mr. clyburn: thank you, mr. chip. bears repeating the republicans run the house, they run the senate and they have the white house. the fact of the matter is we want to stay here and want to 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 sumter, south carolina, headquarters for the ninth air force and the third army. i want to do what is necessary to support those men and women at that joint base. air forcet charleston base. every time you see men and women aking off, there are two afghanistan -- and coming back, ou usually see them leaving on 317's and other airplanes from charleston, south carolina. i represent mcintyre air national guard base, all the men and women in the national guard who go off to active duty. they leave fro

mr. clyburn talk about south carolina. 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

mr. clyburn. the gentleman from new york mr. khalid the gentlewoman from california ms. sanchez the gentlewoman from illinois admits boost times bustos and the gentleman from katechi mr. llama. [inaudible conversations] the president of the senate is appoints the following senators as members of the committee of the part of the senate to escort the president of the united states into the house chambers. the senator from kentucky mr. mcconnell. the senator from texas mr. cornyn. the senator from utah times utah mr. hatch. the senator from south dakota mr. thune. the senator from wyoming mr. brosseau or the senator from missouri mr. blunt. the senator from colorado mr. gardiner. the senator from new york mr. schumer to the senator from washington mrs. murray. the senator from michigan miss stabenow. the senator from minnesota miss klobuchar. the senator from west virginia mr. manchin and the senator from wisconsin ms. baldwin. the members of the oscar committee will exit the chamber stood the lobby doors. [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conversations] [inaudible conve

mr. clyburn talk about south carolina. 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

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

mr. clyburn: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, republicans control the house, the senate, and the white house. the responsibility to govern rests squarely on their shoulders. keep ats stand ready to government opened, but neither speaker ryan nor leader mcconnell seem interested in finding bipartisan solutions. maybe they are add heernt to president trump's admonition we need a good government shutdown. house democrats wholeheartedly disagree. we ought to work together in a bipartisan way to help our veterans to fight the opioid epidemic. to protect millions of workers' pensions. and to help the dreamers. today's c.r. is a kick of the can. once again republicans are engaging in legislative sleight of hand, shamefully using low-income children as political pawns. the children's health insurance program provides health insurance for nine million low-income children. every democratic member of this body supports it. republicans allowed it to expire more than four months ago and refused to bring it up on its own until they ca

mr. clyburn. >> but it is tax to 9-1-1, wireless location accuracy or promoting reliability and safety communications, my approach when it comes to public safety issues has been shaped by three guiding principles. people with accessibility and access challenges must benefit. we should do all we can to educate numerous about the safety benefits and collaboration among all stakeholders work better than litigation. frederick douglass, one of the most influential african-americans of the 19th century is known to have said, if there is no struggle, there is no progress. with african-american history month just days away, i find this to be a particularly fitting quote to aptly describe most of the public safety proceedings out here i've has participated in over the last eight years. typically, proceedings start setting an ambitious goal to improve the services. in many cases they push back and certain details followed by the five of us are not all the policy details. in the end, these struggles and collaboration among stakeholders have resulted in progress and improvements to emergency communications. the

mr. clyburn: if you look at all that's been said about the children's health insurance program what you are going to find is that we extended that program in the c.r. for six years with a savings of $1 billion. it's a slight of hand. because we did not fund community health centers. the d not fund disproportionate share hospitals. we did not fund adequately the teaching hospitals. so if you wanted to really be honest with the american people, we could have extended the community health -- children's health insurance program by -- permanently and saved $6 billion and would have had enough money in the savings to expand our community health centers to fund disproportionate share hospitals and to fund teaching hospitals that which we did not do and i voted no. with that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from washington seek regular -- recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. >> thank you. i am so

mr. clyburn talk about south caroli. 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

mr. jeffers. you, leader clyburn. thank you, chairman richman, for your tremendous leadership, and to all the members of the congressional black caucus. since day one of the trump presidency, all we have seen in this country is chaos, crisis, and confusion. and this most recent republican example is another instance of the failure of the republican controlled congress and their ally in the white house to govern this country effectively. and unfortunately, with respect to this agreement, there is a failure to fix our broken immigration system or even provide an adequate pathway towards doing so in the united states house of representatives. mitch mcconnell, the senate majority leader, has at least promised an up or down vote on an effort to deal with this situation impacting the dreamers. a situation, by the way, which was entirely created as a man-made disaster by donald unceremoniously, for political reasons, pandering to his right-wing base, decided to end the daca program. toneed a pathway forward address the dream

clyburn and said ok. and then it happened. that is the end of my story. [laughter] mr. babbitt: there is a lot more, a lot more. and then i met greg and take, but that is -- kate, but that is where i will leave you. >> we had asked eric to speak to this effort that build and ended up not coming to fruition, but was crucial for it happening. now we will cross our fingers that the magic of technology is on our side. [indiscernible] >> ok, you should never do that. sorry, guys. >> i cannot remember anymore. >> [indiscernible] am happy to share my contribution to the reconstruction national monument beaufort, south carolina. i received a call from the secretary of the interior, bruce babbitt. he read my book on the reconstruction. i responded that i found this washington that a politician was reading a long, -- scholarlyme tome. but he pointed out that out of all of the national monument site, none was devoted to reconstruction. i flew down, had dinner with him, and over the next couple of months, prepared a report on possible venues for such a site. obviously, reconstructi

clyburn and said ok. and then it happened. that is the end of my story. [laughter] mr. babbitt: there is a lot more, a lot more. and then i met greg and take, but that is -- kate, but that is where i will leave you. >> we had asked eric to speak to this effort that build and ended up not coming to fruition, but was crucial for it happening. now we will cross our fingers that the magic of technology is on our side. [indiscernible] >> ok, you should never do that. sorry, guys. >> i cannot remember anymore. >> [indiscernible] am happy to share my contribution to the reconstruction national monument beaufort, south carolina. i received a call from the secretary of the interior, bruce babbitt. he read my book on the reconstruction. i responded that i found this washington that a politician was reading a long, -- scholarlyme tome. but he pointed out that out of all of the national monument site, none was devoted to reconstruction. i flew down, had dinner with him, and over the next couple of months, prepared a report on possible venues for such a site. obviously, reconstructi