Boehner caves: House could vote Tuesday on funding Homeland Security

[babylonsister]

And he's using Netanyahu as cover. Clever-not!



House could vote Tuesday on funding Homeland Security

By Scott Wong and Rebecca Shabad - 03/03/15 09:33 AM EST


The House could vote Tuesday on a bill that averts a partial shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and funds the agency through September, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told GOP lawmakers in a closed-door caucus meeting.

The legislation has already passed the Senate and would not include language reversing President Obama's executive actions on immigration, as conservatives have demanded.

Obama has indicated he would sign the bill.

Boehner’s plans to move on a so-called “clean” funding bill follows months of infighting between centrist and conservative Republicans over the best strategy to roll back Obama’s immigration actions. A low point came Friday, when 52 conservatives rejected a plan by the Speaker to extend DHS funding for three weeks; Boehner was forced to rely on Democrats at the last minute to stave off a shutdown.

“We have to fund DHS and the sooner we do it, the better,” former House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King (R-N.Y.) said after emerging from the caucus meeting. “It ends this madness, it ends the malaise … The sooner it’s done, the better. Get it behind us.”

After laying out his new strategy Tuesday morning, Boehner asked three times whether anyone had any questions before he had to leave for his meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. No one said a word, according to members in the room.

But outside the meeting, conservatives blasted leadership’s decision to wave the white flag.

"He just caved in there," Rep. Tim Huelskamp (R-Kan.), a frequent critic of the House GOP leadership, said of Boehner. "Nothing else we can do. This is his strategy. Clearly, it failed."

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http://thehill.com/homenews/house/234420-house-could-vote-tuesday-on-funding-homeland-security

[Cali_Democrat]

1. Boehner outmaneuvered by Obama....yet again

[babylonsister]

3. Pretty much!

[Agnosticsherbet]

2. About damn time, now they can argue about something else.

instead of doing the people's business.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

4. Just a matter of time

Before they pick another losing fight. They need to let go of this delusion that President Obama is going to voluntarily undo his signature policies- or that Dems are going to vote en masse to make him. They have to accept the reality (ha ha) that they are just as stuck as Dems are with not being able to do much other than nibble around the edges unless they plan to start trying to work with President Obama. They're clearly NOT going to, so there is really not much for them to actually do for at least the next 2 years except put on one disastrous show for their base after the other. It's going to be really high drama if SCOTUS guts subsidies for several states.