House passes 1-week stopgap bill to fund Homeland Security

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The U.S. House of Representatives on Friday night passed a one-week stopgap bill to fund Homeland Security, after the Senate had passed the one-week extension earlier in the day, Reuters reports.

The 357-60 vote averted a shutdown of the department, although a three-week funding extension was rejected by the House earlier on Friday, because conservatives in the GOP-controlled House refused to vote for that bill, which did not include a section blocking funding for President Barack Obama's executive orders on immigration.

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