hartzler, for her leadership as chair of the r.s.c.'s communications committee for leading this effort to talk about real solutions and of course today, we're in day 14 of a government shutdown a shutdown that has seen republicans bring proposal after proposal after proposal to fund government. in fact, mr. speaker, i want to point out, there are more than 20 bills now that have been passed by the house of representatives to fund all or parts of the federal government. 20 bills. this chronicles the timeline going back to september 20, by the way, well in advance of the midnight hour, where today on day 14, by the way, president obama had still yet to even engage in conversations. in fact, we went to the white house thursday to meet with the president, sat in the room with him for an hour and a half, simple offer was, mr. president, we'll increase the debt ceiling, all we're asking is for you to start talking, just to agree to have conversations. unfortunately, mr. speaker, we left that meeting without the president even being willing to

hartzler: thank you. now i want to go to keith rothfus who is new here but he hit the ground run, appreciate your leadership, keith. what would you like to share tonight? last week, we had a visit from h.h.s. secretary kathleen sebelius, she attempted to enroll some western pennsylvanians in the exchanges. according to press reports, those who showed up were not even able to enroll or even access the website. apparently glitches were to blame. as reported in yesterday's "new york times," one industry source said these are not glitches. the extent of the problems is pretty enormous. it's awful. these problems took more than two years to build and cost the american taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars. the health care law's troubles aren't limited, however, to the website issues. many western pennsylvanians have reached out to me to share stories about how they're seing their hours redeuced or losing their jobs. other western pennsylvanians are seeing health care payments go up or losing coverage altog

hartzler: thank you. now i would like to yield to the gentleman from oklahoma, jim bridenstine, he's not only -- i not only serve on the armed services committee with him, but he has a good perspective of all these issues. i yield him four minutes. mr. bridenstine: i want to take a moment because there's a lot of information out there, mr. speaker, about what's fwoning on in our country right now and a lot of misinformation. i thought it would be appropriation to set the record straight. a little over a week ago, we sent a bill to the senate and that bill funded the entire government. it kept the government open. and it defunded obamacare in its entirety. senator harry reid and the senate democrats stripped from that bill the defunding mechanism and sent et back to the senate, or sent it back to the house. so we looked at it and said what can we do they might agree. to the president has already unilaterally delayed meage ovision of obamacare including the employer mandate. he did that because he saw the j

hartzler: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise in support of this act. i understand the need for farm cooperatives and manufacturing companies to manage their risks. h.r. 992 reforms section 716 of dodd-frank to ensure businesses can manage their long-term commodity and equity risks. missouri's the show me state and i ask the opposition to show me how section 716 benefits my constituents and decreases overall risk in the u.s. financial markets. since the beginning, federal reserve chairman bernanke and tresh secretary geithner have opposed to section 716 edition of dodd-frank. show me how section 716 decreases overall risks to the financial markets. chairman bernanke clearly stated, it's not evident why section 716 makes the company as a whole safer. and what we do see is that it will likely increase the cost of people who use the derivatives. since dodd-frank became law, no equivalent provisions have been adopted in any other foreign jurisdictions that are working through their own derivatives reforms. show me how placing u.s. firms at a competitive dis