http://www.vox.com/2015/1/15/7553521/republican-dhs-shutdown
The Senate just failed to pass a bill to fund Department of Homeland Security by forcing President Obama to undo his executive actions to protect unauthorized immigrants from deportation.
One Republican, Sen. Dean Heller (R-NV), voted with Democrats against the bill.
Congress and the president need to agree on a plan to fund DHS sometime before February 27th, when its current funding runs out.
If they can't agree on a funding bill, DHS will be in a technical shutdown — but around 85 percent of the department will keep coming to work as "essential" government workers or employees of fee-funded agencies.
have you noticed all the threats to stop Pres. are riddled with job loss and defunding of programs they themselves have said should be in place that was before they were put in place by Pres. now like all else republicans don't think them such a good idea they would rather hurt American families than work together. it should not be what they can agree on but what is best for American families not big business
A few weeks ago, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell told reporters that he wasn't going to talk about "what comes next" until the Senate's plan A, passing the House bill, failed. Well, now it's failed.
Speaker John Boehner is openly calling on the Senate GOP to take the lead from here — and specifically, to find a way to block the president's executive actions. But that's exactly what Democrats are uniting in opposition against.
Based on what Democrats and Republicans have said, here are some hypothetical options that could be tried next:
A "clean" funding bill. If Senate Republicans want to guarantee that a bill passes the Senate and gets signed by the President, they could propose a "clean" funding bill — something that just sets funding levels for DHS without adding any conditions about what the department can or can't do.
This would be Democrats' first choice. But because McConnell and Senate Republicans have been silent about their Plan B, it's not clear whether enough Republicans would support a clean funding bill. They might lose immigration hawks on the issue (like Sen. Ted Cruz in the Senate, or Rep. Steve King and a conservative bloc in the House) who would disapprove of any plan to fund DHS that didn't attack Obama's executive actions. And Boehner's comments, which called out Sen. Cruz and Senate Immigration Subcommittee chair Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) in particular, make that more likely.we need to start telling republican representatives that they are not fighting for us but for their own agenda as dictated by big business not what they were elected for yet they keep electing them and keep believing the deception that Dems are the reason for all their woes. read some of these articles they tell you what republicans are and trying to do a closed mind doesn't get your thoughts out and it doesn't let any others in. recognize
please read the entire article decide is this the way you want your country to be or those that discriminate governing your family's future or non future in most cases?
ball is in our court do we take the offense or do we continue with no defense.
