted
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren
Loudermilk
Lowenthal
Lowey
Luján, Ben Ray (NM)
Lynch
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Massie
Matsui
McCollum
McGovern
McNerney
Meadows
Meeks
Meng
Moore
Moulton
Mulvaney
Nadler
Napolitano
Neal
Neugebauer
Nolan
Norcross
O’Rourke
Olson
Pallone
Pascrell
Payne
Pearce
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Perry
Peterson
Pingree
Pocan
Poe (TX)
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rangel
Ratcliffe
Rice (NY)
Rice (SC)
Richmond
Roe (TN)
Rooney (FL)
Roybal-Allard
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Salmon
Sánchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sanford
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schrader
Scott (VA)
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Sherman
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (TX)
Smith (WA)
Swalwell (CA)
Takai
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Titus
Tonko
Torres
Tsongas
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velázquez
Visclosky
Walker
Walz
Wasserman Schultz
Waters, Maxine
Watson Coleman
Welch
Wenstrup
Williams
Wilson (FL)
Wittman
Yarmuth
Yoder
—— NOT VOTING 6 -—
Hinojosa
Lee
Long
McDermott
Speier
Turner
Hey Harry, remind me again how many bills did you hold back from considetation from the house over the past 6 years? Close to 300 wasn’t?
How many budgets did you pass out of the Senate? None? Yeah nothing but CR.
Go play with you treadmill!
Sure, but Walter Mondale’s speechwriter, Charles Krauthammer is already on Fox News pontificating about what a huge disaster this is for the Republicans. I think Krauthammer is just a Democrat mole when it comes down to it.
Dems, the Tea Party voted with you.
If you are not pleased with the outcome, next time vote with Boner. The bill failed because you wanted it to fail as much as the Tea Party did.
Don’t knock your success, you got what you wanted or did you.
This is hilarious. Boehner has promised not to flip with Rino’s to join the Demorats. Did he lie??? I hear he is chain smoking this evening and drinking heavily and has cried like a baby. What a great Hitler Rant you tube this will make!!
No, this was not Boehner plan. The TP pulled a fast one and voted w/ the dimmis.
The good news is that as long as the dimmis remain intransigent on any restrictions the TP can thwart the RINOs.
The bad news is that when the RINOs float a bill the dimmis like; game over.
Jerkoff bonehead played right into one eye Reid’s hands and the evil rats!!!! He NEEDS to GO AND THE TIMING is right and NOW or NEVER!!
Once again targeting their base of LIV’s AKA known as MORONS!
This should be the mantra of the Pubs!
The only reason I can think of that McConnell didn't kill the filibuster and send the House bill to obama is he doesn't have enough Pubs to kill it. It just shows how deep the rot of establishment pubs goes.
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