matter that russia and the united states can solve. demand thaty the -- the negotiations must be inclusive with participation of all the sides in syria including the groups that were formed in the meetings in moscow, cairo and other places. thethe mandate from security council is quite clear. must amend this mandate by providing the inclusiveness of the talks which .e hope will resume their attempts by separate countries to engage in represent orand show one of those groups as the group thattion

present the whole position. there have been attempts to legalize such a group by inviting it to be -- we have been witnessing such attitudes. they fully contradict the agreements achieved within the issg cochaired by the u.s. and russia. the agreements enshrined. countries of the opposition groups should understand the response abilities not the public appointed over themselves and not to think about their own ambitions. think about the unity of the syrian people. >> thank you.

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if you are a c-span watcher, check it out at c-span.org. this headline from the hill today on combating the zika virus. saying we are out of money and congress is to do something. majority leader kevin mccarthy discussed funding options on the floor earlier. california, the majority leader, mr. mccarthy. mr. mccarthy: i thank the gentleman for yielding. on monday, the house will meet at noon for morning hour and 2:00 p.m. for legislative business. votes will be postponed until 6:30. on tuesday and wednesday will meet at 10:00 a.m. and noon for legislative business. on thursday, the house will meet at 9:00 a.m. for legislative business. on friday, the house is not in session. a complete list of suspensions

will be announced by close of business today. the house will consider h.r. 3590, the halt tax increase on the middle class and seniors act represented by martha mcsally and will prevent americans with high health care costs facing an additional tax increase. h.r. 5520 v.a.'s modernization act sponsored by representative jeff miller which ensures that employees at the department of veterans affairs are held accountable from misconduct for poor performance. this bill will modernize the disability apeoples process to reduce the unacceptable backlog of claims. the house will consider h.r. 5226 the regulatory integrity act sponsored by representative walberg which requires agencies

to publish proposed regulations on their website. the house will consider h.r. 5355 sponsored by representative jackie walorski which prevents the transfer of any individuals detained at guantanamo bay, cuba. i thank the gentleman and i yield back. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman for that schedule. i won't discuss any of the bills the gentleman mentioned on the schedule, but i do want to note a couple of absences. one was the continuing resolution. as the gentleman knows after next week, the c.r. is not included, we have nine legislative days left before the scheduled adjournment. as the gentleman knows we have not passed a single appropriation bill and without finding fault with either side because i know each side thinks

the other is at fault, we have not passed a single appropriation bill. so there is no alternative to a continuing resolution and we must pass the continuing resolution if the government is going to be operating on october 1 in the new fiscal year. the limited number of days in session, nine days after next week, there are reports that the house republicans are divided on how long the c.r. ought to be. whether or not we ought to go into the 115th congress or not. representative tom cole was quoted as saying since we are all drawing our checks, we ought to do our job and get it done, meaning the appropriations rocess and continuing with his

quote, and recognize that the next administration and the next congress are going to have to have plenty to do and deal with on their own and not throw additional work at them because we are either too lazy or incompetent to do our work. that's representative tom cole, one of the senior members of this body, former chairman of the campaign committee and respected member of this body. mr. leader, i believe we ought to pass a c.r. as soon as possible, consider it as soon as possible. my own belief is it ought to be short-term. i believe many people share that view. apparently senator mcconnell shares that view as well and my understanding that the senate is going to consider such a c.r. and send it to us. it is our responsibility under the constitution to move on pieces of legislation. they may amend theirs into a

house bill which both sides do from time to time. but can you tell me, a, how long do you expect the c.r.? first of all, when do you believe we will consider a ontinuing resolution to fund the government past september 30. and how long will the c.r. extend? and thirdly as we did last year, is it your expectation that we will do an omnibus in december in the lame duck? and i yield to my friend. mr. mccarthy: i thank the gentleman for yielding. surely, the gentleman did not mean from the point that no appropriation bills have passed this floor, because six have passed, but they haven't been -- mr. hoyer: reclaiming my time. as the gentleman and i both know, no appropriation bills

have been enacted. and as i pointed out. for getting about who's to blame and you and i have different perspectives on that. they haven't been passed and signed by the president. haven't been passed by the congress and the president hasn't signed any. there isn't any possibility we are going to pass one or more of those bills. there are 12 appropriation bills to fund government. doesn't look like we are going to pass any of them. and we will need a c.r. my question relates to the c.r., on those points. and i yield to the gentleman. mr. mccarthy: i thank the gentleman for clarifying. and one more clarification, if the gentleman may. all 12 of the bills of appropriations have passed out of committee. so it is our desire to finish that work. yes, it looks as though we will be into a continuing resolution.

we have funding up to september 30 and it is our intent to have that done. we will not depart without finishing that work. the duration of the time is up for discussion and we have been having discussions on both sides of the aisle about that. but as soon as that decision is made, members will be advised when the floor action is scheduled. i assure the gentleman it will be done before any nem has departed. i yield back. mr. hoyer: i presume that. i presume that the majority and i will say this, but whatever is in and your party control both of the house and of the senate. yes we have the presidency, but no bills have reached his desk. whether they gone out of committee or not, no bills have reached his desk. getting out of committee means nothing. nothing happens because it gets

out of committee other than it's eligible to come to the floor. beyond that, nothing happens with respect to funding the government. not a question of blame, but no bill has passed from the congress to the president of the united states for signature. he hasn't vetoed any bills because they haven't gotten to him. so we need to adopt a c.r. i think the gentleman is correct that we aren't going to go home i presume without passing a c.r. the government will shut down for 16 days some years ago because we wouldn't repeal the affordable care act. i don't presume that's going to happen this time. but i certainly hope that we address the c.r. it's not scheduled for next week. discuss another subject in just a second that should have been scheduled in my view this week.

we did bills that frankly aren't going to be passed or sent to the president. we spent a full week otherwise known as 25% of the time scheduled for us to be here before the electric. next week will make it 50% of the time and still no c.r. has been brought forward. and we left town in july without assing the senate bill, passed 68-30, a bipartisan bill to address the critical health crisis confronting the american people, zika. you don't schedule that for next week either on your schedule, mr. leader. and i'm very concerned. i think america is very concerned, certainly on this side of the aisle we are very concerned and i want to make a representation here publicly so that america will know and you

will know that i'm prepared to ourthat almost everybody in unanimous, ld say but i haven't talked to everybody, to pass the bipartisan senate bill. passed 68-30, which would appropriate $1.1 billion. tony fauci, who is the director and i.h. allergies infectious disease which falls under his authority and he said as of october 1, he is going to have no money for the development of a vaccine. the gentleman is as concerned as i am because we talked about setting up funds for disasters. this is a health crisis,

obviously a disaster and let me ask the gentleman if he expects zika funding to come to the c.r. or asr with the a separate bill. and again i represent to him, i believe every democrat and i haven't talked to every democrat, but i believe every democrat will support the bipartisan senate bill passed 68-30, which properties money nd has the virtue unlike the conference report, which the house added poison pill language that they knew needed that the democrats would support with the house and the senate, undermining frankly, the ability to have health services delivered in puerto rico, the epicenter of the zika crisis and should have been no surprise that that was not going to be

supported and the president made it clear he wasn't to support it. we need to reach a compromise. i urge the majority leader to address this and bring it to the floor. and i tell him he will have my full support and engagement for the senate bill, which was a bipartisan bill and i yield to my friend to let us know when he expects to deal with this critical health crisis confronting the american people and i yield. . mr. mccarthy: before this cry suss you and i sat -- crisis you and i sat together. before this crisis you and i compiled a group of members on both sides of the aisle with the experts to deal with it. $600 million quickly went out the door to fight, to combat.

the senate approved $1.1 billion. i'm somewhat excited to hear all the democrats will change their mind now and vote for the bill. i would like to remind the gentleman that in june this house took up this issue because we know what would happen in the summer. we know what's transpiring in florida because we predicted it would because it was already happening in puerto rico, but that was not the case on this floor that night. everyone on the other side said no. well, you know what, in the senate they've taken this up three times. your side of the aisle decided to leave without dealing with this issue. they could have dealt with this issue this week. this is the exact amount of money that the president or the senate voted for unanimously over there. maybe not unanimously but bipartisan. this is not one to play

politics with. we did our job here. it's quite ironic on a clarification on your past one saying republicans are in the majority here. yes, that's true. and you saw that happen. the rules in the senate are much different, which it empowers the minority to stop. that's why we're talking about a c.r., but this should not be the case. you could have challenged your colleagues in that senate on your party to stop the filibuster. the people should not have to wait. we've been in those rooms together. i know your desire. when you and i talked about putting the emergency funding together, you know what, that's in the appropriations this ear. we need this to get done. they need the money. we need to combat it, and we need to monitor it. that's why we dealt with this in june.

the frustration i have, even when we came back this week, the senate democrats were in the exact same place before. this money goes to the community centers in puerto rico exactly as the president requested. it's not a time to play politics. it's not a time to get frustrated about a different issue that you had that night so you couldn't vote yes. that's the truth behind this and that's wrong. yield back. mr. hoyer: i could get very animated in my answer. the fact of the matter what the majority leader represents, in my view, is inaccurate. the senate sent us a bipartisan ill. and because you think you needed to serve some of your most hardlined members, you made it a political bill and we were not going to take it.

we're not going to eyou eliminate planned parenthood -- to see you eliminate planned parenthood. listen to me, mr. majority leader. i listened to you respectfully. eliminate planned parenthood's services and funding to deliver services in puerto rico, the epicenter of this disease. and you put other legislation in that bill you knew was unacceptable to us. the senate did not do that because they need 60 votes which means they need to come to a bipartisan agreement. you rejected a bipartisan agreement on your side of the aisle. mr. speaker, i will address -- the speaker pro tempore: address your remarks to the chair. mr. hoyer: mr. speaker, the majority party rejected the bipartisan legislation that came from the senate with 68 votes. that's more than 2/3 of the senate. half of the republicans in the united states senate.

passed that bill over to us, and we could have passed it. notwithstanding -- i know they say we needed the $1.9 billion. had you brought that bill to the floor without adding political aspects to it that you knew we would not support, it would have passed. you could have passed it on your own but you chose to make it a political bill, and we're not going to accept that because the american -- you are right, mr. leader. mr. speaker, the american people deserve that we deal with this issue now. the president asked for this oney on february 22. we're now september 10. mr. speaker, we have not dealt ith this, except in a way that frankly the majority party knew would not be acceptable, would not be bipartisan, would not pass the senate and would not

be signed by the president. and it is, i say with all due respect, mr. majority leader, not credible to say we didn't take because -- what you wanted to jam down our throat -- i know some people on my side oh, $1.1 billion is not enough. i don't believe it's not enough. but it's a very substantial sum for n.i.h. to pursue vaccines and pursue other matters in puerto rico and florida and other places in this nation to keep our people safe. so i tell the majority leader again, bring the bipartisan bill passed to us by the united states senate with 68 votes, a g it to the floor as house bill and we'll pass it and that's why i tell the majority leader, mr. speaker, that i believe every member on

my side of the aisle will vote for that, not because they believe $1.1 billion will be sufficient to address this problem and leader pelosi makes the point, mr. speaker, the director of c.d.c. says that it will cost $10 million per child who suffers from microcephaly, which is the result of zika and very frankly in brazil they found the results go beyond that. $10 million. if 200 children get microcephaly, that gets to the dollars that the president ants from us to prevent this horrible consequence to the children and to the families of america. so i say with all due respect, mr. majority leader, you can say all you want and i know the spin. the democrats in the senate are holding this up. i do not accept that. i think it is inaccurate. what is holding it up is

putting in items in a bill that is absolutely essential, grew tuesday tussly that you -- gra tuesdaytiesly that you know we will object to. what the senate did was reached a bipartisan agreement. very tough to reach bipartisan agreements in this house because we have a group in this house that wants to wag the dog . and that's not what the american people expect. and i want to say, mr. speaker, i have great respect for the majority leader. he's accurate, we do sit down, we do work together and we can come to bipartisan agreements. we didn't sit down on this. the conference committee was not signed by a single democrat. there was no doubt that when it came to this house floor there were no democrats on that conference report and we had no debate. one of the reasons we had no

debate, i want to make it clear, because majority leader, mr. speaker, is going to make that clear. our side, we thought there was another important issue, but the fact of the matter is not whether it was debated, there would have been 30 minutes on each side. short debate. but the fact of the matter is the majority leader knows that the $1.1 billion bill that the senate passed, even though it's not the president's request, would have passed on this floor. and it would pass on this floor today. and n.i.h. and c.d.c. would have the resources, mr. speaker, that it needs to protect the american people. and that, mr. speaker, is with a we should do and i now yield, mr. speaker, to the majority leader. cathy lanier well, i thank the gentleman. i think the best thing for the american people is actually read the bill. so let me just read the section that you referred to that