Farewell ceremony. We are also following the Breaking News of the passing of senator Dianne Feinstein, and trail blazer, and the longest serving female senator in history. She has been serving in congress sense 1972, and A Storied Political Career Starting in San Francisco. That is where we will begin. She was the first female to serve on the San Francisco board of supervisors is and then became the first San Francisco female mayor. And she had a Lasting Impact to be elected to the u. S. Senate taking over for harvey milk. She helped to pass a weapons ban, and helped to develop lgbtq rights, and helped to develop the amber alert. She worked all of the way up until yesterday, and voting on legislation to prevent the Legislation Shutdown that is looming. Trying to prevent that. We will be hearing from the colleagues, and throughout the day. The Senate Majority leader Chuck Schumer called it a very, very sad day. He is expected to speak from the senate floor. We have received a statement from Dianne Feinsteins office from the Chief Of Staff that reads sadly, Dianne Feinstein passed away at her home in washington, d. C. Her passing is a great loss for so many who loved and cared for her, and the people of california who she dedicated her life to serving. Senator feinstein, he goes on the say, never backed away from a fight that was just and right, and at the same time she was willing to work with anyone who she disagreed with if it meant to bettering lives of californians or the betterment of the nation. Few women who can be called senator, chairman, mayor, wife, mom and grandmother. Senator feinstein was a force of nature who made an incredible impact on the country and her moment state. That from her Chief Of Staff. All right. Everybody, we are going to go to dana bash who spent quite a bit of time with senator feinstein. Can you give me a sense, for you, as to what this means in the context of the way in which she got to where she was and the impact, the huge impact that she had, and not just only on the senate, but on women. Well, you just gave a long list of firsts for senator feinstein starting back in San Francisco. Id like to add to some of those firsts, because she was not only the first woman to represent california in the u. S. Senate which happened in 1992, but she was the first female chairwoman of the rules committee, and the first woman to cochair the inaugural committee, and the first female chair of the Senate Intelligence committee. It kind of goes on and on and on, and i was looking back to start with that last one as the chair of the Senate Intelligence committee, and one of the things like many of her colleagues around during the vote to support the iraq war. She was a very important voice because of her role on the Senate Intelligence committee. She said that she read the intelligence and she really believed that Saddam Hussein had Weapons Of Mass Destruction and not based on what she was told, but it was based on the way she read it, and she called it one of my biggest mistakes, and what is the lesson . The lesson is to take it all with a grain of salt. That is really one of the things that is striking and important and a lesson for all of us as people, and never mind those of us who are in washington and covering washington but it is to not only acknowledge your mistakes, but try to learn from them. Dana, i have to jump, because Chuck Schumer is speaking now. Whoever graced the senate, graced the country. She had so many amazing, and wonderful qualities, wrapped up in one incredible human being. She was smart. She was strong. She was brave. She was compassionate, but maybe the trait that stood out most of all was her amazing integrity. Her integrity was a diamond. Her integrity shown like a beacon across the senate, and across the country for all to see and hopefully emulate. Dianne feinstein would typically say when you asked her how was she voting on something. She would say, let me study this issue before taking a position. Let me go home and read on it. When she came back, if she believed the cause of the vote was right, and vital to the issues, there was no stopping her to get it done. She would take on any force, any special interest, any opponent with relentless integrity and would wear those opponents down until she succeeded. Again, her integrity just shown through them, and she won, and she won, and she won. Each time, she made a country a better place. I saw it up close when she passed the assault weapons ban. The nra was a mean spirited and they uzed vitriol against her, but they did not scare her or stop her. Like most of her opponents, they against her while her integrity shown through. I was privileged to pass a bill she brought to the senate, and guide it every strength of the way, and her strength and integrity to fight the good fight. As we went through that bill it became clear to me, Dianne Feinstein was not like the others, she was in class of her own. She championed the violence against womens act, and overseeing the u. S. Against torture, fighting for marriage equality, fighting for reproductive justice, and the list goes on and on. As chair of the Intelligence Committee, dianne fought for what was right, even if it was hard and difficult and took months and years to dig in and find out what actually went wrong. She never stopped. She took on the cia and asserted congress authority into the United States sense of strength and grace. None of the sabering guns rattled her. I remember when a senator tried to put her down in a condescending, and many would say chauvinistic way, she didnt respond shwith anger, but withi three minutes she put this colleague in his place. Within three minutes, she was smiling. Everyone was smiling. She did it smiling and was affable. She was the first woman to serve is on the San Francisco board of supervisors, and the first woman the serve from the state of california and the first woman to serve in Intelligent Committee and list goes on and on and on. Our nation is going to be forever grateful for the senator cyan and not just as a colleague, but as a friend and father of two daughters. Diannes work extended far beyond the senate floor and gave a voice and platforms with doors closed to woman, but she held them open for generations owomen to follow after her. She gave a platform, voice, model for women across the country who aspired to roles in leadership in public service, who want to leave their own park on the world, and who want to this world a better place. Today, 25 women serve in the senate, and every one of them admit that they stand on diannes shoulders. So diannes impact extended far beyond the senate floor, and far beyond poll tics itself. So today, we believe. We look at that desk, and we know what we have lost. But we also give thanks, thanks to someone so rarified, so graceful, so full of presence who served in this chamber and so grateful that someone like that served in this chamber for so many years. In closing, let me just say this, the sign of the leader is someone who dedicates the whole of their spirit for a cause greater than themselves. The sign of a hero is someone who fights for others and endures for others, no matter the cost, no matter the odds, and the sign of a friend is someone who stands by your side to fight the good fight on the good days and on the bad. Dianne feinstein was all of this and more, a friend, a hero for so many, a leader who changed the nation, sorry, a leader who changed the nature of the senate and who changed the fabric of the nation america for the better. As the nation mourns this tremendous loss, we are comforted in knowing how many mountains dianne moved and how many glass ceilings she shattered along the way. America, america, america is a better place because of dianne fein feinstein. Today, i gather with my colleagues in mourning dianne. Senator Chuck Schumer, the top democrat talking about his friend Dianne Feinstein and her desk is cloaked in black with White Flowers on it today. We will continue to follow that and move to the other side of the capitol at the same time, because speaker Kevin Mccarthy is speaking to reporters as well. Listen to this. Thank you. Moments ago, the flags at the capitol were lowered in memory of Dianne Feinstein. As a longstanding senator, she broke barriers and blazed trails for women. Her career was historic. Personally, i worked with the sen for for quite some time, and working together with many bills, but the one that stands out is the water legislation. It was historic, and the first time in california history that in more than 25 years we were able to pass water. It was the win act, and i remember the hours and the nights that wed have to work to try to work through, and the challenges. We come from different parties and different parties, and we put the states first and at the same time Barbara Boxer opposed it. We had more than 70 votes at the time. I believe at the end of the day the trail blazing of the first womanelected mayor even coming from a Different Party inspired women from both sides of the aisle to seek elected office and have their voices heard. My deepest condolences to her office and office staff. Last night, the house did something that none of you sitting here thought that we could do. The number of questions they could take, and the number of weeks about doing Appropriations Bills. I told you not the give up on us, because we wont give up on the american people. We passed three Appropriations Bills for state, home office and security. In all, we have four done, and there is 12 overall to get done. It is the Discretionary Spending every year that the government is supposed to do. We have now in the house passed more than 70 of the Discretionary Spending on appropriations. Need i remind you how much has the Senate Passed . Zero. Not one Appropriation Bill has passed the senate. We have done what many said was impossible. When i became speaker said we will change washington and we did it to keeping commitment to restoring order. Bills that passed committee in june and july have been open for amendments for months. Struggled with a number of members who would not allow it to come up, but i never gave up. 440 amendments were considered on the floor this week. And for those of you who are historians we are the first republican majority to pass the state ops bill, and my entire political career as congress, the republicans never did what they did last night. As we continue to get the conservative wins, and return to regular order, we need a stopgap measure to allow the house to continue to finish their work, to make sure that the military gets paid, and make sure that the Border Agents get paid as we finish the job that we are supposed to do. Another reason for the stopgap is to address President Bidens historic failure on the southern border. This is how bad things have gotten under President Bidens watch. In five days theres been more than 50,000 illegal border crossings. Put that in perspective. In just five days. That is more than twice as much as the average for the entire month in the last administration. A wide open policy hurts america. We have heard it from democrat leaders from across the country, but despite the chaos, the president still wont go to the border. Setting new records everyday. Fentanyl at an alltime high killing americans, and he refuses to go to border. He has been one time in 50 years. One time in 50 years. Hes had more dinners with Hunter Bidens foreign Business P Partners than he has going to the border. Think about that. Something that he has said he has never done, he has done more than going to the border in 50 years as an elected official. He was less than 200 miles from the border this week in arizona. Less than 200 miles. He couldnt even stop by for an 80second photoop. It makes you believe that President Biden is deliberately letting this happen and trying to continue to ignore it. If biden wont visit the border, then why not listen to the elected officials. The mayor of new york said it is going to literally destroy new york. And the leader of new york said that they should go somewhere else. The governor of massachusetts declared a state of emergency. The mayor of el paso city said they are at a breaking point. The mayor of eagle pass, texas, says that the president has abandoned them. And not one of these individuals is a republican. Why does President Biden and the Congressional Democrats ignore the border and their own leaders . That is why i am putting on the floor a stopgap measure to fund the government and secure the border. No longer can the president ignore a problem that he created that Kills Americans every single day, destroys some of our greatest cities and puts states in a state of emergency. Every member will have to go on record of where they stand. Are they willing to secure the border or will they bide with President Biden on a open border and vote against a measure to keep government open . House republicans are working through an Impeachment Inquiry to hold this administration accountable. Yesterday we heard expert witnesses who said there is enough evidence to hold the president accountable. Yesterday, Attorney Turley said there is enough evidence. And the house accountant said that when there is smoke, i look for fire. Why were the bidens and Close Associates receiving millions of dollars of payments from foreign entities and individuals . Republicans have been uncovering the biden family culture of corruption, and we will follow the facts wherever they will lead. Okay. We made a hard turn from the death of Dianne Feinstein and actually something that you dont hear is a very partisan moment there where he talked about working with her to get a water act passed and then he launched into the Government Shutdown blaming everything basically on biden and the democrats. Lets get straight to lauren fox who is on capitol hill, and talk us through what we just heard. There are definite fact checks that need to be made there. Well, the House SpeakerKevin Mccarthy clearly at a point where he knows that he has no good options right now to avoid a Government Shutdown. He walked the press through some victories there, and yes, they passed one with more than 20 republican defections, but none of the bills that he passed last night, naund of those bills would avoid a Government Shutdown, because they are all dead on arrival in the senate, and they only partially fund the full government. Right now, the Mccarthy Focus is to put that bill through congress, and he may not have the procedural votes to get over an initial hurdle which is going to put him in a position where there are no good options right there. You saw there he is trying to make it about the southern border which is a message he is intending for the hardliners who say they want to crack down on the biden administration, but he is arguing if they dont vote for this proposal, then they are supporting the biden administration, but you can see him, and he has done it in the hall over the course of the last several weeks, blaming biden for the shutdown, and of course, mccarthy and biden had a agreement on spending levels which is part of the debt ceiling deal they brokered in may, and yet the House Republicans have continued to mo forward with the individual pieces of the Spending Legislation that are at far lower levels than what was agreed to between the House Republican leadership and the white house. So a couple of things to keep in mind as you are hearing House SpeakerKevin Mccarthy there. Again, the expectation is today, at 11 30, a procedural vote to pass a shortterm Spending Vote with only a few republicans supporting it. As a matter of fact, matt gaetz is on the house Floor Railing against the proposal. He is a key detractor of the speaker, and he has been threatening to oust the speaker if he does not make good on a se