House Republicans Call One-Week Timeout on Department of Homeland Security Shutdown Drama

Earlier today the Huffington Post an article about the Department of Homeland Security. The House of Representatives voted to avert a shutdown of the Department of Homeland security. This accrued because there was a split decision between Republicans in the House and Senate, if they should choose to help pass a bill that can help up to 4 million illegal immigrants or to hold their ground and saying no to the bill. Although the legislation passed the senate 68 to 31, to keep Homeland security running for one more week, some republicans believe that killing the bill would be futile. Not all faith was lost though as Speaker John Boehner had tried to persuade those who were still on the fence of the vote, only to see 52 Republicans (from his own party) join the majority of Democrats. The House Republicans had hoped for three weeks in persuading senators to go to a conference on the Department of Homeland Security bill, but now it comes to next week if the bill gets passed or not. In this article the author really showed that there is a lot of dysfunction between the republicans and sees it amusing. Even the fact that Speaker John Boehner had hoped for three week continuation of the debate, his own members voted along side with the Democrats, showing people have changed their views on immigrants and there can be a way for undocumented illegal immigrants to live in this country. If I could change the heading for the author to summarize the story it would be “Republican’s final huddle as the Immigrates are here.”