The Hill has this report on how the U.S. Senate on Tuesday “failed to move forward with a House-approved bill overturning President Obama’s executive actions on immigration.”

Roll Call’s story, meanwhile, pointed out that “All 46 members of the Democratic caucus voted against cloture on the motion to proceed to the $39.7 billion measure (HR 240), citing opposition to five House Republican amendments that effectively reverse executive actions on immigration or block similar orders in the future.”

Sens. Mazie Hirono and Brian Schatz of Hawaii were part of the caucus vote, which was 51-48, described as a filibuster.

Democrats opposed the bill because language reversing Obama’s executive actions “is attached to legislation funding the Homeland Security Department through the end of the fiscal year.”

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Without a new funding bill, the department would partially shut down at the end of this month.

Fifty-one Republicans voted in favor of opening debate on the bill, which was short of the 60-vote threshold, Roll Call explains.

Hirono, in a speech Tuesday to the National Treasury Employees Union’s annual Legislative Conference, said it was “reckless and irresponsible” to shut down a federal agency charged with the nation’s protection.

“The fight over funding the Department of Homeland Security is turning into another unnecessary manufactured crises,” Hirono said, according to her office. “I said it last week on the Senate floor and I will say it again: The House and Senate need to come together to pass a clean appropriations bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security.”