For legislative business. With votes postponed until 6 30 p. M. On tuesday and wednesday the house will meet at 10 00 a. M. For morning our debate in 12 00 p. M. For legislative business. On thursday the house will meet at 9 00 a. M. For legislative business in the last boat of the week is expected no later than 3 00 p. M. Th madam speaker we will consider several bills under the suspension ofl the world hr 463, Terrorism Risk Insurance Program reauthorization act of very significant and bipartisann bil. The complete list of bills will be announced by the close ofus business today. In addition the house will be considering a continuing resolution through december 20 to keep government open on operating on behalf of the American People. Mathouse speaker im deeply disappointed how the senate cant complete the work on appropriation to consider another continuing resolution. This is evidence of failure, not of success. It is absolutely essential we pass it to keep her government operating but an indication that we have not gotten our Business Done as we should. I would remind house members that we passed 96 of the funding of government by june 26 of this year. Or approximately three months before the end of the fiscal year, by the end of the fiscal year, the United States senate had passed not a single appropriation bill. So im disappointed by that but recognize the passing the cr is absolutely essential. Rather than kick the can further down the road, we must use that time between now and december 20 tuna agreement on the allocations which will allow us to move appropriation bills with thepr bipartisan budget cap agreement. Lastly, the house will consider hr v 1309 and Workplace Violence prevention for healthcare and social Service Workers in this bipartisan bill directs the Occupational Safety and the administration. To issue a standard requiring healthcare and social Service Employers to write and implement a Workplace Violence prevention plan to prevent and protect employees from violent incidents is at work. And i yield back to the republican leader. Thank you for yielding back and walking through the schedule. As we have been hearing about thear cr, i expressed similar disappointment we were not been able to get the full year appropriation bill agreed upon by both the house and the senate as we work incredibly hard to getrd it to the budget deal and very bipartisan agreement and the objective of getting into the budget deal in last Years Congress was to ensure we could agree on levels of funding for our troops which we did to make sure instead of having crs we were able to have a full year of spending bill thats agreed on by both sides so we can give certainty to our troops, theyre not getting the tools that they need. But we already agreed on the levels of funding and theyre still not an agreed negotiation pray this is not a case where the house can sit back and wait for the senate to do something, we are in a cr where there is a limited amount of time. The cr will go through the december 20 for a few more wee weeks, is not a matter of waiting for the senate to come to agreement between republicans and democrats. Its a matter of getting the house and senate to get an agreement. At some point somebody in the leadership of the House Majority is going to have to sit down with somebody in the leadership of the Senate Majority and everybody has different parties and ideas and they have to stay in the room until they get an agreement. Its happened before, and has to happen this time and has not happened yet. I dont know if the honest negotiations are going on between whoever in your House Majority will be in the lead position to head that negotiation and whoever on the senate side might be the procreation chairs or your appropriation care. Whoever is designated by the house predicted be a commitment that you sit in a room until you figure out the differences. We agreed on the number. We passed the bipartisan to your budget deal for the purpose of specially making sure our military does not go in limbo and the other federal agencies that are important to that need to get the agreed numbers that they can come to an agreement to on the stand but ultimately we know the cost, overhearing the cost from the military generals of cr. Its probably a billion and half billion dollars a month. That they lose. That the a lot of other things going on and ill get into the impeachment infatuation and what its taken away from, hope is not taken away from the ability to get the agreement. This is something both sides will have to do. Until both sides get the agreement. The most disappointing thing, we early agreed on the budget numbers. Thats usually the big fight. We had that fight and an agreement. Bipartisan, this is how much we will spend, this is how much on nondefense and yet even with a agreement we cannot get the final bills onto the floor, not partisan bills but bipartisan bills that can ultimately get signed. I hope that gets done soon, both sides will have tougt h. Do. How Senate Republican democrat. And i would yield. Madam speaker the gentleman talks about bipartisan agreeme agreement, he does not talk about the star fact that the house did its job, we passed bills. We passed 96 of the funding of government in the senate led by republicans, prior to the end of the fiscal year passed 0 , it is hard to come to an agreement when the senate does not pass anything. Nothing. 0. Mainly because they needed the president to say simon says. I know that for a fact based upon conversation with the leadership of the senate. That the president signing off and we know that the acting chief of staff when he was here in this body voted to shut the government down and voted against opening up and said we ought to have a sequester for this fiscal year. That was his position. It was his position as well who is acting owen b. And madame speaker in my opinion of the acting chief ofmi staff. So for the republican to say og with were wringing our hands and ,e passed partisan bills, of course we passed because your side would not work with us on our bills. I would suggest not simply a difference of opinion, as a matter of fact on the defense spending that the gentleman mentioned i know for a fact because they talk to them. On the republican side and both of the committees on appropriations and authorizing the 733 figure that we use was an acceptable figure. A figure by the way acceptable to the joint chief of staff but its very hard to reach anth agreement of one side does not say anything or send any bill or take any action. There was nothing to negotiate on in the gentleman talks about a bill, first of all the only thing that was agreed to was how much money we will spend overall on discretionary spending, a little over 30 of the entire budget. But there was no agreement on the distribution of those dollars to the various committees. The gentleman says so much on the defense, nondefense and the gentleman is correct. But quite frankly what the Senate Democrats are concerned that they will be passing bills and money will become from programs that we feel are important to build a wall. A wall the somebody brought a hundred dollars saul to home depot and cut a hole in. So i would reiterate my disappointment with the total failure of the United States senate led by republicans to enact any bill that appropriated money for the operation of government prior to the end of this fiscal year. I say to my friend, there are people and as you know the speaker mr. Miniature had an agreement. What does that reflect, simon says. Because the senate will not act as an independent body coequal branch of the government of the United States. Mr. Mcconnell has said we will not pass anything unless the president will sign it. As if we had no mind of her own. As if the representatives of the American People who vote by majority and pass something or by 60 votes in the senate only one vote counts. The president of the United States. Element that fact. Matter speaker i tell the minority leader that i regret and i will tell him and i hope he believes me because i believe it if it were a democratic president , id be prepared to vote for bills on this floor that i believe the American People would support in this body would support. And if the president signs it, he signs it and s if he doesnte see if we have two thirds under the constitution and if we dont the bill does not become law. Thats how the system out of work. St but no were negotiating with mre senate. Not with mr. Lahey, not even with senator mcconnell. Were simply waiting for the president to tell the senate this allocation is okay. That is why in my view, they do not pass a single bill for the end of the fiscal year. But i hope we passed the cr, opitz is clean as it can be theres anomalies that have to be taken care of but will take care of b those. And things that have to be extended because it can expire at the end of this month and i hope we do that and i hope we can join together in a bipartisan way to do that and i joined my friends, madame speaker and hope we can get to a bipartisan agreement. Theres nobody that will serve the doesnt know i work towards that. And i will continue to work towards him. I yield back. Think the gentleman for yielding and lets be clear that we both know the senate operates differently than the house there was 60 vote requirement which means with the senate to move anything it takes republicans and democrats to come to an agreement. The gentleman can talk about issues were republicans are in disagreement and i truly go through where areas were democrats are in disagreement for example Border Security which is a clear Sticking Point, one hold up and getting an agreement, we probably have a pretty good agreement on defense even though the gentleman says the house did its job, the houses job is to pass bills that can ultimately become law to advance all the things we agree upon and there is a president that is part of thisomrt proces. Like in previous demonstrations, when we have these negotiations often times is not just the house and senate, clearly we need more serious agreements and negotiations between house and Senate Leaders to come to an agreement but ultimately you have to produce a bill that the whitwhite house is in agreement. At some level, the president is going to veto a bill its worth having negotiation to see if you can get beyond that. This would not be the first to ministration were the house and senate negotiated with the white house. The gentleman has been in have been many president s. Where we negotiate and try to come to an agreement. It does not mean they all end up being signed, and might be veto. The president has the power to veto so its worth our time to see the house and senate can get an agreement but also an agreement with the white house two. Not the first time that has happened, those negotiations are going on but the wall is a Sticking Point. We are building walls eight and a half billion dollars this Previous Year was allocated and were going to negotiate what thats going to be next her. Hopefully we can come to an agreement. Should not be that difficult bt it is a Sticking Point. There are number of Sticking Points but as a Sticking Point tapping, we acknowledge it cost us and cost our defense in the Nations Defense suffers when we operate undere cr. The cr being talked about goes through december 20. My question to w the gentleman s the week of december 16 the houses schedule not to be in session and that would be the same week that the cr is being contemplated would expire, are we planning on coming back into session that week of december 16 and december 20 is going to be the expiration of the currency are being negotiated. I think the gentleman for yielding. I would advise all members on both sides of the aisle not to schedule any business outside of washington, d. C. Between the 16th and the 20th of this month. I will advise him further, if in fact we do not Fund Government by the 20th they may well be here longer than that. We will not leave her without funding the government of the United States of america. I yield back. I appreciate ther. Update on the schedule and with that i was talking december 20 november 20. So the week of december 16 youre w suggesting im advising all members to ensure their schedules accommodate sessions between the 16th and the 20th of december. Which was originally as a gentleman points out not schedule. But that was on the thought that we would rationally get past only bills we really have to pass and thats appropriation bills. By the way the way that should work as we possible, the Senate Passes a bill and yes they require 60 votes, what does that mean. It means they have to come to a compromise at a higher number. We did not have to do that. We got some republican votes for some of the bills but the fact is we did our business and frankly we did before, its been done since ive been here. 96 of the governmentfunded. And we sent them to the senate. In the senate has not considered a single one of those bills. Because they had no stomach for compromise, they have a stomach which is why were negotiating with mr. Mnuchin and not the Senate Leadership. To listen to what apparently, the president will accept. I agree with the minority whip that considering the administration views is important. Because of course we want the bill signed. But we have known for a very long time that the republicans could not come on this floor, neither speaker ryan nor speaker painter could negotiate with mr. The minority whip knows that, as a matter of fact a lot of the republicans have talked to me about how difficult mulvaney is to deal with. But we waited for checkoff, either from the chief of staff mulvaney or the president himself. Not we in the house, we in the senate. I tell my friend the senate was not prepared to bring their bills, not our bills, to the floor to achieve that bipartisan agreement of which the minority whip speaks. Not a single bill was brought to the floor before the end of the fiscal year. You are not going to get any kind of agreement if you dont move forward and you just wait to what mr. Mulvaney wants us to do. I yield back. Think the gentleman for yielding. I wasld just working with mr. Mulvaney yesterday on usmc, something i would hope to see us bring to the house for clearly by the end of this year end shouldve been done along time ago something he and others in the t ministration have taken a point on trying to get a negotiation concluded so we can create more jobs in the country and better trade off opportunities for families we represent. Even of mr. Mnuchin were to get an agreement, we know that mr. Mnuchin does not have a vote in the senate and even if a republican in the senate agreed with mr. Mnuchin you cannot possible in the senate because it takes democrats working as well. The families we represent are much less concerned about whos side thinks the right as they going in a room and work it out. Its been done before and not to be done this time and i would encourage that between now and december 20 we dont have to wait till december 16, i would hope those leaders on your side majority would go get with the leaders inn the senate and come to an agreement. Im sure the home conversations along the way with the white house to butt out a minimum to get the house and senate to come to an agreement and not complain who passed bills and who did not. Nda was passed in a person way, never happened before and congress, your side chose to do a partisan bill where there was a bipartisan bill to be had. Yet that was put on the side. There is a bipartisan way to do funding the arm forces of the United States at a figure that the joint chief of staff thought was a figure that was unacceptable and supportive of our National Security and almost every republican everyone voted against it. The level of funding was not the issue. It was a limitation on the Defense Department to do the job properly that were added in one everyone knew they were partisan additions that was never in previous bills. We can get it done without partisan bills and if you want to do the bipartisan bills, it will not get signed and the law. Our job should be to make law and put the differences on the side and worked there and get it done. The toys been done before. Nda has never been a partisan bill until this year. Madame speaker i would say thats not accurate having said that, we hope we can move forward. But to absolve the United States senate led by republicans and have a majority of republicans controlling the Appropriation Committee and the senate in controlling what goes on the floor, democrats dont control it. They did not bring a single appropriation bill to the floor. If you dont like our ideas, put your ideas on the floor have them voted up and if they lose you have to get a a compromise r you dont get a bill passed. Ill leave it to the American Public to determine who is being partisan on this issue and who s is not. I yelled. We know the rules of the senate, they operate differently and we might both agree that we would do things differently, we do things differently than they do. But ultimately both sides have to come to an agreement and hopefully that happens in the next few weeks, not in the midnight hour but december 20 unless a gentleman has anything else i yield back the balance of my time. Next week the House Intelligence Committee and chair adam schiff continue public impeachment inquiry hearing beginning Tuesday Morning at nine eastern on cspan3. Watch live testimony from jennifer williams, aid to mike pence and director for European AffairsNational Security council alexander vindman. In a 230, ambassador kirk volker the special envoy to ukraine and National SecurityCouncil White house aide to morrison. On wednesday 9 00 a. M. Eastern, testimony continues with u. S. 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