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Congress' last-minute scramble to pass border spending bills
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Aug 1, 2014
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Congress' last-minute scramble to pass border spending bills
Two bills would provide funds to deal with the unaccompanied minors arriving at the border in recent months. However, it could take time to reach a resolution.
WASHINGTON, DC - AUGUST 01: U.S. Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) arrives at a House Republican Conference meeting August 1, 2014 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The House came back on Friday, a day after its scheduled summer recess, trying to finish up a border supplemental spending bill that was pulled from the floor the day before because of a shortage of votes. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)
U.S. Speaker of the House Rep. John Boehner (R-OH) arrives at a House Republican Conference meeting August 1, 2014 on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC. The House came back on Friday, a day after its scheduled summer recess, trying to finish up a border supplemental spending bill that was pulled from the floor the day before because of a shortage of votes.
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Two bills would provide funds to deal with the unaccompanied minors arriving at the border in recent months. However, it could take time to reach a resolution.

Congress is scrambling at the last minute to negotiate two separate border-spending bills: One in the House and one in the Senate.

Each bill would provide funds to deal with the unaccompanied minors who've been arriving at the border in recent months. Congress even delayed its August recess a day to deal with it. But there's no resolution yet ... and there may not be, at least for a while. 

Southern California Public Radio's immigration reporter Leslie Berestein Rojas joins Take Two to explain where it stands and what will get Congress to act.