No Shutdown For Now: Congress Passes Week-Long Homeland Security Patch

Congress has narrowly averted a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security for one week, setting up another funding showdown for next Friday.

Hours before a midnight deadline, the House easily approved a one-week extension of the funding. It required two-thirds of members' support to pass.

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi reversed course later Friday night, instructing House Democrats to back the one-week measure.

“Millions of votes. Those illegals will all be citizens before November next year and I am not talking about 5 million. There will be 13-14 million to start. Then many millions more will be brought in and processed. it will be assembly line citizenship buy then. If he can do the Amnesty without actual opposition he can do the whole damned thing. There is no sense in getting hyped about the conservative candidates for next year. They are irrelevant, even if Cruz is the Nominee and Candidate. He can’t beat 7 million new Democrat votes not to mention the vastly higher level of vote fraud there will be.”

Post of the day!

"A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself within.
The essential causes of Rome's decline lay in her people, her morals, her class struggle,
her failing trade, her bureaucratic despotism, her stifling taxes, her consuming wars."

- Will Durant

The senate failed. The job was a simple one. When the Dems refused to allow debate on the clean DHS bill (the one that funded ALL legal actions in DHS), they should have just said “The House passed, and the Senate Republicans are ready to pass, the DHS funding bill. The Democrats stand opposed to funding unless they can get money for illegal programs. So, until the Democrats come to their senses, we are moving on to other things”.

But by passing their full funding bill, they made it so it was the HOUSE that was not making the final vote, instead of the democrats.

That said, I prefer this 1-week funding to the 3-week funding. 3 weeks was long enough for Obama to sign contracts to implement his illegal plans, even IF we later forbid funding (see the DC marijuana example, where DC managed to do all the spending to set up their plan before the congress got around to refusing any “more” money be spent).

Now the original bill should go to conference. And we’ll get half of what we wanted, if they do it right — the 2012 dream components won’t get defunded, but the 2014 will. And then both house and senate will have to either pass or fail the bill, with no opportunity for amendment.

All because of the Senate. And that is the GOOD result. What is the point of having a majority in the Senate if Reid is still allowed to dictate the terms of bills? I don’t remember the republican minority EVER getting away with telling the democratic house what they had to pass.

RE:”Thank goodness Now I can sleep, I was terrified that at midnight shutdown time all the ISIS terrorists would attack everywhere here with the DHS shutdown. DADADA
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Says something about the culture and “news” media in 2015, doesn't it!!!!”

FNC has me so scared of terrorists that I cant turn out the light, I keeping thinking they are in the room with me.,

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