House Passes Homeland Security Funding Measure to Avoid Shutdown
Speaker John Boehner defies hard-line Republicans and lets the chamber vote to fund the agency through September.
House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) walks to the House floor to vote on the 'motion to table the Senate amendment' on the DHS Funding bill at the U.S. Capitol on March 3, 2015 in Washington, D.C.
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Congress ended a showdown linking Homeland Security Department spending and immigration policy as House Speaker John Boehner defied hard-line Republicans and let the chamber vote to fund the agency through September.
The House passed the measure 257-167 after the Ohio Republican capitulated to Democratic demands to take up a Senate-passed bill that doesn’t reverse President Barack Obama’s November orders on immigration. Boehner voted yes.