A three-week continuing resolution to fund the Department of Homeland Security failed after House Republicans splintered over Speaker John Boehner’s plan for averting a funding lapse for the Department of Homeland Security.

From National Journal:

The dramatic 203-224 vote, held open for several minutes to no avail, came after a day’s worth of intense lobbying by the leadership of skeptical members across the conference, particularly conservatives angered that the bill didn’t include provisions defunding President Obama’s immigration executive orders.
In the end, 51 Republicans joined all but a dozen Democrats in voting against the measure, which was supposed to go to the Senate so it could be approved later Friday. White House spokesman Josh Earnest indicated Obama would sign it, even though he would still prefer a full-year clean bill of the type the Senate passed Friday morning.

The vote prompted intense lobbying on both sides, as Boehner’s team tried to flip Republican votes and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.) tried to keep her conference unified.

“The strength of the wolf is with the pack,” Representative Corinne Brown (D., Fla.) said (per the Washington Examiner’s Susan Crabtree) to urge a Democratic colleague, who had broken ranks by voting for the continuing resolution, to return to the fold.

Boehner’s team kept the vote open for 50 minutes, rather than the typical 15, but couldn’t rally the votes. He had hoped to pass a three-week continuing resolution funding DHS in order to buy time for the House and Senate to appoint a conference committee over the DHS appropriations bill. House Republicans voted last month to fund DHS and block the implementation of President Obama’s executive orders on immigration. Senate Republicans tried to take up the bill, but Senate Democrats filibustered, until Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R., Ky.) agreed to pass a DHS funding bill that took no action against Obama’s policies.