The speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 228, the nays are 164. The bill is passed. Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from louisiana seek recognition . Thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Scalise i ask unanimous consent to speak out of order for inquiring of the majority leader the schedule of next week. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Scalise thank you. I also ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Scalise with that, id be happy to yield to my friend, the gentleman from maryland, the majority leader of the house. Mr. Hoyer i thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, on monday the house will meet at 12 00 p. M. For legislative business. Members are vezzed that votes are expected are advised that votes are expected as early as 2 00 p. M. I want to repeat. That were going in at 12 00, votes can be as early as 2 00 approximately 2 00 p. M. This is unusual for the first day of the week. I have advised and urge members to stay here this weekend. Most of them that ive talked to are because clearly we are trying to get two critical pieces of legislation done. Which we will speak to, i think, in a little bit. On tuesday and wednesday, the house will meet at 10 00 a. M. For morning hour debate and 12 00 p. M. For legislative business. On thursday, the house will meet at 9 00 a. M. For legislative business. I want to advise members that we still have to pass an omnibus and we have to pass a covid19 relief bill. We will not adjourn the congress until such time as we can accomplish those two objectives. I was hopeful wed accomplish those objectives by next thursday. Unfortunately, things are not moving as rapidly as i think they ought to. Id like them to, but as they ought to be moving. So that members need to be advised they need to keep their schedules very, very flexible until such time as we pass both of those pieces of legislation. We will in addition consider several bills under suspension of the rules. The complete list of suspensions will be announced by the close of business today. I want to Say Something further on suspensions. Somebody said oh, were not passing important bills. Thats not accurate. Somehow, when we have agreement, its not looked at as important. On suspensions, it mean we was agreement between the parties that we can pass those bills because theyre bipartisan and the overwhelming majority of members agree on them. We are passing bills that are good bill bus not controversial. And thats a good thing. We will consider several bills under suspensions as i said, the complete list will be available at the close of business today. The house will consider fiscal year 2021 National Defense authorization act conference report. Im pleased that we have a bipartisan, bicameral agreement on ndaa and look forward to overwhelmingly passing both hambers next week. Im hopeful that we will come together on this bill, it was a tough conference but a Good Conference and the result i think can be supported by both sides of the aisle. Signed obviously by the Senate Republican chairman and our as members know, the current continuing resolution expires on december 11. Therefore the authority for spending to keep government running will expire on the 11th. The appropriate Committee Appropriations committee is hard at work on reaching an agreement on an omnibus and i hope to bring that to the floor as early as possible. Im hopeful that will be next week. Frankly, i had a discussion with senator mcconnell, im told there is no agreement that we can not make on the 11th that will be easier to make on the 18th. Which is the end of the following week. I would urge members, however, to ensure that they are available for the week of the 14th. If we have not completed our business by next week. The house may also consider additional legislation to address the coronavirus pandemic, as ive already said. The house has passed two different heroes bills. Mr. Speaker, we passed a bill on may 15, six months ago, to deal with this extraordinary crisis placing millions of americans at risk. Causing deep emotional and physical distress. And a challenge not only to their health, but also their psychological welfare and to educating our children and keeping our schools safe and providing the resources necessary that if we can get children back in school, which i think all of us want to do, that we can accomplish that bjective. The house also passed on october 1, two months ago, a 2. 2 trillion bill. That was not taken up by the senate. The senate has passed no egislation since may 15. It did not consider our bill either time, either the heroes 1 or heroes 2 blill. Unfortunately in my view that senate unfortunate that the Senate Republicans failed to act even if they condition act on what we wanted to do. Im pleased, ive spoken with Senate Leaders and im hopeful we can get an agreement. The house stands ready to act next week. Lastly, as everybody understands when you get to the end of a session, you dont contemplate everything that might be on the agenda so other pieces of legislation may be on the agenda next week or the week thereafter. Again, i want to reiterate. Im very hopeful that we could get this Business Done by next week. The reason i scheduled, mr. The c. R. He 11th as day is i wanted to make sure we could get members home. The covid crisis, the pandemic, is has exploded. Members ought to be not aggregating here on the house floor or aggregating in washington, they ought to be home and if we got out on the 11th, i want to get through on the 10th so we can send a bill to the senate. However, if we left on the 11th it will be 14 days before christmas. And therefore if members leaving washington had to quarantine themselves, they would have sufficient time to do so, so that they could be with their families on christmas day. I would hope that everyone on the appropriations committee, leadership, myself included, would feel the urgency of passing this needed legislation. I thank the gentleman for ielding. I thank the gentleman. I mr. Scalise i thank the gentleman. It is my understanding that the floor director for the majority leader, i dont want to embarrass her here on the house floor. It is my understanding that she may be leaving. Mr. Hoyer it is a vicious rumor. Mr. Scalise i would be happy to yield to her if she wants to deny the rumor. If this is the last time we do this colloquy before the end of the year, it has been a pleasure o work with shwanza. The u. S. A. Cares act comes to mind as a major piece of legislation this body has done together, republicans an democrats, shes that conduit who works with our staff on the republican side and weve considered it a true joy to work with her. She doesnt schedule every bill i ask her to schedule but ill blame that on the majority leader, not on her. If i can in all seriousness say that, it has truly been a treat. Shes one of the people who makes this place work when it does work. We can think about the things we would like to achieve, but there are many important things we achieve like that piece of legislation and many others that dont get the same kind of attention but they wouldnt happen without the work and great leadership that she has demonstrated here. She will be missed here. But i just wanted to mention that. I know the gentleman feels probably Even Stronger because shes worked for you for, i think, the whole time ive been in leadership, but maybe going back to 2008. I yield back. Mr. Hoyer would the gentleman yield . Mr. Scalise i yield to the gentleman. Mr. Hoyer im hope they feel gentleman is right and we dont have a colloquy next week that well have completed our business as i have been talk talking about. I have been blessed, the house has been blessed, the country has been blessed by her leadership on my behalf and the majoritys behalf working closely with the minority. I know that she would want me to say that she looks forward to the same kind of cooperation in her new job shes gotten in her old job and if the gentleman wants to assure her of that, i will yield to him. Mr. Scalise ill give this assurance, if youre looking for a replacement, i would be happy to make recommendations and offer replacements. Mr. Hoyer the gentleman is most joan rouse. Mr. Scalise im sure the jeb rossity ends there. I do want to pass that on to her and not just on behalf of myself, but on behalf of the minority leader, mr. Mccarthy, his staff, as well as mine. And all of us in leadership who get to work with her. With that, i do want to mention on the schedule next week, one of the items that i know we have worked on together and talked about that i believe the gentleman has scheduled for next week is s. 578, which is the a. L. S. Disability insurance access act, something we worked on a number of these items for people with a. L. S. , the Steve Gleason act was one of those items we worked on a few years ago, passed to help people with a. L. S. And has been a tremendous, tremendous benefit to people struggling with a. L. S. Steve gleason a constituent and dear friend, somebody weve worked with on many things, he received earlier this year, years ago seems like, but just january of this year, was the recipient of the congressional gold medal, deservedly so. But he and i were communicating earlier this week about this legislation which im a cosponsor of. I want to thank the gentleman for schedules that for the floor next week. One of those areas as you were talking about earlier, may in the get a lot of attention but an issue that both republicans an democrats worked on to help people with a. L. S. Who right now under current law even after the diagnosis with a. L. S. As we know is just a devastating diagnosis, have to wait five months to get the normal benefits that they are entitled to and in time and time is very, very critical to people with a. L. S. , and the limb nates that fivemonth gap where they would have to act. One of those additional occasions where it takes an act of congress to fix this and the senate acted and quickly now the house will be acting to address this deficiency that needs to be fixed, i think youll see both sides come together with a very large vote but i want to thank the gentleman for scheduling that for the floor next week. I would yield if he had anything to add on that. Mr. Hoyer i was pleased to schedule this. Obviously as you know, it passed the senate the other day. And hopefully we will pass it on suspension next week and it will be sent to the president , hopefully the president will sign it. Obviously a. L. S. Is a terrible, terrible disease and a disease that acts very, very quickly, which meant theres a premium on the governments response to assisting people with a. L. S. Be quick as well. It provides for acceleration for people who are suffering from and afflicted with a. L. S. To get assistance. Hopefully the house will pass it and well send it to the president. I appreciate the gentlemans cosponsorship of the bill. I yield. Mr. Scalise i thank the gentleman for yielding. As relates to the schedule next week as well as the schedule weve had this week. I want to bring up a piece of legislation weve talked about here at this colloquy and in other venues for months now and that is the bill by congressman schaap, h. R. 8265, the Paycheck Protection Program extension act. Weve seen over these last few months our Small Businesses have struggled tremendously. Some industries have done better during this pandemic, where theyve seen increased sales for various reasons but weve mostly seen and herd from so many of those businesses and industry that was been devastated. Some harder than others but so many devastated to the point of bankruptcy. Daily we see stories of businesses that close their doors for good. And in the state of new york alone it was reported that a third of all Small Businesses, a third, will never open again. And when we came together to do the cares act, to pass that lifeline to so many Small Businesses, save probably 50 million jobs in america, save millions of Small Businesses, but it expired. When it expired, we learned a lot more about where our economy was at that time. When we passed it it was at the beginning of the pandemic. We now saw over those month which is businesses were doing better, which werent. And came back in september with a piece of legislation that would free up money thats not going to have to be borrowed, money thats sitting in that account, frozen, 137 billion, that we already appropriate bud the program expired. So it cant be used anymore unless we change the law. So were not talking about creating a new program. Were talking about going back to a program that was maybe one of the most successful things we have done to help people in need, not just Small Businesses but the millions, 50plus Million People whose livelihoods depend on those jobs. And the bill was brought forward, had a lot of bipartisan interest, but for various reasons hasnt been scheduled on this house floor. And there were reports that maybe it was tied to waiting on the election or whatever other things. In fact the speaker of the house just today made a comment that one of the reasons that bill, a certain relief package bill wasnt brought to the house floor is because she was waiting on, quote, a new president. I hope that was a quote that was made out of context. Or maybe needs to be revised. But there are millions of people that are literally facing elimination of their livelihoods. And we have a bill that if it was put on the floor today, yesterday, september, when we first had this conversation, there would be hundreds of thousands of businesses still hope today that are now bankrupt that will never open again. Every day we wait more businesses dont reopen. Clearly we are negotiating to try to get an agreement on bigger issues. Were not there. We werent there last month. We werent there the month before. The senate has tried to take up votes on things. It wasnt the republicans, it was the democrats that blocked those bills from coming up. This by the way was one of those in the package that would have been voted on by the senate, if not for Senate Democrats blocking even the debate on the senate floor, so they never had that debate. On on this floor, just today we saw a bill to legalize marijuana. You saw items in there where it would give additional money to people in the marijuana industry. Now, this is something that congress im sure will continue to debate. But theres a pandemic where today we have businesses that are shutting their doors. Tomorrow businesses will go bankrupt forever. Small businesses. And we can with help them. Not with the new and we can help them. Not with the new details we need to negotiate the details over but something that we already did that was so highly successful. That we have a track record to show what it can do. Our small banks, local Community Banks were part of that process. And are ready to go again. Again, we dont need to reinvent the wheel here. This is an existing program that has existing remaining money but the program is frozen and expired and this bill just renews it. And could pass on the suspension calendar and still hasnt been brought up. And while were negotiating other things, why not release this hostage and let this bill pass . Could have been done today. Wasnt a lack of time. When were debating legalizing marijuana instead of saving Small Businesses, that is a misplaced priority of this congress. We should have come together months ago. September 16 it was introduced. September 17, i brought it up to the majority leader at this colloquy. The following week, brought it up again. And then we filed the discharge petition. You had 23 democrats sign a letter saying they would sign that discharge petition if we didnt get a bipartisan agreement. Recognizing that the heroes act is not a bipartisan agreement. Unfortunately not one of those members who signed the letter saying that they would sign the ischarge have signed it. Livelihoods are being lost, businesses are shuttering for good. Why cant this bill be scheduled for the floor . Why dont we work on the other things were not in agreement on, this is something were in agreement on. But it wont be scheduled for the floor. Maybe, maybe we can get an agreement to schedule that monday when were coming in at 2 00 to vote on other items. This would be something that would get 400plus votes. If it was just scheduled. I would yield to the gentleman. Mr. Hoyer i thank the gentleman for his observations. He is right. Were for this. Were also for making sure that children have food on their tables. Were also supportive of making sure that education facilities have the money to keep their venues safe and to keep education flowing. Were also in support of making sure child care is available so parents can go back to work whenever their children go back to school. Were also, for were also for having critical money for testing and tracing and for delivering the vaccination. And, yes, were for that and were also for states and localities that are hemorrhaging revenue, have the resources to continue to be on the front line of fighting the battle against covid19. And we are also for resources not only to have created the vaccine, which much of which, almost all of which is being funded by the federal government, we are also for making sure we can deliver that vaccine. And have a vaccination as well as having a vaccine. We are for, very strongly, the extraordinary number of helping the extraordinary number of unemployed who are on Unemployment Insurance and who, at the end of this month, are going to find it goes away. And we are for having additional enhancement of that Unemployment Insurance, which so many economists will tell you, from the cares bill, was absolutely essential to keep the economy afloat. And the fact that we have kept the economy afloat is shown by the apparently the stock market thinks were ok. But the millions and millions and millions of families who are in deep distress are not ok. I am appalled by the fact that we have not acted. Weve acted twice. You say it wasnt partisan. Thats true. You chose not to vote for it. It wasnt much different than the cares bill. Which you did vote for. But apparently shortly after we passed the heroes bill, your leader, mr. Mccarthy, said, lets wait and see what happens. And senator mcconnell said, let the states go bankrupt.