House Passes No-Strings-Attached Bill To Fund Homeland Security

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House Votes To Fund DHS Until Sept. 30 — Without Immigration Curbs March 3, 2015

An effort by some congressional Republicans to block President Obama's executive actions on immigration by tying it to a Homeland Security spending bill officially failed on Tuesday. House Speaker John Boehner yet again bucked the most conservative wing of his party and brought a "clean" funding bill to the floor. It passed easily, thanks to unanimous backing by Democrats.