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HOW THEY VOTED
The House voted 224-203 to defeat a measure that would provide short-term funding for the the Homeland Security Department, but which did not contain measures to block President Barack Obama’s controversial executive actions on immigration, The Senate voted 68-31 to approve legislation, stripped of the immigration provisions, that would fund the department for the full fiscal year.
HOUSE
John Carter (R), Yes
Lloyd Doggett (D), No
Blake Farenthold (R), No
Bill Flores (R), Yes
Michael McCaul (R), Yes
Lamar Smith (R), No
Roger Williams (R), No
SENATE
John Cornyn (R), Yes
Ted Cruz (R), No
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HOW THEY VOTED
The House voted 224-203 to defeat a measure that would provide short-term funding for the the Homeland Security Department, but which did not contain measures to block President Barack Obama’s controversial executive actions on immigration, The Senate voted 68-31 to approve legislation, stripped of the immigration provisions, that would fund the department for the full fiscal year.
HOUSE
Rick Allen (R), Yes
Sanford Bishop (D), No
Buddy Carter (R), Yes
Doug Collins (R), Yes
Tom Graves (R), Yes
Jody Hice (R), No
Hank Johnson (D), No
John Lewis (D), No
Barry Loudermilk (R), No
Tom Price (R), Yes
Austin Scott (R), Yes
David Scott (D), Yes
Lynn Westmoreland (R), Yes
Rob Woodall (R), Yes
Johnny Isakson (R), No
David Perdue (R), No
SENATE
Johnny Isakson (R), No
David Perdue (R), No
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HOW THEY VOTED
The House voted 224-203 to defeat a measure that would provide short-term funding for the the Homeland Security Department, but which did not contain measures to block President Barack Obama’s controversial executive actions on immigration, The Senate voted 68-31 to approve legislation, stripped of the immigration provisions, that would fund the department for the full fiscal year.
HOUSE
John Boehner (R), Yes
Steve Chabot (R), Yes
Jim Jordan (R), No
Michael Turner (R), NV
Brad Wenstrup, (R), No
SENATE
Sherrod Brown (D), Yes
Rob Portman (R), No
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HOW THEY VOTED
The House voted 224-203 to defeat a measure that would provide short-term funding for the the Homeland Security Department, but which did not contain measures to block President Barack Obama’s controversial executive actions on immigration, The Senate voted 68-31 to approve legislation, stripped of the immigration provisions, that would fund the department for the full fiscal year.
HOUSE
Ted Deutch (D), No
Lois Frankel (D), No
Alcee Hastings (D), No
Patrick Murphy (D), Yes
SENATE
Bill Nelson (D), Yes
Marco Rubio (R), No
Rebellious Republicans in the GOP-controlled House voted down short-term funding for the Department of Homeland Security late Friday, increasing the prospect of a partial shutdown of an agency with major anti-terrorism responsibilities.
The vote was 224-203 against the measure as 52 Republicans abandoned their leaders on the legislation to join all but 12 Democrats in defeating it.
“You have made a mess,” House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi told Republicans as the vote neared.
In the aftermath, even some Republicans agreed.
“There are terrorist attacks all over world and we’re talking about closing down Homeland Security. This is like living in world of crazy people,” tweeted Rep. Peter King of New York, a former chairman of the Homeland Security Committee.
Within a few hours of the vote, the department circulated a lengthy contingency plan. The 46-page document indicated that more than 30,000 employees would face furloughs out of a total agency workforce of 225,000.
Much of the department was to remain open, at least temporarily. Airport security checkpoints would remain staffed, immigration agents would be on the job, air marshals would do their work and Coast Guard patrols would sail on.
Ironically, a federal court order had already blocked implementation of Obama’s executive orders shielding millions of immigrants from the threat of deportation — the sticking point for conservative Republicans, who opposed any bill lacking provisions to kill the measures.
It wasn’t clear what House Speaker John Boehner would next propose. A funding measure for two or three days or perhaps a week was possible. And while the deadline for a partial shutdown was midnight, the weekend ahead presumably meant there was still time to minimize disruptions.
Taken together, the day’s roller-coaster events at the Capitol underscored the difficulty Republicans have had so far this year in translating last fall’s election gains, capped by winning control of the Senate, into legislative accomplishment — a step the party’s own leaders say is necessary to establish its credentials as a responsible, governing entity.
While conservative, tea party-backed Republicans on one side of the political aisle were upset about the removal of the immigration provisions, Democrats opposed the bill in overwhelming numbers because it lacked full-year funding for the sprawling department.
Pelosi and other Democrats urged Republicans both before and after the vote to allow debate on legislation to keep the department funded through the Sept. 30 end of the budget year — a step that GOP House leaders have so far refused to take.
Doing so might draw enough Democratic votes to pass the bill, but at the same time has the potential to drive away some Republicans.
“It does not make any difference whether the funding is for three weeks, three months or a full fiscal year. If it’s illegal, it’s illegal,” Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Ala., said of Obama’s executive action, which Republicans contend is unconstitutional.
Across the Capitol, the Senate waited all day to add its assent to the expected House measure after passing a full-year funding bill 68-31, then failing in an almost party-line vote to advance largely symbolic, separate legislation to repeal Obama’s immigration directives.
That separate proposal was “commonsense legislation that would protect our democracy from the egregious example of executive overreach we saw in November,” said Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who successfully led his rank and file in recent days to a decision to separate the Homeland Security funding legislation from the immigration-related provisions.
The day’s developments occurred against a midnight deadline for funding the department, an agency with significant responsibilities in the nation’s fight against terrorism.
An early, 240-183 test vote in the House indicated ample support for the spending bill, but a short while later the House was gaveled into recess while leaders searched for support to pass the legislation itself.
Some House Republicans said the entire strategy of passing a short-term measure and seeking negotiations on a longer-term bill that included changes in Obama’s immigration policy was flawed. They noted that Senate Democrats had demonstrated their ability to block any challenges to Obama’s immigration policies, and that the president had vowed to veto any such legislation should it win approval.
“Some folks just have a harder time facing political reality than others,” said Rep. Charlie Dent, R-Pa., speaking of other Republicans.
Obama’s first immigration directive, in 2012, lifted the threat of deportation from many immigrants brought to the country illegally as youngsters. Another order last fall applied to millions more who are in the United States unlawfully.
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