Senate Debates Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act

WASHINGTON, DC - FEBRUARY 23: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) (L) walks from his office in the U.S. Capitol to the Senate chamber to open debate on a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security February 23, 2015 in Washington, DC. The GOP-controlled Senate will vote for the fourth time in three weeks on a $39.7 billion bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security and strip away the executive actions in which President Barack Obama eased the deportation threat for several million undocumented immigrants. If Republicans and Democrats can not work around the impasse then 30,000 DHS employees will go home February 28 and 200,000 more will toil without paychecks until a solution is found. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)