After a long afternoon of
wrangling Republicans, House leadership brought a short-term Homeland Security funding bill to the floor. It failed spectacularly. In a what was supposed to be a 15 minute vote, Boehner held it open as his
deputies desperately try to get the hard-liners to switch votes. It did not work, failing 203-224.
The path here was, as usual for Boehner, messy. Here was the reporting leading up to the vote.
GOP leaders are as of Friday afternoon huddling in the Speaker's office trying to sort out whether they can get enough votes to approve the measure. House conservatives want to continue fighting to block the President Barack Obama's actions on immigration and want to go to conference to work out differences between the House GOP bill and the Senate Bill passed bill earlier Friday.
A bloc of moderate House Republicans who back passing the clean DHS funding bill from the Senate are balking at voting on setting up a conference committee to hammer out the differences between these two bills.
But because Democrats are opposing the short term bill Boehner now needs support from both camps in the GOP conference to pass the short term bill.
It's not clear where they go from here, but it could be a long weekend in Washington. We'll keep you posted.
2:22 PM PT:
.@GOPLeader says “additional votes are now possible later this evening” and this weekend as the #DHS shutdown looms @CQnow
— @rollcall
2:24 PM PT: Funding runs out at midnight, tonight.
2:29 PM PT: A gentle reminder from Minority Leader Pelosi:
.@SpeakerBoehner, 100% of @HouseDemocrats support a clean, long-term bill to fund DHS. Bring us the Senate-passed bill. We will vote for it.
— @NancyPelosi
2:41 PM PT: Yeah, this'll do the trick.
Members tell me the next step could be a one-week CR for DHS. We'll see.
— @MEPFuller
Seriously, there is no ability to govern here. And just a reminder of what this is all this about, and what it's absolutely
not achieving:
Only thing stopping "exec amnesty" at this point are courts. Unfunded DHS doesn't stop it because of how immigration svcs funded
— @DavidMDrucker
3:07 PM PT: Here's the roll call of the vote.