The Hill - Senate Dems Offer 'Clean' Bill to Fund Homeland Security

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By Rebecca Shabad

Two top Democrats on the Senate Appropriations Committee unveiled a clean Homeland Security funding bill late Tuesday to put pressure on Senate Republicans to disregard a House version that reverses President Obama's immigration actions.

The bill was introduced by the full committee's ranking member, Sen. Barbara Mikulski (D-Md.), and the ranking member of its Subcommittee on Homeland Security, Sen. Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.).

The two senators based their new bill on the compromise agreement the House and Senate reached in December "and kept it free of extraneous policy riders that would threaten vital homeland security operations," they said.

"We have a good bill that both the House and Senate have already agreed to that properly supports our homeland security operations," Shaheen said. "Now we should pass it."

Congress must pass a new bill funding the DHS by Feb. 27 or the department will shut down.

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