Rep. Pelosi good morning everyone. Yesterday hundreds of thousands of women and men reported to the streets to champion values of the American People. Hundreds of thousands people here, hundreds of thousands of people in different cities across the country. Tens of thousands throughout the different venues. On the anniversary of the womens march, on day one of the trump shutdown, americans marched to call on our government to honor the priorities and values of the American People. Here todayto stand with House Democratic women who are leading the fight for those priorities and values in the congress. Yesterday on the floor of the house i said there is a path and here today we want to talk more about that path. You heard yesterday in our press event about the letter to the president to say what are the priorities we are fighting for in all of this. I just want to Say Something to our men and women in uniform. Toin Congress Take an oath defend the constitution and the American People. We value the service and courage and leadership of our men and women in uniform and we are here for them. Them to ignore anything they are hearing from the other side, they are not going to get paid. They are going to get paid and we want them to have the resources they need to keep america safe and to keep themselves safe. Toknow from listening general mattis and other leaders in the department of defense that the best way to keep them safe is for us to have an omnibus until the end of the fiscal year instead of once again cr after cr after cr. Honoring our oath to keep the American People safe and recognizing that in the domestic budget there are security initiatives that relate to statend security, department, antiterrorism activities in the justice department, we really need to have parity in our discussion of the budget. The additional money on the domestic side is what we are here to discuss this morning so people know what this discussion is about. We are supporting the defense theiatives, that is what department of defense thanks, we need to keep america safe, but at the same time there are security functions on the domestic side and we want additional money to address some of the challenges that our country faces. One of those that is important in every district in america, where there is strong bipartisan support, everyone of our solutions on the path to an agreement, which we could make in an hour, we want the president to come to the table and negotiate how we can do this in a very short period of time to open up government. Everye issues initiative has strong bipartisan support as you will hear. One of the issues that affects every member of congress all across the country and the strength of our country is the opioid epidemic. , leader in that fight here leading a Bipartisan Coalition is the congresswoman from new hampshire. You. Ank my state is in the midst of an emergency. People are literally dying every day. Lives are being saved, thankfully, from narcan, but these people are on the brink of a crisis for their health, for their families, for their wellbeing. I have colleagues in every District Across the country facing this tragedy of the opioid epidemic. Fortunately, we have come together. Proud to be the cochair of a Bipartisan Task force to tackle the opioid epidemic. We have 100 members of congress, republicans and democrats working together. We recently in this room released our agenda for bills we all agree we need to tackle. Just last week, we issued a letter with 50 signers, republicans and democrats, coming together, calling on this president to declare the emergency, extend the Emergency Declaration that was due to expire on january 23 and to provide the resources. Emergency, it cannot be covered by the continuing resolution. We need to come together and we republicans and democrats fighting together to tackle this opioid epidemic. Get our families back together, get people back to work, our economy will suffer, our communities will suffer, now is the time. Thank you. I am Julia Brownley from california and i want to thank leader pelosi for gathering us manyto speak about the bipartisan priorities we need to advance for the American People. I am a member of the veteran Affairs Committee and i know firsthand that members on both sides of the aisle are absolutely committed to doing everything we can for those who have served. The trump shutdown must end so we can ensure that those who bravely served our nation receive the benefits they have earned and deserve. We need to invest in infrastructure and technology to make the v. A. The 21st Century Health care system it can be. We need to help the 40,000 veterans who remain and are living on our streets to find safe homes. We need to make sure we are investing in the best mental. Ealth programming one suicide death is one too many. We need to make sure we have v. A. Clinics close to home to our veterans and our clinics have the resources they need to Service Women veterans, the Fastest Growing v. A. Patient population. We need to make sure no veteran misses a ava appointment because they cannot afford safe a v. A. Re misses appointment because they cannot afford safe childcare. We can all agree this is what needs to be done for our veterans. A longterm budget, we cannot ignore our solemn responsibility to the brave men and women who have served in our nation, we need a fair, longterm budget with a spending that includes all of our collective bipartisan priorities. Myould like to introduce colleague from california, representative barbara lee. Let me thank nancy pelosi for your tireless efforts to protect the health and wellbeing. The funding for the Children HealthInsurance Community and community Health Insurance program. For almost four months republicans have been playing with americas most vulnerable children. This has always had bipartisan support. 9 million children are on the brink of losing Health Insurance and 27to gop in action million americans rely on Community Health centers. They are at risk because of republican obstructionism. Many children rely on Community Health centers for their health care. Their families rely on Community Health centers for their health care, especially in rural communities. Passing this tax scam, it will cost over true joy over 2 trillion, they are too expensive. S we know a permanent reauthorization of ship would save our government 6 billion over the next 10 years. It would is time it is time for republicans to negotiate in good faith and come to the table and talk about all these initiatives and policies we are talking about today so we can fix this crisis and get the Government Back to work. My late mother reminded me that where there is a will, there is a way. We can do this. Let me welcome the congresswoman from the great state of michigan, denny ingle debbie dingell. We are here urging the republicans to join us and reopening the government and addressing the Critical Issues that face the American People today. Each of the issues we are talking about matters to the American People. One of the most pressing is the pension crisis facing working men and women in michigan and across the country. Trump came to our state, into West Virginia and other states across the country and connected with those working men and women and said i will help you. We need to help them. Michigan,home to someone is coming up to people and saying will you help me. I am here for these people that are scared to death about what is going to happen to them. I have the Largest Group of Central Pension Fund members that live in my district. It isnot only them, fieldworkers, it is mine workers, these hard working men and women were made a promise. They played by the rules, they put money into their pensions and they thought when the time came to retire their pensions would be there. They would be safe. They would be allowed to live with dignity and security. We have a bill that upholds that promise and we have made it clear that it is a priority. Republicans,o ask join with us to get this done. Democrat this is not a democratic issue or a republican issue. We are talking about human lives, human people, individuals that are emotionally scared to death about what is going to happen. Let us stop the politics and do the job we were elected to do to help the constituents that we represent. Work with us in a bipartisan compromise that will reopen the government and provide relief to all these people, working men and women. Now it is my honor to introduce. Y great colleague honored anddibly thank the leaders for putting together the press conference because it is a great recognition that women, these women and many more, including republican women, have been working across the aisle for months and in every single congress ive been elected ive been lucky enough to be reelected to participate in. This is my second republican shutdown, but for many of the women it is their fifth republican shutdown and the notion that we are not cooperating or compromising is absolutely false. As the chairwoman of the congressional hispanic caucus, we have been negotiating on protecting dreamers for far longer than after the recension of the daca program in september. This notion that we have not been willing to come to the table is false. The dream act, which many of talked about as being a partisan response to doing something for has severaldaca fix House Republicans on it and two republicans on a discharge petition. It is absolutely bipartisan and has been passed by these chambers before, in a bipartisan manner. That is just false. Theave a second bill in house that is bipartisan, that that referred to takes dream components of that legislation, very clear about a permanent solution for dreamers and it connects that with great Border Security, it deals with Border Security in a meaningful way so we are dealing with technology and investing in things that would actually make the border more secure on top of bipartisan, unanimous efforts out of the house jurisdiction, the Homeland Security committee that has already invested billions in a variety of Border Security efforts. Bipartisan. Bipartisan. Bipartisan. And the senate has been working on a daca fix that is also bipartisan, ram and urban. And durbin. Thousands of women are marching. Talked about the military thousands of Daca Recipients are surveying, men and women serving every branch of our military. About one single issue, it is about all the issues that have received bipartisan support by so many women and others in both chambers and the leadership, the Republican Leadership and the white house have failed us by refusing to allow a daca vote, thatfusing to recognize there are and have been many productive bipartisan solutions. We are here, we are ready to work, and we are ready to work now. We are motivated. Please, give us those votes. To representr another colleague, an incredible leader on the congressional hispanic caucus. Thank you, michelle and leader pelosi, thank you so much for bringing most of the women, almost everyone, here to send a strong message to the president and to the Republican Leadership. We need to reopen the government. Maria, 45 ofter the people, half a Million People in puerto rico do not have power. Diedthan 8000 people have after maria. And roads are still on accessible. People are suffering. Strikes,tural disaster the most fundamental responsibility of the federal government is to show up, is to make peoples lives hold again to make peoples lives whole again. Suicide in puerto rico has skyrocketed. You can imagine just last week in one day two people took their lives. Imagine the anxiety, the frustration, the hopelessness, that has taken hold on our fellow american citizens in the Virgin Islands and in puerto rico. Imagine what it means that the federal government is closed for business, imagine what it is for has no way to go and get food, or the materials that they need to rebuild their homes. Now we are telling them that almost 3000 Civil Service employees at fema will not come to work. Who will be processing the contracts that are needed to be awarded to rebuild puerto rico and the Virgin Islands . On top of that, the childrens Health Insurance, and now we are saying to the state, use the reserve. What reserve are we talking about for an island that is bankrupt . We are better than that. When disaster strikes, there is not a democratic or republican way, there is an american way. Thank you. I think it is important, my relevant, thank you my friends, that im the Ranking Member of the appropriations committee, because it is important to remember why we are here in the first place. It is the republicans shopping mismanagement of the budget ingis the republicans shock mismanagement of the budget and the appropriation process. It is four months into the fiscal year, the majority has failed to enact a single appropriations bill into law. Because, in fact, they have failed to work with democrats on spending levels for defense and nondefense. Endless continuing resolutions, and list endless pledges to Work Together are no longer sufficient. This is no way to run a government. ,emocrats have been very clear increases in defense spending should be matched dollar for dollar with increases in domestic investment. Women and families have the most to gain if we acknowledge that domestic investments are as in horton as those are as important as those that we give to the pentagon. I want to make it clear, we are ready to Work Together. I want to emphasize it again. To get it done before october 1, which is the deadline. Can rampting parity we up instead of scaling back. Investments in, the National Institutes of health, researchers can make huge strides in heart disease, ovarian cancer, diabetes, alzheimers disease, title x Family Planning are critical to women to be able to plan and space pregnancies, which has a huge impact on families financial security. Developing block grants, head start, other priorities critical to women and families who depend on them. As soon as republicans are ready to truly join democrats for a reasonable agreement on spending, appropriators can get to work. Just like we did last year. I am confident we can come to a responsible, bipartisan ourlusion that invests in National Security and our families and our communities at home. We are ready. The republicans know that the areline was october 1, we four months late, but we can do the job, we can do it now, let us get to work and stop this partisan show that is going on that is hurting our families, our children, our country, the nation, and the men and women serving our country abroad. Thank you. Rep. Pelosi as you can see, the breath of knowledge matches the depth of the values they are acting upon. I thank all of you and all who are here, and many more who are away for the short notice of coming in the washington area. Ist we are saying here today there is a path, and it is a bipartisan path and when you representative talk about opioids, it has always been bipartisan but we need money. Value. E that we need more resources. Representative lee when she talks about chip, we are talking about Community Health centers, infrastructure to provide the delivery of service through the chip program and other primary care doctors and medical education, centers for medicare, it is about family. It is about children and families. When congresswoman dingle talked about the pension issue which is bipartisan, this is an opportunity for us to advance that. When we talk about our dreamers, as the bipartisan distinguished chairwoman of the caucus told us. With the infrastructure in puerto rico, we really have tremendous need. Ofis commonality it interest in how we meet the needs of puerto rico and the Virgin Islands. This is four months, we have had four crs. Five crs, five shutdowns. Lets just look to the future. We ask the president to come to the table so we can get this done. The purpose of today is to once again say this is not about misrepresentations that are being put out or misunderstandings that people may have. Every dollar we want to have in parity is a bipartisan dollar related to the priorities we shared today. There are others. Yes, sir . We are hearing there is a compromise taking shape where the president would get all the money he wants for his wall in exchange for protections for the dreamers. Dashwood House Democrats support such a deal . Would House Democrats support such a deal . Why do we have an appraisal of what that should be . Right now our Ranking Member on the subcommittee that does Homeland Security are responding to what the Border Patrol says that is largely what is in the discussion among the appropriators. When we talk, when we had a bipartisan bill coming out of the senate, there is much more of a commitment to more border infrastructure. We are protecting 11 million , everyone of them precious and dear to us that we want to protect. You are on the wrong path if you think 20 billion. We are trying to protect opioids and our veterans