Senate Democrats and Republicans voted 68-31 to pass a "clean" bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security through the end of September. The anti-immigrant riders were stripped out of the bill.
The bill will now head to the House, where Speaker John Boehner spent the morning chasing after a bill that only funds the department for three weeks, because somehow he thinks the GOP will present a united front by then. Either that, or he's addicted to this endless merry-go-round of funding fights.
Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi called the GOP display in the House "amateur hour to the Nth degree." House Democrats have opposed the three-week funding bill from the start.
8:49 AM PT: UPDATE: Immediately following the vote on the "clean" DHS bill, Senate Democrats blocked a stand-alone bill from moving forward that would have stripped funding for President Obama's 2014 immigration actions. The bill failed to advance by a vote of 57 to 42.
Democratic Sens. Joe Donnelly of Indiana, Heidi Heitkamp of North Dakota, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, and Claire McCaskill of Missouri voted with Republicans to defund the president's immigration actions.