Not too long ago, I believe Utah was considerating a bill that would escrow all federal taxes collected in that state and only release them to Washington by a line item process justifying how the money would be spent. Ideas such as this would be an excellent start at demanding accountability and would be constitutional. For the American people to continue to play by the rules of federal pop culture can have only one outcome, and we've almost reached it. The Constitution constrains the federal gov't and protects the people by placing them under the protection of smaller gov't I.E: state and local.

I may be way off base, but how did we ever survive before the tyrannical Homeland Security??? Its expensive and the FBI has the capabilities to protect the public from terrorist & criminals... Call your Congressman/woman & Senators, tell them NO... Don D.

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Congress Faces Five-Day Deadline For Funding Homeland Security

By Rebecca Shabad - feb 23, 2015

Lawmakers will begin returning to Washington on Monday with only five days left to prevent a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Legislation funding the agency is at an impasse over provisions demanded by House Republicans that would overturn President Obama’s executive actions on immigration that shield millions from deportation.
Over the recess, both sides dug in, with many Republicans arguing that there is no reason for their party to bend now that a federal court has ruled in their favor by blocking Obama’s most recent actions.

The Senate is scheduled to vote Monday evening for the fourth time on a motion to open debate on the House-passed DHS funding bill.

The motion will certainly fail, leaving a decision on what comes next to Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).

McConnell has publicly said that the House-approved bill cannot be passed by the Senate, but Boehner has shown no interest in moving away from legislation reversing Obama’s executive actions.

“The House passed a bill weeks ago to fund the Department of Homeland Security. Now, Senate Democrats need to stop filibustering to block debate on that bill,” Speaker John Boehner’s (R-Ohio) spokesman Michael Steel told The Hill late last week.

As a result, Senate Republicans are considering a strategy in which the immigration riders would be separated from the DHS funding bill, but it’s unclear whether conservatives would back that plan.

Boehner could lay out his next play when the House GOP conference meets on Wednesday morning, which would leave him just 72 hours to prevent a shutdown.

One option being floated is a short-term spending bill known as a continuing resolution (CR), but it is not clear whether this would pass muster.

Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson has been lobbying Republicans and Democrats on the agency’s need for new funding, which he says would bring the kind of stability that a CR cannot provide.

“When you're on a continuing resolution, it is a little like trying to drive cross-country with no more than five gallons of gas at a time, and you don't know when the next gas station is,” Johnson said on Fox News last week. “You can't plan except days and weeks at a time.”

Over the weekend, Johnson emphasized that a new threat by terrorist group al-Shabaab to attack shopping malls in the U.S. and United Kingdom demonstrates why the DHS needs a new budget.

"It’s absurd that we’re even having this conversation about Congress’s inability to fund Homeland Security in these challenging times," he said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

Centrist Republicans have openly worried that their party could take a significant political hit by shutting down the DHS, while more conservative members have downplayed that threat. The Republican brand was badly damaged by the 16-day government shutdown in 2013, though the party had recovered by the 2014 midterm elections.

After last week’s court ruling, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) argued it could be best for the GOP to let the fight play out in the courts, where he said Republicans are winning.

“"We now have an exit sign," he said Sunday on CBS's "Face the Nation." "And that is the federal court decision saying that the president's actions unilaterally are unconstitutional. And I think we've got a great argument to hand to the Supreme Court, where it will go."

Other GOP senators, including Bob Corker (Tenn.) and Lindsey Graham (S.C.), echoed McCain’s comment on the Sunday morning political talk shows about courts handling the constitutionality of Obama’s actions.

"I hope Republicans will come together and back the court case, file a friend of the court brief with the court and fund DHS. I am willing and ready to pass a DHS funding bill and let this play out in court," Graham said on ABC News's “This Week.”

Republican Tom Ridge, who served as the first secretary of Homeland Security under President George W. Bush, said Sunday on CNN that the GOP should send Obama a clean spending bill. Instead, the judicial branch can handle immigration, and Republicans can send immigration reform bills to the White House, Ridge added.

Johnson has warned a DHS shutdown would trigger the furlough of 30,000 employees and force 80 percent of the department's workforce to come to work without pay.

Polls have indicated that voters would largely hold the GOP responsible for the DHS shuttering, just as Republicans were blamed in 2013.

Sen. Mark Kirk (R-Ill.) recently said a shutdown would reflect poorly on the GOP.

"It’s not livable. It’s not acceptable. When you’re in the majority, you have to govern. You have to govern responsibly. And shutdowns are not responsible."

The government must follow the rules also, dumbass!

THE BILL OF RIGHTS
Amendments 1-10 of the Constitution

Amendment I
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.

Amendment II
A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.

Amendment III
No soldier shall, in time of peace be quartered in any house, without the consent of the owner, nor in time of war, but in a manner to be prescribed by law.

Amendment IV
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.



Amendment V
No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

Amendment VI
In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the state and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the assistance of counsel for his defense.

Amendment VII
In suits at common law, where the value in controversy shall exceed twenty dollars, the right of trial by jury shall be preserved, and no fact tried by a jury, shall be otherwise reexamined in any court of the United States, than according to the rules of the common law.

Amendment VIII
Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted.

Amendment IX
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.

Amendment X
The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the states, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people.