WASHINGTON — Congress is sending President Barack Obama a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security through the end of the budget year, without overturning the president's immigration policies.
The House on Tuesday voted 257-167 for the measure that Obama is expected to sign. Without action, funding for the department would have expired Friday at midnight.
Arkansas' U.S. Reps. Rick Crawford, French Hill, Bruce Westerman and Steve Womack, all Republicans, voted "no."
The outcome was a victory for Obama and Democrats, and a defeat for the GOP strategy of trying to overturn Obama's executive actions on immigration by linking them to funding for Homeland.
Read Wednesday’s Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for full details.