GOP: House to vote on Homeland bill without conditions
By ERICA WERNER and DAVID ESPO, Associated Press
Mar 3, 2015 8:43 AM CST
Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain, R-Ariz., speaks to reporters as he heads to the chamber for a procedural vote on a funding bill for the Department of Homeland Security that has produced partisan gridlock in the first several weeks of the new Congress, at the Capitol in Washington,...   (Associated Press)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republicans say the House will vote as early as Tuesday on a bill to fully fund the Homeland Security Department through the end of the budget year, without immigration restrictions.

Facing dwindling options, Speaker John Boehner outlined the situation for rank-and-file GOP members during a closed-door caucus meeting Tuesday morning.

Lawmakers and congressional aides said the House plans to vote on the bill despite opposition from conservatives who demanded that the measure roll back President Barack Obama's unilateral changes on immigration.

Boehner told the caucus that he was outraged by the president's actions, but this was the right decision "for this team and the right one for this country."

Aides and other lawmakers described his comments.

Republican Rep. Peter King of New York said "sanity is prevailing."

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