mr. mcgovern: mr. cole. mr. cole: first, i want to congratulate my friend from california for just getting through that. that was a long rule. but mr. chairman, i move that the committee strike from the rule the section that considers the senate amendment to house amendment to s. 1301 is adopted and provides for separate consideration under a closed rule. mr. mcgovern: i heard the gentleman's discussion. the voting is on the cole amendment. dr. burgess. mr. burgess: this is extremely important. i don't know people watching today really understands what's happening here. a lot of language is being said. we're passing an almost half a trillion dollar expansion of the debt limit with no further debate, no further input from anyone on the majority or minority. mr. chairman, you referenced about a manufactured crisis but i don't know. watching this weekend and watching the plan pan plea of manufactured crisis by this administration -- the border with my state and a major country and ally, mexico is in shambles and yo

mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, today we face a fundamental choice, whether we are going to get to the truth about the violent january 6 attack. the worst assault on the capitol since the war of 1812, and the worst domestic assault on american democracy since the civil war, or whether we're going to allow lawful subpoenas to be ignored and the investigation being conducted by the select committee to be obstructed, to puff up the ego of the former president who has launched another frivolous lawsuit, this time against the select committee. i have to tell you, mr. speaker, i still remember january 6 like it was yesterday. i was standing right where you are now, mr. speaker. our democracy was in peril. the lives of members of congress, their staffs and all the workers here were endangered and capitol police officers were beaten or worse. getting to the truth of what happened or placating the ego of a former president, that shouldn't be a tough call. in in any ordinary time it wouldn't be. this measure would pr

mr. mcgovern: a recorded haute vote has been requested. clerk call role. >> mrs. torres. >> absolutely not. >> no. >> no. >> no. >> miss morelle. >> no. mr. >> mr. desaulnier. ms. ross. >> no. >> mr. neguse. no. >> mr. cole, mr. coal aye. >> mr. burgess. eye. >> mrs. fischbach. >> absolutely yes. mr. chairman. >> no. the clerk will report the total. the motion is not agreed to. let me just say before i go to our panelists here today. i'm a little puzzled because usually in the rules committee the complaints we hear from the minority is that the package before us is already finalized and that there is no opportunity for change. what we are doing here, by the way it is the light of day. it's 3:00. i think it may be cloudy out but it's still the light of day, what we are doing here today is i think is actually a good and healthy thing. we are having a discussion and we are talking about the details of a very important bill which, by the way, i think will be transformative and help a lot of my constituents. but help a lot of people across the country, who by the way,

mr. mcgovern: not everybody has said it. mrs. torres: not everybody has said it and not everyone has used the number of adjectives since -- to attack either this hearing or the members that are present. so let me just start by apologizing to our dear chairmen that are here trying to do business, serious business for the people of the united states of america. you know, on the issue -- i'm not going to be schooled on my morals, you know, in front of people that continue to protect one accused sex trafficker to continue to serve in committee while not trusting women to have a right to decide about their own bodies, their reproductive rights. i am not going to be schooled on my morals from people that aided and abetted an insurrection by continuing to support president trump's false claims of election fraud. false claims. so, you know, i am not going to kick anyone around, but i am going to state for a fact that the minimum wage is still $7.25. $7.25. you can barely buy a gallon of milk with that money. so the people that come here

mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, let me remind my good friend that the compromise we are votinon was designed by republican leader, mitchcconnell. it's not what i wanted. i wanted to get this out of the way, make it longer, quite frankly. we weren't lurching from one deadline to another. i also say to my friend own the -- on the rules committee, that it is a little bit hard for us to stand over here and to listen to some of my republican colleagues complain, because what we are doing here is we are paying for the bills that donald trump and the republicans accumulated. i didn't like the tax cut that my friends forced through. by the way with no democratic support or consultation. it added trillions to our debt. but we have to pay for it. my republican friends went tout to a fancy restaurant, drank champagne, and ate caviar before paying paying the bill and now they want us to take the responsibility for paying their bills. you know what we have some experience in cleaning up the messes that have been left be

mr. mcgovern: all time yielded is for purposes of debate only.nimous consent that members may be given five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks. earlier today, the rules committee met and reported a rule, house resolution 716 for four measures. first it provides for consideration of h.r. 2199 family violence prevention and improvement services act under a structured rule and self-executes a manager's amendment and provides one hour of debate by the committee on education and labor. and makes en bloc authority and provides one motion to recommit. the rule provides for consideration for 3110, the pump for newsing mothers act under a structured rule. itself-executes a manager and equally divided by the chair and ranking minority member and makes in order two amendments and provides one motion to recommit. the rule provides for consideration of h.r. 3992 protecting older jobs applicants act under a structured rule. it provides for one hour of general debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member. and m

mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, we are -- we are on the precipice of what economists have called financial armaggedon. financial armaggedon. mark zandi has said, and i quote, even if resolved quickly, americans will pay for this for generations, end quote. and their answer, according to virtually all americans, is to go home. really? if we defaulted, six million jobs will be lost. unemployment would skyrocket to 9%. and $15 trillion in household wealth will be wiped away. don't take my word for it, mr. speaker. that's according to the nonpartisan moody's analytics. and the only solution my republican friends can come up with is to leave town? senate republicans tried to filibuster this deal that mitch mcconnell developed to temporarily raise the debt limit. now house republicans have used the tools that they have here to unleash their own form of obstruction. this isn't about whether you like mitch mcconnell's compromise. i sure don't. i wanted to take the debt ceiling head-on in a longer term way, but this

mr. mcgovern: because of the bureaucracy -- [indiscernible]

mr. mcgovern, for five minutes. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i just returned from leading a fact-finding delegation from colombia. i traveled there a dozen times since 2001. this time i traveled to cali, a city reeling from protests this past spring and the security force's excessive response. i met with the mayor, the catholic archbishop, youth who protested, local journalists and human rights defenders. i then traveled an hour sout. the department leads colombia in killings of social leaders and former combatants. there i met with the u.n. verification mission team monitoring implementation of the peace accord and had a lengthy talk with the town's mayor. i spent the most time with afro colombian women and lgbtq organizations. the next day i visited the san juan community, a formerly guerrilla controlled region south of bogota. i traveled with the mayor. i saw water projects being carried out by indigenous and former combatants. i attended a town meeting where everyone was free to have their say. in bogota i met with our embassy, lea

mr. mcgovern: as the member designated by mr. davis scott of georgia, i inform the house that mr. scott will vote yes on h.r. 2989. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mrs. walorski, i inform the house that mrs. walorski will vote yes on h.r. 2989. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from connecticut seek recognition? >> as the member designated by ms. wilson, i inform the house that ms. wilson will vote yes on h.r. 2989. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from missouri seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. luetkemeyer of missouri, i inform the house that mr. luetkemeyer will vote yes on h.r. 2989. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from rhode island seek recognition? mr. cicilline: as the member designated by mr. takano of california, i inform the house that mr. takano will vote yes on h.r. 2989. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tphrar seek recognition? >> as the member

mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, we are -- we are on the precipice of what economists have called financial armaggedon. financial armaggedon. mark zandi has said, and i quote, even if resolved quickly, americans will pay for this for generations, end quote. and their answer, according to virtually all americans, is to go home. really? if we defaulted, six million jobs will be lost. unemployment would skyrocket to 9%. and $15 trillion in household wealth will be wiped away. don't take my word for it, mr. speaker. that's according to the nonpartisan moody's analytics. and the only solution my republican friends can come up with is to leave town? senate republicans tried to filibuster this deal that mitch mcconnell developed to temporarily raise the debt limit. now house republicans have used the tools that they have here to unleash their own form of obstruction. this isn't about whether you like mitch mcconnell's compromise. i sure don't. i wanted to take the debt ceiling head-on in a longer term way, but this

mr. mcgovern: because of the bureaucracy --

mr. mcgovern: mr. today we face a fundamental choice whether we ar get to the t violent january 6k. assault on the capitol since the war of 1812, and the worst domestic assault american democracy since the civil war, or whether we're going to allow lawful subpoenas to be ignored aveeingonedu