Constitution of our country. I believe our conferees should have an opportunity to go in there and do the right thing to protect the people of america through the funding of the department of Homeland Security and to do the right thing to defend the constitution of our country. By defeating this motion and Going Forward with the conference, we give the process a chance to work. And to work well in both of those regards. So i respect the people on the other side who think we should just give in. But i dont think we should just give in. Because i dont think the American People want us to just give in. I think the American People want us to do our work. To make sure we protect our country by appropriately funding the department of Homeland Security. But that we also defend our protect our country by defending the constitution of the United States. I believe the actions taken by the president are unconstitutional. A judge has stayed those actions because hes got some legal issues with them. I dont know whats going to happen in that Court Proceeding im not going to try to predict that here on the floor of the house because a lot of times when you try to predict a Court Proceeding you find out youre wrong. In the meantime we have an obligation to do our job. I think Going Forward with this Conference Committee is doing our job in the most important consensus. I appreciate the opportunity to stand here today and address this house and to urge my colleagues to defeat this motion so that we can do something we havent done in a number of years, and that is to fulfill the obligations given to us by our fore bears, do our job, get this thing done, get it done right and make sure weve done right by the people of the United States. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from texas reserves. The gentlewoman from california is recognized. Ms. Roybalallard how much time is remaining on both sides . The speaker pro tempore both sides have 14 minutes remaining. Ms. Roybalallard i yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from texas, ms. Jackson lee Ranking Member of the crime terrorism, and Homeland Security subcommittee. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman from texas is recognized for two minutes. Ms. Jackson lee let me thank the gentlelady for her excellent work on the Homeland SecurityAppropriations Committee and the gentleman, mr. Carter. To the statements that have been made on the floor, might i just chronicle a more correct if i might say, articulation of really what happened. First, it is an applause and appreciation for the work done by the gentlelady from california and the gentleman from texas, along with the ranking and chairman of the Appropriations Committee because they had 12 Appropriations Bills ready to go forward. What my good friends have missed on the other side of the aisle is they debunked the full funding of the department of Homeland Security because of their ire against the president s authorized constitutional executive action. Thats why were here today for no other reason. Rather than allowing the debate on the clean fund thoring only the bus bill the 12 that have come from the house they took out the department of Homeland Security and left it to the side. They took it out in the light of young women, as i indicated, three denver girls played hooky from school and tried to join isis. They took it out in the light of the f. B. I. Director saying theres an isis cell in every state. They took it out in the light of the tragedies that happened in paris, in denmark, and have happened around the world, in australia, on boko haram. They took it out. They took out that full funding of the department of Homeland Security and skewed it by adding their contempt for the executive action. But then lo and behold what happened is a judge didnt rule it unconstitutional in texas. That was not the order of the court. It was that there were questions that should be decided and it was actually a stay. And that it should have gone to an administrative procedure, the a. P. A. It did not rule it unconstitutional but it was an action that caused at least a moment, a stay in the actions of the president. What does that say, madam speaker . It says that today, we can come and give a full funding for the department of Homeland Security. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewomans time has expired. Ms. Roybalallard i yield another 30 seconds. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman is recognized for 30 seconds. Ms. Jackson lee thank you. That order answers their concern about the executive action. In the meantime, we have every opportunity tonight, today, to vote on a clean, full funding of the department of Homeland Security until september because that is what the senate did. They did their work. But now we are playing games, in spite of the letter from the secretary of Homeland Security, and were telling the customs and border protection, were telling the t. S. O. s, the f. A. A. , i. C. E. Officers, all of them wurk put a stop sign and said we no longer want to secure america. I ask for support of this motion to instruct and ask for full funding for the department of Homeland Security. Lets do our job. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the jerusalems time has expired. The gentleman from texas is the gentlewomans time has expire. The gentleman from texas is recognized. Mr. Carter i yield two minutes to the gentleman from north carolina, mr. Pittinger. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. Mr. Wittinger thank you mr. Chairman. Madam speaker mr. Wittinger thank you, mr. Chairman. Madam speaker, we are here today and im in amazement because were in discussion about the constitution of the United States. This is an issue of the balance of powers. This is an issue of our liberties. This is as important as the Homeland Security bill is, we recognize today that the congress has made its statement, the president of the United States has made a statement 22 times, that he did not have the right to declare amnesty. The courts have made their statement. And yet today, were in a dialogue, i hope the American People are watching today and seeing the miscommunication of truth. The truth is, we are committed to the constitution. We are going to stand by the constitution. Were not going to allow the edict of one person to commit this country to a direction unchallenged. Were here, committed to that principle. We believe that the rights of the American People are founded in this constitution, and we will submit ourselves to that, and i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back. The gentleman from texas reserves. The gentlewoman from california is recognized. Ms. Roybalallard i reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman the gentleman from texas. Is recognized. Does the gentleman continue to reserve . Mr. Carter i continue to reserve. Madam speaker, i can yield to someone to speak. Did she reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady has reserved. Mr. Carter at this time id like to yield to austin scott of georgia two minutes. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from georgia is recognized for two minutes. Mr. Scott thank you thank you for yielding thank you, madam speaker. As i listen to this debate and watched as some of the people talked about what our duty was and was not as members of congress, i thought i might come down and read the oath that we as members of congress take. And it is simple. I do solemnly swear or affirm that i will support and defend the constitution of the United States against all enemies foreign and domestic, and that i will bear true faith and allegiance to the same, that i take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion and that i will well and faithfully discharge the duties of the office on which i am about to enter, so help me god. Ladies and gentlemen this is not about immigration. This is about whether the president has the ability to unilaterally run this country by creating fees and spending those fees as he sees fit and i would submit to you that he doesnt. And if the president can do this, if the president can do this, is allowed to get away with this then when we get a prolife president then that prolife president can create a fee on abortion providers and use it to fund adoption it. Now, it seems to me that the democratic party, who prefers free cell phones to taking care of the men and women that protect our country in uniform like the rules when theyre working for them but dont want to abide by the rules all the time. Now, what the president has done violates violates, i believe, the separation of powers, and i would suggest to you that this is a very dangerous precedent and this this is well worth fighting for in maintaining our oath as the members of the United States congress to defend the constitution. And with that madam chair, i yield the remainder of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back. The gentleman from texas reserves. The gentlewoman from california is recognized. Ms. Roybalallard madam speaker, i yield two minutes to the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. Keating. We got our wires crossed here. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized for two minutes. Mr. Keating thank you madam speaker. Lets not lose focus here. Were talking about our countrys security and we heard what would happen if the homeland function is eliminated immediately if we shut down, even with the emergency provisiones that are existing, but i want to address an important issue and thats our security being jeopardized because of these stopgap budgets. Now, what does that mean . That means we continue to work within the constraints of last years priorities. We cant move beyond the funding thats there for those functions that we said were important for our security last year. Now, the trouble with that is the terrorist threats are changing every single day. The landscape is changing under our feet, and yet we are in a straitjacket dealing with it. We cannot continue Going Forward. Its already jeopardized our ability to look at Nuclear Detection in this country because of these stopgap budgets. Now my state suffered through a terrible tragedy in the Boston Marathon bombing, but i think all of us agree and we all saw the way they organized, the way they coordinated, all the functions stayed local federal government, the medical functions the Emergency Service and we all concluded rightfully so, the countless lives were saved because of that. And you know why . Because there was training and preparation for what could come. We cannot deal in this country successfully with the threats that are there today and tomorrow confronting us from terrorist attacks with last years priorities and not being able to shift an meet those priorities. Lets stop these stopgap budgeting. Its hurting our country. Its hurting our security. Lets do what were supposed to do under the constitution, make these decisions to fund it, and with that i yield back to the gentlewoman from california. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back. The gentleman from texas is recognized. Mr. Carter reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from texas reserves. The gentlewoman from california is recognized. Ms. Roybalallard madam speaker, i yield four minutes to the gentleman from maryland, mr. Hoyer, the democratic whip of the house. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from maryland is recognized for four minutes. Mr. Hoyer thank you madam speaker. I rise in support of this motion. I also rise to lament the fact that we had an opportunity just a few hours ago or an hour ago to do what the senate rationally did and that is conclude after four opportunities of trying to adopt the house position, the senate failed to do so. Now, i heard my young friend from texas talk about the constitution. Ive heard a lot of people say we ought to read the constitution. I agree with that. And the constitution has provided for the resolution of the injury of which you speak so passionately and thats article 3 of the constitution. Marbury vs. Madison said the Supreme Court had the authority, whether it was the president or the congress, to say that is not constitutional. But frankly by us passing a law and saying this is constitutional, as has been attempted and done in the past by my republican friends we say by legislative fiat this is constitutional. Now unfortunately today we gave up the opportunity to act responsibly. And my friend, mr. Rogers, for whom i have great respect, and mrs. Lowey know well be back here some 20 days from today with this same debate because the senate has already said, a, theyre not going to conference. When i say the senate, the democrats are not going to give 60 votes, as the republicans would not give 60 votes to go to conference on other bills in past years. What we did was we reversed the order of the legislation were considering. Had we done the original order, we would have done this motion to go to conference and the motion to instruct first. And as a result we would have still had the senate bill in the house of representatives to act responsibly, but there apparently was the fear that we might do that so that bill was sent back to the senate before we considered the c. R. For 21 days. So i urge my colleagues to vote yes on this motion to instruct. Vote yes to at some point in time do what is the responsible and doable alternative. Its not a question of whether you like it or i like it. It is the alternative that we in the congress can do and thats why 68 members of the United StatesSenate Republicans and democrats voted to say weve tried for six weeks to do what we all need to do and thats fund the department of Homeland Security to keep america safe but we are going to delay that. But at minimum we ought to say to the conferees few of us on this floor believe there will be any conference. Again, the senate will not vote to go to conference. Let us vote at least for this responsible motion made by the gentlelady from california. And i yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back. The gentlemafr tass recog mrcaermam ear,ay i inquire as to how much time we have left . The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from texas has 10 1 2 minutes, and the gentlewoman from california h 5 1 2 minutes. Mr. Carter and id first like to say i certainly hope that mr. Hoyer, when he referred to his young friend from texas, was talking about me. That makes me feel really good and i appreciate that. At this time id like mr. Hoyer i tell the gentleman that mr. Carter well im certainly glad to hear that, mr. Hoyer. At this time id like to yield three minutes to my young friend from texas, mr. Gohmert. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from texas, mr. Gohmert, is recognized for three minutes. Mr. Gohmert thank you, madam speaker. I appreciated so much my friend, mr. Scott, bringing that oath. It does mean a lot. In my case, taking that oath to serve in the army for four years taking basically the same oath to be a prosecutor in texas, to be a judge in texas to be a chief justice in texas and now to be in congress, it means something. And protecting the constitution means that if we dont preserve the balance of power then this this little experiment in democracy or the republic, madam as Benjamin Franklin referred to, will be lost. So i appreciated what my friend from maryland said, and i wrote it down because it was profound and i quote, we gave up the opportunity to act responsibly, and i would humbly submit, madam speaker, that thats been going on for the last six years. Now, some of it went on during the Bush Administration as the president and used executive orders and took powers that probably shouldnt have been his. But in talking to people that have been in congress over the last 35 years or so, theyve told me whether it was gerald ford or richard nixon, when goldwater went down pennsylvania avenue, gerald ford, Jimmy Carter Ronald Reagan george h. W. Bush bill clinton or george w. Bush, there was a willingness on both sides of the aisle to get in a car together and go down pennsylvania and say, mr. President , you have usurped far too much power. We cant let you destroy the constitution any further. We are taking a stand, and we have missed that opportunity to act responsibly but fortunately its not yet too late. This will act responsibly to say and if you dont know what irresponsibility is then look at judge hannons opinion. He spells it out. This president didnt even have the gumption to write an executive order and sign it. He spoke his new amnesty law into being and then jae johnson did a memo. That took the power of congress away from us so the question on acting responsibly is, do we make that message clear were not having laws spoken into being in this country and having some bureaucrat unelected, come around with a memo that undoes laws by different congresses all these years signed by different president s with a memo . Come on. Its time to act responsibly. Now is the time. Please. I know Party Divisions run deep, but stand with us for the constitution. I yield back. Mr. Carter reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from texas reserves. The gentlewoman from california is r