mr. 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 health insurance program. and other matters. can the l

mr. hoyer: it's my understanding that that will be on the floor as early as tuesday of next week? is that accurate? i yield to my friend. r. mccarthy: that is accurate. mr. 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

mr. 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

mr. hoyer: i ask to speak out of order for one minute for the purpose of acquiring of the majority leader of the schedule for the week to come. thank you very much, mr. speaker. i now yield to my friend, the majority leader from california, mr. mccarty. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mccarthy: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. mr. 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 cl

mr. 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

mr. 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

mr. 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

sessions: mr. hoyer, it is 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 whenever you would like to come. we respect you for the job you have, and we respect that you have to do your job. the gentleman is dismissed as he chooses. thank you very much. ms. slaughter: the gentlelady has to go, as well. ms. pelosi: i have time. mr. sessions: i did not finish my question. [laughter] ms. pelosi: 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 posed a question in your remarks, or a comment that i think needs to be addressed. that 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 sit

mr. 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

republican side as well as the democratic side for the hospitality extended to deputy -- democratic whip, mr. 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 w

mr. hoyer. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. hoyer: the other thing that the chairman did not say is, after your last round of tax cuts we had the deepest recession anybody in this body has experienced. starting in december 2007 when you had the presidency, the house, and the senate. you're at it again. mr. speaker, i rise in sadness and disappointment that the house passed such an irresponsible, dangerous, and debt exploding legislation yesterday. we should be better than this. we should be more responsible than this. this bill gives 83% of its benefits to just 1% of the richest americans. why didn't we have it reversed and give 83% to the people you talk about, mr. chairman? it kicks 13 million people off their health insurance coverage an raises the deficit by $1.5 trillion. there can be little doubt that the majority party is fixated on cutting taxes for the richest in our country. defeat this bill. do right by the american people. i yield back the bal

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

i know on your side, i haven't spoken to you about it, but mr. 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 pr

mr. hoyer. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. hoyer: the other thing that the chairman did not say is, after your last round of tax cuts we had the deepest recession anybody in this body has experienced. starting in december 2007 when you had the presidency, the house, and the senate. you're at it again. mr. speaker, i rise in sadness and disappointment that the house passed such an irresponsible, dangerous, and debt exploding legislation yesterday. we should be better than this. we should be more responsible than this. this bill gives 83% of its benefits to just 1% of the richest americans. why didn't we have it reversed and give 83% to the people you talk about, mr. chairman? it kicks 13 million people off their health insurance coverage an raises the deficit by $1.5 trillion. there can be little doubt that the majority party is fixated on cutting taxes for the richest in our country. defeat this bill. do right by the american people. i yield back the bal

nadler -- mr. hoyer: i want to thank mr. nadler for yielding. mr. speaker, that's just the way it is. since the start of 2017 more than 14,340 people have been killed by gun violence in the united states. more than any other country on earth. that's just the way it is. more than 29,150 have been wounded. more than 680 of those have been children. in october, 58 people were killed and 515 wounded in las vegas. in the worst mass shooting in our nation's history. but we don't have a bill on the floor to prevent the creation of machine guns, which are illegal, by bump stocks. just five weeks later a gunman entered a church in southerland springs, texas, and killed 26 worshipers, wound 20g. the majority's response, bring to the floor a bill that makes america less safe. more replete with people carrying and concealing weapons. in our communities. this bill says if you want to carry a concealed weapon in a state that doesn't allow it, constitutionally, no problem. get your concealed carry license in another state that does. in other words, every state, no

the speaker pro tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from maryland, mr. 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. a

nadler -- mr. hoyer: i want to thank mr. nadler for yielding. mr. speaker, that's just the way it is. since the start of 2017 more than 14,340 people have been killed by gun violence in the united states. more than any other country on earth. that's just the way it is. more than 29,150 have been wounded. more than 680 of those have been children. in october, 58 people were killed and 515 wounded in las vegas. in the worst mass shooting in our nation's history. but we don't have a bill on the floor to prevent the creation of machine guns, which are illegal, by bump stocks. just five weeks later a gunman entered a church in southerland springs, texas, and killed 26 worshipers, wound 20g. the majority's response, bring to the floor a bill that makes america less safe. more replete with people carrying and concealing weapons. in our communities. this bill says if you want to carry a concealed weapon in a state that doesn't allow it, constitutionally, no problem. get your concealed carry license in another state that does. in other words, every state, no

mr. 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

mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman for yielding, i thank him for taking this time on the special order because as an aside, i need to apologize to him for making him wait so long for this special order. i also want to tell the american people, mr. speaker, that the gentleman who has take then special order, who is taking this specialed orer is probably the constitutional expert not only in this body but one of the constitutional experts in our country. he is a great legislator himself, although new to this body, not new to being a legislative leader at all. a legislative leader in our state for many years. wonderful teacher. and somebody who has great political courage and is willing to stand and say the emperor has no clothes. is willing to call attention to the fact that our democracy is at risk. that our due process is at risk. . he used the phrase trumped-up. what an interesting phrase that is that we have used for many years. i don't know it's had as much relevance in years past as it now ma

mr. 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

but 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 now 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 it 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 the other regions in the euro zone which also want to be more independent pe

does anyone on this side intend to engage mr. 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

mr. 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

but 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

i would like to recognize mr. hoyer for three minutes. >> thank you very much, mr. chairman. i appreciate your holding this hearing. i join leader pelosi in expressing my deep, deep disappointment that this legislation is before us. it is dangerous, it is reckless, it will adversely affect not only our economy, but a very, very large number of americans. and because the economy will be adversely affected, all americans will be adversely affected. i appreciate the opportunity to be here, along with leader pelosi and chairman neil and the members of ways and means committee and members of leadership and members of the caucus. as i said, the bill that is before us poses great dangers to the american people. some of those dangers we already know. we know it relies on the fallacy of supply side economics. disn disproven again and again. i came here in 1981. so i have been through a number of these iterations where tax bills cutting revenues sharply were represented to be paid for by the growth that would follow. that was true in '01 and '03, and a few years later, we experienced t

mr. 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

as mr. hoyer said it about republicans years and years ago. i believe that that leadership has to start at the top. and again you are a role model to the young women in my district. and i am so grateful for what you do there. i fear that we're at a place where we would rather fuss at each other than talk with each other. again, my friend from new mexico, she will never be accused of misunderstanding what her position is. she is a passionate -- ms. pelosi: we all agree on that. mr. woodall: i would dare say there is not a single issue in this congress that i would be uncomfortable approaching her about and trying to find a way around. she's not going to word smith me. she's not going to give me the talking points. she's not going to tell me all the reasons why i'm a sound ral. she's going to listen -- sound al -- scoundral and give me an open shot. i confess that i don't know as we sit here today where politics ends and policy begins. as that pendulum swings back and forth, i fear it swung too far to one end or the other. i know of your influen

secession and even the very talk of secession is outside the framework of the law essentially what mr hoyer is trying to do is to say yes ok my gamble has backfired but you still must respect my initial decision which is that catalonia cannot break away that is what effectively is setting the scene for continued confrontation because neither side really is any closer than they were not toba to sitting down and talking seriously about how they can be a way out of this crisis so i was actually mean to governing the area first of all of course madrid took back direct rule is that switched back again and what about the the those. either in exile or in jail do they now get to take their sentence. well absolutely you've hit the nail on the head there i mean there really is not too much precedent for this kind of situation anywhere in western europe and in spain well back in one thousand nine hundred eighty seven there was a precedent for a single candidate in the basque parliament being taken by police to be sworn in to the basque parliament while he was awaiting trial but in this case we've got

a spanish society would have to react and really claim some indication or some accountability to mr hoyer and the government by saying you bet for this telling everyone this would be the solution to the conflict and clearly was not because the seems to be still a big majority of catalans who want to decide on their future and to one that future to be independent from spain and that means the government has failed and probably the whole democratic spanish system how fate so expecting to see some reaction also in the spanish society thank you very much sonia. there if this trend does continue it is going now the process session bloc could renew its majority in the catholic parliament and that almost certainly means that the capsule on political crisis and spain's worst political crisis since the end of dictatorship more than forty years ago is very much set to rumble on mario thank you very much col payne hall there in barcelona well also in the city paul brennan who's at the headquarters of the pro union a citizens party and so a call was describing there a sense of cautiousness on the par

you. [ applause ] >> and stephanie, thank you so much for everything except for having to follow mr. 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

mr. 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

mr. hoyer: one of the problems, he thinks that louisiana crabs are better than maryland crabs. i'm pleased to join my friend, mr. scalise, the majority whip, to thank matt bravo for the leadership he has given on this floor and particularly on behalf of my floor staff, with whom he has worked very closely, both when he was with mr. cantor with whom i worked very closely ap mr. scalise, we thank you for your service to this house. every time i rise, i say whether it's a democratic or republican staffer that works this floor, they work with all of us. and they work this a way that tries to facilitate the doing of the peoples' business. they are not always as successful as they would like to be. it is the fault of the members, not the staff. matt, i understand, that very well. e thank you for the very collegial, positive, constructive way in which you have worked with my staff, with the leader staff, with other staff on this side of the aisle as well as staff on your side of the aisle to assure that we can, to the best extent possible, work in a constructive way on behalf of the am

mr. hoyer: this bill adds $1.5 trillion to the deficit. this is not tax reform. so republicans may pat themselves on the back in the coming days for having finally pass something out of congress. unfortunately, it's a bad thing. i urge them to remember that this vote may be the most consequential in their careers, not positively. i say to my friends across the aisle, stand up and say no with us and commit to start working on a product all members of the chamber can be proud of as was the case in 1986. that's what ronald reagan did. in 1986, reagan did not go down this reckless and irresponsible path. stand up for the principles you use to aspows but are -- espouse but are now about to abandon. stand up for fiscal responsibility. stand up for the middle class. stand up for what the american people hope we would do. this is not it. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas. mr. brady: mr. speaker, i'm proud to yield two minutes to the gentlelady from south dakota, mrs. noem. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from south dakota is recognized for two min

hoyer. i want to thank mr. fleming. glad it is an event where we had these many different partners, it is humbling. we did this in indiana, i went around the state with governor pence and we had meetings to try to bring different folks together. you have a diversity represented here that i am in all of and hope that we can replicate and other parts of the country -- in other parts of the country. three things i want to focus on in my brief remarks, i want to hear from you all. i don't want to take up too much of your time talking, because it is important you all hear from each other. i can't tell you how many times i would go around a state health commissioner in indiana and everyone would expect me to have the answers to all of the problems. and me to have the answers to all the problems. startedity once folks talking, they have the problems in the room and in their community. they just hadn't gotten in touch with each other before. we have to break up our silence. i love that you all are emphasizing prevention, enforc

after the houseboat, kevin mccarthy and steny hoyer talked about the upcoming health schedule. jection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. mccarthy: mr. speaker, i first want to thank all the members for their flexibility in coming back to town this past monday. as such, members are advised that votes are no longer expected in the house tomorrow, friday, december 8. members are further advised to be prepared for the house to be in session the week of december 18. first votes of that week will be expected at 6:30 p.m. on monday, december 18. we all know we have important work to do, including passing historic tax cuts and job act for the american people. -- and jobs act for the american people.