mr. doggett need to be heard. in addition to the reduction in tanf funding, including for research, i think we should also be reminded at this late hour that because of the unwillingness of republicans in this u.s. house to follow the ipartisan lead in the senate about three million -- i think more than three million people who lost their jobs through no fault of their own, who are looking for work, have essentially been out in the cold , i guess some of them have applied for tanf, but when you look at the data that mr. doggett has put forth, i think we need to take a look whatever s the hour of the day or night at what has been happening in terms of the addressing of overty in this country. so i'm glad we've had this discussion and i now yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan yields. the gentleman from washington is recognized. mr. schweikert: thank you, mr. speaker. after listening to my -- mr. reichert: thank you, mr. speaker. after listening to mr. doggett's com

mr. doggett of texas. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. doggett: i thank the gentleman. so house republicanses are shutting down this house early today and they're shutting it down with the same happy talk and tax cut hocus pocus that they began this congress with 21 years ago, 21 months ago, it seems like years, last january. that's when speaker boehner reserved house resolution 1, for a form of miracle grow. they were going to sprinkle around miracle grow tax cuts, more special interest tax breaks on everyone and they would grow money faster than it could grow on trees. and they have given us so much talk, so much -- so many press conferences about how they would do away with all these complex special interest provisions that republicans have spent years writing into law for their buddies, into our tax code, and we would all have brighter smiles and certainly fatter wallets. well, all of that joy, all of those wonders that would be accomplished, debt-free, we wouldn't have to borrow another dime from the chinese or the saudis or whoever w

mr. doggett. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for three minutes. mr. doggett: i thank the gentleman, and i respect all of my colleagues on the tough decisions that we're asked to make today. i believe that america must use our military might anytime that our families face an imminent threat. though isis, like a number of terrorist groups around the who had' like to kill more americans, our leadership has made it clear that isis does not represent such a threat today. it is a regional threat without the capacity to do the harm it would like to do. rejecting this one amendment does not mean doing nothing about isis. the president already has the necessary authority to respond to this savagery when americans are murdered. now the president's response, however, has been expanded and he proposes a full-scale war. this amendment establishes a new objective for this broader war to end the civil war in syria that has already consumed lmost 200,000 lives. approving this amendment is the one vote that's been requested to enable this broader war without a declarat

mr. doggett. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for three minutes. mr. doggett: thank you. the middle eastern tragedy in which this resolution will further entangle america is directly related to the wholly unnecessary bush-chaney -- chen yea invasion of iraq. having learned so little from that conflict, the congress now approves greater involvement in a syrian civil war that has already taken almost 200,000 lives. the administration has affirmed this very day that what it's talking about is definitely a war while aration of it seeks to avoid this congress declaring that war, a congress in which too many of the people's representatives fear making a decision today on whether to declare war. instead, we vote on an amendment here to authorize the administration to do what it's already doing in jordan while declining to consider a vote on what it should not do without specific congressional authorization. reliance on the resolutions approved by this congress on this floor over a decade ago in 2001 and 2002 is very instructive. first, it shows the dangers of