Senate Gavels In, Gavels Out — Adjourns in 30 Seconds, REFUSES to Take Up House DHS Funding Bill as Shutdown Drags On
Senator John Hoeven presided over the brief session in which the Senate adjourned without taking up the House DHS funding bill.

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Senator John Hoeven presided over the brief session in which the Senate adjourned without taking up the House DHS funding bill.

The Senate held a brief pro forma session and adjourned until Thursday without taking up the House-passed bill to fund DHS for eight weeks, leaving the shutdown unresolved. The article reports that Senator Chris Coons said he would have objected to the bill, citing the lack of reforms to ICE and Border Patrol.
said he would have objected to the House DHS funding bill
Coons's version of this story ↗critic of the Senate recess and inaction
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