Pressure centers on House GOP on Homeland Security bill

House Republicans reacted tepidly at best Wednesday to calls from the upper reaches of both political parties for legislation funding the Department of Homeland Security without immigration-related provisions opposed by the White House. Three days before a threatened partial shutdown at the agency, House Speaker John Boehner declined repeatedly to say what he would recommend to his conservative, fractious rank-and-file if the funding bill clears the Republican-controlled Senate.

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