McConnell Offers Plan to Avoid Shutdown of Homeland Security Dept.

[elleng]

Source: NYTimes

Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the Senate majority leader, offered a two-step path on Tuesday to avert a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, which runs out of money on Friday.

Mr. McConnell said he would allow a vote on a clean bill to fund the Homeland Security agency — as Senate Democrats have long demanded — followed by a second vote on a stand-alone bill that would halt President Obama’s 2014 executive action on immigration.

But the fate of the legislation — as well as a partial government shutdown — now rests with the House of Representatives. Senator Harry Reid, Democrat of Nevada and minority leader, said that Democrats would not allow any immigration legislation to come to a vote until they had an assurance from the House speaker, John A. Boehner, that the House would take up and pass the clean spending bill.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/25/us/politics/mcconnell-offers-plan-to-avoid-shutdown-of-homeland-security-dept.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region&region=top-news&WT.nav=top-news&_r=0

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Short story; that's all.

[groundloop]

1. Did Turtle briefly come to his senses on this issue, or is he just hatching another plan?

On the surface this almost sounds like a brief moment of sanity from Turtle, but I just find that very hard to believe.

[lastlib]

2. What we need if this comes about.....

... is for enough House Dems to vote no on the clean spending bill that it won't pass unless the Crazy Clown Caucus comes out and votes for it. That'll get a few of 'em squirming!

[vlyons]

3. the plot thickens ...

I feel a big yawn coming on from this Tparty manufactured faux crisis ... Yep, those Republicans sure can govern, can't they ? *snark* Wow they're really going to show that Obama guy who's the boss, aren't they? *snark again*

[Cryptoad]

4. If one vote is,,,

dependent on the other vote,,,,I may not be the smartest tool in the shed but sure sounds like the votes are still linked!