I rise in support of the motion to instruct conferees to agree to a clean funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security. Democratic and Republican negotiators reached a deal on 2015 Homeland Security funding levels and related policy issues in December. The Republican leadership made the political calculation to hold this funding hostage to ideological policy riders reversing the Presidents executive actions on immigration. Having failed to extort these policy concessions. the Senate has done the right thing and moved forward to pass a clean Homeland Security funding bill that does not include poison pill immigration riders. Yet House leadership continues to dither. keeping alive the threat of a shutdown affecting the agencies that protect our ports. borders. aviation systems. communities. and more. This motion to instruct would make clear the will of the House is for a clean fullyear Homeland Security funding bill.
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