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State of california will prosecute them. The democrats and it is wholly on the democrats side is completely holding up our government over illegal immigrants, and it is wrong. We live in an area where we just had a major disaster. Its going to affect the firefighters, the police officers, the victims. Democrats need to stop this. I really am proud of President Trump at our republicans for standing strong on this. We are being affected by illegal immigration on a daily basis and now being told by our attorney general that if anyone assist someone dealing with federal laws, you are going to be prosecuted there is something fundamentally wrong going on in this country. It is coming from the democrat side. Lets get the view from another federal employee. This is ronald. And am a federal employee train our young sailors. Furlough onmy monday and these young kids wont get trained right because there are a lot of civilian instructors that will be for load. Listened to everything schumer had to say. ,hen obama came out with daca it was supposed to be a to give them an opportunity to file for citizenship. I hope President Trump and the Republican Party i dont like Establishment Republicans to begin with i hope they hold their ground and do not do daca at all because they are putting even eagles in front of u. S. Itizens when chuck says the republicans have control, no, they have majority, but to get to 60 votes, we need democrats. The house is coming into session. for what purpose does the gentleman seek recognition . I send to the desk a report for filing under the rule. The speaker pro tempore resolution waiving a requirement of clause 6a of rule 13 with respect to consideration of certain resolutions reported from the committee on rules and providing for consideration of motions to suspend the rules. The speaker pro tempore referred to the house calendar and ordered printed. For what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition . By direction they have committee on rule i call up House Resolution 708 and ask for its immediate consideration. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the resolution. The clerk house kallen number 121, resolved that the requirement of clause 6a of rule 13 for a 2 3 vote to consider a report from the committee on rules on the same day its presented to the house is waived with respect to any resolution reported through the legislative day of january 29, 2018. Section 2, it shall be in order at any time through the calendar day of january 28, 2018, for the speaker to entertain a motion that the house suspend the rules as though urn clause 1 of rule 15. The speaker or his designee shall consult with the minority leader or her designee on any matter pursuant to this section. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for one inute. During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for the purpose of debate only. I yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentlewoman from new york, my friend, ms. Slaughter. Pending which i yield myself such time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Sessions i rise in support of this rule and the underlying legislation. This resolution which we will present today is necessary, its necessary to provide that the house to provide the house with the flexbility necessary to address Senate Democrats in action while they continue funding the United States government and the important instruments of government. Mr. Speaker, last evening, senator Chuck Schumer from new york and Senate Democrats made what i consider to be a reprehensible decision to allow the United States government to shut down. By voting against the bill that funds our military and the pay of the men and women in uniform they voted against a bill that would extend Childrens Health care for six years. Not because they opposed anything in the bill, because youd be hardpressed pob opposed to anything that was in this legislation. They voted against the bill to manufacture a crisis in a purely political move based upon an unrelated issue that is not facing an imminent deadline. Id like to thank the five Senate Democrats and six House Democrats who voted with republicans to keep the government open. Led or schumer should have the rest of his democrats and encouraged them to do what he did back in 2013 when he said, we, i say the democrats, could say were shutting down the government. Were not. Were going to raise the deficit ceiling until you pass immigration reform, it just would be be wong to not do the right thing and open up the government. Yet these wise words, needed more than ever now, this is just a political game. As President Trump said last evening, Senate Democrats own this. It is a schumer shut down. They put politics above national ecurity. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from colorado will tate his point of order. Is the gentleman from colorado demanding that the gentlemans ords from texas be taken down . The gentleman from texas will be seated. The clerk will report the words. The clerks are transcribing the words that were just read on the floor and will read them back. The chair will rule on the fitness of the words and the request by the congressman that the words be taken down. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from colorado seek recognition . Withdraw my request that the gentleman from texas that the words being taken down. The speaker pro tempore the demand for the words of the the gentleman from texas be withdrawn . The demand is withdrawn. Without objection. The gentleman from texas is recognized. Mr. Sessions mr. Speaker, i thank you very much. I think republicans are on the floor of the house today to make sure that what were attempting ffer to the american the speaker pro tempore members, would you clear the aisles and remove conversations from the floor. The gentleman from texas is recognized. Mr. Sessions mr. Speaker, things are sensitive on both sides. The governments shut down. Republicans are going to offer today advice to the American People about where we stand about getting us back to where we not only open up the government but doing it in a way that is favorable to not only the American People but to the people who protect this great country including children of this country that need health care that republicans attempted to pass in the house and senate. I resmb. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from new york. Ms. Slaughter thank you, mr. Speaker, and i thank you for yielding me the customary 0 minutes and i yield myself such time as i may consume. Today is oneyear anniversary of a complete control of washington. The republicans run the house of representatives and white house and senate. A tax bill for corporations and the wealthy and now the great government of the United States is closed for business. The impacts will be severe. Just look what happened during the last republican shutdown in 2013, which cost our economy an estimated 24 billion. We lost progress on reducing the massive backlog of veterans and disability claims. 2 3 of the centers for Disease Control and threefourths of the National Institutes of health were furloughed. Flu season surveillance and monitoring is severely limited and we are in a crisis this year with flu where more than 20 children have died. The food safety inspections were delayed and 1. 2 million private sector loans were disrupted, billions in tax refunds were delayed. Head Start Centers stopped rving 3,300 children and 120,000 private sector jobs were destroyed. The republicans are handing out to the wealthy and corporations. We failed to renew before they expired, the Community Health centers, failt to renew the Childrens Health insurance ogram, which c. B. O. The Congressional Budget Office had found would save the federal government 6 billion despite the fact that the majority made the tax cuts for corporations permanent. That was a tax bill that was sold as a middle class tax cut. We know its a tax cut for big corporations and superwealthy and it seems designed to target blue states. I live in one. These items shouldnt be an extraordinary exercise. Republicans and democrats agree we need to address them. But the majority has been missing in action and we have been forced to limp along funding the government. That is no way to run a business and certainly no way to run the government of the United States of america. President trump tweeted last night and i quote, our country needs a good shutdown. In 2011, years before he assumed office, President Trump said during an interview as another republican shutdown loomed, he said i think it would be a negative mark on the president of the United States. He is the one that has to get people together, end quote. So we would like to have him do that and play that role now. The president should not treat this as a reality show and stop treating government where truth is easily discarded. The majoritys shortterm c. R. Failed in the other body because it didnt get the job done. It was written behind closed doors without a single bit of input from the minority party. Members of to the own majority conference voted against it on both sides of the capitol. If i were in the majoritys shoes with 51 seats and i had to get 60 votes, i would want dim cats to be in on it with me. And to do it, we have to do it in all steps. Majority is quick to invoke the name of my state senator, and will not cross my lips because of what we went through, but that senator from the state of new york earned perfect scores on his s. A. T. s and heard on n. P. R. On two different subjects andion anyone could say he misunderstood what the president said during a meeting or he would was leaving the meeting confounded or confused. They were apparently close to avert the shutdown. The problem is that this president thinks one thing at 10 00 a. M. And another thing at 12 p. M. Even the Senate Majority leader from my other home state, ntucky said, im looking for something that President Trump supports and he has not yet indicated what measure he is willing to sign, end quote. So, majority in both chambers should try something new for a change. We call it bipartisanship. Im here today ready to craft a compromise and face the needs of the American People and my democratic colleagues. I say this with all my heart, work with us for the good of this country. Let us end this shutdown before monday. And i reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady reserves. The gentleman from texas. Mr. Sessions i appreciate the gentlewoman for her comments. I yield five minutes to the distinguished chairman of the Armed Services committee, the gentleman from texas, mr. Thornberry. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for five minutes. Mr. Thornberry mr. Speaker, i appreciate the chairman yielding and rise in support of this rule which will help give the house the flexibility it needs to deal to respond appropriately to whatever the senate may be able to pass. I think its important to remind everyone that the house has done our work. We passed every one of the appropriation bills before the fiscal year began in october. And on thursday, we passed a bill to continue government funding until february 16. Now were waiting to see what the senate may be able to pass and this rule enables us to respond to that. I want to focus my comments on the febts that this budget drama is having on the United States military. Mr. Speaker, the first job of the federal government is to defend the country. We have to do that before we do anything else. There are more than two million men and women who have volunteered to risk their lives to help keep us safe. Some of them are on station this very minute all around the world. Every single one of them and their families depend upon us for the support they need to do the job that the country has asked them to do. As a matter of fact, the constitution is very explicit saying its Congress Responsibility to provide support and maintain the vital military forces of this nation. At this moment, those men and women wherever they are around the world doing their job are not getting paid. Now theyll still do their job, but now they have an additional concern to worry them. There are other consequences. All of the civilians who work at the department of defense are also not getting paid on monday half of them will be told not to come to work. The work on weapons maintenance activities largely will be stopped. New contracts for support and other activities will not be allowed to proceed. Any medical procedures at military Treatment Facilities will not take place. And the pentagon will not be able to pay any of its bills, whether that is money that is owed to a family who has lost a loved one in the line of duty or whether its paying a doctor to take care of a service member. And it is absolutely true that every day we force the military to live under a continuing resolution does damage to the military. The damage being done now under the shutdown is far worse. Truthfully, we have not fulfilled our responsibility to the troops or constitution for some time. As the world grew more dangerous over the last eight year well, cut military budget about 20 . No other portion of the federal budget new york other significant portion, at least, of the federal budget, has undergone those kinds of cuts. And now we do this. Mr. Speaker, theres an even more disturbing problem here. Too many people want to use our constitutional duty to the troops as leverage for some other issue. Most everybody on both sides of the capitol agree we need to spend more on defense. Thats reflected in the votes we have had on defense issues over the past year. But some have now made actually spending that money that the troops needs conditional. On getting their way on some other extraneous, unrelated issue. Mr. Speaker, i suggest we ought to support the military funding on its own merits and not tie toyota any other issue and then we can look at those other issues on their own merits too. Using support for our military as a hostage to try to get political advantage on some other issue really on any other issue is wrong and it ought to stop. We need to set our troops free from this Political Drama. The time to do that is now. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from new york. Ms. Slaughter i yield three weeks three minutes to the gentleman from massachusetts a distinguished member of the rule committees, mr. Mcgovern. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. Mr. Mcgovern this is day one of the trump shutdown. What a sad day it is for this institution and what an incredibly sad day it is for our country this republicancontrolled government is incompetent. It takes my breath away. You control the house, the senate, the white house and this is what we get . One continuing resolution after another and now a trump shutdown . You should be fired. This is so incredibly wrong. You say you want democrats to support your spending bill, yet you wont work with us. You wont talk to us. Negotiating bills in back rooms with only republicans is not how you get a bipartisan vote. This my way or the highway approach undermine ours democracy and results in lousy bills that do not serve the interests of the American People. The Republican Leadership promised regular order. They promised to respect the views of everybody including the views of the minority. And they promised a more open process. That has turned out to be a big, fat lie. I hear from my republican friends they care about the dreamers. And we all know that if the dream act was brought before this house it would pass with a bipartisan vote. But the Republican Leadership around here is so pathetically rrified by the most hateful, xenophobic and bigoted elements of their base they wont put a bill on the floor. I would have thought the thing that got them out of bed in the morning, the tax cuts for Hedge Fund Managers and the wealthy, theyd be willing to work on other things. We need a fix for chip but we need to fund Community Health centers, medical research and veterans health. We need funds to deal with the on yat crisis. We need to support our men and women in the Armed Services and we desperately need to invest in our aging insfra structure. What we dont need are more and more shortterm c. R. s that fail to address the urgent needs of this country. My colleague, today, millions of american, led by fed up women, are marching in cities and towns across the country and they have a message. They dont like the way youre governing and theyre not going to take it anymore. To my republican friends, ask yourselves if you want to keep following trump and the most extreme element in your party off a political clip cliff because thats where theyre taking you. If you keep following them, history wont be kind. Stop the nonsense, stop the obstructionism, do your job and work with democrats for the good of our country. The American People are watching. I yield back my time. The speaker pro tempore members are advised to direct their comments to the chair. Direct your comments to the chair. The gentleman from texas. Mr. Sessions mr. Speaker, thank you very much. There was a question about the president , the president doesnt vote in the house or senate. Those people who vote yes were for funding the government. Those that voted no for were were for shut do you think the government. The president of the United States through whats called statement of administrative policy advised the rule committees january 17 he would be signing the bill. The president said he was for the bill. Mr. Speaker, the Armed Services network, Armed Forces Network is operated by the u. S. Armed forces which broadcasts Popular Television programs to the United States government civilians an their families, especially those at bases and overseas including ships at sea. Because of the schumer shutdown, Armed Forces Network services will go off the air. That means that tomorrow, the nfl championship sunday, our Service American all around the globe will be unable to participate in the things we do here in the United States. Yet another example of why a yes vote would have been for the men and women of our military. Mr. Speaker, at this time id like to yield one minute to the distinguished majority leader, mr. Mccarthy. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Mccarthy i thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, the nation finds itself in a grave situation. Our government has shut down. Military men and women in afghanistan, in iraq, and around the world, are still risking our lives, their lives, for our country and theyre not being paid. Opioid Treatment Centers have had their funds cut off. Children in states across america will start losing their Health Insurance. How did we get to this place . The nation assume there is must be a good reason. The house passed a bill. A clean government funding bill with no Strings Attached and no gimmicks. Because states are running out of money. We even included funding for a bipartisan extension of the Childrens Health Insurance Program for six years without any offset or democrat our democrat colleagues have objected to in the past. The longest the chip program has ever been reauthorized for. So we passed that bill and it went to the senate. We all know the rules. Mr. Speaker, at times, it sounds like some people need a little Greater Knowledge of how the system works. It is incorrect to claim otherwise. Republicans may have majorities in both houses, but it takes of votes in the nat to move legislation. That means the senate needs democrat votes to keep our government funded. But Senate Democrats said no. Mr. Speaker, as more than 90 of those on the other side of the aisle in this house did as well. Senate democrats shut this government down. This is a schumer shut down. Once opinion a time, Chuck Schumer called shutting the overnment down politics of idiocy. Senator feinstein said shutting the government down is a very serious thing she said, people die. Accidents happen you dont know, necessary functions can cease. So how did they change their mind . Why did they do it . Id like to know because nobody knows. It wasnt the bill. The funding bill is clean. It wasnt chip, the Childrens Health insurance legislation. Whose path came straight from the bipartisan deal in the senate. They say its about immigration. About daca. Theyre shutting down the government, cutting off funds for our troops, cutting off funds to opioid Treatment Centers, and cuts off Health Insurance for American Children over immigration. Over something that has nothing to do with this funding bill. Or with putting the American People first. So i think if its only reasonable we ask what exactly their demands are, why are they holding our government and our troops and American Children hostage . Why would you hold it over daca if the president brought the house, the senate, the republicans, the democrats, together . I was in that meeting. You know who else was in that meeting . The American Public and the president because the president allowed the media to be there. You know what happened at the end of that meeting . Based upon the president s leadership, the brought us together. And we all decided we would focus just on four ideas. Daca. Border security. Chain migration. And the lottery. Because we wanned to solve the problem but we didnt want to have to come back to it a few years from now. And we took the president s lead and you know what . Every day weve been having those meetings. You know how i know . Because im in those meetings, and theyre in my office. Ust a day before we shut down, the quote from those on the other side of the aisle and even in the senate was, this is the most productive meeting we had. So why shut it down now . Why even shut down the meetings by shutting down the government . If they want Something Different than a bipartisan deal, they want to force one sided immigration policy through congress, that the American Public dont want, then they should have the courage to say it straight. Have the courage to say that they are shutting down our government to make the illegal immigration situation in this country worse. Instead of making the hard choices to fix it. Mr. Speaker, the American People nt want to see anyone stomping their feet demanding they get their way. Thats not just an embarrassment. It has profound consequences for good people across this country. Now this house stands ready to pass another clean spending bill. And yes, mr. Speaker, if this side of the aisle has to do it alone like weve done it in the past, we will. We stand ready to keep our government open and pay our troops with no Strings Attached. But we will not negotiate a bad deal for america, especially not when Senate Democrats are holding our government hostage. This is too important. History is watching. History will not be kind to those that put themselves above the American People. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the entlelady from new york. Ms. Slaughter let me yield myself 30 seconds to say, im sorry the majority leader didnt mention it, but were there any democrats in those meetings in his office . I yield one and a half minutes to the gentleman from vermont, former member of the rules welsh. E, mr. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Elsh r. Welsh we are mr. Welch the gentleman from texas, mr. Thornberry, identified a problem. When we are operating by continuing resolution, no one has stability. S the fourth continuing resolution in the fourth month of a budget year. Give us a budget. A year budget. Thats what we need. Thats what the military needs. Secondly to the jerrett leader , my friend, if we are going to have democrats involved, they have to be at the table and theres been a decision made that to get to 218 vote, its going to be the tea party that has the final say, not democratic participation, lets change that. Third, the budget issues are not all that difficult. Theyve been mentioned dark ka to be sure, but the opioid crisis, veterans fund, Community Health centers. Finally, on daca. Lets have an open rule. Lets bring to the floor the goodlatte bill. Many favor it on your side. Ets bring to the bill the hurdaguilar bill, bipartisan. Lets promise to put on the floor whatever bill may be passed in the senate. Thats called an open process. Its called taking candlelightability. We are in a situation of our own making, none of us want to be here. We all know its wrong for the American People. Its bad for the reputation of government. Let us have an open process, open rule, and we will set america free. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from texas. Mr. Sessions at at this time i yield two minutes to the gentleman from fair hope, alabama, the gentleman from the ules committee, mr. Byrne. Mr. Byrne this is a shame. Its a shame we find ourselveses in this position all because Senate Democrats think they can hold the federal government hostage until they get their way on immigration issues. There is no way around it. That is exactly what is happening here. Majority in the house and a majority in the senate have voted to prevent this shutdown nd keep the government open. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman will state his point f order. The speaker pro tempore the entleman will suspend. Request that the staff bring the poster to the chair for his observation. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman objects to the exhibit. The chair may submit its question of the use or make a message. And the chair has viewed the exhibit in question and finds it does not constitute a breach of decorum. The question is shall the decision stand as the judgment of the house. For what purpose does the gentleman from oklahoma seek recognition . Mr. Cole i move to lay the appeal on the table. The speaker pro tempore the question is on the appeal on the table. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. The gentleman from colorado. Mr. Perlmutter i ask for a recorded vote. Those favoring a recorded vote will rise. A recorded vote is ordered. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a 15minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] me or central vote on the house floor a procedural vote on the house floor. They have been debating a rule allowing them to take up a continuing resolution any day between now and monday, january 29, what is called a sameday rule. The vote proceeded and was when one congressman objected to some of the words used by Pete Sessions in his comments about the rule, and , if youther dustup will, regarding a chart that had been used and a vote concerning that is underway on the house floor right now. The house debating whether we can show a poster of senator schumer. The chair made a ruling on that. This is an appeal of that. 15 minute vote on the floor of the house. We do expect they will rep up this and wrap up work on the rule. There may be additional votes this afternoon, but the speaker pro tempore on this vote, the yeas are 24, the nays are 173, with two recorded as present. The motion is adopted. Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. He house will be in order. Proceedings on the house floor will not resume until members clear the aisles and remove your onversations from the floor. The gentleman from alabama is recognized with one and a half minutes remaining in his remarks. Where was i before my post of senator schumer was ruled in order . Ah, yes, Government Shutdowns have devastating implications on so many different areas, especially when it comes to our nations military. All active duty military personnel will come to work but cannot be paid. Critical Maintenance Operations and training that are not directly related to Ongoing Military Operations are forced to stop. All because of the schumer shutdown. Mr. Speaker, the government funding bill in question also includes six years funding for the Childrens Health insurance al kids in wn as ar alabama. But representative pelosi recently said that the efforts to fund the government and fund hip the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The gentleman deserves to be eard. The speaker pro tempore the entleman may resume. The gentleman may resume. Mr. Byrne leader pelosi said hat the efforts to fund the speaker pro tempore ladies and gentlemen of the house, the chair needs your help. Please take your conversations off the floor and lets allow the gentleman to be heard. The gentleman may resume. Mr. Byrne leader pelosi cently said the speaker pro tempore the gentleman will resume. Mr. Byrne leader pelosi recently said. The speaker pro tempore will the gentleman be seated. The speaker pro tempore the ouse will be in order. The gentleman from alabama may proceed. Mr. Byrne leader pelosi said recently the efforts are like a bowl of doingy doo. To the over 150,000 children in my state who receive insurance through the program. Mr. Speaker, i have a message to my colleagues in the senate, enough is enough. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from georgia. I ask that the words be taken down. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from alabama will be seated. The clerk will report the records. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. For what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition . Mr. Speaker, i realize that this is a very difficult time. Mr. Lewis for all of us, but we all need to be a little more andn, a little more patient in order to have civility among all of us. I withdraw my objection. The speaker pro tempore the demand has been withdrawn by the gentleman from georgia. Now the gentleman from alabama, with 40 seconds remaining, may esume his remarks. Mr. Byrne stop with the political stunts to put our military at risks and the antics that create uncertainty for families. Stop playing to the resistance games and get our Government Back open for business. I encourage adoption of this rule and i finally yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from alabama yields back. The gentlelady from new york. Ms. Slaughter im pleased to yield three minutes to the gentleman from maryland, the democratic whip, mr. Hoyer. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from maryland is recognized for three minutes. Fore the gentleman speaks the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Hoyer let me say at the tset, we ought to put sank timoney asides. Each side is choosing. Mr. Speaker, you voted to close down the government and then you voted against opening it up. Both sides have accused the other of what they have done. Now the fact of the matter is, ladies and gentlemen, we are re because we have not succeeded in passing the appropriation bills and sending them to the president. That is why you need a continuing resolution. My republican friends are in charge of the house and my republican friends are in charge of the senate. And they are in charge of the white house. We have not passed a single appropriation bill. My view is, we have not done so because we have been unwilling to compromise. Thats what this is about. Its about republicans frankly being unwilling, in our opinion, to Work Together to get to agreement. We dont want this shutdown. Our republican friends are are saying they dont want the shutdown and we are willing to work across the aisle to prevent it. Republicans have had four opportunities. 100 of the democrats voted for a 90day c. R. To give us time to get to agreement on Appropriations Bills. And a level of funding. Mr. Speaker, you know that. We have been talking about that for some time. We have not come to depreement. And therefore, we find ourselves, notwithstanding the fact that we agree on a lot. We have asked to adhere to parity, mr. Speaker, as you know. It is the process that you agreed with senator murray that we have followed for the last four years. All were asking is lets follow it again. That is why were here. Because we have not been able to get such an agreement. We have also asked that we be able to protect at the request of the president of the United States, agreements, put something on the floor, as he said and he would sign it. We want to reauthorize the chip program and Community Health centers and other health programs. We agree on that. The American Public has got to be so distressed that they see this going on on this floor of the house. We want to provide disaster elief to those in texas, florida and puerto rico and Virgin Islands. Ms. Slaughter im going to give you one have minutes. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Hoyer i thank my friend. I urge my republican colleagues who are in the majority and control the legislative process, end this shutdown. Use the authority you are asking for under this rule to bring to the floor the items on which we agree. Mr. Speaker, you have said, you would do that, take the tough issues ahead one at a time. I admire my statement. I will tell my statement, i will admire more the performance. Speaker ryan he said we will not kick the can down the road, we will lead, we will not blame others. Mr. Speaker, i ask you to do just that. Stop ignoring responsibility as the Majority Party to keep the government open and serve the American People. Now, mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 4 72, the end of shutdown act of 2018, a continuing resolution through tuesday that would immediately reopen the government while negotiations continue on a budget agreement that adheres to parity, reauthorizing the Childrens Health Insurance Program, and other Critical Health care programs, addressing the issue of dreamers as was requested by the president of the United States, and providing a assistance to americans impacted by natural disasters. S the as the minority whip must surely know, time dedicated for this debate is for debate only. Would the gentleman from texas yield for that purpose . Mr. Sessions i do not. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman does not yield and as such, the request cannot be entertained. Mr. Hoyer parliamentary inquiry. Did the speaker hear mr. Meadows objecting to my unanimous consent request . The speaker pro tempore the request was not even entertained. The gentleman from texas is recognized. Mr. Sessions mr. Speaker, at this time id like to yield three minutes to the distinguished gentleman, the chairman of the energy and commerce committee, the gentleman from hood river, oregon, mr. Walden. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. Mr. Walden my colleagues. Lets set the record straight about Childrens Health Insurance Program, funding for Community Health centers, stopping the cuts on our lowincome hospitals, extending the special Diabetes Program for native americans. Chairman of the energy and commerce committee, i can tell you we did our work. We held hearings, we held markups, we bought a pack brought a package to the floor and approved it on november 2. Tragically, only a dozen or so democrats voted for that package at that time. It was fully funded. Community Health Centers would have two years funding. The Childrens Health Insurance Program, phi years and the largest Funding Amount ever accorded to chip. Special Diabetes Program, funded. We care about these programs as a conference. And yet it was a partisan divide, tragically, and it went to the senate where they couldnt find the votes to pass it. So we have come back consistently thereafter to approve Childrens Health care. The Childrens Health Insurance Program provides Insurance Coverage for nine million American Children and pregnant women. We all support that as a congress. We have had to emergency extend the funding in various continuing resolutions, most of which my colleagues on the the democratic side have opposed. Today we find ourselves with seven states about to run out of money and cancellation notices going out to about two Million People. This is a necessary this is unnecessary, it is unconscionable, it should not happen but it is. That is why the Childrens Health Insurance Program now can be funded for six years in the c. R. We all voted in the c. R. We all voted on and never nearly every democrat voted against. We can do six years funding for chip and with the changes in other law and the tax code we did not have to identify ways to pay for it, thats already taken care of. That is why it is troubling to me to hear the remarks of some of my colleagues who say theyre all for this. They want to vote for this, when we have given the entire house this opportunity on numerous occasions to fund Childrens Health insurance, to fund Community Health centers, to fund the special Diabetes Program. We zrnt to be here. And you sure as heck didnt have to shut down the government. Our choice yesterday was vote to fund the government or not. Vote to fund Childrens Health insurance for nine million children and by the way, states like mine that also includes daca kids. When you voted against that yesterday, you voted not to provide insurance to children and pregnant women in our state that is wrong. We are here to govern. We are governing as republicans. We will get this government up and running and we will take care of those children. With that, mr. Chairman, i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the entlemans time has expired. The gentlelady from new york. Ms. Slaughter im pleased to yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from maryland, mr. Hoyer. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for 30 seconds. Mr. Hoyer i thank the gentlelady. Ladies and gentlemen of this use if we had entertained my unanimous consent request, we could have accomplished all that the gentleman from washington just discussed. Excuse me, oregon. Had just discussed. The chairman of the committee. I will remind you that the reason democrats voted against it was because you took the money for Childrens Health out of Childrens Health. You decreased the Prevention Trust fund by some 6 billion which had in part inoculation for children against disease. We thought robbing from peter to pay paul was not a good policy to pursue. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expire. The gentleman from texas. Mr. Sessions at thistime id like to yield two minutes to the distinguished chairman of the energy and commerce committee, from hood river, oregon, chairman walden. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Walden im happy to have this discussion, the Prevention Fund which the gentleman referenced is a very Important Fund to do what . Provide Preventive Health care. What do you think Childrens Health insurance is about . Providing health care. Childrens the Prevention Fund, oh, so you dont think providing insurance for pregnant women and children is about good health . Holy smokes new york wonder you voted no. No wonder you voted no. And you have used the Prevention Fund in the past, mr. Chairman, those on the other side the speaker pro tempore the gentleman will adriss address his remarks to the chair. Mr. Walden i thought i was. Both parties have used the Prevention Fund to do things they thought was important. I cant think of anything more important than use a portion of a fund that gets replenished by 2 billion every year, which the proachtors, goth bless them derek side how those funds get appropriated every year we can thought it made sense to use a portion of that fund for Childrens Health. There was still going to be an enormous amount of money left to be appropriated. We also thought that people on medicare making 500,000 a year, 40,000 a month, roughly could pay 137 more for their medicare so we could take care of pregnant women and children and keep our Health Centers open. That was one of the payfors. That was one of the payfors. We had and we were open to negotiating because we knew wed have to with the senate on how else wed pay for it. The long and short of it is, why are they pitting one group of kids in america against another . Governor sandoval said as much from nevada he supports what we did yesterday. Governor Charlie Baker of massachusetts, i talked to him yesterday, he wants the chip bill funded. Cant we put the politics behind us and take care of americas children . With that, i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from new york. Let the chair remind both sides of the time remaining. The gentlelady from new york has 15 and one quarter minutes remain, the gentleman from texas as 13 1 2 minutes remaining. Ms. Slaughter im pleased to yield 30 seconds to the gentlelady from connecticut, ms. Delauro. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady is recognized. Ms. Delauro the gentleman doesnt know what the health and Prevention Fund is all about. It is more than Childrens Health. It is vaccines. It is insulin. It is lead paint protection programs. Know what it is. This is a majority who has spent the better part of the year decimating an Affordable Care act and not caring a whit about what was happening to children and their health care. We do not fund Community Health centers and children who are eligible for chip will not be able to get the help they need because they cant go to a Community Health care center. If you are really concerned about the children of this nation and their health care, bring a clean chip bill to this floor and lets make it permanent. Dont hide, dont hide behind the children of this country. The speaker pro tempore the gentleladys time has expire. The gentleman from texas. Mr. Sessions we know who vetted yes and we know who voted no. Mr. Speaker, at this time id like to yield two minutes to the gentleman to defend the republican position, the gentleman, chairman walden. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. Mr. Walden mr. Speaker, i appreciate my colleague from connecticuts strong words. Heres the deal. Democrats have used money out of Prevention Fund to fund tax cuts over time. Thats a true statement. Youve used it for all kinds of things. But the long and short of it is, we brought you two clean chip bills, one that fully funded Community Health centers, and a special Diabetes Program and Teaching Hospitals that stopped, you know the only thing that did against obama care that i think a lot of you wrote and asked me to do . We turned off the cuts to dish hospitals. Thats a requirement under the existing obamacare law. You asked us, you got to turn off these cuts to our hospitals that serve the lowincome people, we said you know what, youre right. Thats most of what we did was bipartisan. We all agreed on. Then when you didnt like that, and i think only 15 democrats voted for that whole package, theyre all for Community Health centers, all for special Diabetes Programs, all for turning off the dish cuts, theyre all for chip. Until they have an opportunity to vote for it. And then they voted no. And then we brought a clean chip bill to the floor as part of keeping the federal government open and they didnt like that. They were for a fiveyear chip bill until they wanted 10. We give them six, they cant figure out how to vote yes. They vote no. What is it we have to do here, ladies and gentlemen, to get this done, to get you on board to stop the partisan politics, mr. Speaker . You know this. Youre on appropriations. This is important work. Seven states, including my own, are on the cusp of running out of funds. Two million americans are about to get notices from insurers that this cannot be extended. Because the money is running out. We have performed as republicans, we should perform as republicans and democrats, we should put the helicopter of americas Children First and you never should have shut down the government. With that, i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from new york. Ms. Slaughter im pleased to yield two minutes to the gentleman from new jersey, the distinguished Ranking Member on energy and commerce, mr. Pallone. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. Mr. Pallone thank you, mr. Speaker. I respect my colleague from oregon. But you have done nothing over the last year but sabotage the Affordable Care act, sabotage health care in this country. The fact of the matter is, the only reason youre willing to bring up this chip bill as part of the c. R. Is because you put in the tax plan, eliminate the mandate for Health Insurance which the 13 Million People are not going to have Health Insurance in this country over the next few years and the money that was cut subsidized their premiums now does not have to be paid. So all of a sudden you say, ok, well put a sixyear chip bill on the floor. The payfors were not only from the Prevention Fund. The payfors also said if somebody didnt pay their Health Insurance within 30 days, they were going to lose their Health Insurance. And c. Bomplet said that another 500,000 people would lose their Health Insurance. Everything that this majority has done since day one of this session has been to sabotage the a. C. A. Not allow people to even know that they can buy insurance through the exchange. Taking away their costsharing subsidies. The list is endless and for you to come up here today and suggest that somehow you care about the kids and youre going to have the chip program continue for the next six years, where are those kids going to go . You havent done anything about Community Health centers. 40 to 50 of them have to use Community Health centers because people wont take chip. You havent done anything about the hospitals, the disproportionate share of hospitals that many of them have to go to. Thats not addressed in this legislation. So the only reason that you have brought this bill and put it on the c. R. Is because of the fact that you have sabotaged Health Insurance for millions of americans. So dont stand up here and tell me that somehow Republican Party cares about the kids. They dont and you also know that this was not going to pass. You know that it wasnt going to pass. Youre not trying to act in a bipartisan, bicameral way you know that this is going nowhere. Youre responsible for the shutdown. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. Mr. Pallone its part of the speaker pro tempore you go on and on about how the Republican Party cares about kids. The Republican Party does not. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is no longer recognized. All members are reminded to direct their remarks to the chair. The gentleman from texas. Mr. Sessions i would like to yield three minutes to the distinguished chairman of the energyittee on health in and commerce, dr. Michael burgess. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Burgess chip, 1996, on bipartisan offering, democratic president , bill clinton and Newt Gingrich as part of welfare reform and move from welfare to work and what do we do about children . They are going to lose their medicaid and children will be lost at sea. Chip was created as a olympic grant program, maximum flexibility to the states and authorized for 10 years. Chip was authorized for 10 years. Funded for five but authorized for 10 years. We are finishing that up. I wanted a twoyear bill. I compromised. Senate democrats and Senate Republicans wanted a fiveyear bill. We funded Community Health centers. We had the hospitals back home were saying we cant manage. Remember, everyone was supposed to lay down in the fields of obamacare, except theyre not. Our hospitals are tasked with taking care of underinsured and uninsured. We need to delay those dish cuts. And heres the thing that strikes me. We passed a fiveyear bill through this house, and then the Congressional Budget Office between them and the end of the year said with the repeal of the individual mandate got a lot less expensive and broaden it out to a sixyear window, you will return money to the treasury. Obamacare is so bad and makes everything expensive. C. B. O. Put it on sale, we should buy and brought it back to you on the floor and the two dozen said, you didnt like it when it returned money to the treasury. We gave you a good bill. It was part of a three or fourweek continuing resolution. Its not that hard. Lets pass it and do the right thing for americas children and military and federal workers across this country. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from new york. Ms. Slaughter i yield to the gentleman from colorado, mr. Polis. Mr. Polis democrats are blaming republicans and people blaming the president , but i have Great Respect for the intellectual abilities. And i think you all know and i know, mr. Chairman, that the American People blame all of this for this disfunction. They blame the president and they blame republicans and blame democrats as well. And yet, here we are continuing to play into the worst fierce and partisanship rather than talking about the path forward. We know what the issues are that separate us and they arent that great. We want to fund the Childrens Health Insurance Program. Lets figure out the plan. We want to fix deferred action because the president canceled the program in march and find a way for them to work. The budget caps and the timing, very important. I ups that republicans want to spend more on the military than Many Democrats do. And i have been a constant supporter of trying to find supporter. Lets compromise. Lets not do it when depoft is closed. Do it a threeday extension or get to work instead of blaming one another on issues that wont go away. And you will find the hesitancy, lets wait three weeks and hash out the same issues because that much more uncertainty for the u. S. Military, for the American People, for those who rely on basic government services. Its time to Work Together in good faith, to rise to the responsibility of the office of the American People placed us in to find the common way forward. And make sure the people are proud of democrats and proud of republicans and yes, i care dare to say the president of the United States numb reopening the government in facing these issues that face us. Mr. Sessions i reserve. The speaker pro tempore the entlelady from new york. Ms. Slaughter i yield to the gentleman from michigan, mr. Kildee, for one minute. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Kildee i want to point out that the position were in, we hear that republicans and democrats in the senate cant come together because democrats are holding up this bill in the senate. Well, lets examine that for a moment. Why is it that leader mcconnell cant get a simple majority in the senate that this body sent over there with five democratic votes . Its because if the legislation at was passed here was not constituted of a majority position who support daca and support helping those dreamers, not constituted of a majority of this body who want to see not only Community Health centers funded but the chip program continued and want to see chip protection. I believe there is a majority in this body that is not constituted of just 218 republicans that can come together around these issues. As long as the leadership continues to not seek a majority that can deliver legislation through this body but also has the chance to gain support in the senate, we will find ourselves unable to govern. We ought to seek that majority. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. The gentleman from texas. Mr. Sessions we continue to reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from texas reserves. Ms. Slaughter if we defeat the previous question, i will offer an amendment to the rule to bring h. R. The pay our military act, a guaranteed death benefits for our military. I ask unanimous consent to insert the text of my amendment in the record along with extraneous material immediately prior to the vote on the previous question. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Ms. Slaughter i yield 2 1 2 minutes to the the gentlewoman from minnesota. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady is recognized. Ms. Mccollum the failure of President Trump and the Republicancontrolled Congress do their work in good faith has serious consequences. Governing by shortterm continuing resolution did he priferse longterm certainty that they need to keep our safety first. Secretary of defense has warned of severe harm of continuing resolution and the harm it has done to military readiness. T is time to work with us on a longterm budget deal that reopens our government and adequately funds our military and upholds our commitments. The shut down began at midnight that employees who serve will now be forced to work without pay and we thank them for their service. As the president has acknowledged, the republican inflicted shutdown means that our active military will not get id causing serious repercussions. I grew up in a military and i understand that the sacrifices. And democrats and republicans agree it is plain wrong to ask our men and women in uniform to put their lives on the line without pay. And that is why we have introduced the pay our military act of 2018. This provides for pay and death benefits for our servicemen and women during this Government Shutdown and includes pay and support for the army, navy, ma evens, air force and the coast guard. This bill ensures that our military is able to perform their duties during any shutdown without worrying about the financial securities. Should they take and make the ultimate sacrifice, this bill ensures they will be taken care of by our country and that is the least we can do. There is a strong precedent for this bill. This bill passed similar legislation you nan nousely, unanimous and this morning President Trump tweeted that our country noods to do even better. The pay our military act fulfills this mission. I urge a no vote on the previous question to bring up this bill. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from texas. Mr. Sessions at this time, i would like to yield two minutes to the gentleman from from butler, pennsylvania, mr. Kelly. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Kelly we are locked in a debate today over something we dont have to be locked in a debate about. They knew everything was in our proposal and nothing in that proposal that you were against. I heard you talk about all the things you are still in favor of. Those are the same things we had in our bill the other day and you voted against it. We are in the middle of a schumer shutdown not because of what the house didnt do but what the senate refuses to do. States have importance. We knew the government would shut down if we didnt fund it. Daca has until march 5 to be addressed. We come here with this phony argument that somehow we are on the same page and trying to do the same things. But you know what . We cant vote that way to get there. America is watching and america is understanding right now that this is the schumer shutdown. Let there be no question about who it is who has failed the American People. When it comes to chip and all those bleeding hearts that say you need to do this, and want to do it for five, six years. You say it isnt going to be good enough. And we need to vote on the military and protect the 99 of the country and stand up here and say i would have voted except for one thing that doesnt include daca. There is no legislation for daca. It was never in jeopardy. We have until march 5 to get it straightened out. We dont have any more time to sit here. Groofer ndon the effect and america understands that this shutdown is based on mr. Schumers inability to get his people on board, people who are necessarily need to be involved. We know we cant do it with 51 votes. Look in your civics book. Lets vote tonight and walk tonight as an american house. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. Mr. Kelly the americans patience is getting more. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from new york. Ms. Slaughter im pleased to yield one minute to the the gentlewoman from texas, ms. Jackson lee. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Ms. Jackson lee mr. Speaker, i would like order, please. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. Ms. Jackson lee maybe my good friend was not able to keep his eyes awake last night to see that a Bipartisan Group of members in the other body voting resoundingly to against this shallow c. R. That you sent to the other body. Maybe you were not able to see that. What i will say to you, i join with my whip in a fourday c. R. Because maybe you have forgotten the effect that the most catastrophic storm hit texas and others went on to puerto rico and the Virgin Islands and florida. No one has heard one word about those who are suffering with housing that looks like this or those houses that are under water. Maybe you dont know who need Childrens Health insurance need the clinics that you gutted. I would ask you if you have any kind of compassion, read mr. Steeles comments who indicated as the former chair of the r. N. C. That thats those who are at fault is the republican president , republican house, republican senate. You cant do your job and democrats are trying to do their job. You shut the government down. Worry about those the speaker pro tempore the gentlelady is no longer recognized. Once again, the chair reminds our members to please address your remarks to the chair and not to one november. The gentleman from texas. Mr. Session i would remind the gentlewoman from texas this body passed the bill. This body did its work. This body got its work done. Mr. Speaker, at this time id like to yield two minutes to the you got your own time. I would like to yield two minutes to the i would like to yield two minutes to the distinguished gentlewoman from wilson, wyoming, the gentlelady, ms. Cheney. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from wyoming is minutes. For two ms. Cheney thank you very much, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i understand why our colleagues on the other side of the aisle are having a hard time keeping track of their arguments. We minutes. Ms. Cheney thank you very much, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i watched yesterda distinguished minority whip stand up and stay we ought to do our work and then move to adjourn. We watched today, mr. Speaker, repeatedly, while our colleagues on the other side of the aisle claim that they believe in providing funding for the Childrens Health insurance plan, yet they voted against it. We watched repeatedly, mr. Speaker, our colleagues on the other side of the aisle go down the list of all the damages being done by this shutdown. But they wont end the shutdown. We agree. This shutdown is absolutely unconscionable in these circumstances. Every time, mr. Speaker, a member on the other side of the aisle who failed to vote for all 12 of those Appropriations Bills that we put on the floor and we passed through this house stands up and talks about us doing our job needs to look in the mirror, mr. Speaker. Because we have done our job. And in particular, mr. Speaker, when it comes to the defense of this nation we have no higher obligation or sacred duty or responsibility in this house than to provide funding for our men and women in uniform. And with all due respect, mr. Speaker, when i hear my colleagues on the other side of the aisle say things like, our military will be just fine under this shut down. I would remind them that we have young men and women in uniform on the frontlines right now who are putting their lives on the line for all of us and they are not getting paid because Chuck Schumer and the democrats in the senate are refusing to be in a position where they will let this government reopen. I am sure that our colleagues dont want us to remember and remind the American People what they have done or what they are leaders have said, we will do it every single time until this absolutely unconscionable, complete dereliction of our duty stops. And this shut down and end this shut down and fund our troops. Yield back. The speaker pro tempore the from new york is recognized. She has 5 3 4 minutes remaining. Ms. Slaughter i yield one minute to the gentleman from texas, mr. Green. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. Mr. Green thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i rise to explain why there is a Government Shutdown. There is a Government Shutdown because the selfproclaimed great deal maker breaks more deals than he makes. Just ask the americans who are going to pay for the wall he said mexico would pay for. Just ask the senators who took him the deal that he asked for. Mr. Speaker, when you break more deals than you make, youre not a great deal maker, you are a great deal breaker. We got a great deal breaker in the white house. Thats why we have a shut down. I yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from texas. I reserve my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time is reserved. The gentlelady from new york. Ms. Slaughter im pleased to yield one minute to the gentleman from connecticut, mr. Himes. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from connecticut is recognized for one minute. If hes here. Mr. Speaker, mr. Himes seems not to be on the floor. But i am more than pleased to yield to the minority leader and our great friend and woman, were very happy about, ms. Pelosi, the gentlelady from california. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from california is recognized for one minute. Ms. Pelosi thank you very much, mr. Speaker. I thank the gentlelady for yielding. Thank you for her leadership and all the members of the rules committee for the time they put in bringing. Gislation to the floor bringing rules to the floor to relate to a vast array of legislation that we deal with here. Today were talking about mash aw marshall law so well be prepared martial law so well be prepared to take up something that will open up the government and meet the needs of the American People. Its interesting to see the enthusiasms on both sides on these subjects because we have a long history on some of these issues. We have a long history and commitment to chip. When we brought it to the floor when i was speaker, when we first had a democratic president who would sign the bill, 144 republicans voted against that bill. But thats then. This is now. And i think that now were closer than the debate here would indicate. I think there is a path forward. And i think thats how we have to be thinking about what is next. We all have our, shall we sarkse reputations for where we have been on certain votes. About chip. About shutting down government antirest. But lets put that aside and the rest. But lets put that aside. The challenge we have right now is what is that path . That path has four corners to it. One of them is the caps. Parity, we talked about parity. Other members have talked about it. Im certain mr. Hoyer did again today. Its about parity. If youre going to have increases in defense, we need he same increases in domestic. Defense, thats what the Defense Department depends decides its missions require, we want to be respectful of that. But we also know that in the one third of the budget, 34 , are security function. Homeland security. Antiterrorism activities at the department of justice. Veterans affairs. The department of state. Thats 34 of the domestic budget. So were saying our strength of our country is not measured just in our military might. As importants is that is and respectful of it that were, but also in these security functions in the domestic budget, in addition to that in the health, education, and wellbeing of the American People. Which are also on the domestic side. So i think when the caps end, we have to get in the room and make those decisions. The challenges that i see is that there are those, it has been reported to me, there are those on the republican side who have some unease in increasing the domestic budget because they know that they already had a big increase in the deficit in the tax bill and are reluctant to add any more fear it would increase the education, fear it would increase the deficit. However, these investments in research and development, in really bring money to the ref revenue to the treasury. In so they help decrease it. In fact, i think most economists will tell you that nothing brings more money to the treasury than the investments in education, early childhood, k through 12, higher education, post grad, lifetime learning for our workers. In that spirit of saying you want more in defense, were respectful of that, we need more in domestic, hopefully youll be respectful of that. I think we can come to terms on that. Then there is the question of payfors, how is it, or is it paid for . Thats one thing. Thats just you sit down and negotiate, you get it done. Im appropriators mrs. Lowey is an appropriator. Mrs. Lowey is our Ranking Member with such distinction, and mr. Frelinghuysen on your side. Appropriators know how to get it done. They know the numbers. Left to their own devices. Its when other factors weigh in that it becomes more challenging. Lets just say, lets see if we can get that done because that dispositive of shortening the time between where were now and if we get a solution. Value to us, re a dispositive f and we told the president right from the start, its not an issue. Its not a bill. Its a value of who were as america. And i think that we can come to terms on that subject as well. And we but make no mistake, if there never were one dreamer in our country, we still would have this challenge on the money side of the debate. So lets not try to assign responsibility to the dreerms for the fact that we dont have the increase in defense. Were willing to go to that a place as we go honoring parity. Honoring parity. Thats what we agreed to in the budget agreement. What the speaker agreed to as chair of the budget committee. Why are we departing from that and then blaming it on the dreamers . That the dreamers and the security, we all believe in securing our borders, north and south. We can come to terms on that. We can come to terms. If we really believe that we should. On none of us believes our side of the aisle, shutting down government. We believe in Government Role of meeting the needs of the American People. We subject any initiative to do that to the harshest scrutiny because we know that the American People need effective initiatives to meet their needs. So lets take a deep breath. Lets calm down. For example, mr. Welch led the way, a large, large number, 1 00some members of the house signing a letter to the president. I think its really important for you to realize this. When we said we wanted more omestic investment, heres what we were talking about. We very clear to choose only those initiatives that are bipartisan. That would pass on the floor lking about. With strong bipartisan support. And that means preserving the bipartisan budget act as i discussed. Delivering urgently needed resources to communities fighting the Opioid Epidemic. Thats what we said to the president. This is one of the increases on the domestic side. The Opioid Epidemic dressing the opioid rescuing heroic veterans facing a dire shortfall at the v. A. Opioids. Veterans. Supporting access by funding chip, Community Health centers, medical education for primary care doctors. The package always went together. And preserving americans endangered. Pensions. We had bipartisan support for that. That needs more discussion. But we want to do t providing additional Disaster Recovery puerto rico, u. S. Virgin islands, texas, florida, california, states impacted by wildfires. Puerto rico, theres nothing partisan about this. In addition to protecting our dreamers, which again has bipartisan support in the house and in the senate. We want them we want to pass the dream act as well as them engage in the discussion on the borders, which were completely open to. So this is not lets give us some money. Its shared values, democrats and republicans, and were saying to the president , help us on this money side of the debate because its so very important. We can we can talk all day said what about what and all the rest of that, i shutting down government is cool. As mr. Mulvaney said. Lets leave him to that. We do know that government by shutting down best way to go. Government is cool. As mr. Mulvaney said. Lets leave that we could have take one day, take this evening, sit down, think caps parity, payfors, probably easier, not a whole lot of opportunity there, but whatever it is. Daca. Dream. And again. If there never were one dreamer, we would still be having this discussion about the money side of it. My view, correct me if im wrong, is that theres a resistance on the republican side, in the house, i cant speak for the senate, i havent seen evidence of this in the senate, is to resist parity when it comes to increasing funding, even for these priorities that we spelled out because it will increase the deficit, which has been greatly increased by the tax bill. I would see for some remaining if existing deficit hawks you might have that concern. Let me add if there were not one dreamer in america, america would be at a loss. These young people have come to this country with their parents. They have made us so proud with their diligence and attendance in school, service in the military and i have heard from champions of industries, many of whom celebrated the passage of their tax bill saying the people who are in our firm, they are stars in our examine. Why do we not use them as an excuse to face the arelate that we have domestic responsibility. That there is a path. Our appropriators are used to working together, the leadership has to make these decisions and theres no reason we shouldnt be able to do this by tomorrow, by tomorrow, and then give the appropriators the time to write it up. But to come to those terms. Lets take a deep breath. Lets understand our responsibilities to the American People. Let us withhold as i have done, some of the i curb my enthusiasm but i have heard certain things done and say here. I havent brought the picture of the president and that the president said we need a good shutdown. It didnt curb my enthusiasm in that regard. But i do say, we have more Common Ground than is reflected in how this has proceeded. And let us find a better course so we can stay on that course to meet other challenges. God has blessed us with the privilege to serve here. We respect each other and respect the people who sent us here. We owe them a lot more than government being shut down. So lets take a path to open it up and understanding that it will involve compromise and partisanship and transparency and in a way that brings unity to our country. Ink i think that is something we subscribe to. I call upon our colleagues to join us insighting down. And i call upon the speaker to bring some legislation to the floor that will do this and which would have bipartisan support. With that, i thank my colleagues for your attention and i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady yields back. He gentleman from texas. Mr. Sessions i would like to yield one minute to the gentleman from washington, mr. New house. Mr. Newhouse i thank the good gentleman for yielding. In this most interesting debate on the rule that i have ever seen, i rise in support of restoring a fully functioning federal government. I along with most of my colleagues support the resolution, keeping funding our military, reauthorizing the children Health Insurance program. And fully funding chip against giving certainty to the more than 60,000 lowincome children in my own state of washington. Our military professionals are working to reduce the impacts to National Security due to the Government Shutdown. Secretary mattis has given guidance saying steady as she goes, hold the line. Stay alert. His he message speaks to the professionalism of our troops. They deserve their pay. And no way shutting down the government serve us. In my district, important work up 15 anford clean seconds. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Newhouse today i find myself as well as many frustrated as the supporter of the president s call for congress to act to work on a bipartisan solution on daca, lets reopen the government and continue our negotiations and i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from new york. Ms. Slaughter im pleased to yield one minute to the the gentlewoman from florida. Ms. Wasserman schultz you know, what we are witnessing today on is a eyear anniversary complete failure by the majority. For the First Time Ever we will have a complete shutdown and federal employees will risk being sent home and losing pay. Ot a instead of coverage, they have been focused on taking it away. Focused on americas middle class they passed a huge tax deficientexplodes the sit and we have another short ided bandaid and the budget shutdown, our colleagues have been reading. Because it did not face the test in any corner that republicans care anything about Peoples Health care. Please give me a break. End the trum shutdown. Americans deserve at least that much from this body. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from texas with 1 2 minutes. Mr. Sessions i yield one minute to the the gentleman from indiana. Mr. Messer the schumer shutdown is proving once again that the u. S. Senate is broken. The house did its job and voted to keep the government open. Now both republicans and democrats in the senate need to do their job, too. Unfortunately because of the filibuster, it is being governed by a liberal minority and shut government. If they dont want to do their jobs, we need to move on without them. It is time to end the filibuster in the u. S. Senate. The American People demand it. The senate needs to change its rules. If there was no filibuster, this shutdown would be over. So lets stop the political games, end the filibuster, open the government and put the American People back in charge. Thank you. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from new york. Ms. Slaughter im pleased to yield one minute to the gentleman from washington, mr. Smith. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from washington is recognized for one minute. He house will be in order. The gentleman is recognized. Mr. Smith i have an enormous respect for the chairman of the Armed Services committee. But back in september, he and a majority of the Armed Services Committee Republicans voted against the c. R. In september, four months ago. Why . He said the c. R. Is devastating for our military and worst possible thing. Four months ago he said that. And now he says that we should vote for a c. R. But think about it. Unless that vote back in september was simply hollow and hypocritical, he was prepared to shut down the government in september rather than continue to fund our military and the rest of the government with the c. R. He was right in september. But it took democrats to actually have the courage of that conviction to say no, we arent going to continue to gut the military, drip by drip by drip, c. R. By c. R. Pass Appropriations Bills. Thats why we are doing this. Five republican senators voted against the house bill. It is not a filibuster. They dont have 50 votes in the senate. Mac thornberry was right in september. A c. R. Is terrible. Dont support the c. R. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from texas. Mr. Sessions Mac Thornberry is right, mr. Speaker. The chairman of the Armed Services committee cares very much about the men and women not only of the military where my son serves in the pearl harbor and i yield one minute to the gentleman from texas. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Thornberry i have consistently said and continue to say that every day under a continuing resolution does damage to the United States military. There is no question about it. I have also said today that a Government Shutdown does more damage to the United States military. And i just want to make one other point. I think we can vm debates about the proper level and the proper way to fund the military. But what is completely unacceptable is to hold the United States military hostage for some other political agenda has nothing to do with them. And thats what has been going n. Mr. Speaker, this house passed a defense appropriation bill for the full year back before october 1. That needs to pass now. Get the military out of this Political Drama and sent them free. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. The gentlelady from new york, with two minutes. Ms. Slaughter mr. Speaker, i yield one minute to the gentleman from North Carolina, mr. Price. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from North Carolina is recognized for one minute. Mr. Price we are 3 1 2 months into the fiscal year without a budget. Republicans are lunching another month with no resolution in sight and no commitment to address critical investments. Democrats will not be a party of further delay. And there is not a great mystery of how to deal with it. We have done it each of the last four years. We must have a yearlong budget in place with a budget tore bills. The appropriation and they have been willing to address this for at least six months. Republican party needs to conclude a budget agreement across the aisle. We must be the 800,000 young people brought here as children and known no other country. President trump created a crisis in removing the dreamers protection. A asked congress to devise solution. They are dangerously exposed. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. The gentleman from texas. Mr. Sessions i would reserve to close. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. Ms. Slaughter let me inquire of my colleague if he has further speakers. I dont have any. Mr. Sessions i reserve to make my time and reserve. Ms. Slaughter mr. Speaker, this is the fifth republican shutdown in the last 0 years and first hutdown in when one party held the house, senate and white house. And during the 2013 shutdown, the economy lost 1. 5 billion a day and im sure it is even more now. We need to work across the aisle and the majority needs to work with us and lets solve this problem. I urge a no vote on the previous vote and the rule. And i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from texas. Mr. Sessions mr. Speaker, we know why we are here. We are here because republicans respectfully passed a bill that responsibly took items before the American People and answered the question. We answered the question about funding the government. We answered the question about Childrens Health Insurance Program. We nade sure that we did not ave a tax on medical devices that hurt so many people and seniors. We made sure we delayed for yet another year the devastating effects that would be mostly on Union Workers paychecks realt related to the cadillac plan. We said we are going to delay 70 insurance tax that would be on every single american. Mr. Speaker, the republicans did this because we considered this to be the rite thing to do. But most importantly, what we have done is we passed our bill because we convinced our body that it was important tore avoid shutting down the government. We voted yes. We voted yes. It was real simple. Either yes or no. Mr. Schumer, make sure that they answer from the senate would be no. Mr. Speaker, i want you to know that we deeply believe not only in what we believe and stand going for the United States military. I urge my colleagues to support this rule and i move the previous question on the resolution