c.r. after c.r. after c.r. were required. i'm sorry, on behalf of my republican friends, that they didn't do their job in 2017. i'm sorry that the american people gave control of the house and the senate and the presidency to the republican party, and they didn't pass a budget, they didn't pass disaster assistance, they didn't reauthorize the children's health care insurance program, they didn't provide assistance to health centers. we're trying to be the adults here and say that it's time to do our job. it's time to get assistance to these disaster areas. it's time to pass children's health care reauthorization for the long term, get those health centers the money that they need to keep their doors open. the department of defense needs a budget, not just for four months but for a full year. we're not asking for much. we're just asking for congress to do its job. at some point somebody here has to be the grownup. somebody has to be the adult. and so we're saying let's keep the government open for a day, three days, as long as

c.r. after c.r. after c.r. were required. i'm sorry, on behalf of my republican friends, that they didn't do their job in 2017. i'm sorry that the american people gave control of the house and the senate and the presidency to the republican party, and they didn't pass a budget, they didn't pass disaster assistance, they didn't reauthorize the children's health care insurance program, they didn't provide assistance to health centers. we're trying to be the adults here and say that it's time to do our job. it's time to get assistance to these disaster areas. it's time to pass children's health care reauthorization for the long term, get those health centers the money that they need to keep their doors open. the department of defense needs a budget, not just for four months but for a full year. we're not asking for much. we're just asking for congress to do its job. at some point somebody here has to be the grownup. somebody has to be the adult. and so we're saying let's keep the government open for a day, three days, as long as

c.r. after c.r. after c.r. so honoring our oath to keep the american people safe and recognizing that in the domestic budget there are security initiatives that relate to homeland security, veterans, state department, anti-terrorism activities, and the justice department. we really need to have parody in our discussion on the budget. and the additional money that we want on the domestic side is what we're here to discuss this morning. so that people know what this discussion is about. we're not resenting -- we're supporting the defense initiatives, if that's what the department of defense think, we need to keep america safe. but at the same time, there's security functions on the domestic side and we want additional money to address some of the challenges that our country faces. and one of those that is really, very, very important, in every district in america, there is strong bipartisan support, every one of us on a path to an agreement, which we could make in an hour, we want the president to come to the tab

c.r. after c.r. after c.r. for the democrats, i think it is about daca, but it's also about disaster relief, also about c.h.i.p., also about military, also about funding the government. the republicans haven't been able to get that done on a permanent level, on a two-year budget deal. >> matt, i think people are waking up saying, look, both parties knew this was coming. they knew what the deadline was. why is it they cannot come to n some agreement when you talk about government employees -- some people living paycheck to paycheck, why when you know this is on the horizon you can't come to an agreement? >> it's striking and ridiculous, frankly. everyone knew the issues, where the sticking points were for weeks leading up to this. the republicans knee that daca was a big -- knew that daca was a big deal for democrats, and they knew they had to win over democrats on this. it wasn't a secret they could not do this alone. democrats, this is their one point of leverage in a minority is -- is to use the budget, frank

c.r. after c.r., these families, these schools and these companies will not succeed. this isn't about political headlines. this isn't about numbers on a page. this is about real-world impact for businesses, for families and for schools. so let's get the job done. let's write a budget. let's at least agree to the overall budget numbers. let's fund the children's health care insurance program. let's get puerto rico and florida and texas everything that they need. news flash, that's our job. i yield the floor. ms. murkowski: mr. president. the presiding officer: the senator from alaska. ms. murkowski: i ask unanimous consent the senate be in a period of morning business with senators permitted to speak therein for up to ten minutes each. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. murkowski: i ask unanimous consent that the appointment at the desk appear separately in the record as if made by the chair. the presiding officer: without objection. ms. murkowski: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent the senate proceed to the consideration of s. res. 372 submitted earlier

c.r. after c.r. c.r. stands for continuing resolution. think about it. we have a government that starts its fiscal year every year on october 1. i spent 28 years in the private sector, 13 of those years with procter & gamble, a fortune 25 company. i spent time in a small family business. i spent time as part of a cloud computing start-up that we grew over 1,000 jobs, took the company public. so i've had a lot of experience in budgets, managing spending, ensuring that you actually take in more money than you spend because that's called profit in a business. but here in washington, d.c., we are now october, november, december, in the middle of january, we're three and a half months into the fiscal year without having nailed down the spending plan. it's broken. that needs to be reformed. and on a more optimistic note, there's a group of republican and democrat senators who are having discussions about how to change the way the budgeting spending works here in washington, d.c. to have a better outcome for the american people. but here we are at this moment,

funded after c.r., after c.r., what should democrats do? filibuster it?democrats should use their power even though this say one-half party rule, we control nothing. they can try to blame everything on us, but they control everything. they need to be swept out but that's another story. while they control everything, whatever happens is their fault. so democrats should ask unanimous consent to bring up that compromise, that i think it is a terrific compromise on daca that my former colleagues have come up and just force that vote, force it. go through the night. >> right. >> and while they are at it, they ought to look at the c.h.i.p. program. we have millions of children, babies waiting to get their insurance. we've got business to do. forget working with trump. you don't know which man you're going to meet which day or which hour. will it be the one that curses at you or the one that talks about love? you just don't know. >> one of the things i just mentioned in what i missed, which is a story that wasn't the top ten i missed, that the president's lawyer

c.r. after c.r., we must pass a bipartisan budget agreement prork tect dreamers which will enable the appropriations committee to responsibly write full-year funding bills. i urge a no vote and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back the balance of her time. the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. the gentleman has five minutes remaining. mr. frelinghuysen: i yield the balance of my time to the chairman of the energy and commerce committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for the balance of the time. >> thank you to my colleague for your hard work and cooperation on this legislation. the choice before us today is very, very simple. it's a choice the american people are watching. the chase is, do you fund the government while you work out the other differences, or do you close the government? it's a binary choice. it's not about all the other things i'd like in this bill or you'd like in the bill. the choice before us today is to keep the government open or close the government. mr. walden: whether you're a republican or democra

c.r. after c.r., we must pass a bipartisan budget agreement prork tect dreamers which will enable the appropriations committee to responsibly write full-year funding bills. i urge a no vote and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back the balance of her time. the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. the gentleman has five minutes remaining. mr. frelinghuysen: i yield the balance of my time to the chairman of the energy and commerce committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for the balance of the time. >> thank you to my colleague for your hard work and cooperation on this legislation. the choice before us today is very, very simple. it's a choice the american people are watching. the chase is, do you fund the government while you work out the other differences, or do you close the government? it's a binary choice. it's not about all the other things i'd like in this bill or you'd like in the bill. the choice before us today is to keep the government open or close the government. mr. walden: whether you're a republican or democra

c.r. after c.r., we must pass a bipartisan budget agreement prork tect dreamers which will enable the appropriations committee to responsibly write full-year funding bills. i urge a no vote and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back the balance of her time. the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. the gentleman has five minutes remaining. mr. frelinghuysen: i yield the balance of my time to the chairman of the energy and commerce committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for the balance of the time. >> thank you to my colleague for your hard work and cooperation on this legislation. the choice before us today is very, very simple. it's a choice the american people are watching. the chase is, do you fund the government while you work out the other differences, or do you close the government? it's a binary choice. it's not about all the other things i'd like in this bill or you'd like in the bill. the choice before us today is to keep the government open or close the government. mr. walden: whether you're a republican or democrat, if you vote new york you're voting not to keep the government open. it's that simple. the other choice before us today is, you want to fund children's health insurance for the millions and millions of children and pregnant women across america. because that funding, while we have had emergency extensions, literally is about to run out in a matter of days. run out. choice tonight for this body and every member here regardless of party is, do you want to fund children's health insurance, for children and for pregnavent women? 122,700 oregonians are on this program. millions across america and our districts. they don't like the fact that we're having this fight. but they know the fact is, it's a yes or no vote. that's why the children's hospitals have said please, take this deal, fund children's health insurance, take us out of your fight. because what we're voting on tonight is a six-year, fully funded children's health insurance program. a yes vote says you're for it. a no vote says, i'll take a pass. somebody else can carry this program. i'm not going to do it. well, i'm doing it. because i support the children's health insurance program just as i support the community health centers, just as i support the teaching hospitals, just as i support the other extenders. by the way, your energy and commerce committee, through regular order, provided a path forward for all of those essential health services. and yes, we took the heavy lift to fund them. now you heard a couple of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle talk about, oh, they took money out of this fund or that fund. the prevention fund is funded every year by law. it is up to the appropriators to decide how those funds are spent. using some of the prevention fund to fund children's health insurance and community health centers and the other programs seems like a pretty good investment for an otherwise unallocated patch of money. so we used a bit of that. an then you heard them, the scare tactic the democrats always use is medicare. let me tell you what this specific pay-for is. it is one that former president barack obama wanted to use even further than what we did. what we said is if you're making $500,000 a year, we're going to sk you to pay $137, roughly, more in your medicare part b and d. that's your share, the government will still subsidize 75% of that it's still a good deal. we figure somebody making half a million dollars a year could afford a little more so we can pay for children's health insurance for those who need it and community health centers for the poor. that's the pay-for you heard about. when we brought the fully funded bill for children's health insurance for two years and save our dish hospital the ones that take care of the poorest among us, 15 democrats voted with us. i think two or three republicans voted no, we sent that bill to the senate. we did our job in this house. in a bipartisan way. now we need to do that job again. because the senate has an act, couldn't get enough democrats there to support the proposal in the senate. so we're back here. but the choice is a clear one. shut down the government, don't fund chip, keep the government open, fund chip. that's the choice before us tonight. the choice that we need to make. now, we've heard all kinds of rhetoric on this floor and out in the public about, you know, this is somehow a cherry on top of dog doodoo, sorry to use those words but they're the ones the gentlelady from san francisco used in the press, i find it offensive, it's unnecessary, doesn't help bring us together. when you vote no, you vote to shut the government down and you vote against children's health insurance. this bill fully funds children's health insurance for six years and there's no argument about the pay-fors now because there aren't any here. if your argument for voting no was the pay-far -- pay-fors >> that's some of the house debate from yesterday, the house passing the c.r., the continuing resolution, to fund the federal government past midnight tonight. the vote yesterday in the house 230-197. now all the action in the capitol has moved other to the senate. a couple of senators coming to the floor to speak, expecting a possible vote on cloture, which would end the debate, close the dedebate in the senate. we have not seen that yet tonight. we did hear earlier from one of the leaders that said they'd be trying to bring the cloture vote to the floor this afternoon that has not yet happened, 6:37 p.m. ian time. we're going to take your phone you think. us what democrat, 202-748-88920. republican, 202-748-8921, and all other, 202-748-892 2. join us here on c-span. ou can finish watching the senate on c-span 2. we have a countdown clock here, the government shutdown starts less than six hours from now. another clock showing inside the capitol, washington's hottest club is the ohio clock corridor. we see a lot of speakers who come to the ohio clock when they

c.r. after c.r., we must pass a bipartisan budget agreement prork tect dreamers which will enable the appropriations committee to responsibly write full-year funding bills. i urge a no vote and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back the balance of her time. the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. the gentleman has five minutes remaining. mr. frelinghuysen: i yield the balance of my time to the chairman of the energy and commerce committee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for the balance of the time. >> thank you to my colleague for your hard work and cooperation on this legislation. the choice before us today is very, very simple. it's a choice the american people are watching. the chase is, do you fund the government while you work out the other differences, or do you close the government? it's a binary choice. it's not about all the other things i'd like in this bill or

after continuing resolution for almost six months. first we passed a three-month c.r. then we passed a two-week c.r. then a one-month c.r. now we're offering another month-long delay of the inevitable. we can't keep kicking the can down the road and shuffling our feet after it. in another month, we'll be right back here at this moment with the same web of problems at our feet and no better position to solve them. the government of the most powerful nation in the world should simply not be run this way. these successive short-term funding bills hurt our military, as i have mentioned. just ask secretary mattis if this is what he would prefer we do. another continuing resolution or an honest to goodness budget that allows our defense department to plan ahead and meet their obligations. we all know he would prefer the latter. that's why some of my republican colleagues have already said they join with democrats to reject this bill. they know, like i know, this is no way to do our business. it's not a partisan issue. we should be united in trying to come to a solution, not just kick the can down the road, and the truth is we d

after continuing resolution is the damage it does to our military. as the pentagon spokesman said last night, another c.r. would be wasteful and destructive to our military. the navy secretary said that because of c.r.'s, the navy has put $4 billion in the trash can, poured lighter fluid on it, and burnt it. that's the navy secretary because of what you have done. this is no way to conduct the nation's business. republicans know it, democrats know it, the american people know that this party is not capable of governing. so where do we go from here? i believe many of my republican colleagues sincerely want to get a deal. i know their hearts are in the right place. i know they lament the fact that we now accept brinkmanship where bipartisanship used to be. in the past, there was always discussions on these issues. everyone knew in the senate you needed both parties to work together. none of that happened here today. now, all this problem is because republican leadership can't get to yes because president trump refuses to. mr. president, president trump, if you are listening, i am urging you, please take yes for an answer. the way things went today, the way you turned from a bipartisan deal, it's almo

c.r. it's called. c.r. under republican control and house presidency really means can't resolve. so we all understand all the issues afterr and a half months. we know we have to do on opioids on daca and child health. >> they are funding the government and funding child health care for six years. which is important to you, i would assume. right. you are not getting everything but you don't have deadline to do immigration but over the next few months. so why not take the bird in hand? >> because then next month we come back again. this is the budget for the united states of america. we are in the fifth month of 12 months. they refused to sit down. we can figure out child health. and we can figure out helping the people in puerto rico. and we can figure out community health systems and figure out daca. we all understand the issues completely. but we can't do this month after month. you can't run a business that way. you can't run a family that way. you can't run the government that way. we all understand the issues. the president, the house, and the senate are under republican control. here's the problem, erin. republican

c.r., the same as democrats. most serious consequences of having a continuing resolution after continuing resolution most seris is theences of damage it does to our military. as a pentagon spokesman said last night, another c.r. would be wasteful and destructive to our military. the navy secretary said because of is the damage it c.r.'s, the navy has 0 billion in the trashcan, poure lighter fluidd on it, and burnt it. that is the navy secretary on what you have done. this is no way to conduct the nation's business. republicans know it. democrats know it. the american people know this party is not capable of governing. so where do we go from here? i believe my republican colleagues want to get a deal. i know they lament the fact that we now accept brinksmanship where bipartisanship used to be. in the past there were always discussions on these issues. in thee knew that senate, you needed both parties to work together. none of that happened here today. problems arehese because republican leadership cannot work together because president trump refuses to. , if you areump you,ning, i am urging please take yes for an answer. the way things that went -- no way that things went today, the way you turn from a bite artisan deal, it was almost as if you were rooting for a shot down. -- a shutdown. the blame should crash ent

after the c.r. that was just passed and working together we can get this done. mr. hoyer: mr. speaker, i'm hopeful that we can agree on the underlying issue which led to the necessity for a c.r. and the temporary closing of government. and that is the underlying agreement on what budget numbers will be, what our caps will be, how much discretionary funds we will have to spend on defense and nondefense. that is at the core. when you fail to do that, you fail to pass appropriation bills and you therefore have to go to c.r.'s which everybody on this floor agrees is bad fiscal policy and should not be the way we do business. secondly, i appreciate the majority leader's leadership and engagement on the issue of solving the problem or the challenge and the opportunity, i should say, not so much a problem, but the opportunity of dreamers. it is what the president asked us to do and hopefully we can, in fact, working in good faith with one another get that done. anything further? yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will entertain requests for one-minute speeches. for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? >> permission to address the house for on

after continuing resolution is the damage it does to our military. as a pentagon spokesman said last night, another c.r. would be wasteful and destructive to our military. the navy secretary said that because of c.r.'s, the navy has ,ut $4 billion in the trashcan poured lighter floodwater and -- fluid on it, and burned it. that is the navy secretary. this is no way to conduct the nation's business. republicans know it. democrats know it. the american people know that this party is not capable of governing. host: taking your phone calls this morning on "washington journal." don is in alexandria, virginia, on the line for independents. go ahead. caller: first, i want to say thanks for c-span. second, i do have sympathy for the situation related to the people involved in daca. the third, i think democrats and republicans should unite against donald trump in an effort to have him bring our troops out of syria. the reason i say that is in a committee hearing we just had ins past week, senator kaine discussion with the state department representative identified we have no legal authority to have any troops in syria or to fly our planes over syria in defense of the kurds or whatever troops we are defend

after continuing resolution for almost six months. first we passed a three-month c.r. then we passed a two-week c.r. then a one-month c.r. now we're offering another month-long delay of the inevitable. we can't keep kicking the can down the road and shuffling our feet after it. in another month, we'll be right back here at this moment with the same web of problems at our feet and no better position to solve them. the government of the most powerful nation in the world should simply not be run this way. these successive short-term funding bills hurt our military, as i have mentioned. just ask secretary mattis if this is what he would prefer we do. another continuing resolution or an honest to goodness budget that allows our defense department to plan ahead and meet their obligations. we all know he would prefer the latter. that's why some of my republican colleagues have already said they join with democrats to reject this bill. they know, like i know, this is no way to do our business. it's not a partisan issue. we should be united in trying to come to a solution, not just kick the can down the road, and the truth is we d

after continuing resolution is the damage it does to our military. as the pentagon spokesman said last night, another c.r. would be wasteful and destructive to our military. the navy secretary said that because of c.r.'s, the navy has put $4 billion in the trash can, poured lighter fluid on it, and burnt it. that's the navy secretary because of what you have done. this is no way to conduct the nation's business. republicans know it, democrats know it, the american people know that this party is not capable of governing. so where do we go from here? i believe many of my republican colleagues sincerely want to get a deal. i know their hearts are in the right place. i know they lament the fact that we now accept brinkmanship where bipartisanship used to be. in the past, there was always discussions on these issues. everyone knew in the senate you needed both parties to work together. none of that happened here today. now, all this problem is because republican leadership can't get to yes because president trump refuses to. mr. president, president trump, if you are listening, i am urging you, please take yes for an answer. the way things went today, the way you turned from a bipartisan deal, it's almo