they cut taxes for insurance companies while failing to fund community health centers. . is shameful they won't work with democrats to ensure defense and nondefense funding. they put services critical to our families and communities at risk. from apprenticeship to education for students with disabilities, childcare, after-school programs that help working families make ends meet and financial aid for students attending college. they include a long -- an extension for the children's health insurance program, but they cut out the medicare extenders and other health care programs. but the fear -- they should be ashamed of the months of fear and turmoil they have caused to children and their families who will be unable to get help at community health care centers. they did try -- they had time to cram a tax scam through congress before the end of the year. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. ms. delauro: dragged their feet for months. shameful. let me say the republican majority try to cast a blame for the shutdown on the democrats. let me remind this

not act in, 70% of community health center funding will be cut in 2800 health centers will close their doors. community health centers must be funded at the levels contained in the bipartisan legislation introduced earlier this year, senator bluntlate and senator fabinho for their work on this issue. there are many republicans who are responsible for cosponsoring that legislation. we would pass it tomorrow if it was on the floor of the senate. let us do that. the offset to the prevention program for the afford will care act that were included in the december 21 agreement are on acceptable and they must not be repeated. -- are unacceptable and they must not be repeated. this bill represent a modest 5% at a cost ofunding just $2 billion over five years, the very least we can do to address the major crisis of primary health care in america, especially rural america. madam president, as you know, federal funding for the children's health insurance program expires on september 30, 2017. if the program is not reauthorized, 9 million children and working families will lose their health insura

health care, dental care, mental health counseling and low-cost prescription drugs through the community health center program. in my state of vermont, one out of four vermonters get their primary health care through community health centers. three and a half months have gone since the beginning of this fiscal year, and the republicans have not yet reauthorized funding for the community health center program which is now facing a severe crisis in terms of recruiting and retaining the doctors, nurses, and other medical staff they need to maintain the quality of service they must maintain. what doctor, what nurse is going to come to a community health center when he or she doesn't even know if that facility is going to receive funding. 27 million americans depend upon community health centers. i'm glad that as i understand it the republicans now are prepared to reauthorize the chip program. nine million kids need that program. three and a half months come and gone. finally they're talking about reauthorizing chip. that's good. but you cannot forget community health centers. mr. president, the com

and this house bill does nothing for those community health centers and those people who live in rural and urban areas who depend upon those health centers. but i guess we should just wait, wait another month, wait another six months, wait another year for community health centers to be funded. and the majority allowed funding for those to expire, just like they allowed funding for children's health insurance to expire. here's another letter talking about health centers. this individual says if congress kicks this can down the road one more time, it will be a signal to health centers that we need to implement measures that will result in site closures, layoffs and reduced services. i guess it's not urgent. i guess it's not urgent, community health centers. how about, how about this program that is also not addressed in the house legislation. the maternal, infant and early childhood home visiting program. this is an evidence-based home visiting program that supports at-risk pregnant women and young families. a great program that's been in place for the last couple of years. in fiscal ye

and moving on to the community health center component. there's two projects that the team is primarily focused on currently. cash emission health center at 17th and pawn and maxime hall at pierce and ellis in the western edition neighborhood. both are targeted to start construction december of 2018 in a couple of months. as i mentioned earlier, one of the huge impacts or risks on this component is the fact that we have added seismic scope to both health centers. both projects have been deemed to be a seismic hazard rating of three plus to four. four is a building that is subject to partial or total collapse in the event of a major earthquake. we did similar assessment on chinatown public and the results came back very similar with seismic hazard rating of four as well. so what that means is chinatown public will most likely be deferred to a future bond project so the team can focus on delivering a complete project for cash emission on maxime hall. moving on to the facility, i do want to point out this slide does include a revised component

they cut taxes for insurance companies while failing to fund community health centers. . is shameful they won't work with democrats to ensure defense and nondefense funding. they put services critical to our families and communities at risk. from apprenticeship to education for students with disabilities, childcare, after-school programs that help working families make ends meet and financial aid for students attending college. they include a long -- an extension for the children's health insurance program, but they cut out the medicare extenders and other health care programs. but the fear -- they should be ashamed of the months of fear and turmoil they have caused to children and their families who will be unable to get help at community health care centers. they did try -- they had time to cram a tax scam through congress before the end of the year. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. ms. delauro: dragged their feet for months. shameful. let me say the republican majority try to cast a blame for the shutdown on the democrats. let me remind this

i just spoke to the leadership of community health centers in vermont the other day. they have had a long-standing problem, as have community centers all across this country in retention, in attracting new doctors and nurses into their programs. what we are seeing now is a situation where many people might want to work in a community health center, but say why would i want to go there when the republicans are delaying funding for this vitally important program? 70% ofo not act soon, community health center funding will be cut, and 2800 centers will close their doors. must bey health centers funded at the levels contained in the bipartisan legislation introduced earlier this year, and i congratulate senators blunt and stabenow for their work on this issue. there are other republicans who are cosponsoring it. we could pass it tomorrow if it was on the floor of the senate. let us do that. to the prevention program of the affordable care act that were included in the december 21 agreement are unacceptable, and they must not be repeated. stabenow bill has nine cosponsors. i

we want to re-authorize the chip program and community health centers and other health programs. we agree on that. the american public has got to be so distressed that they see this going on on this floor of the house. we want to provide disaster elief to those in texas, florida and puerto rico and virgin islands. ms. slaughter: i'm going to give you one have minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. hoyer: i thank my friend. i urge my republican colleagues who are in the majority and control the legislative process, end this shutdown. use the authority you are asking for under this rule to bring to the floor the items on which we agree. mr. speaker, you have said, you would do that, take the tough issues ahead one at a time. i admire my statement. i will tell my statement, i will admire more the performance. speaker ryan he said we will not kick the can down the road, we will lead, we will not blame others. mr. speaker, i ask you to do just that. stop ignoring responsibility as the majority party to keep the government open and serve the american people.

they cut taxes for insurance companies while failing to fund community health centers. . is shameful they won't work with democrats to ensure defense and nondefense funding. they put services critical to our families and communities at risk. from apprenticeship to education for students with disabilities, childcare, after-school programs that help working families make ends meet and financial aid for students attending college. they include a long -- an extension for the children's health insurance program, but they cut out the medicare extenders and other health care programs. but the fear -- they should be ashamed of the months of fear and turmoil they have caused to children and their families who will be unable to get help at community health care centers. they did try -- they had time to cram a tax scam through congress before the end of the year. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. ms. delauro: dragged their feet for months. shameful. let me say the republican majority try to cast a blame for the shutdown on the democrats. let me remind this

you have not done anything about community health centers. 40% to 50% have to use community health centers because people won't take chip. you haven't done anything about the hospitals that many of them have to go to. that is not addressed in this legislation. so the only reason you have brought this bill and put it on the cr is because you sabotaged health insurance for millions of americans. so don't stand up here and tell me that somehow the republican party cares about the kids. they don't, you also know that this was not going to pass. you know that it wasn't going to pass. you are not trying to act in a bipartisan way. you know that this is going nowhere. you are responsible for the shutdown. >> gentleman, your time has expired. >> it is part of the responsibility that you have created today. so don't go on and on about how the republican party cares about the kids. the republican party does not. [booing] >> the gentleman is no longer recognized. all members are reminded to direct the remarks to the chair. gilman from texas. >> i would like to yield three minutes to the distinguished

we've known about the need to fund community health centers. e've known about the need to make sure our veterans have the health care they deserve. and we've known about the need to address the daca issue, the dreamers, because it's last september when president trump revoked the daca program effective a very short time from now. that program had made sure that dreamers could be here legally in the united states and contributing to our country. so when president trump took that action, he manufactured the crisis we are in now. but he also said okay, i'm going to revoke this legal status, this program, but i want congress on a bipartisan basis to come up with a long-term solution. that's what he said back then. he said the same thing just a few weeks ago. i think the nation saw him on tv. he invited a bipartisan group of senators, members of the house, to the white house. he invited everybody to come up with a solution. and a number of our senators on a bipartisan basis took the president up on his request. it's where senator graham and senator d

most of them go to community health centers for the care. so what does it do to authorize chip and fund it if you don't have a hospital or community health center for them to receive treatment? we've got to look at this holistcally. , for my republican friends if we were to re-authorize chip permanently, it will save the government $6 billion. but they refuse to do it. why wouldn't they save $6 billion. it's a simple thing. take care of the children and save the government $6 billion and they're refusing to do that. that is the kind of thing i want the american people to take a close look at. don't pay attention to these tweets. ed the headlines can be misleading. what we need to do is look at what these people are doing to our government. and we are going to stay here on behalf of the american people and invite them to stay with us. with that, i yield to my friend joe crowley. mr. crowley: never before have i seen such a rush to create websites and hashtags to deflect blame from the ruling party because of their inability to govern. it was

the impact of the seismic scope is only within the community health center component, the 20 million set aside on castro, maxime hall and discussion about delivering chinatown public health as part of the component. because of the additional seismic scope we identified for the first two health centers, chinatown will end up being deferred to a future bond but we are going to proceed using the current bond program to do a further assessment of the project. we understand the project scope and a better budget going forward. >> the bond did not peg these three properties within the language of the bond as the scope. >> not that i'm aware of. >> okay. thank you. >> i'd like to follow up a comment. if you go to page 2 where you have the allocations of the total bond proceeds among these various projects, i see that there's here referenced to a second bond sale. my question is as ms. hughes has eluded, if we run out of money on a pot, can you raid another pot but this statistic seems to say no. if you run out of money because of unexpected seismic work, you would go to a second issuance in o

half months in the fiscal year has come and gone and we have not reauthorized the community health center program which provides primary health care, dental care, mental health counseling, low-cost prescription drugs to 27 million americans in every state in this country. mr. president, if legislation were brought to the floor of the senate today the stepanov bill reauthorizing the community health that i suspect it would get 75 votes and yet republicans after three and a half months have not been able to reauthorize the program or the community health center program. president, when we talk about the budget process we are talking about three major issu issues. there are more for their three major issues. number one, will we continue to have parity and spending between defense spending and nondefense spendingdi. since 2011 in four different budgets there has been a bipartisan agreement that for every dollar you spend on defense is a dollar you will spend on the needs of a struggling middle-class, millionsns of people who are struggling every day to keep their heads above water economicall

days,e last 365 republicans have neglected children's health insurance, community health centers, veterans, our military, those facing a pension crisis, and hard-working americans who struggle to get by day by day. ago, they let the children's health program expire. four months ago, they eliminated protections for dreamers. they had ignored the opioid academic and the workers -- opioid epidemic in the workers' pension crisis. to takes will not allow children and veterans of political hostage. so, democrats are ready. we have been waiting a long time to work with republicans to finish the work that the american people have sent us here to do. now, it is up to the republicans to open the door and let us in. they have proven time and time again that they cannot do it alone. they have proven that they are incapable of the most basic functions of government, such as keeping the lights on. if public and can't even manage to keep the lights on, how can we trust them to meet the many challenges that our country faces? americans deserve better, and american should demand better. with that, i will i

without an extension of funding for community health centers, the future of 142 snrts in my state will be in -- centers in my state will be in jeopardy and that's where new jersey kids get sick. you can't stand up for children's health when you are refusing to fund community health centers. we have been conducting negotiations on chip, community health centers but republicans tossed that all aside in favor yet again of partisanship. republicans decided the medicare providers, the safety net hospitals and community centers didn't matter. so it's time for the partisanship to end. let's get back to the negotiating table and work to pass a bill that includes the extenders, chip, community health centers and all these other health care programs. there's no reason we shouldn't be conducting those negotiations today. and mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to bring up h.r. 4872, the end of the shutdown act of 2018, a continuing resolution that would immediately reopen the government while negotiations continue on a budget agreement that adheres to parity and on other critical issues. the spe

we want to re-authorize the chip program and community health centers and other health programs. we agree on that. the american public has got to be so distressed that they see this going on on this floor of the house. we want to provide disaster elief to those in texas, florida and puerto rico and virgin islands. ms. slaughter: i'm going to give you one have minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. hoyer: i thank my friend. i urge my republican colleagues who are in the majority and control the legislative process, end this shutdown. use the authority you are asking for under this rule to bring to the floor the items on which we agree. mr. speaker, you have said, you would do that, take the tough issues ahead one at a time. i admire my statement. i will tell my statement, i will admire more the performance. speaker ryan he said we will not kick the can down the road, we will lead, we will not blame others. mr. speaker, i ask you to do just that. stop ignoring responsibility as the majority party to keep the government open and serve the american people.

community health centers. we know that after that expired, community health centers expire just like the children's health insurance program, and the republicans have the majority. they could have made sure that those health centers continue but they didn't. so after expiring, we know that these health centers face a funding reduction of 60% to 70%. we also know that at least in my state, of the 180,000 children covered on chip, something on the order of 9,000 children enrolled in the chip program go to community health centers. so having chip in place is essential, but having community health centers in place alongside it is also essential. what do those 9,000 kids in pennsylvania do if they have chip coverage but can't go to the community health center down the street because it's closed, because it wasn't addressed by house republicans or senate republicans? so while we're at it this weekend, why don't we get community health centers done. and in my state, 4,915 people work there ful, full time jobs, 4,915

two weeks ago i visited one of those community health centers in green bay, wisconsin. the health care workers and staff describe the anxiety and uncertainty they feel every day because they don't know whether they will have the funding they need to minister to the health care needs of those that they serve. many community health centers can't move forward with longer-term contracts for services or repairs or invest in new medical equipment because they don't know if or when washington will act. they found out on friday night a continuing resolution offered just like the three before it failed to address funding for community health centers once again. but it did give tax breaks to big insurance companies. we cannot leave our community health centers without the funding they need to serve the people that we all work for. we should take action now to fully fund them because they can't wait any longer. i know that every one of my colleagues here in the senate has come face-to-face with the opioid epidemic. i know i have. i traveled my state and met with health care workers

their families rely on community health centers for their health care, especially in rural communities. passing this tax scam, it will cost over true joy -- over $2 trillion, they are too expensive.s we know a permanent reauthorization of ship would save our government $6 billion over the next 10 years. it would is time -- it is time for republicans to negotiate in good faith and come to the table and talk about all these initiatives and policies we are talking about today so we can fix this crisis and get the government back to work. my late mother reminded me that where there is a will, there is a way. we can do this. let me welcome the congresswoman from the great state of michigan, denny ingle -- debbie dingell. we are here urging the republicans to join us and reopening the government and addressing the critical issues that face the american people today. each of the issues we are talking about matters to the american people. one of the most pressing is the pension crisis facing working men and women in michigan and across the country. trump came to our state, into west virginia a

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. 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 chip 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 chip, it would save the government $6 billion, but they refused 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. 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 th

health centers. i am also a union person, so i communicate with people in all of those centers. ere are some good things going on now in public health and some things that people see not so good going on. there are some political are bringings that things that are not so great, like this thing like the lean, like all public health being run as if it is toyota. all of these things are impacting everything. i do think that -- and we are worried now that translates as, what -- now that trump is in, what is going to happen to health? decisions are being made that are having a negative impact on people working in public health based on the fact of what might not happen in the federal government. host: thanks for calling. guest: thank you, brenda and thank you for your service and public health. it is a difficult time to be in public health service at the city level because of the uncertainty about funding for and in california, where do work, this year has been a trying time because we have seen the importance of public health in responding to some of the emergency in your states, suc

for permanent extension of the children's health insurance program, a five-year extension of community health center programs, and extensions of other expired medicaid, medicare, and health extenders which is at the desk be considered and agreed to, the bill as amended be considered, read a third time, and passed, and the motions to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. the presiding officer: is there objection? mr. mcconnell: mr. president, reserving the right to object. the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. mcconnell: thanks to the democratic leader's decision, along with my good friend from michigan, to filibuster an extension of the state children's health insurance program, low-income families are going to slip closer to losing health coverage for their kids. in many states, it's already an emergency. there was a carefully crafted compromise that she and every democrat on the committee supported. the senate has not reviewed this new proposal currently being offered today, but members are serious about funding chip. there's a

this bill does not take care of community health centers. it does not take care of the home business program. it does not deal with key health services, rural health expenditures. but what it does do is it delays the health insurance tax. you get a sense that people who got a big chunk of tax relief at the end of last year, they are going to get even more in the house though. really a miss opportunity -- missed opportunity. cost --we could get a better deal and save even more, but i'm very hopeful we will have a chance to negotiate some improvements and ensure that america's most vulnerable count as much as some of the powerful. sen. schumer: we can only take a few questions because i am due at 2:45. >> [indiscernible] sen. schumer: let me just say a few things. number one, we just had our caucus. we don't know whether the house will send us this bill, but the revolting was broad and strong. number two, we democrats believe that we want to do everything we can to avoid shutdown, but we democrats believe that if there is one, it will fall on

like pension crises, veterans' health care and community health centers. what has the majority prioritized instead of crafting a long-term spending bill? ideological crusades like undermining financial reform laws and attacking women's health. we had a wonderful date of born alive and we passed the bill unanimously and it was done by voice vote in 2002 that any infant born in an abortion setting would be given every care in the world. and inact, we didn't even bill. it's a given. at the same time we are debating on the floor today, that is to do ever medical thing possible, the administration announced that if a provider, a nurse, a doctor or anybody in a medical setting and don't have to give any reason for this, but if they personally or for some other moral reason decides not to to treat a patient before them, they don't have to. think about that a minute. well, you know what i'm trying to say here. it's more than ironic. it's stupid. but we sort of get used to that. separate bill on the floor weaken .r. 2954 would consumer financial protection bureau, a

insurance program and for community health centers and for other health issues that we're facing. i have rural hospitals in new hampshire, that if they don't get the payments, the disproportionate share payments, that they could be in real financial trouble. so we need to address these challenges that are facing states across the country, and we also need a solution that will give dreamers a path to citizenship, a path that they deserve so that they can live and work without fear of deportation. now, a bipartisan deal that will provide long-term budget certainty is absolutely critical for our national security. it can't be overstated how much damage continued short-term funding causes our military. we have been repeatedly warned by the pentagon of the damaging impacts of budget uncertainty. we heard from secretary mattis in just the last couple of weeks he came in to both the democrat and republican caucuses and said please don't give us another continuing resolution. army chief of staff general mark millie has cautioned that

our military, we should also be concerned about our veterans and 7.5 million children in our community health centers. let me say again, americans health centers move 7.5 million. let's move them off the table not to be used as political leverage to do something that the united states military, department of defense has criticized what we're doing right now, what the proposal is, four weeks. so, mr. president, i ask unanimous consent of the senate perceive to be immediate consideration of calendar number 36, hr-1301, that the senator-- excuse me that the stabenow, casey, brown amendment as providing for the permanent extension of the children's health insurance program, a five-year extension of the community health centers program, extensions of other expired medicaid, medicare standards be agreed to. the bill as amended be considered, read a third time and passed and the motion to reconsider be considered made and laid upon the table with no intervening action or debate. >> is there objection? >> mr. president. >> senator from north carolina. >> reserve the right to object. i agree with the

we all know about chip and community health centers and health care extenders. and take care of both the border and the dreamers. we can do it all. we should do it all. it's no secret that in each of these areas right now, there are sticking points, but there are potential points of agreement. all five parties continue to have discussion groups on these four circles of areas, and to do them concurrently and come up with solutions quickly so we can meet that january 19 deadline, because nobody wants sequestration to go into effect for the military or the nonmilitary side of the budget. our goal should be a global agreement on all these issues by january 19. that is the best way to resolve the issues we face. i see my dear friend from georgia waiting. i yield the floor to him. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the leadership time is reserved. under the previous order, the senate will proceed to executive session to resume consideration of the following nomination which the clerk will report. the clerk: nomination, the judiciary, walter david counts,

of the community health centers, these folks are sweating bullets. they're afraid they're going to have to close their facilities down. they provide primary health care to 100,000 folks. that might not sound like much, like many people, but in montana be, a state of just over 1 million folks, it is a big deal. these are essential facilities to our communities across montana. they provide basic help and they keep families alive. the folks that run these community health centers have told meifies face, if we don't get the funding, we're going to have to close the doors. it's about 111 days and we should have had a budget to fund the community health centers and we're still standing here today saying, guess what? we come back here in february, things going to be just fine, just like they said in december. i got news for you. nothing is going to change between you mond a february. so let's get a long term budget deal today that addresses some of these issues. this bill also fails to make our borders secure. as i said earlier, the chairman of the body rig

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 u

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speaker, it requires re-authorizing community health centers and other critical health programs, essential to complement the passage of the chip re-authorization, which is included in this c.r. we also, my colleagues, have a responsibility to help those impacted by the devastating hurricanes in texas, florida, puerto rico, and the u.s. virgin islands. those affected by the wilderness fires in california. and communities struggling to combat opioid abuse. congress must not waste the next 17 days as it has the last 114. i will be voting no, mr. speaker, on this continuing resolution, not because i don't want to see it pass, but because it does not guarantee that the congress will address the issues that have been referenced. i pray that neither i nor the congress will be in this same position come february 8. i hope we will address in a positive manner the issues before us -- and i am now pleased, mr. speaker, to yield one minute to the minority leader. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from california is recognized. ms. pelosi: thank you, mr. speaker. i thank the gentleman for yieldi

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but democrats in particular have their eye on community health centers, the opioid epidemic, disaster relief, and a number of other priorities that the republicans simply choose to ignore. with that, i turn it back over to joe and open it up for questions. reporter: on daca, what are -- how united is the caucus on not voting for any c.r. if there's no progress on daca? mr. crowley: democrats are united on the issue of dreamers and daca. we have been, continue to be and always will be. we believe it's a paramount issue for our country. the polls is end -- the polls have indicated that overwhelmingly, the american people want to see solutions to this, they want to see relief for these people. they are americans on everything but pain they love this country and are dedicated to the advancement of this country and e as a caucus are dedicated to them as well. we'll know the deal when we see t. >> pardon for the followup but in terms of the c.r., are you instructing the caucus or suggesting that they withhold a vote? mr. crowley: republicans have the ability to pass a short-term c.r. they'v

who depend on community health centers. we cannot allow this cynical republican ploy to succeed. we need to keep fighting for children's health, community health centers, for dreamers, and for parity. and i will not vote for any government funding bill that does not include all four of these important and urgent priorities. we can't leave anyone behind because it's clear that donald trump won't keep his promise to protect those you call the daca kids. i was at the white house last week when the president looked us in the eye and said on national tv that he would sign a bipartisan compromise on dreamers. he barely waited for us to leave the white house before reneging on that promise. and we all know what happened last week during the meeting with senators durbin and graham at the white house when he was presented with a bipartisan compromise. we can't let the president's irresponsible behavior stop us from fighting for dreamers who deserve our support and protection. dreamers like getsy from beaver, oregon, who i met last m

reauthorizings community health centers and other health programs essential to complement the passage of the chip free authorization included in this cr. my colleagues have a responsibility to help those impacted by the devastating texas, florida, puerto rico and the u.s. virgin islands. those affected by wilderness fires in california and communities struggling to combat opioid abuse. waste the nextot 17 days as it has the last 114. i will be voting no on this continuing resolution, not because i don't want to see it passed but because it does not guarantee that congress will address the issues that have been referenced. i pray that neither i nor the congress will be in this same position come february 8. i hope we will address, in a positive manner, the issues before us. yield one minute to the minority leader. >> the gentleman from california is recognized. >> i think the gentleman for yielding. i associate myself fully with his remarks. thank you, mr. hoyer, for your great leadership. i rise in opposition to the latest stopgap funding bill. i take pride in house democrats overwhel

we can fund community health centers that provide health care for hundreds -- literally hundreds of millions of people in our communities. we can protect the dreamers. we can fully fund the department of defense and provide funding parity for critical domestic programs. congress shouldn't wait around for the president to make up his mind. let's do our jobs. i support passing a very short-term funding bill, somewhere between one and three days, which we have proposed, to sustain the urgency in getting this done in a shorter time -- in as short a time as possible. so a multi-week extension of government funding that allows the president, the majority leader and the speaker to kick the can down the road and pit one group against another is not the way to go. the republicans continue to pit the children's health insurance program against dreamers. they pit funding for troops against dreamers. pitting one group after another on and on. are the republicans saying we can only take care of one group or the other? do we cut off the right arm or the left arm? we've seen this pitting one group against

and we need to, as well, deal with the issue of community health centers. and move forward on a myriad of issues. there are many things we need to address. we have two days between now and the shutdown. if the president would show leadership, we believe we could address the issue agreement of daca as well. reporter: i was wondering if you could just look back to the last partial government shutdown in 2013 and address perhaps the different political dynamics and why democrats think if they withhold their votes for the funding bill over this issue it is republicans who will bear the burden on this. mr. crowley: republicans have a majority, overwhelming majority in the house of representatives and in the senate as well. or they have a majority in the senate. and they control the presidency. they have all the tools within their quiver. all the hours in their quiver to keep the government operating. it's up to them to do that. if they want democratic votes for a spending bill, it will be reflective of democratic values and what we believe are the values of the

it does not fund community health centers that provide primary care for 27 million americans. so these priorities are bipartisan. nothing i mentioned on this list is anything that does not have bipartisan support in the congress, that has not been openly discussed, bipartisan, transparency, unity, unifying us around these issues. we did not put priorities forward that were partisan but those that had bipartisan -- strong bipartisan support. so when our colleagues come to the floor and say, oh, we're doing chip, chip is a wonderful initiative. this is one of the first pieces of legislation that i passed as speaker of the house and sent to obama. not high enough value to put in its proper context. so this re-authorization of chip that they're putting here, this funding for chip, is -- it's not really funding. we wanted 10 years for chip to make it permanent so we don't have to go through this and we move all doubt, we remove any certainty whether this health care will be available for children who need it. $6 aid 10 years, you save billion. $6 billion you save. six years, $1 bil

yes, they may have temporarily funded chip, but if hospitals close and they have no access to community health centers, it means nothing. families deserve a republican majority who will not spend months trying to sell them out to those health insurance companies that want to go back to the days when some people were just too sick to cover. american families deserve a health system that funds disproportionate hospitals in our neighborhoods, whether they are urban or suburban or rural. they provide the most care to the sickest among us. families also deserve a budget that addresses the opioid epidemic. american families deserve better than this joke of a c.r. that let's republicans continue their dangerous and amoral business as usual. in a few weeks we will be back here again. republicans control the white house, the senate, the house, but still cannot meet their most basic responsibility, funding the government, especially health programs. thank you. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and thanks to my colleagues. it was my great honor, duty, and responsibility to help fashion congress's response to t

today parents are wondering if they will be able to get the health care that their kids need, and communities are wondering if they'll be able to provide it. that's unacceptable. congress has to swiftly and fully restore the children's health insurance program, or chip, and funding for other services families need, like community health centers, which have been waiting now more than 100 days for a long-term solution. and they should do so without making deep cuts to successful prevention programs in the centers for disease control that tackle avoidable conditions like heart disease and diabetes. democrats have wanted to get this done for months, but by focusing on pushing through partisan tax reform at the end of the year, republicans instead put massive corporations and the wealthiest ahead of making sure our children and their families have the health care they need. i really hope that now they are ready to give these issues their full and immediate attention. and in case they aren't, i want to make sure they know what exactly this is about. it is about children like stella. stella lives in