Senate Blocks Effort To Compromise 'clean' Bill To Fund Homeland Security

Back in the hot seat. Senate Democrats blocked a motion Monday by conservative Republicans to "conference," or negotiate, with the House on the "clean" bill to fund Homeland Security through the end of September. That bill passed the Senate last week with strong bipartisan support and the vote today, which failed to meet the three-fifths threshold necessary to adopt the motion, will keep House Republicans from trying to add anti-immigrant riders back into the bill during a conference committee between the two chambers. What does today's failed vote mean?

 

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