On tuesday and the balance of the week, the house will meet as early as 10 00 a. M. For legislative business. The house will consider a number of suspensions, complete list will be announced by close of business tomorrow. The first will include several bills from the Science Committee that are part of the house innovation initiative. These bills support americans pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering, and mouth with a focus on veterans and individuals, historically underrepresented in those fields. My friends and i recently cohosted the third congressional f willf the hackathon. I look forward to the house passing these bills next week. In addition, the house will consider two measures for the Financial Services committee. The corporate, governance reform and Transparency Act sponsored by sean duffy. Improve Privacy Research while increasing transparency for Public Companies and investors. 3312, riskhr designation improvement act. This bill replaces dodd franks with ary threshold process that analyzes each institution and the individual risk factor. The house will also consider the conference report to accompany hr one, the tax cuts and jobs act, sponsored by rep presented of brady. The legislation will cap off a 31your journey to reform americas broken tax code. We will double the standard deduction, making the first 12,000 of income for an individual and 24,000 for a family tax free. You increase the Child Tax Credit because investing in families is among one of the most important ones. We will reduce it to the lowest rates they have seen in 40 years for businesses. We do this while some will find the code so americans can file in minutes on a form the size of a postcard. Republicans have championed cutting taxes and growing our economy for years, and i am excited to deliver is important promise. Finally, mr. Speaker, additional legislative items are expected, including legislation related to government funding and other endoftheyear priorities. I will be sure to inform all members if additional items are added to our schedule. With that, i think my friend and yields back to him. I think the gentleman for that information. Thet of all, i want to say majority leader and i, as well as his predecessor, mr. Cantor, and i worked together on what we caught a hackathon, which is a meeting annually of individuals involved in the hightech , and how better to communicate and process information and make transparent the work of this body and make the access of this body accessible to the general public as they happen . I want to thank the majority leader for continuing to cosponsor this effort with me and to be a leader of this effort. We just had the president signed , i think yesterday, maybe the day before, a piece of legislation, which will try to ake the government ore facile and making the technology uptodate. I think the majority leader for together in a positive way to make this institution were better and to make it more known toe and better the American People. I thank you also for the schedule that he has put forward. Speaker, the majority leader mentioned a number of things that the tax bill that will be coming before us will do. I do not believe the conference report is available for review at this point in time. Can the majority leader perhaps enlighten me as to whether or not the conference report is available now to be reviewed . I yield to my friend. I think my friend for yielding. Report to be filed online tomorrow. As you know, you have to go through and make sure from a joint tax filling in the dollar all anticipation is it will be online tomorrow for all of america to read. It is my understanding that that will be on the floor as early as tuesday of next week. Is that accurate . I yield to my friends. Yes, that is accurate. I would simply observe that what the majority leader did not mention and again, i have not seen the conference report, so this is not based upon a review of the conference report, but based upon what the senate bill in the house bill that were passed by both bodies, it will increase the debt of our country by some 1. 5 it will raise taxes on some 78 million americans. Between 50,000 of Family Income and 150,000 of income. I am assuming that the elimination of the mandate is still in the conference report. Im not sure but the information i have is that its still in the report. That will cost 13 Million People to be uninsured. As a result. I have information that what the conference report does is reduces taxes on some of the wealthiest people in america. Im not sure how they offset that. Maybe with a mandate. Maybe with something else. But 62 of the bills resources go to the top 1 in america. The speaker, speaker ryan, spoke about on this floor the average family making 59,000 a year. He mentioned that that family will get under the house bill, again i havent seen the conference report, get family making 1,182 per year in a tax cut. What the speaker did not mention is that the family in the top 1 will get a tax cut of 1,198 per week. Per week, mr. Speaker. In other words, 52 times what the struggling american will get. What the american that speaker ryan said may not be able to come up with 500 if they have a crisis with a refrigerator or their heating unit, something of that nature, or their car breaks down. We on this side of the aisle do not believe that this bill addresses relief for the struggling working men and women of this country. Its clear in all of the polling that the average working american shares that view. They believe correctly that this is a tax cut for the rich and a fuse sprinkles to the middle class. Ironic that what will happen in this tax bill is we will phase out again, to the i have not seen the conference report so i dont know exactly whether thats true or not, but in both the house and senate bills, we phased out we didnt phase out, proposed to be phased out, the benefits to those middle income, hardworking americans will see their benefits phased out. That will not be true of corporations and will not be true of the wealthiest in our country. So its troubling, mr. Speaker, that a bill of this magnitude is being rushed to judgment. In 1986, the gentleman in making his announcement said we have been working on this for 31 years. I presume he was talking about from 1986 to 2017. What he did not say, 31 years. What he did not say, is in 1986 we had 30 days of public hearings on a bill. 30 days of public hearings. What he did not say is that we had 450 witnesses during those public hearings testifying about the taxes. What he did not say is that there were nearly four months of hearings on the 1986 reform bill. And what he did not say is that the ways and Means Committee conducted 26 days of markup. This bill has received less than seven days of markup in both bodies and in the conference. This is being rushed to judgment and the American People by substantial numbers believe this bill is not good for them. Mr. Collins said that he talked to a donor and the donor said dont call me again if you dont pass this tax bill. I get that. I dont know who the donor was, i dont know how rich the donor was. Obviously the donor thought he had a real stake, or she, in this tax bill. We regret that we are not doing as we did in 1986, because what the majority leader did not mention either was that the 1986 bill was a bipartisan bill. With president reagan and president oneill supporting it, with chairman rostenkowski, a democratic chair of the house ways and Means Committee, and a republican chair of the Senate Finance committee, bob packwood from oregon, supporting the bill. It was a bipartisan bill. And what the majority leader did not mention is the 1986 bill did not add a single cent to the deficit. It was paid for. This bill is a much lesser product than it could have been. We on this side of the aisle, think we need tax reform. Were prepared to support tax reform. We believe we need to bring down the corporate rate. We believe we need to make sure that Small Businesses can grow and prosper and grow into large businesses. What we dont believe in, mr. Speaker, is simply having a bill that advantages the best off in our country and says that the advantages we give to the middle class will be phased out in a little bit, about five years. We will, according to the majority leader, consider this bill next week. It will not be bipartisan. And thats a shame. It will not be positive for the country because it will put us even more deeply into debt. And the people will pay that bill ultimately will be our children. On both sides of the aisle, we dont have a lot of members on the floor, but i say to every member on the floor, every member on this floor, im sure at some point in time you have given a speech somewhere that said, we care about the debt. Were going to bring down the debt. This bill does not do it. And anybody who believes that this bill is going to pay for itself through dynamic scoring and Economic Growth is kidding themselves. It is a rationalization to vote for a vote that is political, not policy. Because my republican colleagues believe if they dont pass this bill, they will lose the next election. I have heard that argument over and over and over again. That is not a reason to vote for this bill. It is a reason to say, lets go back to the table. Lets include mr. Neal in the consideration, the Ranking Member. Lets include mr. Wyden, the Ranking Member of the Senate Finance committee and lets include mr. Mccarthy and myself to see if we can reach a bipartisan, constructive piece of legislation will enjoy the support of a wide range of the American People and their representatives. We had an election yesterday in alabama. Mr. Jones won that election. Mr. Strange, the incumbent republican representing alabama right now lost in the primary. He has no mandate. Why rush this bill through . This bill, if it was passed on december 31 of next year would affect the 2018 taxes that would be filed in april of 2019. The need to rush this bill, mr. Speaker, seems to be and the reason for having no hearings, the reason for having no witnesses is because this bill on its merit cannot sustain itself. Now let me read you a quote, mr. Speaker. I think the message of the moment is that the American People all across the country are asking us even in the most liberal state, massachusetts, to stop this health care bill. I think that means there will be no more Health Care Votes in the senate prior to the swearing in of scott brown, whenever that may be. That statement was made on january 20, 2010, by the president majority leader, who was then, of course, the minority leader. And his proposition was, you ought to wait until scott brown is here so that massachusetts can have its vote counted. Hypocritically, he has changed his tune today. When alabama, a very conservative state, the opposite of massachusetts, has voted to elect doug jones to the senate. And i dont hear mr. Mcconnell or anybody else saying lets way for the duly elected member of the United States senator from alabama to be seated so he can vote on this bill and negative consequences to our country. Mr. Speaker, im sure the majority leader might have some comments he wants to make. And therefore, i yield to my friend, mr. Mccarthy. I thank the gentleman for yielding. I took note there are a lot of things said. Let me make sure to get through all of them. You first mentioned many times that i did not mention and i was asked the question when we would vote on the tax bill. I answered the question. I said yes, well vote on it tuesday. You said you heard it could be tuesday and i wasnt asked other questions. But now that we have, lets walk through this. One of your first arguments was debt. Do you realize in this progrowth tax cutting tax bill, if it grows 4 10 of 1 it pays for all of it. What is interesting, dont take my word for it. What happens every day to the market when they realize congress is one day closer to passing the tax bill. Everyone with a 401k gets a pay raise. The market has set more than 59 records since the election and the movement is passing the tax bill. And thats for all americans invested. Everybodys retirement is getting a little better because of it. Now what about on the jobs prospective. Broadcomm was created in america but left america, on the day of the announcement said were coming back. Not just that we are bringing so many jobs back, we are going to spend 3 billion a year in r d and 6 billion in manufacturing. And thats 20 billion a year in revenue for that company that is going to pay taxes in revenue. Thats a big company. You know what i just read the other day . Company announcing they are going to syracuse, new york, based upon our tax bill. Yes, things are changing things changing in america. People are excited, but not just those who are going to hire these thousands of americans to work, i want to make sure it happens in maryland as well. So i wanted to look at your district. So here we go. My good friend represents marylands 5th and done it for quite some time. Currently you have 47 of filers in maryland 5 that take the standard deduction. So they will be better off because they will get a doubling the president signs it. Another 11 have itemized deductions that are less than our new higher standard deduction. They will save. Not only save money but save time. Instead of spending weeks of trying to fill out a tax code it will be in minutes. You know when they fill it out, they will get money. They dont have to wait until april 15 not only in your district but across this country. Check your check come february. You know what will be in that check . More money. Because the standard deduction goes up. So thats 58 of my friends district is better off than day one. But from what you tell me, you dont think thats good enough to vote for. A majority of your district is better off on day one. Thats not even talking about the Small Businesses. The Small Businesses in your district, those that are earning 400,000, they are going to save 19,000. Im not sure i know we are dear friends but im not sure you owned a business. When i was 20, i started my first business. There are three lessons i learned, i was the first one to work and last one to leave and last one to be paid. This is going to create nor entrepreneurship, more opportunity and more people are going to be hired. Now, i know you are worried about the debt, but it just strikes me. This year, you voted for a budget, just a couple of months ago and im not going to go back to another congress that increased the deficit by 6. 8 trillion. Only worried about debt at certain times . This bill is going to grow the economy as we have watched quarter after quarter after quarter in the new administration. I have to make sure i get all of it. You talk about hearings. We had 59 public hearings. We printed it out about what we would do on tax. Lets get to the core. Lets say to all americans, doesnt matter where you live whether you sit on this side of the aisle, or that side of the aisle, democrat, republican, you are an american first. Lets take the average family. The average family of four making 55,000. You know how much tax they are going to pay . Zero. Zero. But that still isnt good enough for you. Its very interesting in my social science study of what the party on the other side of the aisle used to say they were for. I believe in the day if you would have stood up here and said i have a tax bill to make sure the family of four making 55,000 is going to pay zero, they would be excited. You talk to me about bipartisanship. Thats a question for you. Bipartisanship, bipartisanship when we reach out to you about chip, a place not to play politics, we even stopped a hearing and a markup that we had scheduled well in the future because you came to us, your side of the aisle, and asked us to because you thought you could come to an agreement and told by your leadership that no, nobody could vote for it. We put a bill that put things in the bill that we thought you would even want. But no, you still voted no. How many times have you told me on this floor, maybe it was a few months ago and ill quote you if i may about government funding. Because i was concerned, because i had read some articles in the New York Times that suggested as the Minority Party showing resistance in the era of President Trump, the democrats are willing to let the lights of government go dark. I wanted to know if that was true or false. You said to me, when i asked my friend whether that rumor was true, you said nobody is wanting to shut the government down. We dont want to shut the government down. You continued to say, i assure it is neither our intent or desire. Matter of fact we want to work quickly to avoid that happening. Thats not good obviously for the American People. Its not good for managers trying to plan on how to deliver services and its certainly not good for our federal employees. So i want to work with you to make sure that doesnt happen. That was in march, just nine months ago. And i wonder what changed in those nine months because just last week, and i tell my friend there was no partisanship inputting a continuing resolution on the floor for two weeks. There was no poison pill on this side of the aisle. It was a clean one. And i watched sitting at this desk where the vote was going and i watched the other side. I watched people not that they just voted no, they were whipped into the position to vote no. I watched the tally. And once the tally got passed the magic number of 218, he put his thumb up because he gave the ok in his conference that were told not to vote until it passed. I just wonder what happened to bipartisanship on something that is so bipartisan. I know that thousands of federal employees you have in your district. But that is just i listened, mr. Speaker, to the leader of the Democratic Party on the other side, you said just two days prior, the only person talking about the shutdown is President Trump. The only person taking action and whipping to get to a shutdown was on this floor. We have had open hearings, republican and democrat. We had an open, bipartisan, bicameral conference. They have walked through an entire bill. Weve made sure the americans are going to get a tax cut and jobs are going to be created. It is already happening before the bill is even signed. Im not sure if i didnt mention something else. Because you try to correct if something was not mentioned, but i wanted to make sure i answered all those questions for you, because i know not just in your district, that every family of four making 55,000 will pay nothing, all of the Small Businesses that are going to hire new people. And i differ from you. Maybe you whipped strongly against it like you whipped cr inly against the keeping government open, but when i look at that tally on the tax bill, there will be some on your side. Why do i think so . They told me so. The only difference at the end if they dont and keep the strong arm and releasing the thumb up once it passes and put it down, thats the only reason we wont have bipartisanship on the floor. But i believe in america and i believe in the individuals who fight so strongly to get here to represent their constituents that they know the new jobs in their district and know how much those families will save and will not politics get the best of them. Tide to go against the stop, but they believe it will even be better. So i look forward to that day. I look forward you coming back to the quote you told me nine months ago, because you know what . It is close to christmas. We have military men and women defending us. You talked about that bill the president recently signed that yes you worked with me that is going to make government more effective, efficient and accountable and also had a pay raise for our men and women. When you voted no, you told them you werent getting their raise. Worst, you even went further, you questioned whether they have the funds to continue to battle. We have been through shutdowns and nobody wins. I believe you what you told me nine months ago. I want you to come back. I yield back. Clerics i thank the gentleman for his comments. He made a number of points. First generally, ive been here long enough to have heard the debate in the 1981 bill. The socalled supply side, jack kemp, george bush, Vice President bush referred to as voodoo economics. In point of fact, as the gentleman knows because i am wee he knows the record, increased the debt under Ronald Reagan 189 . Larger than any other president with whom ive served over the last 37 years. 189 . Stockman said that we knew it wasnt going to balance the budget. We just said that for political purposes. Stockman said that. He was director for the o. M. B. Under Ronald Reagan. Then in 2001 and 2003 we had tax cuts. We heard the same arguments. How its going to grow robustly the economy. And it brought in the deepest recession anybody in this chamber, other than perhaps sam johnson, who i think is probably our oldest member, because the rest of us didnt experience the depression, it ushered in not the biggest growth rate in america, but the least jobproducing eight years of any american president that ive served with. And the deepest recession that anybody in this body has experienced. And a hemorrhaging of jobs. And in fact, the stock market, as the gentleman refers to, had a 25 decline in value over the eight years of the bush administration. With two tax cuts. Where exactly the same argument for growth was made. And it didnt happen. On the other hand, i was here in 1993 when we raised taxes. Not much. But a little bit. Particularly for infrastructure. And the prediction, mr. Leader, on your side of the aisle, we would tank as an economy. We would have a terrible recession. Exactly the opposite happened. You were dead not you personally, but the those who made that representation were 180 degrees wrong. First of all, we balanced the budget four years in a row. Nobody has done that other than president clinton. You can say you were in charge of the congress. You were. And i will respond to you, why couldnt you do it under george bush . When you had everything . Theres no answer to that. So in terms of the experience that weve had, when we had tax cuts, the debt did in fact explode. 189 increase in the national debt. That was approximately 2 1 2 times the increase under obama and the increase under george bush. But we continue to argue this is going to be greath for growth. No reputable economist agrees with that proposition. Well, you read them out to me, ill be glad to hear them. The stock market increased under this president , its going up. It went up 300 under barack obama. 300 . 300 . From 6,500 to over 18,000. There were 279,000 more jobs created in 2016 under barack obama than have been created under this president. 279,000 more. Thats not a great deal. But in terms of growth, there was more growth of jobs in 2016 when obama was president of the United States than has occurred under donald trump. Check the records. Im sure youll review my lets see if hoyers just giving us some malarkey. The gentleman talks about this great tax benefit. What he didnt mention, and what i was referring to by the way, was when you were giving the schedule. Not in response to the question. But that aside, doesnt mention the state and local tax. Im not sure exactly whats happened to state and local taxes. But in my state it will have a very substantial negative effect. Why . Because we have a significant income tax. Why . Because we think thats a progressive tax. And puts the burden on those who have more. You may disagree with that. Have a flat tax, no matter what you have. Pay the same thing. Im not sure exactly what youve done shutdown, you talk about. You had 90 people vote against a c. R. That you recommended they vote for in september, which was a clean c. R. You would not have passed that c. R. , you would have shut down government. Youre responsible for keeping government open. You being your party. Youre in the majority. The only reason that c. R. Passed was because we voted for it. You had 906 your people vote against it. 9 90 of your people vote against it. 90. Who apparently didnt want to pay the military. Didnt want to protect them overseas. That proposition, like they say , wont hunt. Because the chairman of the Armed Services committee voted against that c. R. Why . Because he thought it was harmful to the National Security of our country. Secretary mattis believes the c. R. Is damaging. So dont it is inappropriate in my view when we do something and says we dont like this bill. And the only party with whom ive served, who is consciously, purposefully shut down who has consciously, purposefully shut down the government, i tell my friend, mr. Speaker, is the republican party. They did it in 1995 under newt gingrich. With y did it last year mr. Cruz coming over here and saying shut down the government unless they repeal the a. C. A. Shut it down. Consciously. We have never done that. Have we had to shut down because we couldnt get agreement . Weve done that for a few days. But for 16 days, you cut it down consciously. And when you voted to open up the government, guess who voted against it . Mr. Mulvaney, the director of the o. M. B. He voted against opening up government. I guess he was against the armed forces. I guess he was against defending our country. Thats your proposition. Schip. Youre right. You waited. We didnt get an agreement. But we waited long after 9 30 when the gentleman says hes very concerned about funding it. The authorization expired. You passed ultimately a bill that we didnt vote for. You passed it on your own. If you really were that concerned, you would have passed it before the bill authorization expired, september 30. We passed it some weeks later. And we passed it with a piece of funding in there thats going to undermine, for instance, this is one example, vaccination for children. Because you funded it in part by reducing substantially the prevention fund, which seeks to prevent illness. On bipartisanship. Very frankly, we had a twoweek c. R. The only thing youve worked on from our perspective is the tax bill. And you did not include us in those discussions. You had closed hearings. We had a conference hearing yesterday. Mr. Neal tried to move an amendment out of order. Wasnt accepted. It was a done deal. Done deal in secret. I told my friend, i reread a little bit of young guns request young guns last night. Talk about transparency, talk about openness. Talk about doing things one at a time. Not packaging a lot of bills. The reason we all hate c. R. Seas because nobody knows whats in a c. C. R. s is because nobody knows whats in a c. R. And this c. R. Is loaded down with numerous, and were talking about tax bill, but the c. R. That the gentleman talked out is five or six major pieces of legislation put in one package. Take it or leave it. Thats not the way to run this organization. And thats what you guys said in young guns and i agree with you. But its not what youve done. Its what you said. But its not what youve done. Let me just close on this side, and frankly i was going to talk about the crrment r. , but im talking c. R. , but im talking about it now. We dont have a budget caps deal. Todays the 12th. 13th. 14th. , we are essentially 15 days 17 days from the end of the year. We dont have a caps deal. We dont have a disaster supplemental. For texas, florida, puerto rico and the virgin islands. Thats proposed to be in this c. R. , as i understand it. And the fires in california. The gentlemans absolutely correct. Were going to support helping the folks of california who have been devastated by these fires. The gentlemans absolutely correct. We dont have any on anything on dreamers. We think thats critically important. I said to the majority leader, four months ago, that we felt this was critically important and we needed to get this done. I think, as ive said to the gentleman, we have over 300 votes on this floor for a bill to get this done. The alexander murray, i dont think i dont know, i havent seen the conference report. But alexander murray, which tries to stabilize the availability of health care at a reasonable price to the American People, i dont think thats in the tax bill, as i understand it. V. A. Choice funding i think is in the c. R. I havent seen exactly what it says. Opioids funding, i have a thing in my district, in every district in america opioids is a critical crisis. Theres no funding in c. R. As i understand for that. A Fire Grants Program for our emergency responders. No money for that. Perkins loans, nothing for that. The debt limit is going to come later. National Flood Insurance program, nothing for that, as i understand it. Medicare and other health extenders. 702 of fisa, to keep america secure and strong and safe. As i understand it none of thats being dealt with. So the reason we voted against the last c. R. Is because were tired of kicking things down the road. Were tired of kicking the can down the road. We want to get to agreement on a bipartisan basis to pass legislation thats positive for our country. And thats why we may vote against this next c. R. Because we ought to stop just kicking the can down the road. And were going to kick the can, as i understand it, down the road at some point in time until january 19 is the iscussion. Mr. Leader, mr. Speaker, were prepared to sit down and try to Reach Agreement on these issues that have got to be reached. And if we dont reach them, america will be less safe. Less secure. Less healthy. As an economy, and less healthy literally in terms of making sure that the Health Care Available to america is on a stable path. So, mr. Speaker, i will yield to the majority leader and then make a few comments and then well close. I yield to my friend. Mr. Mccarthy i thank the gentleman. I do look forward to these colloquies. I first want to make sure history has it right. 137 economists sent a letter to Congress Supporting our tax reform effort and saying it will accelerate growth. I dont know if you disease like these 137. But these are dislike these 137. But these are economists. I dont judge the difference. History says president obama added more than 8 trillion to the national debt. Now, how does that measure against all the others . Well, thats more than 43 prior president s combined. Thats what history shows. My friend is correct, hes been here much longer than i have. You actually had the majority in 40 years. You didnt balance the budget. There was a common denominator. Had to fight for it to get there. You raised some other issues. You brought an issue up for a number of days. I dont think we should waste any time. You brought an issue up of we dont have ar cap agreement to be able to work forward. Wasnt you, but it was your leader on the other side who decided not to go to a meeting at the white house. You said we should not waste our time on the floor. Wasnt this side, but we did take up time on this floor to impeach the president. We took that time up on the floor. We didnt take time up for chip and the others. I do remember the quote from my friend. We differ sometimes fill could havically. Philosophically. I admire principle. I watch you and what you have stood for years and maybe your party has a different position. You dont hide from it. And you vote that way. And you will stand and oppose me because of what you said in the past and what you said you would do. But this is not something new. You have always said funding our government is not a game. When one side wins and the other side loses, shutdown is not a political football to be tossed around so casually. I was personally shocked last week. I wondered what would have happened as i watched your operation whip people to a no. As we watched the time click, as you watched, you held those who stood by the voting booth who wanted to vote yes, but could not. Had we not gotten enough votes to keep government open, which your side of the aisle applauded, what your side of the aisle thought they won. There were 90 members on this side of the aisle that didnt vote for a c. R. , but you, like myself, understand a c. R. Is usually the responsibility of both, because its bipartisan. No one is getting anything and no one wants an end to that position. We dont want to be in a c. R. Thats why we came so many times to you in the past when it comes to chip. I understand sometimes people can use it for politics and maybe push it to the end and get an advantage on something else. We wanted an agreement and thats why staff of the four leaders have been meeting. What do they do next . Lets go to the white house because the white house has been in those meetings at the same time because the president has to sign the bill, the senate, the house and leaders on both sides. But when that meeting came just a few short weeks ago, wouldnt show up. And i take you at your word that you are willing to sit down. The rest of your leadership has to be willing to sit down, too. But this idea that we want to hold government hostage, so many times i have heard you in the past say that was wrong. You ask about the things that havent been done. The thing i love the most, i elieve you have to be honest. And ill share them with you, because i want us to be judged. I want us to know where we are and not where we said we are going to be, we should work harder. I took the First Congress of very new congress. When you read the young guns book and i dont want to cause any ethic issues and i dont get any money, i give it to the veterans i dont know if its in print. But i want the bills to come through committee. Thats where the open public process is and thats where amendments are won or lost. More bills in the First Congress since h. W. Bush, have gone through committee. Lets measure how many bills have gotten off this floor. Do you realize more bills have been passed out of this congress than any congress in the first term of a president in modern history back to h. W. Bush . And we did it by going through a transparent, open process, exactly what we pledged we would do in that book. So yes, im glad you read it and im glad you took the words and i would love to show you the graphs. Lets walk back to this. Government funding is important. And lets talk about it. Here are the facts. By midjuly all 12 appropriation bills passed both subcommittee and full question. That was july. On july 27th, we passed the four appropriation bills off the house floor, which provided for critical National Security. Now my friend and nearly all the democrats, they voted no. On september 14, we passed the remaining eight appropriation bills off this floor. Now my friend and nearly all the democrats voted no. But the most disappointing vote as i mentioned was last week on december 7, to fund the government. My friend and democrats all voted no. When i was young and i didnt always get my way, i would go to my parents and i would complain. But its really odd that we got to this floor in a different nature that someone would complain about something not getting done and never voting for anything. I like my friend. I want my friend who for decades has talked about not to play games with the funding of government. I dont know where you have gone, but i want you to come back. I think America Needs you back. That leadership will be important for both sides. And i would tell you, i would have been disappointed in you if i watched you applaud if you were successful in shutting down government, because i know thats not the man you are. I know thats not the person and principles for what you stand for. And you know what . All those votes you go back and said this side of the aisle didnt vote for, i stood and voted for those, because leadership is different. We do take votes that are tougher than others. We do have to put politics aside. We do have to look out for the best of this country. It may not be the mood of the politics on tv that maybe wants to fight more or throw another motion on the floor to impeach, but there is a time that we should rise above. And i think going into the end of this year, we should think anew and act anew. I think america should not see a christmas because one side of the aisle wanted to shut it down. Not for any other reason they voted no on all the bills that would have kept it open. You had a cause, you had a had a big if you desire, you would have shown up to the meeting to actually get the answer. We could have a cap deal. We could be done with it. We could make sure our men and women get the raise they deserve and we could make sure that those in theater have every opportunity to be able to carry out their mission that we asked them to do and in the safest manner possible. Thats what i want to see. Yield back. Mr. Hoyer come back, shane. Many of you arent old enough to remember that wonderful money as little de off and the boy, come back, shane. I havent gone anywhere. Democrats have no ability to shut down the government on the floor of this house. Hear me. We dont have the votes to shut down government. And we dont want to shut down government. And maybe the leader also wants those 90 of his hes not our leader, hes the leader of the ma the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. Party and 90 of his people did not follow him. I presume he must be much more concerned about that, with all due respect, hes my friend, but not my leader. And we voted to give 90 days and nothing was accomplished in that 90 days other than work on a tax bill that we think is a disaster for this country. Nothing. And he talks about passing these appropriation bills. We knew they wouldnt pass the senate. And we told him so. And we said lets do it on a bipartisan basis. But no, and by the way, mr. Speaker, it was the least regular order prior to an omnibus on dealing with appropriation bills than i have ever seen. They packaged four or five, and then the balance of eight. We didnt consider them individually. We didnt have an opportunity to consider thoughtfully. O, it was one big package. I said i read that book. It was anything but regular order. By the way, mr. Speaker, the Majority Party that passed them is the majority in the United States senate, and not a single one of those bills, not a single one has passed out of the house excuse me, the senate. Not a single one has gone to the president of the United States. Not one. And the republicans are in charge of the house and the senate. Not a single bill has gone to the president of the United States. And harry reed is not there. Now what it would have taken to pass some of those appropriation bills in the senate is some compromise. And that didnt happen. So dont ring your hands about how bad it is that we havent had bipartisanship on the appropriation bills. We havent. Or bipartisanship on the c. R. When you lose 90 of your people. 90 republicans voted against a simple c. R. You said simple c. R. , nothing to be bipartisan. 90 of your people voted no. I yield to my friend. Mr. Mccarthy lets make sure we are growing apples to apples. That had a debt ceiling in it. Mr. Hoyer reclaiming my time, does that mean 90 of your people did not want to pay the bills of the United States and default on our debt . And i yield to my friend. Mr. Mccarthy i thank my friend for yielding. If you are going to compare a c. R. That is simple, its not simple. If you compare it to the c. R. You voted against that had no debt ceiling on it. You explained to me how many c. R. s you voted in the past, how democrats came over with republicans, because you know what . You and i both know thats how it works. Because a c. R. Is not an advantage for one or the other. And this is what im most upset with. Our Founding Fathers created a body that could have compromise. But for some reason in todays society, its not just that you want one side to win, you want to crush the other side. Thats actually hurting the american public. So in a situation that we know of a continuing resolution is going to be shortterm, two weeks, yeah, i would expect half of the votes to come from our side and half the votes come from ours. That is what has happened in the past. Im wondering where that went. Mr. Hoyer reclaiming my time. Mr. Leader, let me say to you very respectfully, do not expect cooperation from our side if we dont get cooperation from your side, if we dont get some inclusion in making decisions. We are 194 members of this body. From time to time, you and i do Work Together and when we Work Together, we get majorities, we pass pieces of legislation. You have not passed a single controversial fiscal bill on this bill on this floor without our substantial help until last week. On that last 230 bill. But let me tell you, the reason we voted against it because we knew what was going to happen, nothing. There would be no agreement on chip. There is no agreement on chip. There will be no agreement on fisa. There has been no agreement on facea. There would be no agreement on flood control. There has been no agreement on flood control. So we knew that we were not going to get any bipartisan buyin so all we were doing is delaying the inevitable. You remember the Homeland Security bill. You said were going to meet tomorrow and we reached an agreement and we passed it. Very frankly, you have never heard us say that as a policy, in order to get the a. C. A. Repealed or gingrich wanted to get some fiscal thing done, that we would shut down the government, three times you shut it down in 1995 and 1996, three times. Intentionally. That was your policy. And, yes, if youre going to take the government hostage and force us to do something that we think is inimical to the best interest of this country, yes, mr. Leader, you will leave us with no other option. To pretend that were keeping government moving, but not getting any agreement. I talked to you very sincerely four months ago about one of the things that we wanted to get done before the end of this year, were dreamers. Protected. Who are now vulnerable and very scared. That theyre going to be sent back to someplace they do not know. Have not lived in. Brought here as children through no fault of their own. Gone to elementary school. Junior high school. High school. College. Served in the military. Working at jobs. Been vetted to make sure that they havent done anything wrong. Theyre afraid of being sent back home. Not back home. Excuse me. I say that. Thats not their home. This is their home. And nothings been done on that. I know you have a task force, talked about it. But we havent done anything. Theres no reason why we cant. I think we have 300 votes on this floor to get that done. Mr. Mccarthy may i respond . Mr. Hoyer i yield to my friend. Mr. Mccarthy the gentleman is correct. There are many times weve worked together. From sanction from homeland from others. We from sanction, from homeland, from others. We work very well together. But the gentleman knows, i came to you about chip. When the committee was directed on your side of the aisle not to do anything with the Majority Party. So i came to you. Ecause of our history. Mr. Hoyer i dont know who the gentleman is relying on for that information but ill tell you, ive talked to mr. Pallone. That is not correct. I dont know who you think directed him not to reach an agreement, but i will tell you, after you made that assertion, i think last week or the week before, i went to mr. Pallone, i asked him that. He said absolutely not. I yield back. Mr. Mccarthy well mr. Hoyer i yield to my friend. Mr. Mccarthy i came to you. It was under my impression that a member came to me and said that. Maybe thats not true. But i said, you know what, lets get together and lets work this out. I dont want to make chip partisan in any shape or form. And we met and we tried to work and you came back to me and said, you got to go it alone. I said, thats not how i want to do it. So what we did was we took everything we heard from the hearings, i even in good faith, the chairman of that committee, greg walden, stopped a markup. In the hopes, because you requested, not you, but your Ranking Member, that they werent prepared, that they wanted more time. So we want to do everything in our power. But at the end of the day you couldnt be there. And twice your side of the aisle and yourself voted against chip. You cant argue against it now. You voted against it. And when you talk about appropriations, im very proud what have we did on appropriations. We havent been able to do that in quite some time. But there were in those first four bills, every single one of those 12 bills went through subcommittee and full committee. There was 126 amendments in the first four. There were 342. Mr. Hoyer let me reclaim my time and then yield back to you. Is the gentleman proud that you control the house, you control the senate, and you havent sent a single appropriation bill to the president . I yield. Mr. Mccarthy i thank the gentleman. Mr. Hoyer not a single one. Not one. Mr. Mccarthy thats why i want you to join with me and get the senate to move. As the gentleman knows, you dont control the senate when you have 51 or 52 members. Because you know what happens . It takes 60. I dont firmly believe in that. But thats the way they play it over in the senate. That is why when you dont have a cap agreement, that you need all four leaders to go to the white house, but when the two wont show up, the best thing to do is dont show up and dont complain. I dont have an agreement. The best way to complain is, get all 12 votes, all 12 bills off this floor, with the simple majority. If thats good enough for america inside congress, it should be good enough on the senate side. Mr. Hoyer reclaiming my time. Mr. Mccarthy unfortunately thats not the case. Your side is able to hold it up and im ashamed of that as well. Mr. Hoyer reclaiming my time. What it would have meant, you would have had a compromise. Thats why the senate has that 60vote rule. Im not crazy about it myself. But thats why they have the 60vote rule. And they think its good. Because thats why theyve kept it. They think its good because it requires compromise. It requires agreement. It requires moving ahead on a piece of legislation. And i will tell you, i served on the Appropriations Committee for 23 years and we reached agreement between republicans and democrats on almost every bill. And when we had the bills, they werent partisan bills. And they got a lot of republican votes. Almost always. When we were in charge. Not all the time. Almost always. And if you are a party enough compromise, you cant move things in the United States senate. I get that. But thats the reason. Thats the reason. Because you couldnt reach compromise. Now, very frankly, a lot of the bills have come out of committee. You know why they came out of committee . Ecause they were bipartisan. But they havent been brought to the floor by mr. Mcconnell and they havent been sent to the president of the United States. So, crocodile tears. And yes, you passed those 12 bills. Just like you can pass the c. R. s. On your own. Without any help from us. And if the government schutz down, it is because you cant get shuts down, it is because you cant get the majority of your party to pass bills. Youre in charge. Mr. Mccarthy i ask the gentleman to yield. Mr. Hoyer i still have the time. Im going to yield to you. There is no doubt when we were in charge and you didnt support us, we passed every piece of legislation we wanted to pass on this floor with 218 democrats. We were united as a party. We lost some. But never enough to make it that we didnt get 218. You lost 90. You could say it was on the debt. You could say it was on National Security. You can say whatever you want on it. You brought a bill to the floor and 90 of your people voted against it. To keep government open, to keep government operating. And very frankly we voted with you so that we could get some work done. And we havent gotten work done. Thats what frustrates us. Thats what frustrates the American People. And i will tell my friend, at the end of the day, after this congress is gone, historians are not going to be kind. Notwithstanding the fact you say you passed so many bills. You passed so many bills on a partisan basis and you used essentially the 51 votes because you didnt want to compromise. We get it. You dont want to compromise. You dont want to work with us. You didnt have any hearings on this tax bill. You didnt we were not included in any phase of the marking up and fashioning of this tax bill. Im about ready to yield back the balance of my time. Im sure everybody who wants to give a oneminute or a special order is very happy to hear that. But ill yield to my friend. Mr. Mccarthy thank you. The gentleman is correct about compromise. But there is a real big difference between compromise and obstruction. Mr. Hoyer and what . Mr. Mccarthy to obstruct. When you talked about the senate. It takes 60 votes to even get onto a bill. I know as well as my friend that you can utilize the senate and the leadership in the house to stop something if you want to. And i will tell my friend that i am disappointed. What will you say to the 62,000 . What will you say to the 62,000 federal employees who live in your district . What will you say to them that every quote you made in the past, that you should not play games with funding and shutting down the government, you may think you can make that statement here, your leader may think that she can say that only the president was talking about a shutdown. Resident whipped one whipped a vote to stay open. History wont be kind. Yes, we will come to a conclusion next week. Mr. Hoyer will the gentleman yield . Mr. Mccarthy every time you ask about a vote mr. Hoyer will the gentleman yield . Reclaiming my time. Does the gentleman remember President Trump saying a good shutdown will be good for government . Did you remember him saying that . When you tell me about how hes been down here lobbying he said, quote, a good shutdown may be good for government. I dwreeled my friend. Mr. Mccarthy i thank my friend for yielding. I understand what his words said. I also watched his actions. I also watched what he did last week. To get members to vote to keep it open because you know what . Things did change. There was not compromise. Even though the bill was a compromise. Because there was no poison pill in it. Maybe we look back, if were going carry everything ourselves, maybe we should put something in. But it was a compromise. But unfortunately it changed or the on the other side. He decided you decided now is the time to shut the government down. Try to make blame to somebody else. The American People will see through that. And i will guarantee that you 62,000 people who work for the federal government in the maryland Fifth District will not take as an answer. Take that as an answer. I yield back. Mr. Hoyer i thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, i would again reiterate the Majority Party can do whatever it wants on this floor. It could have kept government open, it could have kept policies moving with its votes. Time after time after time on Critical Issues confronting this country, they couldnt come up with a majority. As a matter of fact, on one occasion mr. Mccarthy was the whip, mr. Cantor was the majority leader, mr. Boehner was the speaker. And they offered a bill to keep government moving. They only got 84 of their colleagues, approximately 1 3, 1 3 of their colleagues on their side of the aisle to vote with them. I dont want to hear about us shutting down government. We cant shut down government. Theyre in charge. The majority has the votes. You can do whatever you want. We get it. We may not like it any more than you liked it. But we get it. But we voted on the hope that we would get some work done. We havent moved anyplace except on the tax bill. Which we think is bad for this country. In the last 90 days since we passed and we passed, it would not have passed without us, that c. R. And, yes, we will not be helds who tafpblgt and, yes, we will oppose hostage. And, yes, we will oppose what we think is a very, very bad tax bill and we think is an effort to avoid getting the work of this house coming up this morning, free state foundations randolph may and Christopher Lewis with the group Public Knowledge on the f. C. C. Rolling back obamaera net nuletralt rule. 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