i cannot parse or explain every quote that appears in every article that you all right. -- all write. the president believes the government ought to be reopened now. there isdent believes an opportunity for the speaker of the house to do that but putting on the floor of the house the so-called clean cr, and we are very confident, as are many republicans, that it would receive a significant majority vote in the house. that is the president's position. and i do not think we could have been more clear about that, and that is the position the president took in his meeting with that speaker of the house as well as democratic leaders. it is the position he took walking past some of you on west executive drive and pennsylvania

avenue. it is the position he will take until the republicans do the right thing, right? why not just open the government at funding levels that they were very content with and that demands ofesents the the president. that is our position. >> what about the decision of the security council -- will that anyway affect the push by the administration to raise america's profile in asia? >> the cancellation is another consequence of the house force aans'decisions to shutdown of the government, and it is completely avoidable of a completely avoidable shutdown. to advance u.s. leadership and interests in the largest in theg region

world, the president is committed to the pivot of u.s. policy toward a jeff -- asia, towards this important region of the world come and he looks forward to work with allies and partners in asia-pacific region and returning to the region at a later date. secretary kerry will lead delegations to indonesia and brunei in place of the president. >> your opening comments today, that the factions against iran and syria would be affected by the government shutdown? place people who are in normally under normal circumstances have been furloughed. the people who handle this important function for the united states government in advancing u.s. national security interests and the national security interests of our allies and partners around the world have been furloughed. consequence ofe

this wholly unnecessary decision by house republicans to shut down the government because they are not getting whatever day it is, whatever partisan demand it is that they are asking for. >> there is no change to the sanctions as a result of that? to address theve sanctions questions specifically to the office. what i read in a great deal of detail is what the people in do and why to and -- it is important for them to return to work. >> speaker boehner is denying pass a that he would debt ceiling limit. [indiscernible] >> that means the speaker of the house has declared it is his position that if house republicans, rigidly tea party republicans, do not get satisfaction on their partisan wish list they will allow the united states of america to default on the first time in our

history, with harmful consequences to middle-class families everywhere. that is an astounding position to take, and it is disappointing. >> what is the next step then? >> here is something that i think would make it easier to understand how the president views this. from the beginning, the president has made clear what his position is, and it has not changed, and it will not change. we have seen a variety of positions and tactics and strategies and indications efforts from republicans -- and communication efforts from a couple tons to explain why they're shutting down the government, to explain their default. the president tossed position is clear. to fund the government and pay

our bills. no demands, no strings attached, and they ought to do the same. they ought to simply open the the cr on thest house that would get republican votes as well as democratic votes. the president would sign it today. people would go back to work tomorrow. if they acted really fast, some could go back this afternoon. and then when it comes to the debt ceiling, it is highly irresponsible to announce to the world, a world that depends on the united states economy, depends on the full faith and credit of our economy, depends on the bed rock fact that the united states always pays our bills and on time and say that all of that i will risk if i do not get what i want. if my tea party republicans do not get what they want, and faction of one house of one branch of government holding

everybody else hostage, holding the american people hostage, holding families across the country hostage. when it comes to the debt ceiling, -- >> we are going to leave the briefing right now to bring you live coverage of the senate democratic leadership. they will talk to the press about the impact of this government shutdown. if you would like to continue watching the white house butfing, tune into c-span3m now live coverage of senate democrats. >> last night the president announced he would be not taking that trip to asia for the two summits he had. the shutdown is obviously unfair to the american people him embarrassing to the american people, especially on the world important

international events the president had been planning to attend for a long time. he is being hamstrung in his efforts to keep america competitive, secure because republicans simply are unwilling to allow us to open the government. this kind of a basic function of what we do, while the government forward. the shutdown is hurting our economy. i had a long elevon a conversation today with elected officials in nevada, local officials, and they're concerned. the state of nevada is losing revenue as a result of the shutdown, as all states are losing revenue. this is not just an economic issue. it is an issue about national security. is government shutdown hurting our ability to enforce the sanctions on iran, to gather

intelligence, to operate our armed forces, just to name a few. the treasury department has furloughed 90% of the employees in the office of terrorism financing and intelligence. , and theyeir charge are not able to fulfill that. of the 179 employees in the night states governments's sanctioning agencies, their only 75 working today. our ability to and for sanctions to stop sanction eva meters is being hampered by the shutdown. 72% of the intelligence workforce has been idled by the government shutdown. listen to this, everyone. when i was shown these figures this morning, it was really incredible what has happened. ph.d's, 4000 computer

science, and computer this it's not working. even the fbi director board his agency would have to limit furloughed days just to meet the painful sequester. now it is worse than that. there our workers still going to work at the fbi without pay. the chief of staff, retired, shutdownimpacts of the impacts everyday operations. the longer it goes on, he said, the worse it goes every day, we are losing capability. ,o every day these courageous brave men and women coming to work, are doing so without pay. yesterday we witnessed an event here on capitol hill. for 16 blocks.

weapons were being discharged. 20 bullets. a number of those people are working without pay. thepeaker boehner could and shutdown today if he chose. he is sitting on the one bill that could and the shutdown, refusing to let the house vote. let's remind everyone why you for a while the republicans try to cover why they were closing the government and threatening to not extend the debt. obamacare. as i say to my friend john boehner but it is not about you and it is not about harry reid. it is about our national security. these menht thing for and women and and the shutdown now. >> thank you, senator reid.

24 hours ago we faced a potential threat to our own personal security on capitol hill. the men and women of the capitol police went forward to protect us. sadly, a woman lost their life in the process, but they were doing their duty, they were doing their duty, and we should respect them for it, and to respect them we should pay them. it is one thing for the speaker to the a tweet message capitol police acknowledging their bravery. it is another thing for him to acknowledge and respect what they are doing for us by paying them. here they go without pay to work every day. part of the tea party shutdown of this government. as senator reed said earlier, that is not the whole story by a long shot. is a lot more involved in this. to think that we have laid off 72% of our civilian intelligence employees at this moment of time

in our history is unthinkable. to think that 90% of those who are responsible for and for sharing the iran sanctions to stop the development of nuclear ispons have been furloughed unthinkable. boehner may think he can declare a time out of the war on terrorism, but he cannot. either can the tea party. this threat to america continues, and this notion that we are going to lay off and maybe not pay others who are protecting us, both here and overseas, is not in the best interest of america's national security. let me tell you, it reaches beyond the federal payroll. murphyd to senator chris of connecticut yesterday, and they are facing a situation that he has publicly announced year through the [indiscernible] and their decision to lay off 1500 salaried workers and up to 4000 total workers because of the lack of department of defense inspectors on the production lines.

here are 4000 people out of work, not federal employees, because the decision the tea party republicans to shut down the government. now we have learned every time we go to the floor and tell these stories, the tea party says we will make an exception. maybe they should compel the floor of the senate or house and read the directory of all the federal agencies. would they open the government then? these men and women are doing important work to keep the government going forward. it is an embarrassment that we have reached this point, and that tea party republicans have reached this. it is going to damaged our economy. we will find ourselves moving backwards instead of forwards at the expense of good jobs in america. well, thank you to harry and date. i want to make three points. the first relates to what happened yesterday. i spoke this morning to officer

carter. he is the police officer who was injured. of the 24-year veteran capitol hill police force, and it looks like thank god he will be back on the job in two days. but here's the point. these people were not furloughed , because they are obviously involved with our safety. but the fact that they were not getting paid and are not getting paid did not for one little jot interfere with their professionalism and diligence, and they did a great job. and that little link of the belittlingernment all federal employees, including officer carter. the second point i want to make is related to security. some americans are saying it did not affect me, it affects every american because our national security has decreased because of the tea party shutdown. harry mentioned the intelligence

agencies, and senator feinstein has talked about those where 72% of the people are not working. these are not slackers, these are people doing their job. they are diligent, hard-working people were taking us, and the area have chosen to focus on here is iran and it sanctions. we have finally seen something of a change at least in the way iran talks. we do not know if it will lead to some good, but it is an opening, and that occurred because of the sanctions, the legislation that passed both chambers, but the diligence of the men and women who are enforcing the sanctions. there are all kinds of rogues who want to get around the sanctions. they look for every which way to do it. but our federal government employees in the treasury department have done a great job. i want to reiterate harry's numbers to show how bear naked

those offices are. the office of intelligence and analysis come at the office of financial crimes and enforcement together have 30 of their 345 employees. the office of terrorist has 10%, intelligence one employee is left. they had 10. and the treasury department's office of foreign assets control, the primary office for enforcing the sanctions and punishing those who violate the sanctions, is operating with a skeletal staff. so just at the time when sanctions are whiting and maybe iran is giving up the ghost of nuclear weapons, the tea party lightens those sanctions far more than any negotiation could do. it lightens those sanctions and the rogue people who want to sell oil to iran, who want to trade with iran are back in business.

arehis is another -- there so many bad aspects of the tea party shutdown. i think i know what senator cruz will do tomorrow, because we mentioned iran sanctions today. he will put a bill on the floor that says fund these offices, and maybe if we talked about middle-class families getting loans, theyudent will put a go on before to do that. it is getting ridiculous. to our something to say republican colleagues. today they're talking point is let's talk. talk, butare happy to talking is not going to undo the damage to our economy and to so many american citizens with the tea party shutdown. point leaves out what should be said first --

just vote. once they vote and bring back the government, workers and all the people who are vital to our security and our health and our well-being, then let's talk. so we want to modify the republican talking point today. we do not want to change it. talkingto say you're point is missing a vital -- your talking point is missing a vital piece. just vote and then let's talk. over the past week i have been in constant touch with the omb on the aspects of the shutdown, and one thing i have followed closely as former chairman of the senate veterans affairs midi and eight daughter of a world war ii veteran is the impact this could have on our nation's heroes. i want to share information on how many veterans will be

impacted if this continues into the weeks ahead. on november 1, the next date that checks will go out from the veteransto 5 million may not receive the benefits they have earned and they rely on to make ends meet. over 700,000 young veterans, many of them who have fault alterable tours, will not get the benefits that they are using now to transition back to civilian careers. there are also 725,000 veterans with benefit claims pending at see theirho will only way time increase. this is absolutely unacceptable. our nation's veterans are waiting and they are watching. now i know that my report conference in the house and senator cruz think they have a solution to every problem that has been created by the shutdown that they created, and i know

the house is going to spend the weekend giving out exemptions like oprah winfrey gives out ars, but here's the truth -- anyone who has worked on veterans issues will tell you, program orne agency that provides the benefits that all of our veterans rely on. it is a variety of programs all across our government -- jobs,ss grants, veterans we have hundreds of thousands of veterans that are federal orders who are at home today on furlough. we also have nearly 500 capitol police officers who are current or former military working without pay. so it is not as simple as house republicans or senator cruz think it is, and veterans understand that. i just saw a story that included some interviews with our veterans who are visiting the

world war ii memorial. unsurprisingly to me, then he said that veteran-specific measures were not enough. and 87-year-old veteran kansas, said, "i think it should all be reopened." another veteran who served in the navy, said, " i think the whole work should be open. -- open. while it can be. it is up to speaker boehner. the senate has passed a short- term bill to open up the government and and this manufactured crisis. we know there is a bipartisan majority in the house that now supports that approach. all speaker boehner has to do is let them vote. this is not the time to talk about opening up the government. it is the time to actually do it. no more gimmicks, no more games. stop scrambling to make it look like they care about families and communities that are

impacted. do something to help them. once the house passes our bill him once they end this crisis and stop threatening the country with another, then we would sit down with the republicans and work towards what we have been trying to work for now more than six months, a long-term budget deal. i've been starting to try to start a conference now for over six months. as you know, it has been blocked every time. yes, let's talk, but first, let's act about let's end this crisis. >> aside from the meeting that you had at the white house, have you walked the 100 yards or office tohe speaker's talk to possible solutions, or has he come to your office? i have said and i will tell

you again, i am not sure anyone comprehends, unless senator mikulski and murray, how difficult it would be to agree to a clean cr. it took several days. to convince murray and mikulski and the rest of the democratic senators that we would accept $70 billion less than what we passed on the senate floor budget. toid that, and in good faith compromise negotiations i made with speaker boehner would bear fruit. i lived up to my end of the bargain. he did not. that he tried to send us over a clean cr. the all know that he tried to have attached that the funding of obama.

ande are where we are, everyone understands the fact that the only thing they want to deal with is obamacare. i am sorry to give you such a long answer, but let's say there were a republican president and we have a democratic majority here in the senate. and we say we will be happy to raise the debt ceiling, we will open the government, but there is a five percent of the reckoned people supporting background checks, people who have mental illness and are criminals. we are not let them to buy guns, and we will allow the government to reopen if you accept this bill that the vast majority of the people will accept your deep only difference in this and what they are trying to do is a different subject matter. so the president cannot do this. he explained that clearly, just

better than i did, in the white house the other night. so this thing they have come up with, we saw the exchange of senator mcconnell and ran say, we have poll tested this, we think this is a good idea for us. we have negotiated our hearts are come and we went one step further this week when we said we will give you a deal you cannot refuse. and that is you want to talk, you want to negotiate, you want to have a conference on anything you want to talk about, we will talk about agriculture, discretion or spending, and we would about health care. it is a deal we thought he could not refuse. but he did. lot, ande negotiated a once, as senator murray has said, once the government reopens and we get the debt ceiling settled, we will be happy to talk to them about anything they want to talk about. if there are things that i did

not include in my letter, i told them we will talk about them. was a park service ranger in washington who was reported saying you have -- we have been told to make life as difficult for people as we can. it is disgusting. of parks are being closed. nonprofits. they want to know why they are being closed. do you think this is being done more out of spite than anything else? >> we believe that all government should be open. i do not know anything about nonprofits. maybe we should check it out. but we believe that all government should be opened. in the consentgs

request that they propounded on national parks, the state of nevada is 87% owned by the federal government. the vast majority of that isblm. that, which include includes conservation areas up and down the state. you cannot pick and choose. it does not work. i do not know about this lady. you will have to talk to her yourself. the fact is that we are doing the very best we can. every federal agency is doing the best they can to follow guidelines they have been given by the office of managed and budget. of management and budget, and that includes senator durbin who is chair of the appropriations subcommittee on defense. he has talked endlessly about the many hundreds of thousands of federal employees that work for the defense department. half of them are veterans. but he five percent of them are disabled. they are not being paid out. some parknow what

ranger said, but this is a tremendous her to people throughout america because of the intransigence of speaker boehner and he is trapped because of obamacare. way, the law is four years old. >> [indiscernible] initially when there was two s one sideoggerheads, offers some face-saving measure to the other so the other can actually save face. why won't you do that? a face-saving deal. this is not a date for prom. this is our country. it is our country. thisrked very hard to get caucus to accept that the war number, and it is a -- to accept that lower number. let's forget the face-saving business here. let's talk about our country, our country. , i saidmore important

in an interview yesterday, our country or position of leadership? i sit there and i hope i would have occurred and i came to that and i would choose the country not over my job as leader. >> [indiscernible] >> the problem we have with what is going on in the house, it changes by the hour. they had a bunch of bills they were going to do today. last i heard they were in recess trying to figure things out. determined that we do things not in an erratic faster. we will wait and see what happens. i would hope they open the government today, tomorrow. we will wait and see what we do

next week, and i am not going to be determining what we are going to do next week until next week. >> you have made it clear [indiscernible] people start to blame democrats to? -- too? >> you search the news accounts today and find anything that suggests that kratz had anything to do with this shutdown. final question. >> the retroactive pay for federal workers build. it is something you can get to the senate? >> i do not know what the house is planning to do. as i indicated earlier -- >> we will leave the democratic press conference here and bring you back to the houses approval journal, if ordered. the first electronic vote will be conducted as a 15-minute vote. remaining electronic votes will be conducted as five-minute votes. the unfinished business is the vote on ordering the previous question on house resolution 371 on which the yeas and nays are ordered. the clerk will report the title of the resolution.

the clerk: house calendar number 65, house resolution 371, resolution providing for consideration of the joint resolution, house joint resolution 75, making continuing appropriations for the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children, for fiscal year 2014, and for other purposes. providing for consideration of motions to suspend the rules, waiving a requirement of clause 6-a of rule 13 with respect to consideration of certain resolutions reported from the committee on rules, and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on ordering the previous question. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a 15-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.]

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 223. the nays are 184. the previous question is ordered. the question is on the adoption of the resolution. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the gentlelady from new york. ms. slaughter: on that i request the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. all those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by

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the speaker pro tempore: on this vote, the yeas are 222, the nays are 183.

the resolution is adopted. without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 0, the question is on agreeing to the speaker's approval of the journal which the chair will put de novo. the question is on agreeing to the speaker's approval of the journal. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the journal stands approved.

the speaker pro tempore: the ouse will be in order. though house will be in order. -- the house will be in order. the house will be in order, please remove your conversations from the house floor. he house will be in order. for what purpose does the

gentleman from oklahoma seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to modify house resolution 371 with the correction placed at the desk. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the amendment. the clerk: amendment to h.res. 371 offered by mr. cole of oklahoma, page 2, line 14, strike referred and insert referred. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the motion to -- the amendment is adopted and the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. he house will be in order.

the house will be in order, please remove your conversations from the house floor. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, pursuant to house resolution 371, i call up joint resolution h.j.res. 85. a joint resolution making continuing appropriations for the federal emergency management agency for fiscal year 2014. and for other purposes. i ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the tiele of the joint resolution. the clerk: house joint

resolution 85rk joint resolution making continuing propings for the federal emergency management agency for fiscal year 2014 and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 371, the joint resolution is considered read. the joint resolution shall be debatable for 40 minutes, equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on appropriations. the gentleman from texas, mr. carter, and the gentleman from north carolina, mr. price, will each control 20 minutes. the house will be in order. please remove your conversations from the house floor. the house will be in order. please remove your conversations from the house floor. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. carter: i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days in

which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on h.j.res. 85, and that i may include tabular material on the same. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, ordered. he house will be in order. please rev move your conversations from the -- remove your conversations from the house floor. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. carter: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. carter: mr. speaker, i rise to present to the house a bill to fully fund and sustain funding for the federal emergency management agency commonly known -- >> mr. speaker, may we have order. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is correct. the house is not in order. the house will be in order. please remove your conversations from the house floor. the house will be in order. the gentleman from texas is recognized.

mr. carter: once again, i rise to present to the house a bill to fully sustain funding for federal emergency management agency commonly known as fema. right now at this very moment, dedicated men and women at fema are preparing for the possible landfall of tropical storm karen along our gulf coast and they're not being paid. right now, at this very moment, fema has begun to recall furloughed employees in at least, georgia, and denton, texas, as the agency prepared for a potential significant natural disasterful according to the national weather service a hurricane watch is currently in effect from grand aisle, louisiana, eastward to dustin, florida. a tropical storm watch is currently in effect from west of grand aisle to east of morgan city, louisiana, and new orleans.

and east to destin and indian pass, fle. -- florida. mr. speaker, this is a meage storm. we have to take it seriously system of this bill before us provides for continuing propings -- >> mr. speaker, may we have order, please. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is correct. the house is not in order. the house will be in order. please remove your conversations from the house floor. the house will be in order. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. carter: this bill provides for continuing appropriations to ensure fema can fully render assistance to the impacted states and fully support our citizens and our brave first respoppeders. mr. speaker, all of us are aware that the government is shut down despite numerous attempts to move forward. we have repeatedly offered versions of a continuing resolution to sustain this

government's operations but to no avail. furthermore, we are -- we have offered to negotiate, to convene a conference and work out the differences in a professional and orderly manner but such offers have been removed out of hand system of mr. speaker, this bill is yet another offer to the other side of the aisle to at least fund vital components of this government. we have a duty to ensure that our nation is adequately prepared for disasters and that our states are fully supported when they rear federal assistance. this bill does so without encreasing the rate of spending and the manner entirely consistent with the text of the noncontroversial h.res. 59. in short this bill is before us today, it's all about getting our priorities right. it's my hope that the passage of this bill will not only support our nation's emergency

prepearedness, but also lead to a reopening of the entire federal government. in closing, i urge my friends on the other side of the aisle to lower their partisan blinders and come to the table and work out our current impasses. so that we can get on with the business of fixing our nation's budgetary mess. so, mr. speaker, with that, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas reserves. the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. mr. price: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. price: how much longer are we going to continue this charade? at what expense are we going to continue to charade? the federal employees who serve our country are being disserved. the american people who depend on their service. how much longer are we going to

continue this same tired old dishonest debate? today it's about fema. we appreciate the republicans' concern for fema. we're also anxiously watching the approach of hurricane karen. it's too bd our republican friends didn't think a little bit more about such things on monday at midnight when they shut the government down. the issue, of course, is not whether we want to provide funding for fema or for any other particular activity or particular fwroup of federal employees, i'll take a back seat to no one when it comes to supporting the men and women who serve on the frontlines of our national disaster preparedness and response effort and we know they will be there. whatever hurricane karen amounts to. the issue is here -- the issue here is whether we're fwoning to pick winners and losers by providing temporary funding for governmental services,

operations, and personnel, when everyone in this body knows that we can reopen the entire federal government in one fell swoop this afternoon by calling up the senate continuing resolution. that's what democrats and a growing number of republicans are advocating and it's the only path that will get us out of this mess. instead, the house majority continues to bring to the floor piecemeal measures like this one. measures that may be read meat for ted cruz, but they have no chance of passing the senate or being signed by the president because they don't solve the base exproblem. therefore they are a cynical and cruel deception. we all know that. so let's quit playing games. let's actually do our job for the american people. mr. speaker, if we're going to resume funding for parts of the department of homeland security, i'd like to ask where's the bill that's going

to fund the crediter is vess? whose importance was on full display yesterday. where is the bill to ensure our aviation system remains safe and secure through t.s.a.? where's the bill to keep us safe from cyberea tacks? of course we all want to provide funding for fema but what about all the other employees of the department of homeland security? who work every day to ensure the security of our nation. what about the border patrol agents, customs and border protection officers. immigrations and customs enforcement agents. they're all protecting our nation. and they're protecting it ithout pay at this moment. well, maybe the house majority will get to them or then again maybe they won't. it's becoming more difficult to tell who the republican majority cares about at any given moment. now, there have been charges about a lack of willingness to compromise on the part of the president and congressional

democrats. let's be clear. the only ones who have compromised on anything related to funding the government are democrats. we have compromised to the tune of $60 billion. that is agreeing to a short-term continuing resolution well below the budget -- the president's budget request, well below the senate-passed budget resolution. and by the way, that's the same budget resolution that republicans have refused to work on with the senate and that would have averted this shutdown in the first place. it really must take some nerves for our colleagues now all of a sudden to be singing the praises of conference committees. but as to the senate's clean bipartisan funding bill, we don't need a conference committee. we don't need to talk. we need to vote. the clean continuing resolution would pass this house easily, right this minute if the

republican leadership would simply put it up for a bipartisan vote. so let's dispense with this political theater, let's get back to our basic job description which surely by any measure involves keeping the government open. it also involves paying the country's bills, and it must involve a comprehensive budget plan that lifts sequestration, that revives our economy and reduces our deficit. mr. speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. carter: mr. speaker, at this time i'd like to yield as much time as he may consume to the chairman of the appropriations committee, mr. hal rogers of kentucky. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. rogers: thank you, mr. chairman, for yielding me this time. and i say to my colleague from north carolina, my friend, whom we've served together with on the appropriations committee and subcommittees for a number of years, i say to him, where are -- is the bill for secret

service? stay tuned. where's the bill for i.c.e.? stay tuned. where's the bill for border patrol? stay tuned. and be ready to talk about those when they come up shortly. now, i rise in support of this bill which will help ensure that our government can help prepare for emergency situations. as you well know, you can never be too prepared. over the past year, we've seen the damage natural disasters can wreak, from hurricane sandy in the northeast, to the tornadoes in the mid west, to the raging wildfires out west, no area is immune to mother nature's wrath. and now with a tropical storm brewing in the gulf of mexico, we are reminded once again that disaster can strike when you least expect it to or when you can at least stand it, though we hope that's not the case

with karen. this bill will provide immediate funding for the federal emergency management agency at the current annual funding rate of $10.2 billion. as with the previous five short-term funding bills this house has passed in the last two days, this will last until december 15 but could end sooner if we can find a way to fund the entire federal government before that time. and as with the previous five short-term funding bills, this language, for all intents and purposes, mirrors that of the clean c.r. that i offered several weeks ago. passing this bill today is important to fulfill our duty to the people of this country that their government should help communities prepare for disasters and be there in their times of greatest need. however, our end goal isn't to fund each government program

bit by bit. it's to reopen the whole federal government as soon as possible. i believe this bill inches us closer to that goal, but there's obviously much more to be done. and let me point this out, mr. speaker. if this bill is approved today, this will be the sixth clean short-term funding bill we send to the other side of the capitol. these bills provide more than $300 billion in annual funding so far and at the sequester level. hat's one-third of the discretionary budget, and it's one-third of the original continuing resolution that we filed in september. one-third of the way toward opening the entire federal government with clean funding bills. this is what the senate says

they want, so why aren't they voting on these bills? in addition to these clean bills, we've also sent over to the senate seven other appropriations bills to fund portions of the federal government. snore. er, a loud this house, since the republicans took over in 2011, has been serious in trying to return to regular order, but it takes two to tango, mr. speaker, and the senate has passed zero regular appropriations bills this whole year. zero. and i say we must come together . you know, on monday night, the , se passed another bill amendment, sent it to the senate that would have funded

the entire government, and we asked for a conference with the senate. we even appointed our conferees, the house, sent that to the senate. what have we heard from the senate since that time? another loud snore. they will not agree to talk. it's the time-honored tradition of this congress in the united states of america that when one body disagrees with the other body, which is quite frequent, what happens? we appoint conferees to work out the differences. the house appointed its conferees. the senate has refused to appoint conferees. otherwise we could sit down and talk and solve this problem and put people back to work in the government and make sense of the mess that we're in. it just takes the senate agreeing to go to a conference.

what's difficult about that? that's as simple as pie. it's what we've done since we've been a nation, and i would urge the other body to appoint conferees. let's sit down and work out the differences. we have a table waiting downstairs where we can -- or we can meet over there. we can meet in our conference area or theirs. we can sit down and gentlemen and gentleladies and work out the differences between the house bills and senate bills as we normally do. we have to come together, mr. speaker, senate, house, democrat, republican, we have to have a meaningful discussion on how we can fund the entire federal government. first, to reopen its doors. then, to fund it as the way it should be funded regular order, full year appropriations bills. the bill before us continues trying to make sense of the

situation we're in, working toward ending the shutdown and to ensure that from today forward fema has the resources it needs to prepare for whatever should come our way. with that i yield. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky yields back. the gentleman from texas reserves. the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. mr. price: mr. speaker, my friend from kentucky, the chairman of the full committee, is in a time-honored house tradition, of course, criticizing the other body. i've done some of that myself. but let's be clear about a couple of things. our republican friends, as i recall, for years and years from badgering the senate to pass a budget resolution. this year they did it. this year they did it, and we're ready to go to conference. months ago, six months ago they

were ready to go to conference. the budget resolution that was comprehensive and had that been agreed upon between the two houses could have prevented this whole mess. from all indications, it is the house republicans, the leadership of this body that has refused to go to conference. i don't really think that's in dispute. secondly, our friend from kentucky had many speakers the last few days, have talked about those appropriations bills and how they didn't make it to the floor of the senate. what they didn't tell you is why they didn't make it to the floor of the senate. again, i don't think this is open to dispute. the transportation-h.u.d. appropriations bill was ready for floor action on the senate side. it was a threatened republican filibuster that kept it off the floor and has kept all subsequent bills off the floor. i promise you, the senate

leadership, senator mikulski, the appropriations chairman in the senate, was more than ready to take those appropriations bills to the floors and in many cases they were written with good bipartisan cooperation. but it's the republican leadership who dictated that the senate would not pass those appropriations bills. i now yield two minutes to my friend, the ranking member of our full committee, mrs. lowey of new york. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from new york is recognized for two minutes. mrs. lowey: mr. speaker, i rise in strong opposition to the reckless republican shutdown. of course we support disaster assistance. time and time again, democrats have voted to provide expeditious disaster assistance, but fema also needs state and local first responders, the national weather service, transportation, housing assistance and other items that are not funded in this bill. this bill is perhaps the most

cynical, political ploy that republicans have put forward since the shutdown began. just a week ago, this body strongly supported federal assistance for devastating floods in colorado. i'd like to remind my friends, its sponsor ironically voted against much-needed recovery funds following superstorm sandy. too many of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle do not believe in the federal government until they need it. and boy, do they need the federal government now. since it shut down, they are using irresponsible bills like this one to shift the blame. not only should the federal government be available to respond to every federal disaster, it should be open to keep americans on the job, to

support law enforcement, to ensure head start centers are open so parents can work and to continue lifesaving medical research, to name a few of its vital functions. you claim to want to negotiate. we have already said we will vote for your spending bill at your funding levels, and i know my friends on the other side of the aisle understand that. so let's stop playing games. allow a vote on your bill to end the shutdown that the senate passed and the president will sign. we can open this government in the next 30 minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. the gentleman from north carolina reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. carter: thank you, mr. speaker. at this time i'd like to yield two minutes to the hardworking chair of the authorizing subcommittee on emergency preparedness and responsive

mmouncations, -- communications, mrs. brooks. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. mrs. brooks: i rise in support of the national emergency and disaster recovery act, which does provide the vital funding for federal emergency management agency. funding that can make a difference right now. and it is right now that we need to be carrying about the citizens of louisiana, alabama and mississippi as tropical storm karen is in the gulf of mexico headed toward the gulf coast. landfall is expected this weekend. we don't know what to expect, much like we didn't know what to expect when hurricane sandy hit. fema has begun its response, its preparations and has recalled the furloughed staff because they know it's their duty to serve and protect. this bill would ensure that all fema personnel is available to respond to this storm and support the states in its path. hurricane season doesn't end this weekend.

it doesn't end officially until sometime around november 30, and we have to make sure that these agencies are ready to respond, to whether it's a natural disaster, terrorist attack or other emergency needing federal support. i tell you this is not a game, this is not a charade, and until now i have been so pleased to serve on homeland security where it enjoys so much bipartisan support. we have much bipartisan support when it comes to fema and homeland security, and i have liked to say until now that we do not play games when it comes to supporting first responders, when it comes to supporting flood victims, when it comes to supporting storm and hurricane victims. but i must say the time to act with congress is now. do the right thing. we are encouraging our colleagues across the aisle, put the politics aside and join us in supporting this resolution. i yield back the balance of my time. . . the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas reserves.

the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. mr. price: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from mississippi, mr. thompson. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognize for two minutes. mr. thompson: thank you, ranking member price, for yielding this time. mr. speaker, i rise today in strong opposition to h.j.res. 85. this is the latest in a streng of measures that the republican majority has brought to the floor in an attempt to cherry pick what gets funded in the federal government or a piecemeal approach to running government. later this weekend, tropical storm karen is expected to hit the gulf coast. last night, there was strong reports of tornadoes in nebraska and a strong storm is expected in iowa. i guess that explains this cynical exercise where fema is funded in a mini c.r.

when the majority learned that tourists had not visited our national monuments they whipped up a mini c.r. for the national parks. a storm is coming so their answer to it is a men nee c.r. for fema. the way the majority does business, there will need to be another west texas explosion before they -- another west, texas, explosion before they try to fund cfab. fema should have its full staff available this week to begin prep rages for tropical storm karen. enstead, fema is beginning to recall furloughed employees today, a rush to prepare before the storm. and as we know, the -- restoring fema's funding aloan is not enough to ensure a successful disaster response. we need the full resources of the federal government from the department of transportation, the department of housing and

urban development, as well as the small business administration. we also need the full resources of the department of homeland security. it's time to stop the games. the events on capitol hill yesterday should have served as a wakeup call. the speaker must allow a vote on a clean c.r. federal employees who return to work to help respond to tropical storm karen -- ep the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. price: i yield the gentleman 30 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is reck needed. mr. thompson: i thank the gentleman for yielding. federal mes who return to work to help respond to tropical storm karen, the forecasted tornadoes, or any other daster that strikes should be able to do their work with the peace of mind thatter that paycheck is coming and that bills will be paid. all federal employees deserve that. thank you, mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the

gentleman yields back. the gentleman from north carolina reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. carter: mr. speaker, at this time i yield two minutes to my good friend from louisiana who, his state seems to be possibly in the path of this coming storm, mr. cassidy. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. cassidy: house republicans have put forward a bill that would fund the government. we have two amendments which are opposed, one would end a special deal that only senators and members of the house of representatives get as regards obamacare exchanges. the other would treat employees of the employers whose mandate has been postponed the same. if an employer's mandate to purchase insurance for an employee is postponed, the obligation of the employee to insurance is also

postponed. they want a special deal for members of congress and they don't want workers to have the same deal as employers. so it comes to this, if we can't fund the government , we e we must have these can mitt gate harmful effects. i don't think we should hold hostage protection for those in harm's way so that congress can preserve a special deal that only accrues to members of congress. speaking of cynicism. we cannot sacrifice the security of those on the gulf coast. i call upon the senate to call on a vote both on the special amendment bus also if not that, at least on funding of fema. in so doing, we can do

something really good for those who do rely upon the federal government, not all the time but in times of need. and also if we can vote on those two special amendments, we can do something good for the taxpayers who really, despite the effort to obfuscate, are beginning to understand that our budget agreement is being held up by the need to preserve a special deal for senators and representatives. i yield back. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from texas reserves. the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. mr. price: i yield two minutes to a fellow appropriations member from california, mr. farr. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. farr: thank you very much for yielding, thank you, mr. chairman. i'm an appropriator like a lot of speakers here today. every time we have to deal with the c.r. we are embarrassed. that's not our work. our work is in appropriations bills which we spend all year

putting together and we've been doing that. we were at the same situation last year, everything being the same or ba ma health care bill was into law, members of congress had their insurance, whatever issues being brought p, we can't approve a c.r. because -- those issues were there last year. and guess what? we moved a c.r. without rancor and without poll techs. what's the difference here? now this year, i feel sorry for my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to have to defend appropriations by choice. you know, ronald reagan used to be fond of saying, here we go again. today it's open choice. it's pick your government. we've got 10 items on the menu. mr. speaker, i want the whole menu, not just the tea party special. what an irony that we're bringing up the first of these menus, fema, federal emergency

agency. it's shut down -- shut down the whole government but we want to keep those emergency responders, i was a firefighter. i was a first responder. i was part of the team like the team that lost in colorado. the hot shot crew when i was in college. they're not a part of fema. they're not a first responder system of firefighters are out. all of the cleanup that has to be done from the colorado fire and the rim fear in california, those people are part of the first respondersing they're not in this. this bill is a process of just selection, of chaos. of a menu, pick off what you can support. pick the popular thing. pass those. the rest of the government. but guess what? these fers responders have children. they have no action to school lunch program. these responders have spouses. there's all kinds of programs for families that have no response for. this first responder bill

doesn't -- school cops, center for dd control, food safety officers or any others. please defeat it. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from next reserves. the -- from north carolina reserves, the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. carter: we reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. mr. price: how much time is remaining? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina has 6 1/2 minute the gentleman from texas has seven minutes. mr. carter: i yield two minutes to another appropriations colleague, the ranking member of the interior subcommittee, mr. moran of virginia. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. moran: i thank my good friend from north carolina. let me first address what we just -- an issue we just heard about on the floor. i seem to hear about every time i turn on the news when a member of the other party is speaking about it, it's the suggestion that members of congress want to keep some special treatment for themselves in terms of health insurance.

the fact is, the vast majority of large employers pay for most of their employees' health insurance costs. members of congress are part of what's known as the federal employee benefits plan. on average, about 72% of our insurance paid for by our employer. i know in my case, since i have -- i pay family and i had a daughter that had a massive malignant brain tumor, i'm not going to go without insurance but i paid $6,000 a year which i suspect a lot of my colleagues do, and then i pay another few thousand in terms of co-payments and deductible, and yet mine is one of the best plans you can get with blue cross-blue shield. so that's not out of the mane stream in terms of health insurance. the fact is that the president

only delayed this reporting requirement with regard to large employers. now let me get back to this case in point with regard to fema. when we have a natural disaster such as this hurricane that's bearing down on the coast of louisiana, the federal government comes in as a team. we know that. i know mr. carter knows that. i know my good friend from kentucky knows that, they all get together as a team and they know how important, for example, the army corps of engineers. is the army corps of engineers works hand in glove with fema, the interior department, provides fire fighting and emergency response before and after a disaster. we just had these large fires in california and idaho and the fire is out so now they're furloughed. is that what we wan to do? the u.s. geological sur vea -- can i have another minute?

mr. price: i yield another minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. moran: the u.s. geological survey, they have to act visit gages and storm surge measurements, it's important, 99% of the usgs is furlough the small business administration office of disaster assistance, they come in in an emergency and try to help small businesses that have been wiped out which invariably happens and will happen with this storm. they're furloughed. they won't be able to be there. the natural resources conservationer is vess. 99 pk of those employers -- employees are fur -- furloughed. the farmer is vesses agency, 99% of those employees are furloughed. that's the problem. they need to work as ta team. we think we're going to patch this up, we're not. the whole government needs to be put back to work. this is our argue. let's do this the right way, not in this piecemeal fashion.

that's why we're forced to vote against these things. the fact is, we voted to keep them open. the side that's proposes this -- proposing this piecemeal approach voted to shut down the government. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has ex-peered. the gentleman from north carolina reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. carter: i thank you, mr. speaker. i don't believe we ever took a vote to shut down the government. if we did, i certainly missed it. i don't believe anybody ever took a vote recently to sustain the government. but it's an interesting comment and i thank my friend for making it. we reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. mr. price: i would like to yield two minutes to the ranking member of the border and mear time security subcommittee, ms. jackson lee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized if for two mippings. ms. jackson lee: i thank the

gentleman for his courtesies, i'm am sad i have to rise to debate this conflicted position from my good friends on the other side of the aisle. they care about homeland security, it's a committee i've served on since 9/11. we have great camaraderie and work in a borne manner but today i'm saddened by the approach that's being taken particularly seasons they all know this is a fool's errant. "usa today" said this process this piecemeal process is like seizing a school bus full of keds then offering to release the cutest ones. we don't have time to fool around with the cutest ones. fema works closely with states, cities, tribes and territories, communities large and small. hose of us who are now looking at karen barreling into the gulf region understand about hurricanes and many of us about tornadoes and other disasters. i offer my tissue to my colleagues, storm alison that killed 23 with some $5 billion,

we need fema. or hurricane ike that caused some $29 billion in damage in galveston. or the torppedse in oklahoma may 31 that killed 23, we need fema. or maybe talking about the issues of dealing with hurricane katrina, the largest and most devastating hurricane that we've seen, we need fema. but yet mitigating circumstance friends are willing to piecemeal and by doing so, homeland security is dashed. border patrol agents are not funded. the secret service protectionage activities are not funded. i'm aghast at the fact that federal air marshals wearks thank our capitol police who showed themselves willing to sacrifice themselves and other law enforcement, federal air marshals travel and training is shut down, i.c.e. is shut down. homeland security is comprehensive, it teals with fighting al qaeda and the terrorists that would do us harm and it deals with being a

helping hand as fema is, as aye worked alongside fema in the gulf when people were devastated. put a clean bill on the floor, the c.r., vote for it and open the government now and let homeland security and fema -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expeered. the gentleman from north carolina reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. the gentleman from texas reserves. the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. mr. price: mr. speaker, might i inquire if the gentleman has additional speakers? mr. carter: no, i don't believe so. mr. price: reserving to close. i'll ask for one minute and then reserve a small amount of time for unanimous consent requests. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. price: mr. speaker, i had the honor last night of attending the annual dinner, the awards dinner of the partnership for public service,

so-called sammy's awards. these are awards given each year to outstanding public servants. last night's awardees had touching, inspiring stories of the work they had done within the center for disease control in polio eradication, the national institutes of health, the center for missing and exploited children, an agency we know very well in homeland security, the center intelligence agency. story after story of devoted public service, public service i must say has taken place in recent years in an atmosphere where public service is often denigrated, public servants often have their pay frozen by virtue of the budget nonsense of the sort we're witnessing here this week. half of those awardees last night were on furloughs. what a disgrace.

at a commentary on the honor , it we're asking today would take about 30 minutes -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. price: could i have 15 additional seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 15 seconds. mr. price: there would be a bipartisan majority easily in this body for ending this shutdown and opening the federal government and on the issues before us, the budget, health care, whatever, you know, you live to fight another day. but we have no business in this body demanding a ransom for doing our basic job which is to keep the lights on, keep the government running and to pay our country's bills. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. carter: i'll just reserve. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from north carolina is rked. -- recognized for 15 seconds.

mr. price: mr. speaker, i yield a few seconds -- we have a unanimous consent request. i'm sore. the gentleman from arizona, mr. arber. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from arizona is recognized. mr. barber: thank you. thank you, mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent that the house bring up senate amendment to the continuing appropriations resolution, h.j.res. 59. enough is enough. we must get our people back to work and bring services to the people of this country. enough is enough. the speaker pro tempore: under the guidelines consistently issued by successive speakers, as recorded in section 956 of the house rules and manual, the chair is constrained not to entertain the request unless it has been cleared by the bipartisan floor and committee leadership. the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. mr. price: mr. speaker, i yield for a unanimous consent request to the gentlelady from

california, ms. chu. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized for unanimous consent. ms. chu: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that the house bring up the senate resolution to h.j. resolution 59, the clean continuing resolution, and go to conference on a budget so that we can end this republican government shutdown that is undermining -- prevent the c.d.c. working on its annual flu vaccine. the speaker pro tempore: as the chair has previously advised, it can't be cleared absent appropriate clearance. the gentleman from north carolina is recognized. mr. price: mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. carter: in brief closing, mr. speaker, we have a storm coming towards our shores. we need to get this done. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas yields back the balance of his time. all time for debate has expired, pursuant to house

resolution 371, the previous question is ordered. the question is on engrossment and third reading of the joint resolution. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. third reading. the clerk: joint resolution making continuing appropriations for the federal emergency management agency for fiscal year 2014 and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i have a motion to recommit at the desk? the speaker pro tempore: is the gentleman opposed to the joint resolution? >> in the current form, i am. the clerk: mr. bishop of new york moves to recommit the joint resolution, house joint resolution 85 -- the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman ?rom texas seek recognition mr. carter: mr. speaker, i reserve a point of order. the clerk: mr. bishop of new york moves to recommit the joint resolution to the committee on appropriations ith ininstructions to -- mr. bishop: mr. speaker, if there is no objection i move we

dispense with the reading. the speaker pro tempore: without objection -- did the gentleman from texas object or o objection? did the gentleman object -- mr. carter: please state the request? sorry. the speaker pro tempore: do you object to the dispensing to the reading? mr. carter: no objection. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentleman from new york is recognized for five minutes in support of his motion. the gentleman is recognized. mr. bishop: thank you very much, mr. speaker. my motion to recommit would allow a vote on h.j.res. 59, the senate continuing resolution. if we were to pass the continuing resolution, the entire federal government would reopen, not just an isolated slice of it, and all we're asking for is a vote on the senate resolution, and i would ask, is not taking a vote on issues of great importance to our country the very essence of our democracy? and i would further ask what it

is our friends on the majority are afraid of in terms of allowing such a vote to happen on the floor of this house. mr. speaker, tropical storm karen is bearing down on the golf as we speak. it's expected to be upgraded to at least a category 1 hurricane and could reach my district along the east coast as soon as tuesday of next week. we're still picking up the pieces from sandy, and we can't afford to be hit by another storm. have we forgotten the lessons of katrina, of sandy, which clobbered new york and new jersey? if we are funding fema, why aren't we providing funds for every single agency so that human lives can be protected and storm damage taken care of immediately? these storms require all hands on deck, and yet 800,000 federal employees are currently furloughed. after sandy took eight lives, destroyed thousands of homes and shut down dozens of businesses in my district, my

district needed much more than just fema. we needed the department of housing and urban development, health and human services, interior, not to mention the army corps of engineers and the small business administration, to name just a few of the agencies that joined together in the coordinated effort to begin emergency relief and begin the rebuilding process. why are the republicans in favor of closing down the federal government and denying taxpayers the protections from natural disasters that they've already paid for? this makes absolutely no sense to people who have to work hard every day to make a living and are now concerned that they are in the path of an oncoming storm. and i just want to raise one point about how destructive this government shutdown has been. i've just come from a meeting of the board of visitors of the united states merchant marine academy, one of the four service academies that each member of this congress has the privilege to nominate young men

and women to to attend. that service academy right now is closed. it's shut down. no classes are being offered. so we have nominated the cream of the crop that this country has to offer to this academy and they are attending a school which cannot schedule and hold classes. this is madness. this is madness. and the capacity to change that is right here within our grasp. it's called h.j.res. 59. let's schedule a vote on that and let's see what happens. i'll bet that if we do have a vote on h.j.res. 59, it will pass, we'll be able to send it to the president and he'll sign it and we'll be able to reopen the government within hours. so i urge my colleagues to support the motion to recommit. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? mr. carter: mr. speaker, i make a point of order that the instructions contained in this motion violate clause 7 of rule

16 which requires that an amendment be germane to the bill under consideration. as the chair has recently ruled n october 2 and 3, 2013, instructions contained in special order of business within the jurisdiction of the committee on rules and therefore the amendment is not germane to the underlying bill and so, mr. speaker, i must insist on my point of order. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. does the gentleman from new york risch wish to be heard on the point of order? mr. bishop: i do, mr. speaker. thanks. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. bishop: i'd just raise a couple of questions. the first is, the bill before us funds a slice of the federal government. and while i'm struggling to understand is why funding the entire federal government would be out of order and not germane when it is germane to schedule or to fund a piece of the

federal government. it strikes me as illlogical in he extreme that it is -- illogical in the extreme that it is ok to fund a piece and not the whole. i wonder why the motion to recommit would not be germane. the speaker pro tempore: yield back? mr. bishop: yes. the speaker pro tempore: does the gentleman from virginia seek to be heard on the and i make a point of order that a quorum is not present? mr. scott: we have to see where we are in the process. if the point of order had not been raised, the next order of business would have been the motion to recommit which would open up all of government. he's made the point of order, and the speaker has indicated the previous rulings have been to sustain the point of order, and if the normal course takes place, the next motion will be to appeal the ruling of the

chair. if that motion were to prevail, if we were to sustain the motion -- the appeal the chair, not table it, but to sustain it, we would make the motion to recommit in order and we can finally get an up or down vote on keeping the government open. so i'd hope, mr. speaker, that the ruling would be that we would forgo all of that and just let us have an up or down vote on keeping the ruling -- keeping the government open without having to overrule the ruling of the chair. the speaker pro tempore: the chair is prepared to rule. the gentleman from texas makes a point of order that the instruction proposed in the motion to recommit offered by the gentleman from new york are not germane. the joint resolution extends funding relating to the federal emergency management agency. the instructions in the motion proposed an order of business of the house relating to other funding. as the chair ruled on october 2 and october 3, 2013, a motion to recommit proposing an order of business of the house is not germane to a measure providing for the appropriation of funds

because such motion addresses a matter within the jurisdiction of a committee not represented in the underlying measure. here are -- hearing the instructions proposed on the nongermane amendment, the motion is sustained. for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? mr. bishop: i appeal the ruling of the chair. the speaker pro tempore: the question is shall the decision of the chair stand as the judgment of the house. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? mr. carter: mr. speaker, i move to lay the appeal on the table. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to table. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. mr. bishop: mr. speaker, i ask for the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. pursuant to clause 9 of rule 20, this 15-minute vote on the motion to table will be followed by five-minute votes on mass pastage of the bill if arising out of recommital.

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the speaker pro tempore: on this vote, the yeas are 224, the nays are 185. the motion is adopted. without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. the question is on passage of the joint resolution.

those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina seek recognition? mr. price: on that, i ask for the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are recontested. those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes y electronic device. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of epresentatives.]

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote, the yeas are 247 and the nays are 164. the joint resolution is passed. without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. for what purpose does the gentleman from alabama seek

recognition? >> madam speaker, pursuant to house resolution 371, i call up joint resolution h.res. 75, a joint resolution making continuing appropriations for the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children for f.y. 2014 and for other purposes and ask for its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the house is not in order. please take your conversations off the floor. he house will be in order. the clerk will report the title of the joint resolution. the clerk: house joint resolution 75, joint resolution making continuing appropriations for the special

supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children for fiscal year 2014 nd for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the gentleman from alabama deserves to be heard. please take your conversations off the floor. pursuant to house resolution 371, the joint resolution is considered read, the joint resolution shall be debatable for 40 minutes equally divided and controlled by the minority chair and ranking -- by the chair and ranking minority member for 20 minutes. the gentleman from alabama, mr. aderholt and the gentleman from california, mr. farr, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from alabama. mr. aderholt: i ask unanimous consent that all members have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on

h.j.res. 75 that i may incloud tabular material on the same. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. aderholt: i recognize myself for such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. aderholt: madam speaker, i rise this afternoon in support of house joint resolution 75, which would continue funding for the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants, and children or commonly known as the w.i.c. program. the f.y. -- >> mr. speaker, may we have order, please? the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the gentleman from alabama is recognized. . aderholt: the f.y. 2014 -- 2013ing a cull -- -- 2013

agriculture appropriations bill ensured adequate funding to ensure that all participants received nutritious food and the knew tregs services necessary for their health and well being. before the department of health shut towner that website, information could be found that short-term funding was available for w.i.c. through the con tincy reserve fund, carryover tissue carryover funds and other available resources. while some states have indicated they have sufficient funds to at least work several more weeks, other states are not so fortunate. many of us have seen headlines, perhaps received phone calls into our offices, from constituents who have reported that their appointment at their local w.i.c. clin exhad been canceled or that clin exs are being close -- or that clinics are being closed. numerous times across the

aisle, we have heard our colleagues across the aisle mention that w.i.c. cannot continue without an appropriation for 2014. this will leave millions of women, infants an children without proper knew tregs. now is the chance, madam speaker, for my colleagues to join us in keeping this important program fully functioning and operational. by passing the resolution that we have on the floor this afternoon, we will help 8.7 million low-income women, infants, and chern who are nutritionally at risk, continue to receive the nutrition they need this resolution will keep w.i.c. clin exics across the nation open. no more appointments will have to be canceled. i want to thank every member of the house who wants to provide -- let me rephrase that. i believe that every member of this house of representatives believes that w.i.c. participants need and should get the participations they

need and i would ask my colleagues to support this resolution that we supply adequate nutrition for women, enfants and children as we move forward. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the chair asks that all conversations be taken off the floor. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. farr: madam speaker, i rise -- i request as much time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. farr: i rise in opposition to this piecemeal approach to funding our government. i'm ranking member on the subcommittee on agriculture and rural development, food and drug administration and related agencies. and the bill dealing with all of those issues is on the house floor. we did our job.

as the chairman so eloquently spoke about, the committee fulfilled its commitment to review the whole budget. we passed 2410 out of committee and adopted a rule to bring it to the floor in june. but we didn't move the bill because the timing with the now ex-peered farm bill wanted to hold everything off. i'm just wondering, mr. speaker, when is the house fwoning to announce its conferees on the farm bill? the senate has done it, not once, but twice. so we could be bringing up the full bill, not just this piecemeal, let's take a little bit of this that we leek and that that we leek and do what i call this menu of choice which not on leaves, if you that menu, everything is out. the problem with this bill, yeah, nobody can challenge our support mitigating circumstance support on w.i.c., i'm a returned peace corps volunteer,

if there's anyone who got training on the need for feeding women, enfant and children in this congress, it was my experience in south america. but you know this does nothing for the 48 million people who are currently -- who currently need food stamps what we call snap program. this does nothing for the rest of the kids in the family who may be hungry, going to school and can't get access to school lunch. this does nothing to open the door for federal workers who help people in rural agriculture that produce the food this bill does nothing to provide a remedy for rural areas like colorado and california, just rah vadged by floods and fires to do the post-op cleanup and restoration to prevent floods from coming this winter. this does nothing for the farmer is vess age se loan borrowers for those who are their to put

commodities into the program that will feed the women, enfant and children. just one little pose they carve out and suggest that congress do this. by the way, i want you all to listen to this, since i've been here, since 1993, we have passed 111 c.r.'s. 111 c.r.'s. not one of them had this battle, had this conditionality. had the shutdown of government. none of them. why now? what's different? oh, you want to take away the president's health care bill. that was enacted 3 1/2 years ago. you passed the c.r. the year it was adopted. you passed a c.r. after it was adopted. you passed a c.r. after that. so what is it? let's stop being so mean and so broken about the ability to keep our government open. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california

reserves. the gentleman from alabama is recognized. mr. aderholt: i would like to recognize the chearm for the full committee of appropriations, chairman rogers, for four minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky is recognized for four minutes. mr. rogers: i thank the chairman for yielding me this time. mr. speaker, i rise in full support of h.j.res. 75, this bill ensures that the nearly 8. million women, children and enfants who rely on the special supplemental nutrition program for women, enfants and children, will continue to receive critical nutrition assistance without interruption. this bill provides funding for i.c. at the fiscal year 2013 post-sequester rate of 6.-- of $6.5 billion until december 15, or until we can enact a full-year appropriations

legislation. that is the ultimate goal of this bill, madam speaker. to move us closerle to ending this government shutdown by providing regular appropriations for all government programs, to achee that, we got to have an adult conversation about what this might entail and how we can get there. and i've got a great suggestion, madam speaker. monday night, the house passed an amendment over to the senate, to the c.r., and asked for a conference with the senate. the speaker named house conferees. now the normal tra digs of this body, as all of us know, is when the house and the senate pass differing versions of the same bill, how do we resolve the difference? we acomponent conferees.

we have some house members and some senate members selected by the respective leaders and they go off and argue and debate and amend and they come up with an agreement that they then bring back to each body for approval and that becomes the law. the house has apointed conferees and have a table arranged downstairs for the snars to join us in resolving the shutdown. what do we hear from the senate? a big loud senator. -- a big loud snore. just talk. we may not be able to agree, but we can talk and work it out for the american people. and as we work this out, we've got to be sure that our most vulnerable citizens don't fall victim to that politics.

this bill will take care of those who count on w.i.c. to meet their nutritional needs, our women, our infants, our children. because this language was essentially included in my original initial clean continuing resolution, i endorse it today. this house, i think should support it today. but our colleagues in the senate should also support it. this would be the seventh bill we sent them to help reopen the federal government in the last three days. the seventh bill. we have heard nothing from them. all together, these bills provide nearly a third of the discretionary funding that's needed to operate the entire federal government. so the last three days, we passed three bills to fund a third of the government.

the senate keeps demanding from us. and yet, they won't vote on these bills that would be a part of that clean c.r. the math just doesn't add up, madam speaker. funding is piecemeal approach is not the approved mechanism to move forward, it does move us forward. i would rather we fund the government with regular appropriations bills, so-called regular order. may i have an additional minute? mr. aderholt: i recognize the chairman for an additional one minute. mr. rogers: the house passed four of those regular bills this year. unfortunately our colleagues on the other side of the capitol passed none. for all of their talk on the other side of the capitol, about returning to regular order, it seems the senate has made very little action to achieve that goal. we're in this mess today in part

because of that, but passing this bill will help us get out of it. i urge my colleagues to support an end to this shutdown with this w.i.c. program and support this bill and pass it today. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from alabama reserves. the gentleman from california is recognized. chair, i yield 1 1/2 minutes to the ranking member of the house appropriations committee, the gentlewoman from new york. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. mrs. lowey: mr. speaker, i rise in strong opposition to the reckless republican shutdown. w.i.c. services are vital to new mothers and their children and democrats have long been strong supporters. in fact, it is puzzling to me

that republicans today claim to be so supportive of w.i.c., when just four months ago, you 200,000 to deprive over women and infants w.i.c. benefits. funding one budget item at a time, even one as important as the w.i.c. program, does nothing to help children get imnune sation, drk imnuseation. republicans are disconnected from reality. this bill is nothing more than a republican ploy. mr. speaker, as my friends know very well, we can end the republican shutdown today if the majority would only allow a vote on the senate-passed bill, which

includes the funding levels that republicans wrote, the funding levels of the republicans. that was the negotiation. that was the discussion. the democrats took the republican funding levels. and that would be signed by the president. mr. farr: yield another 20 seconds. mrs. lowey: if you care about mothers and infants, you should vote no on this bill and demand that the republican leadership the house vote on the senate bill to immediately end reckless republican shutdown. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. the gentleman from california reserves. the gentleman from alabama is recognized. mr. aderholt: at this time, i would like to recognize one of the members of our subcommittee on agricultural appropriations, minutes.ao for two

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. valadao: i rise in support of house joint resolution 75, the nutrition assistance for low-income women and children act. this would continue funding for women, infants and children, commonly referred to as w.i.c. across the country, 8.9 million moms and kids under the age of five are living near or below the poverty line and depend on supplemental vouchers by the w.i.c. program to purchase healthy program. the w.i.c. program is important to my constituents in the central valley of california. my district suffers from 14% unemployment, almost double the national average. some regions of my district are suffering from more than 30% unemployment, making it nearly impossible for many mothers to find work despite their best efforts so they may provide for their families.

congress must put aside partisan politics and come together. working across party lines to pass this critical legislation so mothers in california's central valley and mothers across the country can continue to feed their children. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from alabama reserves. the gentleman from california is recognized. r. farr: i yield 1 1/2 minutes to the congressman from california, mr. miller, ranking member of the education committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 1 1/2 minutes. mr. miller: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. miller: congress should reopen the federal government and not hold the federal depoft and america cap people hostage of the by closing the federal government, the republicans in the house are jeopardizing critical services to mothers and their children. they should have realized this

when they shut down the federal government. d not restoring the w.i.c. program and not food stamps or housing vouchers which the same mothers and children rely on to hold their families together. this has taken the food out of the mouths of children. republicans are taking heat for closing down the government and open up one part or another to relieve the pressure, but this doesn't help these families. this doesn't help these families because they are cutting other services to these families and other resources. the republicans should allow the house to vote on a bill to open up the federal government and then sit down and talk about what the budget would look like the rest of the year. they should try to stop killing the health care law. and they should stop picking winners and losers based on the political realities out there that the american public is getting angry about how they are

treating recipients of federal assistance and i urge people to vote against this legislation. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california reserves. the gentleman from alabama is recognized. mr. aderholt: thank you. i would like to recognize the chair of the house administration committee, mrs. miller from michigan for two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from is -- michigan is recognized. mrs. miller: i thank my colleague for yielding the time. i rise today in very, very strong support of the nutrition assistance for low-income women and children act. much of the controversy has been focused on obamacare. we keep talking about obamacare, et cetera. but this bill we are considering right now has absolutely nothing to do with obamacare. nothing. the only thing at issue in this

bill is will we help provide supplemental nutrition programs for american mothers and their babies and their children, period. that is the issue before us today. now, i know many of my friends on the other side, madam speaker, will say that once again, they are going to say they are going to oppose this legislation because they need to have an entire government funding bill or nothing at all. and i would just note, when they say that each and every time, they then accuse us of being absoluteists, but will not accept anything except a government funding bill. many on the other side of the aisle, will look to their hearts, will look to their hearts and will support this bill. and we will pass this bill with very strong bipartisan support. and i certainly hope that the leaders in the senate will look as well at the very broad bipartisan support we will have for this bill and will take it to heart as well and take it up.

madam speaker, more than half the babies that are born in migrate state of michigan are -- my great state of michigan. and i would ask my colleagues to look to your heart, look to your heart. we aren't talking about defunding obamacare or anything like that. we are talking about women, children and their babies and i would hope we could join together today across the aisle, pass this bill and see to it that mothers and infants and children in michigan and all across america get the support that they need. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. the gentleman from alabama reserves. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. farr: i yield two minutes to the former member of the agriculture committee and now

ranking member of the health and human services committee two minutes. ms. delauro: i rise in the opposition to this cruel political game the majority is playing this afternoon. since they have taken office, this majority has tried to slash the women, infants and children program. 2011, 2012, 2013. i sit on the agricultural appropriations subcommittee. this summer on a party-line vote, the republican members on the committee who have just gotten up to speak to you, voted to slash the w.i.c. program and take nutritious food from over 200,000 pregnant mothers and infants. i introduced an amendment to restore this critical funding and the republican majority shot it down when it mattered. when we all voted, the republican majority cut this funding and now trying to use

low-income families for a political message. is is disingenuous and it is shameful. last month on the party-line vote, they took food stamps from over four million low-income families, seniors and veterans and children. are we meant to believe that today they have come to jesus or is it just politics? i have strongly supported the women, infants and children feeding program my entire program and when i served as chair of the ag subcommittee, we expanded the program as the need arose. we are talking about people's lives. this majority chose to shut the government down and families across this country are being affected. furloughed workers, small businesses and families cannot get loans. biomedical research has stopped,

federal economic reports, imnizzation, they have been stopped because what the republican majority is doing. it is heartless, offensive. the government has been shut down for four days. do not use hungry families as political pawns. it's time to stop these bills, fund the government. reopen it. and i urge my colleagues to oppose this resolution. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. the gentleman from california reserves. mr. aderholt: i would like to recognize -- the speaker pro tempore: the chair will remain all persons in the gallery that they are here as guests of the house and my manifestation of approval or disapproval of proceedings is in violation of the rules of the house. the gentleman from alabama is recognized. mr. aderholt: at this time, i would like to recognize the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. duffy, for two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized.

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. duffy: this is remarkable. i hear a passionate speech of the gentlelady from connecticut and i hear my friends across the aisle applauding. we're here to provide funding for nine million women and children. ms. delauro: if the gentleman will yield? mr. duffy: i will not. ms. delauro: i didn't think so. mr. duffy: we're here to do the work of the people. you say, no, i don't want that money to go to them, that's wrong. ms. delauro: it was wrong to vote against them several months ago. mr. duffy: remay not agree on a lot of things, but there are things we agree on and this is one of them. and say we don't want to provide this money for women and children -- i have six kids of my own. there are people in need in my community, and for my friends to ano to that and to applaud a speech saying do not vote to help our women and children in america, that's wrong.

listen, we have a shutdown right now. why? everyone in this chamber, obamacare. mr. speaker, we are in obamacare. all we ask for is for barack obama and the administration join america in this institution in obamacare. that's what we've asked for. and we know that big business and the lobbyists came to washington, d.c., and they said, give us a one-year exemption from the tax. give us an exemption. and mr. president, he said, ok, big business, i'll give it to you. all we said is, mr. president, treat the individuals in america the same way you're treating big business. equality, fairness. if it's good for the american people, if it's good for this institution, it is good for mr. carney and mr. president barack obama and their administration. let's all join in together, let's hold hands, let's all join obamacare, but let's not treat one group of people differently than the rest of

us. join us, mr. president. let's open this government. let's bring the president in and let's treat the individuals the same as the american people. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the members are reminded to direct their remarks to the chair. the gentleman from alabama reserves. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. farr: we passed 111 c.r.'s without any of this ranker. there's no excuses. they've all been clean. lieu sill minute to roybal-allard -- lucille roybal-allard. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. roybal-allard: my republican colleagues appear to be doing something necessary about this government shutdown. the fact is the republicans can open the government today by bringing a clean continuing

resolution to the floor. instead, republicans are targeting the w.i.c. program to try and pull the american people into believing they're concerned about the feignful effects of their government shutdown. the american w.i.c. association is asking members to oppose the bill calling it, quote, a cynical ploy to use low-income nutritionally at-risk mothers and young children at political pawns for political needs. the n.w.a. also stated it has sufficient operating funds through october and, i quote, will not tolerate efforts to leverage the nutritional health and well-being of pregnant and breast-feeding mothers, their babies and young children to satisfy the political ends or strategies of policymakers. i could not agree more. i urge my colleagues to heed their words and vote no on this bill. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. the gentleman from california reserves. the gentleman from alabama is

recognized. mr. aderholt: madam speaker, at this time i'd like to recognize the gentleman from arkansas, mr. cotton, for two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from arkansas is recognized for two minutes. mr. cotton: i want to thank the gentleman from alabama. yesterday, i introduced legislation that would ensure the women, infants and children nutrition program remains funded during government shutdown. today, i am very grateful to my colleagues for swift action to fund this important program. in arkansas, w.i.c. benefits 42,000 kids, 24,000 infants and 2,000 moms. fortunately, the arkansas department of health reached an agreement earlier this week with the u.s. department of agriculture to fund the w.i.c. program, though only on a week-to-week basis. moms and kids shouldn't suffer because senate democrats have shut down the government to protect their special perks and political allies because that's what's happened here, madam speaker. the house of representatives earlier this week passed a

continuing resolution that would fund the government to include funding in part obamacare and we asked that the senate democrats only accept two simple principles. that the white house and congress follow the same obamacare rules as the rest of america and that if barack obama is going to give big businesses a one-year break from obamacare, then families and workers should get the same one-year break. but senate democrats refused to fund the government with those simple terms, the terms that congress should follow the law as they imposed on the american people and that workers and families should get the same breaks as small businesses. i know there are many -- as many businesses. the senate earlier passed a resolution calling next week national chess week. now, that's obviously an urgent matter for this country, but women and kids in need shouldn't be political pawns in the senate's game. so i say to the senate, let's put aside partisanship and pass

this legislation for the kids. just as we did earlier this week for the troops. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from arkansas yields back. the gentleman from alabama has 5 1/2 minutes remaining. the gentleman from california has 10 minutes remaining. and the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. farr: thank you very much, madam chair. i'd now like to yield one inute to the congresswoman from berkley, california, barbara lee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from california is recognized for one minute. ms. lee: thank you, very much. first, i rise in strong opposition to this bill. but i just have to say, what nerve the republicans have to bring this bill to the floor. as a member of the appropriations committee, i have witnessed republicans both over and over again to cut funding for the women, infants and children program. in the past year alone, they have cut $500 million, which cuts into my district alone, 21,000 participants -- excuse

me -- but let me tell you, they have refused in committee to listen and they have insisted on these massive cuts. now today they are pretending, pretending that they care about the w.i.c. program with the cynical ploy. it's simply outrageous to play politics with pregnant women and their children. what nerve. republicans are now trying to pretend that they want to reopen government that they shut down using our most vulnerable as pawns. it's hard to believe what i'm hearing today from republicans about their support for nutrition assistance for women and children when in the appropriations committee they say and they vote just the opposite. how hypocritical can they get? americans are not fooled. they want the government -- tom the gentlewoman's time has expired. ms. lee: can i have another 30 seconds? mr. farr: 30 seconds, yield, please. ms. lee: they want us to shut down the shutdown that the tea

party extremists shamefully created. we can reopen the government today right now on a bipartisan basis if republicans would allow a vote on the bill that would open -- reopen the government up. i urge my colleagues to vote no on this shameful bill and insist on a vote to open the entire government up. the american people deserve that. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. the gentleman from california reserves. the gentleman from alabama is recognized. mr. aderholt: i'll reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from alabama reserves. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. farr: madam speaker, i'd the to yield one minute to congressman from massachusetts, great rules committee member, jim mcgovern. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized for one minute. mr. mcgovern: madam speaker, there are nearly 50 million people who are hungry in this country. 17 million of them are

children. and because we're still emerging from this difficult economy, hunger is not getting better in america. the only reason why people aren't starving is because the essential safety net programs that we have put in place, and for months and months and months we have seen the republicans in this house try to gut the snap program, try to slash funding for w.i.c. and for school lunches and for meals on wheels. and now today we're supposed to believe they are champions for hungry kids? today, they want us to believe that they care about poor people? please. this charade is an insult to the intelligence of the american people. it is a cynical ploy that won't feed a single pregnant mother or won't provide formula to a single needy infant. it's going nowhere. it's a stunt. it's legislating by press release and it's shameful. we should pass a clean c.r. and reject this woeful inadequate bill and try to end hunger in america. do not treat poor women and children as political pawns. it is not right and you know it is not right. we have an obligation to our most vulnerable neighbors. this fails that test and it

fails that test badly. pass a clean c.r. do your job. this is cynical. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from alabama. mr. aderholt: madam speaker, we reserve. the speaker pro tempore: continues to reserve. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. farr: thank you. pleasure to yield two minutes to the distinguished doctor from seattle, congressman jim mcdermott of the ways and means committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from the state of washington is recognized for two minutes. mr. mcdermott: i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. mcdermott: madam speaker, the republican caucus is standing out here naked, and ey keep bringing fig leafs out to cover themselves. this is another fig leaf. it is not intended to do anything. at the end of the second world

war, it was determined that 43% of the people who were drafted were unfit for military service because of nutritional deficiencies. we had a public policy from that point onward fed people at every level. school lunches, head start, w.i.c. program, snap, they have all been designed at making this a healthy country. one of my colleagues says, well, this has nothing to do with obamacare. it has everything to do with obamacare. if you don't feed kids the proper things, they get sick. everybody knows that apparently except the republican caucus, mr. chair -- mr. speaker. the fact is what we need to do is to bring out a clean resolution and reopen the overnment and feed all the

people. this isn't about picking one group that's entitled to a little something and leaving ome others out, it's absolutely cynical beyond belief. and it should not happen in this place. we have the ability to have the most healthy people in the world. we produce food, we ship it everywhere and yet you hear from my colleague, mr. mcgovern, how many people are hungry in this country because they don't have it. now, somehow you think a mother's going to sit there -- she's got her stuff from the w.i.c. program, right? she's got a kid that's 1 years old and one that's 3 and one that's 7 and she's going to say the 3 and the 7-year-old, you don't get anything, but i got a little something for your brother, johnny. what kind of situation are you? do you -- do you understand what it's like to be deprived in this country? we can do better than this. you ought to be ashamed of yourself for this cynical fig

leaf. i urge you to vote no. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. members are reminded to address their comments to the chair. the gentleman from alabama is recognized. mr. aderholt: madam speaker, at this time i'd like to recognize another member of our subcommittee on agriculture for appropriations, the gentleman from mississippi, mr. nunnelee, for two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from mississippi is recognized for two minutes. mr. nunnelee: thank you, madam speaker. i thank the chairman for yielding, for his leadership. to what lengths will the democrats go in order to protect obamacare? -- pay eady denied paid for national guard and reservists, ceased lifesaving medical research. they stopped v.a. benefits. yet, these measures have passed the house of representatives with bipartisan support.

now, will they deny food to women, infants and children? maybe some of our democrat colleagues in the house can talk to their friends in the senate that the democrat colleagues in the house support this measure, maybe they could talk to their friends and get them to support it as well. . this morning a key white house official gloated and said, we're winning. madam speaker, this is not a game. those men and women in the guard and the reserves that have been furloughed don't think this is a game. those awaiting life-saving medical research and treatment don't think anyone's winning. those veterans who are waiting in line because they cannot apply for the benefits that they've earned don't think this is a game.

and the women, infanlts and children that are awaiting -- infants and children that are awaiting food under this bill know this is not a game. it's time to end this charade. let's pass this bill and invite our colleagues in the senate to come to the table and talk. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from mississippi yields back. the gentleman from alabama reserves. the gentleman from california is recognized. >> thank you, madam chair. for 111 times we voted for c.r.'s to feed everybody. not just a few. i yield one minute to the distinguished woman from wisconsin, gwen moore. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from wisconsin is recognized for one minute. ms. moore: thank you, madam speaker. i would like to ask unanimous consent to be able to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. moore: madam speaker, today's consideration of h.j.res. 75 is a sham. it is a massacre aid, a charade, and it features this relentless

drumbeat and parade of pretentious concern for suckling babes and lacktating women. i mean, who do you think you're fooling? you're not fooling the national w.i.c. association. after all, they have watched the appropriations committee of this majority vote out up to a half billion dollars in cuts in the w.i.c. program. for these 8.6 million suckling babes. and what of these lacktating women? you know, i breastfed my kids and i tell you, when you cut $40 billion out of food stamps, women cannot produce milk because they won't have fresh fruits and vegetables and lean meets -- meats. and what about the siblings of these children, school-age children, the 210,000 who rely on free lunch, that this bill does not address? madam speaker, i would hope that we would not deny 859,000

children, elderly and disabled. enough of this carve value. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. ms. moore: reject this. thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. the gentleman from california reserves. the gentleman from alabama is recognized. >> at this time i would like to recognize the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. kildee, for 1 1/2 minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized for 1 1/2 minutes. mr. kildee: i thank the gentleman. madam speaker, the word hypocrisy has been thrown around a lot tonight. i got to congress about three years ago and my understanding was if you're a republican, you hated women, infants, children, veterans and seniors. now, this week we have tried to address the problems of women, infants, children, veterans and seniors. and for some reason our colleagues can't understand that. because they say, you are using these people as political pawns. and the hypocrisy of it is, they

know no longer can stand up and say that they defeed these folks because they have turned their backs on them this week and instead of helping them they have turned a cold shoulder. i would ask my presents -- friends, as a child growing up, i used to make a list every night when it came close to christmas of everything that i wanted. and i'd wake up christmas morning and i never got everything i wanted. but, boy, was i glad for everything i got. and if you're telling me tonight that you are turning your back on the same people that you say only your party defends, that is the height of hypocrisy. and totally uncalled for on this floor. madam speaker, i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from california is recognized. >> may i inquire as to the time? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california has 4 1/2 minutes. the gentleman from alabama has two minutes. >> madam speaker, i yield 1 1/2

minutes to the distinguished congresswoman from florida, ms. castor. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from florida is recognized for 1 1/2 minutes. ms. castor: madam speaker, i rise on behalf of 1,500 of my neighbors in tampa who have been furloughed at mcdill air force base due to the g.o.p. government shutdown. they were laid off on tuesday and they will not be paid. i'm very proud of my community. the banks and credit unions and the tampa bay partnership are coming together to ensure they have bridge loans so the families stay afloat. but it should not have come to this. it is so irresponsible for the g.o.p. to shut down government because they disagree with the duly enacted law. i also rise on behalf of small businesses in my community. they are stymied from their expansion plans because the g.o.p. has shut down the small business administration. they want to buy equipment or get working capital, but the

republicans have shut them down. i rise on behalf of the veterans in my community that were waiting for disability benefits but due to the shutdown they're going to have to wait longer. and i rise on behalf of mothers and infants and families all across this country and in opposition to the republican's continued slashing of the basic suftnence that they need -- sustenance that they need to keep going. this is not consistent with our american values. this dysfunction is irresponsible and it's causing real pain and i urge my colleagues to set aside the political gimmicks, allow a vote on the bill that will get people back to work. and end this g.o.p. shutdown before it causes greater pain. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. the gentleman from alabama is recognized. >> madam speaker, we'd like to reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from alabama reserves. the gentleman from california is recognized. >> madam speaker, i'd like to

recognize congressman barber from arizona for unanimous consent request. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. barber: thank you, madam speaker. enough is enough. we must end this recless government shutdown. i ask unanimous consent -- reckless government shutdown. i ask unanimous consent that the house bring up h.j.res. 59. we must end this blame game. we must come together. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will suspend. mr. barber: is enough -- enough is enough, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will suspend. as the chair previously advised, that request cannot be entertained absent appropriate clearance. the gentleman from california is recognized. >> madam chair, i'd like to recognize a very distinguished member with a great deal of seniority and probably the law's most knowledgeable member in

congress about all the health care issues in this country, congressman bob andrews from new jersey. the speaker pro tempore: for what time? how much time? >> 1 1/2 minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey is ecognized for 1 1/2 minutes. without objection. mr. andrews: thank you, madam speaker. i thank my friend for yielding. the people that we're talking about here tonight in this debate are people who work very hard, have a couple children, usually. and need some help with their nutrition when they're pregnant, when their children are very young. those folks have another problem, too. it's lack of health insurance. see, a lot of them have worked their whole lives, they've worked for a small business, they've made just a little bit too much money for medicaid, but not nearly enough to pay $10,000 or $15,000 a year for a health insurance policy. on tuesday for the first time in their lives, for many of them, there's a chance to do something about that.

a great number could enroll in medicaid. their whole family. others were able to buy health insurance for $10 or $15 a week. a week. to cover themselves and their family. this whole government shutdown is about shutting down that opportunity for them to buy health care. so all these crocodile tears tonight about these families, the reality is we wouldn't be having this debate if there wasn't a compulsion on the majority side of the aisle to kill the affordable care act. you're not going to be able to. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from california is recognized. >> how much time? the speaker pro tempore: 1 3/4 minutes remaining. the gentleman from alabama has two minutes remaining. >> i'm the last speaker, madam chairman. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from alabama reserves. the gentleman from california is recognized.

>> thank you very much, madam chair. look, many of us that have spoken here are appropriators. our job is to bring 12 bills to this floor, 12 conference reports, we've done none. we've totally failed. pass 111 we've had to c.r.'s in the 20 years that i've been here in congress. none of them, none of them had these prerequisites, that we got to meet with the president, we got to repeal something, we got to disfund something, we don't like this, we don't like that. in fact, as appropriators, we know that the rules of this house don't allow us to legislate on appropriations bills. so even these requests that everybody's making of what we ought to do have to take a waiver by the rules committee, a waiver to our own house rules, to bring all this stuff up. and in the meantime, we've done

nothing. and so the government shuts down. because we haven't been responsible for that oath of office that we took here. it didn't just say fund a part of government. today we have a choice out of 10 parts of government. your popular parts. your special. well, i didn't come here for any tea party special. i came here for the whole government. the hundreds of thousands of parts that put together this incredible, wonderful government that we have the privilege of serving. but i can't go and tell my colleagues, go vote for this, vote for that, on condition of this and that. all those things violate our procedural rules, violate our history. this institution's 113 sessions old. and as i said, since i've been here, 111 times we've come to the point where we need to pass a c.r. we've never done it like this. reject these piecemeal

legislation. let's get on with the business. let's open up government. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from alabama is recognized for two minutes. >> thank you, madam speaker. i want to address a couple of issues that's come up during our discussion here this afternoon. i've heard some of my colleagues across the aisle say they believe w.i.c. has been underfunded. i do want to point out that all eligible participants are being served. and to my knowledge, no one has been turned away from the program. the f.y. 2013 ag appropriations conference agreement provided more than $7 billion, that's $7 billion, for the w.i.c. program. mr. aderholt: after sequestration and rescissions, the total equaled $6.5 billion. at the end of it, of f.y. 2013, w.i.c. had carryover funds or remaining funds totaling nearly

$300 million. even with sequestration, w.i.c. has been able to serve all eligible participants and still have funding left over for the end of the fiscal year. by $300 million. clearly the program has received sufficient funding and we have certainly made sure that to be the case. in closing today, i would hope that my colleagues would join me in support of this resolution. there's nothing cynical about what we're doing here. you can read the resolution, i have it right here, it simply continues to provide funding for the w.i.c. program, and it provides certainty. it ensures that w.i.c. clinics will be open, appointments will be kept and food benefits will be provided. there's nothing again that's cynical about this. the only thing that's cynical about this, if you decide to politicize this bill. it's interesting that those who claim to be the defenders and the supporters of this program are the very ones that are actualityly coming here this afternoon, that -- actually coming here this afternoon to

oppose the bill. i hope my colleagues will not turn their backs on providing certainty for low-income women and children. all we want to do is to keep the program fully operational and fully funded and i urge my colleagues to support this resolution and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. all time for debate has expired. pursuant to house resolution 371, the previous question is ordered. the question is on engrossment and third reading of the joint resolution. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. third reading. the clerk: joint resolution making continuing appropriations for the special supplemental nutrition program for women, infants and children for fiscal year 2014 and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from arizona seek recognition? >> i have a motion to recommit

at the desk. i am opposed in its current form. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman qualifies. the clerk will report the motion. the clerk: mrs. kirkpatrick of arizona moves to recommit the joint resolution. mrs. kirkpatrick: i ask unanimous consent to dispense with the reading. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from alabama seek recognition? mr. aderholt: we'd like the motion to be read. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will read. the clerk: to the committee on appropriations with instructions to report the same back to the house for thewith, with the following amendment. strike all after the resolving close and insert the following. that upon passage of this joint resolution by the house of representatives, the joint resolution, house joint resolution 59, making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2014 and for other purposes, as amended by the senate on september 27, 2013, shall be considered to have been taken from the speaker's table and the house shall be considered to have, one, receded from its amendment and, two, concurred in the senate amendment.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from -- mr. aderholt: i reserve a point of order on the gentlewoman's motion. the speaker pro tempore: the point of order is reserved. the gentlewoman from arizona is recognized for five minutes. mrs. kirkpatrick: thank you, madam speaker. it is not surprising that the w.i.c. program is the latest subject of the majority's ploy to use low-income mothers and children as political pawns. w.i.c. enjoys bipartisan support, a bipartisan poll in 2012 found the program enjoyed 67% approval among the american ople, including 53% of conservatives, by provooding things like fresh -- providing things like fresh fruits and fredgetabbles, milk and dairy, even fresh salmon, every dollar $4.21 roduces $1.92 to

in medicaid savings for newborns and their mothers. that just makes common sense. on wednesday, the usda estimated that w.i.c. would continue operations for a week or two, thanks to a small contingency fund. in arizona, 29% of children are food insecure. 29%. and over 36% of arizonans live in w.i.c.-eligible households. in my district, the ass department of health services says in apache and navajo county, 70% of the families were w.i.c. eligible in 2010. we need this program, but the bill before us is not meant to relieve needy families. it is only a tool meant for bipartisan -- excuse me -- partisan game. the republican budget proposal would cut w.i.c. 22%.

the national w.i.c. association estimates that the sequester has resulted in nearly 12,000 deserving families in arizona dropped from the rolls. t, now the majority reverses this to defund this program. w.i.c. cannot stand alone. it is a gateway for health care and social services, for family services that will remain unsustainable due to the shutdown. services like low energy assistance through the department of energy, immunization through the health and human services and early childhood education programs like head start. where is the funding for these programs? the majority proposes a fragmented program that would be crippled. my motion to recommit would open up the entire federal budget -- the entire federal government for funding so we're no longer picking and choosing the needs that we're going to

meet. can the chair explain why it is not germane to keep all of the federal government open instead of just a tiny slice? stop these political games. let's get serious about helping the american people. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from alabama seek recognition? mr. aderholt: madam speaker, i make a point of order that the instructions contained in the motion violate clause 7 of rule 16 which requires an amendment be germane to the bill that is currently under consideration. as the chair recently ruled on october 2 and october 3 of threen, the instructions con-- 2013, the instructions contained a special order by the committee on rules and therefore the bill is not germane to the underlying bill. so madam speaker, i insist on my point of order. the speaker pro tempore: does any other member wish to be heard on the point of order?

mrs. kirkpatrick: madam speaker, i do. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from arizona is recognized. mrs. kirkpatrick: madam speaker, doesn't the bill before us fund the federal government? my motion to recommit would open up the entire federal government so all of our needs can be met. if we are funding w.i.c., why aren't we providing funds for school safety? if we are funding w.i.c., why aren't we providing funds for supplemental nutritional assistance? why aren't we protecting food safety for every single american? can the chair explain why it is not germane to keep all of the federal government open instead of just a tiny slice? why are the republicans in favor of closing down the federal government and denying taxpayers the benefits they've already paid for? this makes absolutely no sense to the hardworking everyday people trying to make a living. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from the state of virginia seek recognition? mr. scott: madam speaker, i wish to speak to the ruling of

the chair. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized on the point of order. mr. scott: thank you, madam speaker. on the point of order, my view that you should -- you could clarify the legislative process by ruling against the point of order. if the point of order had not been raised, the next order of business would be an up or down vote on keeping the entire government open. and a sustaining of the point of order would mean if we've done what we've done in the last few bills, there would be a challenge to your ruling. and if that challenge were to be sustained, then we could get that up or down vote because the ruling -- overruling the chair would mean that we could get an up or down vote. and so you should rule against the point of order to clarify all this so we can get a clear p or down vote on the --

keeping the government open. on the other hand, madam chair, the vote on keeping the government open will be on the motion to table. voting for the motion -- the speaker pro tempore: the chair is prepared to rule on the point of order. mr. scott: can i be further heard for just 15 seconds? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman may conclude. mr. scott: thank you, madam chair. so if you rule against the motion, against the point of order, we could have an up or down vote. otherwise, the up or down vote will essentially be on the motion to table. we should vote against the motion. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will rule. the gentleman from alabama makes a point of order that the instructions proposed in the motion to recommit offered by the gentlewoman from arizona are not germane. the joint resolution extends nding related to the special supplemental nutrition assistance program for women, infants and children. the instructions in the motion propose an order of business in the house. as the chair ruled earlier today as well as on october 2

and october 3, 2013, a motion to recommit proposing an order of business of the house is not germane to a measure providing for the appropriation of funds on committee jurisdiction grounds. hear the instructions proposed a nongermane amendment, the point of order is sustained. mrs. kirkpatrick: madam chair, i appeal the ruling of the chair. the speaker pro tempore: the question is shall the decision of the chair stand as the judgment of the house. for what purpose does the gentleman from alabama rise? ed mr. aderholt: i move to table. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to table. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. mrs. kirkpatrick: i ask for the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. all those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes

by electronic device. pursuant to clause 9 of rule 20, this 15-minute vote on the motion to table will be followed by a five-minute vote on passage of the bill, if arising without further proceedings in recommital. this is a 15-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.]

the speaker pro tempore: the yeas are 223 and nays are 185. the motion is adopted. observation -- without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. the question is on the joint resolution. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina rise? mr. price: i ask for the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote.

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the speaker pro tempore: on this vote, the yeas are 244 and the nays are 164. the joint resolution is passed. without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that the committee on veterans affairs be permitted to file a supplemental report on h.r. 1804. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. he house will be in order.

members are asked to take their conversations off the floor. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. members are asked to take their conversations off the floor.

the chair will entertain requests for one-minute speeches. for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina seek reckniss? >> madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. my office has continued to be flooded by calls from folks in north carolina who are experiencing the negative effects of obamacare. not an hour goes by when i learn a hard-working family, they will face higher premiums. americans will pay more for health care, and their options are being curtailed. this doesn't even mention the technical gliches that have emerged in the online exchanges.

they are trouble ahead with this misguided law. almost $17 trillion in debt, our government has a massive spending problem and obamacare will contribute to our nation's fiscal woes. now is the time to stop this law in its tracks. congress has the opportunity to rovide exemptions, the same ex exemption the president has provided to all his friends. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from rhode island seek recognition? mr. langevin: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. mr. speaker, we are now in the fourth day of a manufactured government shutdown. and despite repeated calls to end this manufactured crisis, house republicans have yet to allow a majority vote on a

senate-passed bill that would pass this house and the president could sign today to bring operations back online. republican leaders have begun cherry-picking services to mitigate the political fallout from the position in which they have put our country in. don't you think the american people see through that? while it's nice to see my republican colleagues that the government does provide many critical services worthy ever of of our support, these attempts will not help the dedicated servants hob furloughed or or my constituents applying for social security benefits, cut off the s.b.a. loans and don't help the women who will lose funding after today. these bills would prolong a disastrous situation. i urge my colleagues to bring up

a straightforward funding measure to get our constituents, our economy and our economy back to work. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and stepped my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. >> madam speaker, i rise today o honor dr. peter naho fmp f from central valley of california who improved education and helping young people in our local community. the doctor was a local leader with passion for education. he started his career in education as a teacher and football coach at roosevelt high in fresno, california. he was elected fresno county superintendent of schools in 1990 and re-elected three more times in 1994, 1998 and 2002 and served as secretary of education

for former governor of california. at the time of his passing, he served as member of the board of trustees for the california state university system. the doctor is remembered as a tremendous not vator who encouraged people to reach their full potential the central valley lost. madam speaker, i rise with my colleagues today to pay tribute for his lifelong dedication for his help in education. i yield back. . the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman rise? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> madam speaker, we're here today to honor a true public servant and a long-time friend of mine, superintendent pete mihass. my republican colleagues,

congressman nunes and congressman valadao, and i certainly have our disagreements. but among those things we all agree on is how important and meaningful the work of pete's life was to so many of our value and those he touched throughout the state of california. mr. costa: because he was a true public servant. he committed his life to the furtherment of education for the young people throughout california. he and i worked together on so many issues, from special education to bringing in the keeping score program, to the kids of fresno county, to dealing with challenged school districts like west elementary. the implementation of charter schools, and, yes, one of the last tasks that pete did, even though he was in retirement, was to head the selection committee for the new president of cal state university at fresno, dr. joe castro. a good selection that was. it's time that we set our differences apart and find a solution to the impasses that are affecting this congress and

this country today. it's what pete would have done. it's what we should do. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> madam speaker, i'd like to pay tribute, as mr. costa said, to dr. pete mihass. an enthusiastic leader of the central valley and a man who i was privileged to call my friend. pete was a major force in shaping and improving our local school system, serving as a school teacher, administrator, scule superintendent, and -- school superintendent, and he leaves a legacy of excellence and commitment. mr. nunnelee: pete's passion, of course, -- mr. nunes: pete's passion, of course, was sports. it's a wonder what sports would be like today without his dedication as a college athlete, soccer, football and tennis coach, his work on sports

scholarships and the fresno hall of fame. through the coaches he later hired at various schools and institutions, he left a lasting impact on the sports programs throughout the central valley. aside from his long list of accomplishments, dr. mihass was friendly, optimistic and outgoing, with a constant, infectious smile. he was widely known in the community and deeply loved. characteristically he seemed to be at every fresno state football game. i'll miss seeing him there and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee seek recognition? mr. cohen: address the house for one minute, unanimous consent. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. cohen: thank you, madam speaker. this afternoon i was supposed to be in memphis with the head of the faith-based group from washington. because of the sequester, she wasn't able to travel, because of the shutdown i'm here. so we had 42 pastors come to my office with the navigators in

memphis and we talked about the affordable care act and how to sign up people in the community. and what the affordable care act did. it was a very, very beneficial program in telling people in the community how to sign people up for needed and important health care. i wish others would do the same thing. it would be constructive. the affordable care act, patient protection act, is law of the land. we need to help our citizens get adjusted, get involved and get the benefits. i yield back the balance of my ime. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from north carolina seek recognition? ms. foxx: i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, mr. speaker. madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. foxx: consider the common ground the house has offered democrats. common ground, senator harry reid is squandering by refusing to talk. we want to reopen government, we want to restore vital services. the senate won't budge. they won't even negotiate.

why? because ensuring fair treatment for americans under obamacare is evidently too radical for some in the senate. the president provided big businesses a one-year break to ready themselves for obamacare. shouldn't he provide american families the same? the house thinks so. so does democrat senator mansion. give them at least a year, he said. you gave the corporate sector a year, don't you think it would be fair? yes, because it is. the -- but senator reid won't talk. he won't end the shutdown because he's insistent the double standard remain in tact. senator reid, let's not waste the common ground we have. let's talk. let's treat americans fairly. let's open their government. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: members are remindsed to address their remarks to the chair. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> madam speaker, i received the

following email from stu harris in el paso, yesterday. he's the vice president of the national border patrol council, local 1929. he writes, our board par petroleum agents in the el paso sector are outraged by this nonsense. we cannot understand tying the fight against the affordable care act with funding the government. mr. o'rourke: i can only hope that nothing happens to any of our agents in the field who are putting their lives on the line and doing it right now for free. imagine having to be in a safety heightened awareness for 10 hours a day, all the time not knowing if or when the paycheck will come or how we're going to pay the bills or feed our families. due to the shutdown, all border patrol agent trainees who were at the academy have been sent home. this amounts to yet another delay in adding measures to secure the border. madam speaker, it is time to reopen the government and allow an up or down vote on funding this government. i yield back.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> madam speaker, this has been a tough week for my constituents. a tough week for all americans. i've been reflecting on the goals i set when i decided to run for office a little more than a year ago. i came here to tackle the growing debt that's saddling our country. i want to make sure that we reform the way washington spends money. and i want to bet -- want a better and more responsible america for my children and your children. mr. davis: madam speaker, i hate the bickering that has consumed this institution. i disease like the fighting. but evendy dislike the fighting. but even more i dislike the $17 trillion in debt that's preventing american exceptionalism. it's unacceptable that last year our country spent $1 trillion more than we had. it is unacceptable that our president does not want to talk about how we get out of the red

or the fact that obamacare will add another $1.3 trillion to our deficit. we had historic spending reforms in this house and have begun the process to retire from advertise how washington spends -- reprioritize how washington spends your tax dollars. i will continue my efforts to get our fiscal house back in order. i will continue to advocate that we return to a constitutional appropriations process and begin passing all of our spending bills. one of the most important powers the constitution outlines is in article 1, it is for congress to control federal spending. we must get back to that system of checks and balances that our forefathers designed and the constitution demands. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from ohio seek recognition? ms. kaptur: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. kaptur: yes, madam speaker, i want to apologize to the people of southern ohio and pike county and the uranium enrichment facility for not

being able to be with them today. we did not theapt our schedule would be completely disrupted by the shenanigans here due to the g.o.p. shutdown of our departments of government, which is so unnecessary. so absolutely discourteous to the people of this country. initially when this happened, the calls that came into our office were calls of dismay and shock and upset, about the inability of this congress to reach agreements because of a ry recless -- reckless fashion. now we're getting calls from people who have gone to apply for social security benefits and there's nobody there to take their application. now we're getting calls from veterans who are returning from theater and there's nobody there to process their benefit claims. we have over 800,000 people furloughed from the federal government and guess what? one of my communities had sent officers for training at one of the f.b.i. academies, guess

what? they're riding back home right now because their training was not available. madam speaker, you know what? our responsibility is to provide a stable government that gives confidence to the people of this country, advances economic growth and meets our responsibilities. the speaker pro tempore: your time has expired. ms. kaptur: a clean continuing resolution to the floor and this could end. madam speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition? >> i rise and ask for permission, for unanimous consents, to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> madam speaker, i did not plan to take the floor today but i was receiving a call this afternoon from felicia she'll who are runs the poor farmers market. she was calling both on her own behalf and on behalf of her friends who run mayberry's mill, an establishment just off the blue ridge parkway. and she told me that they were having similar problems to what we've bread with mt. vernon being closed down, even though

it isn't run by the federal government. mr. griffith: the mayberry mill isn't a federal pa filt -- facility but it's off the parkway. we know in north carolina there was a facility where we blocked the parking. we don't have the ability to do regular things but we can block the parking of businesses. this is a tragedy. 60-some employees in the various businesses there may be affected negatively by the actions of the park service. i call your attention to this. i ask you, if you're in the neighborhood, go to the blue ridge parkway, travel down it go to mayberry's mill, shop the stores nearby. they need you to show that they're not going to allow the government to play cheap tricks, as one park ranger said they were doing, in an article in the "washington times" today. we've been told to make life as difficult as we can. that's disgusting. that's what an angry park ranger said. everyone, madam speaker, in this country should be angry and they should go out to the park. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from new hampshire seek recognition?

without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. >> it's very clear to the "wall street journal," it's clear to the chamber of commerce, it's clear to "u.s.a. today" and it's clear to the american public that the republican right wing, the tea party, has shut down the government. now i funed out that we're going home. speaker boehner has decided that congress will go home tomorrow. ms. shea-porter: how can we possibly go home? there are people who are not being paid, people here who are not being paid. the police were not paid that work here every day. across this country people are not receiving what they paid for and we're going home. i'm embarrassed about this. we should stay here. and if they can't agree to accept the fact that they lost the vote on the health care law, again and again, if they can't agree to that, can they at least agree to work on jobs?

there's plenty of work to do in this country. and we have no right to go home until we get this job done. thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> madam speaker, my colleague who spoke fails to tell the american people that we're going home tomorrow after we get our morning work done. we're going to be back here monday. so with that said, several years ago, before obamacare was implemented, right after it was, the media asked the other side of the house, what's in it? and the other side of the house responded, well, we don't know. we have to pass it to see what's in it. we have to see what the language says, people are going to have to read it. now we are reading it. big business is reading it. they don't like. it unions are reading it.

they don't like it. most americans don't like it. so what does that mean? when obamacare was passed, it was supposed to cost $900 billion and some change and cover 60 million people for 10 years. mr. marino: latest numbers today, it may cover 24,000 people at a cost of just shy of $2 trillion. we are spending $1 trillion more every year than we bring in this country, who's going to pay for it? where are we going to get the money? borrow it from the chinese? or put it on the backs of the hardworking middle class taxpayers? it has to stop. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: are ere any further requests the speaker pro tempore: the chair lays before the house the following personal requests. the clerk: leave of absence requested for mr. rush of illinois, today, friday october 4, through sunday, october 6. the speaker pro tempore: without

objection. the request is granted. under the speaker's announced policy of january 3, 2013, the ntleman from missouri is recognized as the designee of the majority leader. mrs. hartzler: thank you, madam speaker, today is a historic day, fourth day of the democrat's shutdown. there is a difference of opinion not just on obamacare but the size and role of federal government. the course and what we look like hangs in the balance. will we continue down the path of a bigger government that takes more of our hard-earned money and inflicts a substandard health system and tramples on our rights or will we be a nation of by the people, for the

people that protects our rights and ensures our liberties and allows us to keep our hard-earned money. these are big decisions. and as republicans. we have been here and put forth proposal after proposal to fund the government and keep it open and protect the american people from this health care law. we have sent over to the senate numerous proposals to keep the government owe while ensuring no one gets special treatment. unfortunately, harry reid and the senate democrats rebuffed every attempt to negotiate and slammed the door to talking. they went home last weekend, we stayed here and worked. they taked each of our proposals. we appointed conferees. harry reid refused to appoint conferees and slammed the door by refusing to talk.

president obama called speaker boehner to the white house yesterday. we were encouraged. sadly, the message was, i have called you here to tell i i'm not going to talk, i'm not going to talk. i'm not going to talk, good-bye. you can't negotiate if you want talk. my mother is a pretty special lady and pretty wise woman. when i was a little girl, she knew how to get us talking again. she would make us sit in a room together for half an hour. we hated it. it was uncomfortable at first. we didn't want to make eye contact or communicate. by the end of 30 minutes, we were always talking again and ready to set aside our differences and move forward. that's what needs to happen here. let's talk. that's what we need to do. ut, instead, the president has resorted to stunts that are

harmful to american citizens. he furloughed defense citizens. this is in spite of the legislation we passed and he signed to prevent that. the pay the military act allows defense workers to remain on the job but the president has decide todd furlough workers any way. over 150,000 army civilians and navy civilians were sent home. reports are coming in that long overdue maintenance is being delayed and not completed. our national defense is jeopardized because our commander in chief has sidelined our military. but that's not all. the president has chosen to inflict as much public pain as possible to get his way. for the first time in history, he has closed the u.s. memorials in washington, d.c. and around the world.

despite many of these memorialses being open-air venues with 24/7 access 365 days of the year, he has spent precious tax dollars renting barricades to close them. earlier this week, president obama ordered the national park service to close the world war ii memorial despite the fact that numerous veterans had been planning for months to travel to d.c. to visit. here's a picture of what they were greeted with. instead of being greeted with like heroes they came to see metal barriers around the mall. there was no need to ever close the world war ii memorial other than to make a political point. as keeping these monuments open would not cost a thing.

when i went down wednesday morning to help remove the barricades nor veterans to see their memorial, i was ashamed of the president's action and continueous lack of respect for the men and women who fought and died. the action of closing monuments has never been authorized during any previous government shutdown. and underscores this president's desire to purposely do everything in his power to make americans suffer from his political games. the president has seen the public outcry and open the world war ii memorial but only to veterans. unfortunately, it remains barricaded to the general public and all other war memorials. president obama has barricaded others like the f.d.r. memorial, lincoln memorial and martin luther king junior memorial.

here they are doing that. he dedicated this memorial in 2011 and during his speech, he referenced many important milestones and made reference to this act that this monument was all for those who seek freedom and testament to the numerous barricades that have fall i don't know since dr. king pushed for social justice. however, the president has chosen to punish americans who travel to d.c. and has literally erected barriers to keep out those visitors. in the same 2011 speech, the president points out if dr. king were alive today, he would want us to know, we could argue about the role of government without questioning each other's love of country with the knowledge that in this democracy government is

no distant object that is rather an expression of our common commitments to one another. he would call on us to assume the best in each other rather than the worse and challenge each other in ways that ultimately heal rather than wound. i sincerely wish the president would heed dr. king's wise words and sit down with us so we can work out our differences instead of needlessly punishing americans for his inability to find common ground and pass legislation. let's talk. now, i want to give my colleagues an opportunity to share their thoughts about this important time in history. i would like to yield a couple of minutes here to my good friend from tennessee, representative black. mrs. black: i thank the gentlelady from yielding. obamacare is having disastrous

effects on the americans across this country. and in my home state of tennessee, premiums are rising by 190% and now schools are being forced to reduce hours for substitute teachers. every day, constituents contact my office with stories about how this devastating law is hurting them. lewis in hendersonville told me his premiums are going up and he said, we don't know how to address this additional burden. please help. tracy in smggetville wrote to me and quote, i will have to close my business due to obamacare. i'm a veteran and spent 21 years building this business. it's a shame it has come to this. everything i have worked for for a while will be gone because of this bill. jeffrey is a small business owner, who wrote to me, and i

quote, please continue fighting back against this law. my constituents and americans across the country never supported this law that is being rammed down their throats by the president and senate democrats and my house republican colleagues and i have worked to protect them from the law's disastrous effects. but instead of listening to the american people, the senate democrats have shut down the american government. this is shameful. and it's passed time that harry reid negotiate with this house to negotiate the concerns of the american people over this isastrous law. mrs. hartzler: i yield to the -- -- n from

>> some things i have been hearing out there. the president said obamacare has nothing to do with the budget. now that is very rich considering it was passed using budget reconciliation in order to ram it through the senate with less than 60 votes. it was a budget issue then and not now. it has been ruled a tax by the supreme court and authorizes trillions of dollars in new spending. some say obamacare is the law and therefore cannot be changed. well, this body has the constitutional authority to legislate. we can always amend or change the laws. but i would also say if this law is so special, then why isn't the president enforcing it as written? indeed, he has given waivers and exemptions, including a bailout

to members of congress, giving them relief from the text of the very law that they passed without reading. i think obamacare is dangerous of how it's going to impact economic growth. but in terms of good government, this is a croningyism. and those who have political connections can get the burdens removed. we know there will be something for labor unions. but if you are an individual, you still got to abide by obamacare's dictates. some say doing individual bills is cherry-picking. bills. pass individual big omnibus c.r.'s, that is not the way business is supposed to be done. you are packing the departments into one big bill and forfeiting congress' ability to make good spending choices and locking in

bad policy. we haven't done appropriations bills in this house for years. a lot of things was done when we had the previous speaker. individual bills are better. the senate should absolutely act on our bills and then finally i would say before i yield back to the gentlelady from missouri, obamacare is the only major piece of legislation that has passed in the last 80 years that had zero support from the other party. social security had 80% of the republicans in the house. civil rights act, 80% of the republicans in the house. 80%.ar and omics had these big laws had big bipartisan support. they don't like living under it now. i yield back the balance of my

time. mrs. hartzler: i think it's very true and shows we are here fighting for a bunch of people in this country who are hurting and that's why we need to repeal it, amend it or do something to stop this law that is hurting people. i would like to yield to my good iend from colorado, doug lamborn. mr. lamborn: i want to talk about negotiations. the president unfortunately has said he isn't going to negotiate on the debt ceiling and harry reid said he isn't going to sit down and talk about the continuing resolution and slowdown or shutdown. that begs the question, who does the president negotiate with. take a look at. assad, the syrian president who that poisoned his own people and

after the latest explosion of poison gas, the civilized world was outraged that 1,500 people that were killed and john kerry has entered into negotiations with the russians acting as -- and the russians are going to help the syrians and this has the blessing of the president. i wish success on this venture. but they are willing to negotiate with these dictators from around the world and that includes iran. iran has entered into discussions with the state department. the president has talked to the resident of iran president rouhani. . when you think about these

characters around the world and in some cases evil regimes that the president is negotiating with, who is he not negotiating with? the republicans in the house. john bainer is the speaker of the house -- boehner is the speaker of the house and the republicans in the conference represent over half the people in america. over half the the americans are represented by republicans here in congress. over half the country. and yet the president won't even negotiate. harry reid, the senate majority leader, won't even send negotiators to talk to house negotiators. i think this is wrong. i think we really should have some negotiations. i think we should have some discussions. if these people merit negotiation and discussion, certainly half of the country, the republicans here in the house who represent half the country, should enter into negotiations. so i call on the president to negotiate with the speaker and house republicans on the debt ceiling. i call on harry reid to send

negotiators to meet with house republicans, to talk about the government slowdown or shutdown, however you want to call it. we need to negotiate, mr. president. we need to negotiate, mr. reid. and i yield back to the gentlelady from missouri. thank you. ms. hartzler: we have extended our hand to the senate and to the president this entire time. and yet we've had the door slammed in our face. but you're right. he's negotiated with others. so it's time for him to negotiate with us. thank you for bring -- thank you for bringing out those excellent points. now i'd like to yield four minutes to the chairman of the financial service committee, my friend, jeb hensarling from texas. mr. hensarling: i thank the gentlelady for yielding. i especially thank her for her leadership on this special order . and her leadership on behalf of all of our men and women who serve in uniform. many in her district, and she's well respected within this

institution for what she has done. for our military. well, madam speaker, i know the american people occasionally get somewhat confused about what is going on in congress. here's what's easy to understand. house republicans have put not one offer on the table, not two, not three, but four. four different offers to negotiate with the president and the democrats. what do we hear from the president? what do we hear from harry reid? no negotiations. you know, i still recall vividly my mother-in-law who has a saying, the least you can do in life is show up. president barack obama and harry reid have not shown up. now, i know that the president says at one time in his life he taught constitutional law. some of us find that somewhat

eye robic. because -- ironic. because if the president actually knew the constitution then he would know that it is the congress that has the power of the purse. it is congress that appropriates funds. nowhere will you find in the constitution that congress is relegated to the power of the rubber stamp. and so we know that the president and harry reid wants to -- want us to rubber stamp the health care policies of this administration that we hear about every single day. every single day i'm hearing from one of my constituents. congressman hensarling, they just cut me back to 29 hours because of obamacare. congressman hensarling, my health care premiums have gone up $1,500 because of obamacare. and yet we're told by the president, well, it's the law, don't touch it. well, it's a law that he's already changed seven times. and it is a law that's hurting our constituents.

and, no, republicans never, ever, ever going to give up on our quest to have patient-centered health care that's right for our families and doesn't harm our economy, is not an affront to our freedom. we'll never give up on that. now, madam speaker, we know that the president's not going to sign away his signature item and we know since so much of this spending is what we call mandatory spending, automatic spending, ok, we know the president's not going to cooperate to repeal it. or defund it. we'll never give up our quest. but, madam speaker, all we're asking for now is if obama cair's going to be imposed on the american people, then it ought to be imposed equally. none of these special interest deals, none of these sweetheart deals. if it's good enough for the american people, it ought to be good enough for the president. why wasn't he the first one, the very first one signing up for this? why wasn't there a line at the white house? i can tell you why, madam speaker. because they exempted

themselves. the american people are tired of washington elites passing laws that the rest of us are supposed to live under. that's not what the american people expect. and so republicans are asking one thing, you know what? if obamacare is going to be imposed on america, no special deals for big business, no special deals for big labor. if they're going to get a one-year reprieve, then working americans ought to get a one-year reprieve. and if it's good enough for working americans, it ought to be applied to the president, his cabinet, everyone in the white house, and the congress. now, listen, i don't want to put my family in the exchange. i don't want to lose the employer contribution that the taxpayers have so generously given us. but we're not going to have the president act like he can make the law. no member of congress, no one in the white house is above the law. and so that's what we're trying to do. we want negotiations. we want, if we're going to get stuck with obamacare while the

president is the president, then let it be applied equally but this is bigger than this, madam speaker. millions and millions of our fellow countrymen are either unemployed or underemployed. they need our help. and so this is a spending bill. the president's economic policies have failed. we want fundamental tax reform. we want to get rid of the red tape burden. we want to take our nation off the road to bankruptcy. i say this not just as a member of congress, i say this as the father of a 10-year-old son and an 11-year-old daughter. and so somehow the president says, oh, yeah, you can't mess with this spending bill and we want to you rubber stamp the debt ceiling. republicans say, no, no, no, mr. president. we'll negotiate with you in good faith. and maybe the electorate gave you the white house, maybe they gave you the senate. but the american people gave the house to the republican party and we will not sit idly by while men and women are

unemployed, underemployed, wondering how they're going to feed their families, we're not going sit by while he bankrupts this nation for future generations. no, no, no. we will not sit idly by. we're ready to negotiate. but we are through negotiating with ourselves and the american people will demand ultimately that the president and harry reid negotiate and we work together to get this economy back and put us on a road to fiscal solvency so our best days will once be -- again be ahead of us and i thank the gentlelady for yielding time. ms. hartzler: thank you so much. what wise words there. about what this fight is about. for the future generations of our country. and how we are fighting for a better health care system and a government that lives within its means. it's time to do that. and it's time to negotiate for the president and the senate to come and talk to us. so let's talk. i'm glad today to have a friend of mine, brad went strup, here

from ohio -- wednesday trup here from ohio, -- wenstrup here from ohio. i respect his views and i respect him not only as a member of a patriot but as a d. i yield four minutes to the gentleman. mr. owens: i thank the gentlelady for yielding -- mr. wenstrup: i thank the gentlelady for yielding. you know, this slowdown, shutdown has taken on many particular angles and a lot of accusations and a lot of discussion. but as we get to this point in it, although obamacare is driving the shutdown, it's not merely about the millions that will still be uninsured. and it's not merely about the 50% or more of this country that will be on medicaid, where access to care is extremely limited. it's not only about rates going up. it is that health care is going backward in america, not forward. and this shutdown is not only

about the fact that in ohio we passed a constitutional amendment that made the mandate unconstitutional in ohio, only to be overridden by the supreme court. where 66% of the people in ohio did not want this law. and i'm from ohio. i'm here to continue to fight for that. and i'm bothered as we're going through this and i hear the arguments and i hear people refer to terrorism, jihad and bombs strapped to their chest. well, as someone who served a year in iraq as a combat surgeon during the bloodiest time of the year, 2005, 2006, i guarantee you what's taking place here is not that. and it's shameful when people use those types of references and i would bet that those that have served in war would understand that that's not appropriate here. we're here to negotiate, we're here to discuss and we're here to represent the american people. and really i thought when i came here, i'm new, i'm a freshman.

i thought that fair treatment for all americans would be something that's common ground for all of us. and i thought that having special subsidies for members of congress would be something that we would all disagree on. and that would be another area of common ground. those are the basic premiseses that are driving this shutdown right now, because we have passed continuing resolutions that would fund the government completely, if we would just sit down and agree that these portions of this law are wrong and they go against what we as americans believe in. that we're to be treated fairly. that there's no special premises for other people -- for one group over the other. i thought those would be areas of common ground. and i'm surprised that this still goes on. we'll continue to fight the things we disagree with in obamacare and try to improve our health care system as we go along. but it interests me when people say, it's the law, get over it.

well, it's not the law that was passed when you're changing things and that's the problem. and i wonder, i wonder sometimes , if the presidential election was different, say, for example, mitt romney had won, and he went into the presidency and he said, i'm going to exempt this group, i'm going to exempt that group, i'm going to change the law and provide a subsidy to those that it's not written into the law for. what would the outcry be? the outcry would come from me, i guarantee you. because i believe in the rule of law. and i believe in fairness under the law. we need to sit down and figure this out. the president is the president. and he has the seat at the head of the table. but he was not the only one elected. we've all been elected to represent the people and we all have a seat at the table. and that's what needs to take place. i hear arguments from the other

side talking about, as we're passing these resolutions, well, you're picking and choosing now. that's exactly what obamacare has done. throughout that law there is picking and choosing. so when i hear the other side say we're picking and choosing, i say, thank you for making our argument. because that's what we're having problems with. i pray for a better day and, lord willing, we all will sit down at the table and get these things figured out on behalf of the american people. that's what we were sent here to do. and i hope we can get that done and urge those that will not come forward to think about it and come forward and sit and talk with us. and with that i yield back and i appreciate you putting this together this evening for us to have a chance to discuss these issues. ms. hartzler: you bet. thank you very much, gentlemen. you've really spoke to the heart of this whole issue. and that we want fair treatment for all. the president has given over 2,000 waivers of this law to

special interests and to certain groups, given special treatment to members of congress and their staff, and has said to businesses and large corporations, you don't have to comply for a year. but yet he has been unwilling to give a one-year extension to the hardworking families in my district and your district and individuals who work so hard. and the ones that we're hearing about. so that's not fair. so, we hope that -- i hope that the president and the senate will listen to your words tonight and will be willing to come forward and sit down and visit with us. we find that common ground and where we can delay this for a year and move forward as a country. so thanks for bringing up those great points. you know, very happy tonight to get to yield to a friend of mine from missouri, representative jason smith. he's here and he's doing a fantastic job and i feel very honored to serve with you. the people of the eighth

district of missouri know you're doing a fantastic job on their behalf. so, love to hear your thoughts at this historic time about the matters before us. mr. smith: thank you very much. it's a great honor to be here this evening, to talk about the effects that obamacare has on the folks of rural missouri and also want to thank my colleague and my neighbor, just west of me in missouri, congresswoman hartzler, for having us and mutting on this special order. just over a week ago i posted on my facebook page asking the folks back home, give me examples and comments of how obamacare has affected you. it's amazing. we were inundated with tens and tens of people and just different stories after every story. and i want to share a few of those stories of real families that are facing the struggles of obamacare back home.

you know, we have folks all the time that ask, is the fought worth it? is the fight worth defunding and delay og ba ma cair? i'll let you all decide but let me give you a few examples. paul from east prairie in mississippi county, missouri, wrote on facebook, he said he checked to see what his insurance premiums would be next year after obamacare completely goes into effect. paul on his family would be forced to pay $1,035 a month with a sky high deductible of $12,700. paul said he could get coverage from his wife's employer, his wife's a teacher. but with the increased cost, the employer's insurance would take his wife's entire paycheck because of the -- because of the new regulations under the affordable care act, which is everything but affordable.

madam speaker, i ask, is the fight to defund obamacare worth it? let me give you another example. another constituent, noelle, he said he has worked for 35 hours every year for the last eight years. 35 hours a week every year for the last eight years. but guess what? his employer now has changed it where he only works 28 hours a week. guess why? because of obamacare. of the new regulation. under obamacare. is the fight worth it for noelle? donald from festus, missouri, south of st. louis, he told me his health care premium is per from $480 to $740 month. donald went on to say that because of his increased insurance costs, he'll be

contributing $3,000 less a year to our nation's economy. madam speaker, do you think fighting obamacare is worth it? these are my constituents. these are just a few examples of my constituents. these are real people, president obama. these are people that are affected and required to be in this program which you are not required to be part of. which the vice president of the united states is in the in the -- is not required to be part of. which nancy pelosi and harry reid are not required to be part of. this is wrong, folks. this is completely wrong. in the last week, this body has voted to defund and to delay obamacare because it is worth the fight. democrats in the united states senate must now justify to the american people why the

individual mandate is too harmful for businesses and unions but should still be forced on families and individuals. the senate must justify why special interests are eligible for waivers and delays while average, everyday americans will be hit with obamacare's tsunami of mandates, fines and confusion. madam speaker. the -- madam speaker, the fight to defund obamacare is a good fight to have and i will keep fighting until folks in my district are treated the same way as big businesses and special interests. madam speaker, this fight is about fairness. the fight is about families in my district who are seeing skyrocketing insurance premiums and lost wages. and lost jobs. madam speaker, this is a fight worth fighting for. i yield back my time.

the speaker pro tempore: thank you very much, gentleman, for those excellent comments. this is about fairness. fair treatment for all. that's all we're asking. that's something that americans everywhere can agree on system of as the senate and as the president hear these words, i hope they'll come, and let's talk. let's move forward with this. now i'm happy to yield time to my friend from just south of missouri a little ways, oklahoma, fantastic representative and leader here, james lankford. >> thank you. i thank the gentlelady for hosting this time, being table talk through some of these serious issues. i want to bring to our attention tonight something we're trying to bring up over and over again. it is a simple injustice and an absolute avoidance of the law. a week ago this body unanimously, republicans and democrats together, agreed unanimously to make sure that the united states military, all civilians and all civilian

contractors, would be exempt in case there was a shutdown. united states military has take then brunt of the sequestration and in bases all over the country and all over the world, they've suffered. they've stopped training missions, they've slowed down the process as they've rapidly tried to adjust to very fast-moving furloughs and sequestration. but they have. they've done what they've been asked to do. so we make sure as a body, republicans and democrats together that in case we get to a government shutdown, the united states mill tear, all civilians and the civilian contractors that serve with them, would not be affected. we passed it, we sent it to the senate, the senate approved it unanimously. the president of the united states signed it. that's a done deal. now we are dealing with every other aspect of the shutdown or what really is better described as a slowdown of the united states government.

which is serious. but we knew, at least, the united states military would not be affected by this. they were held entirely exempt. there were three aspects of the law. you can look it up. h.r. 3210. three aspects of it. aspect number one, all title 10 individuals, all active duty military, without exception would be held exempt from this. number two, all civilians that support them, all of them, if they're connected in any way as a civilian to supporting our military, they were to be held exempt from this the government shutdown wouldn't apply to them. section three, all civilian contractors. just a one-page bill with very broad language, giving authority to the secretary of defense to say, whoever you determine in any area supports in any way military, they should not be affected by the government shutdown. it's clear, it's plain language. and then it went to the united states pentagon. and in the secretary of defense's office, they have a

group of lawyers. and those lawyers say they're studying the law to see who it applies to and who it doesn't apply to. and for this entire week, they have studied the law to see who it applies to and who it doesn't apply to. and our members of the united states military and the civilians that serve with them, are on furlough this week, against the law, republicans and democrats agree 100% in the house and senate and the pentagon lawyers can't decide how this should work. a first-year law student could read that bill and could tell t applies to all -- all -- military title 10, all civilians that support them in any way and all contractors. it's not hard language. it is time for the secretary of defense to turn to the lawyers

in his office and say, release those folks. he law is clear. our open defense department is violating the law, the president is allowing it, it's time to get on with this. why are we holding them back? while the president stands up and says the republicans are holding america hostage, the defense department really is holding their folks hostage. in clear violation of the law. let's fix it. this is not something that's hard for us. it's already been passed. let's get on with it. with that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: thank you, gentleman. what a great point. it is unbelievable -- mrs. hartzler: it is unbelievable that the commander in chief of this country has sidelined the men and women in uniform and the civilians that support and tchevend country. thank you for bringing that up. i agree with you. we have done everything we can. when we th first happened we

signed a letter and sent it to the president and said, we did not intend for you to be able to furlough these people. we want everyone back on the job. so far, we haven't heard a thing. as representative lankford said, they're still studying the issue. i call on the commander in chief of this country to step forward and be a commander in chief and put that order out to bring them back for the good of our country. now i am pleased to yield to my friend from minnesota, the wonderful gentlelady, michele bachmann, for five minutes. mrs. bachmann: i thank representative hartzler for her leadership this afternoon. we've heard wonderful comments about why we're here and why this is so important. people across the united states want us to get our act together with congress and the white house and put this country back in the position we've always been in. the greatest economic and military superpower that the world has ever known. but we can't be that superpower as representative lankford of

oklahoma said, if our commander in chief is illegally furloughing employees who are civilians, who are actively supporting our defense -- our defense initiative when we need them at this critical time in world history. i want to bring attention to one particular area and underscore what representative lankford said because this is so extremely important. it was highlighted today by one of our members, representative literry of nebraska. it was chilling what he told the republicans today at the microphone and a story is wren about it today in breitbart.com by ben shapiro. in the article it says president obama is illegally furloughing civilian defense employees at stratcom. what is stratcom?

that is where thousands of people work to deal with missile defense in the united states. that would include nuclear missile defense. mr. speaker, we are being told 70% of ards of 60% to the civilian employees, which are thousands of individuals, have been illegally furloughed and their job is to secure the safety of the missile defense system in the united states and the nuclear defense system in the united states. the most important title of the president of the united states is to be commander in chief. because the number one duty of our government is national security. there can be poll techs played in this town. we get that.

, ever, ever er play politics with missile and se and nuclear defense the safety and national security of the american eople. mr. speaker, i call on the president of the united states before the clock strikes midnight tonight, if nothing se, put these civilian employees, back in place at stratcom. the american people and the world needs to know that our missile defense and nuclear

defense system is at 100% capability. i yield back to the gentlelady from missouri. thank you. mrs. hartzler: thank you. now i would like to yield to the gentleman from oklahoma, jim bridenstine, he's not only -- i not only serve on the armed services committee with him, but he has a good perspective of all these issues. i yield him four minutes. mr. bridenstine: i want to take a moment because there's a lot of information out there, mr. speaker, about what's fwoning on in our country right now and a lot of misinformation. i thought it would be appropriation to set the record straight. a little over a week ago, we sent a bill to the senate and that bill funded the entire government. it kept the government open. and it defunded obamacare in its entirety. senator harry reid and the senate democrats stripped from that bill the defunding mechanism and sent et back to

the senate, or sent it back to the house. so we looked at it and said what can we do they might agree. to the president has already unilaterally delayed meage ovision of obamacare including the employer mandate. he did that because he saw the jobs report. many people were being forced from full-time to part-time work. or they lost their job. i had one employer in my district, they had 57 employees, they were trying to get down to 49. the president unilaterally decided to delay the employer mandate. we said, if he want delay that for one yore, let's give hem the opportunity to delay the entire program for one year. we kept the government open and had a one-year delay of obama kear. we did that at about 1:00 in the morning.

the next day, the senate democrats took the day off and the next day they didn't show up until 2:00 in the afternoon. this was my first indication as somebody who is new to congress, i've seen a lot of crazy things, this is my first indication ma maybe they wanted a government shutdown. astonishingly, they didn't show up. when they did show up they tabled it. then we said what if we delay the individual mandate. he's given multibillion dollar corporations a one-year reprieve, he's given members of it's not subsidy, wren in the law. in fact, it's illegal. and they just -- he had a meeting with harry reid and nancy pelosi and the next thing you know members of congress get a subsidy. we said, look, if members of congress will get a subsidy and multibillion dollar corporations get a break, why don't we give hardworking americans a one-year reprieve. so we passed a bill that funded

the government, kept the government open and delayed the individual mandate for only one year. . harry reid took that bill and he immediately moved to table it. then at about 1:00 in the morning, we decided, ok, let's just ask for a conference so that we can have some people from our side and some people from their side get together and work this out. and astonishingly they didn't even want that. if you can imagine that. they didn't want to sit down and talk to members of congress. and interestingly, the president called on the speaker of the house, john boehner, to go to the white house. and he went and he talked to the president. and guess what the president told him? the president said, we're not going to negotiate. we're not going to negotiate on the continuing resolution to fund the government, nor are we going to negotiate on the debt ceiling. this is not how it's supposed to work in our constitutional republican -- republic.

but that's where we are. this is indicative of the fact that this is harry reid's shutdown. this is president barack obama's shutdown. this is not the republican shutdown. we have done everything we could to keep this government open. and harry reid and president barack obama have shut it down. but here's the good thing. here's what we have done. we passed a bill and that bill said, we're going to fund the troops. we passed it unanimously in the house of representatives. we passed it unanimously in the senate. the president signed it into law. that's a good thing. then we had another bill. we thought we could pass it under suspension. so it would require a 2/3 vote, that bill was to fund the veterans of the united states. the veterans administration. interestingly members of this body on the other side of the aisle killed it. if you can imagine that. it is every bit as indefensible to kill funding our veterans as it is to not fund our troops.

every bit as indefensible. and then, after that occurred, we wanted a bill that would fund our national guard and our reserve. i'm a reservist. i've been on active duty, i've been a reservist. i can tell you firsthand, reservists serve this country every bit as honorably as those on the active duty side. and so we wanted to fund them. guess what? we brought up a bill, we passed it under a rule, so it only required a simple majority, and we passed it. we sent it to the senate. and they haven't done anything with it. this is where we are. harry reid and barack obama are holding our veterans hostage and they're holding the national guard and our reservists hostage to obamacare. and it's that simple. and by the way, it's not just to obamacare. it's one very simple provision that is only a one-year delay of the individual mandate. when you think about it, it's really -- they're holding it hostage to having a meeting. at the end we said, ok, let's have a meeting and they said,

no, we're not going to have a meeting. and oh, by the way, we're shutting down the government. and that's where we are. so i just wanted to clarify that for my constituents back home. we are opening the government one bill at a time and we're being blocked by the senate. and certainly it's in nobody's best interest in this country to have a government shutdown. yet harry reid and barack obama gave it to us. with that i thank you for the time and i yield back. ms. hartzler: thank you. i think that was very helpful, to review all the steps, what we have done to keep this government open. and how each one of our attempts has been rebuffed and how the door has been slammed in our face time and time again. but we are still here. we are still working. we're not going to give up. we want to talk. we want to negotiate and we're going to continue to put forward proposals to fund government, different aspects of government, to make sure that people aren't harmed in this whole process. so thank you for coming today and sharing those thoughts. mr. bridenstine: thank you. hartsharts i'd like to yield --

ms. hartzler: i'd like to yield now to my friend from kansas, mr. huelskamp, fellow farmer, and look forward to hearing your thoughts on this very important time. representative, i yield four minutes. mr. huelskamp: i'd like to thank my colleague from the east and also my colleague from the south for their comments. i'd like to follow up first on congressman bridenstine's laying out the record of what has occurred understand and here you see aly the of the -- occurred and here you see a list of the votes the house has taken. since the government shutdown began. or first as was mentioned, the senate refused to negotiate, sit down, actually talk. that happened at 1:00 a.m. on october 1. senator harry reid says, we're not going to talk, we're not going to negotiate. since then we've gone to work. u.s. house, house republicans, said we're going to try to take care of the veterans. let's try to take care of funding our national parks. let's take care of funding the n.i.h.

cancer research for our children. let's take care of making certain that folks that serve at fema are taken care of. a list of vote after vote after vote for the last four days. and i appreciate you being here, taking the opportunity so we can show, we are at work. we would like to open up the government. the senate does not. i'd like to point out how busy the senate has been for the last four days. this, madam speaker, is a list of all of the votes the u.s. senate has taken since the shutdown occurred. october 1, the first day of the harry reid shutdown, no votes. day two in the u.s. senate, no votes. day three in the u.s. senate, not a single recorded vote. day four, they must be getting tired over there. not a single recorded vote in

the u.s. senate. the entire week. now, don't forget, the weekend before the u.s. senate took the weekend off. they came back monday to make certain harry reid came back into session on monday to make certain the u.s. government would be shut down. to the applause of the white house. that was monday. tuesday, no vote. wednesday, no vote. thursday, no vote. friday, no vote. they're home on vacation again. and we're going to go back to work tomorrow. we're going to send another bill to the u.s. senate. it's clear to me, madam speaker, clear to me the senate does not want to open up the u.s. government. but we cannot give up. one other item i would like to mention, and the congressman from oklahoma has made it very clear, that under obamacare, every member of congress, every member of the u.s. senate, everyone in this body under obamacare is required to sign up for obamacare. monday afternoon, as the government was about ready to

close, the last thing, almost the last thing the president did before they locked the doors on the federal government is to issue a special rule to allow members of congress to ignore obamacare. to create our own health care system just for the u.s. senators and members of congress and our staff. and the last bill we sent over said, you know what? harry, you know what? we're not going to take part in ignoring obamacare. that's the last thing the president did before she shut down the doors. one thing i've -- before they shut down the doors. one thing i've done personally, i won't accept. that i won't accept that members of congress and the members of the as a matter of fact and -- senate and the entire cabinet should be exempt from obamacare. if it's good enough for all of america, it should be good enough for them. i went online and started to do my responsibility. i said, i'm going to sign up for obamacare. at 12:01 a.m. when the government shutdown, the senate's going home, i'm going

to sign up for obamacare. madam speaker, i've been trying to sign up for obamacare on monday, tuesday, wednesday, thursday, here we are friday, 91 hours later, and i still am on virtual hold. you've seen the pictures. go on, look it all up yourself. you can't get online. it's an absolute failure. but i'll say, i am absolutely required under the law, mr. president, despite your regulations that were inspired and requested by the former speaker of this body, and the current leader of the senate, we are not exempted. members of congress, members of the u.s. senate, members of the cabinet, the president himself, sign up for obamacare, lead by example. and do the right thing. we can open the doors of this government, put congress back out of the role of a privileged class and, again, one thing i'd like to remind this body, the

first individual in the entire united states of america that signed fun to for obamacare, the very first -- signed up for obamacare, the very first individual that was willing to lead by example was a man by the name of harry truman. mr. president, if you are listening, if you have any convictions of leadership, if you have any integrity you'd like to show us, sign up for the d.c. exchange. be the next person to sign up online. try to do it. hopefully it won't take you 91 hours to get through. but lead by example. no gilded class, no special rights and privileges. the constitution says no nobility clause. i agree with that. i'd like to yield back. i thank the congresswoman from the east, my fellow sophomore, mrs. hartzler, for her leadership on this issue. let's talk, let's have some action and, oh, by the way, i'm confused, was the senate on furlough all last week? all this week? get back to work, harry. i appreciate you joining the battle to open this federal

government. i yield back. ms. hartzler: i thank you. i think that shows that the senate has been, it seems like, on furlough. toots bad they didn't have time to vote on the n.i.h. funding bill that we sent over there, that would ensure that money goes and continues for very vital research, such as cancer and alzheimer's, and diabetes, and heart disease. we sent them that bill to make sure that research continues and it's fully funded but it's just sitting over there. they haven't voted on it. we passed a bill deal with veterans, to make sure that the veterans administration, everything, remains open. but they haven't voted on it. it's just sitting over there. we passed a bill to ensure the memorials stay open, to clarify and make sure the president isn't able to close them down and barricade them like he's doing now. but they're not voting on them. this has got to stop. it's time for us to get together and talk and i appreciate all of my colleagues who have come here tonight to share their thoughts at this very historic time in

our country's history. first of all, let people know why we are fighting. we're fighting for our families. and we're fighting for quality health care in this country and we're fighting for fairness. we believe in fair treatment for everyone. and it's not right that the president says this health care law isn't good enough for corporations and i'm going to grant over 2,000 waivers for my special interests groups, yet you as an american family, hardworking family, you have to comply. and then i thank the gentleman for bringing up the point that even if the law went into effect, it's unworkable. people can't even sign up. you know that the president has had over half of his deadlines, he hasn't been able to meet in this law? he's had to extend them. so that's why we're fighting. let's wait just at least a year and not force every country, every person in this country to comply. you know, i'm from missouri. and i know harry truman and he said, the buck stops here.

the buck should stop here with the commander in chief, when it comes to him allowing the civilians in the military to be furloughed in this country. that has got to stop. and i appreciate my colleagues who brought up this excellent, excellent point about what has happened and the travesty and the injustice and the danger that this commander in chief is putting our country in. and it's wrong and it needs to stop. he also needs to open up the memorials. we all understand we have difference of opinion here. we all understand we have to talk about policy. but no president ever has closed open-air memorials in this town that are open 24/7, 365 days a year. but this president has chosen to barricade not only the world war i monument and memorial, but the -- i mean the world war ii memorial, but also the martin luther king memorial and all the others here in washington, d.c.,

and we learned today that they've even closed normandy. around the world they're closing the veterans cemeteries. this has got to stop. we can discuss policy, but these tactics have got to change and we want everyone in america to know tonight that republicans, we are here willing and ready to keep working and to talk. it's time for the president and harry reid to negotiate, to meet with us and to discuss our differences and come to an agreement that will result in less government and will keep our government open, though, spend less money, and protect the american people from this onerous health care law. we can do it. the american people do it every day. we do it in our families, we have disagreement, we sit down and talk. my sister and i did it when we were little girls, my mom made us talk. it works. . so let's sit down, let's talk,

let's work this out. let's get the goth open, let's reopen the memorials here around the country and let's put the american people first. we can do it. thank you, madam speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. under the speaker's announced policy of january 3, 2013, the gentleman from california, mr. peters is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. peter: thank you, madam speaker. i appreciate a chance to hold this special order with some of my freshman colleagues. i ask unanimous consent that members be given five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. peters: i heard some of the discussion from yesterday and even some tonight and thought it would be appropriate for some of the freshmen who just got here, who don't have some of the perspective that has pervaded some of the discussion , haven't been here far lot of

the most bitter battles, maybe have a little more of a problem solving attitude, to give our perspective on these things and meab have a constructive discussion of the government shutdown and also the debt ceiling which i think is a very, very serious thing to discuss as part of a normal tissue as part of a negotiation. the news today in san diego will be about the cancellation of the miramar air show that was to take place this weekend. it's a great tradition for our community, an important fundraiser for military families and really a sad casualty of the current shutdown. but i'd like to start my comments by highlighting a more hidden and much more serious effect of the shutdown just by sharing a couple of emails i received from constituents. first, i'm an engineer that supported the navy and marine corps for 26 years. i've always given 100% to make

sure our military has the best capabilities in the world. most of the people i work with have gone above and beyond to give the navy and usmc our very best. due to sequestration and previous furloughs, i have lost $10,000 of income this year and pleatly deplete my family's savings account. now i'm being furloughed again. this following three yoferse frozen pay. i'm worried for my wife and two young children because i cannot pay the fills if this shuttown continues. i do not blame one party or the other, i'm sure they both think they are doing the right thing but i'm worried they don't know the pain they are causing for the families of dedicated and hardworking civil servants. a second one, i'm writing to you today concerning our government shuttdown. i'm an act i duty spouse with two children. coronado y moved to from naples italy.

i've always felt my husband's job was worthy of my sacrifices. i've stood proud by his side. we have moved 11 times within our 15 years of service and as always we have budgeted our housing allowance, cost of living and pay. and today as i read all the negative comments on social media threads, i feel i have wasted 15 years of my lifism almost fell off the treadmill on the base gym this morning when it hit me. all the holidays my husband has missed, the birthdays and anniversaries spent alone, for what reason? for 535 of you to shut us down. thank god i did not fall off the treadmill this morning as now our medical staff is on furlough and the area is severely understaffed. finally i'm a proud american, that's why i proudly work at the naval cent for the san diego. as nurse practitioner with the department of surgery i already

endured one furlough. cut esulted in a 20% pay and i'm grateful that ended earlier than planned. now i've got a 100% pay cut. i'm a single mother of two wonderful girl. this makes the adegreesal furlough that much harder to swallow. please work with your fellow representatives to make this government shutdown end as soon as possible. it's hurting the average american much more than d.c. seems to understand. if our elected officials were forced to take a 20% pay reduction and then have that follow by a 100% pay loss, i'm sure the budget would be fixed. i just want to continue to do my job and would appreciate being allowed to do just that. if this continues further, i'll be forced to seek other employment. my faith in our government is failing wakely. again, please work together to end this situation. there are stories like that

from all these federal workers and more than 800,000 federal workers are out of work in the government shutdown. it's not wrust the d.c. metro area that's affected, as you've heard. from hawaii to georgia, workers in regions across the country rely heavily on the federal government and san diego's the seventh ranked city with a high share of federal employees. we have 151,000 employees, 10.9% of our work force is affected by this shuttown. the same is true in colorado springs, which is number one, virginia beach, honolulu, the d.c. region, ogden, utah, augusta, georgia, san antonio, and charleston. every one of those places have thousands of stories like the ones i've told. it is important for us in d.c. to remember the effect we're having in the real world. that's often been the biggest surprise for me, when i leave my district and i've heard these stories and i come hering and we hear that people are

talking in terms of blame and calling each other names and not doing credit to this institution and far from solving the problems that have gotten us here. i've heard a lot of people say, we don't want to shut the government down. we don't have to. and i hear a lot of finger pointing about who caused it. but the fact is, today, the power to reopen this government rests solely within the house of representatives. we know what we have to do. we have to -- we don't have to wait for the senate. we don't have to wait for the president. we can pass a continuing resolution which is the instrument that funds the government only for six weeks or 10 weeks that the senate has passed. we don't have to have any amendments or anything. we could do that today. or at least do it tomorrow. and all these people would be back to work and we can end the stories of fear and pain affecting our families and the businesses they work for. there's been a lot of yelling about attaching conditions to

the continuing resolution. we've been voting on these really literally for weeks now. i'm not going to add my voice to those. but i'll just say that it seems that those have run their course. none of them has gotten anywhere. i myself supported some of these conditions. in fact, earlier this year, i voted to the lay the individual mandate to match the business mandate. that wasn't something that was popular in my party, i voted for that, but in the context of this continuing resolution, esupported the repeal of the medical device tax. it happens also to be one of my major legislative priorities, enge that's a bad way to fund any part of the government. but -- and that got some democrat exvotes but didn't get any support in the senate. today we got an email from the majority leader, who said that the house republicans believe it's critical we continue to engage and offer meaningful solutions for the american people. which is why, he said, on a

bipartisan basis with a total of 57 different democrats voting with us, we have passed bills to reopen the n.i.h., ensure that the national forward and reservists are paid, fund veterans benefits, reopen our national park, allow the district of columbia to spend their local funds. i voted for all of these too. most of my party didn't. but i thought we had one chance to provide these -- to open these areas up, make sure they go back to work, it's not the best budgeting thing, i voted for them but the component is, they went nowhere. the senate will not approve them. if the senate did approve them, the president wouldn't sign them. so it's time to recognize we have reached the end of this road an this is not getting us for the. we know these things won't sell we feel know they won't get support in the senate. and it's time to move on to a basic continuing resolution without amendment. i've heard people say, some of my colleagues on the other side say, we need to get something. i point out, if you look at the

numbers and we all talk extensively about the need in general to control spending and low you are our debt, the senate aproved spending until november at the republican level. president obama's budget proposal was for $1.2 trillion. the senate's budget was for $1.06 trillion or about .2 trillion less. the senate aproved a spending level of the continuing resolution at an annual rate of $986 billion. that's a cut of $ 2 billion from the senate budget. that's a 7% less than the senate proposed. in 2 -- and $217 billion less than the president's proposed budget, 18%. so to say you needed to get something, i think certainly at this point, the republicans have won the war over discretionary spending. that's not a war people will give up on. but in the continuing resolution which we're asking

to vote on, to have a chance to vote on in the house, the republicans' number was the number used. at this time, i'd like to yield to my colleague from the state of washington, derek kilmer, who serves with me on the armed services committee and also on the science, space, and technology committee. mr. kilmer: thank you. thank you, madam speaker, i'd like to thank the good gentleman from california for organizing this time. you know, far and away the most common thing said to me over the last year has been, dear god, why on earth would you want to be in congress? particularly when you have two little kids and congress is such a mess. i'll tell you, at every occasion i've responded the same way. it's because i've got two little kids and congress is a mess. i care about what kind of country they grow up in. i think if people who think that this is ok sit on the

sidelines, we're never going to fix it. i'll tell you, it is strange to join an organization that according to recent polling information is held in lower regard than head lice. and i've only been here about nine months, i've got a pretty good sense of why. when i got here, congress was in the process of enacting this policy of sequestration, across the board cuts, which have had dramatic impacts in my neck of the woods where you've seen workers furloughed, cuts to critical agencies and critical services, in one county, they've ended mental health outreach to senior citizens ecause of sequestration. and our -- we've seen impact after impact. if that wasn't enough we've gone beyond, we all remember

the fiscal cliff. we're now at like the fiscal mountain range where he go from self-imposed crisis to self-imposed cry sess. fers it was se quest reags. then it was a government shutdown. and coming up next is the possibility that our nation defaults on its financial cobble gations. unfortunately, congress is earning its low -- the low regard in which citizens currently hold it. let me talk a little bit about the shutdown and how it affects the folks that i represent. you've heard a lot about furloughs. 've got in my district 3rks500 workers at this naval shipyard on furlough. just outside of my district we've got joint base lewis mccord, 10,000 workers have been furloughed. the largest land base in my district is olympic national park, an extraordinary tourist

destination, which is now closed for business. 103 workers at olimp exnational park out on furlough. but it's actually not just the impact to the federal work force that should concern us. it's the impact to the private economy. before i came here, i spent my professional career working in economic development. i spent 10 years working in economic development in tacoma, washington. i'm concerned, for example, that you're seeing a delay in the issuance of small business administration loans because of a government shutdown. i'm concerned that this shutdown is at a cost to taxpayers of $150 million to 300 million a day. but i'm concerned that as you see congress govern from crisis hurt the one thing businesses want more than anything. when i worked in economic development the thing employers

tissue i heard from employers more than anything else was, they look to government for trust and predictability. congress has pleatly messed that up. i will tell you, i don't think it has to be like this. i came out of a reasonably functional state legislature. the last three bills we passed in the washington state senate were a balanced budget, a debt reduction proposal and a jobs bill and the 49 members of the washington state budget, the balanced budget passed with all but two votes. the debt reduction proposal passed with all but seven votes and the debt reduction with -- and the other bill with all but one. we didn't make the other side of the aisle look like failures. given the challenges facing our country, we ought to be working, leading by example, working together, solving problems together. i'm certain as one of 435

trying to do that. that means, for example, when the government shut down and the people i represent are no longer drawing a paycheck, i'm not either. so i supported a bill that many of us supported that was known as no budget, no pay. if congress can't pass a budget, members of congress shouldn't get paid. when i served in the legislature, i knocked on 252,000 doors. the biggest change in recent years was that people were home. because they were out of work. you know, i talked to parents who were concerned that our communities' -- our community's largest export was going to be our kids. and the vast majority of people i've talked to actually dobt give a rip about whether we get more democratic or more republican or move more to the left or more to the right, they just want us to stop moving backwards. and start moving forward again. so, in the brief minute i have remaining, let me talk about what i think forward ought to look like.

forward ought to look like reopening the government. end this government shutdown now. it should mean taking action to make sure our nation doesn't default on its financial obligations. an act that would ensure that costs go up for our small businesses, costs go up for our families, and everyone's retirement goes down. it means working together to ensure that we actually pass a budget. and that's actually going to take democrats and republicans in the house and in the senate to work together. to pass a budget. when we went through freshman orientation, we're all freshman up here, when we went through freshman orientation, there was a presentation on how the budget process works. and the way it works is the house passed a bill, the senate passed a budget and then it went to conference. then the house passes appropriations bills, the senate passes appropriations bills and they go to conference. a compromise. after 40 minutes of presenting that, they said, that hasn't happened in years. well, it ought to happen. we should get that back on track. we should get this country back on track.

we also need to focus on the economy. i spent a decade working in economic development. we had a sign up on the wall in our office that said, we are commeet competing with everyone, everywhere, every day forever. if we think our competitor nations are participating in the friveolt that our government is participating in, we have another thing coming. china in the last decade has doubled its number of higher education institutions. they've multiplied five-fold their number of students in colleges and universities, on top of the 200,000 students that are studying abroad, primarily in fields of science, technology, engineering and math. and what are we doing? here we sit with a government shutdown. impeding our economic recovery. hurting our businesses in this nation. we can't afford this. we should stop this. we need to get people back to work. but, madam speaker, we need to get this congress back to work

too. and that's why all of us as freshman members here are here. we want to get this country moving forward again. and i yield back the balance of my time. mr. peters: thank you. i thank the gentleman and i say, you talked about how we define success. i know you and i have spoken as have many members about how we can get away with what we call success here. so what happens is what's happened in this context too, is, a number of things will be proposed and they won't go anywhere and then what will happen is a bunch of fingerpointing will come after. i propose this, i voted for it. i voted against it. imagine if you were a c.e.o. of a company that made a product and you said, i created a great product, i think you'll really like it and it sounds great to the c.e.o. and the c.e.o. says, that sounds terrific. how many did you sell? well, i didn't sell any but they really should buy it. and that's what congress is doing. that's kind of how we define

success around here. even though no one's going to vote for it. but of course in business or your family, you actually have to listen to what the other side wanted. if you wanted to reach a result that was a success. that's what success would be. and i thank you for pointing that out. i'd also say on no budget, no pay, which i also supported. the concept that if congress doesn't do its job, we shouldn't . t a paycheck we were proud when we worked together with our republican colleagues, we passed the no budget, no pay, forced the senate, controlled by democrats, to pass the first budget they'd passed in four years. that's all well and good unless we actually talk together. i saw a picture this week of mr. cantor and some of his colleagues waiting at a table for people to come have a conference. we've been waiting for that all year on this budget. we came in good fathe and tried to pass no budget, no pay. wouldn't it have been good if we used this time or we could use the next few weeks to sit down and hammer out a budget through

that process? this is a time to do. it before i turn it over to another colleague, i'll just mention, remind my colleagues of the report from "the washington post" last december regarding president obama's budget proposal back then in which it said, for the first time he has formally proposed to trim social security benefits, a g.o.p. demand that is enat ma to many democrats, he's also offering to make meaningful reductions in medicare benefits, including higher premiums for couples making more than $170,000 a year. and he visited each of the caucuses earlier this year and told the house democrats by the way, you can't take $3 out of medicare for every $1 you put in. and he said that our corporate tax rates were too high for our companies to compete internationally. this has been going on all year, ladies and gentlemen. with no effort to negotiate at all because it's the leadership of the speaker here who won't appoint conferees because apparently they're concerned about getting it. we waited until this moment of

crisis to talk about something that you and i have been waiting for all year. with that i'd like to yield some time to my colleague from new hampshire, mrs. custer. cust cust thank you and thank you, madam speaker -- ms. kuster: thank you, and thank you, madam speaker. i want to thank my colleague from california for the opportunity this evening to talk about civility, to talk about coming together and finding common ground and most importantly to talk about getting things done. you know, i first ran for congress because our congress here, our government, was mayered in dysfunction -- mired in dysfunction and i truly felt our country needs our help and i want to say that i believe my colleagues on both sides of the aisle who are new members of congress, including the gentlelady in the chair, share that concern. we have found common ground on a number of issues. i was very proud to work with another freshwoman, ms. walorski, to pass a bill

unanimously in this house, to help victims of medical sexual trauma. and we came together, we got 110 bipartisan sponsors. so i know that what we bring to this august body is the ability to find common ground. then, as now, my goal is to bring people together. these are commonsense solutions. my colleague, mr. peters, has just reiterated discussions that have been going on in various rooms in this building, from the white house to capitol hill, throughout this year. about entitlement reform, about tax reform, about controlling spending. but most importantly about providing the services that people across this country need from our government. you know, i come from new hampshire, the granite state. we're frugal people. and new hampshire families don't need more bickering in

washington. they need real solutions to grow the economy, foster job creation and expand opportunity for the middle class. that's what they sent me here to do. you know, one of my staffers said to me today, after the week we've just had, you can't fix the roof when it's pouring out by plugging just a few holes. we've got to come together and solve the whole problem. and i for one know that we can do it. i know that we actually have the votes in this body right now to come together and take that vote. a bipartisan vote. to get the country and our government opening again. you know, honestly, granite state families don't expect congress to agree on everything. we don't. we have significant differences. some of them are religious, some of them are political, some of them come from our backgrounds

and our life experiences. we have real disagreements on issues of significant importance to our country. but they do expect us to work together, when we can find areas of agreement. we cannot have cooperation without open dialogue. that's what we're asking for here tonight. civility, a common theme, coming together and creating dialogue. especially now. this is the moment we ran for congress for. our government is lurching from crisis to crisis and what the american people expect and need from their leaders is to come together and find that common ground. work across the aisle. break the gridlock. end the shutdown. take this bipartisan vote and restore services for the people e represent.

>> we won't get this done solely with republican and democratic ideas. ms. kuster: i don't care if an idea is proposed by a democrat or a republican. let's support it. in new hampshire, here's how we get things done. i've been making calls all week back to my district, as we've been here voting, to find out what is the impact of the federal government shutdown and what can i do to help? so i've talked to mayors all across my district. let me tell you, these are real people's real lives. and it's going to cause serious pain. i called a small town up north near the canadian border, was a paper mill town. they've lost thousands of jobs in this community. and i asked the mayor, what is it that's happening on the ground there? he started to tell me about a woman who works for the united states department of agriculture. and what she does is help with

rural economic development. she helps with small business loans. and he said, she's not at work. she's been furloughed. and there are eight small business applications sitting on her desk. now, this is a small town. eight small businesses in this town that won't get those loans and can't create new jobs. that's a problem. and then he said, because this is the kind of person he is and this is the kind of town it is, he said, and she's a single mom without a paycheck. and he wanted me to know that. then i talked with mayors of big cities and smaller towns, i talked to businesses, i want to understand what's the impact on the business community. now, i've talked to lots of federal employees this week and i've talked to their unions and i have tremendous compassion for the folks that who have been sent home. but i want my colleagues across the aisle to understand the impact on our economy.

so today i was talking to large employers. these are government contractors, they're vendors, they build things and they provide services for our military, for i.t., for everything that we use in this country to keep us safe and to keep us strong. and they said thousands of jobs will be lost. thousands. if you read the headlines today, we've already lost thousands. and finally, i spoke with our governor. and i want to close with this because i know that with civility and trust and mutual respect we can resolve these tired partisan battles and we can renew our focus on what really matters. fostering job creation, making smart spending cuts, taking responsibility to reduce the deficit, encourage innovation, grow the economy, grow opportunity for the middle class. and with a little more civility

in the halls of congress, i'm confident that we can resolve this crisis and redouble our focus on our shared priorities. so let me close with this. our governor said to me, annie, tell them how we get this done in new hampshire. we have a democratic governor and a democratic house and a republican senate. sounds familiar. the a little bit twisted from bha we have here in washington, but it's the same effect. it's a divided government. but in new hampshire we don't see it as a divided government. we see it as an opportunity to reach across the aisle and to bring people together and find common ground. and she said, remind them that we have just passed a budget in new hampshire that was unanimous in the republican senate, virtually unanimous in the republican -- in the democratic house, signed by the democratic governor and most importantly

for all here in washington it was a balanced budget. the revenues and the expenditures were equal. so that's what i'm talking about here today. come together and have the discussion about how to get our fiscal house in order, how to create jobs, how to provide opportunity. and finally i'm going to close with the phone call that i got this week, scott, that was -- made a tremendous difference to my perspective on this. it was a cracklely line coming into my office, a young intern appsed the phone, when she finally understood what he was say, he said, this is joe, i'm calling from afghanistan. he's a soldier in afghanistan, he's there to serve our country he said, i am here working hard for my family and my country and i want you to do the same. the message that joe