MCCONNELL TRIES TO AVOID HOMELAND SECURITY SHUTDOWN

[Panich52]

MCCONNELL TRIES TO AVOID HOMELAND SECURITY SHUTDOWN

Sen. Majority Leader McConnell tries to separate funding bill from immigration battle. Roll Call:
“…McConnell has begun to pivot toward a new strategy to separate funding for the Department of Homeland Security from the GOP’s plan to roll back President Barack Obama’s immigration actions [, offering] a standalone bill focused on the 2014 immigration actions alone … Michael Steel, a spokesman for Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, welcomed McConnell’s latest maneuvering.”
http://blogs.rollcall.com/wgdb/as-shutdown-nears-mcconnell-floats-new-homeland-security-plan/?dcz=


Move would be coupled with short-term funding bill for Homeland Security. Politico:

“Senior Republicans said privately … that the party may have no choice now but to fund the agency on a short-term basis. The length of a so-called continuing resolution isn’t clear, but McConnell plans to discuss the matter with GOP senators in a closed-door lunch on Tuesday … it faces an uphill climb in the House, where it is unclear if conservatives will view the GOP’s evolving tactics as a run toward political cover.”
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/congress-dems-filibuster-dhs-bill-115433.html?hp=t1_r

[msanthrope]

1. Work fast, Turtleman...nt

[BlueCaliDem]

2. The House is chock-full of Neo-Confederates who WANT to destroy the United States.

McConnell has an uphill battle trying to convince the spineless Boehner to bring a clean DHS funding bill to the floor for a vote, and the Neo-Confederates posing as Republican Representatives will cheer when yet another government agency is shutdown. For them, this is pure heaven - until they get hit by a terrorist attack in their State. But then they'll pivot and blame President Obama - just like they did when they voted to cut the budget for embassy security and Benghazi happened.

These people are no better than ISIS.

[oldandhappy]

3. Hmmmmm Leadership ain't easy!!

[global1]

4. They're Blinking.....

now is the time to keep the pressure on them and make them pass a clean bill that is long-term. We don't need to face this battle again. Time to put this behind and move on and do some good for this country.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. What is really happening is this in my

opinion,we will see tons of Bills run up the Flag Pole and if they won't wave,well,you will see a Mega Continuing Resolution Bill that will need to be pasted during the night. Watch for December 31,2016. Shades of the Clinton Escape Bill of 1999.