mrs. lowey: madam speaker, i just want to state for the record as my good friend from kentucky is aware, on december 12 the senate and the house conference committees agreed on a bipartisan bicameral homeland security bill, in december. could have been implemented with all the other 11 bills. i'm very pleased to yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from texas. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from texas is recognized for one minute. ms. jackson lee: i thank the gentlelady very much. i thank her for her explanation commonsense explanation. might i say as a member of the authorizing committee on homeland security, i believe as we have just heard that the senate has passed a clean department of homeland security funding bill that came out of these appropriators who did excellent work in the name of the security of this nation. i ask the speaker to bring this bill to the floor of the house right now. i do so with headlines like three denver girls played hooky from school and tried to join isi

mrs. lowey. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from new york is recognized for four minutes. mrs. lowey: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to urge this house to immediately take up and pass a clean funding bill for the department of homeland security . by defeating the previous question on the pending rule, we can immediately make in order a clean homeland security bill stop the theatrics over the president's use of executive orders. my colleague, ms. roybal-allard and i made several similar attempts which were unfortunately defeated on party line votes. it is my sincere hope that my friends on the other side of the aisle are now prepared to end this standoff with only hours left before the department of homeland security shuts down. republicans are playing a dangerous game with our security. as the ranking minority member of the appropriations committee, i was involved in the bipartisan, bicameral negotiations on the omnibus spending bill that passed the house and senate, was signed by

mrs. lowey: having failed to extort these policy concession, the senate has done the right thing and moved forward to pass a clean homeland security funding bill that does not include poison pill immigration riders. yet house leadership continues to dither, keeping alive the threat of shutdown affecting the agencies that protect our ports borders aviation systems, communities, and more. this motion to instruct would make clear the will of the house is for a clean full-year homeland security funding bill. this motion rejects spending another three weeks failing to give our critical agencies the budget certainty they need to hire employees, invest in new equipment and technology, provide preparedness grants on which our communities rely. a $40 billion cabinet level department must be able to plan more than three weeks in advance and must not be forced to rely on outdated funding levels or policies for one day longer than they already have. mr. speaker, madam speaker, enough is enough. we know that

mrs. lowey: madam speaker i'm very pleased to yield two minutes to the gentleman from michigan. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from michigan is recognized for two minutes. >> thank you. i thank the ranking member for yielding. it's really important that the american people understand what's happening here. mr. kildee: it's pretty clear. the republican majority in the house and perhaps in the senate disagrees with the president on immigration policy. so they have two really clear choices. one would be to do what they somehow have been unable to do, despite promises of a prolific period of legislation in the first couple of months here in congress. despite that, seven weeks later we haven't seen anything that looks like an immigration bill. so rather than using this magnificent process of democracy that the framers designed for us, to determine policy, the republicans in congress, really the republicans in the house have decided to threaten the shutdown of an essential government function national security, public safety, in order to extract concessions on policy that they

mrs. lowey: thank you mr. speaker. i rise today to urge this house to immediately take up and pass a clean funding bill for the department of homeland security. delaying the full year bill limits the department's ability to advance the secretary's unity of effort initiative designed to improve coordination on security missions, limits the ability of the secretary to move ahead with the southern border and approach campaign, creates uncertainty regarding isis capacity -- isis' capacity to detain and deport dangerous criminals, complicates the department's ability to deal with another influx of unaccompanied children at our border stations. delay delays implementations of security upgrades at the white house and hiringing increases of the u.s. -- hiringing increases of the u.s. secret service. this delays response grants for state and local public safety personnel and from fusion centers. i understand that many of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle feel quite strongly about the president's use of executive orde

mrs. lowey: another 30 seconds. mr. hastings: i yield another 30 seconds. mrs. lowey: if my colleagues are finally serious about these programs and priorities i urge them join with me today, defeat the previous question, so that my colleague, mr. hastings, can offer an amendment to provide a clean, full year appropriations bill for the department of homeland security. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady yields back. the gentleman from florida reserves. the gentleman from georgia is recognized. mr. woodall: thank you, madam speaker. just reading an article from the a.p. doing a fact check on whether or not conversation about the department of homeland security is a fair and honest conversation, and they say in reality most people see little change at the department's money flow is halted and some of the warnings of doom are as exaggerated as they are striking. they go on to list word after word of folks announcing those warnings. what's striking to me madam speaker, is that if we had the same open process going on in the senate right now that the

rogers, for whom i have great respect, and mrs. lowey know we'll be back here some 20 days from today with this same debate because the senate has already said, a, they're not going to conference. when i say the senate, the democrats are not going to give 60 votes, as the republicans would not give 60 votes to go to conference on other bills in past years. what we did was we reversed the order of the legislation we're considering. had we done the original order, we would have done this motion to go to conference and the motion to instruct first. and as a result we would have still had the senate bill in the house of representatives to act responsibly, but there apparently was the fear that we might do that so that bill was sent back to the senate before we considered the c.r. for 21 days. so i urge my colleagues to vote yes on this motion to instruct. vote yes to at some point in time do what is the responsible and doable alternative. it's not a question of whether you like it or i like it. it is the alternative that we in the congress c

mrs. lowey: i rise today to urge the house to immediately take up and pass the bipartisan negotiated clean funding bill for the department of homeland security. by defeating the previous question on the pending rule we can immediately make in order the bipartisan clean negotiated homeland security bill and stop the theatrics over the president's use of executive orders. my colleague, ms. roybal-allard, and i made a similar attempt yesterday which was unfortunately defeated on a party-line vote. it's my sincere hope that my friends on the other side of the aisle have further discussed this issue amongst themselves and that he they are now prepared to end -- and that they are now prepared to end this standoff. mr. speaker, as of today we are 135 days into what should have been the start of the fiscal year. the situation this house has caused is completely unacceptable. we simply cannot wait one day longer, one more day to do the right thing. the responsible thing. and fund these critical agencies

mrs. lowey: i ask all members of the new york delegation, first to please join me here in the well. i ask unanimous consent to address the house out of order for one minute. yesterday evening a commuter train struck an automobile at a grade crossing in valhalla, new york. resulting in the deaths of six people and many others injured. i stand on the house floor today with my colleagues to call for a moment of silence to honor those who lost their lives in this tragic accident offer sincere condolences to the families of the victims pray to the -- for the full recovery of those injured and thank our first responders for quickly arriving at the scene to help others. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, five-minute voting will continue. the question is on the passage of the bill. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. >> mr. speaker. request a recorded vote. the speaker pro tempore: a recorded vote is requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their

mr. rogers, working with our ranking member, congresswoman lowey were able to put together 12 bills, which were a compromise compromised bills that everyone was prepared to support until you decided you were going to use immigration to hold hostage the national homeland security of our country. and so, kick the can to here. now you have kicked the can to here and now you are going to kick the can to march 19. what do you think is going to happen on march 19th. we have had two recesses today on this very day of congressional deliberation. what do you think you are going to accomplish if you are not going to grow up and bite the bullet. you made your point. your republican senators do not agree to drag this out. they have given you a face saving path. the judges have have given you a face-saving path. the urgency is very, very clear well, clear to e except those who happen to except in this chamber when your negative attitudes to president obama have so overwhelmed you that you are willing to jeopardize the homeland security of our country, the homeland security of our country, whether it's