afternoon. also senate democrats. so the senate is in how you -- now. they'll gavel out 1:00 eastern so senators can attend that meeting. of course you can watch the senate over on c-span2. we understand also that senate republicans will be meeting with the president tomorrow morning. now live to the house floor here on c-span. the speaker: the house will be in order. the prayer will be offered today by our guest chaplain, reverend guillermo. king jesus international ministry, miami, florida. the chaplain: our father in heaven, we come together in this house of the congress to exult your holy name. thanking you for the rights and freedom you have given us. we ask you for your wisdom to come upon each member of

congress as they come together in the business of establishing righteous laws. we pray, lord, that your kingdom come, that you -- your will be done, as this place as it is in heaven. only by your holy spirit can there be real unity. real reconciliation, real solutions to the present issues that come through this house. lord, your kingdom is righteousness, peace and joy. may your righteousness prevail. may your peace cover each member of the congress. give them wisdom. may your joy be heard throughout the land. and may you bless the united states of america. n jesus' name, amen. the speaker: the chair has examined the journal of the last day's proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved.

the pledge of allegiance today will be led by the gentleman from michigan, mr. kildee. mr. kildee: i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the speaker: without objection, the gentleman from florida, mr. diaz-balart about a lart, is recognized for one minute. mr. diaz-balart: thank you very much, mr. speaker. today we just heard the words of pastor guillermo maldanodo. we're honored to have him as our guest chaplain in the house. the pastor is the founder and senior pastor of king jesus ministry in miami. his ministry, mr. speaker, is one of the fastest growing multicultural churches in the united states. and is recognized as the largest hispanic church in the entire nation. the pastor, by the way, along with his family, has

demonstrated unsurpassed leadership, dedication not only to his local ministry but to the communities and ministries across the nation. his d his lovell wife, lovell wife, are dear friends of mine and my family who i trust and i greatly admire. so, again, we are truly blessed to have the benefit from his spiritual wisdom and his guidance. with that, mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will entertain 15 further requests for one-minute speeches on each side of the aisle. for what purpose does the gentlelady from north carolina seek recognition? ms. foxx: i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. foxx: mr. speaker, in 2006, then senator barack obama decried a proposed debt ceiling increase as, quote, a sign of leadership failure, end quote. and then voted against raising the debt limit. two years later candidate obama

referred to the $4 trillion debt accrued by his predecessor as irresponsible and unpatriotic. $6.1 trillion and 4 1/2 years later he's demanding that congress raise the debt ceiling without so much as a conversation as to what we can do to get control of spending and leave less debt to our kids and grandkids. this seems less than responsible to me. to have any hope of solving the challenges before us, leaders have to be willing to work together. so let's defend our credit rating by getting control over our bills and strengthening our fiscal foundation. whether the challenge is ending the shutdown or confronting our debt, divided government demands bipartisan solutions. and finding bipartisan agreements -- agreement starts by sitting down to talk. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition? >> unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute.

>> thank you, mr. speaker. my constituents back home in flint, sag in a , sent me here -- saginaw, sent me here because they felt i could represent them in a democratic body and protect their interests. unfortunately because. willfulness and intransigence of some on the other side, we can't have a simple yes or no vote in this body to reopen government. mr. kildee: despite the fact that all democrats and around 30 or so republicans that would be willing to do so, to take up the senate-passed bill, to reopen government, we've not been given the opportunity to do that. what very few know, and i assume some on the other side may not even realize, is that the rule that was adopted here on october 1 takes away a long-standing privilege of members of the house to call up a senate bill in the event of a dispute between house and senate versions of the same legislation.

you've taken away that basic right that my voters and the representatives of this body all should continue to to else is. in order to achieve or pursue your ideological goal of using a government shutdown to get what you can't get at the ballot box. this is wrong. it needs to end. we need to bring up the senate-passed bill to reopen government today. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. members are reminded to address their comments to the chair. for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina seek recognition? >> seek unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, revise and extend i reserve the balance of my time -- revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> madam speaker, online enrollment for obamacare has been open for 10 days and it's been proved to be an unmitigated disaster. the launch of obamacare's website was slated to cost the american taxpayers $93 million. it is now reported to have cost over $634 million.

mr. holden: and with so many problems -- mr. holding: and with so many problems and failures will undoubtedly cost even more. already it's been taken offline to try to fix the glitches. what's worse is the administration he has been able to give a clear picture of what this money has gotten us. the number of people who have actually been able to enroll is completely unclear. madam speaker, the website has been a failure thus far and a complete waste of taxpayer dollars. president obama insisted on a mandate but didn't figure out the details of how it would tombly work. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> i request 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, i rise today in memory of first lieutenant jennifer moreno who died on tober 6, 2013, in kandahar

province, afghanistan. lieutenant moreno died of injuries sustained when an improadvised explosive device detonate -- improvised explosive device detonated her patrol. mr. vargas: born and raised in san diego, lieutenant moreno graduated from san diego high school and went on to receive a bachelor's degree in nursing from the university of san francisco. she was commissioned in the united states army as a nurse corps officer where she served as a clinical staff nurse on a medical surgical unit. the commander of the ranger battalion, lieutenant colonel patrick ellis said, quote, she's a talented member of our team who lost her life while serving her country in one of the most dangerous environments in the world. her bravery and self-sacrifice were in keeping with the highest traditions of the 75th ranger regiment, end of quote. her awards and decorations are

numerous, including being awarded the bronze star. madam speaker, i know we all extend our deepest condolences to her family and friends who have suffered this tragic loss. her loved ones will continue to be in our thoughts and prayers. i yield back the balance of my time. thank you, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from nevada seek recognition? >> unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, revise and extend i reserve the balance of my time. -- revise and extend my remarks. i wish a birth happy birthday to jack mates who will celebrate his 90th birthday on october 16 -- 14. mr. mates served in the united states army air force during world war ii, and was a b-17 squadron leader based out of italy. he was awarded the distinguished flying cross for extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight against the enemy in the mediterranean theater of operations. according to his award citation, lieutenant mates consistently

displayed outstanding currently, aggressiveness and intensive devotion to duty throughout all engagements. with his aircraft frequently severely damaged by heavy enemy fire, lieutenant mates courageously remained at his station, battling his way through to his targets, to aid in the utter destruction of vitally important enemy installations anlt supplies -- and supplies. after his discharge, he worked closely with his father, learning the marketing business and in 1959 was part of the group responsible for the introduction of velcro to consumers across the united states. mr. heck: he later became president and chief executive officer of velcro u.s.a. in 1980. upholding his central role while helping ex panleds the brand until his retirme in 1968 -- expand his the brand until his retirement in 1986. since that time he has remained an active participant in the d.f.c. society activities and served as las vegas chapter chairman. according to friends and family, jack truly lived the american dream and embodies the reasons we refer to his generation as

our greatest. it is with great pleasure that i join lieutenant jake mate's family and friends in wishing him a happy birthday. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? the gentlelady from texas seek recognition? without objection. ms. jackson lee: mr. speaker, i hold in my hand a letter from the veterans cemetery in houston, texas, that is notifying us to indicate that as of october 15 this cemetery will have reduced staff and will have to reduce the number of burials. for our heroes who all of us commit to honoring. mr. speaker, our federal employees are locked out of serving the government, of serving america. i just came from representatives of thousands of federal employees in the rain, begging to come back to work.

and so the extreme factor of republicans that don't want to open the government and raise the debt ceiling need to listen to the plea of those people. i'm going to introduce today a resolution that says that we will no longer tie a legislative issue to the idea of continuing to serve the american people, keeping the government open and raising the debt ceiling. we have been ready to talk, we've been ready to cooperate. we have given them their number. we've done everything as democrats to be part of the american leadership. now we ask, it is time to vote. unlock the door of the workers who want to work for america. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? mr. thompson: request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. thompson: mr. speaker, i'm appreciative of the 57 democrats in the house who have consistently voted with

republicans to pass targeted appropriation bills to fund the federal government. i'm disappointed that so many house democrats have cast votes to support a continued shutdown. last night democrat washington delegate eleanor holmes norton confronted president obama over the district's budget in a white house meeting with the house democratic conference. ms. holmes norton argued for senate democrats and president obama to pass and sign a bill she row moted with republicans -- she promoted with republicans. mr. speaker, the gentlelady from the district of columbia is correct. it is long past time for the senate leader to take up h.j.res. 71 and all the other bipartisan target appropriation bills that have been passed out of the house. by rolling the 11 house-passed bills into one, more than half of the partial government shutdown would be over. the american people deserve as much. thank you, mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina

eek recognition? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. clyburn: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, one of the great pleasures that i have had serving in this august body is the people with whom i've interacted over the years. and one such person is representative bill young. now, i know that we have a lot of issues to be discussing and i will be discussing them. but i wanted to take time out today to say how much i appreciate serving with the gentleman who i have gotten to know, love and respect. he's been in this body for over 4 years -- 42 years and i've spent my better than 20 years mostly serving on the appropriations committee. it was a great pleasure serving with bill young.

and bill has said to reporters that he is a bit disappointed in the current state of affairs. he says this is a different congress. he's right. it's going to be even more so without his great service. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? . without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. most people are shocked to learn that the house and senate have already agreed on a level of funding. mr. posey: there are only two issues from stopping the shut down from stopping right now. number one, make congress and the white house obey the same obamacare laws as everybody else. and number two, the president gave big business one year off. we want families to have an opportunity for one year off.

equal treatment for america's families who work hard and play by the rules. that's the republican plan. that's what the argument's about. to give special benefits only to big corporations and special interests is not fair, it's not right, and it's not good for the united states of america. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from illinois seek recognition? >> unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today on behalf of millions of men, women, and children victimized by domestic violence. this is an issue that is he very personal to me. nine years ago my cousin, dr. robin lynn mitchell, my namesake, was murdered in her sleep by her husband in an act of domestic violence. a few months later a campaign volunteer of mine was shot and killed by her husband in a similar crime. their stories, however heartbreaking, are unfortunately not unique. ms. kelly: these tragedies play

out over and over every day in our communities across america. the national network to end domestic violence estimates that three women are killed each day as a result of domestic violence. it touches just about every home, no matter your zip code or your income bracket. nearly 3/4 of americans know a victim of domestic violence, but that's just the human toll. domestic violence also costs the u.s. economy over $8 billion annually in emergency room visits, mental health services, and lost product productivity. as we observe domestic violence awareness month, let's commit ourselves to work to put an end to these tragedies for robin, for all of us. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, on september 30, after two previous attempts to keep the government fully funded, house republicans adopted a measure that fully

funded the government, fully funded obamacare, but simply delayed the individual mandate for a year. mr. mcclintock: this proposal was summarily rejected by house and senate democrats and the government shut down. i can understand why they might take that position. they actually thought the exchange would work. but they haven't worked. they have been a complete and unmitigated disaster. after for than three years and $600 million of development costs, they are far, far from being ready. so with this new experience, what is so unreasonable about delaying the mandate for a year while these proproblems are addressed? -- while these problems are addressed? it should be a win-win for everyone. reopen the government and give the democrats' signature program one year reprieve from collapse, that's what republicans offered on september po and that offer still stands. yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the

gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> request unanimous consent to address the house, mr. speaker, and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. green: mr. speaker, i ask the house i'd like to associate myself with the remarks of my colleague and classmate from south carolina on how we'll miss chairman young. he's been a great statesman and serving our house. but today i'm here to talk about here we are 10 days in the republican shutdown of the government services. every week the shutdown continues cuts .3% of our gross domestic product. and the stock market has dropped 900 points in the last two weeks. now that -- they want to hold the full faith and credit of our country hostage. this is how it's hurting our houston area economy. over 3,100 nasa employees at johnson space center in houston have been furloughed as a result of the house majority's refusal to keep the government opened. the small business administration has closed its houston office and is unable to issue grants and loans and services to small business

owners. houston's regional v.a. center is closed. the government shutdown has forced the v.a. to furlough 9,000 employees, delaying processing of benefits. if the shutdown continues into late october, payments for 8.3 million veterans will stop. we owe it o our nation's veterans to make good our commitment to them. we can't do this with closed facilities. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, i'm trying to get my hands wrapped around this obamacare thing. the policy is the i.r.s. is going to tax americans unless they purchase a government sanctioned product which they may not want off a government-run website which cost $634 million to create, and does not work. mr. desantis: what do they have to expect for that once they go through that process and put their personal information there?

one disclaimer and one of these exchange states goes as follows, any or all uses of this system and all files on this system may be intercepted, monitored, inspected, and disclosed to authorized state government and law enforcement personnel as well as authorize officials of other agencies both necessaryic and foreign -- domestic and foreign. mr. speaker, no thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from wisconsin seek recognition? >> unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. last night i spoke with a woman in madison, a federal employee who works as an air traffic controller, and helps ensure the safety of thousands every day. mr. pocan: she asked me, why should she be working when she doesn't even know if or when she'll get paid? i didn't have a reasonable answer for her. i received a letter from a woman who relies on federal contracts to run her small business. she asked me how she's going to

be able to make payroll this month if the government doesn't pay its bills. i didn't have a reasonable answer for her. i don't have a reasonable answer for why the wisconsin national guard can't conduct its trainings, why local small businesses can't grow their business and have loans for the small business administration, and why 113,000 infants, children, and pregnant women can't receive nutrition assistance from the w.i.c. program. mr. speaker, it's time the g.o.p. house leadership starts acting like responsible representatives. let's reopen government. let's prevent our country from defaulting. and then let's sit down and negotiate our budget as democrats have been requesting for the last six months. it's time to do our jobs. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from arkansas seek recognition? >> unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. >> without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today just to ask a simple question to my colleagues here in the house and to our counterparts in the senate, and that is simply this, does it

make sense for us to speed ahead with $1.3 trillion in new equipment spending when our country is in the middle of a debt crisis and medicare and social security are on the brink of bankruptcy? if the answer's yes, then you can go home and explain that to our constituents. if the weans is no, maybe we could explain why we are doing it. with that i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from delaware seek recognition? for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. yesterday i received this letter from lori. mr. cartwright: she wrote, as a commissioner of the north hampton county, pennsylvania, housing authority i wanted to make you aware the county authority issued layoff notices

today to over half of its staff members because of financial uncertainty created by the government shutdown. the next pay period would be payable on november 1, 2013, and since we cannot assure that there will be sufficient funds to honor that payroll, it has been determined there is no legal choice other than to shut down operations of the housing choice voucher program and effect a testimony pore rarery layoff, beginning on monday, october 14, 2013. if not resolved soon, over 500 landlords will next be notified by the housing authority that rent payments will not be issued, resulting in lost income for them and potential eviction for 637 families. that's what she wrote. mr. speaker, isn't it time we stopped hurting the people we came here to help? i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from north carolina seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks.

the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. today is day 10 of obamacare exchanges being up, or supposedly being up. we now know the problems with the exchanges are not just due to high traffic. rather technology experts have reported the real problems are with the actual structure and shoddy software used for the exchange. mrs. ellmers: the hill reported on october 8 from one expert, james turner, software engineer, that he is probably the most broken release i have ever seen. i'm hearing firsthand of the frustrations from my constituents. one constituent said, the program freezes up when i try to enter your tax filing status. you can't get past it. same thing happens when i try to apply over the phone. i have called every day since october 1. all different times of the day, and have gotten nothing but run around. one excuse after the other that their system is down. i called during peak time. i have called during offpeak

time. but apparently there are nor on peak hours. if i can't get qualified for a subsidy before january 1, we will have to let our insurance lapse. with that, mr. speaker, i say this is a defective exchange and it's only part of the problem. i yield back the remainder of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from a arizona seek recognition? >> to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. the rber: mr. speaker, safety and security of southern arizona is my first priority. i represent 83 miles of the u.s.-mexico border and the people who live near it are very seriously affected by criminal activities along that border. and since the shutdown, our border patrol agents have faced an uncertainty about their pay and the future of their mission. these brave men and women are our first line of defense in securing the homeland.

they deserve our respect and support. last week an agent's wife called my office about a he decision her husband was forced to make. -- about a decision her husband was forced to make. missing a loved one's funeral, or attending it on furlough putting his paycheck and family at risk. this reckless shutdown hurts the families of our agents who put their lives on the line every single day. this is wrong, mr. speaker. we must end this irresponsible shutdown now and restore certainty to the border patrol for the safety and security of southern arizonans and our entire contry. mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition? >> unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, as we all are well aware, a lot of emotion is in this chamber and in this body at this time. and maybe that's the way it should be. we remember back the first

constitutional convention that it almost shut down as well until benjamin franklin stood up and said we need to go to prayer asking for the wisdom of the almighty. mr. walberg: maybe that's what we need as well. mr. speaker, above your rostrum there are words etched in the stone from daniel webster who said, let us develop the resources of our land. call forth its powers. build up its institutions, promote all its great interest, and see whether we also in our day may be able -- may be able to perform something worthy to be remembered. mr. speaker, that's what we need to be doing. and so as today thankfully the president and leadership in the house was meeting in negotiations, i call for our citizens as well as us to be in prayer asking for wisdom for the president, for our leaders to come to a conclusion that will move this country forward. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to

address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. >> thank you, mr. speaker. my wife had a call last night from one of her best friends. she was angry and disappointed, fright yield back the balance of my time -- frightened, her husband is a civilian worker at scott air force base. his paycheck was one half of what it usually is. their son is a community college student who just got laid off. their daughter is disabled. they are my voters. they are my friends. what do i tell them? what do i tell the veterans whose disability claims aren't being processed? what do i tell the laid off prison guards in southern illinois who will lose their food stamps? mr. enyart: what do i tell the retired mine workers who lost their pensions in bankruptcy and now have to worry about their kst checks? i it -- social security checks? i can't tell them to call their congressman, they already have. 202-225-6205 ll

and tell the speaker to put america and its government back to work. mr. speaker, i yield. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina rise? >> to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is ecognized for one minute. >> mr. president, can we talk? i'm pleased to hear that president obama, nine days into a government shutdown, is finally willing to talk with a contingent of house republicans at the white house this afternoon. after all, there's plenty to discuss. everybody in this room, democrat and republican, knows that too many of our youth are underemployed or unemployed. mr. president, our youth want to work. everybody in this room knows that we need tax reform to make our businesses competitive in the world and bring american jobs back to america. mr. rice: everybody in this room

knows that social security and medicare are on a pathway to insolvency and have to be shored up so we can make our promises good to our seniors. thank you, mr. president, long last for sitting down to talk. maybe if we could spend more time talking and less time posturing, we might be able to deal with some of these very significant problems. let's all pray that these talks are fruitful and improve the lives of all americans. thank you, mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. members are reminded to address their remarks to the chair. not in any second-person conversation. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from new york seek recognition? ms. velazquez: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, to revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. velazquez: across the country americans are asking a simple question. when will the government open? every day more americans are denied services they need. children who rely on head start

are being turned away. new mothers and their infants are being denied nutritional assistance from w.i.c. small businesses are losing demand for their services or are having trouble accessing loans guaranteed by the small business administration, costing jobs we cannot afford to lose. at a time when our economy continues to struggle. while this is happening, what have our colleagues done on the other side of the aisle? they waste precious time with incremental bills that have no chance of enactment. that is not responsible governing. it is an excuse to put out a press release, the american people do not want more press releases. they want action. every day that the government stays closed it's a lost opportunity for our economy and our communities. let's vote and keep this

government open. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina eek recognition? without objection, so ordered. >> mr. speaker, in honor of the throwback thursday, i'd like to read to my colleagues the words of then senator barack obama during the debate on march 16, 2006, about raising the debt limit. speaking from mr. obama. the fact that we are here today to debate raising america's debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. it is a sign that the u.s. government can't pay its own bills. mr. pittenger: it's a sign that we now depend onion going financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our government's reckless fiscal policies. increasing america's debt weakens us domestically and internationally. leadership means that the buck stops here. instead washington is shifting the burden of bad choices today onto the backs of our children and our grandchildren. america has a debt problem and a failure of leadership.

americans deserve better. i therefore intend to oppose the effort to increase america's debt limit. that is spoken by senator barack obama, march 16, 2006. mr. speaker, we have a $17 trillion debt today under the leadership of president obama. i would say today is the day to come together as reasonable people to resolve this crisis. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise? >> ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, the government shutdown continues to harm the community i represent and the more than 43,000 federal employees in el paso who have dedicated their careers to public service. the federal district court in el paso is one of the busiest in the country. it handles a large volume of immigration and drug cases, among many others. i recently heard from marine franco, a federal public defender, regarding the shutdown's impact in el paso. mr. o'rourke: in the u.s. attorney's office there, the

prosecutors and public defenders are working but not getting paid. in addition, their staffs have been furloughed. the result -- prosecutors brought only 35 cases on monday. on tuesday and wednesday, only nine people were brought into court. the average when our government works is 55 a day. the same number of people are being arrested but the shutdown means we are not prosecuting them in a timely manner. it is likely that these individuals are remaining in detention at taxpayer expense, costing us more than if the government was opened. justice is not being served, nor are the american people. mr. speaker, it is time to end the shutdown. please allow an up or down vote. it will pass this house on a bipartisan basis. it will be signed into law by the president. we can reopen government today. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from south dakota rise? mrs. noem: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute.

mrs. noem: meeks, for 2 1/2 years i've -- mr. speaker, for 2 1/2 years i've come to the floor to talk about a farm bill. our producers in this country make sure that the people that live in this country have the opportunity to partake in an affordable and a safe food supply. not relying on another country to feed us. then they truly would control us. we don't have a farm bill today but the speaker has assured me that we'll go to conference soon and get one done. let me tell you about a tragedy that's happened in south dakota last week. this picture beside me would be very sad if it just reflected one situation in south dakota. but i want to tell you that western south dakota is littered with tens of thousands of dead cattle, horses and sheep that were killed by a tragic blizzard that hit south dakota just last week. the stories we've heard, the losses of families are tragic. one mother called and visited with us, that told us about driving her kids to school every day that looks like she's driving down a road covered with dead cattle filling the ditches. we have a farm bill because we need to make sure that there are disaster programs to cover

situation like this. the livestock programs that i authored that are included in the farm bill that needs to be signed into law would help protect some of these families and keep them in business in the future. mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from oregon seek recognition? without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. bonamici: thank you, mr. speaker. it's day 10 of the unnecessary and harmful government shutdown. and a week away from when we reach the debt ceiling and risk an economic shutdown. it's time to end this dysfunction. across this country people are out of work and wondering, when will this shutdown end? will the united states default on its debt? and importantly, why can't had their elected represent -- why can't their elected reptives solve this? we can resolve this and we can do it today. a majority of the house and the senate and the president support legislation to reopen the government. the speaker should schedule a vote now. and the majority of americans are opposed to letting a debate

about the affordable care act excuse congress from fulfilling its basic obligation to pay the nation's bills. mr. speaker, let's get the government open. make sure we don't cause the nation to default. and sit down and face the challenges together. we work to do, to build the economy and to begin to rebuild and restore our nation's confidence in this united states house of representatives. thank you, mr. speaker, and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from tennessee seek recognition? without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for -- is recognized for one minute. mrs. blackburn: thank you, mr. speaker. you know, it is so interesting to hear my colleagues talk about how they want to clean -- want a clean c.r. just so that everyone realizes, mr. speaker, what they're saying is, give us the money, no strings attached, no accountability, and what we continue to say to our colleagues is, we want an accountable c.r. accountable to the u.s. taxpayer

who is footing the bill. -- bill for this federal government. it is not money that -- federal money that we appropriate or we spend. it is taxpayer money. coming out of the pockets of hardworking men and women. and as i read emails from my district in tennessee, what i hear repeatedly is, number one, we cannot afford the $17 trillion in debt. it really scares us. it frightens us. for the future of our children and grandchildren. we cannot continue to monetize $75 billion worth of debt each month. we have to get our fiscal house in order. that is what we seek to do. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from the virgin islands seek recognition? mrs. christensen: ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. mrs. christensen: thank you, mr. speaker. while republicans are trying to

destroy the affordable care act, the american people are embracing it and have been for the last three years. even in my district, which is rightly upset over not being included in the ex changes -- exchanges like other american, we're benefited. let me tell you a story from one of our doctors. according to one doctor, the preventive care without co-pays and 26-year-olds being able to stay on their parents' insurance has helped keep her practice afloat. the up to 35% tax credit for small businesses and the rebate from insurance companies that didn't meet their medical loss ratio allowed her to relieve her employees of their portion of the health insurance premiums. this is one way the affordable care act is working in my community. sure fixes may be needed like for the territories. the president and democrats will address them but in a rational manner. some call -- so i'm calling on my republican colleagues to end the hostage-taking of this congress, of our federal employees, of our economy and the good faith and credit of our nation. don't fight us, join us. support the affordable care act, a good law that is expanding access to affordable health care

for all of us. when some of us benefit, all of us benefit. let's vote on a clean c.r. open up our government and lift the debt ceiling today. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina seek recognition? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today in honor of a gentleman that's with me in the capitol. he was a house co-valedictorian and this summer during his valedictorian address he ripped up his approved speech and delivered the lord's prayer, in defines of the school district's decision to no longer include prayer at graduation. this is someone that reminds us that we as a nation need to return to god. mr. duncan: i'm thankful for him and the inspiration of his generation. and, mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from florida seek recognition?

without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for ne minute. ms. wilson: mr. speaker, it's now been more than 1,000 days since i arrived in congress and republican leaders have still not allowed a single vote on serious legislation to address our unemployment cry sills. we've lost millions of jobs throughout -- through outsourcing and technological changes. we've lost millions of jobs due to the great recession. we're losing millions of jobs through sequestration and state budget cuts. and now we have the nerve to shut down the government, risk default and bring our employees to the gates of hell. mr. speaker, open up this government. raise the debt ceiling and get us back to dealing with the real crisis -- job creation. mr. speaker, the mantra of this congress should be jobs, jobs, obs.

the speaker pro tempore: the speaker lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, sir, pursuant to section 803-a of the congressional recognition for excellence in arts education act , 2 united states code 8038-a, i'm completioned to put mr. grayson on the congressional award board. signed, sincerely, nancy pelosi, democratic leader. the speaker pro tempore: the chair announces the speaker's appointment pursuant to 46, u.s.c., 51312-b and the order of the house of january 3, 2013, of the following member on the part of the house to the board of visitors to the united states marine academy. the clerk: mrs. mccarthy of new york. the speaker pro tempore: 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. 79, a joint resolution making continuing appropriations for certain components of the department of homeland security for fiscal year 2014 and for other purposes. i ask its immediate consideration. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the joint resolution. the clerk: house joint resolution 79, joint resolution making continuing appropriations for certain components of the department of homeland security for fiscal year 2014 and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 371, the joint resolution is considered read. 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. bryce, -- mr. price, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from texas. mr. carter: thank you, mr.

speaker. mr. speaker, 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. 79, that i may include tabular material on the same. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. . mr. carter: 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 that contains certain critical border security and enforcement operations within the department of homeland security. right now at this very moment there are brave men and women patrolling our border, manning our ports of entry, and conducting law enforcement drug interdiction and investigative missions, but they are not being paid. right now at this very moment the border security and enforcement operations are being conducted. but with minimal essential personnel.

right now at this very moment the national targeting center for customs and border patrol officers check traveler watchlies and ensure dangerous criminals and cargo never reach american soil is operating, but its personnel are not being paid. right now at this very moment the e-verify system is not operating, making it impossible for employers to check the unlawful immigration status of the -- lawful immigration status of prospective employees. so this bill before us provides for continuing appropriations to ensure frontline agents along our borders receive their pay and certain components of d.h.s. can carry out their border security enforcement missions at full strength. let me remind my colleagues that our border is not secure. in fact, our border is constantly under siege from smugglers and traffickers alike. and it is our duty to ensure sufficient resources and proindividual -- are provided to

car out the necessary security enforcement and interdiction efforts. that's precisely what this bill does. this bill ensures the border patrol can fully conduct its operations from san diego to brownsville and all along our northern border as well. this bill ensures that i.c.e. can fully conduct its investigations. this bill ensures that the coast guard can fully conduct interdiction in both the source and transit zones off the coast of california, texas, florida, and all maritime approaches to the united states. and this bill ensures that our immigration verification and domestic identity systems are up and running. this bill takes steps to turn on our e-verify system. 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 continuing resolution to sustain the government's operation, but to

no avail. furthermore, we have offered to negotiate to get to conference and work out the differences in a professional and orderly manner, but such offer has been refused out of hand. mr. speaker, this bill is yet another offer to the other side of the aisle to at least fund vital components of the government. we have a duty to ensure our borders and coast lines are safe and secure and that our laws are being enforced. this bill does this without increasing the rate of spending in a manner entirely consistent with the text of the noncontroversial h.j.res. 59. in short this bill before us is about getting our priorities right. it's my hope that the passage of this bill will not only support our border security and frontline agencies, but also lead to reopening of the entire federal government.

in closing i urge my friends on the other side of the aisle to lower their partisan blinders, come to the table, work out current impasse so that we can get on with the business of fixing our nation's budgetary mess. thank you, mr. speaker. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from north carolina. mr. price: mr. speaker, i yield myself whatever time i utilize. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. price: mr. speaker, have we had enough yet? the american people are fed up with partisan games and procedural gimmicks. they see right through it. and they are demanding we come together and get the government back to work today. if the speaker of the house is so sure that the votes for a clean funding bill are not there , he should call the vote to prove it to the american people. except he won't do that. because everyone in this chamber knows that the senate passed continuing resolution would clear this house in a heartbeat,

and end this tea party fueled dream of government collapse. now, today the majority has decided that the government function they want to give political cover to is border security. border security obviously wasn't very high on their list. we have had to wait 10 days before they got around to it. and of course the question remains, why didn't they think more about border security or cancer research or the national national parks or women's and children's nutrition when they were shutting the government down in the first place, last monday? 10 days late and billions of dollars short, you might say. as someone who has worked for years in a bipartisan spirit to secure our nation's border, i certainly appreciate that border security is one of the most sensitive and dangerous areas of the budget with which to play partisan political games. but i have to ask, what are the

many other critical homeland security functions that this bill wouldn't do anything to fix? including protecting our nation from cyberattacks, for example? or keeping our aviation and mass transit systems safe? or funding the secret service? or developing the next generation of explosive detection technology? we cannot continue to pick winners and losers by providing temporary funding for government services, operations, and personnel. this piecemeal approach to governing is failing our constituents and failing our economy. the only solution is to reopen the entire federal government by calling up the clean funding bill passed by the senate. mr. speaker, last week we were told by republican leaders not to worry. er if lowed employees should stand by, they -- furloughed employees should standby, they said, while the house votes to reopen the government one cycle

at a time. the american people's livelihoods can't wait for another news cycle. we are tired of waiting. we are tired of this charade. let's dispense with this political theater, let's get back to our basic job description. keep the government opened. pay the country's bills. and negotiate a comprehensive budget plan that lifts sequestration, revives our economy, and secures our fiscal future. the first step is a clean continuing resolution. let's to that today. with -- let's do that today. with that i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. carter: mr. speaker, i'd like to now yield as much time as he may consume to chairman rogers, the chairman of the appropriations committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. rogers: i rise in support of his bill. mr. speaker, this is around the 15th time that we are trying to

engage the other body in conversation about how we can reopen the government. they just simply refuse to talk. about anything. we have sent over c.r.'s, we have sent over amendments, we have sent over bills, we have now -- this is the 11th of the many appropriations bills, c.r.'s at sequester level that we are going to send to the senate, and they just simply refuse to talk. i have never seen such a show of negligence and attendance to public duties. normally the time honored tradition in the congress since the founding of this great country, when the house passes a measure, and the senate passes a measure and they differ, we appoint conferees. the senate picks out some members, the house picks out

some members. we send them off to the backroom to work out the differences and bring the bills back. that's the way it's operated for all these years. and yet the senate just simply refuses to talk anything about how to reopen the government. now, this bill will help protect our homeland from terrorist, drug traffickers, smugglers, other criminals and facilitates legal immigration, and ongoing investigations. right now our frontline operations are operating at a bare minimum. the men and women who are at work to protect our borders and ports of entry are working without pay. and employers cannot guarantee the lawful immigration status of their prospective employees. to reinstate these critical functions, h.j.res. 79 provides funding for border security

efforts at the current annual rate of $18.8 billion. this includes funding for customs and border patrol. immigration and customs enforcement. coast guard, citizenship and immigration services, and the office of biometric identity management. these are functions of the federal government that are criticalle to our safety and well-being. they should not have to suffer the effects of this shutdown. but if we pass this bill today, and if the senate passes it, and the president signs it into law, it will stop any further adverse effects from defalling our border security while we work toward reopening the entire federal government. piece by piece the republican house has been working toward reopening the government over the past week, and we have done this all with no help, no input from the senate.

the only thing we have heard from the senate is a resounding no. no to working with us on a task force or a committee to reopen the federal government. no to talking with us about our concerns over the multitude of fiscal crises we face. and despite this the house has passed 15 bills funding the government over the past week on top of the continuing resolutions we put forward prior to the end of the fiscal year, and the regular appropriations bills the house passed. impassengerin what we could do -- imagine what we could do if the senate would come to the table and work with us? we could solve the problem. there's no question about it. we are never going to be able to get out of this mess if he we don't come together, have a real adult conversation, listen to each other, earnestly, and

negotiate in good faith. this crisis can't be solved by one party alone or one body of the congress alone. this bill is an effort to keep the ball moving toward our goal of ending the entire government shutdown. the senate has asked for a clean c.r. to achieve that end. the funding in this bill is clean and in line with the spending from the last fiscal year. it's essentially what i put forward in my initial clean c.r. so i hope that with that in mind the house and the senate will pass this bill in short order. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from north carolina. mr. price: mr. speaker, i'd like to yield one minute to the ranking member of the border and maritime security subcommittee of the homeland security

authorizing committee, ms. jackson lee from texas. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from texas is recognized. ms. jackson lee: let me thank the distinguished ranking member. let me thank the chairman of this committee. let me ask again for the hardworking employees of the federal government and the hardworking employees of the department of homeland security to stop being locked out. as my ranking member indicated i'm the ranking member on the border security and maritime security committee. and this piecemeal approach does not comprelf -- competitively address -- comprehensively address the question of the needs of homeland security. frankly i'm in support of custom and border protection and immigration and customs emformer and immigration services an coast guard. you'll find probably no greater supporter on these issues, but we need to be able to pass gislation such as h.r. 1417, comprehensively, to address all the border aspects of this nation.

this is a gamble. this is throwing the dice. this is seeing whether or not we can get this piece and that piece. but it doesn't deal with the entrance and exits. it doesn't comprelf -- comprehensively deal with comprehensive immigration reform. open the government and protect our homeland security employees and the homeland. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. carter: mr. speaker, at this time i'll yield two minutes to mike mccaul. the speaker pro tempore: the other gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. mccaul: i thank my good friend from texas, the chairman, who knows the border perhaps better than any other member in this body. we are all here, mr. speaker, to try and work through our differences over government funding. i hope that no one in this chamber truly believes that we should play politics with the security of our borders. our last line of defense.

yet right now as we debate this important funding bill, our agents at the department of homeland security, the border patrol, c.v.p., and i.c.e. are not fully funded which diminishes their ability to secure our nation's borders and puts american security and lives at risk. . what kind of message would it send to our constituents all over this great country if we threw up you are hands and said that -- if we threw up our hands and saying that providing for the defense of our constitution is no longer a priority. but that's the debate we're having today. as a chairman of the homeland security committee, i will not stand by and let politics get can the best of us. our brave men and women on the border, in my home state, risk their lives daily. just a few weeks ago i visited with border patrol agents, border ranchers in the rio grande sector in texas which has seen a 55% increase in illegal border crossings. this is not just an immigration

issue, mr. speaker. it's a national security issue. our border agents on the frontline must be fully funded and i urge my colleagues to support the border safety and security act and with that i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina. mr. price: i want to yield to ms. roybal-allard. ms. roybal-allard: i rise in strong opposition to the latest in a long line of disingenuous bills that won't bring us closer to ending the dangerous and reckless republican shutdown. this bill represents an irresponsible approach to the serious challenge of defending the homeland in an increasingly dangerous world. this bill purports to protect the public, yet it leaves critical functions of the department of homeland security unfunded. for example, there's no money for t.s.a. to keep the flying

public safe. there's no money for the office of intelligence and analysis to identify terror plots that endanger american lives. and there's no money for the domestic nuclear detection office to guard the homeland against smuggled weapons of mass destruction. clearly republican obstructionism is undermining our american democracy and threatening our american national security. mr. speaker, the boehner shutdown and the republican gamesmanship are hurting american families and endangering the american public. let's defeat this bill, vote and pass a clean budget, and get all our government working to serve and defend all the american people and our american way of life. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. carter: mr. speaker, at this time i'd like to yield two minutes to candice miller, vice chairman of the house committee

on homeland security, and the chairperson of the subcommittee of border and maritime security and a member of the great class of 2002. the speaker pro tempore: great class. the gentlewoman from michigan is recognized for two minutes. mrs. miller: thank you. i certainly thank the gentleman for yielding. mr. speaker, i rise today in very strong support of the bill that we're debating here, the border safety and security act. as vice chair of the house homeland security committee and chair as well of the subcommittee on border and maritime security, i along with so many others have worked to ensure that congress gives the agents and the officers in the field the tools and the direction that they need to keep drugs and terrorists and others who would do us harm from entering our country. and that's what this legislation is about today. now, much of the controversy surrounding the government shutdown has actually focused on obamacare. but, mr. speaker, there is nothing, absolutely zero in the bill that we are talking about right now that has anything to do with obamacare. the only thing that's in this

bill and that we are discussing today is whether or not we will help provide the funds to ensure that we can protect our nation's borders and pay the men and women of the u.s. border patrol, the customs and border protection, and also the immigration and customs enforcement. now, i know many of our friends on the other side of the aisle will once again oppose this legislation because they say they need an entire government funding bill or they won't accept anything else. and yet i would note that they are calling republicans absolutists. i also know that there are many on the other side of the aisle that will support this bill and will help us pass this again with a very strong bipartisan majority. and i simply hope that the leaders of the senate will look at the strong bipartisan support of this bill and take it up. because border security, mr. speaker, cannot be a casualty of our inability to compromise. the agencies that are responsible for protecting this country must be fully funded. so i would urge the house to

support this bill today, to pass this bill today, and i certainly urge the senate and the white house to join us in supporting the men and women across the nation charged with protecting our border. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back the balance of her time. the speaker will receive a message from the senate. the messenger: mr. speaker, a message from the senate. the secretary: mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: madam secretary. the secretary: i have been directed by the senate to inform the house that the senate has agreed with s.s remain 267, relative to the death of the former united states senator for he state of minnesota. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina. mr. price: mr. speaker, i'm glad to yield two minutes to the ranking member of the full authorizing committee on homeland security, mr. thompson of mississippi. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from mississippi is recognize -- is recognized for two minutes. mr. thompson: thank you very much, mr. speaker, and i thank the ranking member for yielding

the time. mr. speaker, i rise today to express strong opposition to h.j.res. 79, the border safety and security act. this is the second time in two weeks that i've come to the house floor to discuss cherry-picked funding at the department of homeland security. neither last week's measure nor the one before us today stands a snowball's chance of ever being enacted into law. even if they did, congress still would not have done its job to fully fund the important homeland and nonhomeland security activities carried out by the department of homeland security. as ranking member of the homeland security committee, i'm troubled that the republican majority is not only picking winners and losers within the federal government, but also within the department of homeland security. this country faces real threats every day. from natural disasters to accidents with catastrophic

results, to terrorism. the people we represent deserve real action, not petty posturing. for today's installment of the mini-c.r. show, the majority is shining a spotlight on i.c.e. agents, border patrol agents, custom border protection officers and coast guard personnel. americans see through this attempt at using patriotic americans serving in the frontlines of homeland security as pawns. if the majority is serious about ensuring that our patchwork of federal border, immigration and homeland resources is operational, they would reopen the entire department of homeland security. this majority's not serious about taking real actions. they want to score political points with the fringe element in their party. i call upon like-minded colleagues on both sides of the aisle to stand with me and

approve a clean c.r. i ask for an additional 30 seconds. mr. price: i yield an additional 30 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for an additional 30 seconds. mr. thompson: thank you. i appreciate the gentleman for yielding. with every passing day, more injury is done to the world, our economy and our standing in the world. the once unthinkable, a default on u.s. debt, is looking more and more possible. we must stand together, inject some rationality here and bring an end to this long national tantrum that has been orchestrated by 50 of the most radical members of the majority. mr. speaker, the majority must let this house consider and pass a clean c.r. so that we can get on with this government, up and working again. thank you, mr. speaker, and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas. mr. carter: mr. speaker, at this time i'd like to yield two minutes to my colleague from texas, mr. culberson, the chairman of the military construction and veterans affairs, subcommittee of

appropriations committee, and a hardworking member of our subcommittee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for two minutes. mr. culberson: thank you, chairman carter. thank you, mr. speaker. the question that we're about to vote on is very simple. do you support, yes or no, fully funding our law enforcement officers on the border and our immigrations and customs enforcement officers? this is not complicated. it's not -- there's nothing more complicated than we are, as the majority in the house, seeking to find areas of agreement. common sense and common courtesy and any negotiation require that you find areas of agreement that are absolutely essential, set those aside, and move on to the issues where you may have some disagreement. this is not complicated. yes or no, do you support fully funding our barder -- border patrol agents and our immigrations and customs enforcement ealingts? that's the only issue br -- agents? that's the only issue before us. we've made sure that our men and women in uniform were paid. we've already in this house set aside and made sure that our

veterans are paid for. we passed legislation to ensure that they receive all the benefits that they have earned by their service to the country. any negotiation, anyone, anywhere in the country, if you have a disagreement you find areas where you can agree that are very important and you get those behind you. and then you get to those areas where there are disagreements. and there are fundamental, important differences that are core principle to us as constitutional conservatives. we do not want to participate in bankrupting the united states of america. we do not want to participate in socializing the greatest health care system the nation has ever -- the world has ever created. we will not idly stand by and allow our children and grandchildren to inherit such a crushing level of debt and taxation that they cannot afford it and their quality of life will be diminished. these are matters of core

principle to us. our right to be left alone as americans is i think one of our most important. certainly texans feel that way. but first and foremost we believe in law enforcement. we believe in supporting our military and we urge our colleagues to vote today with us, to enforce the law. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina. mr. price: mr. speaker, i would like to yield two minutes to the ranking member of the full appropriations 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. while the men and women who secure our border risk their lives, their paychecks are in jeopardy. i am very glad, mr. speaker, that the majority is talking about border security, particularly after they've frozen salaries for the border patrol for the past three years. yes, we should fund border

security. i've been a strong advocate for funding border security. but we cannot adequately protect our homeland by funding one agency at a time. we also must fund the secret service, the t.s.a., cybersecurity. none of which, mr. speaker, is included in this bill. mr. speaker, the claim that democrats aren't negotiating is absolutely false. the senate adopted the most important part of the house bill, the funding level. and the president supported it, even though democrats want greater investments to support economic growth. the only thing democrats say no to are irresponsible efforts to put health care decisions back in the hands of insurance companies, which has nothing to

do with keeping the government open. that is democracy. that is negotiation. we have done more than meet in the middle. the republicans now say no to their own bill. we could end the shutdown today, if the majority will only support a reasonable solution to allow a vote on the republican-written, senate-passed bill. vote no, demand a house vote to immediately end the reckless republican shutdown. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas. mr. carter: mr. speaker, i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas reserves. the gentleman from north carolina. mr. price: mr. speaker, could i inquire how much time remains for each side? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina has 10 minutes. the gentleman from texas has 5 1/2 minutes remaining. mr. price: mr. speaker, i yield

two minutes to another fine colleague from the appropriations committee, mr. farr of california. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for two minutes. mr. farr: thank you very much, congressman price, for yielding. and thank you, mr. speaker. i'm sitting in my office listening and i realized that we're now telling the american people some of the truth some of the time. the truth of the matter is this is all about the fact that an extreme division of the republican party doesn't like the affordable care act which was signed into law 3 1/2 years ago. so they're using the appropriations process to shut down congress. and we keep saying, well, you don't need to do this. that's been the law for 3 1/2 years and guess what we've done in those 3 1/2 years? we've passed 17 c.r.'s. 17 c.r.'s have been passed since the affordable care act was enacted. and guess what? republicans voted for almost every one of those. so what's the difference now?

this is the craziness. our whole country is being put at risk because they won't do what we've done every year, because they don't like the affordable care act. now, if you don't like something, use the appropriations process. that's a law-making process called the authorization process. when you don't like something, you take a different bill and fix it. you can say, well, we don't like it. well, the democrats didn't like medicare part d because of the way it was -- we never shut down government. we went around saying, yes, it's the law, let's fix it. we can fix things. but this isn't the process of doing it. not shutting down government. and the idea of bringing atever you like today, we're just going to vote one thing, one part of government, now we're on just one piece. but you know, they're never going to get around to all the pieces because they don't like all of government. so they pull these votes up. this is ridiculous.

this is putting the country, the world and loss of people at risk and it could be done by just passing a keep-the-government-open bill which we've done 17 times since 2010. 17 times without this division. ome on. don't give us part of the truth ome of the time. mr. carter: mr. speaker, may i inquire of my colleague if he has more speakers. mr. price: i'm prepared to close. mr. carter: i'm prepared to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas reserves. the gentleman from north carolina. mr. price: mr. speaker, our republican colleagues have spoken accurately of the time-honored tradition, they called it, of passing a budget n this congress and then passing appropriations bills, one hopes, on order and on time in an orderly fashion on the agreed-upon resolution.

we thought we were on the same page on this issue on that question of needing an agreed-upon budget going forward. colleagues will remember that republicans badgered the senate in past years not having passed a budget. the senate passed a budget. the senate worked hard, passed a budget and we look forward to a more normal process being resumed. but we were soon disabused of that. because the republican leadership of this house steadfastly refused to go to conference, to work out a common budget with the senate which, of course, is the normal process. they refused to do that. we've been urging it for months. well, why did they refuse that? we thought a lot about this. one possible reason is that no comprehensive budget plan could possibly pass their conference

given the tea party ins fluence in that conference these days. that is an explanation that is suggested. i have to say the failure of speaker boehner's plan b, remember that, back in december , leaving the president -- president obama's budget overture on the table, not taking him up on that comprehensive offer. but then after a while, our republican friends seem to really like the idea of stalling on this. and we gradually realized they're running out the clock. the republicans are running out the clock, and why are they doing that? because in a crisis atmosphere, now, letting the government shut down, running up against the possibility of default, in a crisis atmosphere, maybe they could extract more. indeed, they can extract more,

they think, by demanding a ransom, the political ransom, the affordable care act, whatever. because now with the clock run out, you're talking not just about negotiating a budget, you're talking about demanding a ransom merely to keep the government open. demanding a ransom merely to pay the government's bills, which this body should meet without any threat of extortion. meanwhile, of course, they understand the public doesn't like this so we have the spectacle today of yet another ill seeking political cover to fund a function of government which has been in the news. well, the charade has to end. yes, we need to get back to the normal budget process in this country. the first step to that is to pass a clean funding bill to

reopen the government and the votes are here in this body to do that this afternoon. we must lift the threat of defaulting on the nation's debt, and then sure enough, let's get on with the negotiating of a comprehensive budget agreement, a budget agreement along the lines of . e budget plans of 1990, 1993 budget plans that ended up stimulating this economy, prompting an economic boom and running four years of budget surpluses. we paid off $400 billion of the national debt in those years. those were comprehensive agreements, sure enough. they did include revenues. they included all categories of spending. they were painful votes for many in this body. i will continue to think they were among the best votes i ever cast, but that's where we

need to go. we all know that. the question is, can we find the political will to get there? so let's muster that political will. let's have -- we've had enough of the ransom demands. let's reopen the government. let's lift the debt ceiling and let's get on with serious negotiations, the kind of budget negotiations we should have been having all year. with that i yield the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields his time. the gentleman from texas. mr. carter: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. mr. speaker, if anyone has been watching what's gone on in this house for the last couple of weeks and this week, it reminds me of the movie "groundhog day." the alarm rings and we stand up and we do the same thing and we have the same arguments

consistently. i mean, you heard this argument and that's the argument that's been made throughout the entire last almost two weeks now. so maybe it's time to just talk about something that is called regular order in this house of representatives. we have something called the appropriations process, and we divide up the funding of the government into 12 sections and we have classifications of those sections and each subcommittee presents a bill to the committee for the funding of a certain department. in our case, mr. price and i deal with homeland security. and that bill has been brought to the floor and passed by the floor after it passed out of regular committee and then sent to our colleagues in the senate, the other side of this great building. at that point in time, normal procedure would be for them to deal with the appropriations

process on their side. so i can't speak for all of government. i can speak certainly for homeland security and mr. price i don't think will dispute this. we passed our bill out of the house. so we don't even need to be here today, and we shouldn't need to be here the last week we were here because quite frankly we've given a bill to deal with the problems of financing and supporting those people who defend our borders and all the other things that we take care of at homeland, has been sitting on the desk of mr. harry reid in the senate since june of this year. a long time before this so-called crisis arose. we can have it completely passed, signed by the president if the senate had just done regular order. but they haven't. so as we talk about the issues

discussed today, the reason these issues come up is because the democratic-controlled senate has not done their job and they have not dealt with the appropriations process. we're dealing with an important portion of this process. so important that the very security of our nation depends upon a secure border. the great debate that's gone on for almost three or four years -- recent years as we look at the overall immigration crisis, what about the security of our borders? and we spent billions of dollars making it as secure as we can and we'll continue to secure those borders. all we think we should do is pay the people that are doing the job now and get the borders secure. this is important to the future of our nation. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back the balance of my

time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. 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 certain components of the department of homeland security for fiscal year 2014 and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 1-c of rule 19, further consideration of house joint resolution 79 is postponed. pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess for a period of less than 15 minutes.

>> good morning, everyone. we are 10 days into the government shutdown, and just today the president has invited the house republicans to have a discussion about the way forward. we're hopeful, we're hopeful this is the beginning of a meaningful dialogue with the president about the important issues that face this country. we are hopeful that these would be good faith negotiations over the long-term debt drivers -- or the drivers of our debt, over the security that we need for this country as well as the pressing need to open up this government again. that's why we're going to offer

legislation that will -- that will offer a temporary increase in the debt ceiling, to allow us some time to continue this conversation because it is time for solutions. the democrats' unwillingness to have this conversation has actually resulted in a delay and an ongoing government shutdown and it's hurting the american people. it's gone on too long. we hope that the president will choose negotiation over crisis, leadership over inaction and dialogue over silence. it's time to solve our problems. >> you know, the president is fond of saying, no one gets everyone they want in a negotiation. and frankly, i agree with that. nobody gets everything that they want. but over the course of the last 10 days, we've been trying to have conversations with our democrat colleagues. they don't want to talk. the president doesn't want to talk.

we tried to offer bills that would reopen parts of the government only to have them rejected by our counterparts over in the united states senate. so what we want to do today is offer the president the ability today the ability to move a temporary increase in the debt ceiling in agreement to go to conference on the budget for his willingness to sit down and discuss with us a way forward to reopen the government and to start to deal with america's pressing problems. listen, the time for leadership. it's time for these negotiations and this conversation to begin. and i would hope that the president will look at this as an opportunity and a good faith effort on our part to move halfway, halfway to what he's demanned in order to have these conversations -- demanded in order to have these conversations begin. >> the american people expect both sides to sit down and work out their differences when

you're operating in divided government. so i'm pleased today that we've had an invitation from the white house to actually begin to do that. and, you know, we have seen now for 10 days a government shutdown. it's not what we asked for. it is what was the result of the two parties not being able to sit down and talk. and there is very little time left. we cannot waste any more time. and what we have discussed as a conference is a temporary extension of the debt ceiling in exchange for a real commitment by this president and the senate majority leader to sit down and talk about the pressing problems that are facing all the american people. and that includes a broad array of issues. we look forward to that happening, and if you look throughout history, presidents who have governed in a divided government have all sat down and talked with the other side.

it's about time this is happening. >> i'm very hopeful for today. this is something that republicans have been waiting quite sometime for. we never wanted a shutdown. that's why our very last bill said let's go to conference, so our bill has always been opened and we're thankful that the president is willing to talk today. we're coming there with an idea to work today, we're coming there to find common ground, to find common ground that will deal with these economic drivers that will harm the economy, the drivers that continue to add debt. so when we make an offer today for a temporary extension, we're looking for a structure that puts us on a path to get a budget, to take care of the debt and move this economy in a stronger position and have all american win. a little common sense for the rest of the country. >> all right. i'll take a couple of questions. >> mr. speaker, now that you're undertaking this man on the debt ceiling, what do you need in order to reopen the full

government? >> that's a conversation we're going to have with the president today. and i don't want to put anything on the table. i don't want to take anything off the table. that's why we want to have this conversation. >> mr. speaker, what agreement will prevent us from being in the exact same place? >> you could end up in the exact same place and we don't want to be there. i think the president wants to deal with america's pressing problems just as much as we do. in order to deal with these pressing problems, we have to sit down and have a conversation that leads to a negotiation, that begins to solve these problems for the future and for frankly our kids and our grandkids. >> will you reopen the government if the president doesn't agree to do anything to change obamacare? >> the cans and buts and everything a must, let every day be christmas.

[captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national able satellite corp. 2013] >> house republican leaders after their conference this morning announcing their six-week debt ceiling plan that they plan to offer to the house and talk about conceivably this afternoon with president obama. some 18 house republicans, leaders will be meeting with the president this afternoon. here on c-span we're going to open up our phone lines for a couple of minutes here as we wait for the house to return. they've been debating a bill, one of these piecemeal funding bills. this one dealing with border security. the phone lines for republicans 202--- >> we do expect the house to gavel back in within a couple of minutes here, so we'll go back live to the house, obviously, but continue with your phone calls and talk to

"the washington post" economic policy reporter, lori montgomery, when the house comes back to vote, which will be shortly. in writing about the plan that the republicans unveiled today, here's the piece in "the washington post" this afternoon. washingtonpost.com. they said -- let's go to calls and keep in mind we have a vote here coming up momentarily but we'll hear from tammy in wellington, colorado, first. tammy in colorado, hello, are you there? caller: yes, sir. >> go ahead.

caller: here in colorado we have had a lot of floods, people waiting money. with this government shutdown they have caused problems with the social security, unemployment, people living on welfare and they expect us with this government shutdown to afford their health care? this is crazy. i don't understand how they figure shutting down the government is protecting the people, along with the borders. they're putting all of us in risk and they're sitting there getting paid to argue. if we did this on our jobs, we'd be fired. >> let's hear from roy next who is from jessup, georgia, who is on the republicans line. caller: hello. >> hi, roy. go ahead. caller: i have a question. if obama's wife, michelle, was to happen to come in at the dinner table and told obama -- >> roy, we'll let you go there.

the house is gaveling back in. o resolution 79. joint resolution making continuing appropriations for certain components. department of homeland security -- components of the department of homeland security for fiscal year 2014 and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from new hampshire seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i have a motion to recommit at the desk. the speaker pro tempore: is the gentlewoman opposed? >> i am opposed. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman qualifies. the clerk will report the motion. the gentlewoman will suspend. you need to send your motion to the clerk so it can be reported. the clerk will now report the motion. the clerk: ms. shea-porter of new hampshire moves to recommit the joint resolution, house joint resolution 79, to the

committee on appropriations with instructions to report the same back to the house forthwith, with the following amendment. strike all after the resolving -- ms. shea-porter: i ask unanimous consent to dispense with the reading. the speaker pro tempore: is there objection? mr. carter: mr. speaker. i reserve a point of order on the gentlewoman's motion. the speaker pro tempore: the point of order is reserved. is there objection to suspending the reading? mr. carter: no objection. the speaker pro tempore: no objection. without objection, the reading is suspended. pursuant to the rule, the gentlewoman from new hampshire is recognized for five minutes to support of her motion. -- minutes in support of her motion. ms. shea-porter: i rise today to motion to recommit to end this harmful and unnecessary government shutdown. i do this by offering a motion that would bring to the floor the continuing resolution that has already passed in the senate and awaits consideration in the house. i know that not everyone is thrilled with this level of funding. many of us in the democratic caucus think it cuts too deeply into important investments while many of our republican colleagues feel it doesn't cut

enough. the senate bill is a compromise. but it is a compromise that's acceptable to the majority of us in order to continue the vital functioning of the government that all americans pay for and that all americans deserve. unfortunately a small faction of the majority party continues to hold the entire government hostage while it tries to obstruct the affordable care act. i understand they disagree with the senate and the president on certain issues. but shutting the government down to try and achieve an ideological goal that could not be achieved through the legislative process, through the supreme court or through the ballot box is beneath the dignity of this body. that is why i urge my colleagues to support my motion and allow us to get the government up and running again. then and only then can we resume debate and discussion on other critical issues like creating jobs, supporting our veterans

and, yes, improving the affordable care act. as of today, it has been 10 days since the government shut down. that's 10 days where we haven't had studies going forward at the national institutes of health, 10 days where the small business administration hasn't been lending money to entrepreneurs and small businesses, and 10 days where families haven't had access to the critical services to protect those who need it most. in my own district, the small business administration normally gives out an average of 237,000 -- $237,000 in loans each and every day. that's a total of $2.37 million in loans that haven't been made to the small businesses of new hampshire's first district. the majority has failed my state and others. all the american people are asking for is to open the government. they'd be happy with a clean bill. we could put people back to work with a clean bill. we could continue lending money to small businesses with a clean bill. we could fund cancer research

with a clean bill. but instead of putting an end to the government shutdown, by passing the funding bill that the senate has already agreed to, republican leaders in the house are offering bills to open individual agencies and programs instead of the entire government. make no mistake, that is not an honest attempt to open the government. these cherry-picked funding bills serve only to give political cover to the very people who caused the government shutdown. as former republican presidential candidate and senator bob dole said, along with my dear colleague, representative john dingell, piecemeal or partial spending plans do not adequately ensure that our veterans and indeed all americans have access to the system of self-government established to serve and protect them. former republican senator, who was chairman of the senate budget committee, said a small group of republican legislators, led by the junior senator from texas, decided to take as hostages government operations and the raising of the debt

ceiling. the price of release was to be the death of obamacare. this approach never had a snowball's chance in texas of succeeding. however, here we are still shut down 10 days after the start of the new fiscal year and instead of voting on legislation that if brought to the floor would pass and open the government, what are we voting on? the same little, tiny, piecemeal appropriations designed for messaging attack ads that we've been voting on all week. it's washington politics at its worst. it's been 10 days of this sort of stuff and it's time to give it up. let's stop the gamesmanship. turn the lights back on, reopen the government, and address the actual critical problems addressing the country. we need more jobs, we need to find ways to grow the economy, make education more affordable, invest in our decraying -- decaying infrastructure. all of these are problems that our constituents sent us here to deal with and they are what they

are expecting us to work on. that's probably why yesterday, when gallup released polling on what americans believe is the most important problem facing our country, it should come as no surprise to find that for the first time in history they picked dysfunctional government. it's always been either the economy or unemployment or jobs that were the most pressing problems. in yesterday's poll, though, it was us. i can't say i'm surprised because i agree. we need to fix this. and that starts by doing the base s like funding the government and -- basics like funding government and raising the debt ceiling. i'll end with one final quote from my form republican colleague. he said, people who have no interest in governing cannot be allowed to be the dominant voices in the major party. i thank you for your support and i hope you'll support this critical motion. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas reserved a point of order. mr. carter: mr. speaker, i'll make a point of order that the instructions contained in the motion violate clause 7 of rule

16, which requires that the amendment be germane to the bill under consideration. as i'm sure you're aware, the chair has ruled on october 2, 3, , the and 9 of 2013 instructions contained in the special order of business within the jurisdiction of the committee on rules, therefore the amendment is not germane to the underlying bill. mr. speaker, i insist upon the point of order. the speaker pro tempore: does the gentlewoman from new hampshire wish to speak to the point of order? ms. shea-porter: i request to be heards on the point of order -- heard on the point of order. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. shea-porter: mr. speaker, doesn't the bill before us set up a commission to examine deficit reduction? my motion to recommit would open up the entire federal government so that our taxpayers can receive the benefits they've already paid for. to recommit deals with government expenditures.

and right now we are running a deficit. so isn't the government -- the amount the government is spending a relevant topic to deficit reduction? we have voted to pay workers furloughed during a shutdown. i supported that bill. but what sense does it make to have workers paid to sit at home and not be able to do their jobs? what kind of a strange house is this that would force this situation on our federal workers? mr. speaker, if you rule this motion out of order, does this not mean that we will not have a chance to keep the entire federal government open today? can the chair please explain why we can't keep the entire federal government open today? the speaker pro tempore: the chair is prepared to rule. is the chair lady finished? is the gentlewoman from new hampshire finished? the gentlelady yields back the balance of her time. the gentleman from texas mante makes a point of order that the instructions proposed in the motion to recommit offered by the gentlewoman from new hampshire are not germane. joint resolution extends funding related to the department of

homeland security. the instructions in the motion propose an order of business of the house. as the chair most recently ruled on october 9, 2013, a motion to recommit proposing an order of business of the house is not germane to a measure purporting -- providing for the appropriation of funds. because such motion addresses a matter within the jurisdiction of a committee not represented in the underlying measure. therefore the instructions propose a nongermane amendment and the point of order is sustained. the question is shall the ruling of the chair stand in judgment of the house. mr. carter: mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman seek recognition? mr. carter: 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. ms. shea-porter: mr. speaker, on that i demand the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. 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 a five-minute vote on passage of the joint resolution 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.]