Top conservative says Boehner’s job is safe
Rep. Jim Jordan, the Ohio Republican who chairs the hard-line House Freedom Caucus, said Sunday that Boehner’s decision to advance a one-week measure to keep the Department of Homeland Security…
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Top conservative says Boehner’s job is safe
Rep. Jim Jordan, the Ohio Republican who chairs the hard-line House Freedom Caucus, said Sunday that Boehner’s decision to advance a one-week measure to keep the Department of Homeland Security…
House Can’t Even Agree To Fund DHS For 3 Weeks
WASHINGTON — A House Republican effort to punt on Department of Homeland Security funding failed on the floor Friday, leaving the GOP leadership in a bind on whether to throw…
Visiting Miami, Obama Presses Republicans on Homeland Security Funding
MIAMI — President Obama called on congressional Republicans on Wednesday to renew financing for the Department of Homeland Security and promised to veto any measure that tried to gut his…
Senate Democrats Agree To GOP Plan To Fund Department Of Homeland Security
WASHINGTON — The Senate reached a deal on Wednesday on funding for the Department of Homeland Security, shifting the focus back on the House to prevent the agency from shutting…
Republicans Grapple With Internal Rifts in Homeland Security Impasse
WASHINGTON — Republicans on Wednesday publicly struggled to resolve tensions within their party as House and Senate leaders searched for a way to avert a partial shutdown of the Department…
HUFFPOST HILL – Democrats Stay True To Longstanding Support Of The Filibuster
The Senate failed to do one of its most basic functions: approving legislation funding airport thigh groping. The left is embroiled in a debate over whether Elizabeth Warren should run…
Days Before DHS Funding Runs Out, The Post-Shutdown Debate Is Heating Up
WASHINGTON — TSA agents would remain in airports, patrol agents would still be manning the border and Coast Guard officers would continue monitoring the waters if the Department of Homeland…
McAuliffe: DHS shutdown consequences ‘eye-opening’
McAuliffe, a Democrat and the party’s former chairman, said he urged fellow governors during this weekend’s National Governors Association summit to call members of their state’s congressional delegation and lobby…
Concerns Mount as Homeland Security Shutdown Looks Likely
WASHINGTON — The notion that Congress might actually shut down the Department of Homeland Security as part of a broader fight over President Obama’s immigration policies seemed laughable just a…
Homeland Security Chief Urges Caution After Threat to Mall of America
WASHINGTON — The nation’s top homeland security official urged shoppers on Sunday to be “particularly careful” in visiting the Mall of America, a sprawling shopping center outside Minneapolis, after it…
Homeland Security Chief Urges Caution After Threat to Mall of America
WASHINGTON — The nation’s top homeland security official urged shoppers on Sunday to be “particularly careful” in visiting the Mall of America, a sprawling shopping center outside Minneapolis, after it…
Hill GOP emboldened after immigration ruling
Instead, Republicans say the ruling has united and emboldened them to stand firmly by their strategy of tying funding for the homeland security agency to efforts to kill Obama’s executive…
House, Senate GOP spar over DHS funding
READ: Republicans struggle to avoid Homeland Security shutdown House Republicans have already passed a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security, but that bill is dead on arrival in…
Boehner Defends Netanyahu Invite, Blames DHS Standoff On Senate Democrats
House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) still isn’t ruling out the possibility of a shutdown at the Department of Homeland Security. Boehner said Sunday on Fox News that he was “certainly”…
Obama Asks Silicon Valley To Cooperate More Against Cyberattacks
By Jeff Mason PALO ALTO, Ca., Feb 13 (Reuters) – President Barack Obama asked tech industry executives on Friday for closer cooperation in defending against hackers after high-profile attacks against…
Cruz hits GOP leaders, Democrats on Homeland Security
READ: Johnson says furloughs coming to DHS if funding stalls – “It is time to see some Senate Democrats willing to take on their own president, but right now, they’re…
Homeland Security Chief Says 30,000 Will Be Furloughed If Department Shuts Down
WASHINGTON — Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said on Sunday that he would have to furlough at least 30,000 workers if Congress does not agree to fund his department by…
Mayors Conference To Congress: Pass ‘Clean’ DHS Funding Bill
WASHINGTON — With just weeks remaining before the Department of Homeland Security runs out of money, a nonpartisan coalition of mayors is calling on the United States Senate to pass…
Homeland Security site of looming fund fight
The Homeland Security Department’s funding is due to expire Feb. 27, a date chosen by Republicans in December, as they worked out a deal to keep the rest of the…
DHS Secretary Urges Congress To Stop Using His Agency’s Budget As A ‘Political Football’
WASHINGTON — With less than a month to go until the Department of Homeland Security runs out of funding and no clear end in sight to the gridlock that’s preventing…
Democrats press McConnell to drop immigration fight on DHS bill
READ: GOP immigration showdown looms “As we rapidly approach the date on which the Department of Homeland Security’s funding expires, and as law enforcement officials face major threats to our…
‘Glee’s’ Melissa Benoist Will Play ‘Supergirl’
CBS has found its “Supergirl.” Actress Melissa Benoist has been cast in the lead role of the upcoming drama, which is executive produced by Greg Berlanti (“Arrow,” “Everwood”) and Ali…
House GOP plans immigration showdown
The emerging plan, worked out with GOP members Friday, would add several provisions that would roll back the executive order the President announced in November to a nearly $40 billion…