By Lisa Mascaro | Los Angles Times
House Republicans went overtime Friday, expending an enormous amount of political energy to try to reach consensus on a border-crisis measure that is almost certain never to become law.
The last-minute push came as lawmakers were about to head into a five-week summer break with little to show constituents for their efforts to respond to the humanitarian crisis along the Southwestern border — a reminder of why congressional approval ratings are at all-time lows.
After a Friday night session, the House approved, 223 to 189, a $694-million emergency border package on a largely party-line vote. Loath to go home having done so little on an issue that has roused partisan passions, lawmakers also approved a bill to end a White House program that gives temporary legal status to many young immigrants brought illegally to the U.S. as children.
