Somebody the other day [indiscernible conversation] good morning, everyone. Yesterday, hundreds and thousands of women and their men poured into the street in hundreds of different cities in the country. The anniversary of the womens march and day one of the trump shutdown, americans marched to call on our government to honor the priorities and values of the American People. I am here to stand with you inth my fellows congress. We sent a letter to the president to say what are the priorities we are fighting for in all this. I just want to Say Something to our men and women in uniform. We in Congress Take an oath to 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. We want 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. We know from listening to 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 Homeland Security, state 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 Initiatives if that is what the inksrtment of defense th is needed 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 an hour. 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. One of the issues every 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. A leader in that fight here, leading a Bipartisan Coalition is the congresswoman from new hampshire. Thank you. 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. I am 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. This is an emergency, it cannot be covered by the continuing resolution. We need to come together and we can, 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 here to speak about the many 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 Health 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 v. A. Appointment because they cannot afford safe childcare. We can all agree this is what needs to be done for our veterans. We need 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 plan that includes all of our collective bipartisan priorities. I would like to introduce my colleague from california, representative barbara lee. Rep. 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 games with americas most vulnerable children. Intended for americas most vulnerable children. This has always had bipartisan support. 9 million children are on the brink of losing Health Insurance thanks to gop in action and 27 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. Now, after passing this tax scam, it will cost over 2 trillion, they are claiming chip is too expensive. We know a permanent reauthorization of ship would save our government 6 billion over the next 10 years. 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, debbie dingell. Rep. Dingell we are here urging the republicans to join us and reopening the government and in 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. President 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. When i go home to michigan, 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 is not only them, it is 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. We are here to ask republicans, join with us to get this done. 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 my great colleague. Im incredibly honored and 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 a permanent daca fix has several 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. We have a second bill in the house that is bipartisan, that is being referred to that 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, graham and durbin. Thousands of women are marching. We talked about the military thousands of Daca Recipients are serving, men and women serving every branch of our military. It is not 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, by refusing to recognize that 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. It is my honor to represent 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. Four months after maria, 45 of the people, half a Million People in puerto rico do not have power. More than 8000 people have died after maria. Bridges and roads are still on accessible. People are suffering. When a Natural Disaster strikes, the most fundamental responsibility of the federal government is to show up, is 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 someone who 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 friends, it is 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 shocking 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, endless pledges to Work Together are no longer sufficient. This is no way to run a government. Democrats 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 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. We were ready to get it done before october 1, which is the deadline. By respecting parity we can ramp 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. Childcare, 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 conclusion that invests in our National Security and our families and our communities at home. We are ready. The republicans know that the deadline was october 1, we are 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. What we are saying here today is there is a path, and it is a bipartisan path and when you hear the representative talk about opioids, it has always been bipartisan but we need money. We share that value. 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 dingell talked about the pension issue which is bipartisan, this is an opportunity for us to advance that. When we talk about our dreamers, this is bipartisan as the distinguished chairwoman of the caucus told us. With the infrastructure in puerto rico, we really have tremendous need. There is commonality of 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. Would House Democrats support such a deal . Rep. Pelosi why do we have an appraisal of what that should be . We have a responsibility to protect our borders. But why dont 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 they need, 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 People, 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. We will show all of this briefing later on this afternoon. Inm not dealing hypotheticals. Should there be testing and some mortorand someplace. What works . Michelle, did you want to speak . We are reading what you write, so thank you. Very helpful. Given that kelly just met the congressionalthe hispanic caucus. Theaid you do not have same information as a candidate. I am repeating what my colleagues are reminding me about this meeting. One day it is clear from the white house about some aspects and one day it is nothing we are getting out of the white house. I agree with the leader that until we see something from the white house and clear language from the senate, there is nothing to work with. Last statement kelly made to the congressional hispanic caucus. The original author of the dream act, congresswoman here she is and now she is a Ranking Member on the Homeland Security committee of appropriations. Let me just follow up with what the congresswoman said about our meeting with kelly. I asked him to define the wall. When we talk to different people, they have different ideas about what the wall is. You made it clear it was not the campaign but the it would include lots of things. It could be let these are fencing or technology levees or fencing or technology. One point he made was that water patrol had to be part of making those decisions. What we did was, with the bill, they to Border Patrol have a 10 year plan and we took their recommendations of what could be done and what was needed to secure our border and bill onhose into the the security part. That is what we are trying to get passed. It meets the requirement on Border Security and also meets who supportof those dreamers. It is bipartisan. Something that has been worked on by both republicans and democrats. From which we are getting more support. We are getting 26 republicans now. Others are saying if he goes to the lord, we will to the floor, we will vote for it. Meetsa bipartisan bill, the requirements of the white house according to kelly and meets those supporting the future of the dreamers vote thet and we can get government open. Is that 20 billion paid by mexico . Senator mcconnell offered graham and durban a vote on bill. Is that enough assurance, a senate vote on durham and graham. Ehouse vote in both the house and the senate a house vote in both the house and the senate. Omnibus,passage of the whereis some disease Republican Leadership say they want to do it separately. But they have to do it first. The president has made clear there will be no negotiations on shutdown. There is a how has that changed the negotiations and does that put the onus on democrats to agree to get what you want. We object to these continuing resolution. It is ridiculous. There is no way to run a country or a military to keep going beyond the c. R. Could come to agreement is when the next c. R. Could have the four pillars. , daca,and payfors and veterans. Pensions, veterans, disaster assistance, opioids, it is all bipartisan. We did not come up with the idea of a aggressive best Progressive Agenda of the future, we are Progressive Agenda of the future. These are emergencies that need to be addressed. That saysve a c. R. This is what we will work on in the next two weeks, top line on the money, the recognition of the pay fors and the dreamers and security. And security. Then they can write the bills. Aere might have been momentary notion and we need a strong idea. 0 the president created the daca crisis. Ver the democrats, got o finish line because we want government open. We made clear this is about of andcreate appropriations stability. Support, in a bipartisan manner, getting government as an and funding funding a full year of appropriations. The president created the doctor crisis and if he did not want to if he did not and want to talk about it, he should not have to candidate have disbanded it in september. Yesterday and here on the house, 100 of the democrats voted for the continuing resolution. But it time to get it dione c. R. ,s goes on, one another c. R. I thank my colleagues for their leadership on this. On a personal note, i want to aay tribute to someone, he congressman. A real champion for the American People. Pay tribute to the two of them for being Great American patriots and sends my condolences to them. He was a sweet man. Very patriotic. Announcer federal Government Shutdown friday at midnight. We are in day number two. Our coverage continues on cspan. The senate in session on the into on cspan two. This afternoon, no word on any white house briefing. We are hearing from the white house. Press secretary Sarah Sanders with an update on what the president has been up to. He has received updates from his staff on a number of issues. Nielson with secretary and others to speak about the impact of the shutdown on their agencies. Leader mcconnell has updated the president on those calls as well as the Helicopter Crash in attacking and the kabul, afghanistan. Updatedident has been with the latest from the white. Ouse the senate is in session but the real discussion on moving ahead with the continuing resolution happening off of the floor. Headline in political, moderates moved to break logjam shutdown. They say moderate senators left a bipartisan meeting optimistic that they are making headway after a two day standoff. They plan to bring their proposal to the Senate Minority leader and majority leader. Politicol rights right for that they have to meet with each other. They have to persuade oconnell in schumer to reopen mcconnell and schumer to reopen the government. Centrists want the leaders assurances that the senate will advance to a bill in early february and stay on it until something passes. You can read more on it on politico. Com and political reporter Burgess Everett on the house side. Two said said number democrat dick durban thinks this durbin thinks of the house will need some assurance and feel pressure from the senate. Leader, the majority craig caplan, he says once the government opens, we will go back to those discussions we have been having in my off of. We want to solve this problem. From kevin mccarthy. You can find this at the span. Org. This afternoon you are hearing from lindsey graham, it is good integral part of those conversations on the next step. He spoke with reporters earlier this afternoon. What can you tell us about the progress you have made . There is no way we are going to open the government and solve immigration at the same time