was approved by the united states senate over a year ago for which they have offered us nothing but excuses. one excuse after another as to why we could not permit a majority of this house to consider the best way to reform our broken immigration system. affording full participation to our dreamers, those are people that came here as children through no fault of their own without a visa will not only benefit them as individuals to achieve their all, but it will create jobs and grow our economy. i've met with these dreamers. they have tremendous potential to give back to our country. they want to deny that opportunity. and what about these children at our border? aren't they all god's children? aren't they our children? don't all children deserve a

chance to survive without exploitation and violence and terror? we're not asking that every one of these children be permitted to stay in the united states. do you have an extra 20 seconds? mr. polis: i yield 25 seconds. mr. doggett: how about a little decency, a little civility, a little humanity? how about following existing law, going after the smugglers and proviggede the supplemental resource -- and providing the supplemental resources needed to see their rights are protected? i believe children who came here seeking refuge in this country at least deserve a fair adjudication, not to be met with the barrel of a gun and a one-way ticket back without considering whether they are justly in this country. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from colorado reserves. the gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. mr. cole: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the

gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. mr. cole: i appreciate that. this is a subject where there is obvious considerable passion and emotion and i respect that on all sides. i will remind my colleagues who are insisting on immigration action, they did control the chamber for four years. didn't bring up an immigration ever. had a president that would have signed -- mr. polis: if the gentleman will yield? mr. cole: i'll not yield. i think -- mr. polis: if the gentleman will yield on just a quick correction on that point? mr. cole: i'll certainly yield to my friend on that. mr. polis: the congress did pass the dream act during the lame-duck session. mr. cole: i thought we were talking about immigration reform. reclaiming my time. safely after an election, i might add. but the president of the united states who ran in 2008 saying he would have a bill on the floor within 100 days didn't do it. now, my friends had basically complete control of this chamber and the other chamber. they demonstrated that by passing obamacare without a ngle vote, passing

dodd-frank, passing the stimulus bill. they had a chance to do this. they did not. that's their right. they were in the majority. don't lecture on people stopping individual bills. we have 350, by the way, this chamber has passed sitting and waiting for the senate to consider any of them, any of them. so i recognize, again, there's a great deal of passion here, but that's not what this debate is about. this debate is about a border crisis that we both recognize exist. this debate is to give the president additional resources to deal with that. even though he in some measure contributed to creating it. and this debate is to make sure that we send the message unmistakably, if you subject children to this journey and you pay criminals thousands of dollars to bring them across, they're not likely to get to stay. a point that the president of the united states himself has made. he has said a majority of these children are going to go home.

if my friends have a quarrel with that, he should direct that to the president, not us. we do think if you don't discourage that you'll feed criminal behavior, you'll put these children at risk, you're going to destroy the society from which they came. i don't think we can in a single bill have an overall solution to this problem at this level. i personally think it's going to take an effort somewhat similar to what we did in colombia in a bipartisan sense, i might add, in the drug trade where we invested considerable sources in colombia to help them deal with their problem. i am not saying it's perfect there. it is better than the 1980's and 1990's. that's where we worked together constructively, did something good for their society and our country. that's something that will emerge again in central america. that's something far ahead of us in legislative scope. we think this is the

appropriate response. with that, mr. speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oklahoma reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from colorado is recognized. mr. polis: i'd like to yield to the gentleman from texas, mr. o'rourke, for purposes of a unanimous consent request. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. o'rourke: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to enter into the record the story of a 4-year-old honduran girl whose body was found in a nylon bag showing signs of torture. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. polis: i yield to the gentleman from florida, mr. garcia, for purposes of a unanimous consent request. mr. garcia: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to enter into the record the story of a 17-year-old guatemalan boy who received asylum because a gang killed his father and they were threatening him. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. polis: mr. speaker, i yield to the gentlelady from california, ms. lofgren, for purposes of a unanimous consent request. ms. lofgren: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to enter into the record the story of an 11-year-old salvadoran boy who was applying for asylum because he was threatened by gang members who killed his cousin

and who suffered severe domestic abuse. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. as indicated by previous occupants of the chair on june 26, 2003, on june 27, 2002, and on march 24, 1995, although a unanimous consent request to insert remarks in debate may comprise a simple, declare tiff statement towarding impending measure, it's improper for them to embellish in oratory. the chair will entertain as many requests to insert as may be necessary to accommodate the members, but the chair also must ask that members cooperate by confining such request to the proper form. mr. polis: point of parliamentary inquiry, mr. speaker. when these requests are submitted, the members are merely stating the title of the document that is being submitted. which clearly has to have a name. i want clarifycation whether to that is is charged to our time if they're simply submitting a

document and telling you the name of that document? toip as most recently ruled by the chair on july 11, 2013, a unanimous consent that extends beyond a simple declare tiff statement about the member's attitude constitutes demate and may result charge on the member executing that order. mr. polis: again, mr. speaker, i inquire -- i'd like your judgment, in fact, on when these motions are made and the document is submitted, clearly the document that is being referred to has to be referred to in their remarks. these members are submitting a document and they are in fact naming that document that they are submitting and i want to ensure that complies with your interpretation of the house rules. the speaker pro tempore: also stated on july 11, 2013, the chair will exercise discretion in determining whether an

individual unanimous consent request results in a yielding member being charged time in debate. mr. polis: further parliamentary inquiry. what is the chair's conclusion with regard to these unanimous onsent requests? the speaker pro tempore: go beyond the underlying nature of the debate will be charged time against the yielding member. mr. polis: further inquiry. have the previous submissions of documents gone beyond the unanimous consent request guideline that the chair stipulated? the speaker pro tempore: the chair has not yet charged any time to the member from colorado. mr. polis: i thank the chair. i yield to the gentlelady from new york for purposes of a unanimous consent request. ms. slaughter: i ask unanimous consent to enter in the record the story of a 12-year-old girl who escaped slavery with her baby and received a visa in the united states. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. polis: thank you. i further yield to the gentleman from texas, mr.

doggett, for purposes of a unanimous consent request. mr. doggett: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to enter in the record the story of a young honduran girl, the age of my granddaughter, who fled domestic violence and kidnapping. the document is from lutheran immigration and refugee service and it is entitled "voices of central american youth: why they are fleeing their countries." the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from colorado will be charged. mr. polis: i yield to the gentlelady from california, mrs. capps, for purposes of a unanimous consent request. mrs. capps: thank you. mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to enter into the record the story of an 11-year-old honduran boy who was kidnapped, tortured and murdered. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. polis: parliamentary inquiry. mr. chair, i believe the only unanimous consent request has been charged to our time is mr. doggett's, is that correct? the speaker pro tempore: that's correct.

mr. polis: further inquiry. again, mr. doggett stated the title of a document that he submitted which seems to be a prerequisite for submitting a document. i'd like to inquire as to why the chair ruled to charge the time to us? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman engaged in debate beyond putting the -- mr. polis: further parliamentary inquiry. how can -- submitting a document and saying what the name of the document is be -- constitute debate? the speaker pro tempore: in the opinion of the chair, the gentleman was engaging in debate. >> mr. speaker, can you provide something that my colleagues will understand in reading the title and the source of the document that described the tragedy of this little honduran girl seeking refuge in our country constituted debate rather than simply identifying the title? the speaker pro tempore: the

chair is exercising his discretion. mr. doggett: mr. speaker, further parliamentary inquiry. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. doggett: is the speaker without any guidance to my colleagues as to how they can present documents within the rules of the house without reading the title and the source of the document? and account speaker describe anything about my remarks that differed from any of the other remarks that were given by my colleagues other than the reading of the title and the source from lutheran services of this young girl who sought refuge in our country? mr. faleomavaega: to clarify, the chair has stated clearly that a simple statement of the member's attitude toward the measure, it's impour for such a member to embellish with story or oratory. mr. polis: mr. speaker, i yield to the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. mcgovern, for purposes of a unanimous consent request. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. mcgovern: i ask unanimous consent to enter in the record

the story of a 15-year-old salvadoran boy who has requested asylum because local gang members threatened to kill him because he refused to sell drugs for them. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. polis: i yield to the gentlelady from california, ms. roybal-allard, for purposes of a unanimous consent request. ms. roybal-allard: i ask unanimous consent to submit for the record seven stories of boys who were brutally tortured and murdered without entering the gang. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. polis: i yield to mr. lujan for purposes of a unanimous consent request. mr. lujan: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to enter into the record the story of a young honduran girl who resisted being robbed for $5 was clubbed over the head, drugged out for two men, cut a hole in her throat and left her in a reconvenient. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman will be charged. mr. lujan: mr. speaker, parliamentary inquiry. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. lujan: again, if there is discretion that can be shared,

that was directly from the article that i asked unanimous consent to be entered, and on many occasions i've been on this floor and been part of many debates in the five years i've been honored to serve for the congress and used the exact same approach and have never been charged when seeking unanimous consent request. is there any discretion that the speaker can give us direction on? the speaker pro tempore: the chair is using its discretion. that's exactly what i said previously. the chair has discretion in this measure. mr. lujan: mr. speaker, further parliamentary inquiry. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. lujan: mr. speaker, so with that being said to debate, even though the same practices are used by members, rulings can change by the chair on this particular issue? the speaker pro tempore: the chair does have discretion. the statement has been to make a simple declareatory statement of the entry of the matter. mr. lujan: and mr. speaker, for clarification, that's exactly what i did was i read a

statement from the article. i'm confused, mr. speaker. i'm just maybe a junior member from a small farm in new mexico but it seems if i'm reading from the article directly that i don't appear to be violating any rules to be charged time. the speaker pro tempore: elbelishments or statement ons other members are debate and will be charged to the manager. mr. lujan: mr. speaker, parliamentary inquiry. this was not an embellishment. this was a direct quote from the article. it appears to me that my understanding of an embellishment are my own words being added. the speaker pro tempore: embellishments or words will be charged. the gentleman from colorado is recognized. mr. polis: i thank the gentleman from new mexico for submitting that powerful testimony and i further yield to the gentlelady from illinois, ms. schakowsky, for purposes of a unanimous consent request. ms. schakowsky: i ask unanimous consent to enter into the record the story of a

17-year-old girl with her daughter to escape constant physical and sexual abuse from the baby's father. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. polis: i yield to the gentlelady from california, ms. chu, for purposes of a unanimous consent request. ms. chu: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to enter into the record the story of a 15-year-old salvadoran boy whose body was found in a plastic bag with his hands and feet bound. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman from colorado will be charged. mr. polis: i further yield to the gentleman from california, mr. cardenas, for purposes of a unanimous consent request. mr. cardenas: thank you, mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent to enter into the record the story of an 18-year-old mexican boy who trafficked into the united states and held by the u.s. marshals service so he could testify as a material witness to some deaths that he witnessed. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from colorado will be charged. mr. polis: i further yield to the gentlelady from california, ms. lee, for purposes of a unanimous consent request.

ms. lee: i ask unanimous consent to enter a story of a 12-year-old girl who was trafficked for sex, escaped with her baby. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from colorado will be charged. mr. polis: mr. speaker, i would -- mr. speaker, i would like to yield three minutes to the gentleman from california, the ranking member of the appropriations subcommittee on agriculture, food food food, related atecies, mr. farr. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for three minutes. mr. farr: thank you very much, mr. speaker. thank you for yielding. i stand today in the well to appeal to my republican colleagues about this debate which isn't about the underlying bill, it's about the rule. you ought to all be worried, we all ought to be worried. this rule is a sham to the institution of congress. i'm an appropriator. i'm proud to do that. we respect the jurisdiction of all other committees. that's why we have standing committees. we don't do their business. this rule ignores all the

standing committees in congress. this rule says you can write a bill in the darkness of night, nobody's read it, no republican's read it, no democrat's read it, pick it up in the hallway here. i read it this morning. i'll tell you, the rule waives all points of opposition, which we say in this rule, all points of order against consideration of the bill are waived. all points of order. that means all the ideas of all the committees that are supposed to be writing these bills. now, nobody's going to be thanked they vote first for the rule, because it does so many things that misjudge the purpose of congress. that misappropriate the purpose of congress which is to have transparency and allow people to get into the debate. nobody who understands the problem and the embassies of the host country was able to testify. nobody in the administration who deals with the border was able to testify. no member of congress who has some knowledge about this is

able to tefment and this bill says, so what, we wrote the bill and you just have to accept it. if you have any objections we raise all those points of order. so the rule, the rule does disservice to congress. it ought to be rejected. secondly, on the bill, when you get to it, if it isn't rejected, which it should be, first of all if we reject the rule, nothing's broken. we can fix it. we can fix it better. because this bill is not -- no one's going to thank you for voting for this thing. just to show you how outrageous it is, it says the host countries, we are going to give you money, but you have 15 days to convene your legislatures and enact legislation, secure your borders, and make sure everything's secure. you couldn't do that in washington in 15 days much less essentially third world countries. so there's all kinds of provisions in here that just don't make any sense and don't help fix anything that's broken and for all the testimony you just heard, there are a lot of other things that need to be addressed that aren't in this bill. my colleagues on both sides of

the aisle, the best thing we could do to respect this institution is to reject this rule. vote no. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from colorado reserves. the gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. mr. cole: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. mr. cole: i have a great deal of respect for my friend from the appropriations committee. he's an excellent legislator and tremendous member. i am going to point out the record of the democratic majority the last time they were here. and in control of what happened on the floor. in the 111th congress, the final two years representative pelosi's time as speaker, the house never considered a single bill under an open rule. not one bill. that's the definition of a closed process. under republican control the house has returned to consideration appropriations bills under an open process with 22 open rules. we had no open rules on appropriations when my friends

were in the majority. this year alone, the house has considered 404 amendments during the appropriations process, 189 offered by our friends on the other side. when you compare the record overall, frankly, i think the comparison is much to the advantage of republicans. we are trying to deal with complex issues that are relatively short period of time. i suspect the congress will -- i know the conditioning congress will be back in session in september. we'll be working on the appropriations process in the lame duck again. so there's going to be ample legislative opportunities. we are in a crisis situation which we are in this case. we are trying to respond thoughtfully and expeditiouslyly. we are trying to put -- expeditiously. we are trying to put resources to the problem, to the core of the problem. the problem which the administration a month ago identified as a 2008 law but has offered absolutely no suggestions without a fifpblgts we have not tried to repeal t we tried to tweak it and address the problem.

my friends have a better solution, we'd love to hear it, but we haven't. instead we have been told, 2008 law caused the problem but you can't change the 2008 law. that seems to me both politically and intellectually indefensible. we are going to continue to try to solve the problem that's been identified by the administration. at some point we hope they'll join us in trying to actually correct the problem that they say exists. with that, mr. speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oklahoma reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from colorado is recognized. mr. polis: mr. speaker, for purposes of you unanimous consent request i yield to the gentlelady from new york, ms. velazquez. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from new york will state her request. ms. velazquez: thank you, mr. speaker. i ask unanimous consent to enter into the record the story of two honduran brothers who were tortured and murdered by gang members in the murder capital of the world. mr. speaker, how we treat our children speak to the character of our nation. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman will be charged. the gentleman from colorado is

recognized. mr. polis: mr. speaker, i yield 1 1/2 minutes to the gentleman from texas, the chair of the hispanic caucus and the ranking member on the education and work force subcommittee on higher education and work force training, mr. hinojosa. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for 1 1/2 minutes. mr. hinojosa: mr. speaker, as chairman of the congressional hispanic caucus, i rise in opposition to h.r. 5230 and the underlying rule. i represent mcallen texas which has been the epicenter for this humanitarian cry sifments for years my republican colleagues have been ignoring for over one year the problems caused by their inaction on immigration reform. they have cut funding for immigration judges so that people wait years to have their cases heard. they have cut funding to help the countries of central america deal with the internal problems causing their children to flee. the republican solution has always been -- and more soldiers

to militarize the border. i live on that border of texas and mexico and i know that their enforcement only approach is not working because it doesn't address the root cause of immigration. it has been economically devastating to border communities who vainly try to persuade companies to move their plants and factories to our region, to create jobs and bring us out of poverty that is the highest in the nation. our veterans suffer because we can't get doctors to move to the border. all these companies and doctors here is the border is a war zone flooded with dangerous immigrants. that is not the border i know. my border home is a vibrant educated fast-growing culturally diverse welcoming region, and i'm proud of how we have embraced these children and families. we are now voting once again to militarize our border, deny children legal representation

and due process in providing little help to central america. we are not fixing the problem. i urge my colleagues to oppose the rule and this bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from colorado reserves. the gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. mr. p cole: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. mr. cole: a few corrections if i may. we are actually putting additional resources, we haven't cut resources, it's the president's budget that cut resources, cut detention beds, cut enforcement, cut aid to the countries in central america that are dealing with this problem. that's the president's budget. those things were all corrected in the foreign operations budget which has not yet reached the floor but has been passed by the full appropriations committee. i'm going to disagree with my friends on the other side this has anything to do with comprehensive immigration reform. quite frankly it does not. it is a border crisis. it has nothing to do with this legislation. and the root cause of the problem here are criminals who go back and tell people, if you

pay money and subject yourself to a dangerous journey, and we get you to the united states, you'll be able to stay. now, that's who is at fault here. that's your the focus ought to be. and when my friends point to specific cases, i always point out, number one, we have an avenue, called the united states embassy in the country. you can plead refugee status there. you don't have to travel 1,000 or 2,000 miles across very dangerous country. you simply afford yourself of the available opportunities. finally, in the president's judgment, most of these children will be returned. that's the president's judgment. frankly, i think he made that judgment trying to discourage what's happening now. that's precisely what we are trying to do in this piece of legislation. i think there's a lot of passion that's appropriate because there's some heartwrenching cases, but there's also a lot of political theater here. the reality is, again, most of

these children according to the president will be returned. the quicker that can happen, the less likely it is that other children will follow them and be subjected to a very dangerous journey. that's what we are trying to achieve. we are going to try and do that with this measure today, but we invite our friends to work with us as we go forward. as i suspect we will. with that, mr. speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oklahoma reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from colorado is recognized. mr. polis: thank you, mr. speaker. i'd like to yield one minute to the gentleman from new mexico, mr. lujan. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new mexico is recognized for one minute. mr. lujan: thank you very much. last week we were part of a conversation and debate around strengthening anti-human trafficking laws. we all came to this floor and democrats and republicans found a way to talk to one another and talk to the american public about what we should do to protect these children that are in harm's way.

being brutally murdered and raped, mr. speaker. and this week while my republican colleagues are doing is coming out of a conference and weakening anti-human trafficking laws. mr. speaker, at this point all i can say is, god help this congress if it's now our policy to weaken human trafficking laws. it's a sad, sad day, mr. speaker. i certainly hope that my colleagues take a chance to look at this and look into their hearts and pray on that and come to the floor and do the right thing. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new mexico yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from colorado reserves. the gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. mr. cole: mr. speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oklahoma reserves. the gentleman from colorado is recognized. mr. polis: mr. speaker, i yield two minutes to the gentleman from mississippi, the distinguished ranking member on the committee on homeland security, mr. thompson. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from mississippi is recognized for two minutes. mr. thompson: thank you very much. i thank the gentleman from colorado for yielding.

mr. speaker, i rise in strong opposition to h.res. 696. this rule would provide for consideration of supplemental appropriation bill that clearly demonstrates its republican authors either have no idea what is needed to address the current situation at the border, or they are more concerned with scoring political points than making public policy. the resources provided under the bill are both inadequate to provide the necessary amount of humanitarian relief, and misdirected toward so-called border security efforts that are unlikely to have any real effect on the number of unlawful border crossings. for example, deploying national guard to the border when children and families are already running to the border patrol agents is a waste of taxpayers' money. instead, we should be providing the border patrol with the funding necessary to move additional experienced agents to

the rio grande valley, which is what their leadership has indicated they need. this misguided bill has also included provisions to undermine due process for unaccompanied children. many of whom are refugees fleeing terrible violence in their home countries. mr. speaker, we are better than this as a congress, and we are better than this as a nation. i urge my colleagues to oppose this rule and the underlying supplemental. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from mississippi yielding back the balance of his time. the gentleman from colorado reserves. gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. mr. cole: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield one minute to my colleagues, distinguished member from texas. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. the heartbreaking stories my colleagues are telling about these people, young people coming across the border and being exploited and hurt and injured confirm the wisdom of the approach the republicans have taken to this problem based on commonsense and long experience, called law

enforcement. mr. culberson: this is not complicated. in order to protect these kids, protect the people of the united states, protect the communities on the border, we believe strongly in enforcing the existing law and ensuring the people of the united states are protected against the lawlessness, drug dealers, cartels, smugglers, the gun runners that are coming across the border and exploiting these kids. it's not a complicated problem. it's worked for years in tfpblgts we understand the border problem. -- in texas. we understand the border problem. no nation can survive that doesn't secure its borders and enforce its laws. by enforcing the law and bringing peace and quiet to the border, you'll also ensure that free trade, that legal trade back and forth between mexico, our biggest trading partner, can proceed as it should. laredo is the largest inland port in the united states, in order for businesses to do their job they have to have peace and quiet and that means law enforcement. and that's the republican approach to this problem. enforce the law. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from oklahoma reserves. the gentleman from colorado is

recognized. . . mr. polis: i'd like to inquire if the gentleman from oklahoma has more speakers. mr. cole: i do not. mr. polis: i'd like to know how much time remains on each side? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from colorado has 6 3/4 minutes remaining. mr. polis: i'd ask the gentleman from oklahoma the courtesy if anyone else shows up on my side i'd further yield and if not i'm prepared to close. mr. cole: i'll certainly do that to my friend. mr. polis: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. polis: the house republican proposal includes a provision that would role back our bipartisan anti-human trafficking protections that have been in place for 20 years and most recently reaffirmed unanimously by congress in 2008. this is to maintain our due process laws under the trafficking victims protection re-authorization act of 2008 which this bill strips, that helps promote the safety of unaccompanied minors.

according to the united nations high commissioner for refugees, 58% of children fleeing to the u.s. may have valid claims to asylum or other legal protections. our existing laws ensure that these children receive due process. many of them are victims of human trafficking, sexual violence or other persecution. and they need to have the meaningful opportunity under a law to present their protection claims before an immigration judge. he underlying bill would drastically weaken the due process protections by subjecting central american children to inadequate screening process. we have had our additional speaker to offer our p.q. arrive, mr. speaker, and if the house takes up the senate immigration reform bill, the current influx of migrant children from honduras, el salvador and guatemala will not -- that's why today, mr. speaker, i'm proud to give the

house a second chance, if we defeat the previous question, i'll offer an amendment to bring up the bodder protection modernization act so the house can vote on a broad long-term solution to overhaul our country's immigration system and address the border crisis at the same time it addresses the systemic causes rather than simply try to apply band-aid after band-aid after banned ate aide which the house will soon find there is not enough banned band-aids to address the health of the problem. i yield to the gentleman from florida, mr. garcia, for three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. garcia: i wish i could say this bill is a joke. this is far worse than a joke. not only does the underlying bill provide -- fail to provide adequate funding to deal with the situation at hand, it flat out ignores the root cause of the problem.

but by tacking on a vote yet on the so-called no new dreamers act, house leadership is just refusing to take action on immigration reform. it's not just refusing that. it's prohibiting the president from doing things to fix a broken system. you know, this is akin to watching a train crash or knowing it's going to crash and stoking, stoking the furnace more, making the damage greater. they have no interest in fixing this crisis. they have no interest in fixing the problem. they are playing politics with people's lives, and they are playing politics with our nation's economy. this isn't a game. these are human beings. this is doing damage to our country. if we are truly committed to tackling this crisis on the southwest border and ensuring fair and efficient process for

dealing with these kids, we need to begin with comprehensive immigration reform. if the previous question is defeated, we'll offer h.r. 15, the house bipartisan comprehensive immigration bill. only by fixing our broken immigration system can we begin to better allocate the resources where they are needed most. my bill provides a path forward for people already here so that the cases are no longer -- will no longer clog our immigration courts and officials can spend time to go after those who wish to do our nation harm. it will provide green cards for thousands of hondurans and salvadorans who have language wished for over a decade, a decade under temporary status and adds the necessary due process protection for children on the border. you know, the speaker on the side opposite brought up the issue of what caused this.

what caused this -- what was the straw that broke the camel's back? well, i tell you what the straw is. some of these children waited five years. some of them waited eight years. some of them waited over a decade on the promises of this congress, and there is blame to go to both sides, on the promise of this congress to have comprehensive immigration reform. and the speaker who had promised earlier in the year to work with the president, finally announced there would be no comprehensive immigration reform bill, that was the straw that broke the camel's back. because 55% of these children are coming to be with their parents. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for an additional 30 seconds. mr. garcia: mr. speaker, our country needs comprehensive immigration reform. our people support comprehensive immigration reform, and there are enough votes in this house to pass comprehensive immigration

reform. i ask my colleagues to vote against the previous question so that we can finally consider comprehensive immigration reform. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from colorado is recognized. mr. polis: thank you. i am prepared to close. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. polis: our last week, our last day before this house adjourns for a five-week recess, we have an opportunity with mr. garcia's previous question if we can defeat the previous question, we can actually address these issues with a bipartisan bill, h.r. 15, comprehensive immigration reform, nearly identical to the senate bill. i'm confident that if this body passes that bill, senate majority leader reid will promptly act on it and send it to the president's desk so we not only can address this border crisis but prevent future border crises rising by restoring the rule of law to our nation. the american people expect this body to act in a way that's consistent with our values.

we have that opportunity today. mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to insert the text of the amendment in the record along with extraneous material immediately prior to the vote on the previous question to bring up h.r. 15, the house's bipartisan immigration reform bill. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. polis: mr. speaker, i urge my colleagues to vote no and defeat the previous question so this body, this house and this congress can tackle immigration reform and restore the rule of law to our country. i further encourage my colleagues to vote no on the underlying bills, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from colorado yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from oklahoma is recognized to close. mr. cole: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself the balance of the time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. mr. cole: i got to differ with my friends, obviously, on a number of important issues. first, i think probably without thinking it through, accused us of wanting to roll back human sex trafficking bill that passed this body unanimously.

absolutely untrue. nobody has any intention of doing anything like that. it's the administration that said that legislation, a loophole in it, is what caused this crisis. now, i would dispute that, quite frankly. i think what's caused it is first and foremost the president sending an unmistakable signal that was probably -- a signal that may have been misinterpreted that if you could manage to get to the united states you can be able to stay. he did that by unilaterally changing and thwarting whole sections of our own immigration law. doing things he himself said a year before were unconstitutional. but that signal i think has been picked up by criminals and turned into a message directed at naive and vulnerable people. if you give us thousands of dollars, we will take you on this journey, get you to the united states and then you're going to be able to stay. when the president first addressed this problem and, again, he was warned in 2012

and 2013 by his own advisors this might well happen, did not prepare for it, submitted a budget that actually cut border enforcement, cut aid to the central american countries and security aid so they can secure their own territory. when he finally dealt with this he said, well, this 2008 law is part of the reason. what this bill does is tweak it. it simply says we're going to treat children coming from the affected areas from noncontiguous countries the same way we treat mexican children. always been a question as to whether or not we should have that distinction. so there's no particular reason why somebody from central america should automatically be treated differently than somebody from mexico. in addition, i point out to my friends there's an easier way. just go to the american embassy in the country and got status that would qualify as refugee status, you can make your case there. you don't have to pay thousands of dollars. you don't have to subject yourself to a dangerous journey

in the company of criminals. the president frankly has said that this is an immigration issue. i don't think it is. i think it's a border crisis. and i think it needs to be dealt with that way. i think the record's, again, pretty clear on this. that's what we did, we've acted on a problem the president identified. the promise these children would be returned, remember, they'll be returned to the custody of their government, returned to the people who are trying to take care of them within their societies and, secondly, that's what the president said exactly was going to happen. those were his words. the overwhelming majority of these young people will be returned. the quicker and more humanely, more expeditiously that we accomplish that, the fewer of them will -- will undertake this journey and the fewer of these families will be conned out of their money. so you're not doing the next people favor by not dealing

with the problem in front of us. mr. speaker, in closing, this legislation continues this house's commitment to govern and deal with the crisis before they become even worse. the shortfall in the highway trust fund, for instance, the supplemental request are all things the american people expect us to deal with before the august district work period. i would urge my colleagues to support the rule and the underlying legislation. mr. speaker, i yield back the balance of my time and i move the previous question. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the question is on ordering the previous question on the resolution. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. mr. polis: mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from colorado. mr. polis: on that i request the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. all those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this uestion will be postponed.

pursuant to clause 1-c of rule 19, proceedings will resume on h.r. 935 which the clerk will report by title. the clerk: union calendar number 346, h.r. 935, a bill to amend the federal insectside, fungside and rodenticide act and the federal water act to clarify congressional intent to use pestsides in or near navigable waters and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california seek recognition? mrs. capps: mr. speaker, i have a motion to recommit at the desk. the speaker pro tempore: is the gentlewoman opposed to the bill? mrs. capps: i am opposed in the current form. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman qualifies. the clerk: mrs. capps of california moves to recommit the bill h.r. 935 to the committee on transportation and infrastructure with instructions to report the same back to the house forthwith with the following amendment. at the end of the bill add the following -- section 4. protecting infants and children from known or suspected cars jens.

a, a, in general, the act and the amendments from this act, one, if the pesticide, a, is a cinogen suspected car for infants or children or is suspected to harm the neurological or physiological development of infants or children or, two, if the discharge is located in a geographic area that contains a cancer cluster. b, cancer cluster defined, in the section the term cancer cluster means a defined geographic area where there is the occurrence of a greater than expected number of cancer cases among infants or children over a specific time period. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to the rule, the gentlewoman from california is recognized for five minutes in support of her motion. mrs. capps: mr. speaker, i rise today to offer this final amendment to h.r. 935. if this amendment is adopted, it will not kill the bill or send it back to committee. the house will have an opportunity to vote on final passage immediately after

consideration of this amendment. what the amendment will do is ensure that our children are protected from known chemical threats. mr. speaker, to come -- it should come to no surprise that when it comes to pestsides, infants and children are most vulnerable to harmful impacts. pound-for-pound, children drink more water, eat more food, breathe more air than adults and as a result they observe a higher concentration of pestsides. infants and children are exposed to pestsides in unique ways because how they interact with the world. as any parent can tell you, children and infants crawl on the floor and on the grass and they put almost everything into their mouths, including their hands. again, putting themselves at greater risk of exposure to pestsides than adults do. and the exposure of infants and children to pestsides poses a greater risk than the same exposure would do to an adult for an adational reason and that's because children's internal organs are still developing and their bodies may

provide less natural protection from these toxins than do adults. simply put, our children are at greater risk from pestsides exposure so they need greater protection and that is what my amendment would do. it would help reduce risk by preserving several commonsense tools to protect children and infants from increased exposure to toxic pestsides. mr. speaker, i believe our farmers and mosquito controlled districts have raised concerns about these regulations that need to be addressed and i have supported the underlying bill in the past because i believe the legislative process needs to move forward to find the right solution to these bills -- issues. however, this bill is not perfect. . it takes a broad approach to be sure we are doing everything possible to protect our most vulnerable people. unfortunately, this bill has come to the floor with no opportunity to consider floor amendments to make these commonsense improvements. so this is our last, really our

only opportunity to strike the right balance between supporting our local farmers and protecting our children. mr. speaker, we all know that pesticide exposure can lead to a variety of adverse health effects, especially for children. these harmful effects range from neurological disorders to birth defects to certain forms of cancer. recent news reports have highlighted more examples of potential cancer clusters associated with pesticide exposure. for example, in highland, new york, health officials are investigating the cases of six children who one after another were diagnosed with the same form of leukemia. local residents believe that environmental pollution may be the cause and point to the routine pesticide sprayings in the area. in california, local officials are investigating over 20 cases of childhood malignancies, including the death of an 8-year-old boy, that may be linked to pesticides in that area. in washington state, local

health officials are investigating why roughly 60 people in the yacka ma area report difficult breathing, skin rashes, and head aches, some of which required emergency hospitalizations n this instance state health officials suspect these health issues may be related to 15 different instances of spraying in commercial orchards. these are just a few examples. mr. speaker, i represent an area of california with a vibrant agricultural economy and culture that we all treasure. our farmers and their families drink the same water as everyone else. so they have just as much at stake in this as anyone. pesticides are an unfortunate but necessary part of food production and our farmers do the best they can to navigate the rules and use these pesticides safely. there's clearly more that should and could be done to minimize pesticide exposure, especially when it comes to our children. my amendment targets the most toxic of all pesticides, those

that research indicates are known or suspected to cause serious health issues in infants and children. i want to be clear, this amendment does not block the use of these pesticides or block consideration of this bill, it simply says that if you are a pesticide applicator, you should minimize your use of these toxic chemicals, monitor any adverse impacts when they are used, and report the location and quantities to local permitting agencies. we may not agree on all the potential impacts of this bill, but surely we can agree that protecting our nation's infants and children from toxic chemicals warrants or full support. simply put, that is what my amendment does. as a public health nurse, i strongly urge its adoption. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the the gentlewoman from california yields back the balance of her time. for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio seek recognition? >> i rise in opposition to the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio is recognized for five minutes. >> thank you, mr. speaker. this motion to recommit is unnecessary. there's already adequate

rotections put in the law. fifra evaluates, the e.p.a. evaluates the process. if there's any risk to the environment or human health, they won't get their label, they won't get the label. it will be restricted pesticide. mr. gibbs: it won't be approved. i say this is unnecessary. duplicative. there's already enough protections in the current law and all this is redundant and plain unnecessary. we need to move ahead. i strongly oppose the motion to recommit. urge my colleagues to vote no. yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio yields back the balance of his time. without objection, the previous question is order on the motion to recommit. the question is on the motion. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the noes have it. the motion is not agreed to. the gentlewoman from california is recognized. mrs. capps: may i respectfully request the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are

ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. pursuant to clause 8 and clause 9 of rule 20, this 15-minute vote on the motion to recommit will be followed by five-minute votes on passage of the bill, if ordered, ordering the previous question on the house resolution -- on house resolution 696, and adopting house resolution 696, if ordered. this is a a-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.]

the speaker: on this vote the yeas are 195. the nays are 233.

the motion is not adopted. he house will be in order. members will please take their seats. he house will be in order. will members please take a seat. for what purpose does the

majority leader rise. mr. cantor: i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker: without objection, so ordered. mr. cantor: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, it's been an honor and a privilege to serve as majority leader of this distinguished body. i look around this remarkable chamber and i see so many friends and colleagues who have inspired me and who have inspired this congress to do great things for the american people. walking into this building and walking on to this floor is something that excited me every day since i was first elected to congress. as it should. not one of us should ever take for granted the awesome honor and responsibility we have to serve our fellow americans. this is a privilege of a lifetime. i think of the sacrifices that

help me rise to serve the people of the virginia's seventh district. my grandparents fled religious persecution in europe in order to find a better life. my grandmother, a young jewish widow, was soon raising my dad above a grocery store in richmond just trying to make ends meet. and so it goes two generations later her grandson would represent part of what was james madison's seat in the house. and then go on to serve as its majority leader. i have truly lived the american dream. that's what this country is supposed to be about dreaming big, believing that each generation can do better than the last. now, unfortunately, we have seen that dream erode in recent years, and our nation faces many challenges. too many are left wondering if we can be an america that works,

an america that leads. too many children are condemned to a bad school because of the zip code they live in. being poor in america should not mean being deprived of a good education, and we've all got to continue fighting for these kids. this is the civil rights issue of our time. now even after kids graduate high school, too many can't afford college or access the skills they need to join a new and dynamic work force. government policies often increase these costs and restrict opportunities. during my time here, we have made some progress on some of these issues, but, frankly, not enough. one of my proudest moments was watching the president sign into

law the ga by ella miller kids research act sponsored by congressman greg harper and peter welch. prioritizing federal dollars towards finding cures and treatments for disease can enrich and even save lives. the added benefit? cures can help alleviate health care costs. all the while too many moms and dads who are healthy are stuck without a job or barely getting by in one that doesn't match their potential. this congress, the house has passed many bills, some of which were bipartisan, to help create jobs and opportunities for those who desperately need them. i hope more of those bills will make it to the president's desk before year's end. our nation and our economy cannot meet its full potential if we in america are not leading abroad.

i look around at colleagues on both sides of the aisle, at chairman, ranking members, at my good friend, democratic whip, steny hoyer, all of whom have soberly and seriously helped ensure a fight for a strong foreign policy so that our nation can lead in order to help keep our people safe. yet never before have i been more worried about the prospects of that peace. due to our diminished engagement on the world stage. instability and terror seem to be come interesting every corner of the globe. the middle east is in chaos. iran is marching towards a nuclear weapon. russia has reverted to a cold war footing and invaded ukraine. now, america does lead in so many areas, including innovation, scientific discovery, and medicine. but we've also got to make

leadership abroad a priority. i shudder to think what the world looks like in five years for us and our allies if we don't steel our resolve and stand tall with those who stand with us. mr. speaker, we don't always see eye to eye, even within our own parties in this chamber, but that's how it's supposed to be, our founders did not design a rubber stamp. this congress we have found ways to agree on much more than was ever reported with many bills passing this house in a bipartisan way. for that, much of the credit goes to the hardworking staff

that quietly works around the clock to help us do our job. i would especially like to thank my team. starting with chief of staff, steve, and my deputy chief, neal bradley, as well as our whole team for being there every day it to assist members on both sides of the aisle to help them deliver on their legislative goals. thank you. mr. speaker, aid also like to thank you for all you have -- i'd also like to thank you for all you have done. thank you for the example of firm leadership you show and at the same time for not being afraid to show us all your kind heart on your soft spot from ime to time.

mr. speaker, you reminded me yesterday that you and i have met with each other at least once a day, every day that we've been in session for the past five years. for that, mr. speaker, i thank you for your patience. i'd like to thank our conference chair, kany -- cathy mcmorris rodgers. she's as tough as she is compassionate and her voice has so often helped our conference in this house. i'd also like to recognize two of my colleagues and dear friends who i joined several years ago to begin a fight for reform on behalf of the american people. to chairman paul ryan, thank you for your dedication to finding solutions to the problems that face our government. but more importantly, thank you for your commitment to identifying those conservative solutions that actually help

people find their path to the american dream. i know your efforts will continue to impact america in a positive way. and to my closest confidant and my good friend kevin mccarthy, our new majority leader. i know you will make this institution proud. i will miss the daily challenges that we faced together at the leadership table but i know that your leadership will serve as an inspiration for all of us. sthror many more members and staff on both sides of the aisle who have made my time here so rewarding. many of you have become as close to me as family and that is what has always sustained me while being away from my own family in richmond. i know i speak for all of us when i extend a heartfelt thank you to the capitol police and the sergeant at arms for all they do to protect us every day,

us and our families. finally, i want to thank my family, my wife diana, her mother, my children, evan, jen, and mikey, my parent, my brothers, all of whom made sacrifices so i could serve in this chamber and as a member of leadership. they are my inspiration and they are the rocks on which i will always lean. so mr. speaker, i close by once again thanking my colleagues for their service. i thank them for their friendship and warmth and with that, i yield back.

the speaker: for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland rise? mr. hoyer: i ask unanimous consent to speak out of order for one minute and revise and extend my remarks.

the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. hoyer: i rise to thank the majority leader for his service to this house and his service to this country. when one of us leaves this body, it ought to remind us that all of us are here farrelltively short time. perhaps some longer than others, but for a relatively short time. mr. cantor and i have had the opportunity to work together. as he pointed out, we have not always agreed, as we do not always agree across the aisle. but we have an extraordinary honor bestowed upon us, as he pointed out. there are less than 11,000 of us in the history of this country who have served in this body. there are 435 of us who have been asked by our fellow citizens to serve on their behalf, on behalf of their families, and on behalf of their country.

eric cantor has done that well. not because i always agreed with him, but because i always knew he had the breast interest -- the best interests of his country, his state, his constituents and his neighbors in mind when he acted. i want to congratulate him, i want to thank him for his service, i want to thank him for working with me on those areas where we could find agreement and in those areas we acted in a productive manner and created a large bipartisan majority on most of those issues in this house. i thank him for doing that as one who has also had the honor, mr. speaker, of serving as majority leader of the house, it is a special order that our colleagues have bestowed upon us. i want to wish him well. i know he will not be leaving the public community. the public square. that his voice will still be a voice of influence and he will make a difference in whatever area he pursues.

he will remain always a member of this body. he will visit us from time to time. we will welcome him back. we wish him well. thank you. i yield back the balance of my ime. the speaker: without objection, five-minute voting will continue. the question is on passage of the bill. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. >> mr. speaker. the speaker: the gentlelady from maryland. ms. edwards: i ask for a recorded vote. the speaker: a recorded vote is requested. those favoring a recorded vote

will rise. a sufficient number having risen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.]

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote, the yeas are 267, the nays are 161. the bill is passed. without objection the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. the unfinished business is the vote on ordering the previous question on house resolution 696 on which the yeas and nays are ordered. the clerk will report the title

of the resolution. the speaker pro tempore: house calendar number 132, house resolution 696, resolution providing for consideration of the bill h r. 5230 making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year 2014 and for other purposes. providing for consideration of prohibit r. 5272 to actions for aliens not lawfully in the united states and for other purposes. providing for consideration of the senate amendment of the bill to provide federal aid highway, motor carrier safety and other programs funned out of the highway trust fund and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on ordering the previous question. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.]

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 226. the nays are 1898. the -- 198. the previous question is ordered. the question is on adoption of the resolution. so many as are in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the resolution is adopted. for what purpose does the gentleman from colorado seek recognition? mr. polis: on that i request a recorded vote. the speaker pro tempore: a recorded vote is requested. those favoring a recorded vote

will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.]

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 220. the nays are 205. the resolution is adopted. without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. for what purpose does the gentleman from kentucky seek recognition? mr. rogers: mr. speaker, pursuant to h.res. 696, i call up the bill h.r. 5230, making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2014, and for other purposes. and ask for its immediate consideration.

the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 5230, a bill making supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2014, and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 696, the gentleman from kentucky, mr. rogers, and the the gentlewoman from new york, mrs. lowey, each will control 30 minutes. the chair recognizes the the eman from kentucky, -- house will be in order. please take your conversations off the floor. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized for 30 minutes. mr. rogers: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and includeheir remarks and extraneous material on h.r. 5230. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman will suspend.

i ask the members and staff to please take their conversations ff the floor of the house. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. rogers: and that i may include tabular material on the same. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. rogers: madam speaker, i yield myself six months. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for six minutes. mr. rogers: i rise today to present h.r. 5230, which provides immediate short-term funding to address the southwest border crisis.

in total this bill provides $659 million to meet urgent border security and humanitarian needs for this fiscal year ending on september 30. thousands of illegal immigrants, including unaccompanied children, have flooded our borders and overwhelmed our current facilities and personnel this includes a staggering number of children arriving with no family, who are being smuggled across our borders by criminal organizations. subject to abuse and violence. we need to put safeguards in place to prevent them from taking this dangerous squour nee , as well as provide the resources needed to take care of them and process them appropriately. the president must take the lead

on this. by mitigating the crisis. turning back the tide of illegal immigrants, and fully enforcing our laws. this problem has, without a doubt, been exacerbated by the administration's policies on immigration and it's up to the administration to find a way to fix that problem. in the meantime, however, madam speaker, it's plain that something must be done to ensure that our law enforcement personnel and federal agencies have the resources needed to deal with this dire situation in the short term. the $659 million in funding in this bill focuses on three areas. one, border security. two, humanitarian assistance. nd prevention.

to meet the most pressing needs. out of the toal $659 million, $262 million is provided to increase security and enforce our laws. boosting personnel and increase degree e-- detention space to the largest capacity in our history. part of this funding will help accelerate judicial proceedings by increasing the number of temporary judges and outfitting all immigration courtrooms in the nation with teleconferencing equipment that would allow them to be able to join in the process of adjudicating those cases on the border. there are some 332 of those courtrooms around the country. and we've doubled existing funding for the national guard to bolster their presence along our border as they assist

customs and border protection with surveillance, investigations, and humanitarian efforts. the bill also provides $197 million to take care of these unaccompanied children. ensuring they have proper housing, meals, and temporary care while they are in u.s. custody. third, madam speaker, to stave off the continued influx of illegal immigration, the bill redirects existing state department funding to ensure that countries like guatemala, honduras and el salvador must quickly accept and repatriate these returning from the u.s. this bill draws a hard line on spending, scrubbing the president's request to the couse -- focus on the most immediate needs. it does not include funding for longer term needs or unnecessary programs like cash subsidies for

coffee farmers. any additional funding for this crisis can and should be addressed under the regular appropriations process for fiscal year 2015. in addition to make sure that this bill doesn't add a penny to , we make sure there's offset using prior year funds. lastly the bill includes several policy provisions recommended by the speaker's working group on .he border crisis representative kay granger of texas will speak soon. this includes changes in a 2008 law to make sure all unaccompanied minors arriving in

this clint are treated the same, mexicans and canadians and all will be treated equally. -- it gthens the law prohibits secretaries of interior and agriculture from restricting customs and border protection activities on federal and on the border. address of the most immediate needs on the border. it also puts in place much-needed policy changes that should stop the flow of unaccompanied children who are being put at risk during their

long dangerous journey through mexico. it's our congressional duty to quickly pass this bill in short order and therefore i ask all members to support it. i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky reserves. the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. >> madam speaker, i rise today to oppose this bill that sadly falls short in too many ways. mrs. lowey: the key federal agencies tasked with responding to the humanitarian crisis on our borders are dangerously close to running out of money. these unanticipated costs are affecting the core functions at the department of homeland security and health and human services. and although the bill includes funding to hire additional immigration judicial teams and help set up new repatriation centers in central america, the amounts provided are

insufficient. the justice department and the state department will not be able to handle their duties without significantly more resources. all four departments need more funding than this bill provides, and few are partisan immigration policy riders than this bill now contains. our majority unwisely included legislative language to make sweeping changes to current law related to due process and immigration proceedings. controversial legislation hastily added to an emergency supplemental is not the way to address a complicated problem. on july 8, the president requested $3.7 billion in emergency funding. the bill provides less than $700 million. the president requested funding through fiscal year 2015. this bill barely covers the

remaining weeks in f.y. 2014, setting this house up to do this all over again in september. the president's request also sought emergency funding to combat a dangerous wildfire season. as of monday, the forest service reported 26 large uncontained wildfires burning in eight states. as a member from new york, our region devastated by hurricane sandy, i'm acutely aware how important it is for the federal government to provide a robust response. with the house adjourning today , federal agencies will be left to fight august fires without ore funds. this bill fails to procure more

iron dome interceptors for israel as requested. hamas has used the ongoing crisis in israel and gaza as an accuse to launch thousands of rockets at israeli cities and towns. the iron dome missile defense system has proven highly effective at neutralizing the rockets. in addition to not funding important priorities, the majority offsets the funding that is provided to cuts to other programs. we should provide emergency funds in a crisis situation. lastly, i strongly object to the majority's significant policy changes to existing law without any hearings or markups. 3/4, 3/4 of this appropriations bill is straight authorizing legislation. clearly many factors led these

desperate parents to hand off their children to complete strangers with the hope to make their way to safety here. we ought to consider the complicated policy questions and provide a carefully considered solution. yet, these policy changes reveal a knee jerk response, coupled with another bill to deport children who are already in the u.s. in addition to emergency appropriations, we should consider bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform passed by the senate over one year ago. which could have helped to prevent the current humanitarian crisis along our southwest border by increasing border security personnel and nearly doubling the number of immigration judges. the two measures we will consider today are deeply disappointing.

mr. speaker, madam speaker, we should provide sufficient funding to cash-strapped agencies and without the baggage of controversial immigration policy riders. i regret we will not do that with this bill and i regret even more the consequences of our failure. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from new york reserves her time. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. rogers: madam speaker, i yield five minutes to the gentlelady from texas, kay granger, who is the chairman of the foreign operations subcommittee on appropriations, but more importantly here, accepted the responsibility of the speaker to put together a task force to investigate the problem on the border and to recommend collusions and she has, with great success. so let me recognize, or yield five minutes to the gentlelady

from texas, kay granger. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from texas is recognized for five minutes. mr. ranger: thank you, chairman. for yielding. madam speaker, as we speak, unaccompanied minors continue to be sent from central america through drug cartel smuggling networks across mexico and through our southern border. families are being lied to and manipulated by the coyotes. the $6,000 their families spend to send their children to the united states go into the bank account of the most powerful drug cartels in the world. since october, over 58,000 unaccompanied children have made the dangerous journey to the united states and many more will continue to come unless we send a clear message that they will not be allowed to stay in the united states.

i have seen firsthand the crisis that's unfolded on the southern border in places like the rio grande valley in south texas. i've seen the women and children sleeping on the floor of a bus station in laredo. i've seen motherless infants being cared for by my straminger who is around and i've seen the children who are alone in detention facilities in mcallen, texas, and i've seen the 1rks200 children being sheltered at lackland air force base in san antonio. most disturbing of all, i've heard the stories about the most god-awful journey anyone should ever have to experience. we're here today because we have a responsibility to stop this crisis. the president has failed to lead, so i firmly believe this chamber must act. doing nothing is not an option. since june when the speaker asked me to lead a working group to provide policy recommendations on what we can do to address the crisis, i've

been to the texas-mexico border twice and led a co-dell to guatemala and honduras to see where the children are coming from and why. i'll be returning to the border tomorrow for a third time the members of the working group dove head first into this issue to understand this crisis and provide recommendations for short-term, immediate response. the policies we reck mened are not an attempt for immigration reform, they are serious solutions to address this crisis. i want to take a moment to recognize the -- recognize the hard work of the members of the working group who made policy recommendations to the conference and the expertise they brought to the table. i want to thank the chairman of the judiciary committee bob goodlatte, chairman of the homeland security committee, mike mccall, chairman of the homeland security committee, john carter, chairman of the western hemisphere foreign affairs subcommittee, matt salmon, congressman pearce from the financial services committee

and congressman mario diaz-balart from the appropriations committee. one of our conclusions is that congress should not provide more resources to the administration without changing the policies that have led us to the situation we're in today. administration officials and officials in the central american countries have always said we have to make changes to the trafficking victims protection re-authorization act of 2008. a month ago, it appeared there was a bipartisan consensus forming on this issue. white house press secretary josh ernest said from the white house podium just three weeks ago when discussing changes to the 2008 law, that is, quote, a priority of this administration and if you listen to the public comments of democrats and republicans, it sounds like it's a bipartisan priority. i agree. and it's disappointing that the white house has backed down from their original statement on how

we can immediately address this issue. we're not asking for repeal of this law. we are saying we need to tweak the 2008 law so that all eunaccompanied minors are treated the same as mexican and canadian children for removal purposes. the policy changes included in this bill ensure that children receive a prompt hearing within seven days after they're detained and require that a judge rules no later than 72 hours after a hearing. accelerating the hearing times requires more judges. i thank the chairman for including the necessary funding to hire 40 temporary judges until this crisis is under control. for prepay -- for repatriation we're prioritizing last in, first out. the last child to go into custody will be the first ones we send home. after families have spent between $6,000 and $9,000 to send their children here, this will send a strong message to the families and the countries

-- in the countries of origin that their children will not be permitted to stay. this is a message of deterrence. i also note that chairman rogers has prioritized funding for central american countries to safely and humanely return these children. working with these countries, as we return their children, as they have asked us to do. with a surge of children, there's been an increased pressure on customs and border protection officials this supplemental deploys the national guard to assist high traffic states and will free up the border patrol to focus on their mission. mr. rogers: i yield the gentlelady one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. ms. granger: we include a provision to allow border patrol unfettered access to federal lands. right now through a memorandum of understanding, border patrol officials are only allowed to pursue those into federal

lands, they can't do regular patrols. and finally, the supplemental requires a sense of congress that children should not be detained at military bases. while this will not change the law, this provision addresses a serious and growing concern from members of congress, not least of the concerns is that children should not be stored on military bases. the congressional budget office has given the assessment of policy changes in this bill. they said that because the legislation allows for the children to self-deport, it will lead to immediate savings. this is a smart targeted bill that addresses the crisis immediately. i urge my colleagues to vote yes on the supplemental and show the american people that we're going to end this crisis. i thank you, mr. chairman, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. the gentleman from kentucky reserves. the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. mrs. lowey: madam speaker, i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the gentlelady from

connecticut, the distinguished ranking member of the labor, health, human services subcommittee on appropriations. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from connecticut is recognized for two minutes. ms. delauro: madam speaker, i must rise in opposition against this irresponsible and insufficient border supplemental. for months democrats have urged this majority to pass comprehensive immigration reform. the bill that was passed in the bipartisan basis in the united states senate, reforms that reflects our values and the country that we want to be, one with strong enforcement at the border, deportation of dangerous criminals and a path to citizenship that protects workers, helps families reunite and clears backlogs. but this republican majority has done nothing. they have refused to act, and my colleague from texas is right. doing nothing is not an option. and now we face a humanitarian crisis on our border that

demands an immediate response. the majority's answer is just send children who enter our ountry alone, send them home regardless of the violence and the imminent danger that they face. this bill only includes $197 million for providing shelter and care for these refugee children. and while these kids are here, we have a moral and, yes, we have a legal responsibility to provide for their housing, care and processing in the most cost-effective way possible. this insufficient amount will mean that h.h.s. will have to make up the difference through high-priced short-term contracts. that will cost us more in the long run and it could result in cuts to other priorities like education, health, medical research and job training. if congress tries to make up these shortfalls elsewhere, this is not responsible leadership. our policy, signed into law by

president george w. bush, provides for appropriate screening of those who may be victims of trafficking and that rightly includes unaccompanied children. this supplemental appropriation would change this policy and almost certainly result in children being returned to the violence that they are desperately trying to escape. america can do and should do better. we should help protect those kids who are in serious danger and push the leaders of these nations to address the root causes of why so many of their citizens are fleeing. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. ms. delauro: and we should pass comprehensive immigration reform. it is time for leadership from this republican majority. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. rogers: madam speaker, i yield three minutes to the chairman of the appropriations subcommittee on homeland security, the gentleman from texas, mr. carter. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for three minutes. mr. carter: thank you, mr.

chairman. madam speaker, it is a proven fact that lawlessness breeds lawlessness, and sadly i believe this assertion sums up an issue that is confronting us today. thanks to the large part to the president's political decision to not enforce our immigration laws, a chaotic situationes that erupted into a national security crisis and a law enforcement nightmare along the border. we all know the facts. an estimated 90,000 unaccompanied alien children are estimated to cross into south texas rio grande valley by the end of this fiscal year. another 145,000 children are estimated to flood the border in fiscal year 2015, and these figures do not include tens of thousands of families that will also surge across our border over the same period of time.

as the result of this influx, our brave border patrol agents, c.b.p. officers and i.c.e. agents are spending countless hours caring for children rather than focusing on their primary enforcement missions. this will be tragic if it weren't so preventable. mr. speaker, we do not have -- madam speaker, we do not have an open border policy in this country. as we tragically learned in 9/11, border security and the integrity of our immigration system, that truly matters to our nation's security and the rule of law. so today we offer a strong but initial step to provide both the right tools and the right authorities to address and deter this seemingly unending influence of illegal -- influx of illegal aliens. included in this package is $405 million completely offset from recovered funds for the

department of homeland security , funds that will enable c.b.p. and i.c.e. to enforce our laws and apprehend, detain and deport illegal aliens. perhaps more importantly, mr. speaker, this -- madam speaker, this bill fully funds the administration's realization that detention is in fact a necessary deterrent to illegal immigration. the president requested funds to fully support the long mandated annual bill capacity -- bed capacity, a complete reversal from his budget request in which he proposed instead to reduce detention beds by nearly 10%. the president has also retracted his policy on the detention of families who illegally cross the border. this bill provides funding through the end of fiscal year to support 34,800 detention beds and an additional 6,320 family detention beds, a total

of over 41,100 detention beds to enable the necessary consequence management for breaking the law. and lastly, mr. speaker, this bill includes policy changes to bring reform and parity to the adjudication and repryation of -- repatriation of these children. madam speaker, we must act and we must act now. lawlessness breeds lawlessness and we must act to stop it and secure our borders. i urge my colleagues to support this strong bill and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. mrs. lowey: madam speaker, i am pleased to yield four minutes to the gentleman from north carolina, mr. price, the ranking member of the homeland security subcommittee of appropriations. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from north carolina is recognized for four minutes. mr. price: madam speaker, i rise in strong opposition to this misconceived and

underresourced legislation. for a while it looked like we might do better than this. as the ranking member of the homeland security appropriations subcommittee i was pleased to take part in a delegation to guatemala and honduras, ably led by chairman kay granger. but as successive versions of the republican bill have surfaced over the past two weeks, an apparent request for votes only among republicans, they reflected less and less of what we learned on that trip. the bill under consideration provides less than $1 billion for the departments of homeland security, health and human services, justice and state, far below the president's request, what is being considered by the senate or what is required to deal with the crisis on our borders and beyond. the bill only provides funding for anticipated needs for the remainder of this fiscal year, a mere two months. now, i would object to that less if the majority had any

plans for actually completing our appropriations bills before the end of september, but we all know that they do not. instead, for the first time since the creation of the department of homeland security, our homeland security appropriations bill is not even going to the house floor. the approach taken in this legislation shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the issue before us. this isn't a border security crisis. this is a humanitarian crisis. we don't need to deploy the national guard or surge our border capacity because we're not failing to catch individuals as they cross. in fact, these young people are turning themselves in. now, we do have some agreement on the need to expedite consideration of the claims of these matters for asylum or other forms of relief. but a $12.9 million, the bill falls short of even the administration's modest request for more immigration judges. instead of focusing on this area of agreement, the majority

relies on a questionable and controversial rewriting of the wilber force law. enacted in 2008 to deal with child trafficking. my own view is that the proposal incorporated in the bill both fails to address deficiencies in our present screening of mexican youths for signs of torture or fear of persecution and risk transferring these deficiencies to the treatment of central american children. in any event, it's not wise to complicate or delay consideration of this emergency supplemental request with an authorization bill that surely requires more deliberation. madam speaker, there have been some recent signs of progress down at the border. over the past few weeks, average daily apprehensions of unaccompanied children have dropped from 400 to well under 200. that doesn't mean the crisis is over. we could easyly see a spike in app -- easily see a spike in

apprehensions in the coming weeks. we need reform that reflects our values. faith leaders of all traditions across the country are calling on congress to provide the social and health services these children desperately need. perhaps the greatest failing of this legislation is it fails to move us toward any viable long-term strategy to address the causes of the current crisis. beyond any funding we appropriate to help manage the flow of unaccompanied children or families over the next several months, we are setting ourselves up for similar crises in the future if we aren't lling to ininvest in a long-term strategy in guatemala, honduras and el salvador. to stabilize their economies, modernize their institutions, reduce violence due to cartels and street gangs. madam speaker, i fear that the bill before us fails to address either short-term or long-term needs, and much of what it does

contain is irrelevant to the current crisis. i urge a no vote and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. rogers: madam speaker, i yield two minutes to the gentleman from texas who chairs the homeland security committee of the house, mr. mccaul of texas. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for two minutes. mr. mccaul: i thank the tchimplee appropriations committee for his hard work and chairman kay granger for heading up this task force i was happy to be part of. as a former federal prosecutor who has dealt with border security for many years, i have never seen a crisis quite like this one this crisis demands action and leadership. it demands a solution to the problem. daca the president enacted in 2012, we've seen 60,000

unaccompanied children cross the border in the rio grande valley sector of texas alone, 250 per day. we went down there to see these children. these children are the victims caught between the administration's policies and the coyotes and the traffickers who exploit them and make money, between $5,000 to $10,000 apiece. madam speaker, this bill fixes that crisis. first and foremost it changes the 2008 trafficking law as a message of deterrence. this crisis will not stop until we start sending them back. and all this does is treat central americans the same way we treat mexicans. it will provide for swift removal in a humane way back to their countries of origin. it's unfortunate that the administration, while initially supportive, has now flip-flopped on that issue. it also provides for the detention, removal, and

repatriation of these children. for me, in my home state of texas, importantly, it calls for the deployment of the national guard to the southwest border to secure our border. my governor, governor perry, has already activated the national guard. but it is a -- but it is the federal government's responsibility under the constitution to pick up that price tag and that's precisely what this bill does. finally, madam speaker, i think importantly, it directs the southern command, our military, to help secure the border between guatemala and mexico which i believe, and i know the chairman of the appropriations believes -- believes as well, is key to stopping the flow out of central america. madam speaker, the time to act is now. with that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. mrs. lowey: i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the gentlelady from california, ms. roybal-allard, a member of both

the labor, health and human services and the homeland security committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized for two minutes. ms. roybal-allard: two weeks ago, i visited the border and saw small children held in tiny cells, forced to sleep on cold floors and bemples. the treatment of these vulnerable kids, many of whom fled their homes to escape extreme violence, shocked me as a mother and a person. unfortunately this bill contains only 11% of the president's request for the department of health and human services this palt ray allowance will only make conditions worse for these vulnerable children by limiting the bed space capacity and exacerbating delays in transferring children away the overcrowded border patrol stations into the more suitable conditions of h.r. -- of h.h.s. unfortunately, insufficient funding isn't the only flaw in this bill. by treating all children the

same, the majority means taking away protection and treating central american children like mexican and canadian children who have limited protections under current law. this legislation sadly undercuts the current critical humanitarian and due process protections for these desperate children seeking safe haven from the horrors of violence in their country. without due process, many of these children who would qualify for protection under our laws will be returned straight into the arms of their traffickers or their impoverished, violent, neighborhoods. that's why national anti-trafficking organizations like the alliance to end slavery and trafficking strongly oppose this bill. mr. speaker, the republican supplemental is an irresponsible and inadequate bill that does little to protect our border or address the humanitarian crisis facing our nation. the bill is a senseless and deeply flawed political ploy that my republican colleagues know will be rejected by the

senate. instead of playing political games, let us act in the best interests of our country and these kids by passing a bill that upholds our american values, honor ours heritage as a nation of immigrants, protect ours borders, and fully addresses the causes and consequences of the humanitarian crisis on our border. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. rogers: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from pennsylvania, a member of our committee, mr. dent. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized for two minutes. mr. dent: thank you, madam speaker. i rise in very strong support of this border security legislation presented to us today for a number of reasons. it does provide for humanitarian assistance. this does deal with -- this legislation does deal with this issue in a compassionate, thoughtful way to deal with unaccompanied children. it secures the border, provides

funding for the national guard and does many other things in terms of policy changes that will treat these children just as we would treat unaccompanied children who cross the border from canada or mexico. s the right policy for a whole host of reasons. congressman k, gerlach, meehan and i visited a resettlement program in pennsylvania. those children are treated compassionately. but let me tell you what will happen if we do nothing here today. the children who are coming into children willhese in fact keep coming into our communities and they will be treated humanely and then they'll be resettled and reunited with parents or family members who already -- were already in the united states and in most cases here unlawfully. that's what doing nothing means. the children will keep coming, they will be resettled throughout the country and they will basically reside somewhere within the interior of this country. that's what doing nothing means.

it would be reckless and irresponsible for the house to walk out of here today without addressing this border and humanitarian crisis this bill is the right thing to do. it secures the border, provides humanitarian assistance and makes the necessary policy changes to stop this flow of children. s that tragedy that these children are leaving their countries in this way. i can't imagine the desperation these families must feel, that they must feel that they would let their children travel with somebody unaccompanied, drug dealers, cartels, smugglers, coyotes. we need to make sure this stops. i met with a 5-year-old girl who told me her horrible story, and i just -- i shudder to think of the children who didn't make it. that's why we need to act today. it's the right thing to do, compassionate thing to do, and it is in keeping with our american tradition. thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time is expire the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. mrs. lowey: i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the gentleman

from maryland, the minority whip of the house. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 2002 minutes. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentlelady for yielding. i was going to ask my friend from pennsylvania whether he talked to the senate and whether it has any chance of moving this week and the answer is, i know it does -- is that no, it does not. it would be tragic not to act. it's tragic that we're acting in a partisan fashion that almost ensures inaction on this, the last day we're going to be here. we should be acting in a bipartisan fashion, as i've urged the majority leader to do. what is a bipartisan fashion? a, considering the emergency need today. and funding the resources necessary to respond to that. b, taking under consideration the substantive lebling slative changes that can be affected that will help this issue, will

send the mess annals that the gentleman wants to send. he's my dear friend and a good member of this body. but i will tell you this bill as had no hearings, no committee consideration, yes, there was a partisan task force, but this is had no -- this has had no consideration in this process. the majority leader last week, last week, told me that there would be no bill that did not get 72 hours' notice. the gentleman knows off bill on the floor which is contingent on the passage of this which has had a few hour's notice at best. last night, i think, at 10:00 the rules committee met. i will tell my friend that, had we acted in a bipartisan fashion, at whatever level of funding we could agree, pass a bill to pete the immediate crisis, b, have hearings. on the ramifications of the law that passed with only two votes

in opposition. er 405 members voted for the 2008 legislation. we are changing that without a hearing. either in subcommittee, committee, or full committee. that's not the way we ought to be working. that's not good for our country. it's not good for this institution. it's not fair. so i would urge my colleagues to defeat this legislation. is that my two minutes? may i get one additional minute? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one additional minute. mr. hoyer: i believe once again we find the republican party divided and because they're divided they're trying to cobble together some of their hardest line members so that they can get them to vote for this supplemental. they put on a bill which has had no notice to the american people or to members of congress. it's ironic that people are supporting this who demanded that we read the bills. there was no bill to read. until this morning.

how sad for the american people. we have a humanitarian crisis that must be addressed without delay and the way to address it without delay is to give the resources necessary and then pursue the legislative process, not together, it will slow it down and i predict will not pass the senate. i thank the gentleman and ladies on this -- i think the gentlemen and ladies on this side of the aisle know the senate won't pass the bill. if you really think we ought to act now, do so in a bipartisan fashion and then let us debate the legislation before us. mr. mccaul just said,s that real crisis. just said, minutes ago, mr. mccaul, the chame of the committee, this is a real crisis which demands action. the recommendation that's been made to us will undermine action by this body in the face of crisis. we should not pass this legislation. we ought to pass a very simple resource to the crisis now and legislation later.

i urge my colleagues to vote no the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. rogers: i don't know where the gentleman gets his information but this bill was filed tuesday. you've had since tuesday morning to study this bill and that's the appropriate, under our rule, that's the appropriate time. mr. hoyer: will the gentleman yields? the daca legislation is dependent on this legislation. that was not filed 72 hours ago. mr. rogers: that the not this bill. reclaiming my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky has the floor. mr. rogers: this bill has been available to you since tuesday. may i inquire the time we have remaining, madam speaker? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky has 7 1/2 minutes. the gentlewoman from new york has 14 minutes. mr. ronellers: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the

gentleman -- mr. rogers: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. mrs. lowey: madam speaker, i am pleased to yield two minutes to the distinguished gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. fattah, the ranking member of the commerce, justice, and science subcommittee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognize for two minutes. mr. fattah: i thank the gentlelady. we are here because the president of the united states has requested a -- an emergency supplemental appropriation of about $3.7 billion. the senate has acted in the range of about $2.7 billion. the house now comes with 1/6 of the request to deal with this crisis. it ignores the wildfires in the west. the challenges that relate to other parts of the bill. that were presented by the administration.

and it says we're acting responsibly. i rise in opposition to the bill. i understand what the majority is offering. i think it's been stated pretty clearly, i believe if we have children who are presented to us without adults, who have been the victims of trafficking, which is what the majority has said, they've been trafficked by artels and paid criminal enterprises to bring them to our border, the majority says some of them have been sexually abused and mistreated in other ways. i don't believe that our response should be to close the door. so as we think about our responsibility as the united states of america, a nation that had 12 million people without documents when the president was sworn into office, 50,000

children, just like the 5-year-old girl my colleague said he met and talked to, the idea that what our moral responsibility is is to say to her, you go back to where you came from, i don't believe that that's what we should be doing. so i reject this, not because of the numbers or the other things. i think this is morally deficient that our great country would say, as we demand other countries around the world, that they take in refugees who are facing dangerous circumstances, that what our answer is, is no, not here. not in our backyard. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. rogers: madam speaker, i yield two minutes to the chairman of the house judiciary committee, mr. good lat of virginia. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia is recognized for two minutes. mr. goodlatte: madam speaker, i

thank the gentleman from kentucky for his leadership on this issue. i urge my colleagues to support h.r. 5230. there is a crisis at our border. it is a crisis, a disaster of the president's own making. 's lax a administration immigration foreign policies says they can stay and now they are finding ways to bring their children who are still in central america and beyond to the united states unlawfully. although president obama has many tools at his disposal to stop this surge at the border, he refuses to use them and instead proposes to make the situation worse by taking more unilateral actions to stop the enforcement of our immigration laws. it is ultimately up to president obama to end this crisis by reversing his policies that created it. however, since he refuses to do so, we have to act to the extent we can to provide narrow and targeted funding to meet the immediate needs of our law

enforcement agencies at the southern border. we have to enable them to do their job, to secure our border and enforce our immigration laws. and we should act to provide narrow tweaks to the 2008 law regarding the removal of unaccompanied alien minors. because of the president's inaction, we are taking the responsible step today of passing these narrow fixes that will help the american people avoid billions of dollars in additional costs due to the president not trying to solve this problem but asking for more money to continue to resettle thousands and thousands, tens of thousands of people into the interior of our country. while the bill is not perfect, it does not give -- it does give law enforcement many tools they have requested. for example, while i was in the rio grande valley earlier this month, border patrol agents cited the administration created restrictions that bar them access to federal lands as

a significant stumbling block to securing the border. one of the most important provisions of this bill gives border patrol agents access to federal lands so they can stop drug traffickers, human smugglers and unlawful immigrants from exploiting these gaps along the border. since the president isn't taking serious action to address the crisis at the border, the house is doing so today, and i urge my colleagues to support this bill. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. mrs. lowey: madam speaker, i am pleased to yield two minutes to the distinguished gentleman from california, the chair of the house democratic caucus, mr. becerra. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for two minutes. thank the i ranking member for yielding. i agree with those who've said that doing nothing is not an option. but making matters worse should not be an option either. stripping children of the chance to establish their

credible fear of death or endangerment is a crude and cold way of dispensing justice in america. that is not an american way. this bill is a patch, not a solution. it lasts two months. so we'll be right back here trying to solve this challenge again in september. governing and budgeting in pieces is what leads to government shutdowns. that's not the american way. this bill robs peter to give to paul. how does this bill fund the money to pay for the border work that has to get done? first, it strips emergency funding to tackle devastating wildfires that the president has requested because the states have requested it. second, it takes $407 million from the federal emergency management agency's disaster

relief fund. money which would be used to help people who've been devastated by wildfires and other natural disasters. madam leader, if we had passed immigration reform a year ago with the bill that passed the house on a bipartisan basis which in this floor we've been denied a vote for more than 380 days, we would not be looking at a crisis on the border the way we are today, but that's the difficulty you have. when you don't fix the broken immigration system, that's what you encounter, and these piecemeal approaches won't solve anything. we'll be right back at it in september. that is not the american way. we provide justice to people. we make sure we dispense it the way we should and we take care of our emergencies. let's get it done the right way. let's do two things. let's give the emergency funding that they need at the border to run this crisis right

and let's have a vote on the floor to fix the broken immigration system. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from kentucky. robb robb madam speaker, i yield two minutes to -- mr. rogers: madam speaker, i yield two minutes to the gentleman from arizona, mr. salmon, a member of the task force that investigated the border problem. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from arizona is recognized for two minutes. mr. salmon: i rise in strong support of secure the southwest border act of 2014. this kind of came to light a few months ago when the arizona republic noted a story that these families were being dropped off at the bus stations in tucson and phoenix and then highlighted the current administration's catch -and-release policies that are encouraging literally swarms of people to come across the 1,500-mile desert of new mexico into the united states, risking

.ife, risking their happiness and the fact is we can't keep doing nothing. and this bill will stop these waves and waves of people coming across our border. as we went over to guatemala and we went to honduras and we talked with our state department folks, that's exactly what they said. you've got to make it clear that we move from a catch-and-release policy to a detain-and-deport policy and that's what this bill does. if we want to send a strong message to people that that $5,000 to $8,000 they're paying to these thugs that are transporting them across the border and hurting these young boys and girls along the way and then holding them for extra money, extorting their parents, that if we want to stop this from happening and stop the pain that's going on with these children, then the best thing we can do is send a clear message that in america there is no permisos. if you make that journey you'll

be sent back to your country. that's the only thing that will make it happen. liberal friends want to throw more money at the problem and perpetuate the problem. they want it to keep happening. i say that's not compassionate. i say continuing that pain and that harm to these children is not a good thing to do, and the way to stop it is to send a clear message. we got folks on my side of the aisle that have problems with the bill. what do they have a problem with? nothing inside the bill. not putting the national guard on the border, not stopping the catch-and-release programs and not giving unfettered access to our border patrol. they can't come up with a good reason to vote against it. they're playing into harry reid's hands. mr. rogers: madam speaker, i yield the gentleman an extra minute and wonder if he'd yield? mr. salmon: yes, i'll yield. mr. rogers: do you understand that if we do nothing the experts have told us, if we don't change the law, experts have told us that another 145,000 people will be with us next year alone, is that not

correct? mr. salmon: that's correct. conservative estimates said it will cost $2.6 billion to care for the nearly 60,000 that are already here. we're talking about billions and billions of dollars, not to mention the fact that these children are being sexually molested along the way, that they're being killed along the way, that they're being sold into slavery and we can stop it. mr. rogers: if the gentleman will yield? mr. salmon: yes, sir. mr. rogers: i'm focusing on the money part of it. if we don't change the law, you're saying we can expect to pay another few billions of dollars a year -- mr. salmon: just to care for those people. mr. rogers: to care for those people coming across? mr. salmon: yes. i don't understand how any conservative in good conscience would not stop that hemorrhage and make sure we're not spending those billions of dollars to pay down our debt. mr. rogers: not only conservatives but everybody would like those kinds of savings. mr. salmon: i would do. the speaker pro tempore: the

gentleman's time has expired. the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. mrs. lowey: madam speaker, i'd just like to say to the distinguished chairman, i would have liked to hear from these experts at hearings. unfortunately, the majority has not had hearings and we're bringing this bill to the floor without any hearing, without any witnesses, without any information. and i'm pleased to yield to the distinguished speaker one minute. mr. rogers: would the gentlelady yield briefly on that point? would the gentlelady briefly yield? mrs. lowey: ail ill' be delighted. mr. rogers: the 145,000 additional people across the border, that number came from the department of homeland security. so those are governmental estimates if we do nothing on the law change. i thank the gentlewoman. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. mrs. lowey: i'd like to say to our distinguished chairman that it would be helpful in having an analysis of the current statistics and the future prospects at hearings, but we're bringing this bill to the floor, the majority is bringing this bill to the floor without

any hearing, without any discussion. this is really not the way to pass important legislation. and, again, we had a bill. we could have had comprehensive immigration reform that passed the senate in a bipartisan way, but thank you, mr. chair, and i'm pleased to yield one minute to the gentlelady from california, ms. pelosi. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from california is recognized for one minute. ms. pelosi: thank you, madam speaker. i thank the gentlelady for yielding, our ranking member on the appropriations committee who from day one knowing of this challenge that we have with the children at the border as reacted in a very wise, humanitarian, yes, practical way as to what the best way is to address the challenge under the values of our country and save the children. i was interested in the back and forth between the

distinguished chairman of the appropriations committee, mr. rogers, and our ranking member on the subject of the change in the law that is in the legislative language that is in this supplemental. because i agree with our distinguished whip, mr. hoyer, and others who have said there are two things happening here. one is we need to address the challenge, the humanitarian challenge. we need resources to do that for particular purposes, and we should do that in the supplemental. another is to change the law which we shouldn't do in a supplemental. it is legislative -- legislating on an appropriations bill in a manner in which all kind of statements can be made which may be anecdotally significant but not significant in terms of the difference that they make -- a difference enough to change the law.

and so when people talk about witnesses in one context or another, just saying something on the floor of the house, it's interesting. but there should be hearings, if we're going to change the law, there should be hearings where testimony can come forth, challenged, confirmed, whatever it may be. but a serious discussion worthy of the country that we are, worthy of the congress that passed the wilber force law which was a very bipartisan initiative, and i salute my republican colleagues who played such an important role in passing the bill. and that bill directed agencies of government to incorporate anti-trafficking and protection measures for vulnerable populations, particularly women and children, into whether it's postconflict or humanitarian emergency assistance and program activities, according to the law.

there was a purpose for the law . with a phrase in an appropriations bill we want to undermine that purpose, that's not necessary to do here. why does this belong in a bill where we are allocating resources to meet a humanitarian challenge that we have? now, let's get to what's in the actual supplemental. i had hoped that we could work in a bipartisan way, and i thought that's the path we were on. the republican majority wanted to decrease the amount of resources and the amount of time. well, that's commensurate. it's a lower amount of money in a shorter period of time, that's ok. but when you change what that money is for, then you are doing a disservice to the entire issue.

instead of providing adequate resources to meet the humanitarian needs, the immediate humanitarian needs largely of these children, that is just totally inadequate in this legislation in terms of its proportionality in the bill. whether it does not -- it fails to provide any resources for legal assistance to these children to plead their case. they may have a legitimate cause for asylum refugee status to come into the united states or not. but they should be represented and they should be represented in a way that repatriates them back to their home country if they do not qualify in a way that is safe. this legislation does not do that. . the american people are fair minded, they are wise, they are practical, they want to help but they want to do so in a way that is fair to everyone involved. they want to see the children.

there's not enough resources here to do that on the humanitarian side. they want us to honor who we are with due process for these children. this legislation does not do that. they want to have judges to quickly facilitate giving these people a hearing in addition to the representation that they should have due process. the bill does not. it tramples due process to rush terrified children back to the violence of their home countries. that's not who we are as a country. and it also poses a particular dangetory children victims of gang violence and human -- danger to children victims of gang violence and human trafficking. human trafficking. it's a global crisis. it is happening at our border. we have a bill to stop it. this legislation on the floor

today weakens that and then a manner of distribution of funds and pause it of funds does not -- paucity of funds does not address the challenge. it takes us backward. it's hard to understand. now, what we should be talking about is what mr. tierney suggested, how do we help communities that are receiving these children into their communities and our country? again, how do we help? this bill hurts. so in addition to this, we -- i guess the way you were able to get the votes for this bill, which is even opposed by people who are anti-immigration because it's not bad enough, you had to sweeten the pie by having a follow-up bill that would only be taken up if enough of your members agreed to vote for this bad bill. not hat, again, does

address who we are as a country. we are a great country because we are a good country. as long ve said that ago as 200 years ago or longer. so let us be good and let us be great and let us do something that really was closer to what the republicans were talking about earlier in this discussion . it seems that in order to get more votes you had to make the ill worse. worse the bill, the more votes on the republican side. no, let's find common ground in the middle where we can get the most votes to do the best possible job that we can do. it may not be every good thing that we would ideally like to do, but is a reasonable place to go forward and to honor what the national catholic conference of bishops have talked about, where

all the people of faith are urging us to do here in the congress of the united states. and that is, to honosly respect the dignity and -- honestly respect the diggity and worth of all these children, all of them children of god. i get mobbed for quoting what the bishops have said because it is so generous to the children. but let's give the children a fair shot. let's do wetter -- better than this. you know this bill isn't going anywhere. so once again it is a waste of time. it is not a statement of values. it is a statement of meanness. with that i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. rogers: may i inquire of the time remaining? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky has 5 1/2 minutes. the gentlewoman from new york has nine minutes -- eight minutes. mr. rogers: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the entleman reserves.

the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. mrs. lowey: madam speaker, i'm pleased to yield three minutes to the gentleman from california, mr. farr, the ranking member of the agricultural subcommittee of appropriations. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for three minutes. mr. farr: thank you, madam ranking chair, for yielding. i rise, madam speaker, on this bill with great concern. i feel bringing a lot of fashions to this debate because i lived in the barrios, like the ones children were coming from, when i was a peace corps volunteer in latin america. this is not a border crisis. this is not a border security issue. this is a humanitarian crisis. it's caused by problems on both sides of the border. our country has a lot at fault here because we have not addressed comprehensive immigration reform, which means we have 11 million people living

in the united states undocumented. they are essentially incarcerated in this contry. they are not allowed to go home because the minute they go home and try to get back to the united states, they get arrested and they are not allowed to ever return. or barred for 10 years to return. what happens? they have been living here for years and years. they have children that they left because there were job opportunities here. and those children are now living in places that are really dangerous. and all of a sudden, yeah, things have changed. they got to get out. these countries are ranked number one, four, and five of the highest murder rates in the world. they're leaving because there are real serious humanitarian crisis and they are showing up on our border and they are not sneaking across the board he -- border. they are throwing themselves, help me, help me find my relative, my dad, my parent, my mom in this country.

what does this bill do? it doesn't address the humanitarian problems at either end. it hires more cops and puts military in there, national guardsmen. if that's such a great idea, why is california, with probably the busiest border in the world with mexico, not putting the national guard down there? our governors and mayors don't think it's necessary. why are we putting more money for -- in for national guard? we don't need national guard we need red cross. humanitarian crisis. money for arms and more money for military and cops. i don't think that's the right answer. we are also doing some something really dumb. we are stripping a law now that says when we give money to these countries -- by the way, before you spend this money on your cops and military, you got to vet them. we have a human rights standard. this bill throws that out.

you don't have to do that now. we are going to give you $40 million of american taxpayer money and you don't have to do anything to abide by human rights. that's really dumb. i don't think american taxpayers want their money spent that way. you know, i'm going to call upon my colleagues here not to come down here and think of themselves in a partisan way or election year way. come to this floor when you have to vote on this bill and think of yourself as a parent, as a neighbor. a kid who's knocked on your door and you go, say, oh, my god, she's crying anne, what's happened? my house, they are raping people and killing people and i'm running away. this bill says, oh, what's your address, i'll take you home. don't vote for it. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. rogers: madam speaker, i yield two minutes to the gentleman from texas, mr. cuellar. the speaker pro tempore: the

gentleman from texas is recognized for two minutes. mr. cuellar: thank you, madam speaker. i support full comprehensive immigration reform, but today's vote on this supplemental appropriation bill is to provide funding to i.c.e., border patrol, and other agencies to deal with the humanitarian crisis on the border, an area i represent, an area where i live, an area where 42,000 out of the 58,000 unaccompanied kids have crossed. the policy change in this bill is to get rid of a loophole in the 2008 law that the smugglers in central america and mexico have taken advantage of. all due process and legal protections are left intact under this proposed bill. you will see under a c.r.s. report that compares the current law to today's bill, you will see the same due process, the same legal protections are left intact. in fact, i respectfully ask my colleagues in opposition to show me specifically where there's due process and legal protection is taken away out of the bill.

i yet have heard where it does this. i have also asked my colleagues in opposition respectfully to sit down with me and offer their alternative solution or their legislative proposal to this border crisis and have yet to hear those solutions. in this appropriation bill we have to provide the funding for the federal agencies to provide an orderly border. but we cannot no longer afford to play defense from the 1-year-old called the u.s.-mexico border. we need to play defense on the 20-yard line and this is why working with the central american countries, working with mexico to address the core issues and to fix and fight the smugglers is vital. i want to thank the men and women on the border that have defended our homeland, and i want to thank the border communities and churches and nonprofits that have done so much to help this -- folks at the border. in fact, i want to thank the chairman for allowing a provision for the border

communities to seek reimbursement for the allowable expenses under this bill. we cannot leave washington today without putting the resources and the policy changes to address the border crisis. we are sent here to address not the easy problems but to address the hard problems. john f. kennedy -- mr. rogers: i yield another minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is yielded another minute. mr. cuellar: thank you, mr. chairman. we are sent here to washington not to address the easy problems but to address the difficult problem that this nation is facing. when president john f. kennedy was faced with a very difficult crisis, he said, i'm not looking for a republican answer or for a democratic answer, i'm looking for the right answer. and i think today in a bipartisan way we need to look for that right answer. i urge yes on this supplemental appropriation bill. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired.

the gentleman from kentucky reserves. the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. mrs. lowey: madam speaker, i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the gentlelady from california, ms. lee, a member of the labor, health, and human services and foreign operations subcommittee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from california is recognized for two minutes. ms. lee: thank you very much. let me thank to our ranking member on approps, mrs. lowey, for yielding and your steadfast leadership. madam speaker, i rise in strong opposition to this woefully inadequate republican response to the humantarian crisis along our border. let me start by saying that as an appropriator i am very troubled by the shameful inadequate funding levels and misguided offsets in this bill. i'm also deeply concerned by the dangerous policy riders that strips protections for vulnerable children, protections signed into law by a republican president, mind you. let's be clear. this crisis has nothing to do with the lack of funding for immigration enforcement.

we don't do anything to help these children by pouring tax dollars into the further mill tarization of our border. and -- militarization of our border. that's what this bill does. our response needs to put children first. in a hearing this week we heard first hand from central american children who had fled violence in their home countries and had passed through our broken detention system. these children and thousands like them risk their lives on their way to this country. some have witnessed murders and gang violence in their home countries and suffered freezing conditions and inadequate nutrition while in detention in the united states. these stories were chilling and made clear where we need to direct our resources -- humane care, access to due process, and support to end the violence and poverty plaguing honduras, el salvador, and guatemala. no one disagrees with protecting our borders, but come on, we also have a duty to protect these children who, according to

the united nations high commission on refugees, 60% of whom were interviewed, these children need international protection. my home district makes up alameda county, where over 200 of these children have been reunited with their families locally. their stories are real. their stories are very, very powerful. so i urge a no vote. let's guarantee due process for these children who are fleeing violence. let's have a heart. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentleman from kentucky virginia tech. mr. rogers: may i inquire of the gentlelady from new york if she has further speakers? i'm prepared to close. you have one additional speaker? then i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky reserves. the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. madam speaker,

, ore i turn to my colleague ms. lofgren from california, the ranking member, an expert on immigration, the subcommittee of the judiciary committee, i just want to make one statement again. the senate, after months of hearings, passed a bipartisan comprehensive immigration reform bill. it is really very sad that today we can't get together, democrats and republicans, and review the work that had been done by the senate and pass a comprehensive immigration reform bill that would have prevented the emergency that we are trying to address today. the majority of the bill that is included in this

supplemental should have been done through a thoughtful committee process. so i'm very pleased to turn the balance of our time to mississippi lofgren, a member of the immigration judiciary committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from california is recognized for the remaining two minutes. ms. lofgren: madam speaker, the u.s. conference of catholic bishops tells us this bill, quote, would result in the u.s. sending children who have relief available to them back to the conditions they fled and will result in many children being harmed and some being killed on their return. i join the bishops in opposing this bill. with this bill, children who've been trafficked, who've fled persecution, violence and abuse will be stripped of protections that have existed for years. our laws provide that victims of persecution and torture must have a meaningful opportunity to request safe haven. we need not prejudge the outcome of these cases.

we need only adhere to these laws that ensure that each child is treated in a fair matter that their case be individually considered, and if they deserve protection under the law, so be it. if not go home. this is not new. refugees have received protection in america for decades. in 1980, the asylum system that we have today was established. most of the special protections for unaccompanied children were created in 1997. many were codified in 2002, but critics of the anti-slavery law of 2008 claim it has caused the influx of kids to america. but the protections began in 1997, 17 years ago. no. kids are fleeing because of the extreme violence in three countries. children from other countries in the region are not fleeing here, and people were honduras, el salvador and guatemala are fleeing to every other country in the region. a 17 -- a 712% increase in

asylum cases in belize, anything rag with a and otherle -- nicaragua with a and other central american countries. what the bill did, the u.n. review now makes clear that as a consequence, we are sending kids who have been sex trafficked back to their abusers as a consequence. rather than fix this loophole, this bill would subject all kids to that flawed process. i can't help but note that this will be the only bill, immigration bill with an up or down vote, a bill to strip victims of their protections. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. the gentlewoman's time has expired. the gentlewoman from new york's time has expired. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. for three minutes. mr. rogers: i yield myself the balance of the time.

madam speaker, we have a crisis on our border with mexico right now. it can't wait. it's a humanitarian crisis. it's also a failure of our border. 's an open border now unless you fix it. f we don't change the law to treat central american children the same as we treat mexican children at the border, you're going to be flooded. the amount now on the border will pale to incision because homeland security tells us that hey anticipate another 145,000 next year on top of the tens of thousands of adults and families flooding across that open border. we have an immediate crisis

today. this bill is an urgently needed bill. it provides immediate funding for critical border security and these humanitarian needs. the money will be there immediately. if we do not pass this bill today, you're going to risk these resources running out. then your hands will be tied. more and more immigrants will continue to flood across that border if you fail to act. this bill will allow the d.h.s., the department of homeland security, and the national guard to tighten security and restore the border . it will allow the department of justice to process the cases that may be needed more efficiently. it encourages repatriation in

the countries from which these immigrants came, and it provides much-needed shelter and care for the thousands of unaccompanied children who've recently crossed that border. we must act today before we leave town, not only to protect our borders, but to help these unaccompanied children who are being brought here by iminals, no less, on a long, dangerous, arduous journey subject to abuse, injury and death along the way. how can you turn away from these faces? this bill directs responsible levels of resources toward the front line, toward the highest priority needs. the bill puts policy measures into place that keep criminals out of the country and help encourage children not to make that very dangerous life-threatening journey. the president's request would do nothing to enforce our laws

and make this nation a safer place. help the problem. stop the crisis. this bill does it. vote for it. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. all debate -- all time for debate has expired. pursuant to house resolution 79 -- 696, the previous question is ordered on the bill. pursuant to clause 1-c of rule 19, further consideration of h.r. 5230 is postponed.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> madam speaker, pursuant to house resolution 696, i call up h.r. 5021, with the senate amendment thereto and i have a motion at the desk. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill, designate the senate amendment and designate the motion. would members please take their conversations off the floor. the clerk will report the title of the bill, designate the senate amendment and designate the motion. e clerk: h.r. 5021, an act provide an extension of federal-aid highway, highway safety, motor carrier safety, transit, and other programs funded out of the highway trust fund, and for other purposes, with the senate amendment thereto, and to consider in the -- senate ut amendment, motion offered by mr. shuster of pennsylvania. the speaker pro tempore:

pursuant to house resolution 696, the motion shall be debatable for one hour equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on transportation and infrastructure, the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. shuster, and the gentleman from west virginia, mr. rahall, each will control 30 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania. mr. shuster: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on this motion. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. shuster: madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized for such time as he may consume. mr. shuster: thank you, madam speaker. we have an immediate critical need to address the solvency of the trust fund and extend the current surface transportation law. if congress fails to act, thousands of transportation projects and hundreds of thousands of jobs across the country will be at risk. two weeks ago the house acted and passed h.r. 5021, the highway, transportation funding

act of 2014. this important legislation extends federal surface transportation programs, ensures the insolvency of the highway trust fund through may of 2015 and provides certainty. the house overwhelmingly passed h.r. 5021, which a bipartisan vote of 367, 55. then we waited for the senate to act. we continued to wait and wait. then on tuesday, the senate finally acted. the senate amended our bill to reduce funding on the highway trust fund and only extends surface transportation programs through december 19, 2014. the senate aapproach is deeply flawed. first, it is not fully offset. it underfunds the highway trust fund by more than $2 billion. and second, the senate's shorter extension would guarantee a manufactured crisis in a lame-duck session when some might be inclined to play politics with these issues or use them as vehicles for unrelated policies that should be subject to the full and open

debate they deserve. today, the house is considering a motion to disagree with the senate amendment to h.r. 5021 and send our original bill back to the senate. i strongly support this motion. this course of action in no way precludes congress from continuing to work on addressing a long-term funding solution and a long-term re-authorization bill which remains a top priority for the transportation and infrastructure committee. the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. the gentleman from pennsylvania deserves to be heard. please take your conversations off the floor and would people in the gallery please recognize the decorum of the house. the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. mr. shuster: thank you, madam speaker. i look forward to working with my colleagues in the senate on our shared goal of enacting a long-term surface transportation re-authorization

bill. however, this approach is the responsible solution at this time. it ensures that we don't play politics with these programs and enables us to continue making improvements to our surface transportation system. i strongly urge all members to support this motion. a vote against this motion is a vote to shut down these projects and programs and would put more than 6,000 projects and 700,000 jobs at risk. with that, madam speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania reserves. the gentleman from west virginia is recognized. mr. rahall: madam speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from west virginia is recognized. mr. rahall: madam speaker, two weeks ago i stood in this exact stop and urged passage of the highway trust fund patch as soon as possible, to keep our surface transportation program up and running. now we stand at the edge of an enormous cliff with days, not weeks, to go before the trust fund go belly up and the

transportation department starts rationing payments to states. we do not have the luxury of time to deliberate or trade further ideas. congress needs to act now to enact a bill and avert an unnecessary crisis. that's why i will support the motion today, but not because i think the house bill is a better approach. the senate extended programs through december to keep the pressure on congress to enact a long-term highway bill as soon as possible. i fully support this approach. unfortunately, the senate amendment contains a technical error. it does not fully offset the transfer to the highway trust fund. and the house republican leadership has made it clear that the house will not consider a highway bill that is not fully offset. with a single legislative day left to address this looming crisis, we need to ensure continued funding of our roads, bridges, transit systems and the safety of our travelers and

passengers. two weeks ago, house democrats supported a shorter extension as an alternative to h.r. 5021. this approach was rejected by house republicans. today the house republican leadership will not even allow us a vote on a fix to the technical error in the senate amendment. the house bill and the senate amendment both help states get through the remainder of this construction season, and they both provide the opportunity for congress to come together on a bipartisan basis which the chairman and i have done so well under his tenure and for which i commend him and pass a long-term surface transportation law in a lame-duck session. there's absolutely no reason that congress cannot come together and complete a long-term highway bill this fall. so i repeat the point i just made that this legislation that we're acting on today does not preclude us from coming together in a lame-duck session of congress and doing what's

necessary for the american people and that is passing a long-term robustly funded transportation bill that puts our people to work and repairs our decage infrastructure. . while i will vote for this motion today, it's not because the house approach is a better solution, but because it does provide the only path forward available for us to avert an immediate crisis and still allow the opportunity for congress to do the right thing. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from west virginia reserves. the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. mr. shuster: madam speaker, i'm pleased to yield three minutes to the gentleman from indiana, mr. bucshon. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from indiana is recognized for three minutes. mr. bucshon: thank you. madam speaker, i rise today in support of this important motion. last year i was honored to be a conferee on m.a.p. 21 and i'm proud of the bill our conference committee produced.

our nation's transportation projects are being completed faster and states like my home state of indiana received more federal funding than they had in the past. with construction season under way, we need to ensure that every state can continue with their important summer construction projects. this legislation, this motion, is vital to keep thousands of americans working to rebuild our aging infrastructure. funding our nation's infrastructure should not be a political issue. we all agree that we need a long-term solution to fund our nation's crumbling infrastructure. but today we need to approve this motion. the proposal from our senate colleagues contained an err in financing for their bill that only that only paid for funding through october not december. the the err came in over $2 billion short. nobody plans even the smallest

transportation project on a month-to-month basis and we should not be providing funding on a month-to-month basis. the senate bill is not a viable solution for our states. i met with indiana governor mike pence this morning who reiterated to me how important it is to continue to provide long-term funding for every state. the house bill is the only proposal that gives every state the opportunity to adequately plan through this construction season and into the spring. the house bill is the only solution that is going to keep people working to rebuild our nation's infrastructure. i thank chairman shuster for his strong leadership on this issue, and i urge all of my colleagues to support this motion. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania reserves. the gentleman from west virginia is recognized. mr. rahall: madam speaker, i'm honored to yield two minutes at this time to the distinguished ranking member on our highways and transit committee, the gentlelady from the district of columbia, eleanor holmes norton.

the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from the district of columbia is recognized for two minutes. ms. norton: thank you. madam speaker, i thank my good friend, the ranking member of the full committee, for his work to try to get us a fully funded bill. as i'm sure the chairman desired as well. i must say, madam speaker, we shored up the highway trust fund four times since 2008. four patches. this would be the fifth. until may. and everyone knows what we are doing. we are setting ourselves up for another series of short-term extensions. we don't dare leave the trust fund insolvent, not us. but we don't have the guts to help our own states get on with urgently needed projects. short-term funding is like no funding. where is the dissent on this traditionally bipartisan bill, the highway bill? it is certainly not in the

states. it's in the republican caucus. where they have a crisis among some of their members who believe that spending money on anything is an original sin, even at the demand of their own constituents. madam speaker, i don't have the figures from my own district, so i give you some figures at random from the state of arkansas, which i chose at random, to indicate what this bill means for the states. arkansas relies for about 70% of its transportation funding on this bill. it's put off 15 projects even with this bill coming, and i'm quoting from its highway and transportation department, we don't feel comfortable going forward with these projects because we are not sure if the highway trust fund will be resolved in time to fully see these projects to completion.

that's the position you're leaving the state. an official from the american roads and transportation builders spoke about what this funding does. he says, if you have -- could i have another minute or two? mr. rahall: another minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. norton: if you have your money coming in on an almost annual or every other year basis, subject to being shut down by congress, you cannot make long-term investments and hire people. the tragedy of these patches is they have a human face. millions of construction workers now working on a piecework basis. the differences between the house and the senate are easily reconcileable. they pass their bill 79-18. what is wrong with this house? in the past we would have gotten these differences resolved. there's been plenty of times

sinceman 21, if two years have not been enough, what in the world do we think eight or nine months will make? time is not the problem, will is. let's spend the time in the recess getting a long-term bill as our states are demanding. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. the gentleman from west virginia reserves. the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. mr. shuster: madam speaker, it's now my pleasure to yield two minutes to the gentleman from oklahoma. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oklahoma is recognized for two minutes. >> thank you, it with great pleasure i stand in front of you today in support of h.r. 5021, the highway transportation and funding act. we as a body stand here all the time and we talk about creating jobs. what we need to do is create a atmosphere where jobs can thrive. if this bill for some reason doesn't pass, we are talking about putting over 700,000 jobs

at risk. in oklahoma, that's 200 construction jobs at risk. we need time. yes, this congress, this body, every now and then we push things down the road. but we are truly trying to find a real solution. mr. mullin: the senate -- the senate bill, it just didn't give us enough time. this will push it through may and allow us to look at a long-term funding solution. now, either we are going to stand up as a whole and say, yes, this is our responsibility. yes, we are going to provide the industry confidence this body will stay with them, or what we say when we are talking about creating jobs really doesn't mean anything. look, we have an opportunity if in build confidence

construction workers and contractors that we depend on every day. we rely on them to get to and from work. when we go to our local stores, we provide -- we depend on them to make sure the goods are delivered there. and we are going to say that we -- we are going to continue bickering about it a little bit, or we are going to stand up and stay we are going to make sure you're funded. let's stand up and stay we support you. we are going to make sure that industry in the 700,000 jobs that are there, we are going to make sure that you go to work tomorrow. let's make sure that we stand together as a body and invest in our infrastructure. mr. chairman, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania reserves. the gentleman from west virginia is recognized. mr. rahall: madam speaker, it's my honor to yield now to a former member of our powerful house transportation committee who decided to go to the esteemed ways and means

committee, the gentleman from oregon, mr. blumenauer, i yield four minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oregon is recognized for four minutes. mr. blumenauer: i wish his leadership would listen to him. to create a atmosphere of certainty and move forward. there is a reason why the stakeholders uniformly supported the senate approach. the senate approach said, wait a minute, on a bipartisan basis, 79 votes, 25 republicans, said we are not going to kick this into the next congress. because that's where the crisis is going to be. you'll be in the middle of a new congress, who knows what the lineup is going to be in the house and the senate, and presidential elections, and you won't be giving the certainty to the industry they are asking for. that's why construction trades, contractors, the afl-cio,

chamber of commerce, the people who pave the roads, were uniformly supporting the senate approach. they don't want to slide it into the next year. i serve on the ways and means committee. have been trying for, now, 3 1/2 years to get the republicans who control the ways and means committee to have a hearing on transportation finance. we have not had one. in 3 1/2 years. now, that's the responsibility of the ways and means committee. i left the committee hoping i could help you in the pursuit of resources. 3 1/2 years, not a single hearing. my goodness. that's why we have had ever shorter re-authorizations. i don't count a 27-month bill as

a re-authorization. and we had 21 short-term extensions. house e senate -- in the here, the democrats uniformly said, let's get enough money to get us through the year and let's work together on the long-term issues. maybe we could even have a hearing on finance. the senate -- our motion didn't pass, although it was supported by all but three of our colleagues on the democratic side. when it didn't pass, we didn't pick up our marbles and go home. we provided enough votes because the republicans didn't have enough votes, to pass it, we provided enough votes hoping that we could get something better coming back from the senate. and we did get something better coming back from the senate. there was a drafting error that we could fix in 14 1/2 seconds on the floor of the house if we

had the spirit of accommodation and followthrough. which my friend, the ranking member, has seen in his long years and has participated in to try to advance it. but no, what we have seen is people going to turn their back. they are going to slide into the next congress. we are going to duck all the tough issues. we haven't heard anything that deals with how we are going to move forward. the t and i committee doesn't have a bill. i would respectfully suggest we ought to reject this motion. in fact, we ought not to reject what the senate did. let's work together. we can solve this in a matter of minutes if people are committed to doing so. and we would be keeping faith with the people who build, who operate, and who rely upon the transportation systems in this contry. we have a unique moment in

history to be on the side of that vast nonpartisan coalition that wants us to do our job. i respectfully request that we do it and that we commit as a body that we are not going on vacation in august. we are not going to recess to campaign. and we won't recess for the year until we do our job for the american public. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. mr. shuster: we have no further speakers. i continue to reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from west virginia is recognized. mr. rahall: madam speaker, i'm happy to yield at this time three minutes to the gentleman from oregon, valued member of our transportation and infrastructure committee, and the ranking member of the house and natural resources committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oregon is recognized for three minutes. mr. defazio: many years ago i, i

worked as a bicycle mechanic. i know how to patch a tube. but if you get to the point where you can't see the tube anymore for the patches, then it's time for a new tube. that's where we are at here today. . we've had study after study that we are not investing enough money in our infrastructure to bring it up to a state of good repair let alone build a 21st century modern infrastructure. we were the envy of the world with the eisenhower program. number one infrastructure in the world. where are we now? we're number 26. we're slugging it out with third-world countries in terms of our infrastructure. 140,000 bridges, 140,000 bridges on the national highway system need repair or replacement. 40% of the national highway system is so deteriorated it has to be totally replaced. you can't just patch it anymore. you can't just resurface it

anymore. and our transit agencies have a $70 billion backlog to bring their existing systems up to a state of good repair. not to build new transit options for americans. no. just to bring what we have up to a state of good repair. why are we here today? because there's people on that side of the aisle who actually don't believe it is either the duty, obligation or right of the federal government to invest in a national highway system, a national transportation system. they believe in devolution, make the states do it. we tried it in the 1950's. kansas built a brand new turnpike and ended at the oklahoma border because oklahoma ran out of money and they didn't build it until the eisenhower bill went through. they want to go back to the 1950's when you couldn't have roads connected between states. that's nuts. it was bad in the middle of the last century. it's nuts for the 21st century. so are we just going to kick the can down the road again? if we pass this republican

proposal to continue the current anemic levels of funding until next may, that is not going to bring the states -- the certainty they need. it's not going to bring the industry, the robust investment they need. it's not going to get us the jobs we'll need. yeah, we'll limp along to next may and there will be delay for the next construction season. we need to resolve it this year wefment should stay here, as the gentleman from oregon said, and resolve it this august. five weeks, guys? five weeks? we can't get to this issue, and then you're going to kick it into next year? better, at least, that we're confronted it before the end of this year. then maybe we can get a robust funding source. maybe we can get the investments we need. maybe we can give the states the tools they need next construction season and the certainty they need next construction season so go forward. s&p t had a study from

standard & poor's that for every $1 billion we get -- will the gentleman yield an additional minute? mr. rahall: i yield one minute. mr. defazio: we just had a standard & poor's study, 29,000 jobs created. these are not just construction jobs. they are answering nearing jobs, technical jobs, they're manufacturing jobs for the equipment that goes into this or the steel that goes into this. these are small business jobs with the small business setaside. we're forgoing an incredible stimulus, putting thousands of americans back to work or at work building us yet again toward a world-class infrastructure. it's just shameful. it's shameful. is has been bipartisan forever. washington canals and highways. eisenhower, the national highway system. and ronald reagan put transit into the national highway program. and now we're here limping

along with yet another watch that isn't adequate, that won't give us the recovery we need, won't get us the transportation infrastructure we need to be competitive in the 21st century. the very -- it's a very sad day. we should reject this proposal and get to work. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. mr. shuster: thank you, madam speaker. it's now my pleasure to yield two minutes to the chairman of the ways and means committee, mr. camp. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan is recognized for two minutes. mr. camp: well, i thank the distinguished chairman for yielding. look, the house passed their version of highway funding more than two weeks ago. the senate acted last night, and because of their rush there was actually a drafting error in their version of the highway bill that creates either a $2 billion hole in the deficit or only funds the program through early october. now, the house is not scheduled to be in session in october. so i would suggest to my friends, i think the best thing

to do at this stage of the game is to accept this proposal and send the house bill back to the senate which does a couple of things. it certainly does not increase the deficit and second -- as the senate bill does because of their mistake bus also it gets us through may 31. now, i've committed to the distinguished gentleman on the other side that the ways and means committee will have a hearing on transportation funding in september when we return. but this gives us the time to look at the combeeting -- competing proposals to fans fn our transportation infrastructure. those disagreements don't necessarily fall along partisan lines as the previous speaker might have suggested. not everybody agrees with gas tax, not everybody agrees with miles driven, not everybody agrees with tolls. we have to work through those alternatives and see what other proposals might be there to see where we can move forward. i believe we can move forward in a bipartisan way on this issue because our infrastructure needs, i would agree with the previous

speaker, our infrastructure needs are dire. they are important. we do need to move forward on a long-term funding bill. but if we don't get passed october, we're going to have -- and if we don't do this today, august 1 is the day the contracts start ending. i think that would be completely irresponsible to allow that to begin to occur. so let's have continuity in transportation projects and funding. support the house bill. send it back to the senate. i'm certain, given the mistake in their legislation, this will be accepted when it gets to the other side. and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from west virginia is recognized. mr. rahall: madam speaker, i'll yield two minutes to the distinguished gentleman from oregon, mr. blumenauer. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from oregon is recognized for two minutes. mr. blumenauer: thank you very much. i deeply appreciate comments of my good friend, the chairman of the ways and means committee, with whom i've enjoyed working

for eight years now on the committee. and i appreciate his indicating that we will have a hearing on transportation finance in september. i welcome that, and i absolutely agree that people are all over the map. some people want to get us out of the transportation system on the federal level, devolution. some want more resources. some want to limp along, and i look forward to having that conversation. but i'd make three brief observations. one is that i -- it's true we're not scheduled to be in business in october. i think that frankly is wrong. i don't think we should recess to campaign when there's all these questions about transportation, and we could roll up our sleeves and actually do something. i for one would be happy to be here in october working to avoid a cliff next may.

second, there is a $2 billion drafting mistake on the part of the senate. these things are not unforeseen or unexpected. we had experience with them in the past. i'm quite confident in a matter of minutes we could work with the senate and put the right language in and we'd be able to avoid that problem. if we were committed to solving a problem the way that the stakeholders, business, labor, local government, state, transit, environmentalists, equipment, whole range of people would be happy if we'd sit down and be able to fix the modest little technical problem and embrace what all but three democrats voted for two weeks ago and what 79 republicans and democrats voted for in the senate.

i appreciate what i've heard and i look forward to working with the gentleman to see what progress we can make. and i volunteer to be here in october with him. we don't have much of you left, dave. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. mr. shuster: i have no further speakers. i continue to yield -- continue to reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania reserves. the gentleman from west virginia is recognized. mr. rahall: madam speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from west virginia yields back. the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. mr. shuster: i thank you, madam speaker. i'll conclude and yield myself the balance of my time. in closing i'd like to reiterate my strong emotion, it disagrees with the senate amendment to h.r. 5021 and sends our original bill back to the senate which passed 367-55. our bill ensures we don't play politicks with these programs

-- politics with these programs, this course of action in no way precludes congress from continuing to work on addressing a long-term funding solution and a long-term re-authorization bill which remains a top priority for the transportation and infrastructure committee. i strongly urge all members to support this motion and let me be perfectly clear. a vote against this motion is a vote to shut down surface transportation projects and programs. the american people deserve better than that. and we can do better than that so i respectfully aurgeurge all my members -- urge all members to support my motion and i yield back the balance of my time back. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to house resolution 696, the previous question is ordered. the question is on the motion by the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. shuster. all those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the motion is agreed to. without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table.

just smaums, i request the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, this 15-minute vote on adoption of the motion to disagree to the senate amendment will be followed by five-minute votes on the question on agreeing to the speaker's approval of the journal, if ordered. this is a 15-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.]

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 271 and the nays are 149. the motion is adopted. without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table.

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 272. the nays are 150. the motion is adopted. without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. mr. hoyer: madam speaker. madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the ouse will be in order. for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to speak out of order for the purpose of an announcement. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. mccarthy: i want to advise all members that additional votes are possible today.

we will send out information as soon as it is possible. mr. hoyer: if the gentleman will yield? mr. mccarthy: yes. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman. we're going to have to call some members back. they already left on the representation that this was the last vote of the day. i would imagine you have some members are in that category themselves. can the gentleman give me any idea of when we will have notice as to whether or not there will be further votes today? i yield to my friend. mr. mccarthy: i thank the gentleman for yielding. knowing that some members -- and this vote now closed, and earlier announced they would not walk off the floor at 3:45, i think it's possible to advise all members that there are possible there will be votes today. i'm hopeful late this afternoon we'll be able to notify the ime.

the speaker pro tempore: the ouse will be in order. mr. mccarthy: madam speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. mr. hoyer: madam speaker. madam speaker. without objection, five-minute oting will continue. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the unfinished business is the question on agreeing to the speaker's approval of the journal, which the chair will put de novo. the question is on agreeing to the speaker's approval of the journal. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the journal stands approved.

the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess subject to the call of

the chair. the other would have reversed an executive order. he will have lots coverage from house when they return, and we expect them to return sometime this afternoon. just to let you know also that where things stand, this is reporting from ed o'keefe at

"the washington post." republican leadership aides say a considerable number of republicans are demanding to vote on something before leaving town on the border crisis. earlier he said house members are being advised not to leave town. republican conference meeting is at 3:00 p.m. he also said a decision on the conference meeting comes after a pack of gop jude-out the -- leaders on the housework. we will keep you updated on any developers. you can go to our facebook page and weigh in on your thoughts. we are asking about the pulling of the border no. money for illegals. tammy response, postponed occasions until the job is done. also on twitter. for ericthe last day

cantor as majority leader. earlier on the house floor, he addressed his house colleagues in his farewell comments as majority leader. mr. speaker, it's been an honor and a privilege to serve as majority leader of this distinguished body. i look around this remarkable chamber and i see so many friends and colleagues who have inspired me and who have inspired this congress to do great things for the american people. walking into this building and walking on to this floor is something that excited me every day since i was first elected to congress. as it should. not one of us should ever take for granted the awesome honor and responsibility we have to serve our fellow americans. this is a privilege of a lifetime. i think of the sacrifices that help me rise to serve the people

of the virginia's seventh district. my grandparents fled religious persecution in europe in order to find a better life. my grandmother, a young jewish widow, was soon raising my dad above a grocery store in richmond just trying to make ends meet. and so it goes two generations later her grandson would represent part of what was james madison's seat in the house. and then go on to serve as its majority leader. i have truly lived the american dream. that's what this country is supposed to be about dreaming big, believing that each generation can do better than the last. now, unfortunately, we have seen that dream erode in recent years, and our nation faces many challenges. too many are left wondering if we can be an america that works, an america that leads. too many children are condemned

to a bad school because of the zip code they live in. being poor in america should not mean being deprived of a good education, and we've all got to continue fighting for these kids. this is the civil rights issue of our time. now even after kids graduate high school, too many can't afford college or access the skills they need to join a new and dynamic work force. government policies often increase these costs and restrict opportunities. during my time here, we have made some progress on some of these issues, but, frankly, not enough. one of my proudest moments was watching the president sign into law the ga by ella miller kids

research act sponsored by congressman greg harper and peter welch. prioritizing federal dollars towards finding cures and treatments for disease can enrich and even save lives. the added benefit? cures can help alleviate health care costs. all the while too many moms and dads who are healthy are stuck without a job or barely getting by in one that doesn't match their potential. this congress, the house has passed many bills, some of which were bipartisan, to help create jobs and opportunities for those who desperately need them. i hope more of those bills will make it to the president's desk before year's end. our nation and our economy cannot meet its full potential if we in america are not leading abroad. i look around at colleagues on both sides of the aisle, at

chairman, ranking members, at my good friend, democratic whip, steny hoyer, all of whom have soberly and seriously helped ensure a fight for a strong foreign policy so that our nation can lead in order to help keep our people safe. yet never before have i been more worried about the prospects of that peace. due to our diminished engagement on the world stage. instability and terror seem to be come interesting every corner of the globe. the middle east is in chaos. iran is marching towards a nuclear weapon. russia has reverted to a cold war footing and invaded ukraine. now, america does lead in so many areas, including innovation, scientific discovery, and medicine. but we've also got to make leadership abroad a priority.

i shudder to think what the world looks like in five years for us and our allies if we don't steel our resolve and stand tall with those who stand with us. mr. speaker, we don't always see eye to eye, even within our own parties in this chamber, but that's how it's supposed to be, our founders did not design a rubber stamp. this congress we have found ways to agree on much more than was ever reported with many bills passing this house in a bipartisan way. for that, much of the credit goes to the hardworking staff that quietly works around the

clock to help us do our job. i would especially like to thank my team. starting with chief of staff, steve, and my deputy chief, neal bradley, as well as our whole team for being there every day it to assist members on both sides of the aisle to help them deliver on their legislative goals. thank you. mr. speaker, aid also like to thank you for all you have -- i'd also like to thank you for all you have done. thank you for the example of firm leadership you show and at the same time for not being afraid to show us all your kind heart on your soft spot from ime to time. mr. speaker, you reminded me

yesterday that you and i have met with each other at least once a day, every day that we've been in session for the past five years. for that, mr. speaker, i thank you for your patience. i'd like to thank our conference chair, kany -- cathy mcmorris rodgers. she's as tough as she is compassionate and her voice has so often helped our conference in this house. i'd also like to recognize two of my colleagues and dear friends who i joined several years ago to begin a fight for reform on behalf of the american people. to chairman paul ryan, thank you for your dedication to finding solutions to the problems that face our government. but more importantly, thank you for your commitment to identifying those conservative solutions that actually help people find their path to the

american dream. i know your efforts will continue to impact america in a positive way. and to my closest confidant and my good friend kevin mccarthy, our new majority leader. i know you will make this institution proud. i will miss the daily challenges that we faced together at the leadership table but i know that your leadership will serve as an inspiration for all of us. sthror many more members and staff on both sides of the aisle who have made my time here so rewarding. many of you have become as close to me as family and that is what has always sustained me while being away from my own family in richmond. i know i speak for all of us when i extend a heartfelt thank you to the capitol police and the sergeant at arms for all they do to protect us every day, us and our families.

finally, i want to thank my family, my wife diana, her mother, my children, evan, jen, and mikey, my parent, my brothers, all of whom made sacrifices so i could serve in this chamber and as a member of leadership. they are my inspiration and they are the rocks on which i will always lean. so mr. speaker, i close by once again thanking my colleagues for their service. i thank them for their friendship and warmth and with that, i yield back.

the speaker: for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland rise? mr. hoyer: i ask unanimous consent to speak out of order for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. hoyer: i rise to thank the

majority leader for his service to this house and his service to this country. when one of us leaves this body, it ought to remind us that all of us are here farrelltively short time. perhaps some longer than others, but for a relatively short time. mr. cantor and i have had the opportunity to work together. as he pointed out, we have not always agreed, as we do not always agree across the aisle. but we have an extraordinary honor bestowed upon us, as he pointed out. there are less than 11,000 of us in the history of this country who have served in this body. there are 435 of us who have been asked by our fellow citizens to serve on their behalf, on behalf of their families, and on behalf of their country. eric cantor has done that well. not because i always agreed with

him, but because i always knew he had the breast interest -- the best interests of his country, his state, his constituents and his neighbors in mind when he acted. i want to congratulate him, i want to thank him for his service, i want to thank him for working with me on those areas where we could find agreement and in those areas we acted in a productive manner and created a large bipartisan majority on most of those issues in this house. i thank him for doing that as one who has also had the honor, mr. speaker, of serving as majority leader of the house, it is a special order that our colleagues have bestowed upon us. i want to wish him well. i know he will not be leaving the public community. the public square. that his voice will still be a voice of influence and he will make a difference in whatever area he pursues. he will remain always a member

of this body. he will visit us from time to time. we will welcome him back. we wish him well. thank you. i yield back the balance of my time. >> that was the scene on the u.s. floor about three hours ago, with eric cantor, the outgoing girardi leader, being applauded -- the outgoing majority leader, being applauded. since then the house has moved on to complete work on a transportation spending bill, a senate version of the bill. the main news this afternoon is

the house has pulled -- house republican leadership has pulled their $659 million security bill. to hearopen up lines your thoughts about that, and the issue overall, the issue of the immigrant crisis, the children at the u.s.-mexico border, and congressional action, or in this case, in action -- inaction. you can also make your thoughts twitter and facebook. we will get to your comments in a moment. a quick recap on the vote that ended the session a short while ago in the house. they rejected a senate bill to

extend federal transportation funding until the summer. 271-149.9 -- this puts pressure on the senate democrats to avert a late summer showed a. what we think may be going on is a house republican conference set for 3:00 p.m. eastern. they are in recess now subject to the call of the chair. before gaveling out for that recess, they made it known that they anticipate potential extra votes on the house floor. once the house cavils back in, we will have live coverage for you here on c-span. gavels back in, we will have live coverage for you on c-span. joining us now is billy house. welcome to the conversation here. >> thanks, good to be here.

ask you something. we just a few minutes ago should the outgoing majority leader eric cantor roundly applauded on both sides of the. what happened between then and the leadership pulling the vote? there was no connection at all. it was just that cantor was on the floor speaking, and this is his last formal date as majority leader. just a cordiality among members. one thing i might suggest, if you thought things were this functioning under the previous majority leader and majority whip, perhaps today can attest to the fact that that is not the end of those problems. indicated that last night ted cruz met with a number of house republican leaders on the issue. what was his influence on those conservative members?

we -- i think we have lost early house -- bill house. all right, let's go to our first color, asking you your thoughts on the the border immigration bill. where are you calling from? caller: kansas city. host: what are you thinking about what is happening in the house this afternoon? caller: a disaster. obviously, senator ted cruz has influenced the house republicans to not voting for the bill that was proposed by representative boehner. senator canorld a ae his influence to remove vote on a bill is absolutely incredible.

i am disgusted. host: how do you think they get out of this? now --e in rescess caller: no way, until they return from the recess. host: do you think the issue is too hot to get into before the election? caller: that is one of the problems, yes. we lost ay house, connection. we are asking you about the influence of ted cruz who met with a number of members last night. what was the purpose of that meeting? caller: to reassert his and some of the other members' opposition to the lack of a more direct action against president obama's ability to use unilateral action to defer deportations and work requirements for some

undocumented immigrants. the texas senator had been among those that said this should be part of a supplemental spending bill. the working operation on this bill that was pulled this afternoon had taken those members into account already, and were proceeding with the four vote the ted cruz element was a hurdle, but they thought they had gotten over it. what happened today was a last-second infusion of another senator into the process, jeff implored other members of the delegations to not back the bill either. ip's teamnew wh 215 votes. had only

they could have gone ahead and voted on the floor and hope or expected a few democrats to cross over. but in this scenario, nancy pelosi and the minority whip hoyer put pressure on the democrats not to cross over, and they could have a potential embarrassment on the floor with the bill going down. host: can you confirm the reports of the 3:00 p.m. conference going down? caller: that is true. they will have some way to express to members of what is embarrassment of not doing anything. host: what is the likelihood of anything coming out of that conference this afternoon with anything to vote on in terms of a vote or security funding bill? guest: 215 votes, we are told.

the issue is convincing three or four or five members. that is probably doable, but keep in mind that the end result ,s only a messaging vehicle too, that the senate has their own plan, and the president has said he had will already veto the house bill. the fact that they have something of an embarrassment today. pressing those four or five or six members to come on board that may not want to, and getting something passed for something that is just a messaging thing for the august recess. host: when they come back, they have 12 days of legislation left in the house? guest: they want to get rid about half of that, about a week of that. that has not been substantiated by leadership, but democrats and republican members say these issues are hot and heavy. host: billy house, you can follow him on twitter. we appreciate the update. guest: thank you for having me.

host: your phone calls. the house republican conference meeting at 3:00 p.m. eastern, about five minutes away. let's get back to your calls. international falls, republican line. angst for waiting. caller: sure. i just got to say that sneaking into our country does not make immigrant, butn nor does sneaking into my home aqa guest or the homeowner. and i just did not understand what is with this obama. enforcing the laws in curtailing and telling her border patrol not uphold the law, and it is wrong. the only thing he is looking for is to get votes. he's putting his party before the people of america, and he should be thrown out just because of that. host: here is jackie in fairhaven, massachusetts, independent line. caller: hello.

jeff sessions has been on the floor of the senate and all over and anywhere you can possibly get traction on this, speaking about flooding america -- putting america first. there are plenty of jobs that americans do want, there are plenty of people that have been laid off for the last five years, a majority of that time. a say, the illegal aliens only take the jobs that people do not want. host: you mentioned facebook. alonehoughts on the house -- pulling the border bill. shame on our leadership, says gail. i guess they forgot what jesus said. bills, the $659 million

emergency funding bill to deal with the influx of migrants at the border, they pulled that. they will not vote on that. they never got around to debate on a measure that would overturn, revoked the 2012 executive order that provides temporary children brought illegally by their parents. we go next to jeffrey in akron, pennsylvania, democrats' line. caller: i am speaking from akron, pa. my main complaint is our congressmen [indiscernible] the u.s. constitution. it is also in the fifth amendment. the congressional people do not -- the constitution of the

united states, they both their own way, and do not employ the legislative requirements -- the constituents. those that do not should be sued and be kicked out of office. tot: the house gaveled out recess subject to the call of the chair about 30, 35 minutes ago. we understand there is a conference getting on underway. a scene of what is going on tweet,the capitol, a very weird situation on the floor right now. ,0 member still in the chambers talking in small clusters. also from susan, a couple of tweets, the chief washington correspondent for "the examiner," arguing over the bill, very unusual. a representative told me many

in-house do not want to leave without a vote on the border i haveit one more, watched a lot of houseboats, but that last one was while. moderate publicans were livid. the last vote was the disapproving of the senate highway bill. let's go on with your calls. tyler, texas, is next. mike on the democrats' line. caller: yes, if you have ever seen anymore is functional that is going on now, i say go and let them recess, lock the doors, and do not let them come back. just send them away and keep the money we have been spending on these guys. this is absolutely ridiculous. there will be some periodic pro forma sessions, but other than that, once the house gavels out today,

they will be out until september 8. dependent --in and i am an independent and always have been. however, my comment i am sick and tired and disgusted with the leadership of this country. to the american people, instead of complaining, to vote all of them out of office. they have an election every 2 trillion and we sit back and complain -- all we have to do is get together and unite and say we have had enough of this disgusting way this country is ran, and then kick them all out simultaneously, all at one time. henry in miami on our independent line in florida. caller: i have been watching this