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McCarthy: Clean DHS bill vote Tuesday
McCarthy: Clean DHS bill vote Tuesday

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House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy told reporters that a vote on a clean bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security will happen Tuesday.

A clean bill to fully fund the Department through the end of the fiscal year is what Democrats have been demanding, and conservatives have been fighting against.

According to multiple GOP members and aides, House Speaker John Boehner announced to members at the top of House GOP conference meeting that he was out of options, and the Senate couldn't pass their bill.

He asked if anyone...

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Boehner Caves, Aims Now to Support Obama's Executive Amnesty with Tax Dollars
Boehner Caves, Aims Now to Support Obama's Executive Amnesty with Tax Dollars

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As expected, Speaker John Boehner has caved and now will support President Barack Obama’s executive amnesty.

On Tuesday, Boehner plans to bring to the floor of the House of Representatives a bill that funds Obama’s amnesty in its entirety for the rest of the fiscal year.

“Speaker John Boehner announced that the House will vote Tuesday on the Senate’s bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security, a move that could enrage a small pocket of conservatives but will end the impasse over the agency’s funding,” Politico wrote in a...

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John Boehner Blinks, Will Allow For Clean Funding Of Department Of Homeland Security
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The House will finally vote on a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security without immigration measures, Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) told his conference at a meeting on Tuesday.

The vote will come after the House narrowly averted a shutdown last Friday when the House GOP rejected a "clean" DHS funding bill passed in the Senate, and then 52 conservative Republican members joined Democrats to block even a three-week continuing resolution. The House passed a one-week funding bill in hopes that Senate Democrats would allow a conference between the...

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