Boehner: Will Senate Dems âget off their aââ on DHS bill?
Never mind that Republicans control all of Capitol Hill, House Speaker John Boehner on Wednesday wondered when Senate Democrats will âget off their â and do something other than to vote noâ on a House GOP plan to fund the Department of Homeland Security. âThe House did its job,â Boehner said to reporters Wednesday after a closed-party meeting. âWe won the fight to fund the Department of Homeland Security and to stop the presidentâs unconstitutional actions. Now itâs time for the Senate to do their work. In the gift shop out there, theyâve got these little booklets on how a bill becomes a law. Alright? The House has done its job.â Story Continued Below Senate Democrats have voted uniformly against taking up a House bill that would fund DHS through the end of the fiscal year, while gutting President Barack Obamaâs changes to the enforcement of immigration laws. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) has said that itâs up to Boehnerâs House to pass another bill that can get through the Senate. In December, when Boehner designed the plan to fight over Obamaâs immigration executive actions this month, he promised to fight tooth-and-nail. Asked if itâs working as he envisioned, Boehner said, âItâs working exactly the way I envisioned.â âThe issue here is not Senate Republicans, itâs Senate Democrats,â Boehner said. When reminded that McConnell said itâs up to him to pass a bill, Boehner smiled and said, âI love Mitch. He has a tough job to do, and so do I.â