House to vote on DHS funding measure
Fox News chief congressional correspondent Chad Pergram says House Republicans have prepped their own DHS spending bill on ‘Fox News @ Night.’
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The DHS funding drama heads back to the Senate on Monday morning after the House approved a two-month stopgap spending plan for all of DHS late Friday night.
The Senate meets on Monday at 10:30 am et in what was supposed to be a brief “pro forma” session where the body simply gavels in and gavels out with a skeleton crew on hand.
But that might not be what happens Monday. As soon as the Senate gets through the prayer and pledge, it’s likely a Republican senator seeks recognition from the chair.
If that happens, we anticipate the GOP senator to ask for unanimous consent (meaning all 100 senators would agree) to take up the DHS bill passed by the House on Friday, that it be “read a third time” and passed.
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The Department of Homeland Security funding debacle heads back to the Senate on Monday morning. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)
The chair will then ask if there is an objection.
If any senator – be they a Democrat or Republican – objects, the House bill is dead. That means that the House and Senate continue to be out of alignment on the DHS funding question. For instance, the House didn’t even consider the bill cleared by all 100 senators and passed by the Senate at 2:19 am Friday. The House simply wrote their own two-month interim bill, passed it Friday night and skipped town.
If there is no objection, the House and Senate are aligned and will have passed the same bill. That means they are on the same page.
Approval of the House bill by the Senate would end the ongoing DHS shutdown. (WVUE)
Approval of the House bill by the Senate would end the DHS shutdown.
But if there’s an objection, everything remains frozen.
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