Boehner: House won't pass another DHS funding bill

Speaker John Boehner reiterated Wednesday that the House will not pass another bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security at this time, despite its standoff with the Republican-controlled Senate.

Boehner’s comment — that the House has done its job and it’s time for the Senate to act — came in a closed Republican Conference meeting Wednesday morning.


Sens. Cory Gardner of Colorado and Shelley Moore Capito of West Virginia — both former House members — discussed immigration and the 60-vote threshold the Senate.

Senate Republican leaders — including Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky — have said the House needs to take up a bill. The Senate has been unable to pass the DHS funding bill because it’s loaded with provisions to gut President Barack Obama’s changes to immigration law.