http://www.politico.com/story/2015/02/congress-out-of-town-dhs-funding-115191.html?hp=t1_r 
You had one job, Congress …
Lawmakers left town without a solution to the DHS standoff. They’ll return with just days to avert a shutdown.
By Burgess Everett and Seung Min Kim
2/13/15 5:33 PM EST
Lawmakers had one job to do during the first two months of the year. And they might just blow it.
The Republican-led House and Senate skipped town on Friday for a weeklong recess, short on options and just five legislative days from letting the Department of Homeland Security’s funding expire — Congress’ first major deadline of 2015. But despite a lack of obvious solutions to their standoff on the spending bill and President Barack Obama’s immigration policies, GOP leaders are sticking to their story: There will be no shutdown.
“We’ve got 15 whole days!” an exasperated Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) said Thursday after facing daily media barrages all week about his party’s legislative strategy. “We tend to operate by deadlines around here, and I think that has a way of focusing everybody’s attention. I have every confidence we’ll meet the deadline one way or the other.”
After weeks of wrangling, the impasse remains unchanged: The GOP base and many Republicans in Congress insist that any DHS bill must target Obama’s unilateral actions on immigration. But Senate Democrats have repeatedly filibustered that proposal three times, demanding a bill free of immigration riders.
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