Dems want Obama to keep control of his pen and phone. Update to this previous story.
With a Republican funding measure for the Department of Homeland Security stalled in the Senate, House Democrats have introduced a new version that leaves out the language curbing President Obama’s executive actions on immigration.
Reps. Lucille Roybal-Allard, D-Calif., and Nita Lowey, D-N.Y., introduced called their measure a “clean, bipartisan, full-year, DHS funding bill.”
But it stands little chance of receiving a vote, at least for now.
Republican leadership aides said a bill that excludes the immigration provisions is “a nonstarter” because the GOP believes the president acted beyond his constitutional authority. Obama’s executive actions issued in 2012 and 2014 allow millions of illegal immigrants to obtain work permits and some federal benefits.
The bill has been blocked three times in the Senate by Democrats and one Republican( Sen. Dean Heller of Nevada).