John Boehner once again turned to Nancy Pelosi to deliver votes to avert Congress from diving into a disaster.
On Tuesday, 182 Democrats joined just 75 Republicans to pass a long-term funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security, ending a months-long fight over immigration that President Barack Obama sparked just after Election Day.
Since Friday, Pelosi and Boehner have held quiet rounds of negotiations and maneuvering to push the measure through the House over the objections of a cadre of conservatives in Boehner’s conference who scuttled a three-week funding bill in a dramatic showdown last week.
As late as Tuesday, Boehner tapped Democrats to help pass a procedural rule for a funding bill for Amtrak that Republicans were threatening to bring down if it did not include a provision that would stop a clean DHS bill from moving forward. But Pelosi pledged Democratic support to move forward — a departure from normal where the minority party always votes against rules brought by the party controlling the floor.
The California Democrat went to her caucus meeting asking members to support the rule, by coming “right to the floor and get up on that board, so that we can end this thing.”
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3 comments:
Boehner wimped out again. He is no leader. There is no Republican leader in the House or Senate.
A clean bill would authorize the money for DHS minus the money needed for the immigration Executive Action. In other words cut their request down to necessities only. Do not increase their budget.
Empowering Pelosi shows what kind of WIMP he is. You can not have a smaller Government by constantly increasing spending.
So Boehner caved - to save his political career at the national level!
Just like McConnell caved....
Harry and Nancy are still running the show!
WTFO?
Boehner and McConnell are useless.
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