The Fix: Congressional Republicans don’t seem to have learned all of the lessons from the 2013 shutdown

There are 10 congressional working days until funding for the Department of Homeland Security runs out on February 27. In the eyes of veterans of the 113th Congress -- a group that generally started dealing with problems only after they became huge disasters, and not a moment sooner -- that's eons. Congress is scheduled to take a well-deserved break next week (they've had to work a whole month already!) and there's no sign that that won't happen. So DHS will have to be dealt with this week or two weeks from now.Read full article >>