Accountability

WASHINGTON -- The House ignored veto threats by President Barack Obama on two fronts Wednesday, voting to undo major provisions of the administration's immigration policy and to roll back banking constraints enacted after the 2008 financial crisis.

Both measures face an uncertain path in the Senate, even with Republicans in control of the chamber, because the GOP is six votes shy of the 60-vote majority needed to advance most legislation in the chamber.

WASHINGTON — The House, deeply divided along partisan lines, voted Wednesday to block President Obama from implementing recent executive orders on immigration that would allow millions of undocumented foreigners to remain in the United States.

In a series of mostly party-line votes, House Republicans supported proposals they said are needed to rein in an executive branch set on ignoring the will of Congress as proscribed by the U.S. Constitution.

Arkansas's new delegation in the U.S. House voted in unison Wednesday on a funding bill intended to prevent the Department of Homeland Security from following President Obama's executive order on immigration.

4th District Representative Bruce Westerman took to the floor for his first time ever to address an amendment related to the funding bill. Westerman objected both to the President's policy and the fact it came through an executive order.