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Senate Democrats Still Holding Out for Clean DHS Funding Bill

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Friday, February 6th, 2015

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Senate Democrats Still Holding Out for Clean DHS Funding Bill

Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Committee

The Senate voted three times this week to move forward with a Department of Homeland Security funding bill–which includes both DHS appropriations and measures to block the president’s 2014 executive action on immigration–and failed three times, with Democrats unwilling to let Republicans use a spending bill to force immigration reform.A team of Democratic leaders spoke to reporters Thursday, arguing that “we’re ready to debate immigration, there’s no doubt about that, we’re happy to do that”–just not until funding for national…

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