Stopgap Homeland Security Spending Bill Fails In House

The Associated Press, Denver Post: Politics
Fri, 02/27/2015 - 3:20pm

WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has rejected a stopgap spending bill for the Homeland Security Department with just hours to go before a midnight deadline to fund the agency or see it begin to partially shut down.

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