Democrats are a minority in both Houses of Congress, but you wouldn’t know it. They’re crowing about forcing the House to accept a Senate-passed DHS spending bill that contains funding for President Obama’s executive amnesty.
The House passed a Senate-passed DHS spending bill on Tuesday with Democratic votes. It’s seen as a vote of no-confidence in Speaker John Boehner’s leadership.
The House passed full funding of DHS through September 30 — leaving President Obama’s executive amnesty untouched. The vote was 257-167 and the measure passed with majority Democratic votes. Seventy-five Republicans voted to pass the clean bill, 167 voted against passage.
Amid news that House Republican leadership intends to allow a vote on a so-called “clean” Department of Homeland Security funding bill, Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) expressed dismay that Congress has surrendered its status as a co-equal branch and allowed President Obama’s executive amnesty to go ahead unchecked.
In a potential battle of the PACs, the Club for Growth PAC has a message for House Republicans who might be targeted by the American Action Network: “if the Speaker of the House attacks you for standing up for economic freedom and limited government, the Club for Growth PAC will have your back.”
After the Israeli Prime Minister speaks, the Speaker plans to cave on executive amnesty.
Now that the Senate has essentially rejected the House’s move to a conference committee, eyes once again return to the House and how House Republicans will respond.
The former chiefs of staff to House Speaker John Boehner and Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus are part of a concerted effort to target House conservatives with advertisements aimed at pressuring them to cave to President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty and fund it in its entirety through the end of the fiscal year.
With a cave on executive amnesty looking likely, it remains to be seen whether Speaker John Boehner can deflect blame.
Rep. Steve King says the House must act to preempt a little-known procedural rule that could allow a Democratic House Member to force a vote on the Senate’s clean Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill.
President Obama’s executive amnesty would to more than allow illegals to stay. It would allow many to claim a big payday from the government. The acting head of the IRS is confirming that illegals given amnesty would be eligible to claim tax credits for up to three prior tax years for work they did illegally.
Representative Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX) said that House Republicans “are forbidding Secretary of Homeland Security Johnson from having an organized approach to fighting terrorism” on Monday’s broadcast of “The Rundown with Jose Diaz-Balart,” despite her earlier praise of Senate Democrats for
On Sunday’s “State of the Union” on CNN, host Dana Bash asked Representative Jim Jordan (R-OH) why he doesn’t “know the political reality” on the funding battle over the president’s executive action on immigration. The interview began with Bash asking
House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) called for Senate Republicans to abolish the filibuster on Sunday’s “Meet the Press” on NBC. Host Chuck Todd asked McCarthy, “one way that this could change is, since Republicans do have the majority, is
Columnist Charles Krauthammer reacted to the House’s failure to pass a short-term DHS funding bill that did not touch the president’s executive action on immigration by saying Republicans “can’t execute a surrender” on Friday’s “Special Report” on the Fox News
Representative and DCCC Chairman Steve Israel (D-NY) attacked Republicans for trying to “play games with homeland security,” after he voted against a resolution to fund the Department of Homeland Security on Friday’s “Situation Room” on CNN. “We’re not trying to
House members voted down a stop-gap funding bill on Friday, leaving funding for DHS unclear as a midnight deadline looms.
On Friday’s “Situation Room,” CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer characterized the failure of a resolution to fund the Department of Homeland Security for three weeks as the Republicans “failing to break the deadlock over funding the Department of Homeland Security,” despite
Senate Democrats will not allow a bill to prevent funding for President Obama’s most recent executive amnesty to come to the floor for consideration.
Sen. Charles Grassley wants answers from the Department of Homeland Security about how an individual with alleged gang ties was able to win amnesty under Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals.
Representative Luis Gutierrez (D-IL) said he would not vote for the House’s three-week DHS funding extension, even if doing so means DHS shuts down on Friday’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports” on MSNBC. “No, I’m not going to vote for the three-week
The House and Senate are on different paths — with the House considering a short-term DHS funding bill, and the Senate having passed one that would fund the department through FY2015, but doesn’t stop President Obama’s amnesty.
Representative Louie Gohmert (R-TX) said that by bifurcating DHS funding and funding for the president’s executive action on immigration, Senate Republicans were giving vulnerable Democrats “cover” on Thursday’s “Sean Hannity Show.” “You’ve got to give credit’s where credit’s due. What
With the ink hardly dry on Federal District Judge Andrew Hanen’s order slamming the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for trying to grant up to 11.7 million illegal aliens/undocumented workers “green cards,” President Obama just instructed Homeland Security to offer “green cards” to H1-B holder spouses and children under 21 years old.
Representative Mo Brooks (R-AL) defended tying funding for the president’s executive action on immigration to DHS funding on Thursday’s “All In with Chris Hayes” on MSNBC. “I agree with [Sen.] Harry Reid (D-NV), the Department of Homeland Security ought to
