Government not shut down. We will put a clean funding stop gap on the floor to keep government open for 45 days for the house and senate to get their work done. House speaker Kevin Mccarthy moments ago saying that government will not shut down as a midnight deadline approaches. This as the house has gavelled in for a rare saturday session and a lot of questions about that deadline. Welcome to Fox News Live, im griff jenkins. Youll Jacqui Heinrich and aishah is on capitol hill. There are a lot of them, why dont you start off. Good morning, good afternoon to you, theres been a lot thats happened this morning and now were all here outside the House Floor Waiting For A vote to take place on a brand new continuing resolution, which would fund the government, this one is 45 days long. It does include disaster relief. It does not include ukraine aid and it does not include Border Security. Lets look at the house floor together as we await this vote. This is coming up under a suspension rule.
It as the potential to support more than 55,000 jobs in our state and contribute more than 53 billion in revenue. I urge my colleagues to support this amendment and at this time i would yield to the chairman. Mr. Calvert im not going to oppose your amendment. I certainly appreciate what youre trying to accomplish and generally agree that this administration has placed way too many restrictions on drilling both on shore and offshore. These restrictions have delayed the permitting process slowed Economic Growth in your state and many other states around the union, various groups have used that to their advantage, so i agree that more certainly certainty is needed in the leasing and permitting process. What im afraid of is that this might lead to a precedent for preempting the department of interiors Decision Making authority under any president and may lead to other amendments and kind of opening pandoras box of members doing specific amendments that are off their particular states. But
Of federal appropriations from the National Park service. We recently spent be several hundred thousand dollars repairing their or sewer system, we do ongoing safety and food inspections, trash removal and road maintenance. So we had to evaluate in the case of claude moore, in the case of dozens of these, of whether or not we would be in violation of the antideficiency act by allowing these to continue to operate. So if you may, let me just say we took the closure date on october 1, and then we began to evaluate each of these operations individually to insure that we were not violating. And those that we felt we could honestly and clearly and legally reopen, we have done that. By the way, i have limited amount of time left, but i want to say at least speaking for this member i just heard my colleague from colorado make some rather strong statements about you and your service. I completely disavow those comments. I think you have been an exemplary public servant. I think youve done the
The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by the chaplain, chaplain kibben. Chaplain kibben would you pray with me. Almighty and powerful god. Our creator and defender, we call upon you this day to speak into the whirlwind of the life threatening storm surge and catastrophic winds that now bombard the florida peninsula and have left behind unfathomable destruction in cuba. As Hurricane Ian rages, those who are caught in its ravages are filled with dread. Their personal calamity is its own whirlwind around them. In their distress and anguish, they and we on their behalf pray to you for their safety and refuge. For you, alone, have the power with but a word to cause the tempest to still and the wind and waves to be hushed. So speak your word. Shine your light into the darkness of these days. And listen to these fervent prayers. Deliver the thousands of evacuees from their plight. Leave them to find shelter in you from all that threatens them this day.