mr. kingston: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous material on h.j.res. 73 and that i may include tab lar material on the -- tabular material on the bill. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. mr. kingston: i yield two minutes to the gentleman from texas. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for two minutes. >> thank you. i would ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. barton: mr. speaker, i rise in strong support of this resolution. i'm the chairman emeritus of the energy and commerce committee. back in 2006, passed the re-authorization of the n.i.h. which authorized increased funding, set up some new programs, reformed the agency, and was viewed at that time as a landmark for the n.i.h. the bill before us today would fund the functions of the n.i.h. for the next fiscal year. we all

mr. kingston. want to know how long it may be before gas prices come down, and what it will take to make them come down. guest: i am bad at forecasting. they have come down quite a bit. if you look at the fundamentals, in the short term, there is a number out there called the opec call. it is something like the international energy agency will estimate worldwide demand, and track from -- subtract from that non-opec supply. what is left is the opec call. opec production has been running above the call. there has been a lot of pressures on opec. the u.s. had not imported iranian oil for some time, but we have a lot of sanctions that have cut iranian oil. iraq is not gaining production the way we thought it was. libya is in turmoil. sudan as well. syria was a consumer, producer. when you see that, you think if all these countries could get their act together, produce a lot more to their capacity, then opec would have quite a job to reduce the amount of oil on the market to prevent the price from colla

mr. kingston: mr. speaker, i'll repeat that if i could get a democrat party member to co-sponsor a continuation of the c.d.c. i'd be glad to work together to move that bill. with that i yield the balance of the time to the distinguished committee member, dr. andy harris from maryland. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland is recognized for the balance of the time. mr. harris: thank you very much, mr. speaker. when the president and senate shut down the government yesterday, i don't think they realized what was going to pediat t the n.i.p. for ric cancer patients. we get to solve the problem today. you see, mr. speaker, during the temporary lapse in funding, the department of justice guidance for continuing government operations includes activities that protect, quote, the safety of human lives. so although over 40% of the office of the secretary were exempt from this furlough, strangely enough some lawyer in the executive branch decided that pediatric cancer patients seeking to enroll in

mr. kingston. how long it may be before gas prices come down, and what it will take to make them come down. guest: i am bad at forecasting. they have come down quite a bit. ,f you look at the fundamentals in the short term, there is a number out there called the opec call. it is something like the international energy agency will estimate worldwide demand, and track from -- subtract from that non-opec supply. what is left is the opec call. production has been running above the call. there has been a lot of pressures on opec. the u.s. had not imported iranian oil for some time, but we have a lot of sanctions that have cut iranian oil. iraq is not gaining production the way we thought it was. libya is in turmoil. sudan as well. was a consumer, producer. you see that, you think if all these countries could get their act together, produce a lot more to their capacity, then job tould have quite a reduce the amount of oil on the market to prevent the price from collapsing. i'm not a forecaster. given the

mr. kingston. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from is recognized for to minutes. mr. kingston: i thank the gentleman for yielding and i rise in support of this bill because people do need a paycheck and need to be able to plan their expenses based on their income and we have disrupted that income flow, so it makes sense to say let's get the pay schedule back on track. but i want to say something in a broader context that after offering the senate through different compromises on keeping the government open, three different compromises that were rejected, and then a fourth offer to let immediately last sunday go to a conference and start negotiating our differences, all of those were rejected. even in that context we have found a few things we can agree on. the military pay bill which included not only the men and women in uniform but the support staff that they have. mr. moran pointed out, we came together for the furloughed employees to get back pay for the time they are out of work. and we passed from the house the n.i.h., national institutes of health, which passed

mr. kingston: in 1977, 9 government shut down three separate times. and the democrats controlled the house, the democrats controlled the senate and there was a democrat in the white house. indeed, over the history of the last 25 years, there have been a number of government shutdowns. until the senate, the house and the white house sat down and negotiated. and that's all we're saying tonight. is you know what? we understand we don't control government, but we are willing to negotiate. it is time for cooler heads to prevail in the u.s. senate. it's time for the u.s. senate to have some adult leadership and sit down with house leadership and hammer out the differences. and that's why we are here while senate has already gone home. i guess the president is no longer playing golf, but we are ready to negotiate. and with that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentlelady from new york. mrs. lowey: may i ask how much time remaining. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from new york has four minutes remaining an

mr. kingston from georgia. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. mr. kingston: i thank the gentleman from kentucky and thank you, mr. speaker. i want to say we are here tonight to keep the government open. i keep hearing we want to shut the government down but this is our third attempt to send something to the u.s. senate to give them an opportunity to negotiate with us. and why are we here talking about a continuing resolution to begin with? we're here because this year the house appropriations committee work my colleagues on the other side have passed five separate appropriations bill. now there are 12 total. but unfortunately, during the time period that we passed five, the senate has passed zero. last year, the house passed seven and the senate passed one. after a while you see there's a pattern. the senate doesn't want to work on regular order. the senate really does prefer continuing resolutions because then they can pull stunts like the one harry reid is doing now. you know, mr. speaker, where were they yesterday? where were they this weekend? th

mr. kingston: mr. speaker, over my years in congress, i've had the honor of chairing several conference committees. and conference committees are set up when there's a disagreement between a house-passed bill and a senate-passed bill. you sit down with your list of differences and you start sawing away at them, if you will. and that's in fact what the house has been doing the past two weeks, in the midst of this shutdown. finding some things such as military pay, such as science, such as civilian furlough issues, such as health-related issues. finding some things that are less controversial in which we can agree so we can get some momentum to come up with the big agreement. and indeed the gap is large. we have a disagreement on obamacare. because it's 1/6 of the economy. it's a very big issue. secondly, we have a disagreement on the debt ceiling. do we continue along the path of spending that we are or do we make corrections? and thirdly, we have a $90 billion gap between our spending level between the

mr. kingston, attempted to cut w.i.c. by hundreds of millions of dollars. now, there's a pattern here of trying to balance the budget on the backs of the poor, on the backs of the hungry. there's a pattern here of saying to people who are struggling to make ends meet that they just don't matter. the republicans who are forcing this government shutdown, those republicans who are cheering on a government shutdown, like cheerleaders at a pep rally, are inflicting real damage on real americans. and those on the front lines are unfortunately poor women and children. now, we're not going to end hunger now by painting a target on their backs and using them to balance our budgets. income disparity is currently at its greatest gap since the great depression. hunger is not getting any better in this country. yet, the republicans in the house think it's ok to take food away from hungry people, including veterans and kids just because they don't -- just because they don't like those programs. that cut in food stamps that we debated and voted on couple weeks ago would t

mr. kingston. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from georgia is recognized for two minutes. mr. kingston: i thank the gentleman for yielding. mr. speaker, in 1733, when a general sailed up the savannah river, i've been told the river was 12 feet deep. we've been playing in the mud down there ever since. today it's 42 feet deep. but 42 feet isn't enough for the large ships that will soon start coming through the expanded panama canal. if we are to stay competitive, we have to deepen the river. there are 352,000 jobs in georgia related to import-export and the port of is a van in a . in van -- have a san -- savannah. $1 spent gives us a $5.50 return. and these tough economic times, that's why this legislation is so important. furthermore, it's basically a re-authorization necessitated by bureaucratic delays. the original authority to deepen the savannah river was in 1999. it took 123 years and $41 million -- it took 13 years and $41 million of study to finally get four federal agencies to approve it. during that period of time, china built a port from start to finish, which is bill

mr. kingston, i look at all these wonderful titles, and i don't know what to say. he takes my breath away. -- it takes my breath away. this is a little bit of history making, but i want to say something. this is why we need to solve the whole problem and not just go after the flavor of the day. this is extremely important. it is underfunded. i said this the other day. i am willing to support a cr even though i think it under funds a lot of things i care deeply about, but it's important to keep the government going. as hopefully your side and my side discuss a long-term spending bill, and let's hope we don't get to a crisis on the debt ceiling. the reason this approach is so problematic -- even if the senate were to go along with this -- we are not fixing anything. we know that. for poor people this isn't the only program that is needed. a lot of people rely on food banks. there is a whole bunch of support systems in place so people who are very vulnerable and very poor don't fall through the cracks. up until recently there has been by to -- there has been bipartisa

mr. kingston noted some $60 billion difference that needs to be negotiated also. we don't want to shut down the government again and i would find that we have got to resolve what we do now and then find one great answer. i believe that our leadership is capable of that so was i would offer a vote. any further discussion? seeing none those in favor signify by saying aye. those opposed, no. the no's have it. the no's have it roll call. >> the clerk will report it. >> fourier's, nine yeas -- nays. >> the drummon from massachusetts is recognized. >> thank you mr. chair. as i'm reading this rule it appears to me that marshall law rule continues through october 20. >> as noted in section 5 -- >> the calendar of october 20. >> what we are trying to do is to allow flexibility for these bills to be done. >> right, but i wanted to make a couple of points. one i am terribly troubled by that date. jack lew met with many of this morning and he has met with republican leaders as well. to be clear october 17 is the drop dead date if you will to default on our debt. i think if we

mr. kingston said. indefiniterun deficits and rack up debt. that is going to be a big disaster long-term. maybe worse. when opportunity to get on top of this. an opportunity to get on top of this. 2011, a loto april of people thought we would shut down government. we narrowed the deficit. everybody complains that the debt ceiling deal and how terrible it was, i noticed that both sides seem to brag about the savings that they arrived that. cliff, some ofl saved all theit bush tax cuts and provided new revenue and narrowed the revenue -- deficits a little bit. i know i friends were not happy with the sequester savings. they accepted it and did not shut down the government. we got that done and that narrowed it. now, when opportunity in front of us, in the context of the situation that we are in. the end of the fiscal year in thedebt ceiling, -- and this toling, i'd expect be accomplished with sunshine and roses. no shouting and disagreement. i don't think the american people expect that to happen. they understand the rough-and- tumble political

mr. kingston noted some $60 billion difference that needs to be negotiated also.n and i would find that we have got to resolve what we do now and then find one great answer. i believe that our leadership is capable of that so was i would offer a vote. any further discussion? se

mr. kingston, people in this house for six months, i've spoken on this floor and written editorials to fund the nih defined cures for cancer and heart disease and strokes and diabetes and parkinson's. they can do it. it cost by the sequester. not once have the republican said, we will fund and find cures for diseases. we will fund at the level they should be for the other people like me so they will not get a disease six months earlier than the cure was available. this is politics. it is not trying to cure people. i really object to this piecemeal. i have spoken six money -- six months ago to put the money back and i got nowhere. thank you. >> the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from georgia. the gentleman from georgia. >> mr. speaker, i want to say to my good friend from tennessee that if you take out the funding, which is what the obama administration charges nih to conduct business, this is level funding. with that, i yield one minute to the gentleman from pennsylvania. >> the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, i rise in strong support o