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The Senate Appropriations Committee on Thursday voted 26-4 to send a $40.2 billion net discretionary spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to the full Senate for consideration.The funding amount is $1.2 billion less than the Obama administration requested for DHS in FY ’16 but still $543 million more than Congress enacted for FY ’15. Senators voting against the bill were Christopher Murphy (D-Conn.), Patty Murray (D-Wash.), Jack Reed (R.I.) and Jon Tester (D-Mont.).Earlier in the week the…
