Shutdown of Homeland Security averted as Pelosi comes to rescue
The Hill - Rebecca Shabad - 02/27/15
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A partial government shutdown was narrowly avoided late Friday evening as
House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) made a surprise move to back
legislation funding the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) for one week.
Pelosi’s support helped Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio -  ) move
the one-week bill through the House in a 357-60 vote just after 10 p.m.,...
President Obama signed the bill just before midnight.
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Pelosi came to the rescue late Friday evening, sending a letter to Democrats urging them to vote for
a one-week continuing resolution (CR) of Homeland Security funding without any immigration riders.
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“Thank you for your cooperation on the vote earlier today.
Our unity was a strong statement that the Department of Homeland Security must be fully funded,”
Pelosi wrote in the letter to Democrats. “We are asking you once again to help advance passage
of the Senate passed, long-term funding of DHS by voting in favor of a 7-day patch
that will be on suspension in the House tonight.”
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If Democrats stay united against the conference committee, Republicans will again be at a stalemate,
lacking the 60 votes that would be needed to break the filibuster.
That could leave the “clean” funding bill as the only way out.
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So, it's ironic that even when she is not in power as Speaker, Nancy Pelosi
has more clout than the GOP's elected leader of the House, John Boehner.