Regulations and Government
Obama Signs DHS Funding Bill
Passage averts DHS Shutdown

President Obama signed the full-year Fiscal Year 2015 Department of Homeland Security (DHS) funding bill into law on March 4, averting a shutdown of the agency.  The department, for the second week in a row, had faced a shutdown as lawmakers remained at odds over a controversial immigration provision. House Republicans ultimately agreed to withdraw the provision and on March 3 passed a “clean” bill that matched that approved by the Senate on February 27. 


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