Go to cspan. Org. Click the series tab. Take you live to the floor of the house gaveling in for legislative business in just a moment. 15 bills on the agenda, including a resolution of support for proteverts in iran. Most of the bills today dealing with Homeland Security and Foreign Affairs. The speaker the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by our chaplain, father conroy. Chaplain conroy let us pray. Lord our god, we give you thanks for giving us another year. At the beginning of this new session, surround us with your holy spirit, encompass with your power all the walls and the dome of this building, truly a symbol to the world of inalienable rights and the free tom of people. Guide and protect your elected servants in government and all who work in this place. May all who visit here be treated with respect and kindness. May the comings and goings of your people be under the seal of your loving care and may all our work be done for your greater honor and glory, amen.
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I urge the quick passage of this important legislation so we can send it on to the enate. Lets get the f. A. A. Back to work. I reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from iowa reserves. The gentleman from arizona is recognized. Mr. Pastor thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for as much time as he may consume. Mr. Pastor here we go again. This week the house has onsidered bill after bill to fund pieces of the federal government. We can open the entire government if the house would simply pass the clean continuing resolution passed by the Senate Nearly two weeks ago. Instead, we are considering a bill to fund the federal aviation administration, but we are leaving many other agencies within the department of transportation in shutdown status. I strongly support the mission of the f. A. A. , the comp trollers, technicians, and safety inspectors. I strongly suppor
Mr. Visclosky if i could ask my friend how many more speakers they have. Mr. Frelinghuysen we anticipate through the chair. Several more speakers. But we are both waiting perhaps for some additional mr. Visclosky thats what both of us are doing. We could continue doing it talking to each other. Mr. Frelinghuysen i would be happy to. Let me say i want to salute you and chairman young for sponsoring this legislation which is truly bipartisan. Bringing it to the floor and giving members of both parties an opportunity to join together at a time when theres a lot of disjointment around here and lack of consensus on this. Theres no argument at all. Im highly appreciative of all that you have done to assist this process. Mr. Visclosky i appreciate the gentlemans remark, mr. Young, who has announced his retirement at the end of this congress. You could find no finer person in the world kinder heart or wanting to leave the world better than our chairman. I was going to close but would use this
Delayed benefits to the families of children dying on faraway battlefields. It is time for our lawmakers to say enough is enough. Shame with the robe of your righteousness. Forgive us. Reform us. And make us whole. In your merciful name, amen. The issue of death benefits for families of military personnel killed in action has evolved since the commons is morning from the senate chaplain, very black and the house passed a bill that will restore the 100,000 death benefit that passed in the house very heavily. There is word from the white house today. Good evening and welcome to a discussion for the next hour on the Government Shutdown, day number nine today. That of discussion about death benefit for military families. The house today, as we. Entioned, past the bill uncertainty in the Senate Whether they will take up. The headline says private foundation to pay death benefits for soldiers. And they talk about moving to defuse one of the mayor controversial cutbacks brought on by the Gove