and our military -- for things like schip and our military makes never sense. do you not have questions? i always look for you. all right. all right. reporter: mr. speaker, yesterday as steve bannon agered both republicans and democrats alike on the house intelligence committee after the white house invoked executive privilege said he should not answer questions during the transition during his time at the white house. is it appropriate invoke executive order -- speaker ryan: i am not familiar what happened yesterday. there has always been a tension on executive privilege between the legislative branch and the executive branch. his goes back to every administration. obama did, bush did, clinton did. that is a tension that happened. reporter: should bannon -- speaker ryan: i don't know the specifics on it. i really don't. casey. reporter: do you have enough republican votes to keep the government open this week? can you look at a dreamer in the eye and promise them they will put a stand-alone bill to help them regardless -- speaker ryan: look, we have been very

vote for schip today. vote for the c.r. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from new jersey reserves. the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. the gentlewoman from new york reserves. the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. mr. frelinghuysen: mr. chairman, i'm pleased to yield a minute to the gentleman from florida, mr. bill rakes i. the chair: -- mr. bilirakis. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized for one minute. mr. bilirakis: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank chairman walden and chairman burgess for all the hard work they've put into re-authorizing chip. this is a six-year re-authorization of the chip program, the longest chip re-authorization congress has ever passed. the house already passed a full chip authorization last year, by the way, we also re-authorized the community health centers. most democrats voted against that. democrats need to put politics aside and support the bill for the sake of our children. chip re-authorization will en

kids. 0n getting defence spending, the key to getting help for schip kids.think most american people believe that shutting down the government over this issue, which does not even ripen until march, is irresponsible. i havejust listed all the people who will be adversely impacted by this action. so we will keep on voting and the government may be heading into shutdown, but the senate will not. were open to talk. and resolve this. i don't think it makes the institution looks very responsible. the american people should expect that from us. better than this. mr president, sadly we are on the precipice of a government shutdown. the majority leader onlyjust allowed us to vote on a continuing resolution that he knew lacked the vote long before this our work. it is notjust vote long before this our work. it is not just democrats vote long before this our work. it is notjust democrats who vote long before this our work. it is not just democrats who will oppose this. several republicans did as well. all of today, mr president, we have endeavoured to reach an agreeme

vote for schip today. vote for the c.r. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from new jersey reserves. the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. the gentlewoman from new york reserves. the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. mr. frelinghuysen: mr. chairman, i'm pleased to yield a minute to the gentleman from florida, mr. bill rakes i. the chair: -- mr. bilirakis. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized for one minute. mr. bilirakis: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank chairman walden and chairman burgess for all the hard work they've put into re-authorizing chip. this is a six-year re-authorization of the chip program, the longest chip re-authorization congress has ever passed. the house already passed a full chip authorization last year, by the way, we also re-authorized the community health centers. most democrats voted against that. democrats need to put politics aside and support the bill for the sake of our children. chip re-authorization will en

vote for schip today. vote for the c.r. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from new jersey reserves. the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. the gentlewoman from new york reserves. the gentleman from new jersey is recognized. mr. frelinghuysen: mr. chairman, i'm pleased to yield a minute to the gentleman from florida, mr. bill rakes i. the chair: -- mr. bilirakis. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized for one minute. mr. bilirakis: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank chairman walden and chairman burgess for all the hard work they've put into re-authorizing chip. this is a six-year re-authorization of the chip program, the longest chip re-authorization congress has ever passed. the house already passed a full chip authorization last year, by the way, we also re-authorized the community health centers. most democrats voted against that. democrats need to put politics aside and support the bill for the sake of our children. chip re-authorization will en

on the senate floor, a colloquy of distinguished democratic senators talked extensively about the schip program for children's health, as having been somehow inadequately treated in the c.r. they helped to defeat. my colleague from south dakota pointed out just a few moments ago that in fact the -- that the continuing resolution provided for a six-year extension of the schip program for these 9 million americans. and yet somehow that became a reason -- it was a reason listed by my good friend from new jersey just a moment ago. i tuned into house proceedings yesterday and heard democrats there going on at length about community health centers a sudden. and then about flood and hurricane relief. we've heard on the floor tonight that a good reason to vote against the c.r. was that we just done it too many times. three times is okay. four times is just too many. of course, they propose yet another fourth c.r. -- it's only a c.r. that they would prefer to vote for. we hear them talk about tax cuts for the wealthy. the national institutes of health, opioids. this congress has done marvelous w

i understand the six-year schip extension the senate passed yesterday will be the longest extension in the program's history. its passage offers just one more testament, as if we needed one, to senator hatch's moral conviction, political skill, and care for the most vulnerable in our society. and it reminds us how much we'll miss his work when he retires at the end of this congress. on another matter, we have a long list of legislative priorities to tackle in the coming weeks, but legislation is not the only bipartisan business that the senate needs to handle. yesterday afternoon i filed cloture on three nominees to fill important positions in the administration. alex michael azar to serve as secretary of health and human services. sam brownback to serve as ambassador at large for international religious freedom. and jerome h. powell to serve as chairman of the federal reserve. today the senate is considering the nomination of mr. powell who brings with him degrees from princeton and georgetown and a record of high achievement in both the public and private sectors. since his nominatio

now, my friend the democratic leader now wants his members to pass a bill that allows schip to expire. apparently he now wants every democrat in the house of representatives to break their word and pass a separate funding bill of his own that does not address the illegal immigration issue they said they must have. so let's think about this for a minute. first he leads his own troops into a boxed canyon, then tells them it was really all for nothing. maybe it's time to come back to reality. we already have a bill that we know can pass the house because it already did. we have a bill that we know the president will sign into law because he's already committed to do just that. we know that with one noncontroversial and bipartisan vote, we can keep the government up and running. we can fund the children's health care program for six years, and we can give ourselves the time we need to finish ongoing negotiations on daca, border security, and the long-term needs of our military and, madam president, we could do all of that today. all of it. or -- or our democratic friends could continue to

we want to solve the schip problem and a variety of other issues that almost all of us agree on. we wanted to do it before tomorrow night. but my assumption at some point between now and tomorrow night 41 members of the opposition party are going to prevent us from passing a measure, the details of which they all support, because they can't get their way on this illegal immigration issue, which really only becomes urgent in march. i yield the floor. mr. schumer: madam president? the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. schumer: just a brief rejoinedder. first, there have been very good attempts, bipartisan attempts, to solve this problem. three democrats, three republicans met the problem right in the middle. it was the other side, your side, leader, that didn't want to go along with that agreement. it's a fair and decent agreement where each side gave. and it's an important agreement. and it's a vital agreement. and no one -- no one, no one -- has figured out a way to pass a bill independently in february. any vote, any bill that might get a majority of the republicans

because of the risk it puts to chip, schip. let me just talk about a story from my hometown. five military bases in the city of colorado springs. here's a headline from a local newspaper. a potential shutdown would hit hardest at colorado springs military base. there are men and women at fort carson, colorado, and across colorado springs, overseas deployed in our war on terror protecting us at home so that we can come to work each and every day, so we can have debates on the senate floor. 6,000 civilians are going to be furloughed if this government shutdown occurs. now, these are civilians who support the war on terror, who support our men and women in uniform around the globe and yet somehow shutting the government down, furloughing 6,000 civilians is deemed to be better than a four-week c.r.? only in washington can people claim that a bad bill should be replaced by a worse bill. only in washington can people decide that bad policy should be -- shouldn't be preferred over something that's worse. and that's exactly what the argument seems to be. they don't like it so make it

on the senate floor, a colloquy of distinguished democratic senators talked extensively about the schip program for children's health, as having been somehow inadequately treated in the c.r. they helped to defeat. my colleague from south dakota pointed out just a few moments ago that in fact the -- that the continuing resolution provided for a six-year extension of the schip program for these 9 million americans. and yet somehow that became a reason -- it was a reason listed by my good friend from new jersey just a moment ago. i tuned into house proceedings yesterday and heard democrats there going on at length about community health centers a sudden. and then about flood and hurricane relief. we've heard on the floor tonight that a good reason to vote against the c.r. was that we just done it too many times. three times is okay. four times is just too many. of course, they propose yet another fourth c.r. -- it's only a c.r. that they would prefer to vote for. we hear them talk about tax cuts for the wealthy. the national institutes of health, opioids. this congress has done marvelous w

military families, veterans, and thedren benefiting from schip program don't need to be shoved aside.they don't need to be shoved aside while we continue good-faith negotiations. amy: 100 daca recipient's lose their status every day. well, the debate over immigration could not only force a u.s. government shututdown. our next guestst argues that migrants and refugees ara a key political crisis worldwide. the united nations' refugee agency's most recent annual report says the number of displaced people worldwide has hit a record high, with more than 65 million people forcibly displaced from their homes across the globe -- that is 20 people forced to flee their homes every single minute. these refugees often face deadly journeys to reach safety. last week,k, humanitarian groups said dozens of refugees drowned when their b boat sank off the coast of libya en route to europe. this week, the arizona humanitarian group no more deaths accused u.s. border , patrol agents of routinely sabotaging or confiscating humanitarian aid left by activists near the border with mexico, condemning some mex

all senate finance committee democrats voted for a five-year schip expansion -- extension in october. so they've now actually voted against or threatening to vote against a program that senate democrats on the finance committee voted for. i guess in the immortal words of john kerry they were for it before they were against it. have they forgotten that if democrats shut down the government, nearly nine million kids could lose their chip coverage? and why? because we haven't yet been able to come up with an agreement on something, an immigration issue. but our deadline isn't until march. not today, not yesterday. it's march 5. we expect to get it done earlier. have they forgotten the 78% of defense workers that could be furloughed? laid off. active duty troops as well as guard and reserve members would not get paid. in virginia, there's some 178,000 federal workers. in maryland there are over 145,000. i hope they're on the phone calling their senators and their congress people. those are two states that are both represented by members prepared to shut down the government tonight. in tex

progress has to happen incrementally. 9 million kids will get health care with the reauthorization of schip and democrats live to fight another day. never count out chuck schumer. the battle certainly isn't over yet. >> michael, here is an issue that i keep thinking about. in 2013, that shutdown was over defunding obamacare. and part of what they made that so foolhardy we won't do it. do whatever you want, we won't do it. the white house keeps saying we want a daca deal. >> right. >> and mitch mcconnell says we want a daca deal. and paul ryan and everyone stroking their chin saying we want a daca deal. but do they actually? because i feel like they don't. >> what they want and what they can get are two different things. that's the reality of it. the individual you just mentioned, including the president, maybe that tuesday trump wants that daca deal. but the truth of the matter is the steve millers, the senator cots on the do no. >> and they have a veto? >> and they have a veto. and to the extent that they have the force in the house, which they do, and to the extent that they can slow the

all senate finance committee democrats voted for a five-year schip expansion -- extension in october. so they've now actually voted against or threatening to vote against a program that senate democrats on the finance committee voted for. i guess in the immortal words of john kerry they were for it before they were against it. have they forgotten that if democrats shut down the government, nearly nine million kids could lose their chip coverage? and why? because we haven't yet been able to come up with an agreement on something, an immigration issue. but our deadline isn't until march. not today, not yesterday. it's march 5. we expect to get it done earlier. have they forgotten the 78% of defense workers that could be furloughed? laid off. active duty troops as well as guard and reserve members would not get paid. in virginia, there's some 178,000 federal workers. in maryland there are over 145,000. i hope they're on the phone calling their senators and their congress people. those are two states that are both represented by members prepared to shut down the government tonight. in tex

i used to think the democrats thought the schip was bipartisan. that shows health insurance is a bipartisan bill. this was written by republicans and democrats. we have passed this extension twice this year. we will be bringing it to the fore again this week, because real deadlines are occurring this friday and the real deadlines that occur this friday are our men and women in uniform, and showed self-insurance insurance in many states that will run out of money. so that is what it is unconscionable to me they would block funding for our military or cut off funding for these dates it really will lose the funding for chip by playing these political games and tying them to unrelated issues. questions? >> could you just give us a general timeline how you see immigration debate playing out? obviously it will be done this week before the deadline but you see -- >> i think that's a deadline where all operating on, march 5 i think. look, these are talks that are occurring in earnest. we want to fix daca. we want it fixed daca in a balance race we don't h

schip became a necessity for those milies making the transition. prior tohe introduction of the original chip bill, i came across a number of families with parents who work but still could not afford private coverage for their children, yet they made too much to qualify for medicaid. senator kennedy and i designed our bill to fill this gap and meet those needs. today the chip program provides health insurance for about nine million children, needy children, every year. while the program isn't perfectly designed, though few programs are, it is widely considered to be one of the most efficient and cost-effective health care programs. for that reason, members from both parties have been supportive of the program since the day it was signed into law. last year with an extension deadline approaching, senator wyden, the ranking member of the finance committee, and i went to work on drafting another bipartisan chip bill, one that would make needed improvements to the program and extend it for an additional five years. we were successful. we introduced our

now, my friend the democratic leader now wants his members to pass a bill that allows schip to expire. apparently he now wants every democrat in the house of representatives to break their word and pass a separate funding bill of his own that does not address the illegal immigration issue they said they must have. so let's think about this for a minute. first he leads his own troops into a boxed canyon, then tells them it was really all for nothing. maybe it's time to come back to reality. we already have a bill that we know can pass the house because it already did. we have a bill that we know the president will sign into law because he's already committed to do just that. we know that with one noncontroversial and bipartisan vote, we can keep the government up and running. we can fund the children's health care program for six years, and we can give ourselves the time we need to finish ongoing negotiations on daca, border security, and the long-term needs of our military and, madam president, we could do all of that today. all of it. or -- or our democratic friends could continue to

we've talk about schip, we've talked about the delay in the cadillac tax, the medical device tax, talked about the fact that they're genre okay with -- generally okay with crs. we were asked to vote for something in 2013 that we did not approve of. that is not the circumstance here. here they are simply taking advantage of the situation to insert not only a new topic, but mark may have mentioned this earlier, they've now introduced even another topic. i think you heard mr. schumer earlier today, now they want to talk about bailing out union pension funds. that's a new $60 billion topic that has been interjected into the conversation today. so clearly, things are out of control on the senate side. >> do you really believe democrats are not negotiating in good faith and, therefore, this can't be resolved? >> i -- you can't, you can't -- i don't think it's ever fair to get into somebody else's mental statement. i don't want to speak to someone else's good faith. i'm just saying it's extraordinarily difficult to negotiate with people who won't vote for something they like in order to raise a

i used to think the democrats thought the schip bill was bipartisan, that children's health insurance was is bipartisan bill. this was written by democrats and republicans. we passed the extension twice this year. we will be bringing it to the floor again this week because real deadlines are occurring this friday. and the real deadlines that occur this friday are our men and women in uniform and children's health insurance in many states that will run out of money and so that is why it is unconscionable to me that they will block funding four our military or cut -- for our military or cut off children's health insurance and tying them to unrelated issues. questions. reporter: could you just give us a general timeline how you see immigration debate playing out? obviously it will be done this week before the spending eadline. do you see march as the deadline? speaker ryan: i think it is the deadline we are operating on, march 5. these are talks that are occurring in earnest. we want to fix daca in a balanced way so we don't have the same problem down the road. that's just pure common se

i used to think that the democrats thought the schip was bipartisan. health insurance is bipartisan bill. this was written by republicans and democrats. we passed this extension twice this year. we'll bring it to the floor this week because real deadlines occurring this friday. real deadlines that occur this friday are our men and women in uniform and children's health insurance that many states will run out of money. that it is why it is unconscionable would block funding for military or cut off funding for states that will lose their funding for chip playing political games and tied to unrelated issues. questions? stuart: now that was fairly forceful presentation by speaker ryan outlining the benefits of the tax cut. go. ashley: i think there is one thing the republicans are absolutely terrible about and that is messaging. paul ryan is good. he really needs to get into the face of democrats who call this tax reform inconsequential, pathetic crumbs, armageddon. it is clear that these tax cuts and bonuses and all the knock-on effects are having a treme

we want to solve the schip problem and a variety of other issues that almost all of us agree on. we wanted to do it before tomorrow night. but my assumption at some point between now and tomorrow night 41 members of the opposition party are going to prevent us from passing a measure, the details of which they all support, because they can't get their way on this illegal immigration issue, which really only becomes urgent in march. i yield the floor.

schip sue is for getting for kids and on and on and on. i think most people in america believe shutting down the government over this issue which doesn't even ripen until march is irresponsible. i just listed all of the people who are going to be adversely impacted by this action. so we're going to keep on voting and the government may be heading into shutdown, but the senate is not shutting down and we're open to talk. and to resolve this. i don't think it makes the institution look very responsible. the american people should expect better from us. than this. > mr. president, very sadly, we're on the precipice of a government shut down. he allowed us to vote on a resolution that he knew lacked the votes long before this hour. it is not just democrats who

they want families and low-income children to continue receive income through schip. they want a sensible solution on immigration. but they cannot for the life of them understand why -- why -- some senators would hold the entire country hostage until we arrive at a solution to a problem that doesn't fully materialize until march. military families, veterans, and children benefiting from the s chip program don't need to be shoved aside, don't need to be shoved aside while we continue good-faith negotiations. so we ought to pass this resolution, and we ought to get back to work.

they want families and low-income children to continue receive income through schip. they want a sensible solution on immigration. but they cannot for the life of them understand why -- why -- some senators would hold the entire country hostage until we arrive at a solution to a problem that doesn't fully materialize until march. military families, veterans, and children benefiting from the s chip program don't need to be shoved aside, don't need to be shoved aside while we continue good-faith negotiations. so we ought to pass this resolution, and we ought to get back to work. the presiding officer: the democratic leader. mr. schumer: i will have more to say after this vote on the motion to proceed which democrats will support, because we want to move forward. we want to get something done. we don't want to keep kicking the can down the road. but i just had to answer the leader briefly. the leader is looking to deflect blame, but it just won't work. we all know what the problem is. it's complete disaray on the republican side. the bottom line is very simple -- our lea