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Pelosi Statement on Fourth Senate Vote Rejecting Republicans’ DHS Riders

February 23, 2015

Contact: Drew Hammill, 202-226-7616

Washington, D.C. – Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement after the Senate voted for the fourth time to reject House Republicans' radical, anti-immigrant Department of Homeland Security appropriations bill. Without action, the Department of Homeland Security will shut down on February 28.

"There are only four days left until Republicans' toxic grandstanding shuts down the Department of Homeland Security, and they still don't have a plan to dig our country out of this, their latest manufactured crisis.

"The Senate has now voted four times to reject Republicans' radical anti-immigrant priorities. House Republicans need to wake up. Our homeland security is not a political hostage, it is Congress's most important responsibility to the American people.

"This is not a game. The world is far too dangerous for the Republican Congress to show so little regard for the security of American families. It is time for Republicans to snap out of their delusions and give us a vote on a clean DHS funding bill immediately. With every House Democrat cosponsoring this legislation, it is clear there are enough votes for passage now."

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