room and they were just given the two-minute warning because the anchors are getting ready to do a quick preview of what the president is going to say. the president will come out in two minutes and make his statement. caller: thank you for taking my call. the government has flood insurance. why don't they set up the same thing for people who do not get health insurance? that is all i have to say. it would be the same thing. tony from alabama. caller: i am loving it. i am getting my free phone, welfare, and food stamps. i think the country will be a whole lot better off. host: are you being sarcastic? caller: life is great.

host: that is tony in indiana. we also have a twitter feed, and we are taking comments about cspanchat. you can join that conversation as well. pan. at facebook.com/cs david says i am listening to the back and forth that congress. anybodyeed buddy -- if tried this at work, we would be fired. thereetswriger will be no exemptions for anyone. here is the president. >> of all the responsibilities that conquered -- the constitution and owls to congress, two should be simple

-- pass a budget and pay america's bills. but if the united states congress does not fulfill its responsibilities to pass a budget today, edge of the united states government will be forced to shut down tomorrow. i want to be clear about what that would mean, what will remain open, and what will not. with regard to operations that will continue to much if you are on social security, you will keep receiving your checks. if you are on medicare, your doctor will still see you. everyone's mail will be delivered and government operations related to national security or public safety will go on. to troops will continue serve with skill, honor, and courage. air traffic controllers, prison guards, those who are with border control -- border patrol

will remain on their posts, but their paychecks will be delayed and -- but their paychecks will be delayed until the -- be shut down and entirely, except for support for the space they should. what will change -- office buildings will close, paychecks will be delayed, vital services to seniors and veterans, women, and children, is, and our economy depend on will be hand strong. business owners will be seeing delays in capital, rebuilding after hurricane sandy. veterans who have sacrificed for their country will find their support centers unstaffed. forests will find every one of america's national parks and monuments immediately closed. and smallities

businesses that rely on these national treasures for their livelihoods will be out of customers and out of luck. broadping with the ramifications of a shutdown, it is important that everybody understands the federal government is america's largest employer. more than 2 million civilian workers and 1.4 million active- duty military service in all 50 states and around the world. in the event of a government shutdown, hundreds of thousands of these dedicated public servant who stay on the job will do so without pay. several hundred thousand more will be immediately and indefinitely for mode without pay. of course, what will not be for toe are the bills they have pay. their mortgages, tuition payments, their carnage. these americans are our neighbors. their kids go to our school. we worship where we do. they serve their country with

pride. they are the customers of every business in this country. and they would be hurt gravely and as a consequence all of us will be hurt gravely should congress choose to shut the people's government down. a shutdown will have a very real economic you can -- impact on real people right away. have disrupted the economy significantly. this one would, too. it would throw a wrench into the gears of our coming when those gears have gained some traction. five years ago right now our economy was in meltdown. today our businesses have created 7.5 million new jobs years.e past 3 1/2 the housing market is healing, and our deficits are falling fast. americanputting the people's hard-earned progress at risk is the height of

irresponsibility. it does not have to happen. let me repeat this. it does not have to happen. all of this is entirely preventable if the house chooses to do what the senate is already done, and that is the simple act of funding our government without making extraneous and controversial demands in the process. the same way other congresses have for more than 200 years. unfortunately right now, house republicans continue to tie funding of the government to ideological demands like limiting a woman's access to contraception or delaying the affordable care act, all to save face after making some impossible promises to the extreme right wing of their party. let me be clear about this. an important part of the affordable care act takes effect tomorrow, no matter what

congress decides to do today. the affordable care act is moving forward. that funding is already in place. you cannot shut it down. that passed both houses of congress, a law that bears my signature, a law that the supreme court upheld as constitutional, a law that voters chose not to repeal matt law -- last november, a that is already providing benefits to millions of americans in the form of young people staying on their parent'' plan until they are 26, seniors getting cheaper prescription sure thating insurance companies are not imposing lifetime limits and you already have health insurance, providing rebates for consumers when insurance companies are spending too much money on overhead instead of health care. those things are already happening. starting tomorrow, tens of millions of americans to be able tovisit healthcare.gov

shop for affordable coverage. americans who have lived for years with the fear that one illness could send them into bankruptcy, americans who have been priced out of the market just because they have been sick once will finally be able to afford coverage, quality coverage, many of them for the first time in their lives. some of them may be sick as we speak. and this is their best opportunity to get some security and some relief. tens of thousands of americans die every single year because they do not have access to affordable health care. despite this, republicans have said that if we locked these americans out of the affordable health care for one more year, if we sacrifice the health care of millions of americans, then they will fund the government for a couple of more months.

thatanybody truly believe we will not have this fight again in a couple more months? even at christmas? -- 's the bottom line i am always willing to work with anyone of either party to make sure the affair package -- to make sure the affordable care act act works better, to make sure our government works better. i am always willing to work with anyone to grow our economy faster or to create new jobs faster. to get our fiscal house in order for the long run. i have demonstrated this time and time again, oftentimes to the consternation of my own party, but one faction of one congress,ne house of in one branch of government, does not get to shut down the entire government just to refight the results of an election. keeping the people's government open is not a concession to me.

services running and hundreds of thousands of americans on the job is not something you give to the other side. it is our basic responsibility. it is something that we are doing for our military and our businesses and our economy and all the hard-working people out person working for the agricultural department in some rural community who is helping some farmers make sure that they are making some modest profit for all the hard work they're putting in. they are the person working for is helping someone by i house for the first time. officeomebody in a v.a. who is counseling one of our vets who has ptsd. that is who we are here to serve . that is why we are supposed to

be carrying out these responsibilities. that is why should we -- that is why we should be avoiding this constant brinksmanship, and it is something we should be due in the ordinary process of this extraordinary system of government that we have. you do not get to extract a ransom for doing your job, for doing what you are supposed to be doing anyway or just because there is a law there that you do not like. the record people sent us here to govern. they sent us here to make sure that we are doing everything we can to make their lives a little bit after, trade new jobs, to security, tomic rebuild the prospects of upward mobility. that is what they expect. they understand there are differences between the parties, and we are going to be having some tough fights around his differences. and i respect the fact that the other party is not supposed to agree with me 100% of the time

just like i do not agree with them. we doo also expect that not bring the entire government to a halt or the entire economy to a halt just because of those differences. that is what they deserve. they worked too hard for too long to recover from previous crises just to have folks here in washington manufacturer yet another one that they have to dig themselves out of. congress needs to keep our government open. it needs to pay our bills on time. and never ever threaten the full faith and credit of the united states of america. time is running out. i hope and expectation is that in the 11th hour once again that congress will choose to do the right thing and that the house of representatives in particular will choose the right thing. thank you very much. >> [indiscernible]

>> and live coverage of the president making his statement regarding a potential government and the continuing resolution. we have a few minutes. the house is coming into session in five or six or seven minutes or so, and they will be debating their newest version of the continuing resolution bill that the rules committee just passed, and we will bring you live coverage of that. in the meantime we want to get some of your comments. we will take some phone calls, looking at tweets, quickly. looking at some of the tweets coming in, those that were coming in during the president's talk. m says obama should be the first one in line to sign up for his own affordable health care plan, and toby says we have already invaded this, time to move on, we need to try to work out the kinks. health care for all equals good. -- thank youp.

for waking a sleeping giant. ray, go ahead and make a comment. caller: thank you for taking my call. this is directed to the tea party republicans of the house of representatives. our country shut down by a bunch of members in the house of representatives. one branch of government does not run this country. now they are obsessed with that mantra no coup by off with democrats. just skipped that child this -- childish parlor games. host: another call from pennsylvania, from the republicans line. caller: hi. yes.

to thelistened republicans. the president and the democrats, they really think they are better than the rest of us. why would the republicans think that they and their staff is should not have better insurance than us? guess what -- they are no better than we are, and we pay taxes which pay their paycheck. they want to treat us like we are a bunch of a and they are going to tell us what we are going to do. you know what? i pray that thes republicans .tand up, stink up, and hold up shut the government down and let them know that we are not going to stand for this in the longer. thank you. frank, chicago, independent line, you are on c- span. caller: yes.

it seems to me sort of that a lot of these representatives have been a round for a long time, and they did not have any problem eating together and making the social security money disappear. it is too bad they cannot do the same thing today. thank you. host: bobby is in indiana on our democrats line. oddly, what the you think about all of us? caller: i am really upset with them because they could not come to a conclusion. i am so proud of our president, a democrat. he has fought wars, he has tried to settle arguments everyplace, and then he gets up here again tonight trying to settle them right there in the house. that is ridiculous. nobody -- nobody -- i worked until i was 65 years old, and if i had as agreed in people -- as

agreed with people like that, do you think i would have had a job? i cannot believe how they are doing there. isn't there anything that can fire them like you could be fired at your own jobs? there is something wrong with this system. for calling in, bobby. just to update you, the federal budget year ends tonight at mud -- at midnight. the new fiscal year 2014 begins tomorrow. there have been 17 shut downs of the government since i can 77. the last one was 1995. newt gingrich was the speaker, bill clinton was the president, lasted 21 days. federal museums, overseas offices, regulatory agencies, iris call centers, and federal grant/contract offices

will close down. what will not be affected, social security, medicare, and settlement programs, law enforcement, and military and national security. this is a recent politico argument -- house gop delays individual mandate with just hours to go before the government shuts down. house republicans will try to pass a bill that would delay the mandate that individuals buy health insurance and would cancel out insurance subsidies for members of congress and staff. administrationnd appointees according to multiple sources. these provisions will be attached to a government funding bill which will almost certainly be rejected by the senate, since harry reid has said he will not accept changes to obamacare in the government funding negotiations, and the rules committee, that is what the rules committee in the house was debating just a little while ago, an hour ago, if you were with us. that was live, and it passed the rules to many.

it will come to the fore. in thels have gone off house. the house will come into session in 50 minutes. i was 15 minutes ago. we expect them any moment, and we will try to work in one more call from out in new york. hi, alex. alex, you with us? we're going to move onto wesley in greeley, colorado, independent line. caller: thank you for having me on. independent, i'm going to have to go with the republicans on this one. i do not know what happened in america where personal response below the and liberty took a backseat to dependency on government, but this is not acceptable to me and who i work for and with. i am incredibly mad. we do not vote along party lines. i do not. i do support john boehner and the republican house right now. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house a communication.

the clerk: the honorable, the speaker, house of representatives, sir, pursuant to the permission granted in 2-rule 2 of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on september 30, 2013 at 2:53 p.m., that the senate disagreed to the house amendment to the senate amendment to the resolution. house joint resolution 59, signed sincerely, karen l. haas. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable, the speaker, house of representatives, sir, pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2-h of rule 2 of the u.s. house of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on september 30, 2013 at 4:02 p.m., that the senate passed without amendment, h.r. 3210, that the senate passed

senate 1560, signed sincerely karen l. haas. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? mr. sessions: i send to the desk a privileged report from the committee on rules for filing under the rule. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title. the clerk: report to accompany house resolution 367, resolution providing for consideration of the senate amendment to the joint resolution, house joint resolution 59, making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2014 and for other purposes, and waiving a requirement of clause 6-a, rule 13 with respect to certain considerations reported from the committee on rules. the speaker pro tempore: referred to the house calendar and ordered printed.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman texas seek recognition?

mr. sessions: mr. speaker, by the direction of the committee on rules, i call up house resolution 367. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the resolution. the clerk: house resolution 367, resolved, upon adoption of this resolution, it shall be in order to take the joint resolution, house joint resolution 59 making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2014 and for other purposes with the house amendment to the senate amendment thereto and to consider in the house, a motion offered by the chair of the committee on appropriations or his designee that the house received from its amendments and concur in the senate amendment with the amendment printed in the report of the committee on rules accompanying this resolution. the senate amendment and the motion shall be considered as read. the motion shall be debatable for 40 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking member of the committee on appropriations. the previous question shall be

considered as ordered on the motion without intervening motion or demand for division of the question. section 2, the requirement of clause 6-a of rule 13 for a 2/3 vote to consider a report from the committee on rules on the same day it is presented to the house is waived with respect to any resolution reported through the legislative day of october 7, 2013. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for one hour. mr. sessions: mr. speaker, thank you very much for the purposes of debate only, i yield the customary 30 minutes to my dear friend, the gentlewoman from new york, mrs. slaughter, pending such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. sessions: during consideration of this all time is yielded for purpose of debate only. i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. sessions: house resolution 367 provides for consideration

of the senate amendment to h.j.res. 59, the continuing appropriations act for fiscal year 2014. mr. speaker, at midnight tonight, just a few short hours from now, the federal government will shut down if congress, that is both the house and the senate, do not act to provide the necessary appropriations to run our government. the legislation before us today will ensure that a shutdown does not happen. and we will take important steps to ensure that obamacare, known as obamacare, the affordable care act, does not have the opportunity to hurt american jobs and continue to drag down our economy by delaying the individual mandate for one year. additionally, this c.r. will ensure that congress is not exempt from obamacare and the members and their staffs do not receive a special

taxpayer-funded healthpayer subsidy. these are important issues, mr. speaker. they are being talked about all across america today. on are being talked about sunday at tables across all can families about the right nouse about what we as republicans are attempting to do and we are attempting to save this country and the american people, the free enterprise system and free people from having to have a government-run health care system. this government-run health care system already has been estimated to cost twice what it was expected to do. and since this health care law has come into play, for every one full-time job, there have been six part-time jobs created. we do not want a part-time working america, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, our country cannot

be the greatest nation in the world if we are a part-time working society. mr. speaker, the american people did not agree with this bill at the time it was passed. but despite that, the democrats rammed this through the house and the senate, signed by the president in record time despite millions of americans protesting all across america the same day it was passed in the house. mr. speaker, this has been an issue that has harmed american businesses, business leaders, businessmen, unions and union leaders are all gathering together to say this is the wrong thing to do. it takes advantage of those people who have health care today. it is a direct violation of what

the president said it would do, and in my state of texas where if yav trade practice, if you sell something one way and the product isher,ta way that it would be against the law. what we are igtroo to do is change the law. republicans have tried to delay it, defund it, get them to waive , change it, talk about it engage. there is a must-piece-pass of legislation. . . we hope it will level the playing field on a terrible piece of legislation. the american people sense unfairness and they have seen it take place in our marketplace and the workplace, and as we all become unemployed or move to part-time work, we

will see where this devastating law of a one-size-fits-all for everybody health care plan, run by the government, is not a wise way to go. so that's why we're here on the floor today. republicans are on the floor today. we were here earlier in the week. we were here last week. we've been here ever since the day it passed. we're consistent in our behavior. every single republican believes this is a bad way to do things. i think business sees that too. he american people -- a poll "new york times"/cbs poll, 60% that responded to "new york times" and cbs say they are not supportive of this bill. so will someone stand up for the american people? called the republican party. our great speaker and leader, john boehner and eric cantor, have asked us to come to the floor today to move a bill and the republican conference is

there. we're hoping that the united states senate and the american poom -- people all get together on this and then president obama will see the wisdom behind learning from mistakes that have been made in the past. i have every reason to believe that what we're doing here will be good for the american people. we will listen to the voices and we will move forth together. we are giving everybody a chance to be heard from today and tonight will be an opportunity for the american people to know that it was the republican party that stood up on their behalf. i reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas reserves. the gentlelady from new york is recognized. ms. slaughter: thank you very much, mr. speaker. and i thank my colleague, mr. sessions, for yielding me the time and yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. slaughter: mr. speaker, my colleague is certainly right, we have been here time after time after time on this issue, but we are standing on the brink of the worst government

shutdown in modern history. unlike 1994, the pending government shutdown would reach across the entire federal government. in 1994, half of the congressional appropriations bills had been signed into law by the president, and as a result, those half of the federal agencies were able to operate during the shutdown. but this year, because of the draconian budget levels included in the misguided sequester, the majority was unable to pass a single appropriations bill into law. in fact, they ran out of money about halfway -- after they got through the defense budget, and for the first time i've been in congress, unable to pass the transportation bill. and because of that, again, we find ourselves in this terrible position. now, as a result, should the government shut down, it is going to be more harmful and more widespread than the last one. and mr. speaker, these are very real and very serious consequences that we face. and it is in the face of these

consequences that the majority has chosen to continue what are only described as dangerous partisan games. we have indeed been here before. the first time the majority wanted to defund the affordable care act. second, they decided to just delay it, but then on that bill they threw in a -- do away with the medical device tax, which will create $1 trillion deficit increase over the next 10 years and hit women's reproductive rights one -- next time. and just today, we saw the first lady of texas, ms. perry, who said in an interview that abortion should be a woman's right and that she believes women should have a right to choose and we thank her for that and couldn't agree with her more. but this again, now what are we coming up with today? well, we are not going to back

away from anything. we are just going to try to kill the health care bill, which we know we can't do. it's going in effect tomorrow morning. what we will do, they say, is to delay the mandate which is the large part of the funding for the bill. and in addition to that, they've decided that members of congress and our staff will not be able to get the government co-pay that most get. in fact, most people in america get it from their employer, and we are going to be denied being able to do that because senator grassley, who claims he made a mistake, inserted that into the bill and he said just this week that he did not mean for us not to be part of the government health care system but that somebody had misappropriated his idea and wrote it wrong. so that's where we are with that today. but the majority's proposal is going to do that.

and they're going to say to all these young people who come to washington with such promise and such energy and such -- trying to do something good for their country and look forward so much of having the great privilege of working in the capitol of the united states that they're not going to have the health care, driving many of those to leave and get other work, others to not really get the health care that they need. so why do we do that? heaven only knows. but frankly, i would be embarrassed -- and i mentioned this in the rules committee -- to look around the room and to the staff we praise all the time for their ingenuity, for their faithfulness, for their willingness to stay as we did sunday morning until 12:30 without ever making any complaints at all by punishing them with health care. offensive as this proposal is, it's a fitting example of the

vision for america that the majority has. it's a vision of an america where insurance companies are put back in charge of the health care system. price gouging and discrimination goes unchecked, where the most vulnerable among us, including cancer patients, the victims of domestic violence, children born with pre-existing conditions can be denied access to health care. "the new york times" had wonderful pieces yesterday, talking about people who have been burdened so much that they are literally bankrupt from the cost of health care. this bill takes every step to avoid that in the future. i'm not sure that people understands what happens is we've turned around what used to be the yearly cap insurance companies charge for their clients and now say that if you are a person, a single person with your health insurance that once you have paid out of pocket, $6,400 for medical

procedures and medicine, the insurance company then for the rest of the year will pay your cost. what's not to like about that? if you're a family, $12,000. a cost you will -- what we saw yesterday in reading "the times," there are people with cancer many times are not able to get the care. and we know and i know from the work we have done with cancer patients that many of them go untreated. if there's anything worse than getting cancer, to be diagnosed with cancer, it has to being able to pay for treatment. this is the majority wants to do away with. i have not seen so much work to try to prevent 30 million americans, our brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, everybody, from being able to have health insurance. many of them for the first time

in their lives. i met a woman in the last campaign who told me that she was so excited but she had just signed up for medicare. one was born with cerebral palsy. and under the president's insurance she was not insurable. she drove a car, all the things do without a dime's worth of health insurance. children who had head injuries or other members of the family could often use up their lifetime limit of about $1 million in less than a year, and they were never insurable again in the united states. we are not going to go back to that. there's absolutely no idea. so there's something we can do here tonight. what we can do is vote this down, go back to the rules committee, take up the senate clean bill, which is over here at the desk, pass that bill in the house and the rules, bring it here, pass it in the house a

bipartisan way, by the way -- that wouldn't hurt -- and then lo and behold that bill is ready to go to the president's desk. and we could get that signed, shutdown would be averted, health care would be available to people who desperately need it and desperately want it and we should not continue to be the only industrialized country on the face of the earth that does not provide health care for its people. i strongly urge my colleagues to vote no on this rule and the underlying legislation and demand that we pass the senate bill and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from new york reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. sessions: mr. speaker, thank you very much. the gentlewoman's time has expired, my dear friend, makes many, many important points about not only the law that was passed but about maybe some comments about what we're doing here.

i have great sympathy, respect for men and women, people, children, seniors who are born with diseases that sometime imnate during their life -- emanate during their life. great respect for that. and i do agree with the gentlewoman's time has expired hat -- i do agree with gentlewoman that in a public-private partnership, working with states, should, need to, create a better system to take care of those who are uninsured or a term maybe had been uninsurable. and this is where for years there had been a big debate in washington about how to best do that, and the facts of the case are real simple that every time we had an opportunity in the republican party to try and get hat done, it became a point of

decisionmaking by the senate and they blinked. the house many times passed all sorts of bills that would allow people better to be employed across state lines, better ways to make larger team sizes for insurance so that risk pools would have a better opportunity to be managed. but instead of us taking care of some 23 million to 33 million people who were in this ircumstance, the bill aimed at 230 million people, and it put rules and regulations and restrictions on business in hiring. it was less about coverage and more about a hammer from washington, d.c. there are lots of examples of this, but one of the them might be the ipab, which is the independent payment advisory

group, which the democrats wrote into law that could not receive any legislative or judicial updating. you could not challenge the law that they decided on of benefits and payments. that's just one part of this outrageously expensive and overbearing health care bill. we talked about that. we talked about how expensive it is and how it's causing business -- delta airlines, as an example -- delta airlines said, and they have a very good plan, but they came to the administration february this last year and said, it's going o cost delta airlines $100 million more just the first year. now, that's not helping people.

that's highway robbery. that is harming business, harming the free enterprise system. mr. speaker, i am for balance, i am for reasonableness, i am for opportunities and so is my party, but we are not for diminishing the greatest economy in the world by arbitrarily doing it with a one-size-fits-all obamacare that not one republican voted for and that democrats are still gleeful about. so we're here today, we've been here for quite sometime, as the gentlewoman admitted, yes, day after day, we're kind of relentless about this because we're worried about what's happening. we have seen employment figures , higher taxes, more spending, more government -- oh, by the way, indecision along the way where the administration really can't figure out what they're doing, and so what we're saying

is we think everybody ought to be into the same bucket that employers are in and that is we've already delayed it so we should do that the same for individuals. . and we're going to shut down the government over that? that's the question. we're going to shut down the government, republicans, because we want to put individuals on the same footing as what president obama gave a pass to business? now, mr. speaker, i'm from texas . and i recognize that we like freedom and opportunity and less taxes and more opportunities, by golly, we employ a lot of people. but i think the whole country sees this. what the whole country sees is,

the reasonableness that the republican party comes to the floor and we are going to keep the battle going, saying we think everybody, at least every individual should be treated the same as business. we think the president of the united states made a mistake and we are politely today trying to say, mr. president, can we please fix that mistake? can we please give to the individuals of this country, men and women who pay their taxes and work hard, can we give them equal representation with what you gave to people who run businesses? now, i'm a business guy, but i'm also an individual. and that's why the republican party is doing what we're doing, mr. speaker. we are not asking for anything that's unreasonable. as a matter of fact, if i hurry up, we could get it quickly to the floor so we can vote on

this, but an explanation is necessary, reasonableness, common sense and doing the right thing. that's what the republican party is here doing. that's what our great speaker, john boehner is doing, that's what eric cantor is doing. we are going to bring to the floor, our republican majority will be here and we are going to pass this and say we believe the same thing that happens to business where the obama administration was not ready for them and so they gave them a pass for a year, we think the same thing is true for individuals. i reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentlelady from new york is recognized. ms. slaughter: i yield three minutes to the gentleman from massachusetts, member of the rules committee, mr. mcgovern. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. mcgovern: here we go again. as we look up at the clock, we see there is only 6:10 to a completely unnecessary and

economically harmful government shutdown. i don't see the junior senator from texas on the floor, but i presume he has signed off on the latest feeble republican strategy since he seems to be the one calling all the shots around here. i say to my republican friend, enough. enough with the gamesmanship and the legislative ping-upon and high-fives on the floor. it's time to put your grown-up pants and do your jobs which should have been done months ago. the house and senate bassed a budget and instead of going to a conference committee, the republican leadership refused to appoint conferees. they refused to negotiate. and as a result, we are here on the edge of a cliff. here's the irony, mr. speaker. it's clear to me there is a majority in this house, republicans and democrats, for passing the clean c.r. sent to us by the senate. that clean c.r. contains the numbers that my republican

friends have in the sequester. i don't understand why they claim victory and get on the business of governing and part of that is ensuring that the affordable care act works as well as possible for all of the american people. it's the law of the land. it's going to stay that way. and neither the senate or the president is going to accept any changes. and let me just say a word about the so-called vitter amendment. unlike what my republican friends say, the vitter amendment doesn't make the people who wrork for us like everyone else. it says to the people who help us draft legislation and answer the phones in our office and respond to constituent mail and help a veteran get benefits, that unlike every other federal employee, their employer will not contribute a share toward their health insurance. it's a lousy, lousy thing to do. and i say to my colleagues, if see thissee exodus and

place get dumber, pass the vitter amendment otherwise treat it like the cynical speaking point that it is and vote it down. put on your grown-up pants and do the right thing. reject the rule, reject the underlying bill and pass a clean c.r. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. sessions: i yield one minute to the gentleman from tennessee, congressman duncan. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. duncan: mr. speaker, i rise in support of this rule and underlying continuing resolution to keep the government open and i thank the gentleman from texas for yielding me this time. this rule and the bill that it brings to the floor makes sure that people know that we in the congress will not receive any type of exemption or special benefit under obamacare. for some reason, the national

media has given the president a free pass by not calling on him to compromise or even negotiate at all to help keep the government open. the republicans have compromised and voted to fund the entire government except for only one bill, obamacare. if a republican president was refusing even to negotiate, he would be criticized to high heaven by the national media. we simply are trying to treat ordinary individuals the same way and give the same delay that -- to individual americans that was given to big business. i think this is a very reasonable and moderate approach that republicans in the house have taken and i thank the gentleman for yielding me this time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from texas reserves. the gentlelady from new york is recognized. ms. slaughter: i yield a minute and a half to the gentleman from colorado, mr. polis. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one and a half minutes.

mr. polis: here we are until the 6:07 government shut downs, the greatest country on the earth with such a dysfunctional congress that we can't keep our government open. we will be voting on a bill that will lead to a government shutdown. we have separation of powers in our constitution. this house of representatives does not unilaterally run the country. we have the house, senate and president, takes compromise and working together to move forward as a country. these kinds of positioning bills are fine a month or two before a crisis, but with six hours left, all this bill will do is cause a government shutdown. i encourage my colleagues to can get s rule so we

to a serious discussion about keeping the federal government open rather than forcing a shutdown of the federal government tonight, which is what will occur if the house of representatives passes this bill. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from colorado yields back. the gentleman from texas. mr. sessions: i yield one minute to the favorite son of texas, the gentleman from texas, mr. poe. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. poe: i thank the gentleman for yielding. mr. speaker, the house again will vote to fund the government , not shut it down. when we fund the government, we're going to do two things that are in fairness that does not discriminate against special folks. one thing, we are going to let everybody get a postponement for a year. why should big business be treated better than the individual citizen? it shouldn't. so let's postponethe whole plan for one year. and also, why should special folks in washington get exemptions like the white house,

the white house staff, members of congress, members of congress' staff, leadership staff, committee staff? we should all be under the rules of the law that is passed. it's interesting, obamacare and obama is not under obamacare, neither the white house, neither the cabinet members, neither the staff. why not? let's treat everybody alike and not discriminate. and that's just the way it is. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from texas reserves. the gentlelady from new york. ms. slaughter: i'm pleased to yield one minute to the the gentlewoman from texas, ms. jackson lee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. ms. jackson lee: permission to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. jackson lee: mr. speaker, we are on the brink of a shutdown, a brink of sending this nation over the cliff. tonight, i speak to the american people and to my colleagues, we

have a very simple task, a task of mercy and grace, a task of adulthood in recognition of our responsibility to keep this government open. i would like to shun the party and let them eat cake and those who say let's eat and play while rome is burning and the former presidential candidate bachmann who says we are smiling, we got what we want a shutdown of the government. i would like to shun that kind of attitude and ask my colleagues to join together in a simple task to support the clean continuing resolution that would fund this government as we are obligated to do under the constitution. we have the purse strings in the house to make sure that the government works, to make sure that our women and children are served and our veterans are served, to make sure our parks

are open. all we have to do is a simple task to stop going over the top and be able to respond as americans. yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. sessions: i yield three minutes to the distinguished the gentleman from from texas, member of the rules committee, dr. michael burgess. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for three minutes. mr. burgess: i felt obligated to come to the floor tonight to set a few things straight. all of the words that have been spoken about the amendment from the senator from iowa that was in the original affordable care act that was signed by the president in march of 2010, but like so many things that were in the bill that was signed by the president, there were errors. wasn't ready for prime time. it was pushed through the senate. never went through any sort of process in the house after that point and then got signed into law. as a consequence and senator

grassley has been concerned about this and he spoke just last week, he said that the original amendment requiring lawmakers and staffers to enter into the obama exchanges but didn't intend for them to lose the subsidy. any of those who knew anything about health care, we wouldn't have the controversy. the senator said the majority leader did not draft the statutory language, omitting language that would have allowed the staff to keep their employer contributions while in the exchanges. he said the office of personnel management rules in line with the original amendment despite the amendment not being his. senator grassley went on to say, you understand when we adopt an amendment in the senate finance committee, unlike other committees. it is not like legal language. we describe it. when they put the statutory language in, they screwed it up.

said if you want to know the truth, they have people that didn't know what they were doing. my goal of how the amendment was worded was that we in congress need to go into the exchange so we have to go through the same red tape as every other citizen. and that's what we are doing here tonight, saying that that concept, that members of congress go through the same red tape as every other citizen in this country is required to do. we can talk about things that have been delayed in this bill, maybe we should spend a few minutes talking about that. republicans have tried to short-circuit parts of the affordable care act but the president himself has been the delayer in chief. there was a federal pre-existing program set up under the affordable care act but that program closed its doors to new applicants the first of february this year. that means 11 months that people were frozen out of the federal

pre-existing program. the press has never held the president to account. we heard debate about the caps on oup expenses, but -- out of pocket expenses. they were suspended by the administration this year. very little press about that. all of the good things in the affordable care act, you don't know what it is contained because the president may stop any part of it at his discretion. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house the following enrolled bill. . . the clerk: military pay in the vent of a government shutdown. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas reserves. the gentlelady from new york is recognized. ms. slaughter: thank you, mr. speaker. i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the gentleman from maryland, the distinguished ranking member of the committee on budget, mr.

van hollen. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland is recognized for two minutes. mr. van hollen: thank you very much, mr. speaker. a simple question. why is the speaker of this house denying this house the opportunity to have an up or down d vote -- up or down vote on a clean, continuing the federal keep government operating tomorrow and beyond? why is he not allowing a vote? why is he not allowing democrats and republicans together to have a vote on keeping the government open? because, mr. speaker, if he had that vote it would pass. it would pass on a bipartisan basis and the government would still be operating. so apparently this speaker is afraid that we would actually pass a bill to keep the government going. so why is he not allowing the people's house to do the people's business? well, we've been seeing this play out around the country.

in the last couple of weeks. you've got a far-right extreme tea party element in the republican party that is dictating what's happening here on the floor of this house. nor cruz is running the show -- senator cruz is running the show on the floor of this house. mr. speaker, why don't you just quicken it up and pass senator cruz the gavel and let him run the house? now, why is it that this group of members wants to shut down the government? because tomorrow, because tomorrow millions of americans are going to get access to affordable health care. millions of americans are already benefiting from the protections of the affordable care act. but tomorrow millions more will get access to affordable care. and republicans are so bent, at least this tea party faction, on blocking that from happening, on preventing those millions of

americans from getting access to affordable care, that they're prepared to shut down this government. that is a scandal. mr. speaker, the other thing i cannot figure out, if i could have another minute? ms. slaughter: i yield the gentleman another minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. van hollen: the other thing that's really puzzling is while our republican colleagues want to shut down the government to prevent the american people from getting access to the benefits of the affordable care act, right? access to the exchange, where you have a marketplace of different plans being offered and a little help for those who are stretched thin and can't afford it, while the republican colleagues want to shut down that part and other important parts of the affordable care act, guess what the republicans kept in their own budget? they kept the medicare savings. i remember mitt romney and the vice presidential candidate saying how those were going tot to be the ruin of the country. well -- going to be the ruin of the country. well, guess what? in that part of the budget, they kept those savings.

guess what else they kept they kept the save level of -- kept? they kept the same level of revenue that would be generated by the obamacare. just check the heritage foundation statement. every penny of revenue from obamacare, that level of funding is assumed in the republican budget. so here we have republicans running around the countrying saying they've -- country saying they've got a balanced budget because of obamacare and here they're saying they want to defund obamacare. you can't have it both ways. don't shut down the government. let's pass the bill that came out of the senate. send it to the president, get it done tonight thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. sessions: i do appreciate my dear friend, the gentleman from maryland, coming to the floor and speaking. but i want to say something real fast if we can, mr. speaker. this is to fund the government. the second part, this is to say that the president of the united . ates gave a pass to business

the pass was because the president has not provided enough content and information to business to let them know how it's supposed to work. but we're not going to do the same for individuals. and that's what this legislation says. we're going to fund the government, we're not trying to stop having people from receiving things. we're trying to say, give us the same opportunity. because the individuals that it does help, i do have great -- a sense of responsibility about them. but times thousands of more that will be harmed by what we're doing is not a balance that republicans can put up with. the overriding effect, so, in fact, we're here, i can look myself straight in the mirror, mr. speaker, we're trying to do the right thing for the american people. at this time i'd like to yield three minutes to the

distinguished gentleman, a member of the rules committee, a very bright young man, the gentleman from georgia. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from zwrg is recognized for three minutes -- georgia is recognized for three minutes. mr. woodall: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank my chairman for yielding me the time. i thank him for his leadership in the rules committee. we've been here night after night after night, i say to my chairman, trying to keep the government open. and to my colleagues on the democratic side of the aisle, we have an opportunity to work together. i'm a hardcore, right-wing georgia republican. and i'm here to tell you, i want to keep government open. i don't think there's one of you over there that questions my word that i'm here today to keep the government open. not to bring the government to a halt. but there are also other concerns. and the biggest frustration i've had, mr. speaker in my 2 1/2 years here in the house, is that the president doesn't want to talk with me and my 700,000 constituents about our priorities for america. i carry a copy of the constitution in my pocket, mr. speaker, and it lays out clearly

our bicameral system here in congress, our article 1 congress or article 2 white house or article 3 courts. the president has been saying over and over and over again, as we come up upon this brink of a government shutdown, i will not negotiate. over and over again, mr. speaker. i will not negotiate. now, so often it's so easy for my friends to characterize republicans as being folks who are just looking for a fight. i've been down here with my republican colleagues as they have passed a bill to fund the government and completely repeal obamacare. i've been down here with my republican colleagues when they came back and they passed a bill to fund the government but just delay the most troublesome parts for a year. and now i'm back down here again with my republican colleagues with a bill that will fund the government but simply prevents the individual mandate from compelling individuals to engage in behavior they didn't want to engage in and to ensure that all

americans have access to the same set of rules that are applying to congress. i don't know how to be any more fair than that. harry reid said, we don't need to have any more conversations. folks, we have more serious problems than keeping the government open, if the rulebook for how this place is to operate no longer means anything. mr. speaker, if the president just gets to decide how it's going to be and that's going to be the way america runs, we no longer have a constitutional republican -- republic, we have something very, very different. we're here on the floor today to keep the government open. we're here on the floor today to continue to try to negotiate. i'm very proud of what my chairman's done in the rules committee in terms of bringing us to the other, trying to build a program that unites people rather than divides people. you have to be seeing the same headlines i'm seeing. delta airlines dropping

employees, home depot dropping employees, u.p.s. dropping employees, kroger dropping employees. you have to be seeing that and it has to hurt you in the same way it hurts me. let's come together and solve that problem. this is a step in that direction. much more negotiation to be done but i hope we'll do that over the next few weeks. support this rule and this bill. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from texas reserves. the gentlelady from new york is recognized. ms. slaughter: thank you, mr. speaker. i am delighted to yield one minute to the gentleman from illinois, mr. davis. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from illinois, mr. davis, is recognized for one minute. mr. davis: thank you, mr. speaker. you know, i've been told that when elephants fight, the grass is bruised. and when democrats and republicans fight beyond what is reasonable, the people are hurt. and many of them will not survive. it's time for us to move beyond this debate.

somebody said the other day that justice delayed was justice denied. i can tell you that treatment for a stroke victim delayed, treatment for cancer, treatment -- ialysis, treatment and for an ailment delayed, all of those are trips to the early grave. timets to vote in the senate -- it's time to vote in the senate resolution. forget about shutting down the government. and breathe life into our process. and life for the american people. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentlelady from new york reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. sessions: thank you, mr. speaker. you know, some of my favorites on the democratic party are taking chair chances to come down tonight -- are taking their chances to come down tonight and this spirited debate by the best of the democratic party are

here. i admire these men. i served with mr. davis some 17 years ago and he's one of the most honorable and respected men, members, of this body and i'm delighted that danny has come down. mr. speaker, at this time i'd like to yield two minutes to the gentleman from the sixth district of florida, distinguished gentleman, congressman desantos. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized for two minutes. mr. desantis: thank you, mr. speaker. you know, one of the realities of obamacare is that millions of americans are going to lose their employer-provided health insurance and be put into exchanges. and as you look through the 2,500 pages, there's actually a prosecute vision -- a provision that makes congress eat its own cooking. it seems congress voted on in 2010, passed by the senate, signed by the president, it puts them into obamacare exchanges. as we get close to the day of wreckening, october 1, -- reckonning, october 1, and january 1, when the changes fully take effect, a lot of people around here don't like that. as we were leaving for august recess, the administration issued a ruling through the

bureaucracy granting subsidies o members of congress, essentially rewarding their political friend without any basis in the statute. and indeed subsidies that americans who get removed from their employer plan will not be allowed to get in the private sector. and so i think this rule allows members to go on record, does congress deserve this bailout? the statute wasn't read and understood, they're looking for an easy escape. you need to go on record and say whether you want to get this bailout. should congress receive benefits for its members that are not available to private sectser employees who are in the same situation? i think the answer to that is no. and i'll cite james madison and federalist 57, madison said that the beauty of a constitutional system is that the ruling class can make no law which does not have its full operation on them and their friends as on the great mass of society. congress should not be treated differently.

this rule allows members of this body to go on record, so i'm glad that the chairman has written it. and i thank you for giving me time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida yields back. the gentleman from texas reserves. the gentlelady from new york is recognized. ms. slaughter: mr. speaker, i'm delighted to yield a minute to the gentleman from texas, mr. doggett. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. mr. doggett: for well over a year, republicans have forced our country to lurch from one politically manufactured crisis to another. last year they cost us over $1 billion in a manufactured crisis over the debt limit. they began new year's day with a last-second pullback from a plunge over the fiscal cliff. and now they're up to their old shenanigans of shutting down the government and that manufactured crisis is just a few days before the next one they've mfed over the full faith and credit of the united states. this is no way to run a congress and it's no way to run a

country. and the only path out is the same path that allowed us to escape the disaster on new year's day. and that is to permit the same action that we took that finally got relief for the hurricane sandy victims. and the only way we passed vite lens against women act -- we passed the violence against women act. and that's to let majority rule apply on the floor of this house. until we do that we will have a crisis. does the gentlelady have additional time? ms. slaughter: i'll yield another minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for another minute. mr. doggett: what we have to do to do is end the hammer -- what we have to do is end the hammer lock of the shutdown caucus in the republican party and when the speaker finally lets a majority of this house, a bipartisan majority of republicans and democrats, vote on continuing the necessary operations of our government, if they'll do that tonight, it will pass in five minutes. it's just a question of when

ever they decide to stop letting the shutdown caucus control what happens in the future of this country. it's the way we got relief on new year's day, it's the way we addressed the concerns of this hurricane sandy victims, it's the way we passed the violence against women act, and it's the way this country must move forward. i yield back. mr. sessions: i reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas reserves. the gentlelady from new york is recognized. ms. slaughter: i yield one minute to the gentleman from new jersey, mr. andrews. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for one minute. mr. andrews: permission to revise and extend my remarks. mr. andrews: in the springtime the republican majority passed a bill in the house and few weeks later the senate passed the budget and there was an attempt to bring the two parties to work

out the difference. the house republicans refused to start that negotiation. so came back after labor day, it became pretty obvious we were going to reach this government shutdown unless something was done. republicans opened the bidding by saying we want lower level of spending and want to get rid of the health care bill. what's happened since then between the house and the senate is the senate has said, all right. we'll take the lower level of spending but keep the health care bill. you get one thing you want, you don't get both things you want. that's the compromise. now we could be voting on this compromise this evening and end the government shutdown, because if it were on the floor, it would pass. we have a chance in a couple of minutes -- i would ask the gentlelady for 30 more seconds. ms. slaughter: i yield 30 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. andrews: we have a chance in

a couple of minutes to make that happen. if the members vote no, it will have the practical effect of getting rid this proposal and putting on the house floor the senate bill that could pass and end the government shutdown. let's vote on the compromise. let's give everyone here the chance to let the people work their will and end this government shutdown that looms this country. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: mr. sessions: i continue to reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentlelady from new york. ms. slaughter: i yield 1 1/2 minutes to the gentleman from new york, mr. jeffries. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. jeffries: the house g.o.p. has exposed its extremism for all of the american people to see. the resolution that underlies this rule is dead on arrival in the senate and will not be signed into law by the

president. and so what we have embarked on is a futile legislative joyride that will only end in a government shutdown, that will hurt children, hurt families, hurt the military, hurt senior citizens and hurt our economy. this is an unnecessary tragedy. why are we continuing to fight a battle that you have already lost? you lost it in 2010 legislatively when this congress passed the affordable care act. you lost it in a court of law when the supreme court in 2012 declared the affordable care act constitutional. and then you lost it politically last november when the president was re-elected to a second term. why are we continuing to litigate an issue that has already been resolved? it's time to confront reality. the affordable care act is the

law of the land. let's move on and get back to doing the business of the american people. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. members are reminded to direct their remarks to the chair. mr. sessions: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentlelady from new york. ms. slaughter: i yield one minute to the gentleman from rom minnesota. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. nolan: the simple truth is and everyone knows it, these amendments are intended for the sole purpose of shutting down the government. they're not going anywhere. everybody knows it. to deny this house of representatives an opportunity for an up-or-down vote is an afront to the american people, an afront to this institution,

an afront to this democracy and very member in this house -- members of the house, reject this rule so we can have a vote on a clean resolution and fund our government going forward. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from texas. mr. sessions: continue to reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from new york. ms. slaughter: mr. speaker, i yield one minute to the gentlelady from new york, mrs. maloney. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from new york, mrs. maloney is recognized. mrs. maloney: mr. speaker, this is a sad day for our congress. our colleagues across the aisle have chosen a pointless path of petty politics that will shut down the government of the most powerful nation of the earth and damage the world's largest economy. and it is the height of irony that the extremists have taken control of the republican agenda speak of listening to the will of the people, the will of the

people. the will of the people was to vote for the presidential to idate who promised preserve the affordable care act and to reject the presidential candidate who promised to repeal it on day one. the will of the people was to cast a million more votes for democratic candidates of the house. and the will of the people is to keep this government open and to vote on a clean c.r. that does not have a lot of stuff added to it unrelated to preserving our government and having our government function. shutting down the government will raise borrowing costs, slow the recovery and cause financial instability. let's get a clean c.r. and vote for a clean c.r. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentleman from texas. mr. sessions: i yield to congressman tom reed.

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. reed: mr. speaker, what we have before us is an opportunity to send a message across america that there will be no special treatment in washington, d.c. for members of congress and washington insiders. it is only fair that what we do is that we treat everyone equally under the law. dealing with e're here today, mr. speaker. and what we are talking about is if the president of the united states has said to big business, you get a pass for one year under obamacare. all we're saying if it's good for big business, it's good for americans and every individual in america should be treated the same. i'm asking my colleagues to join me. don't vote to protect your own self-interests and this special contributions that members of congress get. treat us equally. treat us the same. it is only fair that we keep this government open and we keep the law of the land intact

equally for everyone. with that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentlelady from new york is recognized. ms. slaughter: i'm delighted to yield one minute to the the gentlewoman from california, the democrat leader, ms. pelosi. the speaker pro tempore: the democrat leader is recognized for one minute. ms. pelosi: i thank the gentlelady for yielding and her leadership on this very important issue. and what is that issue? do we, as members of congress, intend to honor our responsibilities to the american people. y making tough choices to keep government open and working for the american people. mr. speaker, this weekend, in the dead of night, the republican majority had a simple, but clear choice to make. they could make a choice to accept democrats saying yes to

them on their budget number to proceed to the negotiating table to come up with a budget for our country or they could choose in the dead of night to continue at the moon ying for the 44th and 45th time, to try and overturn the affordable care act. and what did they choose, and i say this with great apology to rounds, because i love dogs, the moon. to bay to i9 was a sad thing because so much is at stake. we should all as members of congress have confidence what we believe in and debate full throttle the issues that are important to our country and to our constituents. we shouldn't take hostages

because the weakness of our ideas. we should go confidently to the table of policy making to debate them. but to say we're going to shut down government unless you overturn the law of the land that has been upheld by the supreme court and validated by the last election, we are going to shut down the government. now, the decision that they made the other night, they are continuing today. putting on the floor, attempting to put on the floor a resolution that has no possibility of becoming the law. we, as democrats say, you have put forth two really unpleasant proposals. one, to overturn the affordable care act.

and the other, which in all of is hiding the terrible budget bill that they are putting forth. which even their own chairman says, does not enable government to function. does not even enable us to do the job that we are here to do for the american people. two k-n-o-ws do not make a yes. make matters worse. democrats are determined that we will not shot government down. we will not be party to shutting government down. so we are willing to take your budget figure with the accompanying six-week opportunity to go to the negotiating table and develop a bill that will get rid of

sequestration and all the harm that that does to our national security and to our investments in the future. take yes for an answer. this debate is about the budget. keeping government open is about passing a bill, a continuing resolution to do that. don't be insecure about your own ideas and say, the only way we can prevail is the way we can shut government down if we don't have our own way. if we don't have our own way, we are going to shut government down. u and that attitude is a luxury that this country cannot afford. cannot afford. this is an explicit offer to the republicans in congress to agree to your number in this legislation and take the next

weeks ahead to come to the table and negotiate. something we should have done six months ago in march. the republicans said they wanted regular order. regular order means you pass a bill in the house and bill in -- you te and you could go to conference. that's what the book says. republicans wanted regular order. that's what they told the president in the oval office. mr. boehner said we want regular order said speaker boehner and leader mcconnell. the house passed its budget bill . republicans started saying like, no budget, no pay to the senate. but the senate planned to and did passed its budget bill. that would be the regular order.

now we go to the table to reconcile our differences. the minute the senate passed its bill, the republicans abandoned any interest in the regular order. why? maybe they were afraid that people would see the contrast of what they wanted to do in their budget compared to the investment in the future, the statement of our national values that our democratic proposal had under chairwoman patty murray in the senate and chris van hollen in the house. whatever the reason, for six months, they have not wanted to negotiate. and for six months they are saying, the president doesn't want to negotiate. but they are the ones who had the responsibility under the regular order of the house to come to the budget table to reconcile our differences. i salute the president for saying that the full faith and credit of the united states is not negotiable.

we will not default on the debt that we have all incurred already. so that is over here. so when he say that is not negotiable, that doesn't mean that we won't negotiate on the budget which is in the continuing resolution, a separate issue. so you can only conclude that insecure because of the poverty of ideas or just determined to shut down government, maybe they don't fully understand the consequences of it, the republicans have once again come to the floor with a bill, which they know will shut down government. 5 1/2 hours from now. 1/2 hours from now. .

we agree to your number for the purpose of going to the negotiating table. that's a big -- our number is what we agreed to with you in the budget control act. bipartisan agreement. $986 - $1.58 trillion vs. billion. it's an $80 billion comedown. that number was a compromise to begin with. that wasn't like plush with spending. it was a compromise to begin with. and now we are underfunding government and that's not good enough for you, to underfund and meeting the needs of the american people. you want to shut down government. so i would hope that all who think that this is not a good idea will express themselves on the rule. because the rule does not allow s to have a vote, a clean vote

on your suggestion for a continuing resolution at $986 trillion -- billion. let's give the republicans a vote on their number. let's give the republicans a vote on their proposal. and let's do it in a way that is clean and does not place in doubt whether government will be open in the morning to meet the needs of the american people. i hope that in the previous question, that enough people will reject what the republicans are putting forth and certainly on the rule we can do that. otherwise we'll go to time and time again, 46 times, to vote against undermining the affordable care act. instead we could have passed an immigration bill, we could have passed a bill to make sure we have background checks for people who want to -- who rlealy

able to purchase guns, to make sure that they are -- god willing, we could have passed legislation creating jobs, try.sting in the future for our but all of those things can be the legitimate -- not all, but the stuff -- the job initiatives and investing in the future, are the legitimate debate of priorities that is the budget debate. and that's what i hope that the republicans will allow. something they asked for, the regular order. something they asked for, $986 billion in the bill. something i think we all want, keeping government open. with that i urge a no vote on the rule and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from california yields back. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. sessions: mr. speaker, thank you very much. and i thank the distinguished jontlewoman from california. not only for coming -- gentlewoman from california. not only for coming down but for her kind words about many commonsense things.

i think she also knows that this bill that's before us tonight is not to shut down the government. i come from a family that the former speaker is known -- has known for a long, long time. she knows a lot about me. i'm a part of this bill. father, yes, y my but also others that you stay at the table until you get something done. it may be a little late at night. it may take a little bit of hard work. it may take some creative thinking. and then the athlete in me says, you run through the tape. as a track guy, i always ran through the tape. as a football guy, i ran until the clock went out. i think what the republican party is here trying to say is, we're here at work, we're going to get our work done, we're challenging the united states senate to do the same. and we are going to pass this bill tonight because it's the right thing to do and we'll stay

open tonight and we'll receive their ping pong terms, the ping and the pong, back and forth, and we'll be ready. mr. speaker, i'm sure you'll stay on dutyy. may drink a couple of cups of coffee. but you're doing the right thing for the people of johnson county, kansas, and i know where you're from and i know what kind of man you are. i'd also like to introduce and yield to the gentleman from mr.as -- wausau, wisconsin, duffy. mr. duffy: thank you, mr. chairman. now, listen, i've been in this institution for 2 1/2 years. and the majority or the minority leader from the other side of the aisle, she talked about hounds. i have heard a lot of howling from the other side of the aisle. howling about fairness and howling about equality. well, talk is cheap. because today you have an opportunity to live and vote for fairness and equality. because for months big business

has come to this town and they have asked for an employer exemption. an exemption from the employer mandate. and all we're doing tonight is saying, let's treat individuals in america the same way you're trithe treating big business -- you're treating big business. they may not have as much money s, but they lobbying have us fighting for them. join us so we can treat individuals like the big business you give an exemption. the president talks about how great obamacare is. but we have to note that he's excluded his administration. the press secretary, mr. carney, he gets up often and talks about how great this bill is. if it is so great, what we do tonight is we allow the administration, like us in congress, to come in to obamacare and we remove the exemption -- or the subsidy from us and from the administration. let's treat congress with the same equality and the administration with the same

equality as the american people and let's treat the american people the same way you're treating big businesses in america. this is easy. walk the walk, don't just give us the talk. let's vote for this rule. let's pass this bill tonight. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from wisconsin yields back. the gentlelady from new york is recognized. ms. slaughter: mr. speaker, i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the gentleman from california, a member of the committee on appropriations, mr. farr. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for two minutes. mr. farr: mr. speaker, bring us some leadership. there is only one issue before the united states congress and that is the issue to keep government open. and the bill to do that is in this house. the bill to keep the government open is in this house and if it were on the floor we'd pass it in one minute. it would go to the president and he'd have it signed before he went to bed. that's all we have to do.

but this rule brings all kinds of other baggage and says, no, we don't want to keep government open. we want to get into other issues. well, aren't all the other issues what we're about for all the other part of the year? this is the only day and the only moment where we can keep government open. it's the last chance. and they say, oh, you know what, this is a partisan thing. i heard the chairman say, you know, it was a mistake to pass -- the president made a mistake. that's what you said. well, we thought president bush made a mistake in invading iraq. in fact, a majority of democrats fought against it, argued against it, and voted against it. but we went to iraq, we didn't try to stop the whole congress to block the budget. no. in fact, on the promingses -- appropriations to pay for it, the democrats voted for it. we admit it, we lost. you lost on the obamacare,

whatever else you want to call it. it's the law. the supreme court declared it. if you want to deal with other issues, put it in other bills. don't attach it to this bill. reject this rule that brings the baggage, bring the clean bill, let's pass it in the next hour and, mr. president, have it signed by midnight. let's keep this government open. it does so much damage otherwise. so many kids, so many women, so many poor people. really get hurt. this is not leadership, this is meanness. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. sessions: i reserve my time. i'd like to advise the gentlewoman i have no further speakers and i'll wait for her to close and then i will do the same. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas reserves. the gentlelady from new york is recognized. ms. slaughter: thank you, mr. speaker. i have one further speaker. i'd like to yield one minute to the gentleman from california, mr. sherman. the speaker pro tempore: the

gentleman from california is recognized for one minute. mr. sherman: we're told that if we -- what the government -- if we want the government to stay open for just another 45 or 75 days we should torpedo the affordable care act. then what happens in november or december? are we told that to keep the government open any further we have to stripmine yellowstone? we have to abolish medicare? the fact is it is wrong to take hostages, it is wrong to say that the government will shut down if that is the only way that you can achieve your legislative objectives. what would the country think of us if we said we're going to shut down the government unless we get gay rights, gun control, cap and trade, immigration reform? or what would the country think of us if we said, gay rights,

the nly for one year, keep government open for one year, get gay rights for one year? taking hostages is wrong, holding hostage the greatest country in the world is wrong. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlelady from new york. ms. slaughter: i'm pleased to yield one minute to the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. lynch. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized for one minute. mr. lynch: i thank the gentlelady for yielding. you know, i had a chance earlier today because we're not doing a whole lot other than arguing the last few days to run up the mall and go for a little jog. i went by the washington monument, the world war ii memorial, ran all the way out to arlington where the iwo jima memorial. is and i got think toing about all the great people in this country who have built this government and invested so much, sacrificing their very lives to preserve this government and to

elevate it to a point where it is respected around the world. and i thought about the debate that's going on here today. we should not be disgracing their memory, all of those people, from jefferson to f.d.r. and others, bydy solving this government, by -- by desolving this government, by defunding it and allowing it to fail. we owe the american people better than that. there's a solution here. hey, look, i didn't vote for the affordable care act either. i thought it was a flawed bill. i've got a different argument. about how to make that work best for the american people. and we're failing the american people by allowing this government to shut down. it's a terrible precedent to set. it's disgraceful. and the american people deserve better. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. lynch: i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the

gentlelady from new york is recognized. ms. slaughter: if my colleague has no further requests for time, i'm prepared to close. mr. sessions: that would be correct. i thank the gentlewoman. ms. slaughter: thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. slaughter: mr. speaker, today is a truly shameful day. in the distinguished history of this house. far from a noble mission that some on the other side may claim, what is before us is an extreme and extremely cynical attempt to extract a ransom from the american people. they've issued their demands while knowing full well they will not be met. if they are taking another step toward a government shutdown, in order to deny 30 million uninsured americans health care. the time has run out and we are down to our last chance. and i urge my colleagues to vote no on today's rule, the underlying legislation, and ask once more that we be given the opportunity to vote on the senate bill, a clean bill that can go directly to the president . and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the

gentlelady yields back the balance of her time. the gentleman from texas is recognized to close. mr. sessions: thank you, mr. speaker. we're here tonight because the republican party recognizes that men and women of this country are worried about their future. worried about economics, worried about taking care of their family. we've seen food prices double since the president has come -- been our president. we've seen energy prices double. we've seen more rules and regulations, we've seen the war on coal, we've seen all sorts of things that have taken place. but taking over your health care isis a pretty serious matter. and we disagreed with it then, but we've tried to work with the president and we've had seven or eight bills that actually did work for the president to recognize that there were fraudulent parts of the bill that needed to be taken advantage of and we got rid of those. tonight we're here to say fairness. we're about to say fairness, you should not give one group of people one thing and not to the others. likewise, we believe the president of the united states

and his administration should be in the exact same health care that members of congress are in. so i urge my colleagues to vote yes on the rule and yes on the underlying legislation. best of all, i yield back the balance of my time and move the previous question. the speaker pro tempore: all time having expired, the question is on ordering the previous question on the resolution. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. ms. slaughter: i request the yeas and nays, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. all those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and remain standing until counted. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. pursuant to clause 8 and clause 9 of rule 20, this 15-minute vote on ordering the previous question will be followed by five-minute votes on adoption of the house resolution if ordered and motion to suspend the rules on senate 1348 if ordered. this will be a 15 minute d vote. -- a 15-minute vote.

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote, the yeas are 225, the nays are 204. without objection, the motion is adopted. without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. the unfinished business is the question on suspending the rules and passing s. 1348 which the clerk will report by title. the clerk: senate 1348, an act to re-authorize the congressional award act. the speaker pro tempore: the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass the

bill? those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, 2/3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. ms. slaughter: mr. speaker, i request the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: those -- the yeas and nays are requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having risen, the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.]

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote, the yeas are 387, the nays are 25. 2/3 being in the affirmative, is pass -- the bill and without objection -- for what purpose does the gentleman from kentucky seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, pursuant to house resolution 367, i call up house joint resolution 59 with the house amendments to the

senate amendment thereto and i have a motion at the desk. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title and the amendments. the clerk: house joint resolution 29, making appropriations for fiscal year 2014 and for other purposes. senate amendment, offered by mr. rodgers of kentucky. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 367, the motion shall be debatable for 40 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking member of the committee on appropriations. the gentleman from kentucky, mr. rogers, and the gentlelady from new york, ms.low wie, will each control 20 minutes. he house will be in order. i'd ask members to take their conversations off the floor.

the house will be in order. i ask members on the minority side to take their conversations off the floor. the majority side. the chair recognizes the gentleman from kentucky. mr. rogers: i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous

material on the further consideration of the bill. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. the gentleman will suspend. the house will be in order. i ask members to take their conversations off the floor on both the minority and the majority side. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. rogers: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. rogers: i rise to move forward once again with h.j.res. 59, a short-term continuing resolution to keep the government open after the end of the fiscal 2013 -- after the end 2013 year 5d -- of the fiscal 2013 year ated my

night tonight. we can't wait around, we must pass this continuing resolution. mr. speaker, the operative word here is continuing. the bills we have had on the floor, including this most recent version, do not shut down the government. as many colleagues on the other side of the aisle have falsely said. this bill continues the important functions of the federal government. that mean ours citizens will continue to benefit from these programs and services. and passing this bill will allow this congress to continue to make progress on our important legislative work, including nding meaningful responsible bipartisan solutions to our fiscal problems, like the credit ole -- debt ceil, sequestration

and the most immediate issue at hand, funding the government for the 2014 fiscal year. we did not bring a resolution to shut down the government, mr. speaker. we brought a continuing resolution. to continue the government. the shutdown will help no one. it will only harm our nation's security and our economy and will hurt our people who rely on the federal government's programs and services in some way or another and who put faith in their government to act in their best interests. mr. speaker, the house is not the body that is refusing to act. they aren't the ones who are not willing to budge. we've now offered -- this is the third or fourth compromise to the senate. they simply ignore us. throw it in the trash can. house republicans have now offered multiple bills, including one with just a repeal

of the widely unpopular medical device tax and even incorporated changes that the senate had proposed but the senate still refuses to engage. as does the white house. today we offer yet another piece of legislation designed to keep the government opened. as with the previous c.r.'s the house has considered this continuing resolution will fund the government through december 15 at the current post-sequestration funding rate. it will incorporate most of the senate's changes to our first c.r. and include a few additional changes that i proposed as an amendment and that were added in the house on saturday night. it will also delay for one year obamacare's individual mandate. and eliminate the employer subsidy for the health insurance

plans of members of congress, our staffs and political appointees at the white house. no one, mr. speaker, is going to like everything in this bill. i don't like everything in this bill. but the continuing resolution before us today is the most immediate path to avoiding a shutdown. i expect that the house will do the right thing and approve this c.r. today. i remain hopeful that the senate will work with the house and pass this legislation. the people of this great nation deserve more. they deserve a government that works for them, not against them. at the very least, that is a government that keeps its doors open so i urge all members, every single member, to vote yes on this continuing resolution. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves his time. the gentlelady from new york.

>> mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for as much time as she may consume. mrs. lowey: here we go again. republicans insist on including rides that are do not belong in an appropriations bill. both the senate and the president already made clear they will not accept these provisions. still, the majority insists on taking the country toward a shutdown in a few short hours. as the clock ticks towards midnight, when appropriations will lapse and the government will shut down, republicans have put forward the third version of a bill that is designed to shut down government unless we delay, defund and deny affordable health care to american families. mr. speaker, republicans claim democrats refuse to negotiate.

let's review the history. and democrat support for a compromise to keep government running. republicans pushed us to the brink of default in the summer of 2011, resulting in a credit down grade -- downgrade. republicans walked out of negotiations with the president last december, aimed at reaching a budget deal for this year. republicans have refused to work with the senate on the budget all year long. the republican leadership caved to the tea party and withdrew a plan that in all likelihood would have ended this standoff by separating health care legislation from a bill to keep the government running. and now republicans refuse to say yes to the great concession made by democrats in the senate and the white house on the republican spending level.

the shutdown isn't only tar nished by republican -- tarinitialed by republicans, it is entirely of their -- tar nished by republicans, it's entirely of their making. we could avoid a shut down by voting on the senate's clean bill but republicans won't allow it. this is no way to run the house of representatives fment this is no way to -- representatives. this is no way to serve the hardworking people of the united states whom we represent. i urge my colleagues to vote against the republican government shutdown. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady reserves her time. the gentleman from kentucky. mr. rogers: mr. speaker, i yield two minutes to the distinguished gentleman from florida, mr. ross. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized for two minutes. mr. ross: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you, chairman. you know, i never supported obamacare because it's not sound policy. but if my fellow americans have to endure this law, then why not, why not -- should not the congress, the president and the vice president endure it as

well? you see, today's vote is about fairness. it's why i introduced my amendment to the continuing resolution, to make sure that we would eliminate the obamacare fix that was given to us by the office of personnel management. you see, the american public understands what's going on. they understand that congress always carves out their own little special interests, their little special treatment. the amendment today, this c.r., would eliminate that. it would do one thing that this congress so desperately needs and that's to gain the sense of credibility that the american people are looking for. it's not about gamesmanship, we're tired of that. this is about leading by example. and while i laude my colleagues for allowing us to have this vote here today, i stood on the floor on saturday explaining why this was so important to the american people, why it is so important to this congress, and therefore i will say to you, even though it's politically difficult and sometimes politically hard to do the right thing, doing the right thing is always the right thing to do. i would urge support of this c.r. and i thank you, mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentlelady from new york.

mrs. lowey: mr. speaker, i yield for unanimous consent mr. green from texas. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas. mr. green: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to place a statement into the record opposing this resolution. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, it will be part of the record. s. lowey: mr. speaker, i yield two minutes to the distinguished ranking member of the labor, health, human services, education committee, ms. delauro. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from kentucky is -- connecticut is recognized for two minutes. ms. delauro: i rise in strong opposition to this amendment. we are hours away from a shutdown of the federal government that will damage our economy, make life harder for millions of families, especially families living on the edge. if the majority continuing on this path, hundreds of thousands of workers will be sent home, many others will continue to work without pay. antihunger and nutrition support to women, infanlts and children will dry up. home and small business lending

will freeze. life-saving research will be put on hold. parks and museums will close. the one thing this will not stop is the affordable care act going into effect. that act is the law of the land. passed by the congress, signed by the president, upheld by the supreme court, and endorsed by the american people last november. tomorrow, rarledless of what the majority tries to do here tonight, enrollment begins. so that affordable health insurance coverage is available. instead of working with democrats to move a budget forward, the majority leadership is allowing the fringe ideologues in their party to turn the budget process into a hostage crisis. kill the affordable care act, they argue, or america gets it. this is not responsible leadership. nonpartisan studies have shown that a delay in this amendment will cause higher health shirnse premiums, higher costs for the government and worse health care coverage for everyone.

the majority knows exactly what they are doing. two days ago they introduced amendments that were poison pills, now we see an equally poisonous amendment to the budget today. they are rooting for a shutdown. one republican member even said, and i quote, we're very excited. it's exactly what we wanted. and we got it. another said, and i quote, it's wonderful. it is not wonderful. it is terrible for our economy. and for our families. this is extortion and this is hostage-taking. i urge my colleagues to oppose it. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentleman from kentucky. mr. rogers: i reserve, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky reserves his time. the gentlelady from new york. mrs. lowey: i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the distinguished gentlewoman from ohio, ms. kaptur. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from ohio is

ecognized for two minutes. ms. kaptur: i thank ranking member lowey for yielding. mr. speaker, our nation is stronger when we come together, as we the people, to solve the sheers challenges facing our country. yet we find ourselves on the precipice of a g.o.p.-driven government shutdown. the standoff between the tea party and other republicans is now leading to a g.o.p. shutdown of our entire federal government. extreme partisanship threatens our economic recovery and job creation across our country. thousands of workers at ohio's largest employer wright partisan air force base in dayton, about to be furloughed. most nasa employees, including the nasa glen research center at brook park near cleveland, will be sent home. here in washington, as world war ii veterans are on their way here with honor flights across this country to visit the world war ii memorial on the mall, will find the visitors center closed.

mr. speaker, we cannot continue to govern by staggering from manufactured crisis to manufactured crisis. the madness must stop. america needs leadership, not extreme partisanship. we need statesmanship, not brinksmanship. america has work to do. putting our people back to work, educating the next generation, curbing crime, and improving health care. so the republicans want to shut down the government? this will deeply hurt our country. it will hurt ohio. there's no reason for it. beyond shameful partisan politics. it's time for the republicans in congress to come to their senses. vote against the g.o.p. shutdown. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentleman from kentucky. mr. rogers: mr. speaker, i yield three minutes to my neighbor in kentucky, the gentleman from lexington, andy barr. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky is recognized for three minutes.

mr. barr: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you, mr. chairman. tonight the house is voting once again to fund the government and to prevent a shutdown. the house is also continuing the effort to listen to the american people and give a voice to those who want to limit the harmful impact of obamacare. the president says that the house is shutting down the government. but the house has acted multiple times to prevent a government shutdown. it is the president and the senate majority leader who are refusing to negotiate. refusing to compromise. refusing to seek a bipartisan solution or a middle ground. negotiate t will with wladimir putin. the president will negotiate with the leaders of iran. but he won't negotiate with the duly elected representatives of the people in congress. in divided government, the only way forward is to negotiate. the american people witnessed one-party rule in 2010, when

congress rammed through obamacare on a party-line vote. and they didn't like it. the only thing that was bipartisan about obamacare in 2010 when it was enacted was the bipartisan opposition to it. and so they elected a different congress and they divided power. and so when you have divided power in government, the only way forward when there is a difference of opinion is to negotiate and compromise. i come from the district, mr. speaker, of henry clay, a great speaker of the house. henry clay is a model for this president and this congress. we need to come together, negotiate and abandon the stubborn refusal to lead. which will guarantee a government shutdown. the president needs to work with house republicans to find a middle ground and this bill is the middle ground. when i found out that members of congress, the president, members of his cabinet and the political

elite in washington got a special exemption from obamacare, i introduced a simple two-page piece of legislation and it's called the live by the laws you write act. and it's a simple concept. why should we allow the administration to delay obamacare for large employers and exempt members of congress, himself, and the elite, but not also provide relief for individuals and families? i believe that the president and members of congress should live by the same health care law that they have imposed on the american people. and so i call on my colleagues in the house, both on this side and that side of the aisle, to support fairness for the american people. if obamacare is what the president insists on, then it should apply to everyone. and that includes the politicians in washington. and with that, mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the

gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentlelady from new york. mrs. lowey: i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the ranking member from indiana, mr. visclosky. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from indiana is ecognized for two minutes. mr. visclosky: i appreciate the gentlewoman yielding. mr. speaker, i have heard a lot of discussion about the budget. i have heard a lot of discussion about a continuing resolution. and i have heard a lot about the affordable care act but i see the chairman of the appropriations committee here on the floor and i see the ranking member of the appropriations committee on the floor and i don't hear a lot of discussion about what i would call the operative word tonight, and that

is appropriations. in article 1, section 8 of the united states constitution, the congress is charged with constituting tribunals, courts, inferior to the supreme court. in the very next section, we are told we need to appropriate those moneys to do so. we are told in article 1, section 8 of the united states constitution that congress must provide and maintain a navy. in section 9 we are told absent an appropriations from the congress, that will not happen. the fiscal year begins tomorrow and my great fear is that when a resolution of this continuing resolution occurs, if the date is december 15, we are going to make every agency and every department of the united states government operate just as they did last year and of course last year we made them operate the

way they did the year before and have them wait for another two 1/2 months before we tell them what we are -- 2 1/2 months before we tell them what they are going to do. the operative word tonight is appropriations. we should do the defense appropriations bill. we should do the energy and water appropriations bill. we should do the homeland security appropriations bill. we should do the military construction v.a. appropriation bill. we should do the other appropriation bills that are necessary to fund the operation of the greatest country on the planet earth and we should stop what we're doing here. thank you very much. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from kentucky. mr. rogers: mr. speaker, i recognize the gentleman from texas, mr. weber, for two minutes. mr. weber: thank you, mr. speaker. fact one, obamacare passed by the house democrats, 219 of

them. 34 democrats joined the republicans in opposition. let's see how many join the republicans in this upcoming vote. republicans -- fact two, republicans have been and are poised to fun everything in the government at current levels and are eager to do so. fact three, polls show americans are overwhelmingly in favor of defund og ba ma cair. fact four, the house, like it or not, our colleagues on the other side of the aisle, the house is the keeper of the purse under the constitution and we are well within our authority to defund an ill-conceived and unpopular program and law. now they say the republicans will shut down the government but i will submit this, mr. speaker. the democrats begin to -- began to shut down the government in 2010 when they passed obamacare with no bipartisan support. they not only began to shut down the government, but the recovery of the american economy.

for them to come now and say this is a republican shutdown is unbelievable. we stand ready, willing, and able to fund this. there's only one question that remanes, mr. speaker. four facts, one simple question. will those same democrats that voted in opposition of obamacare and the senate listen to the american public, will they listen to their constituents, will they vote with us this time, so that our government can be funded, no shutdown will be necessary and american economy can continue to thrive? i'm randy weber, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: at this time, the gentlelady from new york is recognized. mrs. lowey: i yield two minutes to the distinguished gentleman from virginia, the ranking member of the interior subcommittee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. moran: i thank my good

friend. so apparently we are here because a bunch of folks on the republican side, tea party folks, fancy themselves strict constructionists. i remind them that the founding fathers set up the senate so the house would act rationally and responsibly on a consistent basis. george washington warned us against factualism. they urged us to pay our debts and underscored that when you have a disagreement it should be resolved democratically. so we have a bill that passed the house and senate, we have two national renchda, presidential elections, president obama wins by five million votes, we don't have the right to repeal obamacare, it's the law of the land. but now i understand that unless you gut this legislation for an entire year that the republican

majority will not even fund the government for 45 days? really? what kind of deal is that? that's not reasonable. the idea that you would send 800,000 people home tomorrow, not knowing when they come back to work, not even allowing them back to their offices, take billions out of this economy, erode the confidence that people in the united states and around the world ought to be able to have in the united states government, and you're going to do all this because you want to repeal a bill that is the law of the land? just because you have the leverage that you can hold up the government from being able to operate for 45 days? that's nuts. our founders would be ashamed of what this congress has become. we're dysfunctional. we ought to be ashamed of

ourselves. this ought to be defeated. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the time of the gentleman has expired. the gentleman from kentucky. mr. rogers: mr. speaker, i reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from new york. mrs. lowey: i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the gentleman rom north carolina, mr. price. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina is recognized for two minutes. mr. price: mr. speaker, we're just now hours away from the tea party inspired government shutdown. our republican colleague -- here our republican colleagues go again, holding the economy hostage to their ideological demands and take it or leave it politics. this isn't the behavior of responsible legislators or a responsible political party willing to do what it takes to govern. the only party that's compromised on the bill before us is the democrats, who agreed to a short-term funding level below the senate resolution

despite our belief we should replacing sequestration instead of locking it in. by contrast, republican leaders have steadfastly refused to go to conference to work out a budget with senate democrats. they walked away from negotiations with the president on a comprehensive budget deal in december. and now it is republicans, as the president said, who are demanding a ransom merely for doing their job. of keeping the government open that ransom, incredibly is health insurance for millions of our fellow citizens. the affordable care act has been upheld as the law of the land by a majority of congress, the majority of the u.s. supreme court and a majority of americans at the ballot box. if the junior senator from texas and his acolytes think they can overturn these decisions unilaterally, i suggest they consult the constitution and i'd be happy to loan them a copy.

mr. speaker, we've got to reject this latest republican ploy and in this body, in this country, we've got to get back to the base exs. -- basics. keep the government running. pay the country's bills. and negotiate a comprehensive budget plan that ensures our fiscal future. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from kentucky. mr. rogers: i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from new york. ms. lowey spst -- mrs. lowey: i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the gentleman from california. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. >> thank you for yielding. for those who may not understand, all we have to do is

pass a bill in the house that lets us keep the goth open and continue to argue the other issues. mr. farr: but that's not what we're doing. we're taking that bill and just loading it up with a bunch of stuff that's been on the -- been rejected time and time again, and the consequence of that is you're not going to have a bill to the president tonight and the government will have to shut down. it's a huge mistake. and it's not something we do -- we've never done it. in fact, the time i've been here, we've had big partisan disputes. our party fought vehemently against president bush's decision to go to war in iraq. we thought it was without evidence and certainly was going to cost the government a lot of money and probably not have great outcomes. we didn't shut down the government after we lost that debate. instead, we tried to make it work.

we fought against welfare reform. we thought that that reform would make everybody go to work even though they didn't know how to read and write, mothers who should have been taking care of their children, we fought against it and we lost. we didn't shut down government, we made it work. we fought against -- when wall street came in and said tomorrow we fail. we thought, well, it's republican watch, they're responsible for this, wall street is their business, they like that, but when we were told this would bring down the economy of the country and the world, we helped get it passed. in fact, there were more democratic votes than republican votes. we didn't shut down government work made it work. tonight, we're on the verge of shutting down government. it's going to hurt a lot of people. it's going to hurt farmers who want to export food. it's going to hurt .7 million mothers in this country who want to feed their children on the

w.i.c. program. it's going to hurt 13 million children who go to school and will lose access to a school breakfast. it's going to hurt 31 million children who will lose their school meals and 47 low income people will not be able to get food stamps. it's a mean, reckless, ill-conceived idea to shut down government. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky. mr. rogers: i reserve, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from new york. mrs. lowey: i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the distinguished representative from california, ms. barbara lee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from california is ecognized for two minutes. ms. lee: thank you very much. i want to thank the gentlelady for yielding. first, let me just say, here we go again, mr. speaker. it's no secret that the tea

party republicans came here not really as public servants but to detroit and decimate our government. now we are only hours away from tea party extremists achieving their goal of shutting down the government. this is really their dream vote. they want to shut down the government and declare victory. frankly, mr. speaker, this is shameful and down right wrong. their dream of shutdown will create a nightmare for millions. what about the government work forest who have families to feed, mortgages, and rent to pay. what about small businesses that stand to pay the cost of the tea party antics? and yes, what about women and children who will lose knew tregs assistance. this is down right mean. make no mistake, the unnecessary g.o.p. shutdown will have serious consequences for millions and it's entirely unnecessary. it's not enough that the republicans have already voted 45 times to repeal all or parts

of the affordable care act and it's not enough that the affordable care act is the law of the land and was upheld by the supreme court. tea party extremists now want to violate this law in a very sinister way. it's not enough that this shutdown will hurt families and our economy. this tea party obsession -- and it's an obsession, to kill the government and deny health care to millions of americans, this must end. they need to do their job and keep the government open. as president obama said this afternoon, you don't get to extract a ransom for doing your job. this hostage taking must end. we must vote no. we must keep the government open. and i just urge all of us to think about those people who will wake up tomorrow morning with their lives in such disarray, the uncertainty that's going to exist. we should not do this.

the american people don't deserve this. we need to keep the government open. we're pleading with the tea party extremists, do not shut the government down. the speaker pro tempore: the time of the gentlelady has ex-peered. the gentleman from kentucky. mr. rogers: i yield three minutes to the chairman of the appropriations subcommittee for labor, health and human services, mr. kingston from georgia. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. kingston: i thank the gentleman from kentucky and thank you, mr. speaker. i want to say we are here tonight to keep the government open. i keep hearing we want to shut the government down but this is our third attempt to send something to the u.s. senate to give them an opportunity to negotiate with us. and why are we here talking about a continuing resolution to begin with? we're here because this year the house appropriations committee work my colleagues on the other side have passed five separate appropriations bill. now there are 12 total. but unfortunately, during the time period that we passed five,

the senate has passed zero. last year, the house passed seven and the senate passed one. after a while you see there's a pattern. the senate doesn't want to work on regular order. the senate really does prefer continuing resolutions because then they can pull stunts like the one harry reid is doing now. you know, mr. speaker, where were they yesterday? where were they this weekend? the senate adjourned. where was the president? he was playing golf. he was so concerned about the government being shut down. what is the issue with obamacare? the speaker at the time, ms. pelosi, said we need to pass the bill so we can find out what's in it. now that bill has grown to 7 1/2 feet in height and we are reading what's in it but two things we know it does not flesh, it does not decrease the cost of health care, and it does not increase the accessibility. and those were the two major objectives.

those were the selling points. health care is one sixth of the economy. therefore i think it's the right thing to fight over. that something that -- affects every american. we know already that premiums have skyrocketed under obamacare and they'll only grow worse. we also know that many major companies and smaller companies are stopping providing insurance to their employees. accessibility is going down as well. so obamacare has been a failure. why is it that the democrat party believes in it so bad even when it fails they can't let go? i don't think it's a bad thing to say, hey, you know what, we were wrong. we tried to decrease the cost of health care, tried to increase accessibility, but we did not achieve that. therefore maybe harry reid should sit down with speaker boehner. maybe the president of the united states can interrupt his negotiations with the iranians an