Earlier today the House accepted the Senate version of HR
240 in an unusual bipartisan vote of 257-167; only 75
Republicans voted for the bill as did every voting Democrat. Before today’s
debate on the bill could start the conservative Republicans lost a procedural
move to stop the consideration of the bill by a vote of 140-278.
The bill will go to the President who has indicated that he
will sign the bill, so the Homeland Security funding issue has been resolved
for this fiscal year. It will be interesting to see if the FY 2016 budget and
spending bill suffer the same sort of problems.
There will almost certainly be repercussions within the
Republican caucus for the leadership’s failure to get cohesive action on a
major bill of this sort. It is probably too early to see any changes in the
leadership, but unless something happens to change things the likelihood of
those changes happening is going to increase.
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