>> thank you all for joining us today. we will ask that you please remain seated as the event concludes. thank you. >> c-span's washington journal, live every day with news and policy issues that impact you. coming up this morning, we are getting your reaction to the latest in the debate over funding the government. and an editor describes her groups report on campaign policies made and kept during president trump's first year in office. watch at 7:00 eastern this morning. join us for washington journal on sunday as we look back at the one years anniversary on the woman's march on washington. >> the government is officially shut down. the senate failed to advance a measure to fund the government until february 16. efforts are underway to try to get government operations funded

until february 8. earlier today, house democratic leaders, including nancy pelosi, held a press conference to discuss the federal government funding and the potential shutdown. this is about 30 minutes. funding and the potential shutdown. [laughter] values in rejecting the ill-founded republican c.r.

c.r.'s are a way to debilitate government. you don't quite shut it down but you debilitate the opportunity for our country to add full force as we go into the rest of the fiscal year. ourthe subject of process, members knew the right thing to do was to vote against the c.r. even though the republicans were advertising it as that and the other thing. they hid behind little children. they will put chip in there. really? chip has been something that has been a priority of the democrats and it is a bipartisan agenda all along.

they did not put primary training. the list goes on and on. they thought they could tantalize with just saying we are about children. we are about children and families. what they did was what they have done before. in any event, by virtue and process and what it means of debilitating government by having it forced the cern by substance, i was very proud of our caucus which was in a great unified way said no. i'm so appreciative of that. not only the response we are getting from the country but it getting from the country but it

is a very positive one that we stood our ground. this subject of shutdown, the president that the country needs a good shut down. this is the same that the counts a good shut down. this is the same president that the spring before, april of 2011, he said if there is a shutdown, it would be tremendously negative mark on the president of united states. he is the one that has to get people together. he went on to say that in 2013 after the shutdown, it always happens to be the top. the problem starts from the top. it has to get solved from the top. the president is the leader and he has to get everyone in the room and he has to lead. the president of the united states saying that about other presidents and now failing to lead. that.sident, he said there is no such thing as a good shut down. that is an oxymoron. say and close with this -- when we had the shutdown in 2013, just imagine

this -- on october 1, the vote was taken. 221 republicans, the majority of the congress. 221 republicans voted yes to shut down government. octoberthis -- 16 when the votes 44ken to open up government, 1 republicans voted to keep government shut down. among those who voted to shut down government were speaker ryan -- was not speaker then but a leader in his party. speaker ryan, mccarthy, lise, and mulvaney. went and was time to open i it up, ryan, scalise and mulvaney all voted to keep government shutdown. we believe in governance. democrats are not about shutting down the government. in any event, i'm hopeful that

the overtures that are being made by the other side, on the other side will lead to something that is very positive. we had a very positive caucus this morning. members following up on acting upon their valleys and determined to stay to get the job done. a champion in rallying those forces of the distinguished majority whip, for the moment. steny hoyer. rep. hoyer: whatever im at any given moment, i am pleased to be here. republicans control all the leverage of government. they control the house, they control the senate, they control the white house , they control the supreme

court. it would have required sitting down and talking to one another and saying, how can we agree? not how can we disagree, but how can we agree? leader mccarthy just a few hours ago sent out a message to his members that they could leave. ,e made a motion to adjourn which we knew we were going to vote against, because we knew we here to do the people's business. our republican friends did not make the motion to adjourn, so we made it, indicating clearly that we would oppose that, because we want to be here and get the work done. we have kicked the can down the road once.

every democrat voted to do that. every democrat voted that we would give 90 days to reach an agreement. that 90 days was squandered. then the congress voted to kick the can down the road twice more. that time was a squandered. squanderingo stop the opportunity to come together and agree. opposeds have always shutting down the government of the united states. we want to enact bipartisan agreement on things that we already agree on. let me repeat that. we want to agree to that which we have already agreed upon, republicans and democrats. so let me go through them. we have historically agreed on parity. in other words, an equal

increase in defense and an equal nondefense discretionary spending. that is the deal that paul ryan made with senator murray. that is the deal we have followed for the last four years. that is all that leader pelosi has asked speaker ryan to agree on and pay for. not beenkly, we have able to get to an agreement. we can do so this afternoon. we all agreed that dreamers should remain here in america. and to that extent, we reflect 87% of the american public. an overwhelming majority of people believe that the dreamers , young people brought here to know koch is effort of their own -- through no conscious effort

of their own. there were 25 members present. the president said that he was for protecting and making sure that the dreamers stayed here. everybody around the table agreed. republican and democrat. we all agree that c.h.i.p., the community health centers and other health programs should be reauthorized. we all agree on helping our fellow americans impacted by natural disasters. americans are saying to themselves, if you agree on those points, articulate it. why can you not resolve this issue and why can you not resolve it today? we are all here. we are going to stay here. we want to resolve these issues.

fund government, protect dreamers, protect children, provide relief to those damaged by natural disasters. protect our veterans as well. provide resources to deal with the opioid crisis. we can do that today. democrats have consistently been ready and willing to sit down at the negotiation table and reach an agreement with our republican colleagues. but we will not be blackmailed. we will not be blackmailed because republicans are unwilling to compromise. i say to my republican colleagues: do not shut down this government. sit-down at the table with us and let us move this country forward.

now, i want to yield to my dear friend, the assistant leader of of south carolina. jim clyburn: thank you very much. i think it is --. the republicans run the house. they run the senate. they have the white house. the fact of the matter is, we want to stay here and do what is necessary for congress to work with the president to run this country. people think that washington is broken. the fact of the matter is, i work and live within the shadows

of fort jackson, the second-largest army training facility in this country. i want to support those men and women at fort jackson. i was born and raised in south carolina, headquarters for the night air force and third army. i want to do what is necessary to support those men and women at that base. i represent charleston air force base. every time you see the men and women taking off, you see them leaving on c17's and those are airplanes from charleston, south carolina. i represent all of the women in the national guard who go off to

active duty. they all leave from mcintyre. i represent them. i want to do what is necessary to support those men and women, but at the same time, when those men and women leave to go defend this country, they leave their children behind. they leave children who needs the children's health insurance program and we ought to be funding it. they come from rural communities. they want to see their rural hospitals funded, which republicans do not do with this c.r. they want to see all these disproportionate facilities be facilitated as health centers for children who need health care through the children's health insurance program. most of them go to community health centers for their care.

so what does it do to authorize c.h.i.p. and fund if there is no hospital to receive treatment? we have got to look at this holistically. to my republican friends, if we were to reauthorize c.h.i.p., it would save the government $6 billion, but they refus to do it. to take care of all of the children and save the government $6 billion and they are refusing to do that. that is the sort of thing that i want the american people to look at. don't pay attention to these tweets. the headlines can be misleading. what we need to do is look at what these people are doing to our government. we are going to stay here on behalf of the american people and invite them to stay with us.

these are my friends who are part of the caucus. >> never before have i seen such a rush to create websites and hash-tags. they control every facet of government today. i would even argue that they control the supreme court. everything, every level of government and yet, they cannot do the most basic responsibility of governing. and that is to pass a spending bill. these c.r.'s are hurting us. both militarily and domestically, these c.r.'s are hurting us. democrats continue to stand ready to work with our republican colleagues. the american people expect that much. the least they could do is show that they can govern. they have proven once again that they cannot.

and with that let me turn to my colleague from california, ms. sanchez. i think it is pretty clear that a group of folks standing behind me and all of you agree that this is no way to run government. the american people expect congress to make tough choices and get things done. we are ready and we have been ready and willing and have essentially asked time and time again to be a part of a discussion to come up with a bipartisan agreement to fund the government. you know, i cannot think of a single business that would run their business this way. that they would lurch from month to month, not knowing if they are going to be able to fund the next month of expenditures. there are so many priorities

that democrats and republicans agree on and that quite frankly, that we need to a dress -- address. we cannot just keep kicking the can down the road. as the leader said, 27 million americans get their health care through community health centers and yet, the c.r. does not provide funding for them. the department of defense has been funded by short-term c.r.'s for several years now. that has deprived our military of a certainty that they need in order to be prepared. that puts the security of our country at risk. there is no relief for dreamers in this c.r., even though a majority of the members of congress, if a bill would come to the floor, would vote to support providing relief to dreamers. and there are many, many other areas that my colleagues have pointed out. mr. clyburn gave an excellent example of community health centers and how republicans are stepping over dollars to pick up dimes. it's foolish. it's wasteful. and the basic function of keeping our government open, keeping the lights on, is not that hard. yet their dysfunction continues.

so i call on our republican colleagues to work with us to resolve these issues and put them behind us and move on to the next set of challenges. because there always are next challenges for us to try to resolve. but instead they continue to lock us out of the room and then cry that we're not at the table helping them. and i can't think of anything that's more hypocritical. so democrats will say we're here waiting patiently for them to extend a hand to work together to address these issues that there is agreement on. and get our government on a sane path towards certain funding that allows our country to provide the quality of life that our constituents deserve and have earned. thank you. ms. pelosi: thank you. on of those issues of agreement, our colleague, representative

peter welch of vermont, led the letter to the president that he received either yesterday or maybe hopefully saw this morning. which spelled out what those priorities are, about opioids and addressing the needs of our veterans. national institutes of health to promote the health of the american people. issues that relate to the pensions that are endangered in our country. of course the issues that relate to natural disasters and, as mr. hoyer mentioned, and all over our country. especially focusing on puerto rico and the virgin islands, which have been underfunded in the previous bill that came forward. you know, we have the recent thanksgiving break, we had the christmas break, and every year the republicans plan the davos break. we come in for a week or two and then we're out. and why would that be? the senate is in. why is the house out? so some of the republican

leadership can go visit their top 1% friends in davos? and celebrate the passage of a very unfair tax bill that increases the deficit, undermining our future by having 83% of the benefit goes to the top 1%? these are all connected. because the increase in the deficit and the reduction in revenue are from the high end, have an impact on what we are able to afford as we go into budget discussions. so we know that we'll be able -- we know that the caucus wants to resist any increase in domestic spending. i want to make this point further. domestic spending includes homeland security, veterans' affairs, anti-terrorism activity at the justice department, and the state department. these are security functions. yet they are on the domestic side of the tally. so when they try to suppress that budget, they're suppressing

not only security functions, but other measures of the strength of our country. i was so excited to hear mr. clyburn talk about south carolina. all because just last week i learned that my brother's grandson is going to fort jackson. he just enlisted. our family is so proud. one of my brothers -- my four brothers who served in the army, one of them started out there too. so this is about certainly supporting our defense, our department of defense, and general mattis told us he can't take these c.r.'s. it's just not a way to run a military. and it's not a way to run a government. my colleague, mr. cicilline, reminded me of mr. welch's letter. did you want to speak to that at all? mr. cicilline: i just wanted to reinforce what leader pelosi said. that we have over 170 of our colleagues who communicated to

the white house the five priorities that we thought were important to be included in the continuing resolution. this parity between defense and nondefense spending. responding to the opioid crisis in our country. making sure we fund the children's health insurance program. take care of the dreamers. and be sure that we ensure our veterans have the resources they need. as the leader says, these are not controversial. this wasn't sort of a wish list of every democratic wish. these are all bipartisan issues which enjoy bipartisan support. and all we've asked the republicans is to engage with us, include these issues so we can work together and so far they have been unwilling to do that. there are over 170 of us who joined in that communication. ms. pelosi: having said that, i think we could come to an agreement, as mr. hoyer said. i think agreement is in reach. they just have to make the decision. questions? reporter: right now your colleague, chuck schumer, is over at the white house meeting one-on-one with president trump. what do you think this signals for the chance of president

trump making a deal? ms. pelosi: we'll see when they come out of the room. [laughter] we have worked very closely, house and senate, democrats in trying to work in a bipartisan way on what our priorities are in this debate. i've said before, even if there were no dreamer on the face of the earth, we still have our issues about parity and pay-fors and that's -- we can just sit down and settle that. i don't know the extent of the conversation because it was an invitation of the president. but mr. schumer is well aware of the priorities that we share. so i'm optimistic that that overture was made, hopefully to be constructive. reporter: with the idea that they did pass the bill last night, the republican c.r., with just enough votes on their side. no democrats went up on the board until they hit 220. obviously the bigger problem on this bill seems to have been with the senate. you said you expect senator

schumer to represent some of your priorities. what does that mean -- they have to figure out something with the senate first, but obviously they have to enlist your side so there's buy-in over here. there's certainly going to be a lot of republicans who don't want [inaudible] what will that potentially look like, depending on the message senator schumer delivers? ms. pelosi: that was quite a convoluted statement. [laughter] honest to god. you want to repeat the question? just the last part of it. [laughter] [laughter] what does that look like? i'm going to defer that one to steny. it's far too complicated. mr. hoyer: the reality is the republicans over the -- since 2011, have not had the votes on the house side in almost every matter of fiscal policy. ms. pelosi: they have the majority. mr. hoyer: they've always needed democrats.

i told you, on the first c.r., the 90-day c.r., the period in which we should have reached agreement, 90 republicans voted against that. so when mr. mccarthy or somebody else says you're letting down the military, the chairman of the armed services committee, republican, mac thornberry of texas, voted against that c.r. now, having said that, senator schumer and leader pelosi have been working for some time to try to get to an agreement. so senator schumer knows what our priorities are. and i'm sure he's going to be discussing with leader pelosi on a very close basis as soon as he gets back as to what was discussed. now having said that, i hope they reach an agreement. i hope they reach an agreement on the things that i mentioned, on which we have agreement. including the caps, including

dreamers, including c.h.i.p. and including all the other things that i mentioned. so i'm hopeful that the president of the united states, as did he in september, we had a no-drama action, having to pass the c.r. every democrat voted for it. it was a no drama. why? because the president said, that makes sense, we have agreement. let's move forward. which is exactly what we did. i hope that senator schumer and the president get to that point and -- because i think we have a basis for agreement that, as i said, i think we could do as early -- later on this afternoon. reporter: do you see daylight with the nielsen? mr. hoyer: yes. do i see daylight? you mean differences? yes. reporter: how about getting something done? ms. pelosi: how many questions are you going to ask? [laughter] mr. hoyer: let me reiterate. 24 members of the senate and the

house were in the white house sitting around the counter table and the president of the united states said, we need to protect the dreamers. he actually used daca. we need to protect daca. and we need to do that first. we agree. ms. pelosi: let me just say, in that vain, that if he would speak to the speaker or mr. mcconnell they will say to you, well, they'll say to us, we have to know what the president will sign. is that not the ongoing course? we have to know what the president will sign. hopefully mr. schumer will find out what the president will sign. because i do believe, as congresswoman sanchez said or vice chair said, the votes are there in the house and the senate if they bring this up. reporter: do you support the graham-durbin proposal, even though it has this down payment on the border wall?

ms. pelosi: right now our position is that we want the dream act and we're willing to -- we know our responsibility to secure our borders, north and south, and that's where our conversation is. so thank you all very much. to be continued. we may be seeing each other further today. one thing i have to say , is i'm so glad chuck schumer is the one who is over there. [laughter] thank you all very much. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. visit ncicap.org] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2018] [indiscernible]

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