right now to having this issue resolved? what do you want to see happen in the next week? yesterday the democrats refused to vote for a three week extension. and yet they voted for a one week extension. i would have preferred that we go to conference based upon the bill with the senate. as you know the senate filibustered this issue four times. we had passed a bill more than six weeks ago. and i favor full funding of the department of homeland security. and john boehner, the speaker favors that. i am sure that will be the case and we will not shutdown government. but let s be clear on the distinctions here. the bill you re talking about that made it out of the house, didn t just provide funding for the department of homeland security, it included language that would take away what the president has done in terms of executive action on immigration. the bill that cleared the senate to fund the homeland security department just funds the department of homeland security. the question t
voted on yesterday. if i m in a miminority so be it. in this particular instance here s what s at stake. you have the risk of a federal government shutdown. that s what s at stake. under those circumstances, i would argue that we have an obligation to prevent that kind of damage that is done to our federal government and to our country. and some of those circumstances, i would have preferred we have a vote on the full measure passed by the senate and see where the people stood. if it failed then that would reinforce to the united states senate, that their position of defending the president s illegal and unconstitutional conduct is untenable and they would have to reconsider their position. if it passed then this issue would be behind us and we would start moving on to a lot of other very important issues that still face our country. in the meantime, as bill has argued and i think as i concur we are stringing this thing out. let s bring it to a head see
take the immigration bill for example, they complained that the house did not take up the senate himgration bill. i think the democrat plan was to let s pass this bill with the provisions on the executive order and let the senate vote on it and have the president veto it. did they remember, the president was just on nbc where he said this filibustering has to stop. this is a case in point. let the regular order move forward. let the house and senate work its will. obviously, there are numbers there to sustain the president s veto. i think a compromise could have been had. that was the republican plan. somebody should have told them this was probably not in the cards. they turned it into a republican
month. 25 republicans voted against him as speaker last month. there are 50 or 60 republicans who voted against his bill on the three week extension and the wrun week extension for dhs. you have to understand the reason this issue is so explosive is it combines two things that make republicans maddest. so it s an open question what happens going in to this. if speaker boehner puts a clean dhs bill on the floor, there will be talk i suspect there might be an attempt to challenge his speakership. wow. all right. a lot of drama last night, but clearly that drama will not be subicizing. thanks. there were five democrats who voted against that one week funding bill when it finally got that vote before 10:00 last
is going to happen in the next week? reporter: that ultimately dhs is going to be funded. they don t think this looks good for anyone. this was a nail biter with less than two hours before department of homeland security was set to shutdown. they passed a one week resolution to keep dhs open. earlier in the evening boehner brought to a vote a bill that would have funded the agency for three full weeks but boehner failed to get enough votes from his own party. that short term proposal failed. conservative republicans want any slagz that funds the dhs to also block the president s immigration action which would provide relief from deportation to millions of undocumented immigrants. those conservative republicans argue that the president has overstepped his constitutional authority. the president has consistently defended his action. he says it s legal.