The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 7, 2014, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip imited to five minutes each, but in no event shall debate continue beyond 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. Mcgovern, for five minutes. Mr. Mcgovern i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. Mr. Speaker, being poor in america is hard work. Despite what some of my colleagues and many rightwing pundits may think, it simply isnt easy to be poor in america. Mr. Speaker, week after week i come to the floor to talk about how we can end hunger now. Its a simple concept. We can end hunger if we muster the political will to do so. We have the food and we know how to do it. We j
First, all Government Spending ends on september 30. And that literally means if therethere is not a compromise reached, the entire federal government would shut down. A place like this that means like every civilian job like Tinker Air Force base, it means the district has four veteran centers your they wouldnt be open. Veterans hospital closed down. The National Weather center that give us as much warning as you can give anybody about the tornadoes wouldnt be operating. So thats a pretty contentious issue. Well also had the National Debt ceiling sometime probably in midnovember. That creates not a Government Shutdown scenario but if you dont find a way to resolve it, sort of a, across the board 35 cut in all Government Agencies because you couldnt finance government. And, finally, the immigration issue has been very contentious issue. The senate has passed a bill. Its not likely to be a bill that the house will pass. The house has passed for smaller goes through committee, through ju
Were beginning to see some people sighing that they dont like drones either. And so we havent really been able i think that the side that wants to talk about scaling back the war on terrorism at this point should also talk about the idea that its not a false choice to quote obama from the National Archives speech between liberty and security. Its a very real choice. And we should be coming to terms with that. I think liberty vs. Security in the various tradeoffs and how much terrorism and daniel youre willing to accept inflicteden on you would be a great other planl for us to have. Im just saying i think weve had a lot of a kind of i think sometimes we treat this conversation like were children and we want to believe that we can have everything. Nd we cant. Id like democracy, no terrorism, you know, a smaller government. Theres all kinds of things you want but you have to look at it in the real context. Do you want to make the last comment . Yeah. I actually, you know, as somebody who
Taxes. It wouldnt repeal the rules. A lot of issues conservatives have problems with. Like protections for preexisting conditions. Health benefits, guaranteed issue. Protections put in place, issues conservatives said helped jack up premiums over the course of the last couple years. Those wouldnt actually be repealed. But the primary issue here is this republicans wanted to do something. They thought repealonly was their last option, an option endorsed by the president. That appears to have fallen apart as well. We are left essentially reality of obamacare, Affordable Care act remains the law of the land for the time being and fat is Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell wolf is meeting behind closed doors with his conference. Didnt get a chance to explain the strategy behind the closed doors beforeall fell apart. He needs to decide, baaing to the draws board . Open up the door to democrats and work or move on . To tax reform. Like the president said he might want to do. All open questions.
Looks fabulous. Pete is an homage to kennedy. Kennedy we are paired for the new year, always. Pete forever linked in 2019. [laughter] melissa just like a shutdown. Thats perfect. New reaction to the president s speech last night on Border Security, and the democrat rebuttal. Speaker nancy pelosi accused the president of manufacturing a crisis. The president laid out his case. Watch. This is a humanitarian crisi crisis, a crisis of the heart, and a crisis of the soul. Democrats in congress have refused to acknowledge the crisis. They have refused to provide our brave Border Agents with the tools they desperately need to protect our families and our nation. President trump must stop holding the American People hostage. Lets stop and manufacturing a crisis. Lets reopen the government. Melissa all right. This morning, Senate Minority leader Chuck Schumer taking to the senate floor to double down on their criticism. Watch this. So, the president continues to fear monger, and he makes up the