buys them seven more days to reach a deal. ktvu's jana katsuyama here now with more. >> reporter: frank tonight congress had to vote on three different bills before they finally got one passed and that was barely. we got word that president obama signed the bill just an hour ago. but for homeland security workers this is very stressful because they still don't know whether they will get a paycheck. a late night vote after a day of drama. >> on this vote the aye's are 357, the nays are 60. >> reporter: the last minute deal extends security funding for seven days. >> we believe that within the next seven days hopefully five, that we will have a bill that takes us to the end of the year and to the ends of the fiscal year. >>> it was a back and forth battle. a win for democrats to remain united. but it failed in the house exposing the risk between moderate republicans and conservatives who want to use homeland security funding as a way to roll back president