Right thing for our party. He made sure we could continue to negotiate and achieve the objects my friend from virginia laid out and achieved them in divided government. So im very proud of this speaker. Im very proud to stand behind him. Tomorrow morning whether i win or lose, im going to be pretty proud of the people i fought with and im be extraordinarily proud of the person i fought for, the Speaker Of The House, Kevin Mccarthy. With that i reserve the balance of my time. [applause] the gentleman from oklahomas time is reserved. The gentleman from florida. My friend from oklahoma says my colleagues and i dont support Kevin Mccarthy would plunge the house and the country in to chaos. Chaos is Speaker Mccarthy. Chaos is somebody that we cannot trust with their word. The one thing that the white house, House Democrats and many of us reason the conservative side of the Republican Caucus would argue is that the thing we have in common, Kevin Mccarthy said something to all of us at one point or another that he didnt really mean and never intended to live up to. I dont think voting against Kevin Mccarthy mccarthy is chaos. I think 33 trillion in debt is chaos. I think not passing single Subject Spending Bills is chaos. The fact that weve been governed in this country since the Mid 90s By Continuing Resolution and omnibus is chaos. The way to liberate ourselves from that is a series of reforms to this body that i would hope would outlast Speaker Mccarthys time here, outlast my time here and outlast either of our majoritys. Reforms that i have heard the most conservative members of this body fight 4 and some of the reforms that we have been battling for that i even heard those in the Democratic Caucus would be worthy and helpful to the house. Like open amendments. Like understanding the budget. Weve been out of compliance with budget laws for most of my life. Most of many of your lives. By the way, if we did those things, if we had single subject bills, if we had an understanding on the top line, if we had open amendments, if we had trust and honesty and understanding, there would be times when my conservative colleagues and i would lose, might be a few times when wed win. Might be times that we would form partnerships that might otherwise be really predictable in the american body politic. The American People would see us legislating. These last few days, weve suspended the momentum that we had established the week earlier where we were bringing bills to the floor, voting on them. Working hard. Thats what the American People expect. Something Speaker Mccarthy has not delivered. Thats why i have moved to vacate the chair. Gentleman from oklahoma, mr. Cole. Thanks very much, mr. Speaker. Yield two minutes for mr. Emmer from minnesota. Mr. Emmer is recognized for two minutes. Kevin mccarthy has earned this. Under Speaker Mccarthys leadership, our majority has defied all odds and overperformed expectations again and again and again. Kevin mccarthy showed the American People how he would never give up. It carried over in to the speakers spearheading a rules package to overcome the most legislative process that ive seen since ive been here. Since then, Speaker Mccarthys republican majority has been successful in bringing common sense back to our nations capitol bypassing legislation to affirm a parents right to be involved in their childs education. Bolster American Energy production. Fully fund veterans care and benefits. Fight back against the regulatory state and continue delivering on our promise to reign in democrats reckless spending by passing fiscally responsible Appropriations Bills. Weve achieved historic conservative wins like passing the strongest Border Security legislation in history. Passing the first republicanonly ndaa in history and passing the first republicanonly state and foreign operations Appropriations Bills. So Many Americans are better off because of Kevin Mccarthys leadership. Service members, Law Enforcement officer and the list goes on and on. These are just a few of our House Republican majority successes. Make no mistake, we need Kevin Mccarthy to remain speaker if were going to stay focused on our mission of delivering common sense wins for the American People. Weve shown americans what Success Looks like when we come together as a team. Now its time for us to stand together stronger than ever so we can get back to the work our majority was elected to do. Im proud to support the speaker as we continue championing conservative priorities that will put our country on a better path. Thank you, Speaker Mccarthy. Gentleman from florida. [applause] the opening line of my colleagues speech is that Speaker Mccarthy always overperforms expectations. After tweeting bring it, he just lost a motion to table. So i wouldnt necessarily consider that overperforming expectations. Ive heard my colleagues say he desuffers it because he went through a tough Speaker Contest. Let me let every one know, he prevailed in that Speaker Contest because he made an agreement to fulfill certain commitments to make this an open and honest process and he has failed to meet those commitment. Thats why were here. I reserve. The Gentleman Reserves his time. Gentleman from oklahoma, mr. Cole. Yield three minutes to mr. Jordan of ohio. Gentleman from ohio is recognized for three minutes. I thank the gentleman. January 3, we said the 118th Congress is about three things. Pass the bills that need passed, do the Oversight Work that needs to be done and stop the omnibus that comes from the United States senate right before the holidays. Kevin mccarthy has been rock solid on all three. We have passed the bills we told the American People we would pass. 87,000 irs agents, that bill passed. Parents bill of rights, that bill passed. Energy legislation passed, boarder secured, Immigration Enforcement legislation, the strongest bill to passed the congerly they are year. We have done what we told them we were going to do. We cant help the senate wont take up those bills. Theyll have to answer to the American People come election day. Oversight. We have done the oversight that were supposed to do. Because of our oversight, we know parents were targeted by the department of justice. We know 51 former intel officials misled the American People before the election. And the department of Homeland Security is gone because of our oversight, the Memo Attacking Pro Life Catholic has been rescinded. That happened under Speaker Mccarthy. On the third one, on this side, we know theres a Big Old Ugly Bill coming at the end of the year. All kinds of spendings, all kinds of garbage. We dont know how that will shake out to matts point. We do know this. Saturday, we didnt take the senates bill. They tried to send over and shove it down our throats. We didnt take that bill. It was a tough position he was in. There were five options on the table last week. Option one was rescind a longterm cr over there that would have leveraged the 1 cut. Something that a bunch of us voted for. Second, the focus on the one issue the country is focused on. The border issue. We couldnt get the votes. When the senate send us that bill, he said no. The speaker has kept his word. He has kept his word on those three things that we talked about on january 3. Hes kept his word. I think we should keep him as speaker. I yield back. [applause] the gentleman from florida is recognized. The problem with my friend from ohios argument, many of the bills he references as passed are not law. Were on the way to an omnibus bill and its difficult to champion oversight when House Republicans havent even sent a subpoena to hunter biden. So its hard to make the argument that oversight is the reason to continue when it looks like failure theater. I yield such time and go to mr. Bates. Gentleman from arizona is recognized. What he consumes. So much as he may consume. Thank you. This is a serious time. My mind immediately goes to the young deputy from Cochise County who two nights ago while trying to apprehend a runaway Vehicle Smuggling Humans across the border. Suffered major injuries, transported to pima county where hes in A Tucson Hospital Fighting for his life. Im talking about a border that remains wide open. Where drugs come through, the tucson sector, the most gotaways and unknown across the sector. Terrorists coming in. People conducting criminal conduct coming in. Criminal gang members. Human smugglers, sex traffickers. They come across our border to the tune of Hundreds Of Thousands every month. Now, i appreciate my colleagues and their position. I would suggest something. I dont think you can just skip to last weekend and say oh, my goodness. A c. R. Came out last weekend on saturday. I think we need to go back to january. Ill say this. This body came together on the republican side and we passed a good Border Security piece of legislation. H. R. 2. Thats good. Then last week we passed the dhs bill and the dod bills, which had funding for our cbp, ice, military leaders. Military men and women. But why were we successful in doing that . What happened to motivate us to get there . For one thing, we didnt bother to pass the 12 Appropriations Bills as required understood the Budget Control and impounds law of 1974. We didnt do it. You know how many times thats not been done . 25 years in a row. You know how many crs this body has passed in that same period of time . 130. You know what that gets you . A 2 trillion plus structural deficit like we had in fiscal year 23. You know what that leaves you to . A 33 trillion national debt, which is where we sit today. Leads you to somewhere north of 700 billion in interest payments. You know why that happened . Because this body is entrenched In A Suboptimal Path and refuses to leave it. Refuses to leave that path. You cannot change if youre unwilling to change. We had every opportunity to change. We were promised change. We were promised we were going to go ahead and get those 12 bills done. If we got them done, do you know why you do 12 bills . It allows you to reduce spending, get rid of wasteful programs. It allows you to set an agenda to restore fiscal sanity. We chose to not do it again. We were promised wed do it. Thats why at the end some people said well vote present. Go ahead. Well put our trust in mr. Mccarthy to become the speaker. That didnt happen. I suspected that would be the case. That was my struggle. That was my struggle last november and december. I iterated it to this body, our conference, anyway. When we got to the debt ceiling, that seemed to spring upon everybody like a surprise. When that happened, i was in there for some of those negotiations on where that number would be. I was astonished how that 1. 5 trillion number was negotiated. Unbelievable. Unbelievable. I will tell you this to his credit, the speaker told us one thing that i believe to be true. He said thats basically the ante in the poker game. I told my colleagues that supported that 1. 5 trillion in eight months that youre willing to raise the debt ceiling, thats the opening marker. Indeed it was. Now projections are many trillions above that. Yes, i think its time to make a change. Im not the only one. Thats somber. Thus it is somber. What have we failed to accomplish . We didnt we get this stuff done . When were campaigning, were talking about an extension of the Debt Creeling to january of 2025. Were talking about additional ukraine funding. Maybe thats good in your districts. Maybe its not. But that money is not offset. Were not paying for it. We havent designated how were going to pay for it. The same with the disaster package. The irs remains 80 increased. I will tell you i can go down the list. Ill tell you why this happens. When you dont do your 12 budget bills and you rely on a cr ill get to the calendar in a second what happens is you cannot leverage this administration to actually enforce the border laws that you need to have enforced. This is a lawless biden regime. They will not enforce border laws. We can pass them until were blue in the face. Until you leverage the budget and the spending, you will not see enforcement by this administration. So now take a look at the calendar that we were just provided last week. Were supposed to finish by november 3 our 12 bills. By november 17 thats when were supposed to see that the Conference Committees have come together, both sides. We resolve this. I dont believe that that will happen. It wasnt going to happen before. You were betting on the come again. At some point, id urge you to some betting on the come and bet on the reality. Thats why i cant support the speaker any longer and ill be voting for the motion to vacate. Gentleman yields back. Gentleman from florida reserved. Members are advised to direct your comments to the chair. Gentleman from oklahoma. Thank you. I yield two minutes to mr. Westerman. Gentleman from arkansas, mr. Westerman is recognized for two minutes. Celah. Celah. This unique work scattered thought the psalms issues to the reader to pause and take a deep breath. Its used to emphasize the significance of a statement. For example, king david wrote blessed be the lord that bears our burden, the god that is our salvation. Celah. That is a profound statement with huge implications. It deserves more than a consideration. Within the next hour, this house will vote yay or nay to vacate the speakers chair, a profound action can huge implications. This was last tried in 1910. Joseph cannon won the vote, 113 years later, my office is in the Cannon Office building and uncle joe cannons statue sits outside this chamber. No living human has taken the vote were act to take. It deserves that we pause, we reflect. That we consider typely the ramification of our actions. To my fellow republicans that consider voting yes to removing our speaker, pause and ask yourself two questions. Will you yes vote make america stronger . Will your yes vote strengthen conservative policies . If you believe yes is the right vote, please stand before this body and the American People an articulate your plan. Not your grievances or your wishes. Your plan. Convince the vast majority of the republican conference that strongly disagrees with you to follow you. If you cannot do that, which you have failed to do so far, then voting yes is at the least a disruptive overreaction. In reality, its selfish. Bad for conservative policies and bad for america. Thats why i strongly support speaker Kevin Mccarthy and why without hesitation or reservation i will vote no on this disastrous resolution. I yield back. [applause] gentleman from florida. Theres nothing selfish about wanting a Speaker Of The House that tells the truth. I reserve. The Gentleman Reserves his time. Gentleman from oklahoma, mr. Cole. Thank you very much, mr. Speaker. Yield two minutes to my good friend from kentucky, mr. Massey. Gentleman from kentucky, mr. Massey is recognized for two minutes. Mr. Speaker, as the only coauthor of the motion to vacate, Speaker Boehner, this motion is a terrible idea. The only member that is serving here that took every chance to vote against Speaker Boehner and to vote against speaker ryan. I can tell you that this chamber has been run better, More Con Suchively and more transparently under mr. Mccarthy than any other speaker that i have served under. As a member of the rules committee, one of three conservatives that were placed there out of trust, the speaker gave us A Blocking Position by putting three of us on there to make sure the process was fair and even. I can tell you its been fair and even. None of us are voting against the speaker today. Regular order is at odds with predetermined outcomes. Yet the speaker is being accused of not holding to regular order and predetermined outcomes at the same time. It is not possible. You cannot be for both at the same time. I was a party to the january agreement. I can tell you, that there were promises in there. But there was never a promise for an outcome. Never a promise that you could force joe biden to sign something. There was only the promise that we would try. Try we have. We have tried in the rules committee. We have tried on the floor. We have been trying since this summer. Theres enough blame to go around for why we dont have 12 bills but part of it was a relitigation of the Debt Limit Deal. There was no promise on the Debt Limit Deal. No conditions on that in january. Zero whatsoever. I was in the room for that. So the 12 bills were delayed over what . 100 billion. Thats a lot of money. Its nothing compared to the 2 trillion that i came here to object to when Speaker Pelosi and President Trump pushed that bill through. Weve had over 500 amendments, this is a referendum on this institution. We have tried regular order. Speaker mccarthy has tried regular order. If regular order fails today, if you vacate the speaker gentlemans time is expired. This institution will fail. Please do not vacate the speaker. [applause] gentleman from florida. I reserve. Gentleman from florida reserves his time. Mr. Cole . Thanks very much, mr. Speaker. I yield two minutes to my good friend from california. Gentleman from california, mcclintock is recognized for two minutes. If there was ever a tame for sobriety, wisdom and caution in this house, it is right now. If this motion carries, the house will be paralyzed. We can expect week after week of fruitless ballots. The democrats will revel and republican dysfunction and the public will rightly be repulsed. It will end when the democrats were able to enlist a caucus of republicans to join a coalition to end the impasse. This house will shift dramatically to the end and end the Republican House majority that the republicans elected in 2022. That will neutralize the only counter weight in our elected government to the woke lefts control of the senate and the white house. At a time when their policies are destroying our economy and have opened our borders to invasion. There are turning points in history whose significance is only relied by the events that they unleash, this is one of those times. We are at the precipice. Theres only minutes left to come to our senses and realize the grave danger our country is in. Dear god, grant us the wisdom to see it and save our country from it. [applause] gentleman from florida. Mr. Speaker, theres nothing sober, wise or cautious about the path we are on. We are on a path to financial ruin if this house does not take a different posture, a different procedure and yield toward different outcomes and a better future. I reserve. Gentleman reserves his time. Mr. Cole. Thanks. I yield 1 1 2 minutes to my good friend from florida, mr. Gimenez. 1 1 2 minutes. I stand before my colleagues and the nation as a proud representative of the great state of florida. Im beyond blessed to represent the paradise that is Miamidade County and the florida keys. Im beyond proud to represent my community before this congress to stand with a leader who has consistently demonstrated an unwaivers commitment to our country and the principles that define us as americans, Kevin Mccarthy. Today is historic, this is the first time in over 100 years this has been attempted. Its also because were a part of a congress with tight majorities and we have a Democratic White House divided government. Thats what we have. The need to negotiation to find solutions to the issues facing this country, thats a reflection of the principles that are uniquely american. Principles that make this country exceptional. Principals that allowed me fleeing communist cuba to serve in this very institution. I wasnt born here. Everything that i am, everything that i ever will be is thanks to america. The best part about it is that my story, the story of the community im proud to represent is the story of many in this body. Were not the exception in america. Were the rule. Thats the america that Kevin Mccarthy has fought for his career. Kevin mccarthy is a champion for the American Dream and hes proved it as our speaker. Thomas jefferson once said i predict future happiness for americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the American People under the guise of taking care of them. The gentlemans time is expired. Thank you. Lets keep Kevin Mccarthy our speaker. A great man, a great speaker. I yield back. [applause] gentleman from florida, mr. Gaetz. Gentleman has 9 3 4s reserves. Mr. Cole . I yield 1 1 2 minutes to my good friend from iowa. The gentle lady, mrs. Hinson. Mrs. His son is recognized for 1 1 2 minutes. I rise in support of Kevin Mccarthy. We would not have a House Republican majority without the relentless efforts of this man, our speaker. Under his leadership, joe bidens policies have had a check and balance. His policies have created a horrific border crisis, 10,000 illegals a day surging across our border. Republicans have passed legislation to secure our border. Joe biden has sold our oil reserves to china. Republicans have passed legislation to unleash American Energy dominance. Joe biden has spend taxpayer dollars like theres no time. Under Speaker Mccarthy, we have returned to passing single subject Appropriations Bills and ending the status quo of omnibus spending. One of the most valuable pieces i received is from Kevin Mccarthy when i got here to d. C. He told me to separate the signal from the noise. The noise is those that are causing chaos for their own personal benefit while ignoring the needs of their constituents and this country rshgs grinding our work here to a halt. The signal is the many accomplishments that we delivered for the American People with Speaker Mccarthy at the helm. The signal is the failures coming out of the white house. The signal is the work that we must do today and Going Forward to save our country for my kids and yours. My colleagues have a choice. Be a chaos agent or get back to work. So i call on my colleagues, lets separate the signal from the noise. Lets support our speaker, Kevin Mccarthy, so we can get back to work for the American People. Thank you, i yield back. Gentleman from florida, mr. Gaetz. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Ive caught the signal, too. The signal for 33 trillion in debt, facing 2. 2 trillion annual deficits. Our fellow americans may be watching wondering how does that happen . How does the greatest country in the world have a process so broken that it would be laughed out of the rooms in the halls of the State Legislatures where many of us come from . Heres how it works. The law says that were supposed to have the very single Subject Spending Bills that my colleague referenced in the summer. Were supposed to have that and move it. Theres a Dirty Little Secret in this town. That is if you delay, if you hold the bills, if you make multiple contradictory promises as Speaker Mccarthy has done and you back everybody up against shutdown politics, well, nobody wants to shut the government down. Nobody cheers for a shutdown. Of course, when people are backed up against shut down politics, the decision calculus changes. Year after year, decade after decade, we break the law and we do the same thing. We pass a continuing resolution, then we pass another continuing resolution and its either another continuing resolution or an Omnibus Bills or a series that lumps them together. The American People want us to take votes on single subject matters. They dont want to see these things mushed together and log rolled. It was concerning to me to hear of news of a secret deal on ukraine funding that would have logrolled more money with ukraine with our southern border. How offensive is that to our customs and Border Patrol, to ice, to the people suffering as a consequence of our boreder that some of my colleagues are only willing to fight for our boredfer they can send billions to ukraine. Ive had enough of that. Thats why i brought this motion to vacate. I reserve. Gentlemans time is reserved. Gentleman from oklahoma, mr. Cole. Thanks very much, mr. Speaker. I yield one minute to our distinguished Majority Leader, my good friend from louisiana, mr. Scalise. The gentleman from louisiana, scalise. I thank my friend from oklahoma for yielding. When we go back to january as many people have, we knew that it was going to be a narrow majority. We also knew it was president go to be easy. How many of us came here because we thought this job was going to be easy . How many of us thought the task ahead of us to address the problems of this country was going to be easy . One thing we did know is that if we were going to finally start confronting problems that had been ignored for years and years and years, we had to change the way that this place worked. One thing Speaker Mccarthy embraced from day one is to start making those kind of changes to this institution, opening up the process. Allowing members to be more engaged. Having amendments come to the floor. Single subject bills. Doing Appropriations Bills. Yes, making that happen overnight is not something that happens automatically. It started to happen. Were now seeing the fruits of it. Last week we had four different Appropriations Bills on this house floor. Four different ones. They took weeks and weeks to finally get to the floor, going through an open committee process. Hundreds of amendments. Each one of them. Republicans and democrats could bring their ideas. We debated those bills on the floor. Some until after midnight. Where members could actually participate in the process. This has been a broken process for a long time. But its a process where we, if were going to confront the problems that families are facing, because right now we need to resolve our differences in this House Chamber before we can go and fight for the families struggling. Every single day across america, families are struggling with real problems that were going to have to get back to solving. Those problems are real for them. Its inflation. Its the economy. Its high energy costs. Its an open southern border that doesnt just affect the border states, its affecting every state, republican districts and democratic districts. Everybody knows it. It can be ignored by the white house, but this house is the only body that started to take action. When we were hr 2 and then with the border bill last week and with over the action we took last week were 70 of Government Funding passed out of the house. However, everybody voted. Republican or democrat, this house passed funding for over 70 of the federal governments operation. Its sitting over in the senate where they passed zero. Were going to beat up each other and talk about our internal processes and we need to get our internal processes working better. But you know what . So does that other body over there and so does the white house. Everybody in this town needs to be engaged and addressing these problems. If we dont start here, if we dont focus these next 45 days because thats what weve got in front of us, weve got two bills this week, two more Appropriations Bills next week. If were going to be confronting those, we have to stay focused on our mission. What the other side does, lets continue to put pressure on them. We also need to put pressure on ourselves to do our job. Speaker mccarthy has been leading at the top of the level to make sure that we have the tools to do our jobs. This house has to continue to make those changes. The American People sent us here to confront those problems. Were finally starting to. This isnt the time to slow that process down. We need to keep doing our work. We need to keep fighting for the families struggling. So does the senate and so does the white house as well. Lets keep doing this work that we were sent here to do. I yield back. [applause] gentleman from florida is recognized with 7 3 4 minutes remaining. Mr. Cole commands 12 1 2 minutes left in this debate. I agree with everything that the Majority Leader said in those remarks except one thing. It is astonishing to hear any colleague give Speaker Mccarthy credit to moving on to the single subject appropriations business. As you heard mr. Business say, that was never the plan from Speaker Mccarthy. The week before, we moved on to the single superintendent Appropriations Bills. The plan was another cr. He pitched it. They tried to get us to vote for a cr. Only when a brave few said were done governing by continuing resolution. Were here to eulogize the area of a cr. The Department Of Labor and military and troops and Border Patrol is fundamentally unserious and i would suggest chaotic. We cannot do that. Only because we forced that to happen. By the way, if we continue with Speaker Mccarthy, the Appropriations Process will go back to what he wanted to. A side show, a puppet show. Just something to keep the hamsters on the Hamster Wheel as they centralize power with the lobbyists and special interests that move the money through the leadership. Thats how they get their way and thats why the American People have been getting screwed decade after decades and im not going to tolerate it anymore without a fight. I reserve. The gentlemans time is reserved. The gentleman from oklahoma, mr. Cole. I yield two minutes to fellow member of the appropriations committee, mr. Garcia. Gentleman from california, mr. Garcia is recognized two minutes. I want to recalibrate our minds what is actually happening here today. This proceeding looks importance, feels consequential. Look what else is happening across america. Today about 11,000 people will illegally penetrate our borders. Todays debt is approaching 34 trillion. The Mortgage Rates hit a 25 years high. Our Energy Prices are at back breaking highs with gas approaching 8 a gallon in my district. Today china and the ccp grow stronger with an intent to go to war by 2027 and our military is experiencing record low retention and record low recruitment, this is the reality of today for 335 million americans under president joe biden. Its a dark and scary reality. To republican majority here today in the house is the only fire wall against the damaging far left policies of the biden administration. The single Subject Appropriation Bills that we were supposed to be voting on this week that will fight inflation, cut spending, security our border and enhancing our nations security and investing in our solliers at a meaningful level. Today this body filled with people and fancy suits led by a few republicans that are Running With Scissors and supported by democrats who have personal issues with the speaker have uncertain intentions and more uncertain goals. They have decided to make today about drama. Not about solving problems and helping our constituents, but about drama. We need to be the nodrama option for america. This party, this majority. I feel this selfinflicted drama jeopardizes our majority and by definition removes the last layer of defense protecting america from this biden administration. Lets dispense with the drama and do our jobs and move on with defending this beautiful country. I yield back. [applause] gentleman from florida. Im here to solve problems, too. We have decade after decade of history showing us you dont solve any problems with continuing resolutions and Omnibus Bills. That creates more problems, more debt, more inflation, more Pain Forne American families. The way to solve problems is to break the fever dream of governing by continuing resolution and omnibus bill and return to the single Subject Spending Bills that we will only get if my resolution passes to vacation Speaker Mccarthy. I reserve. Gentleman reserves his time. Gentleman from oklahoma, mr. Cole. Thanks very much, mr. Speaker. I yield two minutes to my very good friend from north carolina, mr. Mchenry. Gentleman from north carolina, mr. Mchenry is recognized for two minutes. Thank you. Every step of the way, speaker Kevin Mccarthy has been doubted. After the first vote, he was mocked. After 15, they called him speaker. Even thenit was the media that mocked him. With the narrowest republican majority in a decade, what did we achieve . We brought the president to the table when he said not to negotiate on the debt ceiling. The speaker said well get him to the table. We did. The result, the most conservative Spending Package weve seen in generations. The largest spending cuts year over year that any congress has passed. Conservative outcomes. I understand your position on the left. I understand that. My friends on the right, why . And then this past weekend i understand the frustration on the left what happened on the continuing resolution. But why would we have conservatives object to that . Why would we have House Members object to that . We rolled the senate. We never roll the senate to get less spending and we got it this weekend. So i understand why the left is mad. What i dont understand is why some republicans think that that is a bad thing. The frustration for me today, i understand where the liberals are. I know you support the Constitutional Order except in a moment like this when youre questioned on that. I understand that. You cant be counted on in a moment like this with the state of the speakership. But for republicans, why would we give up a conservative Working Majority for Better Outcomes and hand the keys over to the democrats . Why would we do that . Furthermore, with the record of success that weve seen Kevin Mccarthy and the republican majority produce in a washington run by democrats, were going to throw that away; resulting in more liberal outcomes, not more conservative ones. I understand why the left is where you are today. You dont like an effective conservative majority and i dont blame you. On the right gentlemans time is expired. Rethink this. The gentleman from florida. [applause] it is lovely to hear from the principle argument text of mr. Mccarthys Debt Limit Deal. Heres the reality. The only republicans in america that believe that the Debt Limit Deal was conservative are in this chamber right now. All over america, republicans think that when you negotiated that Debt Limit Deal, they took your lunch money. I reserve. Gentleman reserves his time. Gentleman from oklahoma, mr. Cole. Thank you, mr. Speaker. I yield 1 1 2 minutes to my very good friend from my home state, gentle lady mrs. Bice. Thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise in support of Kevin Mccarthy. In his leadership in a small fiveseat majority, House Republicans have achieved numerous victories contrary to belief. We passed the parents bill of rights, the Lower Cost Energy act and restore Emergency Energy independence. The fiscal responsibility act, which was one of the largest cuts with enforceable spending caps in american history. And hr 2, the most conservative southern Border Security bill his in history all of this while fully funding our military and our nations veterans. Let me be abundantly clear. Attempting to remove Speaker Mccarthy will put this house in a stalemate. Paralyze our ability to fight for our constituents. Instead, create a fight amongst one another. We have 43 days to restore fiscal responsibility and advance conservative appropriations priorities. Which is exactly what my colleagues have asked for. Instead, we are threatening any house proceedings. This is an unnecessary distraction. Working together under the leadership of Speaker Mccarthy is of the utmost importance. I stand in strongly support Kevin Mccarthy for Speaker Of The House and i encourage my republican colleagues to do the same. Thank you. [applause] mr. Cole continues to reserve his time. He has seven minutes remaining. Mrs. Gaetz has 51 1 2 in this onehour debate. The gentleman from florida will recognize. Ill reserve. Gentleman reserves. Gentleman from oklahoma, mr. Cole. Thanks, mr. Speaker. I yield two minutes to my good friend, our distinguished conference leader, mrs. Stefanik from new york. Shes recognized for two minutes. Anyone and everyone that knows Kevin Mccarthy, whether theyre friend or foe, knows that Kevin Mccarthy is a happy warrior. He is tireless. He has that uniquely american grit. Under his speakership, this republican majority has exceeded all expectations. We reopened the peoples house. We passed the strongest Border Security bill in our nations history. We passed an energy plan to unleash American Energy dominance. We passed Defense Bills to support our troops. Under kevins leadership, hes brought hundreds and hundreds of bipartisan members of congress to israel, our greatest ally. He elected the most diverse class of republicans ever with the largest number of republican women ever in american history. This boy from bakersfield, he cares deeply about his constituents, his country and the American People. That includes each and every one of his colleagues the gentle lady will suspend. And which is why the republicans strongly support Speaker Mccarthy and are proud hes our speaker. I yield back. It was not the intent to cut the gentle lady off. We have too much chatter going on in the House Chamber. Every member deserves to be heard. So if you have private conversations, you need to have them, take them from the floor. Gentle lady may continue. As i have said, the speaker has been to our districts, hes toasted at our weddings, hes celebrated the birth of our children, mourned the loss of our loved ones. Now more than ever, the republicans must unify, the stakes are too high. We need to save our country, which is why this conference is proud to strongly support Kevin Mccarthy as Speaker Of The House. I yield back. [applause] is the gentleman from florida. I would just say if this House Of Representatives has exceeded all expectations, then we definitely need higher expectations. While its Heart Warming and kind that the speaker calls people on their birthday and visits their district and congratulates them on their children, please know that this isnt a critique of the individual. It a critique of the job. The job hasnt been done. Weve had multiple contradictory promises. Its just quite something for those of you keeping track at home, the last three speakers youve heard opposing my Rose Conclusion all voted for the debt deal. If you believe the Debt Limit Deal that Speaker Mccarthy brought into law was a good thing, maybe you agree with their perspective. I think the Debt Limit Deal was a terrible deal and thats one of the reasons it was the original sin of the Mccarthy Speakership and one of the reasons i seek to vacate the chair now. Gentleman. Time is reserved. Mr. Cole . Thanks, mr. Speaker. I yield two minutes to my good friend from the great state of louisiana, mr. Graves. Gentleman from louisiana, mr. Graves is recognized for two minutes. Thank you, mr. Speaker. I want to thank him for yielding. Mr. Speaker, weve been here eight months with one of the tightest majorities in modern history. Yet look at the accomplishments of this majority. This conservative majority with the majority of republicans voting for. The strongest Border Security in my lifetime going against this Energy Policy that is driving up energy 40 . We passed legislation to unleash america ive energy resources. Pushing back this administrations brainless policies on energy. Weve passed legislation to pull back to stop spending 4. 8 trillion that i want to make note my friends that are carrying this motion to vacate opposed. We passed legislation to streamline regulations, permitting, environmental laws for the first time in 40 years. Again, my friends here oppose. We strengthen Work Requirements for welfare, to get people back in the work force, again, my friends over here opposed. I keep wondering what is going on . Are we redefining what conservism is . What is going on . Chip roy and jim jordan Say Something is conservative and these folks say theyre not and theyre right. My phone keeps sending text messages. Texts saying hey, give me money. Look at that. Look. Give me money. I filled a motion to vacate. Using official actions to raise money. Its disgusting. It is what is disgusting about washington. Mr. Speaker, weve watched as these folks right here that have brought up this motion to vacate have refused to pay our Military Service members, refused to pay them. I want to quote my delegation money. John kennedy. If were not going to pay our service members, if theyre not going to be there to protect us, next time someone invades america, call a crack head and yield the yam another 30 second. The gentleman is recognized another 30 seconds. Mr. Speaker, ive heard people talk about bad faith here. Ive heard them make reference to this january agreement. My friends from arizona, virginia and florida. Let me be crystal clear. Not a single one are in the room. You know what . The speaker didnt meet the targets of that january agreement. He exceeded them. The greatest savings in american history. The greatest savings in american history. [applause] mr. Speaker, this isnt about fundraising. This is about our country. Its about our children and our grandchildren. We need to stand an additional 30 seconds. We need to stand by The Greatest Speakner Modern History that has delivered the best conservative wins for this country. I yield back. [applause] the gentleman from florida. My colleague says we passed the strongest border bills in history. Guess what . Look at the border right now. We didnt use serve sent leverage in the debt limit to actually get results on the border. The border is a disaster. Something that you Wont Campaign on. Second, you said you streamlined regulations. What the gentleman doesnt toll you, all of the Regulatory Reform he just bragged about is waivable by the stroke of a pen of someone in the biden white house. You think you got anything for that . Its a total joke. Finally, the welfare to work. The gentleman from louisiana said we got it. The Welfare Programs that they said they streamlined, theyre actually going to grow. Because while they did Work Requirements, they blew out the proms with expanded eligibility. Im glad you guy its didnt put Work Requirements on medicaid. When it comes to how those raised money, i take no lecture on asking patriotic americans to weighin and contribute to this fight from those that would gravel and bent knee for the lobbyists and special interests that own our leadership, who have boo all you want. Who have hollowed out this town and borrowed against the future of our future generations. Bill happy to fund my political operation through the work of hard Working Americans 10, 20, 30 at a time. You keep showing up at the Lobbyist Fund Raisers and see how that goes for you. I reserve. The chair would add mmonish those speaking from the florida to the chair. I would inquire how many time remains for each side. From oklahoma, controls three minutes. The gentleman from florida has three minutes as well. Id advise the gentleman from florida, im prepared to close if he is. Mr. Speaker, i yield the balance of my time to my great friend from north dakota, m mr. Armstrong. Gentleman from north dakota, mr. Armstrong is recognized with the remaining three minutes. Thank you. Lets be clear why were here. The Incentive Structure in this town is completely broken. We no longer value loyalty, integrity, competence or collaboration. Instead, we have descended to a place where cliques, tv hits and the neverending quest for the most mediocre taste of celebrity drives decisions. Kevin mccarthy has done more in nine months to restore the peoples house than any speaker in decades. We have done regular order. We have had open amendments. Every Single Member of this chamber has the right, the ability and the opportunity to be heard on the floor. Its been messy, its been raucous. At times, its been chaotic. God bless every minute of it. Democracy is supposed to be hard. Because the alternative is a closeddoor process where 2,000 page bills come out the Speakers Office at midnight and forced to the floor the next morning. Kevin mccarthy has broken that cycle. That alone is enough for him to remain our speaker. But that doesnt deliver his opponents what they crave the most. Atte attention. We shouldnt stand for it. I wont stand for it. I will stand here with our speaker, our leader that the overwhelm mag yourety of our conference supports. You need to lee where the opponents are sitting today. Theyre not over here. Theyre over there. [applause] so were going to face these challenges together. I say bring whatever comes next. Because we believe in the job you have done, mr. Speaker. We believe in your vision and most importantly we are proud to call Kevin Mccarthy our friend and our Speaker Of The House. With that, i yield back. [applause] Gentleman Yields back his time. The gentleman from florida is recognized with three minutes remaining. To be clear, i tried to get one of the three podiums on the republican side and you wouldnt let them have them. You sent me over here. Ill make this argument at any desk in this building from the well, from the chair, ill make it on every Street Corner in this country that washington most change. We have to break this cycle, we have to break the fever. I would hope, truly, that the reforms that were fighting for are reforms that would last and be embraced and change power in this institution against those that use shutdown politics and christmass and deadlines in order to achieve their objectives. High inflation, mr. Speaker, is on the verge of Bankrupting American families. Our economy is breaking in half. A typical American Family cant afford to buy a house in 99 of u. S. Counties. Inflation is stealing more than 700 a month from Working Americans, nearly 9,000 a year. Kevin mccarthy is the Speaker Of The House of representatives. He has failed to take a stand where it matters. So if he wont, i will. I make no apologies for defending the right of every Hard Working American to afford a dee sent life for themselves and their families. We have a greater opportunity to do that and to build coalitions under new leadership. We have to rip off the band aid, we have to get back on a better course. Mr. Speaker, i dont know how this vote will go. Usually when a vote comes to this floor, its pretty predetermined. In this one, im not so sure. But i am sure that weve made the right argument. This place deserves single Subject Spending Bills, that we should have 72 hours to read a bill, something that spends more than 100 million shouldnt be put on the Suspension Agenda such that we cant amembered it and there shouldnt be secret side deals made on a continuing resolution to lump ukraine in with Border Security. That is not right for ukraine or Border Security because it fails to give either of those issues the dignity that they would require. We can return that dignity to this house, we can get back on a better path, have single subject Appropriations Bills, set a budget, a budget top line. We havent had a budget in this place since i was in high school. So lets get a budget, lets get our act together. Lets get on with it. Lets vacated the chair. Lets get a better speaker. I yield back. The Gentleman Yields back his time. The question is ordered on the resolution. The question is on adoption of the resolution. Those in favor say aye. Id request the yays and neys. The yays and nays are requested. Those favoring will rise. A sufficient number having risen, the yays and nays are ordered. Pursuant