is their last chance that they could see the world war ii memorial and as my colleagues said, were stopped because of a decession by the aloe theration not to heros of ours to enjoy the memorial in peace. is very important that we join all together on this issue because like so many others we we ought to be funding this government. there ought to be federal employees returning to work and then we can sit down and differences like any american would do when they resolve a problem. >> i think that what we are trying to do is to get the quickly as open as possible. and all that it would take was realizing we have a lot in agreement and common. bills. pass the we will pass them out of the house today and begin a process of bringing forward these

bills. and we can also discuss our did i it lenses. i think -- differences. i think that most americans believe, as do we, neither side everything. and there is room for us too have aate and conversation. but this position is being taken by the majority leader in the senate as well as president that there will be no negotiations is not something that i think the american people would want. certainly we should be talking. >> last question. support giving back pay to the federal workers out of the job because of the shutdown? realize that there is a lot of pain in this shutdown. all of us have furloughed employees both in our district offenses as well as up here. that is aot something pleasant thing to do as an employer. that is not something that is easy when so many of these individuals are counting on their paychecks to make mortgages and get through the month. we are looking to reopen this

so that we can see federal employees return to can get on and we with the business of discussing where the differences are and them.ving thank you very much. >> why don't you just open the whole government? on everything. >> house republicans earlier before the car chase and shooting shut down the capitol for an hour or more and on that story an update from the new york times. car chasedline is white house to capitol and has fatal end. from thefrom the story new york times this evening they write that a woman with a to deathild was shot after turning her vehicle into a weapon on thursday afternoon and ramming her way through the barriers at the white house and on o capitol hill. by the time the chase had of shots had been fired and two officers were injured. was unharmed. they write that coming a little than two weeks after

the washington navy yard shooting the episode unnerved a feeling they tensions between the white house and congressional republicans that have ground the federal government to a houses of people home from work. they write that the capitol was half an hourfor during the chase and shooting. afterward, house republicans and democrats took to the floor to praise the response of the capitol police and the "rights the "new york times" identifying the a 34-year-old dental hygienist from stanford, connecticut. difficulty identifying her because of the extent of h her injuries. a map of the area on the the area around capitol hill affected. and they are still investigating the scene this evening. here is a tweet from nbc washington looking at still the closed off. investigators still searching for scene at this hour evidence. and that tweet from about an hour ago. let's get back to the calls on the issue of the government

shutdown and congressional debate over federal funding. heights,istrict maryland, on the republican line. hi, jim. for taking mys call. i would like to apologize in advance because i'm not a i'm notent employee and furloughed, okay. i though that has to hurt and i hate it for everybody that is right now.sition like that the debt ceiling and i apologize if i bit.le a little the debt ceiling situation, it is just out of control. i mean i don't understand why is a debt ceiling if you indefinitely. says hey,s on tv and they always raised the debt ceiling in the past but i have to ask in the past was the debt

at $17 trillion? it seems a little bit ridiculous to me. i would like to quote the governor jesse ventura. liberal he was socially but fiscally conservative. if we could go ahead and pay in america to have health insurance and run takeugh poppy fields and naps for ate hours and wake up that no sunburn, i think would be great. i would be all for it. but i feel like we just can't afford it any more. and when you talk about ceiling, and debt defaulting on your obligations countries and this and that, you have to make a okay.e, when a household reaches their debt ceiling they maxed out cards, all right, there is nothing left, they can

barely make their payments. time to decide which car in the driveway to pay for and which to sell. of the debte issue ceiling i web i had it in front of me. later. try to get to it there is an op ed by treasury secretary set to be published today."rrow's "u.s.a. we will hunt around for it. parsons, kansas, next up. the independents line taking my.s for caller: thanks for taking my call. a couple of thoughts regarding what is going on in washington to. seems that the republicans are strengthening and the democrats are kind of losing position. they are doing a lot of name-calling, in fact, one of the representatives last night mentioned jihad which i think unacceptable. beyond that, we are kind of happenedocus of what

in benghazi and "fast and furious." americans, brian terry, smith, delaby and tyrone woods. i know they are still having hearings on benghazi but we kind of lost sight of that. of want to bring that up. host: i think there are planned on hearings benghazi in the house. don't have any specifics for you. many of the hearings we covered available on the website at cspan.org. chris in hudson, florida, on line.emocrat's caller: i just wanted to say thanks for taking my call. all not really understanding the government how it works. a 25-year veteran of the is stucco industry which is construction. even get a you can't

$10 an hour job and i look online to try to find out how going to have to pay is the obama care and it $331 a month. if i can't pay my electric or how am i keep my car going to pay for that kind of stuff? guy or have ae family? caller: i'm single. making $10 an hour and trying to pay everything else, how can you even is survive? host: and that is the cheapest plan in the florida exchange? is $3,100 a it year. so i'm like, you know, i havingtand that we are problems with, you know, how democrats and republicans work not bringing us together as whole as a country. don't understan how they can keep taxing you and grabbing money when you can barely eat and keep your lights on. it just doesn't make any sense

the government is for the people, by the people, gets solved.ever is this going to get solved? now we are worried about a in the united states and the world. host: let's hear from some viewers on twitter. c-span chat.is the house gop, the speaker is not up to the job and is hurting our country. says if forces need by law he buy healthcare what will make me buy next. in will he force me to donate jail?union or go to t. slate says why are the democrats asking for a c.r. the last didn't include obama care? doesn't this require a new budget. where things stand, the c.r. was sent back to the senate from the house. go tohad made a motion to conference with the senate over that but including two provisions that the senate

that is where it stands in terms of the resolution. the overall continuing resolution. keep in meaned the senate go throughuld only november 15. several versions the house tried to pass would go through december 15. >> thank. caller: thank you for taking my call. i want to say that my heart goes out to all of the people laid off at this time or furloughed. my husband was in mining and i have been in that position and i do understand. on the other hand, i think that the republicans need to stand strong with this. obama care needs to not pass. well, i'm sorry it needs to be de-funded. it needs to be overturned. to be delayed. it needs to be something this is going to cost the american people a lot more than just dollars.

having obama care the presidents going to completely the private health insurance to where we are going government.n the we live in the united states of america. we a freepposed to we supposeo people and we have our dictator sitting up there in the white house telling us that we have to buy insurance. has to be done. where is your free will? none. is the obama care from everything i read and people that i talked to. it is not cheaper. fortune.sting a if people can't afford to pay their rent then they can't afford to pay for thence and going to be taxed on it. if they fail to pay that tax will lose their driver's license. and if that doesn't do it they theirhave liens put on homes. where is this a free nation? kisa in nevada. a lot of comments from furloughed work arers and

furloughed know workers. here is a story about the debate ahead in the house. g.o.p. vote to give federal workers backpay. they say that house republicans scheduled a vote on legislation chambersy some of the chaim top democrats to give federal workers furloughed the missed pay when the government reopens and the vote could come as air saturday.day or the house then tomorrow. legislative work starts at noon eastern. in as well.is want to show you next some of and more of your calls ahead, the way. show you next some of the debate from earlier today in the senate and you will hear warren and senator corker and others from the senate floor. >> mr. president we are three days into a completely unnecessary completely avoidable republican shutdown and there is more talk than ever about our inability of our leaders to find common ground economic and fiscal

issues of our time. the government shutdown is major wrench into a fragile economic recovery. nearly a million federal employees are sitting at home for no reason and other are butlic servants are working not earning a pea pay check. cancer patient is being turned away from clinical trials. veterans benefits at risk. basic nutrition services for pregnant women and new moms will be disrupted. businesses won't be able to get federal loan guarantees. and all this is happening on the idiotic sequester. drastic across-the-board spending cuts that have crippled meals on wheels, headstart and investments in medical research. know how we got here. for years now we heard a small country whailhis against government. tee raids frome

extremists in the house i'm struck by hooving the complaints are. from the rhetoric you would think they believe that any time that we, the people, come improve on our lives that the nation is committing some terrible wrong. from the rhetoric you would think they believe that the government that functions best is a government that doesn't function at all. so far, they haven't ended government but they have the next best thing, shutting the government down. slogansind all of the of the tea party and the thinly for anarchy in washington, behind all that there is a reality. american people don't want the extremist republicans' a futurevision of a without government. they don't sur report it. -- support it j why? because the american people that without government we would no longer be a great nation with a bright future.

american people know that government matters. anarchy gang is quick to malign government. when is the last time anyone for regulators to go easier on companies that put toys?in children's or for food inspectors to stop checking whether the meat in stores is crawling with deadly bacteria or for the to ignore whether morning sickness drugs will cause horrible deformities in little babies. we never hear that. not from political leaders in washington and not from the american people. in fact, whenever the anarchy headway in efforts to damage our government the opposite happens. in,er the sequester kicked republicans immediately turned around and called on us to protect funding for our national defense. and keep the air traffic controllers on the job. now that the house republicans have shut down the countryent, holding the

hostage because of some imaginary healthcare bogeyman republicans almost immediately turned around and called on us reopening parts of our government. this?o they do because the bogeyman government is like the bogeyman under the bed. it is not real. it doesn't exist. what is real, what does exist the specific important things that we as chosen to dove together through our government. democracy, government is not some make believe thing has ann independent independent will of its own. our democracy, government is just how we describe the things that we the people have already decided to do together. it is not complicated. our government has three basic functions.

provide for the the national defense. put in place rules like speed limits and bank regulations and transparent. and build the things together that none of us can build alone. roads. power grids. schools. everyone a that give chance to is succeed. innovatorsation of and entrepreneurs, growing small businesses and thriving businesses. but our people succeed, our succeeds because we have all come together to put institutions and infrastructure together. laws andecided to pass put cops on the beat so that no mainsteals your purse on street or your pension on wall street. we all decided to invest in education so that businesses have skilled workers and a kid with an idea can create the next breakthrough company. we all decided to invest in

science so there is a pipeline of ideas to create our future. achievements aren't magic. they didn't occur on their own or through dumb luck. we made anstance to comeas a people together. the food and drugged a invasion makes sure -- administration makes sure that the drugs we take are antibiotics and not soda. the ntsa oversees crash tests. safetynsumer product commission makes sure that baby in aseats don't collapse crash and that toasters don't explode. we don't know who they are, but question that there today,erican alive americans healthier and stronger because of these and

countless other government efforts. alive. healthier, stronger because of what we did together. >> the anarchy gang at the house can dumb on the make believe version of government want.hey but when the real government fails to live up to the high setectations we have all for are it, politicians in both rushed outrage. why? because the american people work that government can and believe government should work. right, todayis ofrks the fifth anniversary president bush signing the bank wailout into law. financial cry is cost us upwards of $14 trillion. with a "t."llion $120,000 for every american household. more than two years worth of

average family. billions of dollars in disappeared.avings millions of workers lost their jobs and millions more families homes.heir in april 2011 after a two year bipartisan inquiry, the senate permanent subcommittee on anvestigations released 635-page report that made it regulators could have and should have used their existing the crisis.event republicans and democrats, a bipartisan group, foun found sg agreement that you better government matters. the attacks on government are abstract, but the consequences this shut down are real. less accountability tore and rule breakers. less opportunity for our children. cracks in the foundations that to succeed.need and a tilted playing field that

opportunities for all of our people. our government doesn't always work. is know that no institution infallible. people make mistakes, ideas getl and sometimes we things wrong. our response isn't to give up. our response is to sit back and told you so. we are not a nation of quitters. our response, the american is to fix it. better. government work a democracy is an experiment evolving.s we constantly redesign and reimagine and a improve on what we do together. and time again throughout our history we have simple truthhe that government matters. and right now, right that the moment, if you look close le, you will see that -- closely you will see that we are reaffirming it, once again. it is not an accident that the

desire to shut down government confined to one extremist faction of one political party chamber of congress of one branch of government. that this an accident extremist faction must resort tactics.me threats to turn off the government. threats to default on our debt. threats to tank the economy to force their views on everyone else. and it is not an accident that this faction is doing everything in its power to make government appear dysfunctional. these hostagey, tackic ticks are the last who can't winose their fights through elections. throughin their fights congress. can't win their fights through the presidency and can't win through thes courts. these threats are not working and they will never work.

democracy.is is a years,r more than 200 our democracy has defeated extremists and rejected the that government doesn't matter. those whoresident, to have forced us to the brink, to rail against a make believe government, to those rejoice in anarchy chancewho salivated the to shut down the government viewsse their extremist left them disconnected from the experiences of the american people it is time to hear a simple message. can do your best to make government look like it doesn't work when you stop it from working. you can do your best to make whenrnment look paralyzed you paraillini it. you can do your best to make look incompetent incompetence.

sooner or later the government will reopen. this is a democracy and this democracy has already rejected your you views. chosen to doady these things together because all know that we are together.when we come and when this government reopens, when our markets are safe again, when your scientists can return to research, when our small borrow, whenan ba respected forbe their service and our flu shots resume and teachers get back to our kids we will have rejected your views, once again. of are not a a country annarchists. we are not a country of pessimists whose motto is i got mine the rest of you are all on your own.

a country that tolerates dangerous drugs, dirty air or toxic mortgages. we are not that nation. that nation.r been and we will never be that nation. a political minority in the house that condemns government and begged for this shutdown has had its day. but once you will of the reckless and extremist factions theirhave come before it day will pass and our democracy will return to the important alreadyat we have chosen to do together. thank you. absence of ae quorum. the clerk will call the role. >> mr. alexander. >> madam president. >> senator from tennessee. >> i would like to ask unanimous consent. >> without objection. to i didn't really expect

come down here and seek. i was just checking on a vote which i understand has been postponed. i do want to say this. that the c.r. me discussion and debt ceiling discussion are going to be combined maybe into one effort and i just want to say that i think that is a great opportunity for all of us. i was down here yesterday talking about the same. typically when we have dealt with issues like this, what we have tried to do together is to strengthenway our country through making those kinds of reforms that the amount of deficits we will have in the the future. that is typically what debates this have been about. and so i think the realization now thatple have right we could well try to deal with the c.r. report debt ceiling at time could move us back into the kind of constructive conversations we aroundad for so long mandatory spending reforms, figuring out a way to keep

reductions where they are you with build upon them a way that is more sensible than what we have done in the past. i was beginning to get worried will stop in a minute. looks like the senior senator -- >> would my friend from yield for a question? >> i would be tremendously honor. of have you seen the polls american public opinion about what we are doing here? chance to seea that? >> you know, i don't pay as much attention to polls should.y as i my understanding in listening to the senior senator from that it is not particularly favorable. >> to all a of us. to all of us. >> i didn't mean to individuals. >> i mean to both sides of the don't understand isn't it true, why we haven't someable to come to conclusion and as the senator from tennessee just said, we have thisoing to merged into the debt limit.

>> right. >> now the senator from extensive has an background in finances and isn't t true that the markets react in a -- the world very,ts would react in a wery severe fashion if allowed the debt limit to expire? >> i think everyone understands that is very problematic for markets. beginning to see some volatility now that we haven't seen in the past and i would leak to respond if i could a fully to say that i think we have an opportunity. look, we he have been in a that i think people have known we have known exactly there the discussions in past were going to lead and that is so the boxed canyon. ahe fact that we ended up in place now where these two things may merge and i know the from the senior senator from arizona has been involved in multiple conversations about this. we have an opportunity now to begin talking again

about those things that strengthen our nation and looking at some reforms. do so in -- not to do so in a chicken way, in a way carse you have is two heading at each other but to use this like previous debt thelings have been used in past where adults set down, they look at the problems our facing and do some things that, candidly, in a bipartisan way people have been trying to do for a long time. i want to mention one more time. i know i did this yesterday and senator fromenior arizona and myself have is spent a lot of time together on issue. but the president in his budget mandatoryput forth reforms. many of those are pretty good. to make them better. they are a good start and we have a few days, a week, two could here where we maybe andsit down cobble things together that would meanwhile all of the

activitiesry moan any existed for some time we might get back target and back on focusing on making the country stronger. today we were in this iran andle hearing on i appreciated i certainly appreciated the senior senator from arizona's comment about our concerns there. one of the biggest issues we have around the world right now is just people look at us unable to do with our fiscal issues. i look at what has happened, i know it can be viewed in which ever you want to view things, i look at it as being a glass being half full. we've got an opportunity over of time toort period put some good policy in place, to pass acr, to pass the debt ceiling, and again move our country head towards being stronger. >> could i asked just one more

question for my friend from tennessee? later, that sooner or the government will begin to function again. sooner or later. later, we will address the debt ceiling, because the united states is not going to renege on its debts, it's going to meet its obligations. so we know that those are facts. some point,that at there's going to have to be a resolution. it's not going to go on forever. nothing does. so if it argues for a solution, shouldn't we ask all parties to discussions start that you and i and others have , with an ad hoc basis people here and there and then , toersations here and there

start laying the groundwork. i also want to point out, i think it is important that the president of the united states, rather than saying i won't negotiate with anybody under any circumstances, to sam willing to sit down and negotiate. with allng to join parties in trying to find a way through this. we will, sooner or later. the question is, not whether we .ill solve these issues are not the question really is, and i asked my friend from tennessee, how much damage is done before we solve it? right now, there are people beginning to hurt all over america. and maybe it's not so bad right now, but it's going to get wors by.ery single day that goes frankly, i think we owe the american people more than that. if somebody wants to blame me, fine. i'll take the blame. if you want to blame the senator

from tennessee, put the blame on him. blame the president. it shouldn't we remember what our duties are here? >> absolutely. i'm just looking down to see what the date is. but it seems to me that we have -- and to get to the senator's comments, hopefully a week. the quicker we resolve these issues, the better it is for our nation and for the world. at the end of the day, let's face it. what we care about most is the well-being of our citizens back home. i would agree. we are at that moment in time where we have all realized the cr and the debt ceiling are probably going to be linked together. they are linked together, in essence. there's no question were going to resolve those.

what we ought to do is sit down right now, the president of the united states, the appropriate leadership here in the house and senate, whether it is them or their proxies, but to sit down and let's figure out if there's some reforms that we can put in place to make our countries longer, and to again get back on the right topic, which is our financial strength. i think we could do that. long time.speaking a i didn't have that much coffee today. the fact is, there are no new issues. every single issue has been litigated. there is legislative language. there is scoring. there is not a new issue for us to talk with, relative to putting some good policy in place to move ahead. the senator from arizona has been so involved in these issues , and i just couldn't agree more -- i know the junior senator

from arizona sitting in the back, and i know he has been incredibly responsible fiscally. i think we've got an opportunity, i think this body should take advantage of it, and i think the president should come to the table and take advantage of it. the leadership of the house, let's do something good for our country. let's do it in an appropriate amount of time. this put this behind us and move on as a nation. >> bob corker of tennessee on the senate floor earlier today. the senate is back in session tomorrow, the house as well, and likely a busy legislative day for the house tomorrow. they are in for legislative business at noon eastern. we are opening up our phone lines once again this evening to hear your thoughts on the government shutdown and the debate on the contending -- continuing resolution. republicans, -- we will read

some of the twitter chat. the house rules committee met earlier this evening to consider the rules for debate for 11 bills that are set to come up in the next couple of days. a likely won't all come up tomorrow, but they will be coming up in the next couple of days. debate is set to get underway at the house at noon eastern tomorrow. let's go to phone calls. we hear first from janine in springfield, missouri. thanks for waiting on the independent line. >> my name is actually jeannie. i feel that i'm part of the government. it is by, for, and of the people. it is my government, also. i would like to see america united all the time in the face has scorn for us already, with or without cause.

we are losing face, as it were. >> did you say we are losing face? >> yes, we are losing face in the world. , we aresets an example a very powerful country. indivisible means not divided. republican andh a democrat in my life. i am an independent so we can keep our options open on who all gets to run. but my future personally relies on both sides to pray and work together, and not hold the entire government as a hostage, that government which is for us, the people. i'm a 55-year-old woman on with an "incurable disease." when i moved here a month ago to be near my children, i didn't think there was any chance that

with ag my address disability payment office would stop me from having any income. just because i moved to another state, i should be able to get my medicaid within six weeks, more like two weeks. the government is very good about helping people like me, and i do not intend to stay on disability. i'm looking into home businesses right now. incurable disease has found a cure in the rain forest, thanks to dr. oz i found out about that. this is important to me. the first congresses that were , the writings of mr. george washington and all those who were there are open for people to review. they were so upset about the the disloyalty of the congress to each other that they

would roll their eyes in disgust at someone, that is not respectful. that is not my america. tois not the american way put such large things into practice without putting it to a vote first. i have been a paid petitioner and a free petitioner, and i believe that the government has given us the right to change the laws. >> we appreciate your comments this evening. we want to get to as many calls as we can. we go to atwater, california, the democrats line. you are on the air. go ahead. >> this is a totally different line of everybody i've heard calling in this evening. >> make sure that you meet your television and go ahead with your comments. >> i have been wanting to hear some of the tea partiers so i

can tell what they think is wrong with obamacare, and i finally did. when i see what comes in from , butnment, i am in my 70's i had the luck i guess you would say of working with our local agency of advocacy and information on aging. i have learned a lot of things from that. we had to take lessons and learn what they were all about. prior to obamacare going into effect, people are afraid to look at it because they cannot read it, number one. they cannot understand it, and they don't know what it says. >> we will show you comments and a couple of minutes from some of

the house republicans who are medical professionals. pensacola florida is next up, republican line. this is james. meet youre sure you television. go-ahead with her comment or question. your television. >> there are several things i have to say about it, but i know we only have a short time that we can talk. shutdownhis government is crazy. i've got a stepson that is married and has two kids. he is a government employee. he is out of work right now. income coming in except what money his wife is bringing in. you got everybody up there in washington, all these bigwigs sitting up there, they don't know how to make a decision. the house, the senate, they can't make a decision on nothing. the government closes down.

don't even know if the active- duty people are getting paid, but i can just about guarantee -- the house and senate >> getting a little confused, i got your point there, james. talking about his son-in-law being a government employee and being furloughed along with the 800,000 other estimated government employees. the house has passed a number of r's.t-term, so-called mini-c they passed two today, one dealing with the department of veterans affairs and the other funding the v.a., the other for the guard and reserve. they approved in the rules committee about 11 different bills, including a backpay bill, but among the bills that will consider, and i'm not sure if this will come up tomorrow or saturday, is the nutrition assistance for low income women , at the same rate and under the same conditions as in effect at the end of the just

completed fiscal year. tweeting about that is john. he says on twitter, i'm sure the republicans would vote to fully fund wic and that democrats would vote not to. we may see debate on that tomorrow in the house. they are in at noon for legislative business. , go ahead.phil >> good evening, thank you very much for taking my call. i have down here in florida believe the honor of being the second state with the most uninsured people. i believe that is correct, 3 million or some statistic of that high nature. you have turned me on for the first time to watching c-span, i would like you to know, because i have never watched it before. i cannot believe how excellent it is to listen to you and to listen to the senators and representatives talk or let me get to the point. republicans, in my opinion, are

coming across to me like poor losers. ony lost in the congress obamacare, they lost in the senate, lost in the presidential election, lost in the supreme court. now they want to negotiate. that is like a child that just lost the game crying, it's not fair, it's not fair, expecting some consolation prize. my humble advice to the republicans is, if you don't like obamacare, get your people elected, win your case the normal, democratic way. not by hijacking the nation, the government, and innocent people, pointing a gun at everyone's head, to try to get violently what you cannot get legitimately and honestly. >> thanks for joining us this evening. glad you found c-span on your cable system. one of those political football issues that come up over the last couple of days is the issue of continued childhood,

pediatric cancer care. a number of house republicans who are medical professionals held a briefing earlier today. we wanted to show you some of their comments as we continue hearing from you on this third day of the government shutdown. you're watching c-span. >> thank you everyone for being here this morning. when the president and the senate shutdown the government tuesday morning, i don't think they realized the impact on things like cancer trials at the nih for children with cancer. yesterday on the floor of the house, we solved that problem. the passed a bill that would restore funding and make sure

the children with cancer are eligible and can be enrolled in trials at the nih. i have taken care of many children with cancer when i was in my medical practice. every parent can appreciate the seriousness of that, and the need to solve those kind of problems. that is what we did yesterday. does the sameate today. they should. we should make sure that every , who, each and every one has cancer, can be taken care of by the world's best at the nih. >> we are three days into this government shutdown, and every day the republicans have been working to get the government open. last night, we took action. we passed legislation to fund the nih. this is important legislation, and i remind people, in the mid to late 1990's, republicans and

democrats actually came together and doubled the funding for research at nih, recognizing how important it is. we call upon democrats to join us now. let's start finding that common ground where we can start moving forward. that is where it is going to start, and then we can have a larger conversation. whether it is pediatric cancer research, whether it's diabetes, so many of the cures or treatments that are being developed, we don't want to put them on hold. we want america to continue to be the leader. i have a son who has down syndrome. i have learned so much about the cutting-edge research and the potential, the breakthroughs that we are on the verge of discovering. let's keep that going. let's find common ground and move forward. let's get this dialogue going, the dialogue we need to have with the democrats in the senate over this as well as the larger issues related to spending, our economy, and the future of america.

you.ank i'm going to put this in a little more personal terms. certainly yesterday we voted successfully to continue to find the nih. over 40 years ago, i have been in medical practice for over 30 years in johnson city, tennessee. over 40 years ago i was a freshman at st. jude's children's hospital. there was a four percent survival rate of children with leukemia. i remember going in a hospital as a young student and realizing that almost 90% of those kids that i would see would die. today, 90% of them live. that meat put it to you in very personal terms. i medical partner and practice had a son, and his wife was in labor having their second child. his child had a seizure. cancerld had a childhood with a metastatic tumor to his brain that had over 95% chance of dying. this was 12 years ago.

that young man will graduate from high school this spring. it is those miracles you see over and over. if you are a parent, and i have delivered almost 5000 babies and several parents have had this. if your child has a condition that is one in a million, is 100%. i have looked at those tears. we need to find the nih. they don't need to miss a day because there are parents out there across this nation that are depending on us to make sure, right now, they are .aiting on a phone call group.ud of our i implore the senate democrats to take this up and pass this much-needed legislation. >> thank you. carolina second district. before coming to washington, being a nurse, i have seen these families. i have seen the looks on their faces when they are given hope. ,e have taken that hope away

and we need to replace it. i say to harry reid and the senate, bring this up for vote. don't take hope away from those families. don't take hope away from those moms. as dr. rowe has pointed out, they are waiting on that vital information. if you are a family going to the nih for care, is because you are in a critical, critical situation. you are looking for that last bit of hope, and you are looking for that treatment that will save your child's life. cancer beingiatric one of those issues, if you have ever seen the looks on a parent's face when they are told that their child has cancer, and then you take their hope away, the moment that they know they can fight for it, they will. we have to replace that.

i say to harry reid, please, of all the situation in washington right now and all the politics, let this move forward. let's get a vote in the senate. let's get it to the president. let's replace it and give hope act to those families come in because all tell you, senator reid, you will not sleep until that happens. thank you. >> indiana congressional district for. that i'm joining these leaders and medical professionals who have given up their practices to come help solve the problems of health care in this country. i want to premise my comments with a few things that i believe . i believe that families, faith communities, associations and neighbors can take care of us better than government programs can. but government should be there to help. i believe that science is a gift

tom and that we should use our talents whenever possible to improve the condition of man. i believe in free enterprise and the private sector as the best, most efficient way to raise our standard of living. but i also believe there are times that the private sector cannot reasonably be expected to do the research and development needed because the issue, the syndrome, the disease, might be so rare that it is economically prohibitive. i know the story personally, as my son teddy suffers from an extremely rare neurogenetics man'sorder called angel syndrome. funny -- walks real funny. he has never had a conversation with catherine or myself. probably will never speak.

angels, as we call them, will developmental age capacity, they say, of 18 months. , our goal for teddy is to get him to five years. not in age, but in development. have a fulled to life, a long life. that is good, because another 's syndromef angelman is that your unnaturally happy nearly all the time. and what a gift that is for all of us. without programs like the nih to cures,nd research therapies, for syndromes like teddy and all the other kids may not have the hope

in ih talks about. there are only 1500 cases of angelman's syndrome in america. they be some children are misdiagnosed, we don't know. maybe there are some other solutions to this, we don't know. without the help of programs nih and al -- at the other private sector programs, we may never know. that is why this is so important. ,his is why i asked harry reid senate democrats, and the president himself to stop this nonsense, let us help people. let us help children, please. >> good morning. as you can see, not unlike most americans, my colleagues and i that are joining me today have been touched by disease and have

a passion to do something about medical research, something i have been working on, especially in the area of electric medical research for some time. while we work out our differences here in washington, children should not be denied treatment. we passed a bill in the house last night that would provide the nih with the necessary funding to reopen the clinical errandshat give hope to who may not have hope otherwise when they find their kids have cancer. reed mustthat senator take up this legislation today, for the sake of those children and their health. for five years, president obama has carried and i won, it's my way or the highway attitude. he

has not reached across the aisle to republicans, who were also elected to solve the major problems facing this country. the president's to work in a bipartisan way has led us to this shutdown -- the president's refusal to work in a bipartisan way has led to the shutdown. we must restore the people's faith in our economy and their trust in government, especially before we reach our debt limit deadline in a week or so. it is time for the president and senate democrats to put partisanship aside and sit down at the table so we can work out our differences. thank you. questions. >> 17 or 18 house republicans have said they supported the cr moving forward. why not support that bill so the nih can get funded and then debt ceiling on the

17th? >> we have said the republican position is, we believe we should fund this government, but we also believe that there should not be any special treatment for anyone. that is why we believe the right solution to that is to provide for a delay of the individual mandate under the health care law. because what that says is, big business, special interests, shouldn't get special treatment exemptions under that law. if working people don't get it. in the same vein, and perhaps with even more intensity, no way in the world should members of congress get special treatment under that law either. always got to do is come together and we can iron out the differences. but as you can see now, i guarantee you there is a majority of senators in the senate, on both sides of the aisle, that support this funding bill to provide the relief

immediately to these kids and their parents who are facing these dire circumstances. >> how are you picking and choosing what to get funding first? >> we are going to go forward was trying to address situations that are in critical stages. as renée and others have said, these parents are at a critical point. these are clinical trials. they somehow have been determined not essential by the nih. this is life-saving stuff. we've got other areas that we will bring forward today to try to address the critical things that are going on in this country. all this can be resolved if we can sit down and talk. that is how the american people expect them and their families to work out differences. it's no different here. we should sit down and have a there isn. but because

an insistence on no negotiations, no talking, my way or the highway, we are here. budget was cut about $1.2 billion last year because of sequestration. the labor hhs bill that was drafted by the appropriations committee cut it another roughly 20%, about $6 billion. are you saying now that there has been a change of thinking about the role of government and how much money should be going to those agencies e >> you know i have been insistent on making as a priority funding for the nih. and specifically, funding for pediatric medical research. were exactly the reasons that todd said. when you have somebody young and have a whole life that potentially could be ahead of that child, i don't think there are many things as a priority for us as human beings with this federal government to put an emphasis on an fund. i would say again, you look to

see, and asked the democrats in this house whether they support a clean cr with sequester or not. this assumption that everyone is operating on that somehow there is unanimity on the democratic side, that they would support a cr at sequester level, is an assumption that i question. so again, we are trying to find the things that we can agree on them, and where there is a majority vote in both houses. certainly, pediatric medical research, medical research for clinical trials, is something, given the circumstances, that i think we ought to get done. harry reid ought to take it up today. thank you very much. youe do you think that should keep your paycheck during the shutdown?

>> the majority leader and his house colleagues will be coming in tomorrow at 10:00 eastern for morning our speeches and legislative work tomorrow at noon eastern. the senate is in a 10:30 tomorrow. the house here on c-span, the senate on c-span2. the majority leader's office has released the schedule for tomorrow. we will see debate on two of the 11 bills tomorrow, and those two are the national emergency and disaster recovery act, and also the bill dealing with nutrition assistance for low income women and children. tomorrow, each gets 40 minutes of debate. they will start that debate sometime after noon eastern tomorrow. one quick twitter note before we get to your calls. this is from nbc washington about today's shooting. they say the capitol police officer injured in today's incident has been released from washington medstar. in edgewater,l

florida, on the independent line. thanks for waiting. go ahead with your comments. >> thank you for taking my call. recent permanent , and supporting andcountry's prestigious successful space program, it has given me an opportunity to watch the proceedings here on c-span. i'm quite embarrassed for the country that this is allowed to go on. however, my question really is more philosophical in nature. i am seeing where there has been aboutus people talking senator john and

boehner, that they alone have shut down the government. true, myt that is how isn is more about that possible? how is it possible that a single group of folks, or a single person, has that kind of horsepower to shut down the entire government? in how really educated the government and protocol work in that area, but it seems to me that the bigger picture here is a loophole has been found by , and is being used

to do their agenda, whatever that is, right or wrong, but my to betion is, that needs looked at. how is it possible that a single folks hasgroup of that kind of influence or horsepower, if you will, to take advantage of a loophole in the way our laws have been written? >> were going to move onto duncan, oklahoma, the republican line. >> first, i want to encourage the gop to keep up the fight. i would, however, recommend that they pass a short-term continuing resolution to fund everything but obama care. then when the democrats want to

prove it, if it will show who shut the government down. and the democrats for the liars that they are. obama care will cost the government trillions of dollars. our country is virtually bankrupt already. most americans don't even know how the u.s. dollar is used as a worldwide currency. it is a medium for international exchange. we give other countries paper money for oil and food and cars and everything else. if this bankruptcy continues, we will be fighting over insurance. we will be fighting over food and gasoline. our national debt has increased by more than $7 trillion since the year before obama came into power. from $9lmost doubled trillion to $16 trillion. if obama care is allowed to devastate this economy, it will be a total doubling of the debt since obama came in. president lincoln set many slaves free.

president obama is seeking to make every american a slave. i do not work just to give a large percentage of my income to the greedy industry that basically owns this country already. >> we will let you have the last word for this evening. thanks for your comments and all your calls and comments. .he discussion continues online this is red dragon saying the country is going to fold. good, it's all fraudulent anyway. monopoly money is the same value as our money. you had better be solid. info sorry for the low libs. has it right,d the tea party is against government and they don't want a way out. remember, the conversation continues tomorrow morning on "washington journal." tomorrow from the offices in the

washington bureau of the national review, publisher jack there, the senior editor and political reporter jonathan strong, baltimore morning beginning at 7:00 eastern on c- span. the house rules committee met earlier this evening to consider the debate rules for 11 bills, two of which they will debate tomorrow. i wonder to show you a good half hour or so of the rules deliberations, which went over today, thisa half evening in washington.

>> the committee will come to order. before we begin tonight, i want to take a moment to acknowledge the bravery of our capitol hill police, who today, along with the capitol sergeant at arms office, helped in the intervention of a woman who was breaking into the white house, federal officers as well as potentially up on capitol hill. these men and women often go unnoticed in our midst. we see them everyday guarding the capitol. they are here to protect citizens as well as this institution and members. what on days like today, we should take a moment to reflect on their courage and their selfless sacrifice to ensure that we are safe here in the capitol complex. i know each and every one of us as members joined our colleagues , mr. hoyer and mr. cantor, as they spoke for a brief moment

yesterday on the floor. i know that each of us give wenks on the after hours as know the men and women are here to protect us. we give them our thanks. here tonight to consider 11 appropriations bills to keep key parts of the federal government running. i believe that this is the responsible thing to do, and my colleagues do, and we believe that we've got to do this until the senate decides to come to the table and negotiate with us to help in the government shutdown. tonight we will begin to move forward on two bills to give relief, the measures before us tonight find a number of government functions from food

safety, border security, and house republicans continue to listen to the american people, and we are taking steps again tonight to keep the critical parts of the government running. i am delighted this evening to welcome back the gentleman, the -- asmittee chairman always i would allow the gentlewoman to -- >> thank you. i wanted to join in what you said about capitol police. i have been talking with them the last three days. the tragedy is, they are not being paid. i have been talking to them about that the last couple of days, and told them i was on the bill to try to get them paid retroactively. but they are not paid that much money. they should be paid right now. out,w you have left them and i think that is going to be a bad one, because everybody knows they are not being paid.

had an occasion today to speak to the state department. they are operating on fumes. why in the world would we say to the government, those people who are working, they are there working, they are just not getting paid for it. things the most appalling , it's almost hard to believe and hard to act serious about it, when all we have to do is bring the cd up and get it voted for. i understand from the press, nobody has told me directly, side, goodthe other colleagues of ours, would like to vote for a clean resolution. we have passed up three trances to do it. everybody said no. we're going to give you another one tonight. because with your 21 there and all of us, that is the majority. if the majority in the house wants to do that, by george, i think we ought to do it.

if mr. boehner wants to bring it up, that is fine with me. i don't care who does it. but we are going through a charade here. todoesn't make any sense anybody. that tragedy today, and we don't know all the details of it yet, but that brought home again that people are actually out there working. their families are worried to death about them, in the police department, not knowing day-to- day what they are going to run into, and they are not being paid for it. we ought to be so ashamed of ourselves we cannot even look at each other. time to get ae statement of the administration's policy. let me say this for all three of us, we don't know what they think about it, but we are going to say that we recommend a veto. mr. chairman. >> i thank the general one for her statement, and i will tell you, i would be embarrassed if what you said about police officers was true, but in fact,

in fact, we have an expert witness today from the who hasan leadership been through partial briefing on this. yield to theto gentlewoman from north carolina. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i have heard this all day today and i think it's time that we responded to it. the gentlewoman from new york is entitled to her own opinion, but she is not entitled to create a fiction. the capitol police are considered essential personnel. they are being paid. they were paid on monday, and and they are not due to be paid again until the 16th. they are being paid, because they are essential personnel. i have utmost respect for the

capitol police, and i believe they all know that. i am extraordinarily deferential to them, every single one of them. they are considered essential personnel, and they are being paid. they will be paid on the next payday. >> not unless the shutdown is over. >> if the gentlewoman would allow me -- >> the simple fact is -- >> if i could maybe help us out a little bit, i believe that we will have to take action to ensure on the 16th they would be paid, but i believe it is fair to say that they are considered, as the gentlewoman said, essential service. they are and were presently being paid to >> i have a question about that, then. >> i believe further action by this committee, by the house, to

ensure that they would be paid next. our essential step people are not being paid. the people at the state apartments are not being paid till after the shutdown is over. we have federal employees working every day in some dangerous circumstances, trying to keep us safe and alive. the food safety worries me half to death, because i know too much about it. it is time to stop it. there is no in game insight here. there is no purpose for it. it just simply does not make any sense, unless the purpose is to piece together and together in this over, let's fund here and maybe that over there and let that go. the government is much too important for that. i stick with what i said, the police are telling me they are not being paid.

without taking advantage of anybody, i would like to say probably it is not unlikely that we may not know all the rules that are in place, but it is my understanding -- they got a check, and they are being paid right now, and as a matter fact, ,ne of your favorite witnesses one of the two of them, i don't know which one is your favorite, from virginia. i know you like them all. said favorite, i didn't say second favorite. my point is that you are going to hear tonight how, just as yesterday, we said were going to pay in ih workers and get them back to work. were going to do the same now. woman fore general her comments. as a matter fact, it helps keep

us on point of how much work we have yet to do and why we are here. i would like to welcome the subcommittee chairman of labor, related agencies, as well as two other distinguished members from virginia. one, mr. moran who had been up here early in the week or last week and got a chance to see his smiling face. the subcommittee chair, the for -- i guess it's interior, that's what it is. i'm learning these words, and related agencies. also my dear friend, the .entleman, mr. wolf each of you are here for a great reason, representing appropriations chair and ranking

member. the gentleman from georgia is recognized. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman, madam ranking member. -- the first panel. i am here today because we seek to get an appropriate rule on 10 different funding bills that will reopen critical sections of the government programs while congress and hopefully a conference committee irons out the differences between the two bodies. this rule will allow for prompt him a straightforward consideration of this and it will relieve the burden of some of the unnecessary aspects of the shutdown. the bills before you provide funding for the programs at the current annual rate, and the nutrition assistance for low income women and nuclear weapon ,ecurity and nonproliferation

77, the food and drug safety act, 78, the preserving our intelligent capabilities ask, and 79, the border safety and security act, 80, the american indian and alaska native health education and safety act, 82, the national weather monitoring impact aid for local schools act, 84, the headstart for low income 85, the national emergency and disaster recovery act. the funding for these bills will last until december 15, or until congress in ask a full-year appropriation bill. while i believe that the entire government needs to move as quickly as possible to get reopened, these will put a

number of high place priorities, programs funded so that while the conference committee goes on and the negotiations with the white house continue, these areas will be off the table. agree, funding on individual programs on a piecemeal basis is not standard or is not the preferred way of operating, but let's hope it would bring us closer to a final solution. having chaired and served on a number of conference committees during my time in washington, i know that often we start by getting the smaller, less controversial, more consensus type programs done, and while they may not have the heavy lift that some of the issues do, getting a little momentum going is important for us right now. i believe that as we showed last saturday night at the military pay bill, that it is possible in this environment to get a little

momentum going between the parties and start filling in that gap. these 10 bills here tonight serve that purpose, mr. chairman. i yield back. if you will please make sure that is turned on. thank you very much. >> thank you, mr. chairman and members of the committee. groupe a truly bipartisan of 156 members at last count. and iave joined mr. wolf in supporting legislation that would ensure that all federal employees received pay for the duration of the federal government shut down, regardless of their furlough status. there are 800,000 who have been you home, but nobody, as know, can really get paid until money is made available and we have resolved this continuing resolution issue. so this does not solve our

funding problems. but it does provide these federal employees some peace of ,ind that they will get paid and the language actually says that they should be compensated at their standard rate of ofpensation for the period such labs and appropriations as soon as practicable after such lapse in appropriations ends. fairness is the most compelling reason for doing this. these folks didn't bring this about. they are trying to do their job. they want to do their job. they want to come into work every day, and they have bills to meet. i'm sure that all of you have heard from federal employees that perhaps frank and i hear from a disproportionate number, because we represent so many, but i think it is fair to say that every member of congress represents some, and even if we

didn't, they really work for us. we passed the legislation they are responsible for implementing it. today, i had a woman from the irs come in. she said they are never going to exempt you people -- you people are never going to exempt the irs, but i have to pay my mortgage, and i don't know how going to pay my mortgage. i have children. i'm scared. and she broke down crying. there are a lot of folks that just live from paycheck to paycheck. they get their paycheck, they know exactly where it goes. it meets their obligations. they are determined to stay on top of their debts, but boy, they have this kind of disruption in their lives and it causes enormous stress. , thenk it is unfair anxiety they are having to deal with right now. this would at least give them some peace of mind that they are going to be compensated, so i would hope that we could get

this to the floor and that we could have a strong vote in favor of it. i have talked to leadership and i think -- i trust that leadership on both sides would agree this is the right thing to do. whatever we do, and how strongly we argue on other issues, we ought to at least agree that these folks are suffering through no fault of their own, and we ought to stop that suffering if we can. >> frank, it is good to see you. the gentleman is recognized. >> thank you for the opportunity . i will summarize very quickly. i also want to thank chairman rogers in the leadership for moving this bill. this is always been done in every previous administration. i want to thank congressman moran for introducing the legislation everywhere working in a bipartisan way to ensure that constituents are taken care of and people all over the

country. day in and day out, federal employees work to make the nation a better and safer place. at bia agents, the head of the fbi was by today to talk about some of the concerns they have. dea agents, u.s. marshals, customs and border, prison guards, air traffic controllers, doctors and nurses at the va hospital, dod civilians, the 12 individuals who were killed at the navy yard two weeks ago, they worked with the fleet. every officer that spoke talked about that they were an important part of the fleet. investigators, fda food safety inspectors, nih doctors, researchers working on cancer, parkinson's and alzheimer's, hurricane watch was posted today, apple that are watching for that hurricane and are dealing with it are federal employees. assuring that all federal until thereceived a

government reopens as always being done am including in the reagan and clinton administrations. >> i thank the german very much. >> the rules committee met earlier today to consider the debate rules for 11 additional funding bills. they will consider -- they will debate two of those tomorrow. the house is noon -- in a name for legislative work and we will have live coverage here on c- span. we will hear tomorrow morning the house schedule for the weeke nd. it is possible we will hear more on some reporting about a potential way forward. this is the new york times this evening come the headline is "rattled congress seats way out -- seeks wayo go out of standoff." new talks over a broad budget deal in an effort by more moderate house members to break the logjam.

he says representative paul ryan of wisconsin, chairman of the house budget committee, has initiated conversations with senior house republicans on a broad deficit reduction deal that would allow some increases the federal program squeezed by the automatic cuts known as sequestration in exchange for long-term changes to programs like medicare and social security. the package would most likely include instructions to try to move along efforts to simplify the tax code as well. we will hear more about that tomorrow. washington journal tomorrow morning at 7:00 eastern for more of your comments. some late news from the white house this evening, the associated press reporting that the president is canceling the rest of his asia trip.

next up, president obama from just outside washington today, he was speaking at a construction company in nearby montgomery county about the government shut down and the effects on the economy. [applause] >> hello, everybody. good to see all of you. please have a seat. hello, rockville. let me start by recognizing free public servants who fight hard every day for maryland families and businesses. first of all, congressman chris van hollen is here. congressman john delaney is here.

and i also want to give a big for being your bosses such gracious hosts. i had a chance to meet them at the white house. [ applause ] >> thank you. now i know where they got their looks from because i had a chance to meet mom and dad and and sobeautiful families i'm so glad to be here and i had a chance to learn a little story.out their when their parents brought them from portugal to america, years ago, no one in the family spoke a word of english. but that didn't stop their father manuel and their mother bigrtina from having a beg dream and believing if they getked hard they could

ahead. anded even though they never schooling maybe their daughters could go to college. maybe in america they he could it, it they tried. they started their own construction company with a pickup truck and a wheel barrow. turned 14 they cleaning tools,greenin translating documents and became the first in their college.o go to after graduation they started their own business and later bought the family business from their parents. so today, the construction a $60 million company with 250 employees. [ applause ] i understand you are opening your fourth office at of the month. this story is what america is about.

you start off maybe you don't have a lot but you are willing thework hard, you put in time, opportunities are out there and you are able to pass on an even better life to your family, your children and your grandchildren. and it is good news that after how hard the construction during theot hit recession things are starting get a little better. it was just five years ago that our economy was in a freefall. businesses were shedding hundreds of thousands of jobs every single month. the recession ultimately cost millions of americans homes, theirtheir savings, everything they had build. hard to today, over the last 3 1/2 added our businesses have 7.5 million new jobs. [ applause ] deficits are falling.

our housing market is healing which means construction is improving. manufacturing is growing. the auto industry is back. becomea is on pace to the number one energy producer in the world this year. [ applause ] more small businesses have gotten loans so they can grow and hire just like m. luis did help of the small business jobs act that i signed three years ago. that is part of what allowed to grow.pany a long way to go and a lot of work to do, to build the middle class but we are making steady progress. the reason i'm here is we can't thatrd to threaten progress right now. now hundreds of thousands of americans, hard-working

americans, suddenly aren't receiving their paychecks. right now, they are worrying about missing their rent or their mortgage, or even making ends meet. we can all relate to that. yougine that suddenly weren't sure whether you were going to get your next paycheck. bills thatf the might be mounting up. well, that is what is happening right now to hundreds thousands of americans across the country. ies like this one worried going toir business is be disrupted. particularly in areas like, maryland, and virginia where lot of federal workers you don't know how that impact the economy. veterans, seniors, women, they are all worrying that the they depend on will be too.upted, and the worst part is, this aime it is not because of

time --in-a-legislative recession. this isn't happening because of some financial crisis. at is happening because of reckless republican shutdown in washington. [ applause ] we have all seen the offices locked down, the monuments closed. we heard about services denied. benefitsheard about that are delayed. the shutdowncts of go way beyond those things that you are seeing on television. those hundreds of thousands of whom live, a lot of around here, don't know when they are going to get their next paycheck. and that means stores and restaurants around here don't know if they will have as many customers. across the country you have got andmers in rural areas

small business owners who deserve a loan but they are lurch left in the the right now. they he might have an application spending as we nobody in there is the office to process the loan. billion.a. gives a dollars of loans a month to small businesses. a month goesllars to small businesses across the country. right now those can't be there isd because nobody there to process them. veterans who deserve our getting less help. deserve a heado start have been sent home from theysafe places where learn and grow every single day. families,ourse, their then, have to scramble to figure out what to do. on, the longer this goes the worst i it will be. and it makes no sense. the american people elected their representatives to make

their lives easier, not harder. out of there is one way this reckless and damaging republican shutdown. pass a budgetto that funds our government with partisan strings attached. [ applause ] i want everybody to understand because sometimes when this gets reported on everybody kind of thinks, well, know, both sides of just squabbableing. i want everyone to understand what happened here. the republicans passed a temporary budget for two months at a funding level that we as think is waytually too low because we are not providing help for more small doing more for early childhood education, rebuild theto

infrastructure. we said we are prepared to go republicantake the budget levels that they proposed. so the senate passd that with no strings attached. not because it had everything the democrats wanted. had very little that the democrats wanted but we said let's go ahead and just that other people aren't hurt while negotiations taking place. so that already passed the senate. and we know there are enough democrats toand vote in the house of the sametatives for thing. so i want everybody to understand this. there are enough republicans democrats in the house of representatives today that if speaker of the house john gethner simply let the bill on the floor for an up or down congressman could

vote their conscious, the shutdown would end today. keepingy thing that is the government shut down, the preventing people from going back to work and basic research starting back up and farmers and small business loans, theting their only thing preventing all that from happening, reit now, next five minutes is that speaker john boehner won't even let the bill get a yes or no vote because he doesn't want to anger the extremists in his party. that's all. thing ishat this whole about. and we have heard a lot from congressional republicans the days saying they don't want this shutdown. well, there is a simple way to prove it. send the bill to the floor, let vote, it will pass. send me the bill. i will sign it.

shutdown will be over and we can get back to the business helping theg and american people. [ applause ] >> tit could happen in the next half hour. parks, monuments, offices would reopen immediately. benefits and services would resume again. hundreds of thousands of dedicated public servants who worrying about whether they are going to pay the mortgage pay the car note, they would start going back to work right away. simple message today is, call a vote. call a vote. put it on the floor and let every individual member of congress make up their own minds and they can show the people are you for a shutdown or not. if you are not for a shutdown

will vote for the bill. if you are for the shutdown you won't vote for a bill. have to twist anybody's arms. that way the american people isll be clear about who responsible for the shutdown. or alternatively, more clearully, they would be that this is something that doesn't make sense and we make sure ahead and that we are looking out for the american people. it should be that simple. as i said, the problem we have got is that there is one of one party in one oflf of one branch government that so far has refused to allow that yes or no some unless they get massive partisan concessions in exchange for doing what they are are supposed to be doing anyway. exchange for doing what everybody else agrees is necessary and they won't agree until they shutdown get their way.

and you may think i'm othererating but just the day one tea party republican called the idea of a shutdown wonderful. a shutdown isthat exactly what we wanted. exactly whatot they wanted and now they are to getto figure out how you to out of it. just yesterday one house quotingcan said i'm here because i want to make sure people understand i didn't make this up. house republican said "we are not going to be disrespected, we have to get and ihing out of this don't know what that even is." quote!as a we are not going to be disrespected. we got to get something out of this and i don't know what that even is. that. about

you have already gotten the theortunity to serve american people. there is no higher honor than that. [ applause ] gotten thelready opportunity to help businesses like this one. like these. so the american people aren't give you ad to goodie bag to go with it. ourt you get is intelligence professionals back on the job. what you get is our medical researchers back on the job. you get are little kids back in the head starts. get are the national parks and monuments open again. what is you get is the economy talking but continuing to -- not stalling but tenning to grow. what you get are workers continuing to be hired. that is what you get. should behat you

asking for. take a vote. farce and end this and end now.down right [ applause ] if you are being disrespected is because of that attitude you got that you deserve to get doing your job. here just does their job, right? are working- if you middle of thehe day you just stopped and said you know what, i want to get i don't knowt exactly what i'm going to get, i am just going to stop working until i get something. i'm going to shut down the plant until i get something. >> you would get fired. get fired, right? [ applause ]

>> because the deal is you have gotten hired. you have got a job. paycheck.etting a and so you also are getting the pride of doing a good job and contributing to a business and fellowg out for your workers. that is what you are getting. it shouldn't be any different member of congress. now, unlike past shutdowns, i want to make sure everybody this, because again sometimes the tendency is to say well, both sides are at fault. this one has nothing to do with orficits or spending budgets. our deficits are falling at the in 60 years. we have cut the deficit in half office. took [ applause ]

and some of the things that the forublicans are asking right now would actually add to our deficits. seriously. this is not about spending. this is not about fiscal responsibility. this whole thing is about one thing -- the republican obsession with dis mantling the denyingble care act and affordable health insurance to millions of americans. becomes all that has about. that seems to be the only thing that unites the republican days. these through this whole fight they said the american people don't obama care so we should shut down the government to delay it. or problem.e is the the government is now shut down. but the affordable care act is still open for business. so they are not even accomplishing what they say accomplish.o

and by the way, in the first two days, since the new basically the big group plans that we set up, the first two days that they opened, websites where you can compare and purchase new plans and maybe get tax credits to reduce your costs, millions of americans they do want clear health insurance. more than six million people websightthe the day it.gov opened. nearly 2,000 people picked up the phone and called the call center. in kentucky alone, a state in kentucky,'t win so i know they weren't doing it for me. kentucky, nearly 11,000 it people applied for new insurance plans in the first two days. state, kentucky. americans are finding out when they go on the website that they will save a lot of

money or get health insurance time.he first think thati would if, in fact, this was going to be such a disaster that the republicans say it is going to it was going to be so unpopular. wouldn't have to shut down the government. would show any interest, there would be two on the website and then everybody would vote for candidates who want to repeal it. is not as if republicans haven't had a chance to debate the healthcare law. it passed the house of representatives. it passed the that the. senate. ruled iteme court constitutional. last november the voters rejected the presidential on aidate that ran platform to repeal it. [ applause ] so the affordable care act has gone through every single process.ic all three branches of government. law of the land.

it is here to stay. i have said to republicans if things youspecific think can improve the law to make it even better for people opposed to just gutting it and leaving 25 million people i'mhout health insurance, happy to talk to you about that. shutdownepublican won't change the fact that millions of people need health insurance and that the affordable care act is being implemented. shutdown does not change that. all the shutdown is doing is for ordinaryrder americans to get by and harder jobsbusinesses to create at a time when our economy is gain traction to again. you you have heard republicans hurtthat obama care will the economy. but the economy has been growing and creating jobs. greatest threat to our economy and to our businesses like this one is not the affordable care act.

is the unwillingness of republicans in congress to stop settleed election or making the demands that have nothing to do with the budget. on to the to move actual business of governing. that is what will help the economy. is what will grow the economy. that is what will put people back to work. and more than that, house stopblicans need to careening from one crisis to another in everything they do. you notice that? since they have taken over the house of representatives we have one of these crises every months. have you noticed? and you keep on thinking this is going to be the last one, going to do this again. and then they do it again. tired of it.re i'm tired of it.

it doesn't mean that they are wrong on every single issue. happy to negotiate with you on anything. party hashink any one a monopoly on wisdom. but you don't negotiate by putting a gun to the other person's head. or worse yet, by putting a gun people's headpeeples by threatening a shutdown. way, even after congress reopens your government it is going to have to turn around something else and that is pay america's bills. i want to spend a little time on this. it is something called raising the debt ceiling and it has a lousy name. people end up thinking i don't think we should raise our soundseiling because it like we are raising our debt. that is not what this is about. doesn't cost taxpayers a single dime. by doesn't grow the deficits

sage dime. to doesn't' lou anybody spend any new money whatsoever. it is not something that raises our debt. what it does is' lou the u.s. the u.s. government, to pay the bills that congress up. already racked i want you to think about this. restaurant, you order a meal, you eat it, maybe some wine. maybe you have two glasses of wine. great meal. tab,then you look at the it is pretty expensive and you pay thei'm not going to bill. well, you are not saving money. being frugal. you are just a deadbeat, right? if you buy a house and you this month i would rather go on vacation somewhere to pay myt going mortgage. you didn't just save yourself some money.

are just going to get on.eclosed so you don't save money by not paying your bills. you don't reduce your debt by bills.aking your all you are doing is making reliable and hurting your credit rating. and you will start getting calls and those notices in the mail and next borrow,u try to somebody is going to say you are a pay your bills, you deadbeat. well, the same is true for countries. the only thing that the debt ceiling does is to let the u.s. treasury pay for what congress has already bought. somethinghy it is that has been routine. traditionally it is not a big deal. it 45 as has raised times since ronald reagan took office. routine part of running.the government

the last time the house republicans flirted with not raising the debt ceiling back of you remember this, our economy took a bad hit. our country's credit rating was downgraded for the first time. would bee you downgraded if you didn't pay your mortgage. time, they are threatening to actually force the united states to default on its the very firstr time in history. john boehner hear mitch mcconnell and the other republicans say we don't want to default. but everybody knows, it is written about in all of the papers that their basic theory is, okay, if the shutdown doesn't work then we are going some extra con sentencings out of the president -- concessions out of the president. we will you the a long laundry list, all the things that we want that we can't get passed our own and if we don't get

it, we will tell him we won't vote to pay the country's bills, we will let the country default. i'm not just making this up. is common knowledge. every report are here knows t -- every reporter here knows it. i want you understand the of this.nces as reckless as a government shutdown is, as many people are a governmenthe by shutdown, an economic shutdown wouldresults from default worse.matically in a government shutdown, social security checks still go out on time. in an economic shutdown if we don't raise the debt ceiling out on time.o in a government shutdown, disability benefits still arrive on time. in an economic shutdown, they don't. a government shutdown, millions of americans not just workers, everybody

faces real economic hardship. economic shutdown, pensions and home values and rising interest rates on things like mortgages and student loans, all those things risk putting us back into a t -- every reporter here knows it. bad recession, which will affect this company and all of you.rs and is notat is not -- that my analysis. economist out there is saying the same thing. we have never done it before. know, the united states is the center of the world economy. up, everybodyw gets screwed up. the whole world will have problems. which is why generally nobody to actuallyought threaten not to pay our bills. it would be the heat of irresponsibility. height ofld be the irresponsibility. that is why i said this before. i'm going repeat it.

no negotiations over this. the american people are not pawns in some political game. somedon't get to demand ransom in exchange for keeping the cost running. ransomn't get to demand in exchange for keeping the economy running. demand ransom to tore doing your most basic job. the sooner that the republicans in congress heed the warnings me or democrats leak chris and john, heed the warnings of the chamber of commerce. and c.e.o.s and economists and a whole lot of republicans outside of congress. they are all saying do to the do this it. all saying to congress do your job. job,the sooner you do your the less damage you will do to our economy and the businesses

like this one. pass a budget. end the government shutdown. pay our bells. prevent an economic shutdown. just vote and end the shutdown should do it today so we can get back to growing this economy, creating jobs and our middle class. [ applause ] just by sharing a story i heard as i was getting ready to come here today. already know it. mulch factory, a main equipments' storage facility caught fire company'sof the equipment was destroyed, causing millions of dollars in damage. even wheel the fire was still while the firen

was still burning dozens of employees rushed over to the facility and tried to save as much as they could. some of you were probably there. and when they finished cutting firelines and spraying down the own property their they went over to help their neighbors. and afterwards even though all at m.e employees here luis are on salary, even though the company had just taken a big financial hit, they paid overtime and along with each check included a personalized know the saying how much they appreciated the workers.of the sadalia said everybody says the biggest asset to a business is employees. some people mean it. don't.eople we actually do. so this company right here is full of folks who do right by each other. if theyn't try to see angle.rk every they don't lie about each

other. they don't try to undermine each other. they understand they are the same to be on team. you pitch in and look out for one another. when somebody gets knocked down them back up. what can you get out of this? because you know that success depend on one of you, it deends on all of you working together. no different. i see that same spirit in some cities and towns that i visit all across the country. is alive and well all' cross the country. and well in this community where restaurants and businesses are rallying around the regulars. out fory are looking dedicated publicted be lick servants furloughed. saying you know what, while you on furlough, come on, we will give you a burger, we will give you a meal, we will help out. that is the american ideal. we are working together. for one another.

meeting our responsibilities. our jobs. thinking about future generations. and that is why i believe ultimately reason and common prevail.ll that sear returns to ohio at some point -- that spirit at will infiltrate washington as well. because i think the american people are so good and so decent they are going to get theirr behavior from government than this. and we will once again make is a country where you can make it if you try. you, everybody. god bless you. and god whens the united states of america. >> president obama earlier in maryland. late today the white house announcing the president cancel asia sayingrip to due to the cost shutdown president obama's travel has canceled. the house is coming in tomorrow to deal with the shutdown. they will take up two bills

approved which the rules committee earlier today. they are in at noon and they afternoon.e tomorrow bills dealing with the federal management agency and also the nutrition assistance program for low income women and children. coverage, of course, here on c-span. house passedy the two short-term funding bills. one for the guard and reserve and the other dealing with veterans funding. feal debate the house came back after the and beforeckdown they debated they began here with a moment of silence. reminder we had a again of how much we owe our and women in uniform and i want to express the gratitude of the members of the house and menple of america to our and women in uniform who keep our streets safe every day and say that our hearts and our prayers are with those injured officers today. our immenseess

gratitude to each and every one of them all over the country our men and women in uniform around the world who make it possible for us to be here today in the greatest deliberative democracy ever created in the history of humanity. we owe it all to our men and women in uniform. and if i could, madam speaker, permission, ask for a moment of silent prayer for injured today. >> will the members rise. from texas is recognize. >> thank you, madam speaker. work armere today to in arm in support of our h men and women in uniform and i'm pleased at this time to yield

minute to the gentleman from tennessee, mr. roe. >> the gentleman from tennessee is recognized for one minute. >> thank the chairman for yielding and madam speaker as a former mayor i associate my remarks with the chairman and rise in strong support of on the floor today. what we have before us today is theopportunity to keep faith with america about abouts veterans of which i am one and ensuring the funding for the disability i'ms and g.i. bill and v.a. and home loans. nots should not be, must become a partisan issue. there are real and serious debates to be had about how we are able to deal with obama care and the nation's debt crisis. what we are discussing now. northeast tennessee which i'm honored to represent in this long history of military service and host mountain home v.a. medical of the largest and finest such facilities in the country. when i visit them i don't see

or democrats. i see patriots who answered the call, did their duty and then to make a life. let's make sure they all get and iupport they need urge my colleagues to vote "yes." myyield back the balance of time. >> the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from georgia is recognized. he doing >> i yield to mr. price. >> the georgia from north carolina is recognized for two minutes. >> madam speaker, i have the privilege of representing one military friendly and veteran friendly areas of the country, north carolina. i'm glad our republican colleagues are concerned with maintaining funding for the veterans. it is too bad they didn't think more about the v.a. before forcing this government shutdown on us monday night. it is too bad they are not the showing equal concern for the more than half a

veterans who now is serve their country as federal employee is. sent of whom have been home unitor low and now have bills -- on furlough and have up.ls piling report veteran small business s.b.a. loanswhose are on hold. or veterans earning their graduate degrees whose research closed.ve been madam speaker of course, we need to restore full funding for the v.a. so it can resume full array of services to whomnation's veterans so we owe a special debt of gratitude and support. veterans want the same thing we all americans want. for us to reopen the entire onvernment so they can get with their lives as parents and workers and members of their communities. take my wordve to for it. in a letter lent this morning to the bipartisan congressional severalhip the heads of major veterans service organizations write and i "our and the veterans we represent will no longer

tolerate congress leveraging about' health and well being. the v.a. needs to be fully funded not piece mealed and not as leverage. so let's dispense with this political theater and piece meal approach that fails to end the shutdown. approved a clean funding bill that will pass very house easily this afternoon if the speaker will simply let it be voted on. to get on with this business that the american do.ple elect thed us to >> the gentleman's time has expired. the chair lays before the house an enrolled bill. >> 3233. act to extend the period during which employed by the

united states government in iraq may be granted special immigrant status and temporarily increase the fee or for processing machine readable nonimmigrant visas. >> the gentleman from texas is recognize. >> madam speaker at this time i would give one minute to the from colorado. >> the georgia from colorado is recognized for one minute. >> i think the chairman, madam rise today to address oar emerging pattern of decision making coming from the obama administration on national security. under sequestration this white house mandated that civilian defense workers be furloughed is had theagency money to pay the employees, many of whom are veterans and under this partial government shutdown the white house has again chose ton the vast majority of the same workers against the intent ofill and congress. all of us here in congress issed a bipartisan bill which president signed to ex-leslie protect the pay of active duty civilian key fence

employees and designated defense contractors. pentagon can put the workers back on the job today the white house is choosing to furlough the critical defense workers. the nationalding security by choosing to furlough 70% of the civilian intelligence the agencies. this is unnecessary. the law is now on the books to civilians back to work to protect the national defense. let's do it. mr. speaker. and i yield back. >> the georgia's time has expired. the georgia from texas reserves. the georgia from georgia. also would time i like to extend our condolences and we would also like to our appreciation to the sergeant at arms and to the capitol police for their hard thek in making sure that people that work in this capitol and the members and visitors are safe and we

vigilancee their during the recent incident. i would like to yield one minute to the gentleman from california.ho a >> the georgia from california is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. our speaker, give us back committee. give us back our chairman. mr. culverson worked with all veteransdeal with appropriations bill. this is not it. disasterous bill. this cuts $2.6 billion out of the bill that we passed. this doesn't help veterans. this is game-playing. appropriations committee is supposed to have 12 bills on this floor. we have is none. a simple one just to pass to keep government open. never done this before. never. no preconditions ever in the

this.ry like we have a good committee. we have a good chairman. give us back the process. an ability to keep this government open. bill.t this >> the georgia yields back. the georgia from georgia reserve. the georgia from texas. >> i will reserve. >> georgia from texas reserves. gentleman from georgia. >> how many more speakers do we have? >> three. at this time i yield 1 1/2 the gentleman from california, mr. schiff, a appropriations committee. >> recognized for 1 1/2 mens. >> as we approach the end of the first week of the g.o.p. shutdown i want to highlight sector of ourone

government the intelligence community. as the directors made clear in testimony in the senate yesterday, 70% of key analysts have been forced to leave their posts. this is irresponsible, tragic and most painfully completely avoidable. house republicans now say they will about put up a bill funding veterans but not the intelligence sector of our government agencies where tomorrow the intelligence the f.b.i. ornot the f.b.i. but not the department of homeland security. n.i.h. but not the department of justice. senseless,diculous, and reckless. let's be honest about what the house leadership is really saying. will choose hostage by hostage which agency of the government which willle release. only to buy time until the ransom we want we get. an unrelatedf healthcare reform. as our intelligence analysts other key personnel is sit idle our adversaries do not. those who outletten the country have not been furloughed. attackdevicing ways to our homeland, allies and innocent civilians around the on not hiatus.

they are working hard and so must we. end the reckless shutdown. agenciesintelligence back to work. put all americans back to work. of mane endless series made avoidable and irresponsible crises that and ourn our country, economic recovery. i yield back. back.ntleman yields gentleman from georgia reserve? remaining?h time is >> the gentleman from georgia has 5 1/2. from texas has 7. >> reserves? >> yes. >> the gentleman from georgia reserves. the gentleman from texas. >> i want to point out that the today, the only question before the house today is a yes or no vote whether or not you support funding our veterans. this is not complicated. the veterans administration said they will run out of money pass this legislation today to make certain that our earned these have important benefits receive them. and at this time i'm pleased to

yield 1 1/2 minutes to the florida.n from >> the gentleman from florida is recognized for 1 1/2 minutes. representoud to 72,000 veterans this florida's second congressional district. voting onwe will be today is a bill that says we support you not just for what but we alsoday support you for what you did in your past. our veterans did in their past was join arms with tollow americans and went fight for a principle. a principle of no special treatment. they believe deeply in the declaration of independence we hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal. mr. speaker, i'm rowe proud too join arm in arm with veterans to say we agree with that principle. it is time. it is time that we re-establish deeply held belief there is one standard that should apply

not twoamericans, standards. not a rule aing class and then the majority of the americans them.have to serve there is but one standard. i applaud veterans. i thank them for their and i believe that that bell honoring our promise america's veterans' act is the only thing that is right and principled in the chamber today. votege my colleagues to yes in just a few moments on this bill honoring our veterans back.ith that i yield >> the gentleman from florida yields back. from texasman reserves. the gentleman from georgia. >> at this time, mr. speaker i theld two minutes to gentleman from maine, the ranking member of the veteran as affairs committee. >> the gentleman from maine is recognized for two minutes. >> i thank the gentleman for yielding. i rise today in opposition to this bill which is nothing more ploy.a political my colleagues on the other are side of the aisle say a vote is a vote to bill block veteran's services. it is actually this whichnment's shutdown

they have caused that threatened the v.a. ability to ourvide the services for veterans. if republicans in the house are really serious about helping veterans, they would pass a clean c.r. and end this government shutdown that they have caused. if they really want to services areterans adequate, they would bring h.r. 813 ass house amended to the floor. this bipartisan bill would fund future v.a. through you advanced aropeiation and take off theitical football table forever. passing that bill will help make sure that veterans will no longer be used like they are aeing used today as a pawn of political party scheme. this is outrageous. and i would encourage my republican colleagues to bring theh.r. 813 as amended to full floor so we can stop

playing political football with and women who serve this great nation of ours. it is unleavable you would do is such a thing. and if you think you are b.s.o.'s ising the that if you don't fund this we supporting veterans they know the difference. they see through the political football. they are tired it. encouraging you to encouraging h.r.speaker to bring up 813 as amended passed unanimously by the veterans affairs committee for a full vote on the house. this is outrageous and nothing today.political gimmick i yield back my time. >> the members are reminded to and remarkscomments to the chair. the gentleman from texas. mr. speaker, i want to remind that the veterans administration has said that wills tore these benefits expire at the end of this month. any time you have disagreement you try to find the areas where can agree and that are especially important and is set those aside.

that is what we are doing today. house majority brought the bill to the floor tone sure that veterans and survivors receive disability compensation benefits. a yes vote will ensure that low income veterans and families get pension abouts. three vote will ensure quarter million students receive the g.i. education benefits and unemployed veterans receive benefits and that 67,000 veterans with service sected disabilities get vocational rehabilitation theysubsistences benefits have earned by service to the country. said these benefits will run out at the end of the month. we have chosen what is the highest priority looking after uniform anmen in area that we are in complete agreement on and brought to the floor in good faith and we hope our colleagues would join us in support of or no in veterans. i'm pleased to yield a minute the gentleman from california. >> the gentleman from

recognized for 1 1/2 minutes. >> i would like to thank colleague interest, texas, for allowing me to have a moment here. we are here to honor veterans by the job we do here. it has been shameful the last veterans of what the who come all of the way to d.c., to see themselves block kadeed unnecessarily out of what is theirs over the politics of a shutdown. now the politics of the shutdown come into the room here. you know, we don't always get to could the perfect bill this place. you see my democratic basically yelling at us over we want the perfect bill and all in one and we want agree onthings we can including this bill and other couple days. last we can all agree on this portion of any c.r. bill together. can put this out and stop politics andnd games and get this agree hadn't done because we all agree on this piece of legislation that

is theuld be done and it right thing. it will get veterans served and get them out of this mess, out of muck that we are in on fighting over this c.r. and fighting over the shutdown. so let's agree today to get our veterans served and take the political football out. take the neal calling out, democrats and get the job done. we are here to get the job done. bit at agress a little time. one field at the a time. this is one field at a time here. could this bill instead of holding each other hostage because the democrats want the perfect all-in-one bill. we can do the eases we agreed together. i yield back. >> the gentleman's time has expired. from texasman reserves. the gentleman from georgia. >> i'm happenmy to yield one fromte to the lady florida, ms. brown. a strong and consistent veterans.for >> the gentlewoman from florida is recognized for one minute.

>> thank you, mr. speaker. let's be clear. us with thessed best veterans in the world. but you know you can fool some timehe people some of the but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time. veterans understand that if they vote for this bill it is a $6 billion cut to veteran services. so now what are you cutting? cemeteried asim terry minute expectations? ofe office in charge construction of v.a. facilities. office of inspector general. states forthe veterans homes. grants to the state cemetery. organizationsans said that there is a problem in the house of representatives lack of leadership. bring a clean c.r. to the floor. let's vote it up. you are are not fooling anybody. is the republican

isght-wing part that bringing this terrible instance to this country. no reason. up a clean c.r. please c.r. time hasentlelady's expired. the gentleman from georgia reserve? >> mr. speaker. i would rise to point out quickly there are no cuts in the bill. we are simply funding the essential veterans services through december 15 at a level equal to the amount that we have already assed out of the house the first week of june. cuts. are no we want to make sure these essential services continue for veterans and they don't see any interruption in services. myd i reserve the balance of time. >> the gentleman from texas reserves. the gentleman from georgia. to point outike the tract that while the bill may -- the fact that while the bill may do what my good friend has suggested it doesn't fund the accounts. there are a number of accounts as has been pointed out time

and time again that are not funded. may i inquire as to how much remange? >> yes. >> the gentleman from georgia minutes and the gentleman from texas 2 1/2 minutes. >> i thank you and at this team i would like to yield to the gentleman from georgia, mr. scott. >> how much time would you like to use? >> one minute. minute. >> the gentleman from georgia one minute.ed for >> you know, mr. speaker, the republican party is a party such a rich legacy. it is a party of abraham saved this country. the party of dwight david eisenhower who put the expressway and interstate system together. it is a party of everett werksen without whom wouldn't have the civil rights act. the party of ronald reagan who sat down with tip o'neal and put the great tax cut in that helped the economy. the party of george bush who

that about medicare part d. i bring these things out because i believe if all of these gentleman were here, each say to them, they would out.please let's cut this let your leader, mr. boehner, clean c.r. tore just six weeks. all we are asking. this is what that leadership would be. wanteds what mr. boehner to do. john boehner is a decent man. do.t is what he wanted to i urge you to do what is right, honor the rich legacy of your party and if the veterans you veterans whor the gave their lives to fight for us, they say don't use us for a pawn here, open it up for all americans. >> the gentleman's time has expired. from georgia reserve? if i may.

>> thgentleman from georgia reserves. the gentleman from texas. the moste funding essential parts of the veterans administration where we have run out ofthey will money within the next 0 days and we want to ensure that don't have a thing to worry about. we don't want their families, their children, their survivors worry for one moment whether or not benefits will be there. we bring ther this bill to ther that they are taken care of. piece of mind is secured and of the area in support of veterans where we can agree. and again stress, common courtesy and common sense tell us when you have a disagreement. find the areas where you can and putgether and agree that behind you and that is all this is. it is not complicated. today tote together make sure that veterans' programs are fully funded. and i reserve the balance of my time. >> the gentleman from texas reserves. the gentleman from georgia. mr. speaker i'm pleased to yield 30 seconds to my good friend the gentleman

from south carolina mr. claiborne. >> recognized for 30 seconds. much.ank you very i'm pleased that my friend will yield me 30 seconds. take a little to time to say that i have been hearing from the veterans in my district.onal counties that have two v.a. centers. would have two of the most i effective veterans service organizations in the country. and they tell me they do to the pitted against their siblings and their spouses. not wish to be pitted against their children and their grandchildren. not take winners and losers. let's fund -- >> the gentleman's time has

expired. the gentleman from georgia. coe two v.a. centers. >> reserve. >> reserve? >> i yield myself the balance time. >> the gentleman from georgia recognized. senate'speaker, the clean bill includes all programs administered by the v.a. me repeat. all programs. the senate didn't which row gram gets funded. continues operations of the entire federal government. the other hand, the anemic houghton voting on here, the medical research is not included. construction. major medical not included. of secretary. board of appeals not included. inspector general not included. i.t. account not included. grants to state veterans homes. cemeteries. national sem it terry administration not included. games. of these let's pass a c.r. let's do our work.

work. finish our let's fund the government and put the workers back to work. mr. speaker., gentleman time hassometime expired. >> how much time is remaining? >> two minutes. to rememberportant that as we have done in the house and the senate has already done by unanimous activet we have paid our duty mill tare iary. their salaries are paid so they worry about it as they stand in defense of our freedom. we bring the legislation to the floor to be sure that past generations of the military men and women who have served this country and defended our freedom and made it possible for us to be here today, that their benefits are fully funded. have been fold straight up by the v.a. that the items that are before the house today will run out of money before the end of this month. this is not complicated. common sense and common courtesy to find the thoseof agreement and set aside and do those in priority order. we have made sure the current military men and

women are paid. we are now today making sure that our veterans of previous generations are fully compensated tore survivor benefits, for low income veterans. benefits.nt thi 9/11 g.i. we headache sure that veterans with service connected taken care of.re what we atemperatured to do is my colleague from georgia knows supported arm in arm in of veterans is to find the area where the help is needed the urgently and set that aside and get her done now before the benefits run out. and the vote today is very simple. yes, or no. will you vote to support america's veterans and honor for their sacrifice and ensure that they don't h miss a no bubbleat there is in the pipeline of the benefits that very have learned by their tore this great nation. a simple yes or no vote in veterans.f and i field back the balance of my time and urge passage of the legislation.

dehowthe senate, members to end the stalemate of the government shutdown and address the approaching debt ceiling limit. in this part of the floor debate we will hear from elizabethc senator warren and john mccain and senator cork. we are three days into a completely unnecessary completely aviddable republican shutdown and there is more talk about the inability of leaders to find common ground on central economic and fiscal issues of our time. services forion preliminary he fantastic women and new moms will be disrunedded. small businesses won't be able guarantees.ral loan

happening on is top of the idiotic sequester. drastic across-the-board spending drastic across-the-board spending cuts that have crippled meals on wheels, headstart and investments in medical research. we all know how we got here. for years now we heard a small minority in this country wail against government. when i hear the tirades from extremists in the house i'm struck by how vague the complaints are. from the rhetoric you would think they believe that any time that we, the people, come together to improve on our lives that the nation is committing some terrible wrong. from the rhetoric you would think they believe that the government that functions best is a government that doesn't function at all. so far, they haven't ended government but they have achieved the next best thing, shutting the government down. but behind all of the slogans of the tea party and the thinly

veiled calls for anarchy in washington, behind all that there is a reality. the american people don't want the extremist republicans' bizarre vision of a a future without government. they don't support it. why? because the american people know that without government we would no longer be a great nation with a bright future. the american people know that government matters. the anarchy gang is quick to malign government. when is the last time anyone called for regulators to go easier on companies that put lead in children's toys? or for food inspectors to stop checking whether the meat in our grocery stores is crawling with deadly bacteria or for the f.d.a. to ignore whether morning sickness drugs will cause horrible deformities in little babies. we never hear that. not from political leaders in washington and not from the

american people. in fact, whenever the anarchy gang makes headway in efforts to damage our government the opposite happens. after the sequester kicked in, republicans immediately turned around and called on us to protect funding for our national defense. and keep the air traffic controllers on the job. and now that the house republicans have shut down the government, holding the country hostage because of some imaginary healthcare boogeyman, republicans almost immediately turned around and called on us to start reopening parts of our government. why do they do this? because the boogeyman government is like the boogeyman under the bed. it is not real. it doesn't exist. what is real, what does exist are all of the specific important things that we as americans have chosen to do together through our

government. in our democracy, government is not some make believe thing that an independent -- has an independent will of its own. in our democracy, government is just how we describe the things that we the people have already decided to do together. it is not complicated. our government has three basic functions. provide for the national defense. put in place rules like speed limits and bank regulations that are fair and transparent. and build the things together that none of us can build alone. roads. power grids. schools. the things that give everyone a chance to succeed. we are a nation of innovators and entrepreneurs, growing small businesses and thriving big businesses. but our people succeed, our

country succeeds because we have all come together to put public institutions and infrastructure together. we all decided to pass laws and put cops on the beat so that no one steals your purse on main street or your pension on wall street. we all decided to invest in public education so that businesses have skilled workers and a kid with an idea can create the next breakthrough company. we all decided to invest in basic science so there is a great pipeline of ideas to create our future. these achievements aren't magic. they didn't occur on their own or through dumb luck. in each instance we made a choice as a people to come together. the food and drug administration makes sure that the drugs we take are antibiotics and not baking soda. the ntsa oversees crash tests.

the consumer product safety commission makes sure that baby car seats don't collapse in a crash and that toasters don't explode. we don't know who they are, but there is no question that there are americans alive today, americans healthier and stronger because of these and countless other government efforts. alive. healthier, stronger because of what we did together. >> the anarchy gang at the house can dump on the make believe version of government all they want. but when the real government fails to live up to the high expectations we have all set for it, politicians in both parties rushed outrage. why? because the american people

know that government can work and believe government should work. today, that is right, today marks the fifth anniversary of president bush signing the bank bailout into law. that financial crisis cost us upwards of $14 trillion. that is trillion with a "t." $120,000 for every american household. more than two years' worth of income for the average family. billions of dollars in retirement savings disappeared. millions of workers lost their jobs and millions more families lost their homes. in april 2011, after a two year bipartisan inquiry, the senate permanent subcommittee on investigations released a 635-page report that made it plain regulators could have and should have used their existing tools to prevent the crisis.

republicans and democrats, a bipartisan group, found strong agreement that you better believe it, government matters. the attacks on government are abstract, but the consequences of this shutdown are real. less accountability for cheaters and rule breakers. less opportunity for our children. cracks in the foundations that businesses need to succeed. and a tilted playing field that limits opportunities for all of our people. we know our government doesn't always work. we know that no institution is infallible. people make mistakes, ideas fail, and sometimes we get things wrong. our response isn't to give up. our response is to sit back and say i told you so. we are not a nation of quitters. our response, the american response is to fix it. to make government work better. a democracy is an experiment

and always evolving. we constantly redesign and reimagine and improve on what we do together. but time and time again throughout our history we have reaffirmed the simple truth that government matters. and right now, right at this moment, if you look closely, you will see that we are reaffirming it, once again. it is not an accident that the desire to shut down government is confined to one extremist faction of one political party of one chamber of congress of

one branch of government. it is not an accident that this extremist faction must resort to extreme tactics. threats to turn off the government. threats to default on our debt. threats to tank the economy to force their views on everyone else. and it is not an accident that this faction is doing everything in its power to make government appear dysfunctional. in a democracy, these hostage tactics are the last resort for those who can't win their fights through elections. can't win their fights through congress. can't win their fights through the presidency, and can't win their fights through the courts. these threats are not working and they will never work. because this is a democracy. and for more than 200 years, our democracy has defeated extremists and rejected the idea that government doesn't matter. so, mr. president, to those who have forced us to the brink, to those who rail against a make believe government, to those who seem to rejoice in anarchy, those who salivated the chance to shut down the government because their extremist views left them disconnected from the experiences of the american

people, it is time to hear a simple message. you can do your best to make government look like it doesn't work when you stop it from working. you can do your best to make government look paralyzed when you paralyze it. you can do your best to make government look incompetent through your incompetence. sooner or later the government will reopen. this is a democracy and this democracy has already rejected your views. we have already chosen to do these things together because we all know that we are stronger when we come together. and when this government reopens, when our markets are safe again, when our scientists can return to research, when our small businesses can

borrow, when veterans can be respected for their service and our flu shots resume and teachers get back to teaching our kids we will have rejected your views, once again. we are not a country of anarchists. we are not a country of pessimists whose motto is i got mine, the rest of you are all on your own. we are not a country that tolerates dangerous drugs, unsafe meat, dirty air or toxic mortgages. we are not that nation. we have never been that nation. and we will never be that nation. today, a political minority in the house that condemns government and begged for this shutdown has had its day. but once you will of the reckless and extremist factions that have come before it their day will pass and our democracy will return to the important

work that we have already chosen to do together. thank you. i suggest the absence of a quorum. the clerk will call the role. >> mr. alexander. >> madam president. >> senator from tennessee. >> i would like to ask unanimous consent. >> without objection. >> i didn't really expect to come down here and speak. i was just checking on a vote which i understand has been postponed. i do want to say this. it appears to me that the c.r. discussion and debt ceiling discussion are going to be combined maybe into one effort and i just want to say that i think that is a great opportunity for all of us. i was down here yesterday talking about the same. typically when we have dealt with issues like this, what we have tried to do together is figure out a way to strengthen our country through making

those kinds of reforms that lessen the amount of deficits we will have in the the future. that is typically what debates like this have been about. and so i think the realization that people have right now that we could well try to deal with the c.r. or the debt ceiling at the same time could move us back into the kind of constructive conversations we have had for so long around mandatory spending reforms, figuring out a way to keep spending reductions where they are but build upon them but do it in a way that is more sensible than what we have done in the past. i was beginning to get worried and i will stop in a minute. looks like the senior senator -- >> would my friend from tennessee yield for a question? >> i would be tremendously honored. >> have you seen the polls of american public opinion about what we are doing here? have you had a chance to see that? >> you know, i don't pay as much attention to polls possibly as i should. my understanding in listening

to the senior senator from arizona is that it is not particularly favorable. >> to all of us. to all of us. >> i didn't mean to individuals. >> i mean to both sides of the aisle and they don't understand isn't it true, why we haven't been able to come to some conclusion. and as the senator from tennessee just said, we now are going to have this merged into the debt limit. >> right. >> now the senator from tennessee has an extensive background in finances and isn't it true that the markets would react in a -- the world markets would react in a very, very severe fashion if we allowed the debt limit to expire? >> i think everyone understands that that is very problematic for markets. we are beginning to see some volatility now that we haven't seen in the past and i would like to respond, if i could, a little more fully to say that i think we have an opportunity. look, we have been in a place

that i think people have known we have known exactly where the discussions in the past were going to lead and that is the boxed canyon. the fact that we ended up in a place now where these two things may merge and, i know the senator from -- the senior senator from arizona has been involved in multiple conversations about this. i think we have an opportunity now to begin talking again about those things that strengthen our nation and looking at some reforms. not to do so in a chicken way, in a way where you have two cars heading at each other, but to use this like previous debt ceilings have been used in the past where adults sit down, they look at the problems our nation is facing and do some things that, candidly, in a bipartisan way people have been trying to do for a long time. i want to mention one more time. i know i did this yesterday and i know the senior senator from

arizona and myself have spent a lot of time together on this issue. but the president in his budget in april put forth mandatory reforms. many of those are pretty good. i would like to make them better. they are a good start and we have a few days, a week, two weeks here where we could actually sit down maybe and cobble things together that would meanwhile all of the acrimony existed for some time we might get back on target and back on focusing on making the country stronger. today we were in this incredible hearing on iran and i appreciated the senior senator from arizona's comments about our concerns there. one of the biggest issues we have around the world right now is just people look at us unable to do with our fiscal issues. i look at what has happened, i know it can be viewed in which

ever you want to view things, i look at it as being a glass being half full. we've got an opportunity over the next short period of time to put some good policy in place, to pass a cr, to pass the debt ceiling, and again move our country head towards being stronger. >> could i asked just one more question for my friend from tennessee? we know that sooner or later, the government will begin to function again. sooner or later. sooner or later, we will address the debt ceiling, because the united states is not going to renege on its debts, it's going to meet its obligations. so we know that those are facts. and we know that at some point, there's going to have to be a resolution. it's not going to go on forever. nothing does.

so if it argues for a solution, shouldn't we ask all parties to sit down and start discussions that you and i and others have had on an ad hoc basis, with people here and there and then conversations here and there, to start laying the groundwork. i also want to point out, i think it is important that the president of the united states, rather than saying i won't negotiate with anybody under any circumstances, to sam willing to to sitsay i'm willing down and negotiate. i'm willing to join with all parties in trying to find a way through this. we will, sooner or later. the question is, not whether we will solve these issues are not. the question really is, and i asked my friend from tennessee, how much damage is done before we solve it? right now, there are people

beginning to hurt all over america. and maybe it's not so bad right now, but it's going to get worse every single day that goes by. frankly, i think we owe the american people more than that. if somebody wants to blame me, fine. i'll take the blame. if you want to blame the senator from tennessee, put the blame on him. blame the president. it shouldn't we remember what our duties are here? >> absolutely. i'm just looking down to see what the date is. but it seems to me that we have two weeks here -- and to get to the senator's comments, hopefully a week. in other words, the quicker we resolve these issues, the better it is for our nation and for the world. at the end of the day, let's face it. what we care about most is the well-being of our citizens back home. i would agree.

we are at that moment in time where we have all realized the cr and the debt ceiling are probably going to be linked together. they are linked together, in essence. there's no question were going to resolve those. what we ought to do is sit down right now, the president of the united states, the appropriate leadership here in the house and senate, whether it is them or their proxies, but to sit down and let's figure out if there's some reforms that we can put in place to make our countries longer, and to again get back on the right topic, which is our financial strength. i think we could do that. i know i'm speaking a long time. i didn't have that much coffee today. the fact is, there are no new issues. every single issue has been litigated. there is legislative language.

there is scoring. there is not a new issue for us to talk with, relative to putting some good policy in place to move ahead. the senator from arizona has been so involved in these issues, and i just couldn't agree more -- i know the junior senator from arizona sitting in the back, and i know he has been incredibly responsible fiscally. i think we've got an opportunity, i think this body should take advantage of it, and i think the president should come to the table and take advantage of it. the leadership of the house, let's do something good for our country. let's do it in an appropriate amount of time. this put this behind us and move on as a nation. >> members of the republicans doctors congress had a hearing on a bill for nih.

with marilyn connor smith and physician andy harris. -- maryland congressman and physician andy harris. >> thank you everyone for being here this morning. when the president and the senate shutdown the government tuesday morning, i don't think they realized the impact on things like cancer trials at the nih for children with cancer. yesterday on the floor of the house, we solved that problem. the passed a bill that would restore funding and make sure the children with cancer are eligible and can be enrolled in trials at the nih. i have taken care of many children with cancer when i was in my medical practice. it is -- every parent can appreciate the seriousness of that, and the need to solve those kind of problems. that is what we did yesterday.

i hope the senate does the same today. they should. we should make sure that every child, each and every one, who has cancer, can be taken care of by the world's best at the nih. >> we are three days into this government shutdown, and every day the republicans have been working to get the government open. last night, we took action. we passed legislation to fund the nih. this is important legislation, and i remind people, in the mid to late 1990's, republicans and democrats actually came together and doubled the funding for research at nih, recognizing how important it is. we call upon democrats to join us now. let's start finding that common ground where we can start moving forward. that is where it is going to start, and then we can have a larger conversation. whether it is pediatric cancer research, whether it's diabetes, so many of the cures or treatments that are being developed, we don't want to put them on hold. we want america to continue to be the leader. i have a son who has down

syndrome. i have learned so much about the cutting-edge research and the potential, the breakthroughs that we are on the verge of discovering. let's keep that going. let's find common ground and move forward. let's get this dialogue going, the dialogue we need to have with the democrats in the senate over this as well as the larger issues related to spending, our economy, and the future of america. >> thank you. i'm going to put this in a little more personal terms. certainly yesterday we voted successfully to continue to find the nih. over 40 years ago, i have been in medical practice for over 30 years in johnson city, tennessee. over 40 years ago i was a freshman at st. jude's children's hospital. there was a four percent survival rate of children with leukemia. today it's over 90%. i remember going in a hospital as a young student and realizing

that almost 90% of those kids that i would see would die. today, 90% of them live. that meat put it to you in very -- let me put it to you in very personal terms. i medical partner and practice had a son, and his wife was in labor having their second child. his child had a seizure. the child had a childhood cancer with a metastatic tumor to his brain that had over 95% chance of dying. this was 12 years ago. that young man will graduate from high school this spring. it is those miracles you see over and over. if you are a parent, and i have delivered almost 5000 babies and several parents have had this. if your child has a condition that is one in a million, is 100%. i have looked at those tears. we need to fund the nih. they don't need to miss a day because there are parents out there across this nation that are depending on us to make sure, right now, they are waiting on a phone call.

i'm proud of our group. i implore the senate democrats to take this up and pass this much-needed legislation. >> thank you. north carolina second district. before coming to washington, being a nurse, i have seen these families. i have seen the looks on their faces when they are given hope. we have taken that hope away, and we need to replace it. i say to harry reid and the senate, bring this up for vote. don't take hope away from those families. don't take hope away from those moms. as dr. rowe has pointed out, they are waiting on that vital information. if you are a family going to the nih for care, is because you are in a critical, critical situation. you are looking for that last bit of hope, and you are looking for that treatment that will

save your child's life. childhood pediatric cancer being one of those issues, if you have ever seen the looks on a parent's face when they are told that their child has cancer, and then you take their hope away, the moment that they know they can fight for it, they will. and we have to replace that. i say to harry reid, please, of all the situation in washington right now and all the politics, let this move forward. let's get a vote in the senate. let's get it to the president. let's replace it and give hope back to those families come in because all tell you, senator reid, you will not sleep until that happens. thank you. >> indiana congressional

district four. i am pleased that i'm joining these leaders and medical professionals who have given up their practices to come help solve the problems of health care in this country. i want to premise my comments with a few things that i believe. i believe that families, faith communities, associations and neighbors can take care of us better than government programs can. but government should be there to help. i believe that science is a gift and that we should use our talents whenever possible to improve the condition of man. i believe in free enterprise and the private sector as the best, most efficient way to raise our standard of living. but i also believe there are times that the private sector cannot reasonably be expected to do the research and development needed because the issue, the syndrome, the disease, might be so rare that it is economically prohibitive. i know the story personally, as my son teddy suffers from an

extremely rare neurogenetics this order called angelman's syndrome. teddy walks real funny. he has never had a conversation with catherine or myself. probably will never speak. angels, as we call them, will get to the developmental age capacity, they say, of 18 months. kathy and i, our goal for teddy is to get him to five years. not in age, but in development. he is expected to have a full life, a long life. that is good, because another condition of angelman's syndrome is that your unnaturally happy nearly all the time.

and what a gift that is for all of us. without programs like the nih to go in and research cures, therapies, for syndromes like angelman's, teddy and all the other kids may not have the hope in ih talks about. there are only 1500 cases of angelman's syndrome in america. they be some children are misdiagnosed, we don't know. maybe there are some other solutions to this, we don't know. without the help of programs that are al -- at the nih and other private sector programs, we may never know. that is why this is so important.

this is why i asked harry reid, senate democrats, and the president himself to stop this nonsense, let us help people. let us help children, please. >> good morning. as you can see, not unlike most americans, my colleagues and i that are joining me today have been touched by disease and have a passion to do something about medical research, something i have been working on, especially in the area of electric medical research for some time. while we work out our differences here in washington, children should not be denied

treatment. we passed a bill in the house last night that would provide the nih with the necessary funding to reopen the clinical trials that give hope to errands who may not have hope otherwise when they find their kids have cancer. i believe that senator reed must take up this legislation today, for the sake of those children and their health. for five years, president obama has carried and i won, it's my way or the highway attitude. he has not reached across the aisle to republicans, who were also elected to solve the major problems facing this country. the president's to work in a bipartisan way has led us to this shutdown -- the president's refusal to work in a bipartisan way has led to the shutdown. we must restore the people's faith in our economy and their trust in government, especially before we reach our debt limit deadline in a week or so. it is time for the president and senate democrats to put partisanship aside and sit down at the table so we can work out our differences.

thank you. questions. >> 17 or 18 house republicans have said they supported the cr moving forward. why not support that bill so the nih can get funded and then fight the debt ceiling on the 17th? >> we have said the republican position is, we believe we should fund this government, but we also believe that there should not be any special treatment for anyone. that is why we believe the right solution to that is to provide for a delay of the individual mandate under the health care law. because what that says is, big business, special interests,

shouldn't get special treatment exemptions under that law. if working people don't get it. in the same vein, and perhaps with even more intensity, no way in the world should members of congress get special treatment under that law either. always got to do is come together and we can iron out the differences. but as you can see now, i guarantee you there is a majority of senators in the senate, on both sides of the aisle, that support this funding bill to provide the relief immediately to these kids and their parents who are facing these dire circumstances. >> how are you picking and choosing what to get funding first? >> we are going to go forward was trying to address situations that are in critical stages. these parents are at a critical point. these are clinical trials. they somehow have been determined not essential by the nih.

this is life-saving stuff. we've got other areas that we will bring forward today to try to address the critical things that are going on in this country. all this can be resolved if we can sit down and talk. that is how the american people expect them and their families to work out differences. it's no different here. we should sit down and have a discussion. but because there is an insistence on no negotiations, no talking, my way or the highway, we are here. >> the nih budget was cut about $1.2 billion last year because of sequestration. the labor hhs bill that was drafted by the appropriations committee cut it another roughly 20%, about $6 billion. are you saying now that there has been a change of thinking about the role of government and how much money should be going to those agencies e >> you know

i have been insistent on making as a priority funding for the nih. and specifically, funding for pediatric medical research. were exactly the reasons that todd said. when you have somebody young and have a whole life that potentially could be ahead of that child, i don't think there are many things as a priority for us as human beings with this federal government to put an emphasis on an fund. i would say again, you look to see, and asked the democrats in this house whether they support a clean cr with sequester or not. this assumption that everyone is operating on that somehow there is unanimity on the democratic side, that they would support a cr at sequester level, is an assumption that i question. so again, we are trying to find

the things that we can agree on them, and where there is a majority vote in both houses. certainly, pediatric medical research, medical research for clinical trials, is something, given the circumstances, that i think we ought to get done. harry reid ought to take it up today. thank you very much. grace do you think that you should keep your paycheck during >> president obama visited a construction company in maryland to talk about how the shutdown is affecting small businesses. this is 35 minutes. >> hello, everybody.

good to see all of you. please have a seat. hello, rockville. recognizing by three public servants that fight hard every day for maryland families and businesses. chris van hollen is here. congressman john delaney is here. and we have the acting head of the small business administration. [applause] i also want to give a big thanks for being such gracious hosts. i had a chance to meet them at the white house. [applause]

now i know where they got their good looks from because i had a chance to meet mom and dad and their beautiful families. i am so glad to be here. i had a chance to learn about their story. when their parents brought them to -- from portugal to america 40 years ago, no one in the family spoke a word of english. that did not stop their father and mother from having a big dream. believing that if they work hard, they could get ahead and even though they never had any schooling, maybe their daughters could go to college. in america, you could make it if you tried. that is what they believed. they started their own construction company with a pickup truck and the wheelbarrow. 14, they begand

to help, cleaning tools, translating documents. they became the first and their family to go to college. after graduating, i started their own business. -- they started their own business. today, it is a $60 million company with 250 and louise. -- 250 employees. [applause] i understand you are opening your fourth office at the end of this month. is what america is all about. you start off and maybe you do not have a lot, but you willing to work hard. you put in the time. a betterble to pass on life to your family, your children, and your grandchildren. hows good news that after

hard the construction industry got hit during the recession, things are starting to get a little better. remember it was just five years ago that our economy was in a freefall, businesses were shedding hundreds of thousands of jobs every single month. of recession cost millions americans their jobs, their homes, their savings. ,oday, over the last 3.5 years instances have added 7.5 million jobs. -- illnesses have added 7.5 million jobs. have added 7.5 million jobs. the housing market is healing, which means construction is improving. the auto industry is back. america will be the number one energy producer in the world to share. -- the number one energy producer in the world this year. [applause]

more small businesses have gotten loans so they can grow and hire. that is part of what allowed this company to grow. [applause] we still have a long way to go. we still have a lot of work to do, especially to rebuild the middle class, but we are making progress. the reason i am here, we cannot afford to threaten that progress right now. right now, hundreds of thousands of americans, hard-working americans, suddenly are not receiving their paycheck. they are worrying about missing their rent or their mortgage or even making ends meet. we can all relate to that.

with all the bills that might be mounting up. that is what is happening right now to hundreds of thousands of americans across the country. companies like this one worry that their businesses will be disrupted because in an area like maryland and virginia, where there are lot of federal workers, you do not know how that will impact the economy. veterans, seniors, women, they are worrying that the services they depend on will be disrupted, too. , this time it is is not because of a once-in-a- lifetime recession. this is not happening because of some financial crisis. of a happening because reckless republican shutdown in washington. [applause]

we have all seen the monuments closed, we have heard about services denied, we have heard about benefits delayed. the impact of the shutdown goes way beyond those things on television. those hundreds of thousands of americans, a lot of whom live around here, do not know when they will get their next paycheck. that means stores and restaurants do not know if they will have as many customers. across the country, you have farmers and small business owners who deserve a long, but they are being left in the lurch -- who deserve a loan, but they are being left in the lurch. the sba gives a billion dollars of loans a month to small businesses.

right now, those cannot be processed. veterans who deserve our support are getting less help. little kids who deserve a head home from been sent the safe places where they learn and grow every single day. their families have to scramble to figure out what to do. the longer this goes on, the worse it will be. it makes no sense. the american people elected their representatives to make their lives easier, not harder. there is one way out of this reckless and damaging republican shutdown. congress has to pass a budget that funds our government with no partisan strings attached. [applause]

i want everyone to understand what is happening. sometimes when this gets reported on, everybody thinks, both sides are squabbling. neither side is behaving properly. the republicans passed a temporary budget for two months at a funding level that we think is way too low because we are not providing help for more small businesses, doing more to rebuild our infrastructure, but we said, we're still trying to figure out this budget, we are prepared to take the republican budget level that they proposed. it with nopassed strings attached. not because it had everything

the democrats wanted. it had very little. let's make sure other people are not hurt while negotiations are still taking place. that passed the senate. we know there are a number of republicans and immigrants to vote in the house of rep or -- and democrats to vote in the house of representatives for the same thing. enough today that if the speaker of the house john boehner let the bill get on the vote,for an up or down , the shutdownman would in today. -- end today. the only thing keeping the government shutdown, the only thing preventing people from going back to work in basic research starting back up, and small business owners getting thingloans, the only

preventing that from happening in the next five minutes is that speaker john boehner will not let the bill get a yes or no vote because he does not want to anger the extremists in his party. that is all. that is what this whole thing is about. have heard a lot from congressional republicans saying, i do not want the shutdown. there is a simple way to prove it. send the bill to the floor and let everybody vote. it will pass. send me the bill and i will sign it and the shutdown will be over and we can get back to the business of governing and helping the american people. it could happen in the next half hour. national parks, monuments,

offices could reopen immediately . benefits and services would resume again. hundreds of thousands of dedicated public servants who are worrying about whether they will be able to pay the mortgage , they would start going back to work right away. my simple message today, call a vote. call a vote. and like the floor every individual member of congress make up their own mind. show the american people, are you for a shutdown or not? if you are for a shutdown, you will not vote for it. we do not have to twist anybody's arms. the american people will be clear about who is responsible for the shutdown. this is something that does not make sense.

thatroblem we've got is there is one faction of one party in one half of one branch of government that has refused to allow the yes or no vote en masse -- unless they get some concessions in exchange for doing what they're supposed to be doing anyway. in exchange for doing what everybody else agrees is necessary and they will not agree to end the shutdown until they get their way. exaggerating,i am but one tea party republican called the idea of a shutdown wonderful. another said that a shutdown is exactly what we wanted. they got exactly what they wanted. now they are trying to figure out how to get out of it.

yesterday, one house republicans said, and i am quoting. i did not make this up. we are not going to be disrespectful, we have to get something out of this, and i do not know what that even is. [laughter] quote.s a disrespected, we have to get something out of this, and i do not know what that even is. think about that. you have already gotten the opportunity to serve the american people. there is no higher honor than that. [applause] you have artie gotten the opportunity to help businesses like -- already got the opportunity to help businesses

like this one, workers like these. the american people are not in the mood to give you a goodie bag to go with it. what you get is our intelligence professionals adding back on the job. -- getting back on the job. what you get are little kids back into head start. what you get our national parks and monuments opening again. what you get is the economy not stalling. what you get our workers continuing to be hired. that is what you get. that is what you should be asking for. take a vote and end the shutdown right now. [applause] if you are being disrespected, it is because of the attitude. that you deserve to get

something for doing your job. everybody here just does their job, right? here and inorking the middle of the day, you stop and say, i want to get something, i do not know exactly what i'm going to get, that i will stop working. i will shut down the whole plant until i get something. you would get fired. [applause] right? you have artie gotten -- you have already gotten hired, you are getting a paycheck. you are also getting the pride of doing a good job and contributing to a business and looking out for your fellow

workers. that is what you are getting. it should not be any different for a member of congress. unlike past shutdowns, i want to make sure everybody understands. the tendency is to say both sides are at fault. this one has nothing to do with deficits or budgets. our deficits are falling at the fastest pace in 60 years. we have cut the deficit in half since i took office. [applause] some of the things the republicans are asking for right now would add to our deficit. seriously. this is not about spending and this is not about fiscal responsibility. this whole thing is about one thing -- the republican

obsession with dismantling the affordable care act. this is all this is about. that seems to be the only thing to unite the republican party these days. through this whole fight, they have said, the american people do not want obama care so we should shut down the government to repeal it. here is the problem. the government is now shutdown, but the affordable care act is still open for business. evening -- even accomplishing what they say they want to accomplish. marketplace, the first two days they opened, the , millions of americans made it clear that they do want health insurance.

more than 6 million people visited the website the day it opened. 200,000 people picked up the phone and called the call center. in kentucky alone, this is a state where i did not win kentucky -- [laughter] i know they were not doing it for me. applied for new insurance plans in the first two days. are finding out when they go on the website, they are saving a lot of money. or getting health insurance for the first time. i would think if it was going to be such a disaster, it was going to be so unpopular, they would not have to shut down the government. they could wait. there would be, like, two people

on the website. everybody would vote for a candidate who would want to repeal it. -- it is not as if republicans had not had a chance to debate the law. theassed the house and senate and the supreme court deemed constitutional. you remember all of this. the affordable care act has gone through every single democratic ross s, all three -- process, all three branches of government. it is the law of the land and it is here to stay. if there are specific things you think can improve the law, to make it even better for people, i am happy to talk to you about that. shutdown willan

not change the fact that millions of people need insurance and the affordable care act is being implemented. a shutdown does not change that. all it is doing is making it harder for ordinary americans to get by and harder for businesses to create jobs at a time when our economy is starting to gain traction again. you have heard republicans say obama care will hurt the economy, but the economy has been growing. the single greatest threat to our economy is for businesses like this one -- it is not the affordable care act, it is the -- they need to move on to the actual business of governing. that is what will help the economy. [applause] that is what will put people back to work.

more than that, the house needs to stop careening from one crisis to another. have you noticed that? have one of these crises every three months. have you noticed? you keep on saying, this will be the last one will stop they will not do this again. and then they do it again -- you keep on thinking, this will be the last one. they will not do this again. and they do it again. it does not mean that they are wrong on every single issue. i'm am happy to negotiate with you on anything. negotiate i putting the gun to the other person's head. or putting the gun to the

american people's head by threatening a shutdown. or worse yet, by putting a gun to the american people's head by threatening a shutdown. by the way, even after congress reopens your government it is going to have to turn around quickly and do something else and that is pay america's bills. i want to spend a little time on this. it is something called raising the debt ceiling and it has a lousy name. so people end up thinking i don't think we should raise our debt ceiling because it sounds like we are raising our debt. that is not what this is about. it doesn't cost taxpayers a single dime. it doesn't grow the deficits by a single dime. it doesn't allow anybody to spend any new money whatsoever. it is not something that raises our debt. what it does is allow the u.s. treasury, the u.s. government, to pay the bills that congress has already racked up. i want you to think about this.

if you go to a restaurant, you order a meal, you eat it, maybe you have some wine. maybe you have two glasses of wine. great meal. and then you look at the tab, it is pretty expensive and you decide i'm not going to pay the bill. well, you are not saving money. you are not being frugal. you are just a deadbeat, right? if you buy a house and you decide this month i would rather go on vacation somewhere so i'm not going to pay my mortgage. you didn't just save yourself some money. you are just going to get foreclosed on. so you don't save money by not paying your bills. you don't reduce your debt by not paying your bills. all you are doing is making yourself unreliable and hurting your credit rating.

and you will start getting those phone calls and those notices in the mail and next time you try to borrow, somebody is going to say you don't pay your bills, you are a deadbeat. well, the same is true for countries. the only thing that the debt ceiling does is to let the u.s. treasury pay for what congress has already bought. that is why it is something that has been routine. traditionally it is not a big deal. congress has raised it 45 times since ronald reagan took office. just kind of a routine part of keeping the government running. the last time the house republicans flirted with not raising the debt ceiling back in 2011, some of you remember this, our economy took a bad hit. our country's credit rating was downgraded for the first time. just like you would be downgraded if you didn't pay your mortgage.

this time, they are threatening to actually force the united states to default on its obligations for the very first time in history. now you will hear john boehner and mitch mcconnell and the other republicans say we don't want to default. but everybody knows, it is written about in all of the papers that their basic theory is, okay, if the shutdown doesn't work then we are going to try to get some extra concessions out of the president. we will put a long laundry list, all the things that we want that we can't get passed on our own and if we don't get it, we will tell him we won't vote to pay the country's bills, we will let the country default. i'm not just making this up. it is common knowledge. every reporter here knows it. i want you to understand the consequences of this.

as reckless as a government shutdown is, as many people are being hurt by a government shutdown, an economic shutdown that results from default would be dramatically worse. in a government shutdown, social security checks still go out on time. in an economic shutdown, if we don't raise the debt ceiling, they don't go out on time. in a government shutdown, disability benefits still arrive on time. in an economic shutdown, they don't. in a government shutdown, millions of americans, not just federal workers, everybody faces real economic hardship. in an economic shutdown, falling pensions and home values and rising interest rates on things like mortgages and student loans, all those things risk putting us back into a bad recession, which

will affect this company and those workers and all of you. and that is not -- that is not my analysis. that is every economist out there is saying the same thing. we have never done it before. and you know, the united states is the center of the world economy. so if we screw up, everybody gets screwed up. the whole world will have problems. which is why generally nobody has ever thought to actually threaten not to pay our bills. it would be the height of irresponsibility. that is why i said this before. i'm going repeat it. there will be no negotiations over this. the american people are not pawns in some political game. you don't get to demand some ransom in exchange for keeping the government running. you don't get to demand ransom in exchange for keeping the

economy running. you don't get to demand ransome for doing your most basic job. the sooner that the republicans in congress heed the warnings not just of me or democrats like chris and john, heed the warnings of the chamber of commerce. and c.e.o.'s and economists and a whole lot of republicans outside of congress. they are all saying do this. they are all saying to congress do your job. and the sooner you do your job, the less damage you will do to our economy and the businesses like this one. pass a budget. end the government shutdown. pay our bills. prevent an economic shutdown. just vote and end the shutdown and you should do it today so we can get back to growing this economy, creating jobs and strengthening our middle class. [ applause ]

let me close just by sharing a story i heard as i was getting ready to come here today. maybe you already know it. two years ago, a mulch factory next to m. luis' main equipment storage facility caught fire and most of the company's equipment was destroyed, causing millions of dollars in damage. even while the fire was still burning, dozens of employees rushed over to the facility and tried to save as much as they could. some of you were probably there. and when they finished cutting firelines and spraying down the perimeter of their own property, they went over to help their neighbors. and afterwards even though all of the employees here at m. luis are on salary, even though the company had just taken a big financial hit, they paid

everyone overtime and along with each check included a personalized note saying how much they appreciated the efforts of the workers. sadalia said everybody says the biggest asset to a business is employees. some people mean it. some people don't. we actually do. so this company right here is full of folks who do right by each other. they don't try to see if they can work every angle. they don't lie about each other. they don't try to undermine each other. they understand they are supposed to be on the same team. you pitch in and look out for one another. when somebody gets knocked down you help them back up. you don't ask what can you get out of this?

because you know that success doesn't depend on one of you, it deends on all of you working together. america is no different. i see that same spirit in some cities and towns that i visit all across the country. it is alive and well all across the country. it is alive and well in this community where restaurants and businesses are rallying around the regulars. and they are looking out for all of the dedicated public servants furloughed. saying you know what, while you are on furlough, come on, we will give you a burger, we will give you a meal, we will help you out. that is the american ideal. we are working together. looking out for one another. meeting our responsibilities. doing our jobs. thinking about future generations. and that is why i believe ultimately reason and common sense will prevail. that spirit at some point will

infiltrate washington as well. because i think the american people are so good and so decent they are going to get better behavior from their government than this. and we will once again make sure this is a country where you can make it if you try. thank you, everybody. god bless you. and god bless the united states ♪of america. ♪

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>> senate democrats also addressed the shutdown's effect on small businesses at a capitol hill news conference. we will your from business owners affected by the shutdown. senate small business committee chairman mary landrieu kicks off this 35 minute briefing. >> good morning to all of you on day three of the tea party shutdown of the united states government, and all of our many private sector partners that are hard-hit and significantly hurt by their irresponsible and reckless and radical behavior. a few days ago, because of their actions to deny a vote on the , with a the house bipartisan senate resolution that would keep the government operating in keep our small businesses working, they have sent moms and dads, aunts and uncles, cousins and friends home

without a paycheck, without any idea of what is going to happen. time insad and shameful washington dc, and a heart wrenching time around our nation. they are now taking their anarchy and extortion from capitol hill to main street. main streets in their own districts, where the real pain is beginning to be felt. small businesses that derive their livelihood from businesses surrounding many of our parks and monuments, small businesses that thousands surround our medical institutions, our alonery institutions, let buildings that are all over the country that have federal employees that used to be in many of no longer, and

these businesses support that activity, whether it is parking lots, restaurants, dentist offices, starbucks, etc. there are many stories in louisiana and here around, but one story was about a waitress at fort polk. i am sure she doesn't make much more than the minimum wage and maybe on a good day she gets tips. she was on the news last night saying that after we had all led a successful effort to keep fort polk on the third-largest training facility in the nation, open, after the threat of sequester and the threat of the defense contract constricting that is going on, after we survive that, she doesn't think she's going to be able to survive the tea party recklessness, because no one is coming to the restaurant where she works. so she is already feeling her

tipped wage go down, and she said last night thomas she think she may lose her job. republican result of minority tea party that think this is a way to run a government, run a nation. they are wrong, and their actions are hurtful. that me give you just a couple of facts about small businesses around the country, and then i'm going to call on my two extraordinary colleagues who have been strong voices in their states, in their region, and nationally for small business. senator shaheen and senator hi cam, thanks for being with us this morning. the federal government, which is one of the largest employers in the world, spends $400 billion a year with the private sector. i want you to write this number down. day,is a billion dollars a with private companies, some of

whom are represented here. those contracts have been put at risk by tea party shenanigans. , smallar, the sba business administration, through its main programs, through a very difficult time, might i add, this has not been -- the recession has been very hard, sba, hasheless, the used its little muscles that it loansd pushed out 53,000 when a lot of banks were saying no to people walking in their front door, we have no money to lend you. the sba made it possible, supporting 571 thousand jobs last year. those jobs are at risk every day . please write this in the press. there are 150 loans that are not going to small business every day. $93 million, shutdown. so we are on day three, you can

do the math. equalssiana, that 500,000 dollars of capital not flowing to louisiana's businesses because of the tea party shutdown. gulf coast bank, one of the largest lenders in our region, they report as of yesterday morning, 1.8 million and small business loans are on hold due to the tea party shutdown. that is one bank. cap 7000 in america. 2000 that belong to this program. so this math is looking worse and worse every day. when i turn it over to jeanne shaheen, who is a former governor and the chief economic officer of the state as governor , and now as a senator on the small business committee, i would like her to shed some light on how difficult this is going to be for many small businesses in your state, and then will have comments from

some of the small business owners here. much foryou very calling attention to the very real challenges that are being faced by small business, and thank you to all the small businesses who are represented here today, for joining us. the fact is, the consequences of the shutdown on the small businesses of our country are very real. we are seeing this in new --pshire i'm aware we have most people in new hampshire work for small businesses, where we know that about two out of three jobs that are being created him as we continue to get out of this recession am are going to be created by small businesses. they cannot afford the consequences of this government shut down. we are hearing from some of those individual businesses in my office from new hampshire. those is a small,

innovative company that makes carbon nanotube's. it is really revolutionary technology. he told me that once the contracts were shut down, and i want to just quote from him, when i talk to their ceo, he said our income will drop to essentially zero. we would burn are very thin cash reserves, and when that money is burned and is not able to be replaced, so our basic financial liability can be irrevocably damaged, even after the crisis passes -- this is the thing, this doesn't end for small businesses after we get the government up and running again. this is a business like so many others in new hampshire that have already been infected by sequestration by those cuts, and now they are getting a double whammy because of the government shut down. another new hampshire business called me to express his

deep frustration with what is going on here, for failing to pass a continuing resolution. satellite phone technologies help federal agencies meet critical needs, and with the shutdown, as we have said, everything is up in the air. they are not certain what this means for their government contracts, and as a result, their cash flows are in certain. their line of credit with the bank is uncertain, and their future is uncertain. we heard from a small mortgage lending company in hooksett, new hampshire. right now, they can close some of their new loans, because they cannot get the necessary tax information to verify their borrowers income. so not only is the mortgage lender's business being held up by this uncertainty, but so our home sales. we've got a housing market that just is beginning to recover. senator landrieu talked about

the sba lending impact from the shutdown. well, in new hampshire, sba loans lester helped 630 small businesses get access to over $130 million in loans. so this is having a real impact across the board or our businesses, for their families. it's bad for the economy, and it's bad for the country. it doesn't need to be this way. what we need is for the house to come to the table and be willing to put the bill on the floor that would run the government and to get a clean vote. the votes are there to pass it. it is time now to bring the bill up and pass it, to get this government open again. i'm very pleased to be joined a new member of the senate who is a great advocate for small businesses. herhas a lot of them in home state of north dakota. >> thank you so much. during the time that i was an

i served oncial something called the industrial commission. we ran the bank of north dakota. what we did at the bank of north dakota is we participated on a regular basis with the small business administration to provide economic opportunity to it pays offs, and huge dividends for our country. it tells our country, look, this is the bedrock of our economic activity. and now we have a situation in washington dc where if the federal government applied for an sba loan, they wouldn't qualify. think about that. we would not qualify for an sba loan. am are one, we haven't demonstrated any amount of stability here. instead, we keep manufacturing crises, going from point to point to point and not getting things done. the same things we expecting all the small businesses to do and running in an effective manner, do the right thing by their employees, but yet we don't do that here in washington dc.

it is the worlds worst example of how to run a government, and here we are. the great challenge we have today is, anytime you hear a concern or complaint, it seems like there is another resolution over in the house to address the concern that's gotten headlines. but who's going to stand for the small business folks? who is going to stand up for that bedrock of the american economy, in a time when we are relying on them to bolster and build our fragile economy back? who stands for them e there is not a resolution over there that opens up sba. there is not a resolution over there that helps them. there's not a resolution over there that deals with head start, and any of these emerging businesses. many of these businesses rely on head start, to have that opportunity to get your kids a great education while they are trying to build the future of their state in their country and their businesses. let's stop the nonsense. let's stop behaving inappropriately p relet start

finding government the right way, and let's start moving toward solving our long-term problems. if you think about the situation we have today, we are having a debate about a resolution that would fund government for six weeks. coming on five weeks now. that is what the debate is about. instead of the long-term systemic reforms that we all know we need to have, and we have so polarized opinions and points of view that we need to figure out a way to bring it back together. but it cannot be by piecemeal in a budget resolution. it got to be right -- by recognizing we are all in this together. there are reasons why we have programs like sba. if you jeopardize those and don't recognize the value of those, we will be affecting the bedrock of the american economy. so i'm very proud to join with chairwoman landrieu and my great , andd, governor shaheen with these wonderful small business people who are building our economy and building a

future for our people and for our employees. we hope that efforts like this and your speaking out will make a huge difference in terms of our results here. john, who isroduce the ceo of a small business majority, and he will speak on the impact of economic security. >> thank you for your tremendous leadership on small business issues, and thank you to all the small business owners who are here, who represent a tiny fraction, a microcosm of the 28 million small business owners across this country. i am a longtime entrepreneur and ceo and founder of small business majority. we are and advocacy organization with offices in seven states plus washington dc, and working with our 85 strategic partners across the country, we have a network of over 300,000 small businesses.

we also conduct scientific research into key issues affecting small business owners. i appreciate the opportunity to talk about the government shutdown from of small lost in the political theater. there has been a lot said about the political gamesmanship around the shutdown. this is not a game. fors a not -- not a game our nations small business owners. they are generally frightened for what can happen as a result of this shutdown. the shutdown creates tremendous uncertainty which diminishes consumer confidence. we know from our recent polling that the number one concern of continuednesses is consumer confidence as we continue to pull out of the recession. there are people, companies there to buy their products and services. anything that scares consumers, wreaks havoc on small business's model lines. happening with a disproportionate effect on many