The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order, the prayer will be offered by guest chaplain head Granthi Giani Jaswinder Singh from pine hill new jersey. The chaplain good morning. Let us pray. Al mighty god we call you by many names but you are one. Keep your hand over the members of this house as they help steer the future of our great nation. Keep love in our hearts and sound judgment and in our minds. Remind us of our purpose to love and serve another and create a more peaceful world. We ask blessings on to us as they work for the common good. Give all this land humility, integrity and compassion. Lead us from evil so we may selflessly help us remember that we belong to one family. Recognize the entire human race as one. We ask of theal mighty almighty, keep watch over our nations protect us who work tirelessly day and night to ensure our safety and our freedom. You are whatever is seen, my lord, you are one in the name everlasting, almighty god grace for the entire humanity. The speaker amen. The chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house her approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. For what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition . Mr. Thompson mr. Speaker, pursuant to clause 1, rule 1, i demand a vote on agreeing to the speakers approval of the journal. The speaker the question is on agreeing to the speakers approval of the journal. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes have it. The journal stands approved. For what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition . Mr. Thompson mr. Speaker, i object to the vote on the grounds that a quorum is not present and i make a point of order that a quorum is not present. The speaker pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this question are postponed. The pledge of aleaningance will be allegiance will be led by the gentleman from mississippi, mr. Thompson. Mr. Thompson please join me in the pledge of aleanance. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The speaker without objection, the gentleman from new jersey, mr. Norcross, is recognized for one minute. Mr. Norcross thank you, mr. Speaker. It is my honor today to welcome the guest chaplain this morning. Giani singh proudly serves in my district. His spiritual leadership helped foster a vibrant sikh community. The history made today is a reminder that the United States welcomes and values and will remain committed to Free Expression of religion. Giani singh has made south jersey proud today and it is an honor to be a part of this moment with him. And i want to thank him for leading the prayer and for the work he does in our community each and every day. And i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the chair will entertain up to five further requests for oneminute speeches on each side of the aisle. For what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition . I ask to address the house, unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Madam speaker, i rise today to recognize former Bishop High School football coach, tom irwin. Over his four decades on the sideline and in the classroom, coach irwin taught thousands of young men to be team players, to Work Together for the common good, to sacrifice for one another, and to be men of character, both on the field and off of the field. Mr. Joyce as one of coach irwins former players, i personally am grateful for his leadership. Through his words and his deeds, coach irwin taught his students what it meant to be an individual of faith, what it meant to pray, and to seek gods guidance during both victory and during defeat. Leading teams of young men onto the football field, coach irwin prepared his students not only to confront the conflict of crossing the goal line, but to be prepared for the trials that each man would face later throughout their lives. As a coach, as a teacher, as a mentor and a counselor, tom irwin has impacted the hearts and the souls of countless young students. Both those who wore football pads and those who did not. Thank you, madam speaker, and i yield. The speaker pro tempore the chair will receive a message. The messenger madam speaker, a message from the senate. The secretary mr. Speaker. The speaker pro tempore madam secretary. The secretary i have been directed by the senate to inform the house that the senate has passed, without an amendment, h. R. 5110, an act that may be cited as the protecting Hunting Heritage and education act. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentlewoman from pennsylvania seek recognition . Madam speaker, i ask for unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. Thank you, madam speaker. I rise for the musical, mystical, magical mr. Murray savar. Murray, you have been the pied piper to more than 40 years, two generations of our communitys young women and girls. Students have been entranced by you and have literally found their voice and their agency under your spell. Ms. Houlahan you are priceless and your life is an exemplar of the impact that one person, one teacher can have on hundreds of thousands of lives. An impact that you have had by joyfully meeting the m mundane where we are with a song every single day. Southeastern pennsylvania is so lucky that you have called it home for so many years and so i am here, just one person, standing in on behalf of more than four decades of parents and students in our community. And to quote a song that you taught generations to love, i say, thank you for the music, forgiving it for giving it to me. Murray, your community loves you and wishes you god speed. Thank you, madam speaker, and i yield back. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition . Mr. Thompson madam speaker, i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Thompson thank you, madam speaker. Madam speaker, i rise today to remember the life of Corporal FrancisJames Drewery of clearfield, pennsylvania. Corporal francis drewery was reported missing on december 2, 1950, at 23 years old. Corporal drewery was deemed missing during the battle with enemy forces near the chosen reservoir in north korea. On july 27, 2018, following the summit between President Donald Trump and north Korean Leader kim jong un, north korea returned the remains of 55 American Service members killed during the korean war. Following d. N. A. Testing, corporal drewery was identified as one of those 55 members. Madam speaker, we still feel the pain of those missing from conflicts fought generations ago and we are forever indebted to their service. My prayers are with corporal drewerys family during this solemn time. It is my hope with his return his family is able to find peace and solace in knowing their loved one died a hero in service to the nation. Thank you, madam speaker, and i yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from kentucky seek recognition . Thank you, madam speaker. I ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Mcgarvey madam speaker, i rise today because im frustrated. I came here to work, to work across the aisle and get things done. But rightwing extremists are preventing us from doing our most important job, passing a budget. It is catastrophic for our country, our community and our economy if extremist republicans shut down our government. Let me be clear. Kentuckians cannot afford a shutdown. 119,884 kentucky moms and babies will lose access to vital nutrition assistance. And nearly 556,000 snap recipients lose access to their benefits in a prolonged shutdown. 10,672 federal civilian workers in my district could be furloughed or have to work without pay. These are real consequences to republicans harmful actions. So pass a spending bill. Its our job. And when youre done playing political games, were ready to Work Together to avoid a disastrous shutdown. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition . I ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Thank you. Madam speaker, i rise today to honor dr. Beth pells, a criminal justice professor at the university of houston downtown, 30 years, folks. 30 years she served, helping countless criminal Justice Students and her community and now shes enjoying a welldeserved retirement. And throughout her career she helps students access scholarship funds to pursue higher education, with some of those funds extending to the university of houston Downtown Police academy. She also established a robert s. Brow Memorial Scholarship fund to help criminal Justice Students. Mr. Nehls dr. Pells helped Law Enforcement, assisted Law Enforcement in both houston and harris county, related to street and prison gang issues. Shes an expert. In fact, dr. Pells played a very Important Role as one of my professors while i attended the school for my masters degree. Dr. Pells helped shape and mold countless Public Servants and Law Enforcement officers throughout her dedicated career. I thank her for mentoring me and helping prepare me to serve my community during my time as the sheriff. Beth, i wish you the most welldeserved retirement after your tireless dedication to every student at university of houston, and those she helped in the community. You truly mean the world to me i love you. With that, i yield back. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from new mexico seek recognition . Without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Vasquez madam speaker, i rise today to deliver a message on behalf of native American Youth. As a representative of new mexicos Second District with seven sovereign nations, ive recently heard from leaders from the center for native American Youth who are deeply troubled about their future. Theyre asking for congress to be good relatives. Failing to pass an agreement means that over 30,000 native parents and caregivers who are federal workers are at risk of being unable to provide for their families. It means over 70,000 native students in head start, b. I. E. Schools and tribal colleges and universities are at risk of a disruption in their education, harm to their Mental Health and food security. I proudly represent pueblos and navajo nation. A Government Shutdown is a failure to uphold the federal trust responsibility with reallife consequences that disproportionately impact native youth and their families. Native youth from across the country are asking congress to do what is right. To find an agreement. To be good relatives. Not just in new mexico, but across the country. Thank you, madam speaker, i yield back. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee seek recognition . Mr. Burchett i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Burchett before i get started i would like to say how sorry i was to hear about senator feinstein. She was very kind to me every time i saw her and i miss that up here. Madam speaker, i rise to honor Staff Sergeant earl jacobs who served this nation for 34 years. He moved to washington, d. C. , after high school and entered the army in 1953 and worked as a come about the medic during the korean war. He spent his time in the helicopters transportation unit and provided care for patients. Staff Sergeant Jacobs received an Honorable Discharge in 1955. He served in the 278th regiment and medical noncommissioned officer and radiological monitor and flight medical aid man. He retired from the Tennessee ArmyNational Guard in 1992. Our countrys heroes are the men and women of our armed forces like earl jacobs. We honor those who can dribble a basketball, throw a football or catch a baseball, but these are our real heroes. My honor to honor earl jacobs veteran of the month. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentlewoman from texas seek recognition . I request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Ms. Garcia i rise today to honor the 44 1 2 years of service and dedication of houstons own judge richard vara. A trailblazer in 1974 when he was appointed judge, he was 23 years old. With the time made him the youngest person selected to be appointed as justice of the peace, 23 years old. Judge v arch ra grew up in the east end of houston graduating from austin high school, south Texas College of law. The judge gt on his encounter with politics and people in fighting for all of us by going to meetings with his parents. The sense of service to the Latino Community remained with him throughout his service both in the courtroom and in the community, the judge has exemplified commitment by bettering his community. He has created and volunteered for organizations in houston all aimed at improving the lives of countless people around him. Congratulate judge richard vara. Enjoy your retirement. You have earned it. God bless. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition . I request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. Mr. Gaetz the continuing resolution being offered is a bad deal for republicans. The entire premise of this c. R. If republicans surrender on every single issue except the border that it will be good politics because we will force democrats to defend bad border policy. Surrender has been a virus that has afflicted my fellow republicans for far too long. To prove the point, look at the border policies that we are fighting for. The border policies that republicans will argue for this morning represent a retreat from the border policies we took last fight. Last night we said we wouldnt fund d. H. S. Unless everify was passed. Now we are saying mayorkas and the Biden Administration more money even if they dont pass everify. In the last 11 hours the republican border position has gotten weaker through this continuing resolution and im voting against it. We cannot be serious without everify and i will fight everify. 11 hours ago the republicans fought for everify and now its sender. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from mississippi seek recognition . Mr. Thompson unanimous consent cruck. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Thompson i rise today to pay tribute to a valued member of our staff roslyn, who is retiring after more than two decades of Exceptional Service to the United States house of representatives. Since 2007, roslyn has been the chief deputy counsel for the committee on Homeland Security why she has had enenviable track record of countless accomplishments and reaching bipartisan agreement. Roslyn has been a steadfast and Strategic Partner of mine since i was named Ranking Member of the committee in 2005 and her service spans some two decades and we are so privileged to have had her. Roslyn was working for former congressman ken benson on september 11, 2001 and when her office was evacuated, she sheltered her colleagues in her basement apartment on capitol hill. Six years later as chief counsel for the Homeland Security committee roslyn would spearhead conference and negotiations over legislation i introduced on behalf of the democratic majority to implement the recommendations of the 9 11 commission. It was called h. R. 1, and we thank her for that. I know roslyns many accomplishments are a source of pride for her family and on behalf of the Homeland SecurityCommittee Members past and present, the entire committee staff, i ask my colleagues to join me in congratulating on her retirement and wishing her all the best in the future. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition . Mr. Reschenthaler i call up House Resolution 741 a and ask for its immediate consideration. Resolved, that upon adoption o this resolution it shall be in order to consider in the house the bill h. R. 5525 making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2024, and for other purposes. All points of order against consideration of the bill are waived. The amendments printed in the report of the committee on rules accompanying this resolution shall be considered as adopted. The bill, as amended, shall be considered as read. All points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended, are waived. The previous question shall be considered as ordered on the bill, as amended, and on any further amendment thereto to final passage without intervening motion except 1, one hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on appropriations or their respective designees; and 2, on motion to recommit. Section 2. Upon passage of h. R. 5525 the title of such bill is amended to read as follows reducing spending, securing the border, and for other purposes. . The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from from pennsylvania is recognized for one hour. Mr. Reschenthaler i yield customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from massachusetts pending myself such time as i may consume. During consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for purpose of debate only. I ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Reschenthaler i rise in support of this rule and in support of the underlying legislation. House resolution 741 provides for consideration of h. R. 5525 the spending reduction and Border Security act under a closed rule with debate controlled by the chair and Ranking Member on the committee of appropriations or respective designees and one motion to recommit. I support the underlying legislation which funds programs for our nation veterans, servicemembers and the department ofHomeland Security while reducing other Discretionary Spending. H. R. 5525 secures our southern border by resuming crux of the wall and increases the number of Border Patrol agents and disincentivize mass illegal immigration. Under the president s disastrous immigration poll situation, 7 Million Immigrants have come across and fentanyl and enough to kill every Single Person on the entire planet. This crisis will end through efforts of House Republicans. This legislation includes an important provision authorized by the gentleman from michigan, which establishes a Bipartisan Commission that addresses our out of control debt. While the senate figures out what type of clothes to wear, House Republicans has put a plan to avert a Government Shutdown and addresses the biden border crisis. I ask my colleagues to support this rule and i reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. The gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. Mr. Mcgovern let me thank the gentleman from pennsylvania for yielding me the customary 30 minutes and i yield myself such time as i may consume. I want to take a moment to recognize the loss of our Dear Colleague and historic trailblazer senator feinstein longest serving woman in the United States senate. She was a political giant and fought hard for her constituents in california and defended Civil Liberties and strong voice for National Security as care of the Senate Intelligence committee. She broke more glass ceilings in her career than most thought was possible. And she will be missed and may she rest in peace. And now, madam speaker, i have the unfortunate task of turning to the business before us, a c. R. That the republicans have brought forward and again, and i mentioned legacy with regard to senator feinstein. Is this your legacy . Is this what you want people to remember your service by . This bill that was just dropped on us a few hours ago that really is a piece of garbage. And thats putting it nicely. Madam speaker, the clock is ticking. Less than 40 hours from a total maga republican shutdown. Less than 40 hours. And today we are here to consider the latest republicans continuing resolution that has absolutely no chance of becoming law. This version of the c. R. We are considering wont pass the senate. It just wont. Hell, i dont think its going to pass the house its so bad. And it will not be signed into law by President Biden. We all know that. We got this text late last night and thanks to democratic rules and appropriations staff, we have some preliminary analysis about what this c. R. Means to the American People. And let me tell you, the cuts in this bill are even worse than what was proposed before. They are going in the wrong direction. House republicans earlier krferlt r. Slashed essential programs 8 , 8 across the board mindless cuts. This new version has across the board cuts by 30 p or more, by 30 or more. Its effectively a partial shutdown bill. They slash investments in cancer research. They eliminate Public Education by cutting funding for head start. They fail to support communities recovering from natural disasters and cuts money for wildFire Suppression by 50 . Havent you been paying attention the wildfires in maui and western part of this states, communities are desperate for help and my friends propose a bill that would cut money for wildFire Suppression by 57 . What planet are my friends living on . They cut loans and grants for farmers in Rural Communities. They defund Law Enforcement. Republicans want to talk about fentanyl, they cut money from the d. E. A. What are you thinking you cant make this stuff up, mr. Speaker. If republicans get their way if this were to become law, up to one million seniors will be kicked off of meals on wheels. My friend from pennsylvania talks about we are upholding our obligation to protect our National Security. I will remind the gentleman and my friends on the other side of the aisle, National Security means more the number of bombs we have in the arsenal and quality of life for our people and whether or not our Senior Citizens have security in their retirement years, it means whether they have access to food, it means whether or not people have jobs and people can have a decent living in this country. This bill just below zero that we expect w. I. C. To get at least a 30 cut. Women, infants and children that will go hungry because of republicans misplaced priorities. Talk about cruelty. In the rules committee, just not too long ago this morning, i asked my friends who claim that they were well versed in all the details of this bill, is the 30 cut in w. I. C. , am i understanding that accurately is, that correct . Silence. How many women, infants and children will be cut off from the benefit if this were to pass . Silence. No one knows. We do know. Thanks to the work of the staff, that its a 30 cut. A 74 cut in liheap. A program that keeps americans warm during the winter. I come from the commonwealth of massachusetts. We have cold winters. The gentleman from comes from pennsylvania, it gets cold in pennsylvania too. You know, winter is coming. Everybody represents constituencies that rely on this program to heat their homes. And my friends cut it by 74 . 74 . What are my friends thinking . Give me a goddamn break. This is wrong. What are you doing . When it comes to keeping seniors warm or providing pregnant mothers and their babies food, republicans have a problem. But the skys the limit if its a defense contract, cost overruns be damned. They have no problem for tax cuts or corporations or for millionaires or billionaires or no problem with heaping more subsidies, subsidy giveaways to the fossil fuel industry. Let me just say, we do not share the same values. And this is proof of that, madam speaker. This is proof of that. This majority is a failure. The day Speaker Mccarthy handed his gavel over to the magaq anone fringe, magaqanon fringe, this was the inevitable result. The government will shut down tomorrow. Let me say to my republican friended, you own this friends, you own this. You did this. And this is just plain stupid. Stop wasting time and work with us to get this done in a bipartisan way. And i urge my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to join with us in defeating this rule. I mean, were wasting time today. This is a total waste of time. Lets defeat this rule, force the rules committee to go back up and to come up with a rule that will allow a bipartisan bill to come before the floor. And lets end this clown show once and for all. The American People are watching. Theyre frustrated by all of this. And i hope that my friends on the other side of the aisle, my moderate friends on the other side of the aisle, will join us in defeating this rule. We appreciate the statements that have been made calling out the incompetence of the Republican Leadership, but now i think it is time to put your votes where your quotes are. We have to stop this. Now is the time to send that message. And with that, i reserve my time. The speaker pro tempore members are reminded to refrain from the use of profanity. The gentleman from massachusetts reserves. The gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. Mr. Reschenthaler thank you, madam speaker. If my friend from massachusetts is worried about Energy Prices in boston, theres an easy solution. You can import liquefied natural gas from pennsylvania which is cheap and abundant. Unfortunately democrats in new england and new york have refused to build the Constitution Pipeline which would actually bring l. N. G. Into new england. So instead, people in boston are paying higher prices from the petroleum thats coming in from tankers from, guess where, russia. So, again, just complete circular logic from my friends across the eye. But lets talk about aisle. But lets talk about not only the high Energy Prices that the middle and working class have to pay because of democratic policy, lets also talk about how real wages are down. Inflinflation adjusted average hourly wages were 11. 39 when biden took oches. Theyre now at 11. 04. Meaning that americans have seen a 3. 1 pay cut under biden. You might think its only 3. 1 . But lets talk about inflation. Prices have risen 17. 4 since President Biden took office. That is roughly a 20 cut. So who is really working for the middle class and looking out for the working class . Its not President Biden. You also have another crisis which was totally ignored and thats the Immigration Crisis. Before i yield to my good friend from new york, lets talk about new york. In new york, the Immigration Crisis has led to over 100,000 migrant arrivals in 2022, which the mayor says is destroying the city. New york city mayor eric adams said, and i quote, we are about to experience a financial tsunami that i dont think the city has ever experienced. End quote. The mayor also said that, and i quote, the National Government has turned its back on new york city. End quote. Well, mayor, its not its not the National Government thats turned its back on you. Its the democratic president and the democrats in congress. And with that, i yield five minutes to my good friend from new york, mr. Lawler. Mr. Lawler thank you, congressman reschenthaler. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Lawler thank you, madam chair. 75 of americans believe we are headed in the wrong direction. According to neeferl single nearly every Single National poll. Nbc news recently had a poll that showed republicans outperformed democrats by 21 points on the question of who is better equipped to handle the economy. Why . Because bidenomics has been an absolute disaster. Record inflation. Skyrocketing Energy Prices. Higher grocery bills. People are struggling. This administration has increased spending by over 5 trillion in new spending in just two years. The American People elected a House Republican majority to serve as a check and balance on this administration and on the senate. But also to govern. There are real challenges in this country. Starting with our economy, our reckless outofcontrol spending, the cost of living, our longterm debt, crossing 33 trillion. The fact that if we do nothing, Social Security and medicare will both go broke within the next decade. And then, of course, immigration. And the crisis at our southern border. Since joe biden took office, six million migrants have crossed our southern border. Many of them illegally. Asylum cases taking two to three years at minimum to be heard. This administration has failed to combat the malign influence of the cartels trafficking women and children, trafficking drugs, fentanyl, pouring into our communities, killing 70,000 americans just last year. It is shameful. And yet what do the American People see . They see a government on the precipice of a shutdown. Now, my colleagues across the aisle will pin it squarely on the republicans. But lets be clear, through this appropriations process we have now passed four Appropriations Bills through the house. Senator schumer and Senate Democrats have passed exactly zero Appropriations Bills through the senate. Zero. Our fiscal year ends tomorrow. So congress has not done its work to pass these Appropriations Bills, either through the house or the senate. , by the september 30 deadline. And i agree with my colleagues and the House Republican majority that we need to pass single subject Appropriations Bills. The committee has been doing that work. Its important work. But it takes time. It takes time to go line by line by line and break the way this place has operated for three decades. And we need time to complete that work. Shutting down the government will serve no purpose whatsoever. And in fact, it will tank an already fragile economy. Because of the Biden Administrations policies. Our veterans, our seniors, our active duty military, all of the employees within the federal government hurt by a shutdown. Our stock market, our 401ks impacted. There is absolutely no reason for a shutdown. And it is imperative that we in the house lead, that we govern, that we pass a continuing resolution to keep the government funded shortterm while we finish our work. People can blame leadership, people can say we should have done this back in july. I would remind some of those very people that theyve refused to move rules. They refused to move some of these bills. Because they wanted more cuts. And thats fine. Thats democracy. Unlike the prior speaker, this speaker has allowed mr. Reschenthaler i give an additional 30 seconds to my friend. Mr. Lawler this speaker has allowed for this place to actually function as a democracy. Hes not ruling it with an iron fist. So many people complained about the way that was previously run and now they kind of want it run like that again. Its not the way we should operate. We need to pass a c. R. , any c. R. In a divided government ultimately will be bipartisan. We all know that. Theres no partisan c. R. Thats going to become law in a divided government. But we have to negotiate. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. Mr. Lawler and we have to get to that point. Mr. Reschenthaler reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from pennsylvania reserves. The gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. Mr. Mcgovern well, thank you, madam speaker. I appreciate the gentlemans commentary and his critique of Republican Leadership. But what i didnt hear is how hes going to vote on this rule. How hes going to vote on the underlying bill. I mean, the bottom line is, you know, quotes are fine but votes are better. Votes are more important here. And this bill, by the way, this bill that were talking about guts things like liheap, cuts it by 74 , which will impact people in new york, which will impact people in pennsylvania, and all over this country. So, the bottom line, madam speaker, is that if we want to get rid of the nonsense and get to the business of funding government in a bipartisan way, then we need to stop this now, we need to sit in a room in a bipartisan way and figure this out. Thats what the United States senate is doing. My republican friends have never once, never once talked to the democratic leadership here about trying to come up with a compromise. Never once talked to our Ranking Members about how do we kind of come to a middle ground . Its always been their way or the highway. By the way, its not just their way, its their farright wing way. Going in the wrong direction. Madam speaker, the c. R. We are considering in this rule is not just shameful, it is a partisan measure, it is also, as ive said, a complete waste of time. Time we do not have. Tomorrow the government shuts down. This will not keep the government open. It will not keep it functioning for the American People. It does the opposite. It ensures a shutdown will occur. And if anybodys concerned, if anybodys opposed to a shutdown, then stand with us now and say no to this nonsense. Madam speaker, im urging that we defeat the previous question and if we do, i will offer an amendment to the rule for swift consideration of the senates bipartisan continuing resolution to fund the government after they send it to the house. Once we receive the senate c. R. , the chair and or Ranking Member of the Appropriations Committee can call it up as a privileged question without further action from the rules committee. There will be one hour of debate and the house will have an up or down vote on keeping the government running while fullyear fund something being negotiated funding is being negotiated. We can spend the bill straight to the president s desk and during the 2013 shutdown, a senate c. R. Was privileged under the house rules until the republican majority turned that off. So, we arent even at the procedural stage yet because House Republicans have failed to advance any real plan to fund the government. They would they would rather fight with one another. Some have openly called tore a Government Shutdown. Republican after republican saying they relish a Government Shutdown. We can fix this right now. If anything deserves to be privileged for consideration on this floor, it is a bill to keep the government open. That is so vitally important, madam speaker. And clearly, its time for the adults in the room to step up to the plate. We need to give congress more time. I ask my moderates on the other side dont follow the fringe. It is my hope that some republicans who are interested in governing. Reject this insanity of cheering on a Government Shutdown and abandon the sinking ship that is maga extremism. Enough is enough and bipartisan c. R. Would be temporary. We need the time to work all this stuff out. Madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to insert the text of my amendment into the record along with any extraneous materials immediately prior to the vote on the previous question. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Mcgovern i yield four minutes to the gentleman from colorado, mr. Neguse. Mr. Neguse i thank the Ranking Member, i would say, if you believe that you dont want a shutdown if you are trying to prevent a shutdown, prove it. Theres a simple way to prove it, madam speaker, defeat the previous question to consider a simple amendment, amendment that does one thing that lets this body take an up or down vote republican and Democratic Senate continuing resolution that is being negotiated as we speak. Thats it. Gives that resolution privilege so that this house can consider it, can take that up or down vote and ensure that the government stays funded, madam speaker. But if youre not prepared to do that and my colleagues arent prepared to do it, then spare us these supposed concerns for a Government Shutdown that you had geared from the start. You want to talk about blame, madam speaker . This is a quote, this is not my quote. This is not conservativism. This is stupidity. The idea that we are going to shut the government down when we dont control the senate, where we dont control the white house, these people cant define a win. They dont know how to take yes for an answer. Its a clown show. You keep running lunatics. This is what you are going to have. These are not my words, madam. The speaker , these are the words of the the gentleman from new york. If he doesnt want to be a part of this clown show. I dont think the American People disagree with him either. The House Republican caucus is in dysfunction and chaos and easy way for him to lead this with republican senators, democratic senators, with your colleagues on this side of the aisle, defeat the previous question and support the amendment and lets have the debate on a bipartisan c. R. That keeps our government funded. I dont know how a member can vote for the previous question and deprive this body of an opportunity to vote on that bipartisan c. R. I dont know how you go back and tell the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of troops and Law Enforcement officers and Border Patrol agents who will be forced to work without pay, that you decided that this body shouldnt vote on a stop gap measure to keep the government running. I dont know how you do that. But i can tell you this, the American People well understand the republican plan that they have brought to the floor. You do not get to have it both ways. You dont get to say that you support Law Enforcement and fentanyl interdiction and then put a bill on the floor that cuts the d. E. A. , that cuts the f. B. I. , that will harm state and local Law Enforcement officers. You do not get to say you care about Public Safety and put a bill on the floor that cuts more than 50 wildland Fire Suppression like in states like colorado, the state i am honored to represent here in the United States congress. You dont get to have it both ways. The time for political games is over. Weve got 24 hours to go, madam speaker. Lets defeat the previous question and lets approve this amendment and keep the government up and running. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from massachusetts reserves. The gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. Mr. Reschenthaler for purposes of rebutal, i yield two minutes. Law law i love mr. Lawler i love to hear dncc talking points. He would not politicize in the meeting of the problem solvers. The dccc and House Majority forward announced Million Dollar ad campaigns attacking individuals like me on the shutdown when i said i oppose a shutdown. We know on the other side, they actually want a shutdown because they think it will benefit them politically. Heres what you never hear from them. They dont want to deal with the border. They dont want to shut down the border, they dont want to deal with spending cuts. They want to increase spending. They dont want to deal with our longterm debt. They want to plow it through the roof. We have real challenges in this country and need to work in a bipartisan manner. When the new york city mayor saying the migrant and the governor of new york says there is no more room at the inn. Use of taxpayer money to Housing Health care, education and clothing to Illegal Immigrants and refusal to cooperate, spare me your righteous indignation. You are looking to use this as a vehicle to win back the majority. Thats it. I am actually willing to work across the aisle and i signed onto the problem solvers c. R. Join us in that. Not a single one of you have. The speaker pro tempore members are reminded to direct their remarks to the chair. The gentleman from pennsylvania reserves. The gentleman from massachusetts. Mr. Mcgovern i wonder if the d krmp c writes the gentlemans speeches. They quoted his words in a speech. Talk is cheap around here. And so, i mean, the choice is clear, the choice is clear and the gentleman has made clear where he stands. I am happy to yield two minutes to the distinguished member of the rules committee, ms. Scanlon. Ms. Scanlon so we are 37 hours, 6 minutes and 27 seconds away from a shutdown and unnecessary and devastating Government Shutdown after wasting weeks on rightwing messaging points and bills. But here, the majority has brought to this committee not a responsible shortterm funding bill but partisan posturing, dangerous and unrealistic games to play indicate the factions in their party and well past time for chaos caucus to govern. This colossal failure of the House Speaker and republicans to keep the lights on across this country will cause harm to our economy and hardworking families. These arent numbers but families whose lives will be upended. Senior citizens wont be able to heat their homes because this c. R. Cuts 74 from the liheap budget. 137 million cut to liheap in pennsylvania alone. 342,000 families counting on this family and left in the cold in october. Just a few hours from now when those funds should be available. Mothers and children will go hungry because w. I. C. Will be cut. Teachers will be cut because of draconian cuts to title i. Estimates that nearly 150,000 teachers and Service Providers will be cut from our Public Schools where they need the help the most. Approximately 275,000 children will lose access to head start undermining Early Education and harming parents ability to work. T. S. A. Workers will be affected by delays. Mr. Mcgovern i yield 30 seconds. Ms. Scanlon last time the republicans shut down the government in 2018, we had to run food drives to feed t. S. A. Workers who were required to show up and were not paid. They lost their cars doubling down on the harm. The republican shutdown is going to hurt working families, damage our economy, endanger our National Security, force millions of our troops to work without pay all because Speaker Mccarthy has turned over the house of representatives to the most extreme members of his caucus. Democrats and Bipartisan Senate leadership and President Biden are working together to keep the lights on. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from massachusetts reserves. The gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. Mr. Reschenthaler i yield two minutes to the the gentlewoman from indiana, mrs. Spartz. Mrs. Spartz unfortunately mental memory is very strong in washington, d. C. Unform k street is powerful in washington, d. C. But form we have people on the republican side that are willing to stand up the main street, willing to challenge their own leadership to deliver on issues of National Security. It used to be dlaibt but we used to be able to come together on issues of National Security and our Border Security and our destructive debt situation is destroying american lives. And i hope the other side will join republicans to win this battle for the american political and shouldnt be a political issue. And if this government cannot deliver, maybe it is worth to shut it down if we cannot come together on this. It is not worth wile to represent the American People. I hope that the other side start actually not be afraid to challenge their own leadership and do something for this country because American People are sick and tired of this and we need to protect this country, if we dont save this republic no one else will be able to defeat enemies foreign and domestic. Nothing is extreme to secure the people and secure the border, i would appreciate the other side would support republicans and i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from pennsylvania reserves. The gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. Mr. Mcgovern i would say to the gentlelady, we are not here to support republicans but our constituents. I ask unanimous consent to enter a statement of Administration Policy on this underlying bill. And if the president were presented with h. R. 5525, he would veto it. I yield three minutes to the the gentlewoman from new mexico. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman is recognized. Ms. Leger fernandez this extreme republican bill reveals their meanspirited values more than any words they utter. Those values 275,000 young fouryearold children out of head start. Republicans talk about fentanyl but then defend the Law Enforcement officers who seize this deadly drug. This bill deprives that brothers, sisters, daughter, friend of yours who is battling Mental Health acor addiction. Dont talk about that unless you fund the Health Resources to tackle that. And slash b. I. A. Funding by 30 and tribal Law Enforcement officers who are out there interdicting and protecting us from criminal activity. The c. R. Really reveals who extreme republicans are. Shameless about hurting those most cutting programs for our world communities by to Rural Communities by 30 . I stand for rural america. This bill does not and puts down our ranchers and farmers. And if they dont get their way, what will they do . Theyll shut the government down. Lets remind everybody, every time we have a Government Shutdown of any note, its because republicans did it under their leadership. And they hurt everybody in their process. And why . To protect the rich and the wealthy. To protect the rich and the wealthy, the extreme republicans will cut Social Security, theyve said it, we have the words, they will do it. They will slash Public School funding horribly, horribly for those schools that most need it. And theyll criminalize abortion over of. Over and over again they have told us what they intend to do in their appropriation bills. Theyre going to make it hard for women to get access to health care they need and they deserve everywhere. And with that, i would only say that this bill is shameless. I yield. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from massachusetts reserves. The gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. Mr. Reschenthaler madam speaker, id like to yield my good friend from michigan five minutes. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Thank you and i appreciate the gentleman yielding. The shortterm stop gap government funding measure were debating here today not only keeps our government open, which is very important, it responsibly reduces spending, makes Critical Reforms to secure the border, and, importantly, contains the text of my bipartisan bill to establish a fiscal Debt Commission. Heuz heuz the fiscal mr. Huizenga the Fiscal Commission act of 2023 now included in this bill will create a commission that proposes recommendations to finally tackle our nations unsustainable debt trajectory in the medium and the long term. Furthermore, both chambers of congress will be required, madam chair, to take a vote on the commissions proposal. With this key provision, congress can no longer kick the can down the road on the rapidly growing threat of our National Debt. Given the bipartisan support of this legislation upon introduction, it is clear that both republicans and democrats understand that time is running out. The federal government is already spending more on interest on the National Debt than it spends on children. Something that my colleagues i know are very concerned about because they talk about it. The interest is already nearly more than what we spend on defense. And we are rapidly approaching a point where interest on the debt will be more than Social Security and medicare. In building the Fiscal Commission act of 2023, we learned from past Commission Mistakes and gave this legislation reality, practicality, urgency and clear goals for congress to come face to face with its massive challenge. Specifically, the commission is made up of 16 commissioners that include 12 members of congress, as well as four private sector experts that are selected by leaders of both the house and the senate. The commission is tasked with identifying policies to improve our fiscal situation in the medium term and to achieve a sustainable debt to g. D. P. Ratio in the longterm. Importantly, it will put Forward Solutions to ensure the solvency of our 20plus trust funds for decades to come. The commission will also propose recommendations designed to balance the budget at the earliest reasonable date, including a minimum stabilizing the debt to g. D. P. Ratio at or below 100 within 10 years. All while addressing the growth of direct spending and the gap between revenues and expenditures. The proposal will then come to congress in the days shortly after the 2024 election, where the house and senate must take up an up or down vote on the recommendations without amendment and without delay. Im proud to say that joining me in the introduction of the Fiscal Commission act of 2023 there were even a number there were an even number of republicans and democrats. So with this inclusion that the continuing resolution before us today inclusion of the continuing resolution before us today, i urge members on both sides of the aisle to keep our government open this week and secure our nations fiscal future for generations to cup. With that, i yield back come. With that, i yield back to the gentleman. Mr. Reschenthaler reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. The gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. Mr. Mcgovern i just remind the gentleman from michigan that if the republican shutdown moves forward, he has 5,607 people in his district who are federal employees who will lose their paycheck. And in the rules committee today, madam speaker, democrats offered an anticipated saying, yeah, were happy to talk about how to keep Social Security and medicare solvent, but we want to guarantee that were not going to cut peoples benefits. And the republicans rejected that. So we know what this is about. This is about going after security and trying to make it solvent by cutting peoples benefits and democrats are against that. Unequivocally. Madam speaker, i would like to yield 1 1 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from texas, ms. Jackson lee. Ms. Jackson lee people of america are suffering. Weve repeatedly told them that they are our priorities, but the people of america are suffering. Why my colleagues insist on a Government Shutdown, which is what they are doing . Blatantly they have violated the very agreement that Speaker Mccarthy and the president of the United States agreed to to be able to go forward on a funding scheme that would save the American People. But yet we stand here today where my very constituents in houston, texas, are going to have the soldiers that serve in our nations military not paid. Its going to have 2 billion in loans to Small Businesses not given. Its going to stop 800,000 children not getting nutrition. Its going to top 456 Million People from getting housing and yet we are standing here, that we are patriots. I dont want a Government Shutdown. Food safety will be in essence in jeopardy. Law enforcement will not be paid. These are the people who say we are proLaw Enforcement but yet they will not be paid. And what goes on with the senate . It is a bipartisan resolution that if we vote on it today as it comes across, the government will stay open. I support the previous question because the people of america are suffering. And i dont expect this draconian cutting everything, losing salaries for the military, cutting out food benefits, cutting Social Security payment, cutting medicare payments, medicaid payments, to be our definition of individuals who are standing here working for the American People. My commitment is to be here to insist that the government not close. I dont know why a commonsense continuing resolution cannot be passed. I do want to say that as this has been offered into the record, the president s statement, how can we run government, if a deal that was made by the speaker, mccarthy, cannot be kept that was made with the president of the United States on behalf of the people of this nation . So, as i stand here today, i want to insist that the people are suffering. Let us stop their suffering, keep the government open. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. Mr. Reschenthaler thank you, mr. Speaker. I yield the gentleman from florida a minute and a half. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Gaetz the house of representatives has passed funding bills to fund our veterans, our troops, our Border Patrol, our state and foreign ops. These are the Core Functions of government, the senate should take up and pass those bills to make sure those folks are paid and they should do it today. But the rule we are on now advances a continuing resolution that weakens the republican position on Strong Border policies. Just last night we passed a department of Homeland Security appropriations bill that was lashed to policy requirements at the department of Homeland Security. They had to do certain things to fix the border, to get the money. And one of those things was everify. Last night we stood together and we demanded that everify be included if mayorkas wanted the money. And this continuing resolution that the rule were on now would facilitate strips everify and takes it out. Why would republicans just overnight back away from such a strong and necessary provision as everify . I will be voting against this continuing resolution because i want House Republicans to have the strongest position on the border, the American People will come with us on that. Weve just got to have the courage to lead and not surrender. I know the big businesses dont want everify but we should want it anyway for the american worker. I thank the gentlemans indulgence and i yield back. Mr. Reschenthaler reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from pennsylvania reserves. The gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, i would just point out to the gentleman who just spoke that the senate cant even take up the Homeland Security appropriations bill because of the way the republican its wrote the rule republicans wrote the rule was that theyre not going to send it over until the Senate Passes h. R. 2, without changing a comma, and the president signs it into law. So lots of luck with that. I reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves. The gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. Mr. Reschenthaler lets remember that the senate has passed zero Appropriations Bills. Id like to yield two minutes to my friend from arizona, mrs. Lesko. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman is recognized. Mrs. Lesko thank you. And thank you, mr. Speaker. I am in support of funding the government so our military, Border Patrol officers and other dedicated employees that are protecting our nation can continue with their job and get paid while theyre doing it. Im also in support of House Republicans pushing and demanding that the Senate Secure our border by including the bill that weve already passed out of this house, h. R. 2. One of the biggest crises in our nation right now is the result of this administrations disastrous border policies. President bidens policies have allowed 233,000 border crossings in just august of this year. Compared to 50,000 three years ago under President Trump. Biden has invited 211,000 additional migrants to fly directly into the United States from their home foreign country. Biden has accepted 263,000 additional migrants to apply for asylum via his new border one app. Biden has allowed 151 migrants to enter our country that are on the terrorist watch list and thats just who weve caught. Biden has allowed Migrant Women and children to get raped by cartels. His policies have allowed young Migrant Children to be sold into sex slavery. His policies have allowed fentanyl to flood our border and kill our citizens. This has got to stop. And republicans are here to stop it and protect our nation. House republicans have already passed a bill to secure our border that is now sitting over in the Senate Waiting to be heard. Schumer wont even bring it up for a vote. Its time for the Democratcontrolled Senate to pass our Border Security bill. It is time for the insanity at our southern border to end. Its time to pass this bill and pressure the democrats in the senate to secure the border and i yield back. Mr. Reschenthaler reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from pennsylvania reserves. The gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, i yield 1 1 2 minutes to the gentleman from colorado, a distinguished member of the rules committee, mr. Neguse. Mr. Neguse i thank the Ranking Member for his indulgence. I come back to the floor to say, only in washington can you have members who claim they want to avoid a shutdown while they take every step to shut down the government. Only in washington can you have members who claim to support Law Enforcement while they promote a bill that cuts funding for Law Enforcement. Only in washington can you claim that you want to secure the border while engineering a shutdown that will force Border Patrol agents to work without pay. Only in washington can you claim that this socalled Debt Commission that they have designed will not harm programs like Social Security months after roll out a plan rolling out a plan that guts Social Security. My colleague from pennsylvania, hes a member of that group. The gentleman who spoke earlier, who apparently has proposed this amendment from michigan, hes a member of that group. Why dont they be honest with the American People about their plans . Because they know that the plan to cut Social Security is deeply unpopular. And yet they soldier on. 24 hours, mr. Speaker, thats how much time we have. Defeat the previous question. Lets support the amendment to give an up or down vote on the bipartisan deal that republicans and Senate Democrats have been working on. Lets keep the government up and running, lets avert this extreme republican Government Shutdown. With that, Ranking Member, i yield back. Mr. Speaker, i yield back to the Ranking Member. The speaker pro tempore does the gentleman from massachusetts reserve . Mr. Mcgovern reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from massachusetts reserves. The gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. Mr. Reschenthaler thank you, mr. Speaker. I would just ask my good friend from massachusetts if he has any further speakers. Mr. Mcgovern no, i do not. Mr. Reschenthaler i thought that was the case. Just wanted to make sure. I am prepared to close and with that i reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves. The gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, may i inquire how much time remains for both sides . The speaker pro tempore the gentleman has 3 1 2 minutes remaining. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, i yield myself the remaining mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, i yield myself the remaining time. Mr. Speaker, its an absolute joke were here today dealing with this, as i said at the beginning of my remarks, piece of garbage. Thats what this is. Its not a serious attempt at legislating, its a maga Republican Press release at best and its allowsy press release. All the priorities that are in this bill represent deep cuts to things that matter to democrats. Yeah, when we talk about National Security, we just dont only talk about the size of our military and the number of bombs we have, we talk about whether people in this country have access to jobs, whether they have food or whether or not we have good schools or people have access to health care, Retirement Security. We talk about things like the purity of our environment. My republican friends talk about bombs and they talk about tax cuts for the rich and big corporations. They dont care about the people that are at the heart and soul of our concerns on the democratic side. Because if they did, they wouldnt cut and slash programs like w. I. C. , the womens, infants and childrens program, providing nutrition for low income pregnant moms and newborn babies. They wouldnt cut liheap, a program that provides Vulnerable People with help to heat their homes in the winter. They wouldnt cut it by 74 . Who does that . Who thinks like that . And who would come to the floor and defend that kind of garbage . So the bottom line is, we dont share the same values, it is that simple. And i am going to tell you, were going to fight as hard as we can against all the things you claim you value in this book because this is not what america is about. Basically this is about turning our back on people. This is essentially a Government Shutdown in and of itself. Let me close with a couple comments to our moderate friends who go on msnbc and give all these quotes about how they want a balance and how they want this and how they criticize their leadership and then come to the floor and vote with the majority. Enough of that. You know, it is votes, not quotes that matter. It is votes, not quotes. So if you really want to avoid a Government Shutdown to the socalled moderates on the other side of the aisle, vote with us. Vote no on the previous question so we can guarantee that the Senate Passed bill will have a vote here in the house. Vote no on the rule so we dont have to waste time today arguing over this nonsense, this hard line right wing garbage that guts the heart and soul of our social safety net. We can do so much better. At the end of the day, we have to come together, democrats and republicans, and come up with a bill. My friends keep going in the wrong direction. They keep going further and further to the right. Thats a road to nowhere. I mean, the senate, to their credit, democrats and republicans, are talking. You guys cant even talk with yourselves. Youre fighting among yourselves. Maybe, this is a radical idea, maybe sit down and try to negotiate a bipartisan solution here because you control one half of one branch of government, and barely, but you never know it when you see this kind of stuff come to the floor. Enough of the nonsense. People sent us here, at the minimum, to keep the lights on. Youve got to do that. Work with us. Stop this nonsense. Vote no on the previous question. Vote no on this garbage. I yield back my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. The gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. Mr. Reschenthaler thank you, im prepared to close and yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Reschenthaler last week our National Debt reached a record high of, wait for it, 33 trillion. This is a result of the white house, a result of the previous Democrat Controlled Congress spending trillions outside of the appropriations process. Lets remember, under democratic control, we saw the highest inflation in over 40 years, we saw the highest Interest Rates in over 20 years, and we saw a 17 increase in consumer prices. Thats why this underlying legislation establishes a bipartisan Fiscal Commission to get our nation on the right course. But this is just one of the many manufactured crises caused by the democrats reckless far left policies. Look at our southern border. At the southern border President Bidens immigration policies caused a flood of Illegal Immigrants into our nation and itily his its fentanyl into our communities. Last week our nation set a all time record for illegal crossings in a single year. Over 25,000 pounds of fentanyl have also been trafficked across our southern border this year. To put that in perspective, this is enough to kill every single american citizen. Sadly, too many towns across my home state of pennsylvania have felt the consequences of the democrats pro open border agenda. In pennsylvania alone, there were over 5,000 reported Overdose Deaths in 2022. Not only is the white house doing nothing to address this crisis, the democrats pro crime agenda actually encourages it. If you doubt me on that, take a look what happened in pittsburgh recently. In pittsburgh, Law Enforcement caught a drug trafficker with 2 million worth of fentanyl and to put that in perspective, thats enough to kill 35 of the population in pennsylvania. And then to make matters worse, a far left radical judge released that criminal on the streets the very next day, and he has since fled the state. This is absolutely ridiculous. House republicans are the only leaders in washington willing to do something about this. Thanks to republicans and our commitment to america, the underlying legislation will reduce our exploding National Debt, avert a Government Shutdown, and secure our southern border. For those reasons i urge my colleagues to vote why on the previous yes and yes on the rule. I yield back my time and yield the previous question on the resolution. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields. The question is on ordering the previous question on the resolution. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes have it. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker . The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Mcgovern i ask for the yeas and nays. The speaker pro tempore the yeas and nays are requested. Those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and remain standing until counted, a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. Members will record their votes by electronic device. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule 20, this 15minute vote on ordering the previous question will be followed by fiveminute votes on adoption of the resolution, if ordered, and agreeing to the speakers approval of the journal, if ordered. This will be 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. ] the speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 217 and nays are 207. The previous question is ordered. The question is on the adoption of the resolution. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker . The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman rise . Mr. Mcgovern i ask for a recorded vote. The speaker pro tempore a recorded vote is requested. Those favoring a recorded vote will rise. A sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this question are postponed. Shhhhhh. The house will be in order. For what purpose does the gentlelady from california seek recognition . Ms. Pelosi mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute for the purpose the speaker pro tempore without objection. Ms. Pelosi thank you, mr. Speaker. For the purpose of speaking with Great Sadness and emotion about the loss of our great senator, our senior senator from california, senator dianne feinstein. I do so, i say personally, as a friend, neighbor, and fellow san franciscan. We do so with great pride. The longest serving woman senator from california. She came here with barbara boxer. She stayed on and left on her own terms. The first woman mayor of San Francisco coming into office under sad circumstances but leading us with great dignity, with great effectiveness, and great leadership. Much more will be said about it. Well have so much time to talk and brag about dianne feinstein, her legacy will be a long one that we will all be inspired by, but today at this time, just hours since her passing, rather than talk about her, let us just pray that she rests in peace. In that regard, mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all present in the chambers, as well as members and staff throughout the capitol, to please rise for a moment of silence in remembrance of the late, honorable, senator dianne feinstein. Mr. Pelosi thank you, mr. Speaker. Thank you. The speaker pro tempore pursuan t to clause 8 of rule 20, the Unfinished Business is the vote on the adoption of House Resolution 741 on which the yeas and nays are ordered. The clerk will report the title of the resolution. The clerk house calendar number 40, House Resolution 741, resolution providing for consideration of the bill h. R. 5525, making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2024 and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore the question is on the adoption of the resolution. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a fiveminute 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. ] 12 00 the speaker pro tempore on this vote, the yeas are 218 and the nays are 210. The resolution is adopted. Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. Pursuan t to clause 8 of rule 20, the Unfinished Business on the question of agreeing to the speakers approval of the journal which the chair will put de novo. The question is on agreeing to the aprfl of the speakers journal. Those in favor, say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the journal stands approved. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. Members, please take your conversations off the floor. The house will be in order. Members, please take your conversations off the floor. For what purpose does the gentlewoman from california seek recognition . Ms. Pelosi mr. Speaker the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. Please take your conversations off the floor. Ms. Pelosi thank you plrks speaker. With deep condolences and sympathy to senator feinsteins daughter katherine and granddaughter eileen, i offer a privileged be reeivement resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. The speaker pro tempore this is a resolution that is vitally important and should be heard. The clerk will report the resolution. The clerk House Resolution 74 resolved that the house has heard with profound sorrow of the death of senator feinstein a senator from the state of california. Resolved, that the clerk report these resolutions to the senate and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased. Resolved when the house adjourn today it adjourn as a further mark of respect in memory of the deceased senator. The speaker pro tempore without objection. The resolution is considered and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. For what purpose does the gentleman from florida, mr. Diazbalart, seek recognition . Mr. Diazbalart i call up House Resolution 741 call up the bill h. R. 5525 and ask for its immediate consideration in the house. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk a bill making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2024 and for other purposes. Pursuant to House Resolution 741 amendments printed in house report to 230 are adopted and the bill is considered. The bill shall be debated for one hour equally divided and controlled by the chair and Ranking Member of the committee on appropriations or their respective designees. The gentleman from florida, mr. Diazbalart, and the gentlewoman from connecticut, ms. Delauro, each will control 30 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from florida. Mr. Diazbalart i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on the measure under consideration. I the speaker pro tempore without objection mr. Diazbalart i am proud to speak on the spending reduction and Border Security act of 2024. As we all know, the most basic duty that congress has and must complete every year is that constitutional power of congress to fund the federal government. This bill, mr. Speaker, will provide funding to keep our government open until october 31. So unless we act now, the government will shut down midnight on saturday. Lets be very clear, mr. Speaker, the house has already passed four appropriation bills. They constitute the majority of funding for our government. Now unfortunately, the Senate Continues to sit on its hands and has failed to pass any of them, any of them thus far. And unfortunately, its something we have seen something time and time again from our friends across this building. The country, mr. Speaker, has nearly 32. 9 trillion, trillion with a t, mr. Speaker, dollars in debt. And our deficit this year is 1. 9 trillion dollars. The Biden Administration has gone on a crazy and irresponsible spending binge with money that we do not have to spend, money that is borrowed mostly from communist china. It is time, it is time that we slow this out of control, unsustainable spending to a level that is sustainable. Yesterday, mr. Speaker, i was proud that the house of representatives passed the state and foreign operations appropriations bill, one that i was pleased and honored to lead that cut wasteful spending while making crucial investments in our National Security, all while the total cost of that bill passed last night, is way below fiscal year 2015 spending levels. That bill that we passed will slow our spending by really taking Discretionary Spending back to fiscal year 2022 overall. Now excluded from those reductions in this bill are any reductions from defense, veterans, Homeland Security and disaster relief. It is a very important start and well overdue to fund our priorities the American Peoples priorities but doing so in a responsible way that does not bankrupt the american taxpayer. Mr. Speaker, in addition, this bill provides flexibilities of the department of defense for new starts. But this bill does more than just out of control spending. It will help stem the just inhumane tide at our southern border. Our southern border is out of control. The Biden Administration has failed to do the bare minimum to secure our border. As i have said before, mr. Speaker, it is beyond negligence and incompetence and it has fatal consequences that just irresponsible attitude of the Biden Administration when it comes to the southern border. In just the last few days, we have seen a surge at the border with an average of over 9,000 apprehensions each and every day. This is unsustainable. Its unthinkable and i would add, its immoral. Mr. Speaker, our border is out of control. Actually, no, let me correct myself right here on the floor of the house, mr. Speaker, no, it is controlled now 100 by the narco terrorists cartels on the mexican side of the border. Thats who the administration hasc eded control of the southern border to and this crisis will continue to get worse and worse unless we act. Earlier this year, the house approved the bill that i was just honored to lead, h. R. 2, the Border Security act of 2023. As you know, this bill would make changes to our immigration policies that would reclaim control of the southern border and i am proud to say that the spending reduction and Border Security act of 2024 which i am speaking about today includes the Border Security act of 2023 already passed by this house. This bill provides a solution, this bill im talking about now, mentioning now, provides a solution to keep the government open. This bill keeps the government open, and it restrains the growth of government while giving us an opportunity to continue negotiation on the appropriation bills. So mr. Speaker, i urge my colleagues to do the responsible thing, support this bill so that we can send it to the senate and keep the federal government open. Thats what we are dealing with. Thats what the vote is about. And i urge all of our colleagues to do the right thing and vote yes on this bill. I reserve the remaining part of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from florida reserves. The gentlewoman from connecticut is recognized. Ms. Delauro thank you. I yield myself as much time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady is recognized. Ms. Delauro i rise to oppose this resolution. If you cannot agree to the funding levels of 2024 in order to keep government open, you must pass a continuing resolution. A 30 slashing of the federal government only, quote, continues the majoritys inability and unwillingness to govern responsibly. I would argue you cant call it a, quote, conservative resolution either. Theres nothing conservative about the indiscriminate destruction of public investments in americas families. But regardless of what it is called, this bill inflicts serious consequences on the American People, whether it is signed into law, which it never will be, or because of the costly shutdown it triggers. We are less than 48 hours from a Government Shutdown, and what do we have to show for it . The American People are tired of the doublespeak coming from the majority. There are House Republicans who have repeatedly assured the public that nobody wants a shutdown, and there are others who tell us they think a shutdown would be a good thing for the country. And maybe they are not worried about a shutdown because they know that members of congress will not miss a paycheck. I can speak for every democrat in the congress when i say we oppose this republican shutdown, a shutdown that will be devastating for our country. So what have the republicans offered as their effort to avoid a Government Shutdown . What would this bill do . This bill would slash investments in cancer research, leave communities recovering from natural disasters out to dry, undercut allies with a 1 billion cut to israel, and further cuts to our support of ukraine. It defunds Law Enforcement by 30 and makes our communities less safe, and it takes food out of the mouths of millions. This bill raises costs on American Families at a time when the cost of living is already too high. It cuts title 1 education funding, the bedrock of Public Education, to the tune of 150,000 teachers being pulled out of classrooms and 275,000 children would lose access to head start, undermining Early Education and making it harder for parents to work. In an unprecedented move, the House Republican bill cuts the low Income Home Energy assistance program, the Liheap Program funding, by roughly 74 , more than five million households will lose their home heating or cooling benefits or have their benefits cut by hundreds of dollars, threatening their ability to heat their homes in winter or cool their homes in summer. House republicans are threatening Public Health by cutting food safety and Inspection Service by 30 . Withouted a get inspection of our meat without adequate inspection of our meat and poultry factories. It raises the cost of food for American Families and risks the consumption of contaminated food. With the cuts in this bill, 400,000 fewer Small Businesses would be assisted by the Small Business administration. Entrepreneurial development programs, this would have Significant Impact on Small Business owners especially among veterans, women, and native american entrepreneurs. This bill has no future. At best, it is dead on arrival in the senate and would never be signed by the president of the United States. Everyone in this room knows that keeping the government operating and passing bills to fully fund the next fiscal year will require bipartisan cooperation. You need the house and the senate, democrats and republicans, to pass appropriation bills. And yet House Republicans are refusing to work with and negotiate with democrats. This is a pointless charade with grave consequences for the American People. House democrats are ready to work. We were ready in the spring. We were ready last week. We are ready this weekend. We are ready today, tomorrow, and every day to work in good faith with our colleagues on the other side of the aisle to meet the needs of the American People. Lets get to work, serious work. Thank you and i reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman from connecticut reserves. The gentleman from florida is recognized. Mr. Diazbalart mr. Speaker, lets be very clear. Were going to know shortly who wants to shut down the government and who wants to keep it open because were going to have a vote. And this in front of us today, this resolution, is to keep the government open. I know theres going to be a lot of talk. But were going to have a vote. If you vote for this resolution, it keeps the government open. And if you vote against it, government shuts down saturday night. Thats not too complicated. The American People are smart. They get that. So all the talk that were going to hear, we will know on that vote if you vote for this resolution, youre voting to keep the government open. If you vote against it, well, youre voting to shut it down. I now would like to yield two minutes to the distinguished chairman of the committee of natural resources, mr. Weserman westerman, for two minutes. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Westerman serving in congress means making big choices on the big stage that are chronicled in our votes. Take out all the policy disagreements and after this debate, every member of the house will have a vote to make and making choices is about setting priorities. House republicans have made it clear that cutting spending, securing the border, and keeping the government open while we finish the year long spending bills are our priorities. Its no secret based on previous actions that my friends across the aisle prioritize out of control spending and an open border. I guesstimate their priorities will outweigh keeping the government open. Thats their choice. Since President Biden took office, our debt skyrocketed, inflation is strangling our citizens, thousands of pounds of fentanyl and millions of Illegal Immigrants, including more than 150 on the terror watch list, have poured over our southern border and into our communities. This Immigration Crisis is so bad the Biden Administration has resorted to building migrant shelters in our National Parks and waiving environmental laws to do it. This has to stop. The choices are clear. The conservative solution will avoid a Government Shutdown, secure our borders, and will keep us on track to restore fiscal sanity. A vote against this bill, let me be clear, a vote against this bill is a vote to continue down the path of outofcontrol spending, to keep our borders open and to shut down the government. Ive made my choice to vote yes, and i encourage others to do the same and i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves back. The gentleman from florida reserves . Mr. Diazbalart yes, thank you, sir. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady is recognized. Ms. Delauro with this bill you will cut 1, 460 teachers from your district and almost 46,000 households will be terminated with their low income Energy Assistance benefits. With that let me yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from florida, the distinguished Ranking Member of the military construction and Veterans Affairs subcommittee, ms. Wassermann shultz. The speaker pro tempore how long . Ms. Delauro two minutes, im sorry. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady is recognized for two minutes. Ms. Wassermann shultz thank you. I rise in opposition to this socalled c. R. Which is a maga gift basket to extremists. Lets address the reality. The gutting cuts in this bill do not continue current funding like weve historically done in continuing resolutions. The socalled c. R. Slashes cancer and alzheimers research, Defunds Police and undercuts allies like israel and ukraine. Republicans claim to care about our borders but this invites more immigration problems. Instead of giving migrants the path to work and pay taxes, it leaves them to languish in substandard prison also. This grab bag of garbage has no chance of becoming law and slingshots to a shutdown in 36 hours and it harms everyone from seniors and Service Members to this nations most vulnerable in its very security and snarls Small Business loans and delays home loans and can force Government Contractors in chaos. My home state of florida will feel it first. The longer it drags, the deeper the airport lines will get as t. S. A. Agents and Traffic Controllers go without pay and passport processing slows down. At worse, it makes our military serve without pay. Dont forget in the 2019g. O. P. Shutdown they forced coast guard members into food banks. It doesnt make america stronger. Instead of making communities less safe and handcuffing femas responsiveness which this c. R. Does, why dont republicans join democrats to fight big phrma and lower drug prices like insulin instead of a shutdown which closes Social Security field offices which this c. R. Does and takes food from the mouths of children, why wont republicans join democrats to bolster education, health care and Climate Investment like americans want. Why . Because maga extremists dont want to make life better for all americans but inflict pain on our own leadership, our government and the American People. Why . Because it covers up their lack of agenda and excites their base and throws gas on their bonfires of distraction and chaos. America deserves better than that and so does this institution. I yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleladys time has expired. The gentlewoman from connecticut reserves . Ms. Delauro yes. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from florida is recognized. Mr. Diazbalart thank you, mr. Speaker. Its a privilege to yield to the chairman on the committee on the budget, mr. Arrington, for two minutes. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Arrington policies have consequences. Over the last two years weve seen a string of selfinflicted crises because of my democrat colleagues and this president. Ill give you two examples. 11 trillion over two years from my democrat colleagues. 6 trillion went to the National Debt, all of which lit the fuse on this inflation firestorm, this cost of living crisis that is punishing working families from coast to coast. Weve got to stop the spending thats bankrupting this great country of ours. This president s dereliction of duties to uphold the laws of the land, his failure to provide for a common defense, to defend our sovereign borders, and to put the safety and security of the American People first has created unmitigated and unprecedented crisis at the border where we are being flooded with criminal activity and drugs that are killing people 300 a day, leading cause of death in the United States. Ive got a plan. We have a plan. And my democratic colleagues are going to have to respond to that. Were going to fund the government and keep it open but were going to give you measures to secure the border and prioritize the safety of the American People. And were going to reduce the spending. Were going to save this country and our childrens future while were at it because thats the responsible thing to do, not only for our country and our citizens of our country but future generations of americans who will inherit the whirlwind if we dont start reining in this wasteful washington spending. I rise in support of the republican funding bill and i ask my colleagues to do the same. I yield back. Mr. Diazbalart reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman from connecticut is recognized. Ms. Delauro i would like the gentleman from texas the state of texas will lose almost 14,000 teachers. Going to be tough to explain that to families when their children do not have a teacher in the classroom. In addition to that, 77,000 texans will lose their lowincome Energy Assistance or have the benefits cut. Going to be a tough time for folks come the cooler months or the warmer months for them to take advantage of this. I think people need to be mindful of the consequences of 30 cut or in the case of liheap a 74 cut that they are proposing here today. With that, i yield two minutes to the the gentlewoman from illinois. The speaker pro tempore the gam the gentlewoman from illinois is recognized. I have to remind my colleagues that we are a nation of immigrants. But you know what im going to come to this podium after republicans have a. M. Niece where their families come from. Introducing a continuing resolution that cuts services, ending asylum and shows the truth about my colleagues. They are more willing to scape goat and sacrifice immigrants, children, they say they care so much about, veterans, the elderly and people experiencing poverty that to do the hard work of owning up to their failures, hypocrisy. It is hypocritical to target immigrants when many of the people in this chamber have reaped the benefits of immigrant labor and have become wealthy on the backs of immigrant sacrifice. Let me tell you, because my mother tells me about her journey, it takes courage to cross the border, to seek a job and raise children in safety. This stands in contrast to the coward is of our colleagues. There is nothing noble or redeeming about this. It is time for a clean c. R. That does not scape goat the people this nation has been built on and for this reason, speaker, i will offer a motion to recommit back to the committee. I would have offered the motion with an important amendment to my bill. That amendment would strike the section that makes 30 cuts across the board. I ask unanimous consent to enter into the record the speaker pro tempore the gentlewomans time has expired. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore without objection the request is granted. Reserve. The woman from connecticut reserves. The gentleman from florida is recognized. Mr. Diazbalart i would remind my colleagues in the house just last year 900 immigrants died trying to cross the border. That is not humane. That is insane. And that we are not willing to look away and tolerate in the name of what . No. That is what is intolerable and i will not be lectured, mr. Speaker when 900 migrants died to get to the United States, died. And when there are thousands of children who are now missing that were supposed to be taken care of by the United States federal government. You dont hear about that. That is not humane. This legislation puts an end to that insanity. Mr. Speaker, now i am honored to yield to the gentleman from ohio, the chairman of the committee on judiciary, mr. Jordan, for two minutes. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized mr. Jordan the fiscal year ends in 36 hours this bill funds the government. 33 trillion debt, this bill cuts spending. We have a border thats wide open. This bill secures the border. Three simple commonsense things. The most important of these three is the one that mr. Diazbalart was talking about, the border situation. 2021 was the highest number on record for Illegal Migrants entering until 2022 and that was the highest year on record until this year. Thats how bad this is. And heres the important point, its not just conservatives or republicans talking about securing the border. The mayor of new york said the crisis will destroy new york city. Everyone in the country what needs to be done. This bill does it, does it in a commonsense way. Reasonable cuts in spending to deal with the huge deficits but addresses the most pressing issue we have which is the border situation and everyone in the country knows it except democrats in the United States congress. I urge a yes vote. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves. The gentlewoman from connecticut. Ms. Delauro i would like to let the gentleman now, 232,000 people in ohio will be without lowincome Energy Assistance benefits. And further, there will be 5500 teachers pulled out of classrooms and the families in those instances will suffer while the gentleman talks about issues that are not truly affecting what is happening in the every day lives of the people that he represents. With that, let me yield two minutes to the the gentlewoman from texas, ms. Jackson lee. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman from texas is recognized for two minutes. Ms. Jackson lee let me take a moment to offer my deepest sympathy to the people of california, her family and people of this nation for the passing of senator feinstein. This is a serious moment in history. This is a serious moment for patriots and persons courageous enough to do the right thing. I started out this morning by saying it will be the American People that will suffer. It will be my neighbors in houston and fellow texans. We have a solution and i think it should be very clearly stated what my friends on the other side of the aisle are arguing, they are arguing chaos and confusion. They are arguing no solution. They are shouting from the top of their lungs to be heard and to generate excitement and social media, but we have a very calm solution. The senate has voted 7719 to put forth a reasoned extension keeping the funding and making sure our military is being paid, not cutting off women and infants and taking care of the firefighters in the west who are suffering after fighting fires and other natural disasters. They have a c. R. It will come here. It has a privileged status. That status will allow us to vote the government will be opened and engagement on issues that are in disagreement or agreement could be worked. But if we continue this shrill talk and dont reasonably act courageously as patriots and to be able to stop the suffering of the American People, we will have 50,000 pounds of cocaine because we wont have customs and border officers. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewomans time has expired ms. Jackson lee well have your children where parents are going to work will have no hid start slots. 65,000 children will not have access to child care. Seniors will be robbed of nutrition programs and 2. 3 million infants, women and children without w. I. C. Fewer teachers, 4,000 safety inspections and undermining Law Enforcement. If anyone wants to be shrill, heres the solution. Bring the temperature down. Pass the senate c. R. And stop these draconian cuts. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman from connecticut reserves. The gentleman from florida is recognized. Mr. Diazbalart i remind everyone what we are talking about today this keeps the government open. It secures the border and frankly reduces wasteful spending. Thats what we are dealing with here. It is a real pleasure to the gentleman from tech as, mr. Roy, two minutes. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from tech as is recognized. Mr. Roy i rise in support of this legislation strongly in support of this legislation. This is legislation that will make sure our troops are paid. It will make sure that our military can continue to do its job. It will make sure that our border is secure and it will simply return funding to the federal bureaucracy to precovid levels. Thats what we are talking about here. Thats what my colleagues on the other side of the of the aisle are upset about. We must have a budget so bloated or your life as you know it is going to end. When the declaration of independences was written, when our inalienable rights were drafted, those rights did not come from this floor. That pursuit of happiness did not come from this floor or anywhere in this building because that building didnt exist. It didnt come from congress because congress didnt exist. No matter what happens heading into this weekend, whatever the result, there are 50 state governments that are continuing to operate. There are 3,000 counties, county governments operating. There are 20,000 city and municipalities with governments operating, 12,000 School Districts operating. And we are supposed to take care of ourselves, families and communities not supposed to bankrupt our country and devalue the dollar and drive up inflation such that the American People can no longer afford to live and thats what my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are doing with blank checks, more spending. That stops now. We stand up on this side of the aisle for sanity and a secure border. I support this legislation. And i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back the balance of his time the gentleman from florida reserves. The gentlewoman from connecticut is recognized. Ms. Delauro im finding it hard to believe that wasteful spending on teachers who teach our youngsters and 14,000 of them will be gone in the state of texas. Wasteful spending to deal with 77,000 people who will lose their liheap benefits. Is that wasteful spending to have heat or cool. Talk about the tax cuts that the other side of the aisle is willing to give to the richest corporations and tax cheats i might add as well. I yield two minutes to the gentleman from new york, mr. Espaillat. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from new york is recognized. Mr. Espaillat i rise in strong objects the socalled spending reduction and Border Security act. You want Border Security, mr. Speaker. Lets do Immigration Reform and do Ronald Reagan did it when he looked at all the families and allowed them in so they could work and contribute to our economy. This is a reprehensible spending bill that slashes Critical Resources from working class families. House republicans are defunding Law Enforcement, the socalled party of Law Enforcement. Something is happening in your district and something happening in your neighborhood and you call the police and theyre late, blame these cuts on Law Enforcement. Their Response Time will be impacted dramatically. Social Security Offices will be closing. I see the lines going around the block with seniors as early as 6 00 in the morning. Guess what . They will be closing and taking food out of childrens and families mouths, impacting title 1 schools with property levels unseen poverty levels and title 3 students, englishlanguage students and taking thousands and thousands of teachers out of the classroom. Is this a way to avoid a shutdown. This hurts working class and middle class families that depend on these vital programs to survive and move forward. Nearly 150,000 teachers and Service Providers will be removed from the classroom serving lowincome students and students with disabilities. In addition to that, approximately 275,000 kids will lose access to head start, head start. The only program the speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. The gentlemans time has expired. Mr. Espaillat i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from connecticut reserves. The gentleman from florida is recognized. Mr. Diazbalart its a privilege to yield to a neighbor and a friend in my district from the great state of florida, mr. Donalds, for two minutes. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. Mr. Donalds 33 million in debt and washington wants to continue to grow. Inflation cripples every family in our country and 8 Interest Rates squeezing our Real Estate Market and washington wants to grow and grow. Our cities are overrun with migrants because of the reckless policies of the president of the United States and fentanyl is killing 85,000 americans year over year. And the Congressional Democrats refuse to secure the border. Mr. Speaker, enough is enough. This bill does two very important things. Number one, it turns our Government Back to precovid spending levels of 2019. 2019 is over. Why cant the government live within its means . People have to live within their means. Our government should as well. I remember when there was a Baby Formula Shortage and mothers couldnt get food for their infants. Joe biden was nowhere. Congressional democrats were nowhere. All they said was spend more money while the problems persisted. When theyre building shelters in parks in new york city to house migrants, Congressional Democrats say theres no issue at the border though everybody sees the problems that exist. This is the time to secure the border of our nation. Cut wasteless spending in our government. If year going to have a society and government worthy of the people that we serve, washington has to do something that washington never seems to want to do, america, restrain itself. We have a fundamental obligation to secure this nation and to secure the people that we all serve. Coming out here, talking about whats going to happen with w. I. C. Is not going to solve the problem. Talking about the fiscal house of this Fiscal Health of this nation will solve the problem. Our National Debt has been downgraded twice now. The democrats want to spend more money. Support this measure. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from yields back. The gentleman from florida reserves. The gentlewoman from connecticut is recognized. Ms. Delauro to both the the gentlemen of florida, 8500 teachers gone. Think of the kids going to school and theres no teacher for them. Think about folks who need to heat or cool their homes. Were looking at 36,000 households that will be without those benefits. Do they really care about those folks . Probably sportscenters not top 10. Probably not. And as a democrat who took the lead on the infant formula crisis, i dont know where my colleague was during that crisis, and called to attention a company that knowingly sold tainted product and wound up killing three or four people. I dont know where he was during that effort. I know where i was and i know where the administration was. Let me provide two minutes to the gentleman from mississippi, the distinguished Ranking Member of the Homeland Security committee, mr. Thompson. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from mississippi is recognized for two minutes. Mr. Thompson thank you very much, mr. Speaker. And i thank the gentlelady from connecticut for the time. I rise in strong opposition to h. R. 5525, a bill more designed to appease the extreme maga wing of the Republican Party than to stave off a Government Shutdown. With just hours remaining before our nation is struck into an unnecessary shutdown, the house is being forced to waste time on a measure that would impose draconian cuts to vital federal programs and compel the enactment of h. R. 2, the child deportation act. When we considered h. R. 2 in may, i called it a cruel, extreme, unworkable immigration and Border Security measure. Time has not been kind to the bill. It still would wreck our economy, cripple our ports of industry, destroy the asylum system, criminalize visa overstays, force unaccompanied children into dangerous situations, jail families and children indefinitely, and on top of all that, worsen conditions at the border. The child deportation act would upend c. B. P. s ability to process migrants at ports of entry and borrow funding to humanitarian organizations that provide transportation and Legal Assistance to children and families fleeing horrific conditions. And it does nothing to stem the flow of deadly fentanyl in the United States. The senate will not take up h. R. 5525 and it will never go to the president s desk. The house must come together today and stop coddling extreme maga members looking to get former President Trumps failed, illegal, and immoral policies enacted into law. I urge my colleagues to join me in defeating h. R. 5525 and call upon the speaker to have the house consider the senates bipartisan continuing resolution. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. The gentleman yields back. The gentlewoman from reserves . Ms. Ms. Delauro reserves. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Diazbalart its a privilege to yield to the gentleman from arizona whose lifes story symbolizes what americas dream is all about, a member of the Appropriations Committee, for two minutes. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. Thank you. Were living in a border crisis, the worst weve ever seen. Mr. Sisisky cities mr. Ciscomani the tucson sector where i live, were seeing street releases, last week alone, 11,000 apprehensions and during this month about 40,000. These are again annual numbers in the past and now they are what we consider almost on a weekly basis. Now, i live on the county thats on the border. And we are seeing it firsthand. I know exactly how life is there. As mario diazbalart, my good friend from florida mentioned, im an immigrant myself. I know the journey. I became a u. S. Citizen in 2006 and became a u. S. Congressman in 2022, 16 years later. I know this country is the country of opportunity and i get why people want to come here. However, this administration has allowed the cartels to run amuck and handle the border and abuse people while trying to do so. Our local communities are suffering because of that. They hold the burden. I hear cries on both side of the aisles. I hear from mayors that are democrats, mayors that are republicans. It doesnt matter the party, theyre all being impacted the same way. This administration has not prioritized this crisis. And i have to tell you, living on the border, i understand what i call the three buckets, we can talk about immigration and trading commerce and we can talk about security and all three are suffering now because of the lack of attention on this issue, and its also a humanitarian problem when this administration has lost track of 85,000 miners, its nothing short in the humanitarian crisis as well and not even that will make them wake up to this. This is the worst time to be on the verge of a shutdown in less than 48 hours. We cannot shut down and have to do what we can to protect our border and keep our government funded. With that i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back. The gentleman from florida reserves . Mr. Diazbalart may i inquire to the time remaining . The speaker pro tempore the gentleman has 10 minutes. Mr. Diazbalart i would reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman from connecticut is recognized. Ms. Delauro let me remind the gentleman from arizona, there will be 6300 households in arizona who will be without the low income Energy Assistance benefits. And this is not these are not numbers, these are people. And whats happening in their lives. And how we are making it more difficult at a time when there is serious inflation, when there is in fact a high cost of living. My colleagues on the other side of the aisle are only adding and increasing to that high cost of living. I might also remind the gentleman from arizona that we are looking at about 2800 teachers. Now, again, this is just not a number. Children go to school. If there is no teacher to teach them, what is the result . What happens to parents when they find out that their teachers are gone . And now theres a teaching shortage. This will make it even worse. That is the result of the cuts that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle want to make. Its there. Its in black and white. You cant make up the numbers. With that, im proud to be able to yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from michigan. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady is recognized for two minutes. Thanks so much. There are human beings behind every number we talk about. But folks want to debate policy and different kinds of extremist agenda items when theyre in charge. Ms. Tlaib they can have Committee Hearings and deal with it separately. Right now were literally hours away from direct impact to families and even federal workers, many of which are living paycheck to paycheck. A Government Shutdown will harm the American People and that needs to be at the center of the urgency in this chamber as we move forward. In michigan im going to see 2 200,000 lose w. I. C. That provides nutrition assistance and nearly 100,000 of them are directly children. I still remember, mr. Chair, in 2019 there was a shutdown for 35 days. Colleagues were wondering why the federal workers were in food bank lines. Why cant they get loans some of them said . What are you talking about . These are federal workers youre expecting for a whole month where not only federal employees are living paycheck to paycheck and youre expecting them to pay their rent and get food on the table and all the utilities that continue to go up but lets cut liheap by 75 . Republicans priorities in this chamber are clear, starve, evict families living in poverty, and cut people from essential services. But they dont care. You dont care because youll continue to get paid. Yall will continue to get paid while your residents are getting impacted. And if i hear one more time you lying to the American People and say federal employees will get paid, theyre not. Theyll be forced to work without pay, especially those on our military bases and those that are on the frontlines that cannot sit at home while yall fight among each other. Its time for republicans to stop playing these games with the American Peoples lives. They know its an extremist bill. Many of them know its not going anywhere. The American People deserve better. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman yields back. Members are reminded to direct your remarks to the chair. Ms. Delauro reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from florida is recognized. Mr. Diazbalart thank you, mr. Speaker. Id now like to yield to the gentleman from texas, mr. Pfluger, for one minute. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Pfluger i thank the chair. Thank you. I rise in strong support of the House Republicans plan to cut spending and keep the government open and to shut down the border. The president has failed americans. Hes failed texans. Hes failed us but not securing our border. 7. 5 million Illegal Immigrants, 150 people just this year who matched the terror watch list, 100,000 plus fentanyl poisoning deaths. Its unacceptable. Enough is enough. This plan which also would include h. R. 2, the most secure border act in decades, puts the president on notice. Now is the time. This is the most important Border Security vote in 20 years. This vote right here not only cuts spending but it shuts down the border and the disaster and chaos and unacceptable level of death our president has caused. This bill deserves our attention. I urge my colleagues to cut the spending to keep the government open and to shut down the border and i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. Mr. Diazbalart i reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman from connecticut is recognized. Ms. Delauro i remind the gentleman from texas the eyes from texas are upon you when youre thinking about really 77,000 seniors, kids without any benefits from the low income Energy Assistance program, and also 14,000 teachers that will be gone from texas schools. With that, let me yield 1 1 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from new york, ms. Clarke. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from new york is recognized for 1 1 2 minutes. Ms. Clarke mr. Speaker, i rise on this day in opposition to the continuing resolution which includes the republican extreme and restrictive immigration and Border Security legislation, h. R. 2. This cruel legislation would force draconian restrictions and punishments on migrants and Asylum Seekers and set americas immigration priorities back decades. This bill would damage the asylum process, millions upon lets be clear. Any bill that would allow Migrant Children to be detained for up to a month to be ripped from their families and locked up from the world is unacceptable and fundamentally unamerican. To treat npt people who are looking for a better life in our nation while putting American Families vulnerable to put food on their tables. Thats not leadership. Every american no matter how long call this country their own should be outraged at the g. O. P. Embracing the Trump Administration failed and immoral border policies to keep the government open. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman yields back. The gentlewoman from connecticut reseverance. The gentleman from florida. Mr. Diazbalart i yield to mr. Johnson for two minutes from south dakota. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. Mr. Johnson as you know so often around here we vote on hair measures and bills that are in a modest way. This is not this bill. This is an opportunity and one vote to shut the border and keep the government open and reduce spending. The five conservative leaders crafted this proposal knew that bold action was needed. Crisis one, for 33 trillion in debt that is pushing us towards insolvency and has grown by 50 in the last four years. This bill puts us back on the right track and cuts billions of spending even in the next month. Number two, a shutdown accomplishes nothing. It does not save a nickel but costs american taxpayers millions. And number three, 1. 8 million illegal crossings at our southern border is unacceptable. This bill puts into place the policies that we know work to secure our border. Ill admit to not understanding fully those who oppose this bill. I do not understand why anyone would choose open borders over an open government. Mr. Speaker, we are here to solve problems. Chaos is not a legislative strategy. In a few moments i will vote to keep the government open to cut spending and secure our border. I urge my colleagues to do the same and i yield. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back the balance of his time the gentleman from florida reserves. The gentlewoman from connecticut is recognized. Ms. Delauro almost laughable to think about chaos. The ma jofort has demonstrated overwhelmingly the last several days and months unwillingness and inability to govern and chaos, general chaos here. The gentleman from south dakota where last i understood little bit like the northeast and new england, where it gets cold. It gets cold in the winter time in south dakota. But the gentleman is happy to see 24,000 individuals not get Energy Assistance, low income heating assistance. Maybe taking up a collection of hats and coats and gloves, hornets because they are not going to get their liheap benefits in a cold climate. With that, i reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman from connecticut reserves. The gentleman from florida is recognized. Mr. Diazbalart i am pleased to yield to the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. Grothman for one minute. Mr. Grothman we are here today the government going to shut down on sunday because there are supposed to be 12 separate bills that comprise our budget that was supposed to be passed now. We have passed the you four most important. The senate hasnt passed any. We dont know what the shutdown means. I hope the press is on the ball and pays careful attention, if anything is shut down that President Trump did not shut down a few years ago. There is a lot of flexibility for president s to show their compassion or not. If there is anything that President Trump doesnt shut down. Listen to the problems. Two big things, going on at the border. 10,000 people cross the border a month. We are addressing it. The American Public are tired and seeing an open border every night. We have to pass the bill. We have to make a dent on the out of control spending. In any event, i urge my colleagues to vote yes on h. R. 5525. Mr. Diazbalart i reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman from connecticut is recognized. Ms. Delauro i want to let the gentleman know 195,000 households are beneficiaries of the lie heap program. If you think its cold in this chamber, head to wisconsin and youll know how cold it is in the wirm time. Think twice about whether or not you will vote to cut 195,000 peoples benefits. I reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman reserves. The gentleman from florida is recognized. Mr. Diazbalart i yield to the distinguished the gentleman from georgia, mr. Scott, for one minute. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized mr. Scott i thought i would go ahead and respond because as soon as i sit down the gentlelady is going to talk about the School Teachers in georgia and my sister and she gets the check from the county. It bothers me you think they get the check from the federal government. They get paid by the county. How do we get there. The left talked about the chaos caucus candidly and what gives them the power. Well, it only takes five of them to create a disruption. And how do five get the power . The five in our party get the power because 212 of you on the democratic side are going to vote with them to shut down the government. A continuing resolution is a 30day piece of legislation i will admit is not perfect and better than a shutdown and we as republicans and the american citizens have to eat a 2 trillion deficit is absolutely ridiculous. We are not at war. We are not in a recession and no health emergency. Show a little responsibility. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired mr. Diazbalart i reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves. Remind members please direct your remarks to the chair. Ms. Delauro reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady reserves. The gentleman from florida is recognized. Mr. Diazbalart pleasure to yield to the the gentlewoman from new york. The speaker pro tempore for how much time . Mr. Diazbalart one minute. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. I hope the American People are listening right now that the democrats would rather shut down government than unsustainable and unsafe border crisis that has flooded our streets with fentanyl and Illegal Immigrants destroying new york city as mayor adams says and only enriching the drug cartels. This bill is common sense. It does three things things that the American People want, avoids a shutdown, cuts excessive wasteful spending and led us to 33 trillion debt and stops an unsustainable crisis. Put tax paying hardworking american citizens and their safety first. My colleague from new york city that this is cruel. You know whats cruel . A 7yearold girl was sexually abused. You know what was ruled that someone was established at the roosevelt shelter in manhattan and dozens of crimes are being committed and you are doing nothing about it. Mr. Diazbalart i would like to inquire how much time is remaining. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman has 41 4 minutes. And the gentlelady from connecticut has 3 1 2. Ms. Delauro i find it unbelievable that the gentlewoman from new york would support a bill that cuts money from ourial eye and i reserve. The chair the gentleman from florida is recognized. Mr. Diazbalart i yield to the gentleman from from arkansas for one minute. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized mr. Hill i thank the chairman from florida. This is an important day, mr. Speaker. This Congress Needs to come together to go back and get our spending under control and also get our border under control, both of which are concern to the American People. We hear it in our offices every day. Spending is unsustainable, 2,000 people a month coming across the border and living in this country illegally is unsustainable. This is a product of hard work for weeks to give us time to complete our appropriations work and negotiate with the senate while at the same time reducing spending that has been an avalanche of out of control spending for the last two years and secure our border. I urge my colleagues to support it. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back the balance of his time the gentleman from florida. Mr. Diazbalart i reserve. Ms. Delauro i reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from florida is recognized. Mr. Diazbalart i yield 1 1 2 minutes to the gentleman from new york. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for 1 1 2 minutes. After pouring trillions of dollars into the American Economy and after ignoring the crisis at our southern border, after closing schools and forcing kids to learn from home, after denying lifeaffirming services to young people with disabilities we have been lectured to about how great these last two years have been for the American People. We have in this very moment the ability to avert a Government Shutdown and at the same time to take some responsibility for reckless, wasteful federal spending. This is no excuse to pick the pockets of hardworking American Families who are already overburdened because of inflation, high cost of gas and groceries, inability to access or find a job, running up their credit cards. We have the ability to avert a Government Shutdown, control Government Spending and secure the border, an open border that is taking too Many American childrens lives because of fentanyl and destroying communities. The mayor of new york saying the president has ignored his call and that inaction at the border is destroying the city of new york. We have the ability to avert a shutdown, respect american taxpayers and secure the american borders. And with that, i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back the balance of his time the gentleman from florida is recognized. Mr. Diazbalart i would like to inquire of the Ranking Member of the full Appropriations Committee if she has any further speakers . Ms. Delauro no, i dont. I yield to you to close. Mr. Diazbalart i reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from florida reserves. The gentlelady from connecticut is recognized for the purpose of closing. Ms. Delauro what we are looking here is at a piece of legislation that makes a 30 cut in programs that have a serious, serious effect on the lives of the people in this country. Let me just lay out some of them because these have not been talked about so far. The National Institutes of health will be cut. There would be a reduction of 7,000 research grants. Im a cancer survivor and we have people in this chamber on both sides of the aisle who have a loved one with a cancer diagnosis, alzheimers or Heart Disease but there is a willingness to cut 7,000 research grants. Look at our ally and israel and ukraine and israel will receive a 1 billion cut in the funds that the u. S. Provides and we talk about israel as being our closest ally in the middle east. People should understand what is people should ups whats in this bill. We defund not we, my republican colleague defund Law Enforcement. Redeuces federal Law Enforcement officer, eliminates hundreds of state and local Law Enforcement. And they talk about crime, they talk about law and order. But theres a willingness to cut the funds in order for us to make our communities safe. Social Security Offices. The field offices. Would be forced to close down. Reduce access to inperson services. People applying for disability benefits will wait additional months for the processes, thats what is in store nor bill if you support it. Wild Fire Suppression efforts will be hindered. 57 cut and we know what devastation wildfires have had all over our country. Look at what happened in maui. Unbelievable. That they would talk about a bill and talk and extol a bill that has such devastate regular percussions on the people this country. They slashed the resources for the 988 suicide crisis line. Opioid use disorder. They talk about worried about the Opioid Crisis but lets cut off the avenue where people can get treatment and help and potentially save their lives. Education. It is an abomination what they will do to education. Because theyre on a march to eliminate Public Education in the United States. That opportunitier that all of our families have said, go to school, get an education so you can succeed. Rural america . Lets care about rural america. Not cutting the loans and grants for farmers and Rural Communities. They will make it harder for farmers to access loans and grants, to make Home Ownership more difficult. They cut rural house, rural you tillties, broadband. To keep people in touch. And they eliminate Health Services for rural and underserved families. Two million vulnerable individuals and families will lose access to health care services. They take food out of the mouths of children. Fam out of the mouths of children, families and seniors. Mr. Speaker, there needs to be a no vote on this irresponsible continuing resolution. I yield back the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman from florida is recognize the speaker pro tempore the gentleman from florida is recognized. Mr. Thrart oh, so many words. We have a choice right now to vote yes to keep the federal government open, to control inflationcausing overspending, and to secure the southern border. Thats a yes vote. Or vote no to shut down the federal government, to keep the narco cartels in control of the southern border. This is simple. Government likes to complicate things but this is simple. We have a choice. I ask our colleagues to do the responsible thing. Secure the border. Stop out of control inflationcausing spending, and yes, keep the government open by voting yes. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back. Pursuant to House Resolution 741, the the question is ordered on the bill as amended. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes have it. Third reading. The clerk a bill making continuing premises for fiscal year 2024 and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentlewoman from illinois seek recognition . Mr. Speaker, i have a motion to recommit at the desk. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the motion. The clerk mrs. Ramirez of illinois moves to recommit the bill h. R. 2325 to the committee. The speaker pro tempore the question is on the motion to recommit. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The noes have it. The motion is not agreed to. Ms. Mrs. Ramirez i ask for the s and nays. The speaker pro tempore the yeas and nays are requested. Those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will rise. A sufficient number having risen, the yeas and nays are ordered. Members will record their votes by electronic device. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule 20, the chair rill reduce to five minutes the minimum time for electronic vote on the question of pass aiming. 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. ] the speaker pro tempore on this vote, the yeas are 210 and the nays are 216. The motion is not adopted. Question is on passage of the bill. Those in favor, say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes have it. The bill is passed, and the gentlelady from connecticut. Ms. Delauro i ask for the yeas and nays. The speaker pro tempore the yeas and nays are requested. Those favoring a vote will rise. A sufficient number having arisen, a vote is ordered. Members will record their votes by electronic device. Fiveminute 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. ] the speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 198, the nays are 232. The bill is not passed. Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The house will be in order. Members, please take your conversations off the floor. The chair will now entertain requests for oneminute speeches. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recog recognition . I request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection. The gentleman from new jersey is recognized for one minute. Mr. Payne mr. Speaker the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. Members please take your conversations outside, please. The gentleman from new jersey will continue. Mr. Payne i rise today to honor the late u. S. Senator feinstein. As a senator, she served the people of california for 31 years and longest serving female senator in american history. Senator feinstein was a true trailblazer. First woman elected to the San Francisco board of supervisors. First woman elected to serve as San Franciscos mayor. And as a senator, she was the first woman to chair the powerful senate rules and Senate Intelligence committees. Senator feinstein leaves a legacy of incredible accomplishment. She wrote the popular assault weapons ban in 1994, a ban that we need to reintroduce today and created the nation wide amber alert to help communities find abducted children and reauthorized women against violence act. She was a strong advocate for women and betterment of all americans and will be missed in the senate and in california. And with that, i yield back. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition . I request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection the gentleman from new york is recognized for one minute. Thank you, mr. Speaker, i rise today in honor of Childhood CancerAwareness Month. It is being observed through the end of september. During this period of reflection, americans from coast to coast honor our nations youngest warriors and their battle against pediatric cancer and recommit to find a cure to such a terrible disease. One of those is oneyearold Cooper Graham of oceanside, new york, who is fighting the good fight at such a young age. Cooper is a tough little guy, always with a smile and i know all long islanders are standing with him and his fight right along his parents michael and rachel and big sister riley. During Childhood CancerAwareness Month we are coops troops and we will stand with childhood canner warriors. Cooper, we all remain coop strong. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition . I request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from california is recognized for one minute. I rise today to ask why, why are with hours to go before a Government Shutdown wasting precious time debating bills that are so extreme and so backwards they have no chance of becoming law. Why this week have we spent more time voting to defund individual salaries of Public Servants than passing a bill to prevent millions from going unpaid. Why are we focused on the baseless impeachment inquiry if we do not prevent a shutdown, we are asking our military, Law Enforcement officers and t. S. A. And Traffic Controllers all to come to work and protect our nation without a paycheck. Thousands of families in my district are being put at risk as well as millions more. S. B. A. Loans, taxpayer assistance and Social Security services. Mr. Speaker, i ask why. I also ask when, when will this chamber get back and off insanity island and budget. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition . Mr. Carter i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection mr. Carter mr. Speaker, i rise today in remembrance of william buck crosby. He served as an indicator of chemistry and biology and retired as interim superintendent of glen county schools. He was a member of the ymca board and held the position of first vice president. He was a recipient of many awards in his community including being inducted into the Benedict College class of 2023 Athletic Hall of fame and first and only africanamerican chairman of the hospital authority. And he was the first africanamerican to receive the 10th bishop of georgias bishop award. He will be remembered a teacher, administrator, a friend to all and capital for all of us to live up to. I would like to extend my deepest sympathies to his family. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentlewoman from commonwealth of pennsylvania seek recognition . I request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection ms. Dean mr. Speaker,la teesha was a track star and in her freshman year she was assaulted and forced to withdraw from her studies to focus on her recovery and faced Student Loan Debt and when repayments began she ultimately defaulted. Her story is not common common. Uncommon. Im reintroducing the student loan to provide extensions to the Student Loan Repayment policy. This bill would allow victims of assault to pause student loan payments up to three years to focus on mental and physical wellbeing. Many like her are unable to return to school. But with time to heal, survivors can get a fresh start. She is a dedicated advocate in preventing sexual absolute and supports this bill. Let her work be our light and let us pass this legislation. I yield the remainder of my time. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition . I request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection mr. Lamalfa i rise today to recognize a dear friend aviator and Northern California al Community Leader nick macy. Tragically he received his wings at the final reno air races just recently where my son and myself were attendance. This loss will be felt deeply. I feel the pain deeply myself. Nick was a friend to my office and worked with him over a decade trying to resolve a silly bureaucratic issue at his airport. He was a friend to myself and my office and to so many. He is a softspoken leader. He was a figure in his community and valued his hometown in the agricultural industries. He is the son of a world war b24 instructor. Fighting fires and aviation sixtime National Champion and evert in the sixcat air racing team. And he truly loved his community, his family and friends and did everything to ensure their prosperity. He was acorner stone of the ag community. He is devoted. My prayers to his wife, his children and grandchildren. To all his family and friends so many gathered at the air race and feel his presence. Nick, god speed to you. Thank you what you were to us. Your legacy will live on in our hearts. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentlewoman from ohio seek recognition . I request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Thank you, mr. Speaker. While extremists threaten to shut down the government unless they receive cuts, families in 13th congressional district, programs that families in ohio 13th congressional district, Social Security, k12 assistance, i am committed to keep these services running. My constituents are worried how to pay bills and food on their bill. I introduced two, pay our military act and feed our families act. Both put people over politics. Bipartisan paramilitary act would ensure our servicemembers people who sacrifice every day arent forced to serve every day and feed our families would ensure that no family goes hungry during the shutdowns. Republicans should uphold their end. If they wont, i remain committed to ohios 13th congressional district. Put the American People first and fund our government. Event that extremists wont and which seems they wont, i encourage my colleagues and support the pay our military act and feed our families act. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition . I request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection well, with the failure of that last vote, we are now less than two days away from shutting down the entire United States government not because we dont have a path forward but because the party of lincoln has and you are filled with passion and intensity. Extreme relationship cans are choosing to destroy that makes America Great which while enablelers have no conviction to oppose. Do you have a plan to land this plane because it seems like you skipped that part of flight school. Every single american is going to feel the pain of this crash, every soldier who wants to get paid and woman who needs Food Assistance and Housing Support and the train they are riding on has been inspected. We dont have to be here, mr. Speaker. We need some of you, any of you to stand up. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california seek recognition . I request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection. The gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. We are less than 34 hours from a republicanGovernment Shutdown. This is not the time for political theater or political grievancees we are spiraling toward a shutdown that would devastate thousands of working families that i represent throughout californias inland empire. If extremist republicans are allowed to continue their theatrics, over 4,000 federal employees in my district, mothers, fathers, caretakers among them could miss their next paycheck. T. S. A. Agents will have to work without pay and over 25,000 women and children who rely on federal Food Assistance could miss their next meal. It is beyond hypocritical that republicans want to cut benefits for hardworking families and making it easier for billionaires to cheat on their taxes. We need to get serious about governing or get out of the way. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentlewoman from North Carolina seek recognition . I request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection gentlewoman is recognized. I rise today to condemn the impending Government Shutdown and House Republicans refusal to set politics aside for the good of the American People. Rather than working across the aisle with democrats to Fund Government like my republicans are threatening a shutdown unless their extreme demands are met. Make no mistake. A Government Shutdown is entirely preventable. Extreme republicans in the house are choosing to put politics over the American People. A Government Shutdown threatens the lives and livelihoods of our servicemembers, Small Business owners, children and families who rely on head start and w. I. C. And so many more. Mr. Speaker, with only one day left until the government funding runs out, House Democrats are willing to work across the aisle to keep government open. It is time for republicans to do the same for the American People. Thank you, mr. Speaker. And i yield back. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentlewoman from georgia seek recognition . I request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my without objection, the gentlewoman from the great state of georgia is recognized for one minute. Mr. Speaker, i rise today to celebrate the longest living president and one of georgias finest, president jimmy carter, who is turning 99 years young. On sunday, october 1, i had plans to be home in georgia for this birthday celebrations but the looming republican Government Shutdown has me here in d. C. Doing the work for the people. President carter has led a distinguished life, winning a nobel peace prize, eradicating diseases and uplifting the lives of millions of manager nallized people. Ms. Williams but he will probably say his most important accomplishments are his Christian Faith as a member of the baptist church, marrying his moved wife, his block offed wife, building houses for habitat for humanity and being one of the best peanut farmers in the land. For me, president carter is an inspiration. My husband and i even named our son carter after this great president. And i strive every day to make sure that my carter cakes has the same humility and commitment to service as his namesake. The best Birthday Gift that president carter could receive from us would be us all working together to make the world a better place for the most marginalized. And we can do that by following president carters example and building on his legacy. Starting with keeping the government open for the American People. Happy 99th birthday, president carter. Mr. Speaker, i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewomans time has expired. For what purpose does the gentlewoman from the great state of texas seek recognition . Ms. Jackson lee to address the house for one minute. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentlewoman from texas is recognized for one minute. Ms. Jackson lee i too want to acknowledge our great president , jimmy carter, and thank him for his life and service. It is becoming that we stand on the floor today to be able to speak in contrast to the generosity of the carters to where we are today. Because we are supposed to be saving america. But, frankly, we now have a challenge where the leadership, the Republican Leadership cannot even find a way to stop the government from shutting down. But i think if the American People knew what their plan was, you might ask the question, it is impossible to lead in this way. Attacking the National Institutes of health, that is what theyre doing. Cutting education and dollars for disabled children and taking money away from 150,000 teachers who ill be engaging with in my hometown by phone. Of course, not recognizing the needs of Energy Support for those low income families. Not helping those communities that are suffering every day from natural disasters. We know the west has suffered from fires. We in the southwest have suffered from floods. And of course disrespecting the needs of israel and ukraine. This is not the american way. And now were gone because the bill they put up could not even get their republican votes. Lets do whats right for the American People. Dont shut down. Stand up for the American People. The speaker pro tempore and you are the hardest woman to gavel down. For what purpose does the gentlewoman from ohio seek recognition . Without objection, the gentlewoman from the great state of ohio is recognized for one minute. Ms. Kaptur mr. Speaker, i rise to share my deepest condolences upon the passing of united Steel Workers president , tommy conaway, who passed away this past weekend at 71 years old. The Steel Workers of the United States, the labor movement, and our nation have lost a true hero who helped to revitalize and reinvest in the u. S. Steel industry. As someone who has spent much of my career working to save the industrial america, including in ohio and across our country, i can say that there is no greater advocate to save this vital u. S. Industry than tommy conaway. He understood to his core what america makes and grows, makes and grows america. And was absolutely committed to making things in america and making sure as president of the united Steel Workers that he fought every single day to protect workers, make sure they had good pay, Retirement Security and safety on the job. He was dedicated to the idea that all working people should be able to live a good middle class way of life, something we both understood growing up in understood. Growing up in Union Households is what unions truly mean he to work mean to workers and families, moving into the middle class. Tommy will be missed by many but never forgotten. I hope his longtime partner, sons and grabbed children are comforted in knowing how much good he has done for so many and what a great man tommy conaway was. Thank you, mr. Speaker, and i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the chair will recognize members for special order speeches out of prejudice to the possible resumption of legislative business. Under the speakers announced policy of january 9, 2023, the gentleman from arizona is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority party. Mr. Schweikert thank you, mr. Speaker pro tempore. Im going to yield such time as he may consume to mr. Grothman for a memorial. Mr. Grothman thank you. This week i introduced legislation to rename the post office in wisconsin after Trevor Casper. Now, i know many in this body may have not heard of trevor, but back in wisconsin, hes not just the son of our state, hes a shining example of dedication and service. Trevor casper was born in sheboygan on may 21, 1993, to parents, kevin and deborah. He graduated from high school with the class of 2011 where he was active in wrestling, soccer and coaching youth sports. After high school, trevor pursued a degree in criminal justice at lake shore technical college, graduating in may of 2014. During his time there, he was active in color guard and served as president of the l. T. C. Student government. It was clear that trevor was not just interested in a career, but passionate about making a difference in his entire community. Trevors dream was to continue his education at the state patrol academy, which he did, successfully graduating on december 18, 2014. Following his graduation, trooper casper was stationed at the state trooper base in fond du lac where he continued to serve his community with honor and dedication. Tragically, on his first assignment, he made the ultimate sacrifice. On march 24, 2015, he was shot in fond du lac while apprehending a bank robbery and murder suspect. Though mortally wounded, trooper casper returned fire on the suspect, killing him, and protecting those in the nearby vicinity. He was the youngest Law Enforcement officer to ever make the ultimate sacrifice in the state of wisconsin. His bravery in the face of danger, his commitment to upholding the law and his willingness to protect our community were unwavering. Trooper casper is a true hero and he deserves to be remembered and honored for his selfless sacrifice. Renaming the post office in his honor is a small but meaningful gesture and will ensure that future generations see the name Trevor Casper and will hear about his great sacrifice and what a great human being he was. I yield the remainder of my time to the gentleman from arizona. Mr. Schweikert thank you, mr. Grothman. And i apologize to the speaker and the body, as were sort of organizing the slides here. Mr. Speaker, anyone thats listening, ok. So the house is in a fairly can tank rouse spot right now. But part of my frustration and part of the reason for actually grabbing this hour is whats a nice way whats a morelle gantt way to use the more elegant way to use the word, i need to stop the lying . Actually, i dont think were supposed to say that on the floor. The people just making crap up. So, lets actually have a sore of educational sort of an educational discussion here. If you dont like math, please just turn off your television, stop watching. Because this is becoming a mathfree zone around here. And why is there the fighting here on the house . Whats the fussing . You do understand, every dime, every dime a member of Congress Votes on now is all borrowed money. Theres a very good chance and well know next week when the final treasury data is posted that for this fiscal year, the 2023 fiscal year, which ends this weekend, we will borrow sorry, but this is how you need to think about it, we will borrow functionally 90 of g. Dmpt p. So g. D. P. So 90 of the entire economy will be just the borrowed money, not the spent money, the borrowed money. We are hitting numbers that should be terrifying. I dont know why theyre not terrifying to the folks on the left. Basically you just saw it, they just came to the microphone saying, we want more money. Wheres it come from . So lets actually walk through just some basic facts. This isnt republican or democratic math, its just math. And as the family saying is, math will always win. It may take a while, but the math will always win. So the reason for this chart, mr. Speaker, is one more time to try to visualize, this is the 2023 budget. Ok. In that 2023 budget, heres what we call Discretionary Spending. This is defense and nondefense. Ok, its we have 1dz. 7 trillion 1. 7 trillion on this chart. This wedge over here is actually lets just call it medicare. Social security still has its own trust fund. Which is out in nine years. So when you hear democrats saying, well, we dont borrow any Social Security, you shouldnt be talking about it the trust funds gone in nine years and the recapitalization of it is brutal. But once again, our brothers and sisters on the left dont want to actually deal with the math because its such a Great Campaign hit on anyone that actually cares about not doubling senior poverty in nine years. So back to this chart. So when you look at this, you got to understand, this blue wedge is all we get to vote on. All the red, the 72 of spending we call mandatory, is on auto pilot. You get that benefit because you worked your 40 quarters, you earned your Social Security benefit. You worked, you know, a certain amount, you paid into your medicare, you turned 65, you get that benefit. You hit a certain age. Thaits vast, vast majority that is the vast, vast majority of the spending and its also, if you go from today through the next 30 years, its 100 of the future debt. Its demographics. I say this over and over and over and over and the idiot class around here who wants to say, no, its republicans not willing to tax people more. Stop it. Because im going to walk you through all the democrat tax proposals and show you how little of g. D. P. It creates, even at tax maximization. Theres this concept of, at this rate you maximize tax receipts without rolling over the economy and rolling over the fall of receiving less tax receipts. Im going to show you the math on maximizing, its nowhere near what the democrats keep telling you. And its really crappy economics. So one more time, this board is incredibly important. You want to know why theres fussing around here. Its all borrowed now. And whats happened in the last couple months, interest ratewise . Think of this as just a thought experiment. August 1 until today. The movement in Interest Rates, just that movement in Interest Rates is about 50 billion of interest next year. Were borrowing over 6 billion a day. That is functionally lets take a look here. If you take a look at our borrowing over the last 12 months, its 72,932 a second. 72,000 a second. And thats why the i had yosy here of i had yosy idiocy here of people who say, im going to save 1 million here. Thats real money, great. But lets see, if youre borrowing 72,000 a second, thats how many seconds did you just cover . You know, the 300 million that was stripped out in one of the bills, ok, fine. But its 57 minutes of borrowing over an entire year. Theres just this delusion. Every dime, i believe, of foreign aid is like now i used to say 12 days of borrowing. Someone pointed out its closer to nine days of borrowing. Because we in the political class, math is hard, our audiences often dont want to hear it because it doesnt satiate the feelings. We make Public Policy now by feelings, not a calculator. And so you have a world now where you get up and say, hey, its demographics. We got old. Its Health Care Costs are the primary driver of debt and they look at you and go, no, its waste and fraud and foreign aid. And you show the little charts that says, ok, i can get maybe a couple weeks of borrowing eliminated, what would you like to do with the rest of the year and people just look at you in daggers. Then then you have the left who just makes crap up. And i dont think its meant to be evil, i think you get something in your head and repeat it over and over and over and over and the mathis delusional. Im going to walk through some boards here and some of these are complex and i will do my best so they make sense, because how do you save this republic if you have a bunch of people who cant agree on the baseline this was on the c. B. O. Joint tax, their data sets if no one read their reports. Joint economic committee, i chair the republican side. We gave options where you can save this country and crazy stuff, if you could eliminate or moderate, take on, do the moral thing with our brothers and sisters and talk about diabetes and obesity. Few trillion over 10 years. But require complex policies and decisions to be difficult. Im going to hold this board up. This board is from three weeks ago and already out of date. What does this board say . It says next year, interest will pretty much equal the Defense Budget. Interest will equal the Defense Budget and the reason its out of date is just the movement of Interest Rates in the last three weeks on the u. S. 10 yearsovereign. Interest will be more than. And if if the trend line continues, there is a very good chance that interest isnt going to be 830 billion, it is going to approach the trillion dollars next year. And why is that a big deal . Lets do Something Else interesting. Ok. For people have never really thought about it, how does the United States finance itself . 30 cents of every dollar we spend is borrowed. Where does that 30 cents come from . We issue bonds. Every couple weeks like three days ago, treasury issued a 30 billion of fiveyear instruments. So you sit there and have to calculate coverage was a little disturbing and 2 1 2 coverage and it means huge lines to buy u. S. Bonds werent there. The lines are getting shorter and shorter, interest to buy our debt. Interest rates will go up. What happens to bonds that were sold in previous years . Because the last three treasury secretaries did something stupid and we couldnt get them to change it because it benefited them politically that week. They went shortterm on the bonds, issue oneyear, twoyears, threeyears when Interest Rates were almost free. Those bonds are coming due. So in the next fiscal year, if we bring 2 trillion of new virgin issue, the borrowing for next fiscal year, lets just pretend next year is about two, well we have a little problem. There is about 9. 6 trillion of borrowing coming at virgin issues or refinanced next year and at higher Interest Rates. Your government is functionally an Insurance Company with an army and a budget problem. What do we look like at the end of 2024 when we have just refinanced a little bit under 10 trillion at these Interest Rates . It basically means that number when you go into the 2025 budget cycle of 25 trillion interest coverage and if you are how many new weapons, social justice agenda, interest buys you what . This is what we are doing to ourselves. Reality. And interest keeps moving away from us. So lets do lets continue on some of the more difficult stuff. Just simple math, we are going to spend some time talking about how do you fix things when you cant even get the other side that you need we have to do this together, its complex, its hard and its politically brutal because this place has lied to the public for a decade. Lets use the most optimistic and one side of these numbers are wrong. It is saying next year, projection months ago the 2024 budget year was only going to borrow 1. 7 trillion. I think were going to 2 trillion. Lets do the tax and took every american, you make 500,000, every dime you make we take all of it. And people keep working. The basketball player, the scientist, the entrepreneur just keeps working. Dont say i made 500,000 and keep working and paying into the government. Just for a math experiment lets say we are going to confiscate a dime from people making over 500,000. You raise about 1. 5 trillion. Did i mention the borrowing from c. Pomplet was 1. 7. You cant borrow if you take every dime of those highincome earners. And yet, i will show slides like this at certain town lalls and democrat activists say that is republican math. No, i think this one came from cato and some from o. M. B. , c. B. O. , its all the same. We are living in a math fantasy world. So im going to go out of sequence here because im angry that i saw a california member on cnn a little while ago holding a white board and completely lying to the press because it is such good politics. Republicans shouldnt talk to Social Security because it doesnt add anything to the deficit because there is a trust fund that has cash in nine more years. What happens in nine more years and reason we want to talk about it to save it. In nine years, the average couple on Social Security gets a 17, 400 cut, you double poverty of seniors in america in nine years. Absolutely immore. But the recapitalization of this is going to be complex, nine years from now, the first year shortfall is 616 billion. Do this with me. You dont have to be good at math. Nine years from now, boom, the trust fund is gone. 616 billion shortfall in 2033. You dont care, nine years from now. But heres the democrats policy. We are just going to raise taxes on those who make 400,000 and up. The democrats piece of legislation, 400,000 and pay the 12. 4 fica tax. Great. You get no benefit from it. Let me slow down and let me explain. Today, you pay your fica tax up to 160200. So you create this doughnut hole under democrat policy and then you start paying the tax again when you hit 400,000. That produces 86. 3 billion in 2033, 2034. Lets use 2033, because thats the year can anyone do the math. 86 billion of new taxes, 616 shortfall. Anyone notice a math problem . You are covering 1 7 of the shortfall. And thats the democrats solution. Lets do the more grand one. People will say, david, we will be just fine, just eliminate that cap and make people pay the 12. 4 Social Security tax on every dime. A person makes a billion, pay it on that and they get no benefit for the higher taxes. Ok. And people say, that solves the problem and then you show them this. Remember the first year, 616 billion shortfall. Eliminating the Social Security cap produces 154,000. And this is the democrats grand solution. This is why for those who own a calculator around here and have a soul of not wanting to double senior poverty were willing to get the crap kicked out of us. You are not allowed to do that. We are trying to save it because you have people manipulating to you and lying to you about the math. This is immoral. In nine years, you doubling senior poverty in america and their solution only covers 1 7 of 20 . This is what you have been given. And then you wonder why theres friction. Some people want to tell Great Stories and some people would like to save save the cou country. Lets walk through a few more of these. Mike, if you are bored, you are welcome to join me. Ok. You can stand here with me. Mike kelly, congressman from pennsylvania, he is my senior, so he sits to my left in ways and means which annoys me because we have to explain part of the inside joke. In congress, theres only one committee that is solely by seniority and ways and Means Committee. People to your he left, retire, quit, you move up. On this side, makes no difference. So you are senior to me. I love you. Mike kelly chairs the tax subcommittee. And mike, this is one i was trying to do something that was a little no one else has been willing to do this math. Our brothers and sisters on the left say well tax our way out of the crisis. We the first chart, i was trying to be somewhat brutal saying ok, tax revenues versus expected deficits under different wealth models so basically we have some debt saying, ok, heres the deficit and baseline deficit number and heres what you got. Understand, its probably unconstitutional. This is where they would take and come in and say we are confiscating some of your wealth. The big one they are pushing one is the tax where they say if you are really rich and every year take a percent of your wealth. The problem is i have 1. 8 trillion and this is basically covering what . 230 billion of shortfall and below zero up the economy but doesnt get you anywhere and im not here to defend really, really rich people but here to defend math. And look, you have a personality im like a walking calculator. Why am i failing to communicate the reality that the proposals we are getting absurd and only cover a fraction of the shortfalls. Mr. Kelly im going to walk down front and help us the folks. Come to believe that nobody should serve in the Public Sector unless they have been in the private sector. My whole life has been making sure on the 6th and 21st of each month, those are days that the people who work with me every day got paid. We used something called Kitchen Table economics. I am more of a person who says you know what, you use Kitchen Table manuals and people can understand them. I want to show you something. I reduced this down to a 1 bill and our friends talking no. No. No. No. No. No you can cut spending. Think of this not as a member of congress who can spend whatever he or she wants because it isnt coming out of your pocket but the hardworking american taxpayers and took a dollar bill. Mandatory spending, money that has to be spent out of every dollar we collect. Were talking about Social Security, were talking about medicare, were talking about medicaid, and, as all of you know, any loan you ever had, youre actually charged interest on it. 10 cents of every 1, and this year that represents 663 billion just to pay for the interest on our debt. That leaves us a whopping 27 cents out of every single 1 we collect from you. And this is the important thing. I am so fed up with elected officials talking about what theyve done for you. They do nothing for you, every single thing we do in this country is paid for by a taxpayer. Or a debt that you cosigned that you didnt know about. Now, i told you a little bit about my history. Im an automobile dealer. Most people, 97 of the people that we sell a car or truck to, borrow money to pay for that car or truck. They sign their name to a contract. And we take great time to explain to them exactly what is exacted of them. Now, so i told you this, 63 cents goes for Social Security, medicare and medicaid. 10 , 10 cents on each 1 just to pay our debt down. 663 billion. Thats why i want to reduce it down to Kitchen Table economics. This is whats happening to your dollar. Now we have 27 cents that we can spend any way we want and what does that mean . That includes transportation, education, defense and other programs. So lets take a look at the 27 cents of our budget, of our revenues that we have left to spend. Of the 27 cents of each 1, spending for defense, 13 cents. We dont ever want to walk away from that in the world that, in the world we live in now, are you kidding me . Were going to stop that . That leaves us, my friends, with 14 cents that we can actually control. Every single dollar out of your pocket is reduced down to this. So when people say, you just have to learn how to cut spending. So you gave me 1 bill, i can adjust 14 cents. Mr. Schweikert its worth pointing out, for everyone looking at that, you see that chart of defense and, lets call it nondefense, its all borrowed. Every dime of that today is on borrowed money. Plus another 400 billion of the mandatory. And i think thats actually what so many of our brothers and sisters around the country dont understand. Its so out of whack now because look, the number one growth is Health Care Costs. But thats sort of on auto pilot because every type we try to fix it, the lobbyists, the democrats lose their minds and were just trying to save the country. So we end up having the fights that are going on right now over that 14 cents and, look, theres waste, theres fraud, theres things in there we need to fix. But its a fraction of the budget and its all on borrowed money, which adds the additional stress of there is a morality of squeezing everything we can out of it. Mr. Kelly and because we sit beside each other every day, and we keep, honestly, these are things that keep me up at night. In another month my wife and i will be celebrating our 50th anniversary. I dont know what she was thinking, all i is it was ask, she said yes, and then for half a century weve been going at this. So we have 10 grandchildren. 10 grandchildren. And im constantly asked by people, how can you be so responsible when it comes to spending our tax dollars . I said, we dont want to be irresponsible. David and i sit there, sitting beside him is hard because he has so much going on in his head at one time, its like a calculator, and i keep going back just to the basics. The 14 cents mr. Schweikert in other words, youre telling people the truth, i drive you nuts. Mr. Kelly social services, natural resources, science, space and technology and other programs. We are down to the very 14 cents of 1. And this is 1 that you paid, by the way. This is out of your taxes. Mr. Schweikert theyre paying the interest on it now. Mr. Kelly the interest is 663 billion of what we owe. Mr. Schweikert and 800 billion next year. Mr. Kelly yes and it keeps growing and it keeps growing and it keeps growing. No responsible person would ever sit back and work this model. The greatest country, the greatest nation the worlds ever known, the wealthiest nation the worlds ever known has been totally irresponsible in the way she has spent her money. And it wasnt done by her. This Incredible Group of people that sit down here, and remember i said this to begin with, i dont believe anybody should serve in Public Office until theyve been in the private sector. I myself have been in situations on the sixth of the month and the 21st of the month where i made sure earn person at the dealership got paid. There were many times i did not pay myself because i didnt have the money to do it. The point i think we keep trying to make is when are we going to wake up to what is going on . This is a titanic moment for our country. And the reason i say that is because the titanic, when full went full speed ahead into an iceberg and what did the captain of the titanic see . Just a small part, just a small part. Of the iceberg. They didnt see what was hidden. My friends, right now the hidden part of what it is that were spending, i would just ask you to please think with us as we go through this. Reduce it down to where it makes sense and understand what is happening right now on the floor of this congress. We represent you, we do not represent ourselves alone. We represent you. So, david, if we talk about this and this is where we are and i would just think that at some point we would sit back and we would say, i cannot watch this and allow this to happen to hardworking american taxpayers. Mr. Schweikert i think in some ways you just described why the fussing over the budget documents is going on. Look, we put together a fairly some interesting slides here. Weve never presented them before. We took these from a researcher at manhattan and a couple other places. And then we did joint economic some of my economists, we did some math here. We set this for 2033. So we had a year thats 10 budget years from now. We did not, we did not put in the fact that the Social Security trust fund is gone and theres 616 billion that needs to somehow be recapitalized. Thats actually not in this deficit number. We also rolled the number so wed baseline, for anyone thats really geeky out there, we ran this to the standard debt to g. D. P. Number. Because theres a new update on what debt will be in nine years from now thats now 3. 1 trillion, if Interest Rates stay as high as theyre spiking right now, could be as high as 3. 7 . But were going to use the 2. 5 trillion. The reason this board exist, i have a bunch of slides so were going to walk through, but i need to set up the pitch first. If we took every tax that our democrat colleagues talk about in the ways and Means Committee and did what they call a revenue maximizing rate, theres a rate that you can charge that the economists, and this is, you know, the economic modeling, where you maximize Tax Collections before it rolls over and people change their behavior and the Tax Collections go down, so we actually added up, maximize state taxes and income taxes and Corporate Taxes and Capital Gains taxes. So we maximized everything. And then we also then came back and said, all right, heres the maximum number, taxing the rich. This is the top 2 . If you make 400,000 or higher, youre part of the top 2 of income earners in america. You got to understand that. And then we also did, if you did the economic effect, what they call the dynamic score, which is always the real number we get. So heres our 2. 5 trillion borrowing. If you did the full max on democrats and got every dime, you get about 700 billion. And if you actually do the real number where the dynamic score comes in at about 450 billion. So youve just maximized all taxes. It gets you a fraction of the talking points. And the reason were going through these boards, how do i say this politely without sounding like a jerk . Our brothers and sisters on the other side, they may actually believe these numbers, but theyre not real and how do you make Public Policy that saves this country when half your brothers and sisters here say, no, we just tax people over 400,000, well be fine. And you show the slide and its nowhere near that. They dont the unwillingness to deal with the reality of the math. And this is one you and i have talked about a couple times. Where if you basically look at our history, so go back to 1950, because actually whats fascinating is from 1950 until recently, you actually have history where sometimes weve had really, really high marginal tax rates. 90 for the top income earners. And then, you know, after tax reform, youll lower, but you took away a bunch of the deduction. You took half of society and removed them from the tax roles. They dont pay income taxes rolls. They dont pay income taxes. But we actually built lots of charts that show that during times of high tax rates, eh, you get pretty much the same part of the size of the economy in taxes. Low marginal tax rates, you get the same part of the economy in taxes. Theres this concept of, it always goes back to the mean. So the way you get more tax receipts to government is a growth in economy. Thats the magic. Thats how you get more tax receipts is growth. But when we have really high marginal rates, the chart after chart after chart just shows, you get the mean. When youve had very low, you get the mean, but its a bigger pie because the economy starts growing again. And you show this to our democrat brothers and sisters and theyll often say, yeah, ive seen that, but my voters dont like that. Because it doesnt satiate the feeling of punishing mr. Kelly whether weve talked about this, because we have time when were in meetings to talk about this, but i want you all to try to bear with me a little bit and i know at some point you say, i dont know if i like this dog and pony show. In my district, pa16, the average income for a family of four, mom, dad, two children, is 54,000. Now, and this is because this is where it really starts to make sense. Federal revenues this year will be the highest weve ever got. Theyre projected to be. 5 trillion. Thats a lot of money. I mean, its almost incomprehensible. Now, what were projected to spend is 6. 9 trillion. You say, well, ok, thats only thats not that far apart. Only 1. 9 trillion. Heres what it means. And please, this is where it starts to sink in. That means a family that i represent in western pennsylvania earning about 50,000 a year is spending 69,000 a year. So you see what were getting to . You see where it is . Because when we reduce the numbers down, first of all, the high numbers are just so high, its unmanageable unimaginable. Its also unimaginable that we can never pay the debt down but i would say this to you. If we continue on the path we are going, if we disregard the basic math that stands there, and the way we do it, and most of us, i can tell you most of the time when i pay monthly bills, it is at our Kitchen Table and i open my checkbook and i start doing subtract, subtract, subtract and i just try trying to understand how we can be so reckless. None of you, none of you, none of you would do this because you have too much respect for your children and grandchildrens future and you also have too much respect for yourselves. Nobody would consciously do this. Thats the problem. One of my favorite movies, i think this is what i just want to make a point mr. Schweikert youre not going to do movie review, are you . Mr. Kelly its called a few good men. You have seen this movie . Mr. Schweikert yes. Mr. Kelly Jack Nicholsons in it and hes being cross examined in a military trial. And they keep asking him a question and at the end he becomes so frustrated he says, you cant handle the truth. In our lives, the people who raised us, our moms, our dads, our grandparents would never have done to us what we are happening right now and were doing to our own grandchildren. We have to handle the truth, we have to face the truth and, david, this path that were on and this mission that were on and this idea that somehow we have to get the message out to our hardworking american taxpayers, our future is being destroyed because of irresponsible spending. Now, just to be sure on this,y you are Social Security will never be touched on this, your Social Security will never be touched. Medicare, medicaid is not going to be touched. And the banks are never going to for give us the interest forgive us the interest on our loans, ok . Thats the reality of it. So when you understand it that way, it becomes, oh, my gosh, what are we going to do . And so, my friend, as we sit there and try to figure out what is it that we can do to save the future for our children and i looked at pictures yesterday with your two children and we say, what are we doing to these kids . Mr. Schweikert in some ways were the yin and mr. Schweikert we are the yin and yang of districts, i have a fairly prosperous district, fairly welleducated district, i am blessed to have group up there. But i have to accept my financial experiences will be different than yours. Back to helping people try to understand reality. I need to amend something youre saying, though. We used to talk that this debt is an existential risk to our grandkids. Im cor rirk its a risk to your retirement. Theres the reality. If youre retiring any time in the near future, youve got to understand. Were head twharygd time where were going to have to turn the Printing Presses off. When you turn the Printing Presses on. When you tush the Printing Presses on, we wipe out your savings. Besides the misery we create through the devaluing of the dollar, decentralling the save, making it sure your making it so your kids can never afford, high breast rates boo the future. Its in a its not a crash. Its an extension of potentially decades of misery. Folks done think this way. I keep coming back to trying to make the tax collection argument. So why this is so important. Heres the 1950s where we had over we had a 90. 5 tax on the top income earners. So a little deep secret. Actually the tax code today is more progressive than it was back then because they had the lower middle class pay income taxes back then. Today theyre off the tax rolls. But back then we used to get 7. 2 of the economy came in in income taxes. Even though we had a 90 . You go over all the years theres been tax reform. So today, 2020, lets do that year. We functionally had a mean tax of 37 . Not 90 . As that high part of the marginal tax rate. Ok . But were getting 9. 2 of the economy. Ok. Most people have no idea what im talking about when i say that. But heres the economy. Heres a really high marginal tax rate. We have a history of this. Repeatedly youre only getting about 7 of the economy in taxes. We lowered the marginal tax rate for the tax brackets and now were getting over 9 . We get dramatically more because the economy got bigger. And you show that our brothers and sisters on the left and theyll often say yeah, i know it. But it doesnt feel like im punishing people. And the amazing irony, you know the highest income americans vote for democrat, not republicans. Its the bizarreness. How many billionaires do you think you have in your district . Mr. Kelly not many, the people i have are in the mine, on the rail, theyre farmers, theyre blue collar. The nuclear family, the mom and dad raising children, is the key to our success going forward. And an education based on the very foundations of what we know is true and is accurate and has been proven over the ages. The gift that america gave all of its citizens was the gift of education. Sometimes you look at it and say, honestly, we can talk all day. I want you all to understand, i wish the gallery was full. I really wish the gallery was full. That is a message, its not a message of aryng. Its a message of hope. We have got to change our spending. We just cannot sustain this irresponsible tra directory. Mr. Schweikert theres a path where this work. I want to make it clear. Were not defending rich people. Were not defending poor people. Were not defending middle class. Were just trying to tell the truth. This is how it works. This is about a society that prospers. Prosperity is moral. And we first need to shut down the excuses for not actually doing anything. Say, oh, dont worry, were take those 400,000, ok, do it, fine. You had all sorts of chances to do it before this session. But they knew the math was a fraud. But its great talking points. Because they can get on msnbc or cnn and say, we just do this, well be fine. Its not true. Doesnt seem to be a reporter in this city who owns a calculator. Look, this is one you and i have actually touched on. It was what happens when you have really high Capital Gains rates . Or really low Capital Gains rates . When you raise Capital Gains rates really high like some of our democrat propose acialtion you get less revenues. And we have charts of this going back to 1954. When we started to play with some of those rates. So this is why, back to that concept. Im going to show some number heres when we get ready to close that if everything was at revenue maximizing. Whether capital gain, whether it be a state, whether it be income, whether it be corporate. You take a look and youre only going to get about 1. 5 of the economy of additional revenues. Additional receipts. This year were borrowing 9 of the entire economy. Just this year. And theres why the elegance of really good, really good progrowth tax policy and then doing some of the things ive been on this floor dozens of times. You and i have talked about for a couple of years now. Theres things you could do to crash the price of health care. The adoption of technology. The taking on something thats very uncomfortable. Take on obesity. Take on diabetes. Take on the things that are both killing our brothers and sisters, remember the last four years, Life Expectancy in america has gone down. In a decade, next decade, we have more deaths than births in america. How do you help people understand, its beyond just those who are math and budget geeks. The morality is what you talk about. Thats why i asked i was asking you to come share this time with me. I need someone like you who is able to talk to peoples hearts. Sometimes i dont think i do it well, i sound like an accountant on steroids. The morality of opportunity. The morality of prosperity. The morality of our brothers and sisters. I dont care if youre in a tribal community, rural community, urban community. Take a look at the statistics of our brothers and sisters dying of diabetes. And other diseases. When we actually can have incredible impact of having them be healthy. How do you get this body to see sometimes great math is also great morality. So im mr. Kelly i would just pose this to those of you watching this. Are we making sense . If this makes sense, would you please raise your hand . No, it doesnt make sense. We cant have the interaction. The only thing mr. Schweikert not aloud to see them react. Mr. Kelly this is your house, we just represent them. Everything that goes on in this house is being done by people who are voted in to represent you, not represent themselves bus represent you. Thats why if its not making sense we need to know because ive got to tell you it makes no sense to me at all. Of what were doing. Not only to our future but to our present. And if we cant grasp whats happening right now, thats why i talked about the Kitchen Table economics. If i can reduce it down to a 1 bill, i would hand you a a 1 bill and say by the way the first 73 cent, give it back to me. You can keep the 27 cents but then im going to take another 13 cents out of when you get down to it, its so small of what it is we can control in. Your own lives, you know if you have a mortgage payment come due if you have a car payment come due. If you have Health Care Costs come due. You cant walk away from that. And at some time or other a lender is going to say to you, you know what . Wed love to help you but we cant. The math doesnt work. Its not good for you. So david, i because we went, when we talked about this the other day. The real the real challenge is to make sure that we understand the path that we are on. And not try to sugar coat it for you. I know for myself, the hardest lessons in life to learn are not something. And i think all of us at one time or another. I wish i could go back and one day have time to sit across from my mother and father and thank them for what they did for us. My grandparents and thank them for what they did for us. And say i cant thank you enough for what you did for us. Im just so disappointed that we havent performed as well as you have. Had. That made it possible for us to enjoy the most incredible country the world has ever known. A nation of people so diverse. Theres no place else in the world. None of us are thinking about leaving to go someplace else. Its our responsible to make sure that it is a Sustainable Business model. If im not connecting with you, i apologize for that. But only pause we have to understand the dilemma we are in. This is not a scare tactic, by the way. That is a forget woke, this is a wakeup moment that we have to be aware of what is happening right now to each of us every day in every way. Mr. Schweikert im sorry you have to hear it all the time sitting next to me but the math will win. Mr. Speaker pro tem whats our remaining time . Excellent, thank you, mr. Speaker pro. The mike, im going to run through a couple of boards real quick. Its going to be a little thick. Im going to do them quick. We will put these up on the website. If anyone really wants to dive into this, i believe brian reedle, about two weeks ago, published a fairly substance substantive, amazing footnotes so you can, if you actually care about the subject, get it, read it. Pull out your calculator. Youll see it proofs out. So lets just im going to blow through this real quick and help people understand why why is some idiot on the floor of the house walking people through, you know, maximum sustainable revenue calculations. Im trying make a point. There isnt an easy fix here. If we do a deficit commission, or something of that nature, it turns out its going to be complex. Youre going to have to deal with things that dont seem interrelated but they are. Youll have to talk about immigration. Youll have to talk about technology. Youll have to talk about maybe a. I. , a tax code that promotes growth, youre going to have to talk about changing the way we finance parts of health care. And you have to do it all at the same time. And youve seen this place. Were having trouble walking and chewing gum at the same time. Lets blow through this real quick. Part of the studies out there, and this is from c. B. O. , o. M. B. And also the Tax Policy Center and the u. S. Treasury have all con filmed these numbers. If you did a maximum sustainable revenue from taxing the rich, lets first do individual income taxes. If you took the rich and said youre the top 2 income earners, functionally anyone other 400,000. Well put a tax rate that maximizes receipts before the calculations say revenues would roll over. And you know, for some of those, thats like adding another 10 points on top of it. Then you actually tax some other parts of estate, you put a bunch of money into enforcement. So you do all the things. These are all the democrat proposals added up. And youre picking up another couple of points, another half a point of g. Deform p. Or so. I have a board where i add it all. Then we added in maximizing Corporate Taxes. Looks like we can get up to about ant. 8 of g. D. P. If you maximize taxes. We have a problem in the United States. You go up to like the 28 Corporate Tax rate. The next inkrement you see, you say screw it, well recharter the headquarters in ireland you hit this point where you start to roll over. This is in the liberal model, conservative models, people who just do models. You walk through everything, the Corporate Tax hikes biden is promote, the new International Tax that secretary yellen is pushing. You do the additional, some additional corporate savings by i. R. S. Ins forment mechanisms. Add that all up. What do you get from that . Then add in investment taxes. Well raise our Capital Gains up to 39. 6 which we know at that point you hit a wall and get less money in the taxes you do other type you close all the loopholes. You may actually remove, remove the ability to roll over certain assets. 1031 exchanges. Likeforlike in kind. Take those away. Basically take and say weve done everything. Everything to start to maximize income taxes from the rich. Ok. Thats a lot of money. But you actually take a look and im sorry. But we had very little time we feel took these directly from the report. You can get up to if you do what they call static, no economic effects, thats about 2 of the economy. In new taxes. Then when you do then when you do the actual, ok, people stop working, it changes investment, people basically hunker down, so the economic models, you actually get about 1. 1 to 2 , so a mean of 1. 5 . Ok. Thats a lot of money. 1. 5 of the economy in new taxes. Yea. But did i mention were borrowing 9 of the economy just this year . So the utopian tax everything of that 400,000 and up. Youve maximized every single tax. Were borrowing 9 of the economy just this year and every tax proposal gets you another point and a half. Does anyone see a little problem . Were living in this fantasy world and, look, god knows i love my charts and i sometimes feel guilty for all but this ones actually really important for, particularly, if youre one of my Progressive Left acquaintances and you care about income inequality and progress iivity and all those things, todays number tax code is the most progressive in u. S. History. That top percent of income earners now pay more of the federal income tax than any time in u. S. History. And this is after our tax reform that mr. Kelly and i worked on. And yet, i promise you, today, tomorrow, someone will come to that microphone, well, the republicans give away to rich peep, except were taxing people, except were taxing them as a percentage more because we moved so many of our brothers and sisters, the 50 of folks in the economic term, lower quartiles, dont pay income taxes now. And theres the problem. It grew the economy right up to the time of the pandemic. Then we started spending money like crazy on corporate subsidies. Democrat proposals. Its fascinating. They accuse us of liking big business, yet theyre the ones giving hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars out as subsidies to Corporate America and at the same time our tax receipts are falling when theyre doing it. Its the weirdest economy youve ever seen. It basically shows monetary policy, their keynesian economics have fallen flat on their face. Last board. Even when you start to do the adjustments for, you know, they call income inequality, you normalize those, we have a more progressive tax system today than weve ever had before and when a member of congress looks you in the eyes and says, well, were just going to tax people over 400,000, that solves the problem, i showed you the boards. It doesnt come close to solving the problem on saving Social Security in nine years. Its only 1. 5 of g. D. Pmpt when were borrow g. D. P. When were borrowing 9 . Is there anyone youve been here longer than i have. Do we have anyone we work with that owns a calculator thats willing to save this country . Ill let you do the close. Mr. Kelly well, thank you for the chance to work with you and for all our friends in the gallery. This is called the peoples house because it is truly your house. Anybody thats here was elected. They just didnt walk in and sit down. They take an oath of office to do things in your best interest. So what weve been trying to do throog, we look at all the to go through, we look at all of the charts. I want you to manage, take this 1 bill, this is what you actually can control. When it comes to the spending. So when i hear this thing about, well, you just have to cut spending, you just have to cut spending, i said, thats fine. Could you please give me a road map of what you want us to cut . And thats not accepted because thats not whats being fed here. So i have to tell you, listen, were here because of you. Were here for you. I thought the dollar bill was the easiest way to show because were all used to that. I have 10 grandchildren. Maybe you can all relate to this. When our kids were growing up, they liked to go skiing and in the wintertime, because im from pennsylvania, they came to me one a time and said, dad, can we go skiing . I said, no, i dont have the money to go this weekend and they said, sure you do. And they went under the bed and they picked out my checkbook that has three checks to a page and my son said, here, you have all kinds of money. I said, well, you have to put the money in before you can write the check to take it out. That was a con stheapt a child didnt understand a concept that a child didnt understand and unfortunately there are too many children representing you here right now that dont understand what is taking place in every American Home and with every one of our hardworking american taxpayers. Were here for you. I dont care if youre republican, democrat, libertarian or just say, i just wish people would stay the heck out of our live, were here, were representing you. I would ask you, please, communicate with the people who represent you, to let them know that youre concerned about the way the country is going and the future. Not only for our grandchildren and for our children, but also for us. So, with that, i just think that i hope we got through and if we didnt, please contact us. We are here every day for you. For you. Theres no other reason for us to be here other than for you. So i want to thank you. The speaker pro tempore your time is expired. Remind members to refrain from referencing occupants in the gallery. Under the speakers announced policy of january 9, 2023, the chair recognizes the gentleman from tennessee for 30 minutes. Mr. Burchett thank you, mr. Speaker. Thank you, mr. Speaker. I want you folks to know that i wont be as eloquent as my friends, but i wont be as long either. So yall will be able to get out of here if youre waiting for a break. And if you need to get up and go, you go. Youre not hurting my feelings one bit. Mr. Speaker, i am absolutely disgusted with the way our government spends money and where it puts its priorities. Weve spent over 114 billion on ukraine. Dont get me wrong, putin is a thug and i wish the lord would take him out. But russias g. D. P. Is somewhere between that of france and canada. Weve given afghan refugees over 2,200 a month and we only sent the maui residents a single, one single 700 payment when they lost everything. Illegal aliens cost the texas taxpayers somewhere around 850 million. And, folks, were over 33 trillion in debt. Fitch, which is a rating agency, recently downgraded the United StatesCredit Rating because of the general government deficit, which it anticipates will be 6. 3 of Gross Domestic Product in 2023 when it was only 3. 7 in 2022. Thats a huge jump for one year, and, folks, that is doubled, almost doubled. Another reason they gave was leadership. And thats been over the last 20 years. So that cuts both ways. Thats both parties. The United States spends approximately 300 billion each month. Thats nearly 7 million each minute. It only takes our government two hours and 22 minutes to spend 1 billion. If you can imagine that. We are on the verge of a Government Shutdown which none of my colleagues want. Contrary to popular belief, were not sitting some of us conservative folks arent sitting in a room hoping for this because we dont want our constituents to suffer any undue pain because of our lack of work. However, this outofcontrol spending, it needs to change. And many of my republican colleagues, were going to fight for that change to happen today. Not in 30 days or three months or right before christmas. Because thats pretty much been the plan. We pass a continuing resolution for 30 days, and then they say, well, we need another one for 30 days. And then guess what, were backed up to the christmas holiday. And then they say, well, we need to pass an omnibus. And basically an omnibus is just a continuation, a large continued resolution and in my opinion its chalk full of goodies for powerful members of this body. Its also chalk full of godys for goodies for lobbyists and their special interests that we continue to grease. There are several solutions we can bring to the table. My colleague, Jodey Arrington from texas, chairs the budget committee, mr. Speaker. I was on that committee and i actually asked to be taken off of it because if you know anything about our history and the last 30 years, we have noes passed a we have not passed a budget. We havent even attempted to. Because we dont want to. The people in power, both parties, we pass a budget, thered be a lot more accountability. And you all would know what was going into it and youd probably get disgusted and send a few of us home. But my friend chairs that committee now and excuse me, mr. Speaker he has a plan that would balance our budget in the next 10 years. If we just went back to precovid spending levels. Precovid spending levels, mr. Speaker. We could balance this budget. Now, i dare say theres probably very few americans that can tell me something that was thats been added to their plate since covid from the federal government that they can do without. That they could not do without. Yet we continue on this spending spree. As ive stated many times, were like, with these continued resolution, they tell us to pass a continuing resolution so we wont have to pass another continuing resolution, well, that line of think Something Like telling a crack head that im going to give you more crack to get you off of crack. The truth is, were just addicted to money and were addicted now were addicted to our great grandchildrens money. We need to make some serious cuts to our bloated government in areas we dont need it. We have way too many bureaucrats. Yesterday i brought several amendments to the floor literally due to the holman rule which allows us to line out certain people, individual peoples pay. They were caught doing something illegal in the past administration and they were fired. Yet this administration seemed like they should bring them back. And they brought the people back that helped them get back. And that is your federal government. Now, my daddy fought in the second world war, in the marine corps, in the first marine division, all the way across the specific. My mamas brothers all went to the war. My dads brother went to the war. And my mom actually flew an airplane during the war. Because her oldest brother, roy, had gotten killed. I tell you all that to tell you this. Our pentagon is a bloated disaster. I prefer to call them the war pimps. Because thats exactly what they are. Every year we pass a bigger and more bloated budget for the pentagon. This year i believe it was 30 billion more than the year prior to the last budget. I believe thats correct. More than even President Joe Biden had asked us to put in. Yet when folks like myself question it, people question our patriotism. Im not offended by much up here, mr. Speaker, but that really does that is the cherry on top. We should stop focusing so much on passing a bill that will be totally fine in the senate. As we said during the debt ceiling debate, we should put our stake down. Yet now we dont want to put our stake down, we want to send a bill over there at one time that would just cut the rate of growth. Which is washington speak for not cutting anything. Were not Senate Democrats, we cant pass a budget that looks like theirs. But the art of compromise should be in there. When i was in the state legislature in tennessee, we passed i was the house sponsor of a bill to raise the speed limit. Now, i asked for 85, knowing that i would get 70. And oddly enough, my Senate Colleague was steve cohen, who is now my colleague here in the United States congress. And we compromised. But we knew what we needed. I actually truth be known, mr. Speaker, id brought Peyton Manning to the floor of the house the week before. I probably could have gotten 100 Miles Per Hour and maybe even gotten communism, im not sure, or might have been anointed as king at that point because Peyton Manning was and still is that popular. But that was a different time. Weve got to make some serious changes now. Or were going to lose our country. I always remember my daddy, who is a world war ii veteran, we were at our house in west knoxville, 8220, bennington drive, i no longer live there. We were in the living room. And i mean, in the dining room, i remember. One of the few times it was cleaned out. We always cleaned it out for thanksgiving and christmas. But most of the time it was for storage. But we were in there and we had this little color tv that was over there and wemp watching the we were watching the Election Results come in that night and they were not going very well. And i remember my daddy said the blessing, it was just me and him and we had a pizza, or as i like to say, wemp having a that we were having a traditional italian meal, but dont send me any letters, i know thats not very traditional. Daddy said the prayer and the blessing and all he said was, lord, please do not let us lose our country. And i guess thats what drives me i guess thats what drives me now. Because dadgumit, im afraid were going to lose our country. This road to reckless spending is going to get us there. We need to stop spending the American Peoples hardearned money like were kids in a candy store. One of the areas we could be doing some cuts. We could close down the department of education. I have a degree in education. My mama was a schoolteacher her whole life my sister is has a degree in education. My daddy was a principal in tennessee. If we could stop washington, d. C. From take its cut off the top i think we could go a long way. Theres not one bureaucrat in washington, d. C. , in the department of education, that ever taught a little kid thousand read at sara moore Green Elementary School in knoxville, tennessee, and i dare say there never will be. But theyll be taking care cut off the top like the mob does and that needs to stop. Allow the states the responsibility that they deserve to be responsible stewards of our money and send it to them and let them decide. What works in washington, d. C. , sure as heck doesnt work in clayborn county in east tennessee. Weve got to stop spending the American Peoples hardearned money like were a kid in a candy store with a credit card with no limit. Because that limit is coming due. We do not need a continued resolution. We dont need to play any more games. We just need clean bills with real cuts to get our country back on track. Mr. Speaker, i thank you for your time. And i appreciate the folks in the audiences indulgence. Thank you and i yield the remainder of my time. 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