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Urgent: U.S. Senate passes clean DHS funding bill

Xinhua, February 28, 2015 Adjust font size:

U.S. Senate on Friday passed a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) without any provisions to attack U.S. President Barack Obama's contested 2014 immigration policies.

The bill will then be sent to the House of Representatives for a vote. However, House Speaker John Boehner, who put forward his own three-week short-term DHS funding bill on Thursday night, would not likely to put the bill up for a vote in the House. Endite