Operations to Small Business loans. This is a problem with maga extremism. Its not serious about governing chaos is the only word in their playbook. Conflict seems to be the natural state of being and some of them seem to exalt in shutting down the government. And if maga republicans get their way, the danger for this country will be great. Extremism will be dominant. The ultra rich will be empowered. Working families here on cspan2 we are going to break away now for live coverage of the u. S. Senate. Deg to shut down the federal government. The fringe element of extremist House Republicans has pushed congress to the brink of another costly, wasteful shutdown. The Government Shutdown of any duration would harm hardworking americans and our economy. Shutdowns cost taxpayers billions of dollars per week. They cause businesses money. They could even cause a downgrade to the nations credit rating. And they force an unnecessary disruption of many vital services. Federal workers in all 50 states who perform essential work, like food inspectors, tsa agents, or park rangers, would stop getting paychecks. A federal shutdown could halt projects and cause federal lending to cease. Clinical trials and research at the nih could be forced to stop. Effective programs like the women, infants and Children Nutrition program would be left in a vulnerable state. And as for national defense, a Government Shutdown would be extremely damaging. And in the midst of the blockade of key military promotions, it would be another republicaninflicted wound. A shutdown could halt our munitions product lines as it did in the 2013 shutdown. This would be a very shortsighted, very shortsighted at a time when we are focused on ramping up munitions production for ukraine and with an eye on the future needs in the indopacific. There are several other areas where a shutdown would be harmful. I urge my colleagues to consider the impacts of a shutdown on our military men and women, their families, and our defense. Hundreds of thousands of troops could see delays in their paychecks and many civilians could lose their contracts. If a shutdown extends, the Defense Department will have to reduce its recruiting, training, and Family Movement activities. A shutdown would also include delaying needed investments in military infrastructure, including barracks and child care centers. Dozens of new projects would not go forward. This would prevent the Defense Department from effectively investing in new programs and there could be no new starts in acquisition programs or military construction projects. Hundreds of new start efforts in procurement and r d could be prohibited during a Government Shutdown. As such the department could be forced into funding legacy systems that are outdated and inefficient. That is simply congressionally mandated waste. As general brown, the incoming chairman of the joint chiefs of staff has said about a shutdown, all the money in the world cannot buy more time. Time is irrecoverable. And when you are working to keep pace against well resourced and focused competitors, time matters. We could easily avoid this outcome by passing a shortterm patch while we continue working toward a broader funding agreement. I commend the leaders of the Senate Appropriations committee, senator murray, senator collins, who hammered out the bipartisan continuing resolution before us. And also the leadership on both sides of the aisles. They have successfully reported out all 12 funding bills, senator collins and senator murray, by a wide by wide, bipartisan votes. Our appropriation process is working on a bipartisan basis and working in a reasonable and responsible basis. Several were voted out unanimously. Theyre well crafted and free from policy poison pills. They fit within the bipartisan agreement among the chair, the vice chair, and the leaders on overall funding levels. More importantly those bills meet the funding level that Speaker Mccarthy demands as a price of preventing the default of the u. S. Government just this summer. We should pass these bills and we could pass them, but for the objections of some republican senators who are working in concert with the house to obstruct the appropriations process from moving forward on a bipartisan basis. Their wanton nihilism is damaging our country before we have made progress, we have a continuing resolution or c. R. Which barring any dilatory tactics would clear the senate by a wide margin. I want to emphasize that this c. R. Is nothing more than a patch. For a few more weeks it keeps the government open, keeps the Aviation System operational and funded, keeps the Insurance Program authorized and ensures well continue to take care of disaster victims throughout the country. And it will ensure that the ukrainian people have the resources they need to win their fight for freedom. This is not extraffic advance. Extravigance. Its the bare minimum. The question is what will the House Republicans do. After creating a default crisis that brought the entire economy to the brink of disaster in june, theyve accomplished virtually nothing. For months House Republicans have only been able to pass a single funding bill. The rest of their highly partisan bills have been bottled flup committee or blocked from passing on the floor by republicans themselves. In the midst of their intrigue, they seem to be trying to one up each other with one irresponsible and drastic cut after the other. It seems to be a competition over whose unworkable proposal can inflict more pain. Perhaps they mistakenly believe that their extreme ideas are popular or will somehow hurt the president. But who title 1 funding is cut by 80 . Who is harmed when 1. 3 million lowincome individuals are kicked out of the snap program and when Food Assistance for seniors and kids is cut by 14 . How do we address the lack of Affordable Housing when the Home Investment Partnership is slashed by 1 billion . How does ukraine win whether congress withholds when congress with 408ds critical funding withholds critical funding. Let me underscore the significance of funding for ukraine. The assistance package the president is seeking for ukraine will provide much needed military assistance as well as aid to displace ukrainians whose citizens and towns continue to face indiscriminate bombardment by putins forces. We know if putin is successful in seizing ukraine, he will not stop there. Unless the United States and the International Community continue to stand with ukraine, putin will continue to look for opportunities to inflict violence and violate the sovereignty and security of our allies and partners around the world. And if putin succeeds because we have failed to help our other adversaries and competitors will be emboldened, too. Indeed if putin succeeds, he will not stop at the ukraine. He will threaten nato countries. So the bottom line, frankly, is the probability that American Military personnel are engaged in combat goes up and frankly one of our Major Missions should be to ensure through our efforts that that probability constantly goes down. We do not want to sacrifice American Military personnel needlessly. Congress should send a strong message to putin that we stand with the ukrainians as they bravely fight for their homeland. Madam president , this is the second manufactured crisis that the House Republicans have created this year. First, they threatened to default on our nations debt so President Biden sat down with the speaker and negotiated an agreement that set spending levels for this year. Now House Republicans are walking away from that agreement and threatening to shutdown the government. It wont work. The American People can see the charade and if theres a shutdown, they will know who is responsible. With that, madam president , i yield the floor. Mr. Reed madam president , i suggest the absence of a quorum. The. The presiding officer the clerk will call the roll. The clerk ms. Baldwin. Quorum call to get all the appropriation bills done and they can work on nothing else until that happens. This is set up to put the pressure and the punishment on not on the public. We need to pass the present Government Shutdowns act. We need to do it now. Thats the way to prevent Government Shutdowns permanently. Harvest is in full swing back home in iowa and on monday as i was driving up to the airport i go through all of these wonderful communities lined with soybean fields, cornfields and some of the fondest memories that i have as a little girl in southwest iowa was always writing in the tractor, the combine with my dad or my uncle or my grandpa. And you you know i went on g really, really hard and its such a different position than what we see here in washington, d. C. Where yet once again congress as a body is not able to get its work done. And i think folks here in washington could really learn a lot from our hardworking iowans. And so this last friday i tried something new, and i brought a lot of these washington, d. C. Agencies out to iowa for my first ever entrepreneur expo will be connected Small Businesses and individuals from the great state of iowa with those in Government Agencies to learn about contracting opportunities. We really want to develop our Small Businesses in iowa. And again give them the shot at providing government, our federal government, with their next best idea. Well, we saw the startling numbers i think from the august immigration to i talked about that last, illegal immigration i talked about that last week here at this week we i also realized as a way to see whats called the martin in martinsburg, West Virginia, where its an all hands on deck Preventative Initiative to fight addiction and the addiction crisis. The numbers that were released 111,000 americans lost their lives to fentanyl overdoses last year. My state of West Virginia per population unfortunately leads that statistics and our statistics went up 4. 5 in terms of the number of lives that we lost. So as a look at this potential for a Government Shutdown, if we look at the alarming numbers at the border, what we are faced with is what the leader says. We are faced with asking our Border Patrol agents who are totally overrun, we are asking him to do now but now, now we could be asking them what he could be asked to work and not receive a paycheck. And so what happens . What happens to all these fentanyl deaths in the fentanyl coming over when we have a workforce thats overstretched and has to stop 224,000 illegals coming through, the drugs flood through and kill our americans and our young people and our sons and daughters. And its just, its a human crisis that we have here. So we got to keep the government running. Weve got to pay and figure out a way to enforce the border. I think would be a great place to put on scr to have more Border Protection. I mouse and before that but at this point right now, 77 of the American People do not believe we should shut the government down and i mean that 77 . And it think it will have great impacts not only on the border but also on those who are suffering from addiction and having issues with the flow of the nobody coming across our border. Thank you. Joe biden is a record breaking president. Record high inflation, record high gas prices, record high illegal border crossings objection. Mr. Lankford madam president , ive come to this floor several times over the past many years, and several times even recently to talk about a bill that senator hassan and very together that weve worked on very hard, to end Government Shutdown threats forever. This whole conversation thats happening right now in washington, d. C. About a Government Shutdown is not something thats always happened in our republic. This conversation of a Government Shutdown has only really been since the mid1980s to the present. Before that there were no Government Shutdowns. Even when appropriations lapsed and we had multiple times that appropriations lapsed in the past, we didnt have Government Shutdowns at that time, but it wasnt until there was actually an executive opinion back in the 1970s that it created this moment that we said well end up with a Government Shutdown if appropriations lapsed. Were in this moment again. This is a distinctly modern issue in American History that we need to bring to a close of this chapter. There is a way to do it. In conversations that weve had for years of how do we actually stop Government Shutdowns, theres been very partisan bills on both sides. Senator hassan and i sat down and said, lets have a dialogue. How can we stop Government Shutdowns without having a partisan bill at the end of it . What would be a way to fix this that both sides of the aisle would be able to say, thats a good way end to it . End Government Shutdowns, do Appropriations Bills. That shouldnt be a radical concept. That should be a head nod from everybody, quite frankly, from everybody in this room to say, sure, we can agree to end Government Shutdowns and do Appropriations Bills on time. Our simple idea was this if you dont finish your work during class, you have to stay after class to finish your work. Its just not that hard. Its something all of us experienced growing up in school. If i can make it even simpler, when my older brother and i would get into an argument, my mom would put the two of us in a room and say, you two guys have got to go in this room. Once you solve everything, they can you can come out. Thats the genesis of this simple bill. It says, if we dont have our appropriations work done, were still arguing about appropriations, the government continues to function as it has in the past year, exact same budget line. Everything continues as normal. The American People are held harmless. Federal workers, federal contractors, all of them still continue as they have. But we experience the shutdown here in washington, d. C. , not the rest of the country. We would be in session seven days a week. We could not move to bills other than the Appropriations Bills, so we are locked in a box to say, if you havent finished your Appropriations Bills, you have to stay overtime to finish those Appropriations Bills, and you cant move to Something Different than Appropriations Bills. Youve got to be able to do those. But again, the American People wouldnt feel it. Federal workers wouldnt feel it. Federal contractors wouldnt feel it. We would. If we didnt get our work done, why are the Border Patrol agents along the border, why are they being punished for us not getting our work done . Because the Border Patrol agents, if we dont get this done, next week they dont get a paycheck when theyve been working overtime hours managing 11,000 people a day coming across the border and chaos that is currently on our border. Those folks have been working as hard as they can, but because we havent got our work done on the budgeting, now they dont get paid. Oh, but were still asking them to go on the line and to risk their life for their country anyway. That doesnt make sense to me. So our simple bill is, if the problem is up here, then the problem should remain up here and we should get this resolved but not actually put the consequences on those folks that are serving us all around the nation. As i came through tsa flying back to d. C. , as probably most of my colleagues did coming back this week, tsa agents that i passed by every week and we have great conversations as i pass by them in the airport every week, and as my bag is being checked and im going through the scanner like anyone else, the tsa agents are smiling at me and saying, am i going to get a paycheck next week . All they want to know is, im here defending the nation. Am i still going to get paid . Listen, right now on the border, right now, theyre being absolutely overrun with people coming across the border. Big numbers, huge overwhelming numbers used to be 1,000 people day. That was an overwhelming number. Yesterday there were 11,000 people that crossed our southern border. They were literally just checked inasmuch as could be done to be able to manage them and to be able to put them through. But if we have a shutdown