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234374-senate-dems-block-conference-on-dhsThe Hill:

Jordain Carney

Mar. 2 2015

 

Senate Democrats on Monday blocked the formation of a conference committee with the House to agree to funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). If the 47-43 procedural vote had been successful, senators would have moved immediately to a final vote on the motion to go to conference with the House.

 

Lawmakers on Friday passed a one-week spending bill to avoid a DHS shutdown. Republicans hoped to use the extra time to reach a deal with senators on longer-term department funding and legislation to roll back President Obama’s executive actions on immigration.

 

But Democrats vowed repeatedly to block any attempt to go to conference, arguing the Congress should approve a clean bill funding the agency — without immigration measures attached.

 

Senate Republicans don’t have the 60 votes necessary to overcome the filibuster.

 

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