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</p> </p> The Minnesota Republican made the figurative remark while speaking on the floor during debate on legislation ending the president’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program granting
</p> Still, leaders burned by Thursday’s meltdown took their time whipping the votes and revising the bill.
</p> The House’s bill, however, isn’t expected to go anywhere, with Democrats and President Barack Obama torching it Friday.
into the border funding bill.
into the border funding bill.
</p> The bill won’t get taken up any time soon by the Democrat-controlled Senate, which already left for August recess.
</p> The bill would effectively end Deferred Actions for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA — a program that has allowed hundreds of thousands of “Dreamers” brought to the United States illegally by their parents
(Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call File Photo) Conservatives have poured millions into primary challenges to senators this cycle, even in races where chances of success were slim.</p> But Sen.
Bill Haslam and the state’s entire congressional delegation, barring scandal-tarred Rep. Scott DesJarlais. He also had the backing every living former Tennessee GOP chairman.
</p> “House Speaker John Boehner was forced to pull his $659 million border security supplemental on Thursday because he lacked ample Republican votes to pass the bill.
</p> Still, significantly more Democrats voted against the House bill this time. On July 15, the House passed the bill 367-55, with 45 Republicans and 10 Democrats voting against it.
</p> With the highway bill passing 81-13 and a VA bill also cleared for the president’s desk , but a border supplemental blocked by the GOP , Congress cleared two of the three major legislative items
</p> <p/> Hours after House GOP leaders had to pull their own $659 million bill , Republicans used a budget point of order by Senate Budget Chairman Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., to kill the Senate bill on
</p> GOP leaders, led by Speaker John A. Boehner of Ohio, issued a joint statement pinning the blame for pulling the bill on Obama.
</p> Sessions had ripped the House’s border bill as “surrender” to Obama’s plans to reportedly grant deportation relief and work permits to as many as five million more people in the country illegally
</p> The Senate voted on its version of a highway bill without any hint of an unemployment revival.
John McCain, R-Ariz., decried the inability of senators to offer amendments on the bill.
</p> “I am putting my colleagues on notice that if you want to pass any bill that’s going to go by unanimous consent, you better find some waste somewhere to offset it or I will object,” Coburn said.
Carper of Delaware and Barbara Boxer of California in a bid to force action on a long-term bill in the post-election lame duck.
</p> </p> </p> Reid also reaffirmed that the Senate would act in September on a constitutional amendment to upend Citizens United. It isn’t all campaign fodder, though.