mr. cuellar, for five minutes. mr. cuellar: i rise in opposition and urge members to vote know and i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields. the gentleman from south carolina is recognized. mr. norman: i urge her salary be cut and yield the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman yields. the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from south carolina. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. the amendment is agreed to. mr. cuellar: i ask for a a recorded vote is ordered. the chair: pursuant to clause 6 of rule 18, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from south carolina will be postponed. it is now in order to consider amendment 68 printed in part b of house report 118-216. for what purpose does the gentleman from south carolina seek recognition? the chair recognizes that amendment number 68 will not be offered. mr. norman: madam speaker? the chair: it's now in order to consider amendment number 69 pr

mr. cuellar: mr. speaker, i do reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from ohio is recognized. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i yield to the gentleman from georgia three minutes. the chair: the gentleman is recognized. mr. collins: thank you, mr. joyce, for yielding. and, mr. speaker, you know, as a member of congress, our job description up here is real short. it's take care of your constituency and it's to have oversight of the federal government. and we do that through things called appropriations and hearings. appropriations is what we're working on right now. well, i want to tell you, the past nine months i've been out here crossing this country, attending field hearings. i've also been speaking with and listening to members of our industries about the overreach and the out-of-control government agencies that we have up here. and that's why i rise today, i rise today to speak about an important issue that sadly this bill is going to fail to address. you see, the national oceanic and

mr. cuellar. mr. cuellar: i thank my good friend. i stand in opposition to my friend from arizona about his amendment. what we are looking at here is cisa of election security plays a critical role. director hale has served his role as a career civil servant under republican and democratic administrations. again, targeting salaries is unconstitutional. the supreme court case from 1946. i join my chairman in urging my colleagues to vote no. and i yield back. the chair: the gentleman from arizona is recognized. mr. biggs: again, i appreciate my colleagues and their position. i fundamental disagree. when this case came before the court and this is -- you have to have a heavy burden when you are going to enjoin people. the cisa director of election security is one of the defendants that was found to be one of the officials of this administration that was gigged in a clear and focused policy of using the department ofhomeland security to stop conservatives from questioning the biden administration on social media even if it meant censorin

mr. cuellar: -- mr. neguse: your amendment was to mitigate -- it would have funded c.b.p., $691 million which was the request it was made and not included in the mark. mr. cuellar: i'm hoping that the committee will make my amendment in order and have that debate on the floor and see what happens. taking money away from the border wall and put it into a more targeted area where we can look at cybersecurity and more money for technology at the ports of entry because people think most of the drugs that come into the u.s. they think comes in between ports, 90% of the meth, cocaine and fentanyl come in through ports of entry. we added more money there but we need to do a lot more to target there. i say extend the perimeter out. i know you feel that the you say it is the experts, but if you look at the border patrol union 10 years ago they thought the wall was a waste of dollars. i asked every border patrol chief from owe -- bush, obama and trump and asked them how much time does the wall buy you? all of them

mr. cuellar was explaining. border patrol officers in his district, the government funning runs out a week from tomorrow. they'll have to continue working without a paycheck. so they -- the notion that they'll be able to pay their mortgages. but that's an important clarification. for the record, to your point, i understand your position more broadly, so i'm not -- i hear you. ms. spartz: it's not going to be a national security crisis. i think it will be inconveniences. we'll be fine with security. i think we should do a better job. maybe a goods willson for all of us. should go through normal processes in appropriations, how it is meant to be. mr. neguse: with respect to that last point, going through normal appropriations processes, couldn't agree more. as you probably heard from my questioning of some witnesses previously, i wish that republicans would have started this much, much sooner. so we wouldn't be seven days away from a shutdown. but, and mrs. boebert, of course. mrs. boebert: thank you, mr. neguse.

mr. cuellar was explaining.patrol officers in his district, the government funning runs out a week from tomorrow. they'll have to continue working without a paycheck. so they -- the notion that they'll be able to pay their mortgages. but that's an important clarification. for the record, to your point, i understand your position more broadly, so i'm not -- i hear you. ms. spartz: it's not going to be a national security crisis. i think it will be inconveniences. we'll be fine with security. i think we should do a better job. maybe a goods willson for all of us. should go through normal processes in appropriations, how it is meant to be. mr. neguse: with respect to that last point, going through normal appropriations processes, couldn't agree more. as you probably heard from my questioning of some witnesses previously, i wish that republicans would have started this much, much sooner. so we wouldn't be seven days away from a shutdown. but, and mrs. boebert, of course. mrs. boebert: thank you, mr. neguse. with all

mr. cuellar, i lived in the valley in your district and i notice that people are putting in the lot of long days of work. i have a solution that will solve the problem of shutdowns. if you don't have your appropriations by the fourth of july you start putting in six days a week, 12 hours a day until it is done. then take your break and if it is not done by labor day, then you work until it gets done. waiting until the last minute to do things is no way to get any kind of a problem solved. guest: i agree with you. i put in a lot of days working as a member of congress and i agree we need to do that. the problem we are facing there are agreements that we made some months ago. after a while, the far right says, we need to change the plan. i'm a conservative democrat. but this problem has talked -- been talked about by democrats and republicans. president trump had 7.3 billion's four years. trillions of dollars. trump added 7.4 trillion and obama had over nine. except trump did not in four years. to me, it doesn't matter if it's a democrat or republican we have to make sure that we look at what

mr. cuellar tells how he voted on the motion to advance this defense spending bill for debate yesterday? was what he shares rationale s vote? >> guest: yeah, i voted no on the rule because again it goes back to it, in the appropriations we, everything would try to work together in a bipartisan way, we were left out. and keep in mind i know the chairman, the subcommittee chairman, he's a good, good man. remember what my partner did back in january to make several deals, that those deals and those agreements are coming to roost right now. one of the things that he did was he added some of the folks from the freedom caucus and that appropriations became more, , more, more of a culture committee instead of an appropriations committee. i told one of my freedom caucus friends, i was joking, you do understand we're not in a -- where is the appropriations committee. one of the things i'm saying is that in the past we used to have a say, you've got republicans, you've got democrats, and you've got appropriators. we are seeing the appropriators, the bipartisan taking that away for us. i support th

mr. cuellar, i lived in the valley in your district and i notice that people are putting in the lot of longays of work. i have a solution that will solve the problem of shutdowns. if you don't have your appropriations by the fourth of july you start putting in six days a week, 12 hours a day until it is done. then take your break and if it is not done by labor day, then you work until it gets done. waiting until the last minute to do things is no way to get any kind of a problem solved. guest: i agree with you. i put in a lot of days working as a member of congress and i agree we need to do that. the problem we are facing there are agreements that we made some months ago. after a while, the far right says, we need to change the plan. i'm a conservative democrat. but this problem has talked -- been talked about by democrats and republicans. president trump had 7.3 billion's four years. trillions of dollars. trump added 7.4 trillion and obama had over nine. except trump did not in four years. to me, it doesn't matter if it's a democrat or republican we have to make sure that we look at what w

mr. durbin: i suggest the absence of a quorum. the presiding officer: the clerk will call the roll. the clerk: ms. baldwin. >> host: welcome back now. texas democrat, appropriations committee member henry cuellar. congressman, you've been in congress 10 terms now, you've seen these shutdown fights before. at this point, do you see a path to avoiding a government shutdown come september 0th? -- 30th? >> guest: you know, first of all, i want to make sure that we avoid everything we can. i've seen shutdowns before. there's really some options that we need to look at. first, the speaker can either just go further right to meet the freedom caucus demands and try to pass something even to though -- the. [inaudible] but then he'll send something to the senate that won't pass over there, and then we might be getting close to the deadline. number two, he can work with us like has been done in the past through a bipartisan c.r. and then get it done. that's number two. and number three, do nothing, be inactive about it and just wait for the senate to send that over to us. but if something comes over, then there's a question about the origination clause where spending bills should start off in the house i