hoyer: mr. speaker, the house is not in order. i can't hear. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is correct. he house will be in order. mr. mccarthy: if there's any further changes to the schedule, i'll be sure to let all members know. i'll yield to the gentleman. mr. hoyer: i thank the majority leader for yielding. normally, of course, we would have a scheduling discussion tomorrow. at the end of business. but in light of the fact that we are not meeting tomorrow, we will not have that colloquy. account leading give us some indication of -- can the leader give us some indication of what might be considered next week? as we know, there are numerous items that need to be resolved before we leave here this year. and we need to obviously have some b.c.a., the budget control act, numbers arrived at so that the appropriations committee can move forward either on an omnibus or appropriation bills. we need to do flood insurance. we need to do fisa section 702. we need to do obviously children's heal

hoyer: absolutely. when we talk about prescribers, we have to realize that doctors can prescribe, nurse practitioners can prescribe. even veterinarians. we have heard tragic stories about people who are intentionally hurting their pets to go in and get opioids for their pets which they are then diverting. we have to do a better job of educating all of our prescribers. this was three different epidemics. the prescribing epidemic, then tamped down on the availability of prescription meds and it shifted into a heroin epidemic. now, we are seeing it shifted into a fentanyl epidemic. each of those has their own different sequelae. when we shifted to heroine, you sought the hepatitis rate shoot through the roof. now that people are on fentanyl, they are not getting hiv, they are dying. we need to address the fentanyl, the infectious disease applications that are occurring from injection drug use of heroin. the best states are looking at mandatory education and have their prescription drug monitoring program o

hoyer: mr. speaker, i would simply observe that what the majority leader did not mention and again i have not seen the conference report senate bill a the house bills that were passed by both bodies, it will increase the debt of our .ountry by some $1.5 trillion and a minimum of $1 trillion. it will raise taxes on some 78 million americans. between $50,000 of family income and $150,000 of income. i am assuming that the elimination of the mandate is still in the conference report. i'm not sure but the information i have is that it's still in the report. that, mr. speaker, will cost 13 million people to be uninsured. as a result. i have information, mr. speaker, that what the conference report does is duces taxes on some of the wealthiest people in america. m not sure how they offset that. maybe with that. maybe with a mandate. maybe with something else. but 62% of the bill's resources go to the top 1% in america. mr. speaker, -- the speaker, speaker ryan, spoke about on family or the average maki

hoyer: come back, shane. many of you aren't old enough to remember that wonderful money as little de off and the boy, come back, shane. i haven't gone anywhere. democrats have no ability to shut down the government on the floor of this house. hear me. we don't have the votes to shut down government. and we don't want to shut down government. and maybe the leader also wants those 90 of his -- he's not our leader, he's the leader of the ma the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. party and 90 of his people did not follow him. i presume he must be much more concerned about that, with all due respect, he's my friend, but not my leader. and we voted to give 90 days and nothing was accomplished in that 90 days other than work on a tax bill that we think is a disaster for this country. nothing. and he talks about passing these appropriation bills. we knew they wouldn't pass the senate. and we told him so. and we said let's do it on a bipartisan basis. but no, and by the way, mr. speaker, it was the least regu

hoyer: mr. speaker, the house is not in order. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is correct. the house will be in order. please take your conversations off the floor. the gentleman is recognized. mr. mccarthy: on monday, the house will meet at noon for morning hour and 2:00 p.m. for legislative business. votes will be postponed until 6:30 p.m. on tuesday and the balance of the week the house will meet as early as 10:00 a.m. for legislative business. mr. speaker, the house will consider a number of complete s next week, list of which complete list of which will be announced by close of business tomorrow. this list will include several lls from the science committee that are part of the house innovation initiative. these bills support americans pursuing careers in science, technology, engineering, and math with a focus committee that are part of the house innovation on veterans and individuals historically underrepresented in those fields. mr. speaker, my friend and i recently co-hosted the t

hoyer: obviously, we've push back very hard.plained to the american people who i think overwhelmingly to leave that net neutrality is the best policy for them, their families, and the communities, and their country, from that standpoint, the people are with us. what the-- frankly, american people can do and what we need to do is take back the majority in 2018 so we can address that policy with a majority in the congress and in the senate. you are right. without majority, without the ability to put legislation on the floor, it is very difficult to change this policy. shery: we are hearing from the attorney general eric schneider, saying he will sue to stop in the illegal rollback of net neutrality. we had already heard from senator edward markey from massachusetts saying he plans to fire against the order as a legal challenge. how united are the democrats right now in trying to stop the rolling back of net neutrality rules? rep. hoyer: i think the democrats are very united for we have voted on this before. the democratic party ha

hoyer: mr. speaker, the house is not in order. i can't hear. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is correct. he house will be in order. mr. mccarthy: if there's any further changes to the schedule, i'll be sure to let all members know. i'll yield to the gentleman. mr. hoyer: i thank the majority leader for yielding. normally, of course, we would have a scheduling discussion tomorrow. at the end of business. but in light of the fact that we are not meeting tomorrow, we will not have that colloquy. account leading give us some indication of -- can the leader give us some indication of what might be considered next week? as we know, there are numerous items that need to be resolved before we leave here this year. and we need to obviously have some b.c.a., the budget control act, numbers arrived at so that the appropriations committee can move forward either on an omnibus or appropriation bills. we need to do flood insurance. we need to do fisa section 702. we need to do obviously children's heal

hoyer. i appreciate everything you and all the team here have done. if you haven't had a chance to see the photographs upstairs at some point, take a look. i've had a chance to see them before and they're just a remarkable collection of some fascinating views, some public and private views of john kennedy and his family and from an artistic perspective well worthwhile. so encourage you to do that. i'm going to cut down my remarks. i want to get to the speakers. when stephanie started off, she said there are distinguished, there are academics and scholars. there are two academics and scholars that are about to come up. you have to stick with me for a minute so i'm going to be quick to see can get to the distinguished guests. a few things to keep in mind. since today in the united states 80% of the people alive today were born after the kennedy administration. 80%. so one of the questions we're going to talk about in a little while is why is the centennial important and why is he still every year there are surveys done of popular presidents and he's alw

hoyer. if you have further questions about that after your here are testimony -- >> thank you very much. writing you brought in would help us. you and wishjoin him well and all of his staff. >> the precious children that will enjoy seeing their dad at christmas. >> it is eluding him, all of the staff. yes, ma'am, it does. thank you, as i highlighted, your amazing members, also be amazing members that are in the majority. we have liz cheney at the very end, and she is a firebrand force and distinguished member of the committee. thank you very much. offer our members the opportunity to welcome you all. mr. hoyer, we are delighted you are here. mr. hoyer: [inaudible] is that improved? now you can hear me. [laughter] perhaps the most -- perhaps you want to move the microphone away. i told this story. a man was grouping to -- a man was speaking to a group of people. a man at the back of the room hand and said i can share you. a man on the front row said i can and i will trade places with you. [la

hoyer: i thank the gentleman for his comments. he made a number of points. first generally, i've been here long enough to have heard the debate in the 1981 bill. the so-called supply side, jack kemp, george bush, vice president bush referred to as voodoo economics. in point of fact, as the gentleman knows, but a i'm sure he knows the record -- because i'm sure he knolls the record, we increased the debt under ronald reagan -- knows the record, we increased the debt under ronald reagan 189%. larger than any other president with whom i've served over the last 37 years. 189%. stockman said that we knew it wasn't going to balance the budget. we just said that for political purposes. stockman said that. he was director for the o.m.b. under ronald reagan. then in 2001 and 2003 we had tax cuts. we heard the same arguments. how it's going to grow robustly the economy. and it brought in the deepest recession anybody in this chamber, other than perhaps sam johnson, who i think is probably our oldest member, because the rest of us didn't experience the depression, it u

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hoyer: i thank the speaker and i thank the gentlelady from new york. the appropriations committee used to be an extraordinarily bipartisan committee where we worked together, not on a partisan basis but on a basis of trying to determine which priorities were important for our country, what funds were needed so that agencies could operate in an effective way. that, unfortunately, is not happening the way it did. so mr. speaker, i urge my republican friends who control this house and all the levers of government to work with democrats on making sure that all those who need emergency disaster relief as well as those who need funds to operate their government agencies in a way that serves america best, i urge us to work together toward us because d i urge nobody believes these c.r.'s are good policy but they unfortunately are becoming regular if not regular order. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlewoman from new york reserves. mr. frelinghuysen: i reserve, mr. speaker. the speaker pro

hoyer, it is mr. fair if you get your looks at us, we are entitled to offer back to the gentleman, and i will tell you i do not believe we got a fair opportunity to engage the gentleman, but he had a fair chance at us. i would like for you to know that you are welcome back whatever you would like to come. we respect you for the job you hat yound we respect t have to do your job. the gentleman is dismissed as he chooses. ms. slaughter: the gentlelady has to go, as well. pelosi: i have time. mr. sessions: i did not finish my question. i want to join you in singing the praises of president george w. bush. he has been the best president on immigration. in his heart and head, and he knew the issue. you post a question in your remarks, or a comment that i think needs to be addressed. ,hat is, when we won the house and we went to our first meeting with my being speaker with president bush, he said, now we can pass immigration reform. we were sitting at the table, not a big table, just the leaders, the presid

hoyer: will the gentleman yield? mr. brady: i will remind everyone here tonight, the first year our democrats took over the majority in the house they doubled the deficit. the sec year they tripled the deficit. in the third year, it went above $1 trillion a year. and it stayed there until republicans took control of the house and $9 trillion my friends across the aisle added to this deficit but that was when washington was spending. they want to give people back control of their money and all of a sudden deficits matter? i believe that claim is the hypocrisy in this debate. with that, i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognize the house will be in order. the house will be in order. the gentleman from massachusetts is elect niced. mr. neal: thank you, mr. speaker. apparently the gentleman forgets the difference between the clinton years and the bush years as it relates to deficits. with that, i yield to the gentlelady from california, distinguished leader, con

both because he is in self-imposed exile and there's an outstanding arrest warrant for him but the mr hoyer also says that carlos pushed him on isn't any longer the head of the capital and government that's why he has nothing to talk with him about and then if you look at the detail mr our choice speech he says dialogue within the framework of the law well within that framework that is really been his starting position all along and mr hoyer always said that the law does not allow for any kind of referendum on the secession of catalonia from the rest of spain i think what this is really doing is just restating old positions and that over the next days and weeks there will have to be some intervention from some other side to see if they can bring the two parties together so i'll be dealing with how does the legal situation stand as it is because the rest of the succession of leaders i mean it does affect the political reality on the ground because one wonders whether they will be sworn in all remain in jail during this period of time while perhaps the representatives are legally allowed to r

hoyer, chair of the hispanic caucus, congresswoman michelle lujan grisham, and to me. at that meeting, mr. speaker, i told the colleagues that we are in a tradition of having great democratic and republican presidents who had been supportive of new commerce to our country and who recognize that immigration is the constant reinvigoration of america. when people come to our country with their hopes and dreams and aspirations to make the future better for their families, they are identifying with an american ideal. all of us having the responsibility to make the future better for the next generation. and their commitment, their courage, their optimism, their determination for a better future makes america more american. every newcomer who comes here, with that determination makes america more american. and among those people are our dreamers. this is a very discreet group that we were hoping to protect in the dream act. certainly as our colleagues acknowledged this morning, we have important work to do in comprehensive immigration reform. we have a responsibility to prote

hoyer: will the gentleman yield? mr. brady: i will remind everyone here tonight, the first year our democrats took over the majority in the house they doubled the deficit. the sec year they tripled the deficit. in the third year, it went above $1 trillion a year. and it stayed there until republicans took control of the house and $9 trillion my friends across the aisle added to this deficit but that was when washington was spending. they want to give people back control of their money and all of a sudden deficits matter? i believe that claim is the hypocrisy in this debate. with that, i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognize the house will be in order. the house will be in order. the gentleman from massachusetts is elect niced. mr. neal: thank you, mr. speaker. apparently the gentleman forgets the difference between the clinton years and the bush years as it relates to deficits. with that, i yield to the gentlelady from california, distinguished leader, con

hoyer: you're the one to make the point, i'm prepared to debate it. mr. brady: >> up next on c-span, chief economic adviser to the white house gary cohen discusses the trump administration. then, president trump and congressional republicans talk about the tax bill. we will also get reaction from chuck schumer and nancy pelosi. >> this weekend on american history tv on c-span3, saturday at 8:00 p.m. eastern, american university professor aaron bell talks about surveillance of civil rights leaders. >> he was the head of operations, william sullivan. shortly after the march on washington and the ima dream speech -- i am a dream speech, he was marked as "the most dangerous negro according to our station." >> former members of congress and vietnam war veterans reflect on lessons learned during the war. >> we learned the limits of military power during the vietnam war. we had that as a society, a culture, that you can't kill an idea with a bullet. >> american history tv this weekend, only on c-span3. >> next, president trump chief economic advisor gary cohen t

everything except for having to follow steny hoyer. if you haven't had a chance to see photographs upstairs, take a look, i've had a chance to see them before, they're a remarkable collection of some fascinating views. public and private views of john kennedy and his family. and from an artistic perspective, well worthwhile. encourage you to do that. when stephanie started off, she said there are academics and scholars. i'm going to be very quick so we can get to our distinguished guests in a minute. eye few things to keep in mind. since today in the united states, 80% of the people alive today were born after the kennedy administration. 80%. one of the questions we're going to talk about in a little while, why is the centennial important? and why is he still every year there are surveys done of presidents, he's always in the top three, four, five. why is that? he was only there for 1,336 days. it was cut short obviously. >>> pew does an annual survey of trust in government. in 1962 when john kennedy was there, he did, as you know, the

i'm sure i'm ready to meet prime minister hoyer in brussels or in a different place in the e.u. except spain for his reasons are ready to do that because it's time for catalonia for the spanish tutor and for europe to start a new political figures and this phase needs to be defined by the political solutions not by the but known and dilute used oppression we've been seeing so far . as i'll bring in did a business that lewis was in barcelona for us lisa. rejecting a meeting with put him on the separatist leader offering dialogue does this mean the standoff will just continue yes it does really if you listen to them closely so what's put them on to saying of the i'm happy to talk but i'm still in favor of independence on the other hand you've got the holy saying i'm also happy to talk but not to put them on he wants to talk to you know that he might as the head of this see that honest party which came out first in these elections it doesn't sound that these two will be sitting at one to go shooting table together in the near future so who gets to form a new government in this regi

hoyer said that they would provide the votes. keep the government opened if they put that in there. seems like you guys got -- senator schumer: they haven't shown us any plan how they'll get it done. let's wait until they come to us and tell us how they expect to get it done. let's wait until they come to us and see what their plan is for getting it done. reporter: do you think leader mcconnell misled senator collins in promising they could pass the health stabilization bill to win her support? senator schumer: unclear what they said to one another. it's clear one thing, leader mcconnell and all the republicans have made the health care system much worse. 13 million people not covered. premiums going up by 10%. and no one believes that the two bills that senator collins wants added to this, which now they have said they are delaying until january, but no one believes that those two bills would make up for the destruction that is caused by removing the mandate. and they are going to pay a price for that, big time. they talk about, again, the increase in premiums for so many americans

hoyer. >> thank you, very much. as i said, i've been here for some period of time, did the '81 vote against -- voted against the '81 bill. under ronald reagan, the deficit debt increased to 189%. it was something like $950 billion when i came. it was close to 2 when reagan left. under george w. bush, i heard the same argument about supply side and dynamic scoring that cutting taxes would raise substantial revenues. but, in fact, what it raised was about 87% increase in the debt. and the deepest recession we've ever had. why, given those examples, and the opposite example where during the clinton administration, '93, we raised taxes slightly, we had the best economy anybody has experienced. why should we rely on the representation that is being made today? mr. zandi? >> i think you're correct, that there is no historical evidence that massive tax cuts will pay for themselves. you know, the cases you gave are perfect examples. the early '80 reagan tax cuts significantly increased deficits and debt. in fact, for most o

hoyer, i wanted to thank you for that. james madison wrote that the very definition of tyranny is the collapsele -- is the collapse of all powers into one. we're trying to defend the separation of powersance we're trying to defend the -- powers and we're trying to defend the rule of law, against all of it being drowned in a political agenda. we are joined now by a very distinguished colleague, and my colleague on the house judiciary committee, steve cohen of tennessee, and i would like to yield to him at this point, mr. speaker. mr. cohen: thank you, mr. raskin. i appreciate it. i'm a little late and don't know exactly what's been discussed but i serve on judiciary committee with you. what wive seen in judiciary committee is -- what we've seen in judiciary committee is scary. i'm honored to be a member of the united states congress. honored to be an american citizen. and i see a threat to the independence of the united states congress and upholding its oath and looking out for the best interest of its people and to our cou

hoyer: you're the one to make the point, i'm prepared to debate it. mr. brady: so $2 trillion of deficit in one year. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. neal: i yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from michigan, the longest serving member of the ways and means committee, mr. levin. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. levin: mr. chairman if you'll listen, this bill is trickle down at its worst. except for the very wealthy, it's at best a trickle and for millions not even that. and for the economy at large a discredited theory. it is a deficit time bomb. the speaker said to the middle class, don't worry, the expiring tax cuts will surely be extended. that means the real deficit from this bill is 2k4rrs.5 trillion. a -- is $2.5 trillion. a tremendous deficit wrapped in your hypocrisy, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: members are continued to be reminded they should address their remarks to the chair. the gentleman from texas recognized. mr. brady: i yield one minute to t

here's what one of the top house democrats, steny hoyer, said tonight. >> the main issue is this is a bad bill. it's a bad bill for our country. it's going to create great debt and it is perverse in the sense that he gives some 83% of the tax cuts to the wealthiest in america. >> shannon: ten all of those numbers that we talked about also jive with what we are hearing from congressman hoyer? >> you know the line, lies, damn lies, and started to -- statisticians. this is a jerry-rigged contraption. in order to get on the byrd rule and reconciliation all the jibber jabber chad has to keep track of, this is quite a rube goldberg contraption. there is duck tape, baling wire. the biggest piece of this, they got what they wanted, which is a huge cut in corporate tax rates. that's what they wanted. that's what they got, now they believe it's going to drive growth. the question for republicans is will people actually care and will they actually credit them for it because we have now been in sustained economic growth since the middle of 2016. real economic growth in terms of what people are pu

hoyer: the maryland attorney general is not one of those signatories. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's request will be put into the record. the gentleman from virginia. mr. goodlatte: i thank the speaker. it is my pleasure to yield to the gentlewoman from alabama, ms. robey, two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady has two minutes. mrs. roby: i rise in support of h.r. 38, the concealed carries prerest prossity act of 2017. our founders laid out certain rights in our constitution. not to empower the government but to empower the people. certainly among those the most fundamental of those rights we have as americans is to keep and bear arms. h.r. 38, concealed carry reciprocity act of 2017, simply ensures all law-abiding citizen whs meet the requirements to obtain concealed carry permits in their home state can exercise the right to protect themselves in any state provided that they obey the local conceal carry laws. mr. speaker, some opponents of this bill claim that we are somehow making it easier for dangerous, unqualified individua

joining them were house democratic leaders nancy pelosi and steny hoyer. [gamble pound -- gavel pound]

nuclear war either, but there is a different question that is political, which is one that pelosi and hoyer are worrying about. which is that if the country's not ready for impeachment and currently plurality supports trump's impeachment. there's reason to think that would be a tough sell and given the democrats don't have the votes, is it a good idea for democrats who see a path back to power right now that they're looking good at the 2018 elections and to want win in alabama in a couple of days. is this a good fight for them to pick? and so there, there is a question, fully separate from whether impeachment normally is a good idea, is it politically a good idea? i think what hoyer and pelosi are doing is walk a fine line between not saying that he shouldn't be impeached, but saying this is not a thing we should be talking about right now. there are more politically effective things for democrats to be talking about. >> the difference between a substantive case for it and a tactical one. the substantive case and the originalist case, al green actually mixes as do you, the idea that this wa

because of some of the things congressman hoyer said that we saw in the film. i think he inspired us. inspired americans. he reminds americans, it it seems to me of an age when it was possible to believe. this is powerful to me. especially as a recent citizen of this country. reminds americans of an age where it was posable to believe that politics could speak to our highest moral europeanings. could be harnessed it seems to me to our highest aspirations and that's important. that's certainly one of the reasons why we celebrate them sfw. >> i agree with everything fred just said. history is the kind of civic glue. we're living in a difficult political time but we do have one history and anniversaries giving us a chance to remember this is a little disorienting because rarlts little hard to imagine john f kennedy at 100 had years old. he always looked young, he looks unbelievably -- and there's a kind of presence to john f kennedy that i think is unusual. when congressman hoyer read the lines from the guest sitting behind me said thank you and there is a kind of

house minority whip steny hoyer is with me. the president says it is your fault that you and other democrats want a government shutdown. do you? >> that's absurd. the only president -- i mean the only person who has talked about shutting down the government in the last four months has been president trump himself. he said that might be good for the government. it would be bad for the government and maernts people. we don't have the votes to shut it down or keep it open. the fact is that republicans, as you've discussed just earlier in your program, have consciously shut down the government to try to take the government hostage. >> well -- >> and have the aca repealed. >> you have the votes to keep it open. you have the votes to keep it open if other republicans vote against it. >> the republicans, we had a no drama, keep the government open, extend the debt, limit in september. 90 republicans voted against that. every democrat voted for it. the government kept up. what we are confronted with is a take or leave it proposition on

we have a huge lineup today, starting with senator bob corker, then steny hoyer at 8:00 a.m.evin brady at 8:30. that's followed by paul ryan at 8:40 a.m "squawk box" will be right back. trust #1 doctor recommended dulcolax. use dulcolax tablets for gentle dependable relief. suppositories for relief in minutes. and dulcoease for comfortable relief of hard stools. dulcolax. designed for dependable relief. >>> welcome back let's check the broader markets as we continue the countdown to christmas. joining us now to talk about the markets is chris retzler and simien hyman gentlemen, welcome to both of you. let's talk about the tax bill and what happened. we are saw some gains yesterday at this time by the end of the day there was a decline in the market. what happened? >> we had a run up that was sort of paid for. if you think something on the order of 5%, 6%, 7% of this run up was anticipation of this tax bill, now we had it. just go back to where evaluations were, now we're off 2017 earnings. put it together, we're trading at 18, 19 times 2017 earnings. that's not too bad but in

hoyer, for five minutes. mr. highway -- mr. hoyer: mr. speaker, we should not shut down the government of the united states. democrats do not want government to shut down. it is, however, not in our hands. it takes a majority to pass any bill in this house. 218 votes. our republican colleagues have other 240 votes. we have 193. so it's not in our hands, mr. speaker. the republican party has been given the responsibility and the legislation, to ensure the proper functioning of government. as the govepbing party, they can pass whatever they want to pass on this floor. indeed, as the governing party, they have a responsibility to use their votes to keep government running. they control the house, they control the senate, and they control the white house. all the levers of power of legislating are in their hands. but we're here, mr. speaker, on the verge of a shutdown because of familiar pattern where republicans cannot unite as a party. they cannot agree among themselves spending priorities. and this has happened again and again and again. i

hoyer: the maryland attorney general is not one of those signatories. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's request will be put into the record. the gentleman from virginia. mr. goodlatte: i thank the speaker. it is my pleasure to yield to the gentlewoman from alabama, ms. robey, two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady has two minutes. mrs. roby: i rise in support of h.r. 38, the concealed carries prerest prossity act of 2017. our founders laid out certain rights in our constitution. not to empower the government but to empower the people. certainly among those the most fundamental of those rights we have as americans is to keep and bear arms. h.r. 38, concealed carry reciprocity act of 2017, simply ensures all law-abiding citizen whs meet the requirements to obtain concealed carry permits in their home state can exercise the right to protect themselves in any state provided that they obey the local conceal carry laws. mr. speaker, some opponents of this bill claim that we are somehow making it easier for dangerous, unqualified individua

thursday,se floor senators -- representatives mccarthy and hoyer discussed what is on the agenda for next week. >> on monday, the house will meet at noon, and 2:00 p.m. for legislative business. on tuesday and the balance of the week, the house will meet as early as 10:00 a.m. for legislative business. mr. speaker, the house will consider a number of suspensions next week, a complete list of which will be available at the end of business tomorrow. this list will include several bills from the science committee that is part of the house innovation initiative. these hills support americans science,careers in technology, engineering, and

hoyer: thank you very much, mrs. lowey. here we are again, mr. speaker. two weeks ago the republican majority asked for another two weeks to write an appropriations package to fund the government. now they're asking to kick the can down the road one more time . we all knew that those two weeks were a pretense for getting the votes to pass their tax bill. we didn't make any progress on a bipartisan appropriation bill. before that republicans asked or an additional 12 weeks in september. we all voted to give that 12 weeks. all of us know exactly why the can keeps being kicked farther and farther down the road. it's because the majority cannot muster the majority of their own members to support bipartisan funding bills. because the governing party which controls the house, senate, and white house has not been able to govern. senate republican john cornyn can always y, seemed to be kicked down the road. and here we are again with republicans doing exactly that. mr. speaker, let's call this c.r. for what it is, a chaotic retreat from rational regular order and

hoyer: i was here in 1981. they said the 1981 bill would pay for itself. david stockman, a former colleague from michigan, was here and he was at o.m.b. then, and a few years later he wrote a book and he said, i said it would pay for itself and i knew that was not true. the same can be said of this bill. mr. speaker, history will indeed remember this vote. future generations of americans will remember who cast their votes to raise taxes on 86 million middle-class households, and heap another $1.5 trillion in deficits onto our children and to our grandchildren. they will remember who cast their votes for a plan that ives 83% of its benefits to 1% of the american people. they will remember that president trump promised that the middle class would get a tax cut and the wealthy individuals, like him, would not before turning his back on that promise. they will remember those who cast their votes to kick 13 million americans off their health insurance coverage. and they will remember those who acted with the full knowledge that their votes would trigger a $25 b

well because we don't really know what's going to happen mr hoyer the prime minister of spain is saying now we talks need to start but to be fair those talks like three months ago haven't given any outcome and that's why we have those elections in a way one cannot can argue that point at the same mistake as cameron the u.k. and other politicians in the euro zone when they were asking the people to solve their problems bottom line is that we have political risk back on the agenda but most likely nobody really wants to go into that risk knowledge to stay a day before christmas and we know how messy it's go with briggs but the u.k. is a huge economy although catalonia is an important economy for spain why do investors really care about it. but actually catalonia makes up one fifth of the spanish economic power it was and is still the powerhouse somehow off spade and investors actually care because that whole fragmentation process of the the the risk of fragmentation could actually set a president for president for other regions there are other regions in the euro zone which also want to be

hoyer? >> i would -- >> we will. >> if you wouldn't chain me to this chair i would have left. >> we reserve that right back that same opportunity to the panel on a fair basis. does the gentlewoman seek time? >> yes. i do. >> thank you very much. >> we go through this every day. we have been shut out of everything here as well. we have had nothing but closed rules. we have nothing, this is a continuation of what we see on the floor. we had a letter saying we would like to see that done and it's an act of mercy. for heaven's sakes. >> does the gentlewoman yield? >> because i'm a southern woman i will, yes. >> we were being asked to waive all regulations. the facts were simple that we received the request ten minutes before we were doing to have the meeting. when you serve your country and receive an honor that this particular gentleman did that is the second highest award, when you an act of valor you're not awarded three different types of awards. so we did not understand if we would be waivi

having said that of course the spat between madrid and barcelona is growing with that vote and mr hoyer is not a person who was very good at friendly talks with the catalonian so going forward it would be increased political risk for spain which is not gets captured by the markets the euro dipped a little bit early asian trade but ever since recovered already slightly so investors reacting to the pain in space in looking elsewhere bitcoin investors are also coming under pressure today. yeah it kind of down by twenty per cent this friday and it's not only bit calling other cryptocurrency down as well nobody really knows why and that's the big problem here we had central bankers regulators all over the word warning this week off the risks of those cryptocurrency s. which the risk which they could pose to the general financial system but of course also to invest because they are very well it's kind of tells us the whole story today down by twenty percent nobody knows why and the volatility is most likely here to stay for cryptocurrency s. and for bit calling because it might not be the bub

hoyer: i was here in 1981. they said the 1981 bill would pay for itself. david stockman, a former colleague from michigan, was here and he was at o.m.b. then, and a few years later he wrote a book and he said, i said it would pay for itself and i knew that was not true. the same can be said of this bill. mr. speaker, history will indeed remember this vote. future generations of americans will remember who cast their votes to raise taxes on 86 million middle-class households, and heap another $1.5 trillion in deficits onto our children and to our grandchildren. they will remember who cast their votes for a plan that ives 83% of its benefits to 1% of the american people. they will remember that president trump promised that the middle class would get a tax cut and the wealthy individuals, like him, would not before turning his back on that promise. they will remember those who cast their votes to kick 13 million americans off their health insurance coverage. and they will remember those who acted with the full knowledge that their votes would trigger a $25 b