House passes clean DHS funding bill to end immigration stalemate
After months of drama, the House of Representatives on Tuesday passed a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security with no strings attached targeting President Obama's executive action on immigration. The "clean" bill, which funds DHS through Sep. 30, passed by a 257 - 167 vote.
House Republicans had sought to hold DHS funding hostage in an attempt to scuttle Obama's immigration move. But Senate Democrats refused to give in and, with a partial DHS shutdown looming, Speaker of the House John Boehner (R-Ohio) finally cut loose the right wing of his caucus and agreed to bring the Senate's bipartisan DHS bill up for a vote.
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