what the e.p.a. need. but i cannot it's not a complaint letter can be supported by the media. is going to be put on by the. law get out whether. or not again he says you could mean a little i am not into i want to. see him to squander to bust up what is this guy just what i need is that then processes will put us when i give up. and even as we are we are most of. us older ones i mean. you can't walk around the streets. now with. do you know michael moore you know the name you. obviously melanoma thought of him up in the oil and you know no no let them all coming up with. i don't know your place on the committee and i'm a. million dollar man of the u.s. so i'm going to think when he goes put i'm going to put thin ice in which you know the first part of the moon is a million of them in order to. be published. mid year and. then in moon didn't go to c.n.n. window for problem either school or the media. in the mid eighty's cocaine empire came under attack the colombian government signed a treaty with the united states that allowed local drug lords to be extradited to the usa. but

development director, they are working at trying to give a loan to a small loan in lake view, but they need e.p.a. staff approval to use the graph funding for an environmental assessment before they can borrow funds to buy a building. so they are up a creek while the republican leadership fiddles. the real victims in this misguided standoff, the hundreds of thousands of federal workers who aren't being paid, the contractors who might never be paid, let's listen to them. what do they have to say p about this? are they -- say about this? are they writing and saying, love this dysfunction in the senate, love the failure of leadership, love the incompetence, love the fact that nobody's working here to solve the problem? no, that's not what they are saying. aaron, a furloughed federal service employee from oregon wrote that she and her husband are forest service employees and they are terrified about their personal finances. aaron writes, i have two boys that i will still have to continue to pay daycare for so i don't lose their spot in the daycare, and that's $1,400 a month alone. she went on to say,

e.p.a. employer explained he could needed to have a garage sale and sell everything he owns and wouldn't be enough. people like bay area like sheero shore and was told by the lender, too bad. you have to wait until your forecast. sbook and another one from san francisco said i can't imagine this. since most unfortunate -- i don't know -- i don't understand why reality of this in people's lives is not felt or concerned or cared about by the dministration. these workers make a difference in the live of the american people and officials who would be protecting the president at the state of the union address. as i pledged to some of you, this is defined by the department of homeland security as a national special security event. it iselle vated to a place where the resources of the government are used to protect that event. this is the president of the united states and the vice president, the congress of the united states, house and senate, the cabinet, acting as it is, but the cabinet, supreme court of the united states, the dip matic corps and all that with that implies in terms of security.

development director, they are working at trying to give a loan to a small loan in lake view, but they need e.p.a. staff approval to use the graph funding for an environmental assessment before they can borrow funds to buy a building. so they are up a creek while the republican leadership fiddles. the real victims in this misguided standoff, the hundreds of thousands of federal workers who aren't being paid, the contractors who might never be paid, let's listen to them. what do they have to say p about this? are they -- say about this? are they writing and saying, love this dysfunction in the senate, love the failure of leadership, love the incompetence, love the fact that nobody's working here to solve the problem? no, that's not what they are saying. aaron, a furloughed federal service employee from oregon wrote that she and her husband are forest service employees and they are terrified about their personal finances. aaron writes, i have two boys that i will still have to continue to pay daycare for so i don't lose their spot in the daycare, and that's $1,400 a month alone. she went on to say,

e.p.a. stopped inspecter more than 1,200 sites of environmental concern. now more than ever we need the ep taupe provide vigorous guidance. no one knows this more than the rest kents of flint, michigan, whose water is still not safe to drink. and closetory my home, floridians in ocala face the contamination of their water by harmful fire retardants used at the nearby fire college. halting inspections leaves communities like these more vulnerable. these cuts can truly impact the people that we're elected to serve and i urge my colleagues to vote for this bill so that the senate can once again pass it and government can be reopened. with that i yield back. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from yields. the gentlewoman from minnesota reserves. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. calvert: mr. speaker, i yield four minutes to the gentleman from idaho, the former chairman of the committee, mr. simpson. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. simpson: i thank my friend from california for yielding and for the job he's done as chairman of this interio

e.p.a. agriculture. didn't even get into agriculture , though i have a $5 billion -- a $4.5 billion farm gate agricultural district, they're hurting. the crop checks they need to -- and the assurance that they need to their lenders that they'll be able to plant their crops when the rainy season is over in a few weeks, it's not happening now. so that's delayed. and then maybe it goes much longer they'll miss their lanning opportunities. food stamps will soon be unavailable. millions of americans may under that circumstance be very, very hungy. -- hungry. why sit worth it? why don't we start up government, pass some legislation that's over in the encourage, cajole, browbeat a few senators to pass the legislation, put it on the president's desk and he can have that mantle of shutting down the government once again, very clearly. we will deal with voter security, we have over the years. and recently we've done that and will do it again. that's a negotiating process. we negotiate on virtually everything around here. and i have get to get my way but then i'm one of seven children, i learned very, very early, i don't get my way very often but i'd like to participa

need. the department of interior to prevent our national parks and monuments from being further degraded. and allow e.p.a. to resume its work protecting public health and our environment. and the department of housing and urban development to help hardworking families in the process of realizing the dream of homeownership. these bills offer us a way out of the president's shutdown, an embarrassing spectacle that never should have happened in the first place. 19 days ago, the president of the united states threw a temper tantrum. he went back on his word, breaking his promise to sign bipartisan appropriation bills that would have prevented a quarter of our government from shutting down. he turned on fox news or some right-wing radio show somewhere and changed his mind. suddenly, the president demanded $5 billion in funding for his offensive border wall, just to keep the lights on. billions of dollars, by the way, that would just have been a down payment on an unnecessary project that would cost tens of billions of dollars. and not at mexico's expense like president trump promised over and over and over an

need their paychecks. they don't support trump's wall either. as e.p.a. engineers, they understand and oppose the environmental destruction it will cause. a scientist for the national aeronautics and space administration at the whites missile range in new mexico is one of the hundreds of thousands of federal workers who are essential and working without pay. he's working 0 an critical space infrastructure and testing related to the space x launch scheduled for later this month. there's no good reason this important work is not being paid for right now. there's no good reason why any federal employee is not getting their salary today, no good reason federal contractors' contracts are not being honored. this federal shutdown hurts american families across my state and the nation. it hurts our economy. one federal employee in new mexico wanted to tell their story but was banned by their employer on the ground it would represent illegal lobbying of congress. this is patently false. federal employees contacting their federal elected representatives about this

e.p.a. stopped inspecter more than 1,200 sites of environmental concern. now more than ever we need the ep taupe provide vigorous guidance. no one knows this more than the rest kents of flint, michigan, whose water is still not safe to drink. and closetory my home, floridians in ocala face the contamination of their water by harmful fire retardants used at the nearby fire college. halting inspections leaves communities like these more vulnerable. these cuts can truly impact the people that we're elected to serve and i urge my colleagues to vote for this bill so that the senate can once again pass it and government can be reopened. with that i yield back. . the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from yields. the gentlewoman from minnesota reserves. the gentleman from california is recognized. mr. calvert: mr. speaker, i yield four minutes to the gentleman from idaho, the former chairman of the committee, mr. simpson. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. simpson: i thank my friend from california for yielding and for the job he's done as chairman of this interio