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hundred entries from 400 schools across the country in this year's student cam video competition on that same -- the three branches and you. during "washington journal" we will show the winning documentaries. you could see all 150 winning documentaries at student cam.org. >> the house and senate passed a short-term spending bill that would fund the homeland security department for one week. the measure is both chambers time to work out differences. republicans continue to push for a long-term solution that includes language luck in the presence executive order on immigration. we spoke with politico's stuff on what to expect in capitol hill on the days ahead. host: good morning. guest: good morning. host: take us through exactly

what happened. it seemed republicans had the vote. they pressed an extension of the bill. what happened they weren't able to get that through? guest: it looks like they have the votes, but it didn't turn out that way. it didn't do well at all. . it did not do well at all. it turned into a shorter extension which ended up happening later in the night yesterday. host: why were republican so opposed to a three-week extension of funding for the department of homeland security? guest: they were hoping for a different situation. they were hoping for a bill that included the immigration -- the reach of executive power of the president in the department of homeland security on immigration issues. they were hoping for of

at a different bill. when that did not happen, a lot of republicans did not vote for the three-week extension because it was less than what they were hoping for. it turned out that they were trying to -- at this point, rebel against what speaker boehner wanted to do. it was just not what was expected yesterday. the white house was kind of taken aback by it. a lot of people were taken aback by it. the vote yesterday was kind of a surprise. host: how are lawmakers able to come together to fund dhs for another week? guest: it is only a week. it is a very short. of time. it is a stopgap measure. it is something that will keep the department homeland security in operation for the next week. we will be doing this again next week. at this point, we know that this is but will happen. there is not necessarily -- the

growth at this point were there. just to make it go on for another week but it is very unclear what will happen in the next week. host: talk to us about what this might mean for the department of homeland security. obviously, they will be in operation for a few more days. is there any long-term impact of this debate, controversy on the employees? guest: not yet. if there is a shutdown, we know there will be 30,000 people that go home straight away. they will not be allowed to work. 200,000 will have to work without pay if there is a shutdown. now, there's another week. at this point, the question is what will happen in congress in the next week. host: can you break down who exactly would end up going to work and not going to work in the event of a shutdown of dhs? guest: the essential employees

will have to go to work. they just won't be paid if there is a shutdown. the nonessential employees won't. at this point, we know that is probably like administrative staff, as well as kind of the behind-the-scenes -- where talking cyber security might be one of the things affected by a shutdown. it would be people doing information sharing, secondary staff. not immediately critical to homeland security. also, it would slow down the whole process. host: can you take a step back and ask plaintiff how dhs ended up in the crosshairs. how did he get to this point? guest: what happened is there is a debate in congress and in the country on the present ability to have executive power over immigration decisions. he made a couple of executive orders that republicans in the

house objected to. they put, within the dhs funding bill, which dhs has some authority over immigration issues, a couple of decisions which were related to immigration. democrats objected to that. that's what kind of the congressional standoff came from. it was the concern over the limits of the executive power and democrats felt that the should of been a clean bill on the debate. they call it a clean bill that does not have any sort of immigration provisions in it, or which does not hold up immigration in this dhs fight. host: some people are saying what happened yesterday in the house is a repudiation of house speaker john boehner leadership and his ability to control the members of his own party within the chamber. what do you think about that? is this a sign that his time may be limited? guest: republicans are in a

tough spot right now. absolutely, a lot of people are saying this is a repudiation of bigger boehner's leadership. it seems to be the case. the words that are being used in stories are "a humiliating defeat? ." he was hoping to get republican support for stopgap of three weeks, but that was not doable. only a week is what he could get . absolutely, this was not necessarily what he wanted to see. now, there has been a week extension, we will see what comes from this point on. it was not necessarily a good day at work yesterday for speaker boehner. host: that is leigh >> on the next "washington journal" a look at what unfolded

at cpac. it features several republican lawmakers and former presidential candidates. then a discussion on the upcoming supreme court case that challenges health care subsidies established by the affordable care act. ron pollack joins us. and atlantic council talks of the threat that the somali terrorist group al-shabaab poses. we will take your phone calls and look for comments on facebook and twitter. live at 7 a.m. eastern on c-span. the american israel public affairs committee is holding its and a policy conference in washington d.c. this weekend. the group known as aipac is described as america pro israel lobby.

we will have remarks live 5 p.m. eastern on c-span. >> the c-span cities tour takes book tv and american history tv on the road. learning about history and literary life. we take a visit to galveston, texas. >> the opening the canal sailing ships were almost dealt a death blow. with that opening of the canal some ships had a shorter route to the far east india, all those markets. sailing ships needed to find a way to make their own living. instead of higher valued cargo, they started caring lower valued cargo. coal. oil.

cotton. carried any kind of cargo that did not require getting to market at a fast pace. >> watch our events from galveston saturday, march 7 at new eastern on book tv. sunday, march 8 at 2 p.m. eastern on american history tv on c-span 3. >> the political landscape has changed with the 114th congress. there are 43 new republicans. 15 new democrats. in the house. keep track of the members in congress using congressional chronicle on c-span.org. the pages lots of useful information, including voting results and statistics of each session. new congress, best access on

c-span, c-span normal to come c-span radio and c-span.org. >> next, the president's task force on policing looks at ways to improve relations between law enforcement and the communities they serve. that i send it energy and natural resources hearing with interior secretary sally jewell testifying on the 2016 budget request. [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2015] [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, >> >> this task force was established by executive order in decembe