yesterday, we had to bills on , wasloor and one of them to say the shutdown is wrong and no to ablicans voted resolution that said shutdowns are wrong. only 21 voted yes on that and there was a federal employee pay their schedule pay consistent with federal pay for 29 votedary and only yes on that. 163 -- 161 voted no. what is fortunate is that we have a conference committee working in good spirit. the opening statements yesterday i think were promising. the house and senate, democrats and republicans, i take pride in the ability of the appropriations members to reach a consensus left to their own devices without any other interference. i look to them for guidance. they know their brief. they know the dollar amounts, they know the impact of investment and many of them have experienced this. i was very proud of our -- including a relatively new because he aguilar is the vice chair of the appropriations committee in the therefore one of the fewer than five term members. aspect of our caucus represented there. the border security, those took -- six contraries came forward in a conference a