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the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order, the prayer will be offered by guest chaplain head granthi giani jaswinder singh from pine hill new jersey. the chaplain: good morning. let us pray. al mighty god we call you by many names but you are one. keep your hand over the members of this house as they help steer the future of our great nation.

keep love in our hearts and sound judgment and in our minds. remind us of our purpose to love and serve another and create a more peaceful world. we ask blessings on to us as they work for the common good. give all this land humility, integrity and compassion. lead us from evil so we may selflessly help us remember that we belong to one family.

recognize the entire human race as one. we ask of theal mighty -- almighty, keep watch over our nations protect us who work tirelessly day and night to ensure our safety and our freedom. you are whatever is seen, my lord, you are one in the name everlasting, almighty god grace for the entire humanity.

the speaker: amen. the chair has examined the journal of the last day's proceedings and announces to the house her approval thereof. pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? mr. thompson: mr. speaker, pursuant to clause 1, rule 1, i demand a vote on agreeing to the speaker's approval of the journal. the speaker: the question is on agreeing to the speaker's approval of the journal. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the journal stands approved. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? mr. thompson: mr. speaker, i object to the vote on the grounds that a quorum is not present and i make a point of order that a quorum is not present. the speaker: pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this question are

postponed. the pledge of aleaningance will be -- allegiance will be led by the gentleman from mississippi, mr. thompson. mr. thompson: please join me in the pledge of aleanance. i pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the speaker: without objection, the gentleman from new jersey, mr. norcross, is recognized for one minute. mr. norcross: thank you, mr. speaker. it is my honor today to welcome the guest chaplain this morning.

giani singh proudly serves in my district. his spiritual leadership helped foster a vibrant sikh community. the history made today is a reminder that the united states welcomes and values and will remain committed to free expression of religion. giani singh has made south jersey proud today and it is an honor to be a part of this moment with him. and i want to thank him for leading the prayer and for the work he does in our community each and every day. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will entertain up to five further requests for one-minute speeches on each side of the aisle. for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> i ask to address the house, unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without

objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> madam speaker, i rise today to recognize former bishop high school football coach, tom irwin. over his four decades on the sideline and in the classroom, coach irwin taught thousands of young men to be team players, to work together for the common good, to sacrifice for one another, and to be men of character, both on the field and off of the field. mr. joyce: as one of coach irwin's former players, i personally am grateful for his leadership. through his words and his deeds, coach irwin taught his students what it meant to be an individual of faith, what it meant to pray, and to seek god's guidance during both victory and during defeat. leading teams of young men onto the football field, coach irwin prepared his students not only to confront the conflict of crossing the goal line, but to be prepared for the trials that

each man would face later throughout their lives. as a coach, as a teacher, as a mentor and a counselor, tom irwin has impacted the hearts and the souls of countless young students. both those who wore football pads and those who did not. thank you, madam speaker, and i yield. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will receive a message. the messenger: madam speaker, a message from the senate. the secretary: mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: madam secretary. the secretary: i have been directed by the senate to inform the house that the senate has passed, without an amendment, h.r. 5110, an act that may be cited as the protecting hunting heritage and education act. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> madam speaker, i ask for unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute.

>> thank you, madam speaker. i rise for the musical, mystical, magical mr. murray savar. murray, you have been the pied piper to more than 40 years, two generations of our community's young women and girls. students have been entranced by you and have literally found their voice and their agency under your spell. ms. houlahan: you are priceless and your life is an exemplar of the impact that one person, one teacher can have on hundreds of thousands of lives. an impact that you have had by joyfully meeting the m mundane where we are with a song every single day. southeastern pennsylvania is so lucky that you have called it home for so many years and so i am here, just one person, standing in on behalf of more than four decades of parents and students in our community. and to quote a song that you taught generations to love, i say, thank you for the music, forgiving it -- for giving it to

me. murray, your community loves you and wishes you god speed. thank you, madam speaker, and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? mr. thompson: madam speaker, i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. thompson: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, i rise today to remember the life of corporal francis james drewery of clearfield, pennsylvania. corporal francis drewery was reported missing on december 2, 1950, at 23 years old. corporal drewery was deemed missing during the battle with enemy forces near the chosen reservoir in north korea. on july 27, 2018, following the summit between president donald trump and north korean leader kim jong un, north korea returned the remains of 55 american service members killed during the korean war. following d.n.a. testing, corporal drewery was identified as one of those 55 members.

madam speaker, we still feel the pain of those missing from conflicts fought generations ago and we are forever indebted to their service. my prayers are with corporal drewery's family during this solemn time. it is my hope with his return his family is able to find peace and solace in knowing their loved one died a hero in service to the nation. thank you, madam speaker, and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from kentucky seek recognition? >> thank you, madam speaker. i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. mcgarvey: madam speaker, i rise today because i'm frustrated. i came here to work, to work across the aisle and get things done. but right-wing extremists are preventing us from doing our most important job, passing a

budget. it is catastrophic for our country, our community and our economy if extremist republicans shut down our government. let me be clear. kentuckians cannot afford a shutdown. 119,884 kentucky moms and babies will lose access to vital nutrition assistance. and nearly 556,000 snap recipients lose access to their benefits in a prolonged shutdown. 10,672 federal civilian workers in my district could be furloughed or have to work without pay. these are real consequences to republicans' harmful actions. so pass a spending bill. it's our job. and when you're done playing political games, we're ready to work together to avoid a disastrous shutdown. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without

objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you. madam speaker, i rise today to honor dr. beth pells, a criminal justice professor at the university of houston downtown, 30 years, folks. 30 years she served, helping countless criminal justice students and her community and now she's enjoying a well-deserved retirement. and throughout her career she helps students access scholarship funds to pursue higher education, with some of those funds extending to the university of houston downtown police academy. she also established a robert s. brow memorial scholarship fund to help criminal justice students. mr. nehls: dr. pell's helped law enforcement, assisted law enforcement in both houston and harris county, related to street and prison gang issues. she's an expert. in fact, dr. pell's played a very important role as one of my professors while i attended the school for my master's degree. dr. pell's helped shape and mold countless public servants and

law enforcement officers throughout her dedicated career. i thank her for mentoring me and helping prepare me to serve my community during my time as the sheriff. beth, i wish you the most well-deserved retirement after your tireless dedication to every student at university of houston, and those she helped in the community. you truly mean the world to me i love you. with that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new mexico seek recognition? without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. vasquez: madam speaker, i rise today to deliver a message on behalf of native american youth. as a representative of new mexico's second district with seven sovereign nations, i've recently heard from leaders from the center for native american youth who are deeply troubled about their future.

they're asking for congress to be good relatives. failing to pass an agreement means that over 30,000 native parents and caregivers who are federal workers are at risk of being unable to provide for their families. it means over 70,000 native students in head start, b.i.e. schools and tribal colleges and universities are at risk of a disruption in their education, harm to their mental health and food security. i proudly represent pueblos and navajo nation. a government shutdown is a failure to uphold the federal trust responsibility with real-life consequences that disproportionately impact native youth and their families. native youth from across the country are asking congress to do what is right. to find an agreement. to be good relatives. not just in new mexico, but across the country. thank you, madam speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman

from tennessee seek recognition? mr. burchett: i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. burchett: before i get started i would like to say how sorry i was to hear about senator feinstein. she was very kind to me every time i saw her and i miss that up here. madam speaker, i rise to honor staff sergeant earl jacobs who served this nation for 34 years. he moved to washington, d.c., after high school and entered the army in 1953 and worked as a come about the medic during the korean war. he spent his time in the helicopter's transportation unit and provided care for patients. staff sergeant jacobs received an honorable discharge in 1955.

he served in the 278th regiment and medical noncommissioned officer and radiological monitor and flight medical aid man. he retired from the tennessee army national guard in 1992. our country's heroes are the men and women of our armed forces like earl jacobs. we honor those who can dribble a basketball, throw a football or catch a baseball, but these are our real heroes. my honor to honor earl jacobs veteran of the month. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from texas seek recognition? >> i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without

objection. ms. garcia: i rise today to honor the 44 1/2 years of service and dedication of houston's own judge richard vara. a trailblazer in 1974 when he was appointed judge, he was 23 years old. with the time made him the youngest person selected to be appointed as justice of the peace, 23 years old. judge v arch ra grew up in the east end of houston graduating from austin high school, south texas college of law. the judge gt on his encounter with politics and people in fighting for all of us by going to meetings with his parents. the sense of service to the latino community remained with him throughout his service both in the courtroom and in the

community, the judge has exemplified commitment by bettering his community. he has created and volunteered for organizations in houston all aimed at improving the lives of countless people around him. congratulate judge richard vara. enjoy your retirement. you have earned it. god bless. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. mr. gaetz: the continuing resolution being offered is a bad deal for republicans. the entire premise of this c.r. if republicans surrender on every single issue except the border that it will be good politics because we will force democrats to defend bad border policy. surrender has been a virus that

has afflicted my fellow republicans for far too long. to prove the point, look at the border policies that we are fighting for. the border policies that republicans will argue for this morning represent a retreat from the border policies we took last fight. last night we said we wouldn't fund d.h.s. unless e-verify was passed. now we are saying mayorkas and the biden administration more money even if they don't pass e-verify. in the last 11 hours the republican border position has gotten weaker through this continuing resolution and i'm voting against it. we cannot be serious without e-verify and i will fight e-verify. 11 hours ago the republicans fought for e-verify and now it's sender. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for

what purpose does the gentleman from mississippi seek recognition? mr. thompson: unanimous consent cruck. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. thompson: i rise today to pay tribute to a valued member of our staff roslyn, who is retiring after more than two decades of exceptional service to the united states house of representatives. since 2007, roslyn has been the chief deputy counsel for the committee on homeland security why she has had enenviable track record of countless accomplishments and reaching bipartisan agreement. roslyn has been a steadfast and strategic partner of mine since i was named ranking member of the committee in 2005 and her service spans some two decades and we are so privileged to have had her. roslyn was working for former

congressman ken benson on september 11, 2001 and when her office was evacuated, she sheltered her colleagues in her basement apartment on capitol hill. six years later as chief counsel for the homeland security committee roslyn would spearhead conference and negotiations over legislation i introduced on behalf of the democratic majority to implement the recommendations of the 9/11 commission. it was called h.r. 1, and we thank her for that. i know roslyn's many accomplishments are a source of pride for her family and on behalf of the homeland security committee members past and present, the entire committee staff, i ask my colleagues to join me in congratulating on her retirement and wishing her all the best in the future.

i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? mr. reschenthaler: i call up house resolution 741 a and ask for its immediate consideration. resolved, that upon adoption o this resolution it shall be in order to consider in the house the bill h.r. 5525 making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2024, and for other purposes. all points of order against consideration of the bill are waived. the amendments printed in the report of the committee on rules accompanying this resolution shall be considered as adopted. the bill, as amended, shall be considered as read. all points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended, are waived. the previous question shall be considered as ordered on the bill, as amended, and on any further amendment thereto to final passage without

intervening motion except: 1, one hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on appropriations or their respective designees; and 2, on motion to recommit. section 2. upon passage of h.r. 5525 the title of such bill is amended to read as follows: ''reducing spending, securing the border, and for other purposes.''. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from from pennsylvania is recognized for one hour. mr. reschenthaler: i yield customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from massachusetts pending myself such time as i may consume. during consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for purpose of debate only. i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. reschenthaler: i rise in

support of this rule and in support of the underlying legislation. house resolution 741 provides for consideration of h.r. 5525 the spending reduction and border security act under a closed rule with debate controlled by the chair and ranking member on the committee of appropriations or respective designees and one motion to recommit. i support the underlying legislation which funds programs for our nation veterans, servicemembers and the department ofhomeland security while reducing other discretionary spending. h.r. 5525 secures our southern border by resuming crux of the wall and increases the number of border patrol agents and disincentivize mass illegal immigration. under the president's disastrous immigration poll situation, 7

million immigrants have come across and fentanyl and enough to kill every single person on the entire planet. this crisis will end through efforts of house republicans. this legislation includes an important provision authorized by the gentleman from michigan, which establishes a bipartisan commission that addresses our out of control debt. while the senate figures out what type of clothes to wear, house republicans has put a plan to avert a government shutdown and addresses the biden border crisis. i ask my colleagues to support this rule and i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. mcgovern: let me thank the gentleman from pennsylvania for yielding me the customary 30 minutes and i yield myself such time as i may consume. i want to take a moment to recognize the loss of our dear

colleague and historic trailblazer senator feinstein longest serving woman in the united states senate. she was a political giant and fought hard for her constituents in california and defended civil liberties and strong voice for national security as care of the senate intelligence committee. she broke more glass ceilings in her career than most thought was possible. and she will be missed and may she rest in peace. and now, madam speaker, i have the unfortunate task of turning to the business before us, a c.r. that the republicans have brought forward and again, and i mentioned legacy with regard to senator feinstein. is this your legacy? is this what you want people to remember your service by? this bill that was just dropped

on us a few hours ago that really is a piece of garbage. and that's putting it nicely. madam speaker, the clock is ticking. less than 40 hours from a total maga republican shutdown. less than 40 hours. and today we are here to consider the latest republican's continuing resolution that has absolutely no chance of becoming law. this version of the c.r. we are considering won't pass the senate. it just won't. hell, i don't think it's going to pass the house it's so bad. and it will not be signed into law by president biden. we all know that. we got this text late last night and thanks to democratic rules and appropriations staff, we have some preliminary analysis about what this c.r. means to

the american people. and let me tell you, the cuts in this bill are even worse than what was proposed before. they are going in the wrong direction. house republicans' earlier krferlt r. slashed essential programs 8%, 8% across the board mindless cuts. this new version has across the board cuts by 30 p% or more, by 30% or more. it's effectively a partial shutdown bill. they slash investments in cancer research. they eliminate public education by cutting funding for head start. they fail to support communities recovering from natural disasters and cuts money for wildfire suppression by 50%. haven't you been paying attention the wildfires in maui and western part of this states,

communities are desperate for help and my friends propose a bill that would cut money for wildfire suppression by 57%. what planet are my friends living on? they cut loans and grants for farmers in rural communities. they defund law enforcement. republicans want to talk about fentanyl, they cut money from the d.e.a. what are you thinking -- you can't make this stuff up, mr. speaker. if republicans get their way if this were to become law, up to one million seniors will be kicked off of meals on wheels. my friend from pennsylvania talks about we are upholding our obligation to protect our national security. i will remind the gentleman and my friends on the other side of the aisle, national security means more the number of bombs we have in the arsenal and

quality of life for our people and whether or not our senior citizens have security in their retirement years, it means whether they have access to food, it means whether or not people have jobs and people can have a decent living in this country. this bill just below zero that we expect w.i.c. to get at least a 30% cut. women, infants and children that will go hungry because of republicans' misplaced priorities. talk about cruelty. in the rules committee, just not too long ago this morning, i asked my friends who claim that they were well versed in all the details of this bill, is the 30% cut in w.i.c., am i understanding that accurately is, that correct? silence. how many women, infants and children will be cut off from the benefit if this were to pass?

silence. no one knows. we do know. thanks to the work of the staff, that it's a 30% cut. a 74% cut in liheap. a program that keeps americans warm during the winter. i come from the commonwealth of massachusetts. we have cold winters. the gentleman from comes from pennsylvania, it gets cold in pennsylvania too. you know, winter is coming. everybody represents constituencies that rely on this program to heat their homes. and my friends cut it by 74%. 74%. what are my friends thinking? give me a goddamn break. this is wrong. what are you doing? when it comes to keeping seniors warm or providing pregnant mothers and their babies food, republicans have a problem. but the sky's the limit if it's a defense contract, cost

overruns be damned. they have no problem for tax cuts or corporations or for millionaires or billionaires or -- no problem with heaping more subsidies, subsidy giveaways to the fossil fuel industry. let me just say, we do not share the same values. and this is proof of that, madam speaker. this is proof of that. this majority is a failure. the day speaker mccarthy handed his gavel over to the maga-q anone fringe, -- maga-qanon fringe, this was the inevitable result. the government will shut down tomorrow. let me say to my republican friended, you own this -- friends, you own this. you did this. and this is just plain stupid. stop wasting time and work with us to get this done in a bipartisan way.

and i urge my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to join with us in defeating this rule. i mean, we're wasting time today. this is a total waste of time. let's defeat this rule, force the rules committee to go back up and to come up with a rule that will allow a bipartisan bill to come before the floor. and let's end this clown show once and for all. the american people are watching. they're frustrated by all of this. and i hope that my friends on the other side of the aisle, my moderate friends on the other side of the aisle, will join us in defeating this rule. we appreciate the statements that have been made calling out the incompetence of the republican leadership, but now i think it is time to put your votes where your quotes are. we have to stop this. now is the time to send that message. and with that, i reserve my

time. the speaker pro tempore: members are reminded to refrain from the use of profanity. the gentleman from massachusetts reserves. the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. mr. reschenthaler: thank you, madam speaker. if my friend from massachusetts is worried about energy prices in boston, there's an easy solution. you can import liquefied natural gas from pennsylvania which is cheap and abundant. unfortunately democrats in new england and new york have refused to build the constitution pipeline which would actually bring l.n.g. into new england. so instead, people in boston are paying higher prices from the petroleum that's coming in from tankers from, guess where, russia. so, again, just complete circular logic from my friends across the eye. but let's talk about -- aisle. but let's talk about not only the high energy prices that the middle and working class have to pay because of democratic policy, let's also talk about how real wages are down. inflinflation adjusted average hourly wages were $11.39 when

biden took oches. they're now at $11.04. meaning that americans have seen a 3.1% pay cut under biden. you might think it's only 3.1%. but let's talk about inflation. prices have risen 17.4% since president biden took office. that is roughly a 20% cut. so who is really working for the middle class and looking out for the working class? it's not president biden. you also have another crisis which was totally ignored and that's the immigration crisis. before i yield to my good friend from new york, let's talk about new york. in new york, the immigration crisis has led to over 100,000 migrant arrivals in 2022, which the mayor says is destroying the city. new york city mayor eric adams said, and i quote, we are about to experience a financial tsunami that i don't think the city has ever experienced. end quote. the mayor also said that, and i quote, the national government has turned its back on new york

city. end quote. well, mayor, it's not -- it's not the national government that's turned its back on you. it's the democratic president and the democrats in congress. and with that, i yield five minutes to my good friend from new york, mr. lawler. mr. lawler: thank you, congressman reschenthaler. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. lawler: thank you, madam chair. 75% of americans believe we are headed in the wrong direction. according to neeferl single -- nearly every single national poll. nbc news recently had a poll that showed republicans outperformed democrats by 21 points on the question of who is better equipped to handle the economy. why? because bidenomics has been an absolute disaster. record inflation. skyrocketing energy prices.

higher grocery bills. people are struggling. this administration has increased spending by over $5 trillion in new spending in just two years. the american people elected a house republican majority to serve as a check and balance on this administration and on the senate. but also to govern. there are real challenges in this country. starting with our economy, our reckless out-of-control spending, the cost of living, our long-term debt, crossing $33 trillion. the fact that if we do nothing, social security and medicare will both go broke within the next decade. and then, of course,

immigration. and the crisis at our southern border. since joe biden took office, six million migrants have crossed our southern border. many of them illegally. asylum cases taking two to three years at minimum to be heard. this administration has failed to combat the malign influence of the cartels trafficking women and children, trafficking drugs, fentanyl, pouring into our communities, killing 70,000 americans just last year. it is shameful. and yet what do the american people see? they see a government on the precipice of a shutdown. now, my colleagues across the aisle will pin it squarely on the republicans. but let's be clear, through this

appropriations process we have now passed four appropriations bills through the house. senator schumer and senate democrats have passed exactly zero appropriations bills through the senate. zero. our fiscal year ends tomorrow. so congress has not done its work to pass these appropriations bills, either through the house or the senate. , by the september 30 deadline. and i agree with my colleagues and the house republican majority that we need to pass single subject appropriations bills. the committee has been doing that work. it's important work. but it takes time. it takes time to go line by line by line and break the way this

place has operated for three decades. and we need time to complete that work. shutting down the government will serve no purpose whatsoever. and in fact, it will tank an already fragile economy. because of the biden administration's policies. our veterans, our seniors, our active duty military, all of the employees within the federal government hurt by a shutdown. our stock market, our 401-k's impacted. there is absolutely no reason for a shutdown. and it is imperative that we in the house lead, that we govern, that we pass a continuing resolution to keep the

government funded short-term while we finish our work. people can blame leadership, people can say we should have done this back in july. i would remind some of those very people that they've refused to move rules. they refused to move some of these bills. because they wanted more cuts. and that's fine. that's democracy. unlike the prior speaker, this speaker has allowed -- mr. reschenthaler: i give an additional 30 seconds to my friend. mr. lawler: this speaker has allowed for this place to actually function as a democracy. he's not ruling it with an iron fist. so many people complained about the way that was previously run and now they kind of want it run like that again. it's not the way we should operate. we need to pass a c.r., any c.r.

in a divided government ultimately will be bipartisan. we all know that. there's no partisan c.r. that's going to become law in a divided government. but we have to negotiate. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. lawler: and we have to get to that point. mr. reschenthaler: reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. mcgovern: well, thank you, madam speaker. i appreciate the gentleman's commentary and his critique of republican leadership. but what i didn't hear is how he's going to vote on this rule. how he's going to vote on the underlying bill. i mean, the bottom line is, you know, quotes are fine but votes are better. votes are more important here. and this bill, by the way, this bill that we're talking about guts things like liheap, cuts it by 74%, which will impact people in new york, which will impact people in pennsylvania, and all over this country. so, the bottom line, madam speaker, is that if we want to get rid of the nonsense and get to the business of funding

government in a bipartisan way, then we need to stop this now, we need to sit in a room in a bipartisan way and figure this out. that's what the united states senate is doing. my republican friends have never once, never once talked to the democratic leadership here about trying to come up with a compromise. never once talked to our ranking members about how do we kind of come to a middle ground? it's always been their way or the highway. by the way, it's not just their way, it's their far-right wing way. going in the wrong direction. madam speaker, the c.r. we are considering in this rule is not just shameful, it is a partisan measure, it is also, as i've said, a complete waste of time. time we do not have. tomorrow the government shuts down. this will not keep the government open. it will not keep it functioning for the american people. it does the opposite. it ensures a shutdown will occur. and if anybody's concerned, if anybody's opposed to a shutdown, then stand with us now and say

no to this nonsense. madam speaker, i'm urging that we defeat the previous question and if we do, i will offer an amendment to the rule for swift consideration of the senate's bipartisan continuing resolution to fund the government after they send it to the house. once we receive the senate c.r., the chair and/or ranking member of the appropriations committee can call it up as a privileged question without further action from the rules committee. there will be one hour of debate and the house will have an up or down vote on keeping the government running while full-year fund something being negotiated -- funding is being negotiated. we can spend the bill straight to the president's desk and during the 2013 shutdown, a senate c.r. was privileged under the house rules until the republican majority turned that off. so, we aren't even at the procedural stage yet because house republicans have failed to advance any real plan to fund the government. they would they would rather fight with one another. some have openly called tore a government shutdown.

republican after republican saying they relish a government shutdown. we can fix this right now. if anything deserves to be privileged for consideration on this floor, it is a bill to keep the government open. that is so vitally important, madam speaker. and clearly, it's time for the adults in the room to step up to the plate. we need to give congress more time. i ask my moderates on the other side don't follow the fringe. it is my hope that some republicans who are interested in governing. reject this insanity of cheering on a government shutdown and abandon the sinking ship that is maga extremism. enough is enough and bipartisan c.r. would be temporary. we need the time to work all this stuff out. madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to insert the text of my

amendment into the record along with any extraneous materials immediately prior to the vote on the previous question. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. mcgovern: i yield four minutes to the gentleman from colorado, mr. neguse. mr. neguse: i thank the ranking member, i would say, if you believe that you don't want a shutdown -- if you are trying to prevent a shutdown, prove it. there's a simple way to prove it, madam speaker, defeat the previous question to consider a simple amendment, amendment that does one thing that lets this body take an up or down vote republican and democratic senate continuing resolution that is being negotiated as we speak. that's it. gives that resolution privilege so that this house can consider it, can take that up or down

vote and ensure that the government stays funded, madam speaker. but if you're not prepared to do that and my colleagues aren't prepared to do it, then spare us these supposed concerns for a government shutdown that you had geared from the start. you want to talk about blame, madam speaker? this is a quote, this is not my quote. this is not conservativism. this is stupidity. the idea that we are going to shut the government down when we don't control the senate, where we don't control the white house, these people can't define a win. they don't know how to take yes for an answer. it's a clown show. you keep running lunatics. this is what you are going to

have. these are not my words, madam. the speaker: , these are the words of the the gentleman from new york. if he doesn't want to be a part of this clown show. i don't think the american people disagree with him either. the house republican caucus is in dysfunction and chaos and easy way for him to lead this with republican senators, democratic senators, with your colleagues on this side of the aisle, defeat the previous question and support the amendment and let's have the debate on a bipartisan c.r. that keeps our government funded. i don't know how a member can vote for the previous question and deprive this body of an opportunity to vote on that bipartisan c.r. i don't know how you go back and

tell the tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands of troops and law enforcement officers and border patrol agents who will be forced to work without pay, that you decided that this body shouldn't vote on a stop gap measure to keep the government running. i don't know how you do that. but i can tell you this, the american people well understand the republican plan that they have brought to the floor. you do not get to have it both ways. you don't get to say that you support law enforcement and fentanyl interdiction and then put a bill on the floor that cuts the d.e.a., that cuts the f.b.i., that will harm state and local law enforcement officers. you do not get to say you care about public safety and put a bill on the floor that cuts more

than 50% wildland fire suppression like in states like colorado, the state i am honored to represent here in the united states congress. you don't get to have it both ways. the time for political games is over. we've got 24 hours to go, madam speaker. let's defeat the previous question and let's approve this amendment and keep the government up and running. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts reserves. the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. mr. reschenthaler: for purposes of rebutal, i yield two minutes. law law i love -- mr. lawler: i love to hear dncc talking points. he would not politicize in the meeting of the problem solvers. the dccc and house majority

forward announced million dollar ad campaigns attacking individuals like me on the shutdown when i said i oppose a shutdown. we know on the other side, they actually want a shutdown because they think it will benefit them politically. here's what you never hear from them. they don't want to deal with the border. they don't want to shut down the border, they don't want to deal with spending cuts. they want to increase spending. they don't want to deal with our long-term debt. they want to plow it through the roof. we have real challenges in this country and need to work in a bipartisan manner. when the new york city mayor saying the migrant and the governor of new york says there is no more room at the inn.

use of taxpayer money to housing health care, education and clothing to illegal immigrants and refusal to cooperate, spare me your righteous indignation. you are looking to use this as a vehicle to win back the majority. that's it. i am actually willing to work across the aisle and i signed onto the problem solvers' c.r. join us in that. not a single one of you have. the speaker pro tempore: members are reminded to direct their remarks to the chair. the gentleman from pennsylvania reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts. mr. mcgovern: i wonder if the d krmp c writes the gentleman's speeches. they quoted his words in a speech. talk is cheap around here.

and so, i mean, the choice is clear, the choice is clear and the gentleman has made clear where he stands. i am happy to yield two minutes to the distinguished member of the rules committee, ms. scanlon. ms. scanlon: so we are 37 hours, 6 minutes and 27 seconds away from a shutdown and unnecessary and devastating government shutdown after wasting weeks on right-wing messaging points and bills. but here, the majority has brought to this committee not a responsible short-term funding bill but partisan posturing, dangerous and unrealistic games to play indicate the factions in their party and well past time for chaos caucus to govern.

this colossal failure of the house speaker and republicans to keep the lights on across this country will cause harm to our economy and hardworking families. these aren't numbers but families whose lives will be upended. senior citizens won't be able to heat their homes because this c.r. cuts 74% from the liheap budget. $137 million cut to liheap in pennsylvania alone. 342,000 families counting on this family and left in the cold in october. just a few hours from now when those funds should be available. mothers and children will go hungry because w.i.c. will be cut. teachers will be cut because of draconian cuts to title i.

estimates that nearly 150,000 teachers and service providers will be cut from our public schools where they need the help the most. approximately 275,000 children will lose access to head start undermining early education and harming parents' ability to work. t.s.a. workers will be affected by delays. mr. mcgovern: i yield 30 seconds. ms. scanlon: last time the republicans shut down the government in 2018, we had to run food drives to feed t.s.a. workers who were required to show up and were not paid. they lost their cars doubling down on the harm. the republican shutdown is going to hurt working families, damage our economy, endanger our national security, force millions of our troops to work without pay all because speaker

mccarthy has turned over the house of representatives to the most extreme members of his caucus. democrats and bipartisan senate leadership and president biden are working together to keep the lights on. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts reserves. the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. mr. reschenthaler: i yield two minutes to the the gentlewoman from indiana, mrs. spartz. mrs. spartz: unfortunately mental memory is very strong in washington, d.c.. unform k street is powerful in washington, d.c.. but form we have people on the republican side that are willing to stand up the main street, willing to challenge their own leadership to deliver on issues of national security.

it used to be dlaibt but we used to be able to come together on issues of national security and our border security and our destructive debt situation is destroying american lives. and i hope the other side will join republicans to win this battle for the american political and shouldn't be a political issue. and if this government cannot deliver, maybe it is worth to shut it down if we cannot come together on this. it is not worth wile to represent the american people. i hope that the other side start actually not be afraid to challenge their own leadership and do something for this country because american people are sick and tired of this and we need to protect this country, if we don't save this republic

no one else will be able to defeat enemies foreign and domestic. nothing is extreme to secure the people and secure the border, i would appreciate the other side would support republicans and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. mcgovern: i would say to the gentlelady, we are not here to support republicans but our constituents. i ask unanimous consent to enter a statement of administration policy on this underlying bill. and if the president were presented with h.r. 5525, he would veto it. i yield three minutes to the the gentlewoman from new mexico. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. ms. leger fernandez: this extreme republican bill reveals their mean-spirited values more than any words they utter.

those values 275,000 young four-year-old children out of head start. republicans talk about fentanyl but then defend the law enforcement officers who seize this deadly drug. this bill deprives that brothers, sisters, daughter, friend of yours who is battling mental health acor addiction. don't talk about that unless you fund the health resources to tackle that. and slash b.i.a. funding by 30% and tribal law enforcement officers who are out there interdicting and protecting us from criminal activity. the c.r. really reveals who extreme republicans are.

shameless about hurting those most cutting programs for our world communities by to -- rural communities by 30%. i stand for rural america. this bill does not and puts down our ranchers and farmers. and if they don't get their way, what will they do? they'll shut the government down. let's remind everybody, every time we have a government shutdown of any note, it's because republicans did it under their leadership. and they hurt everybody in their process. and why? to protect the rich and the wealthy. to protect the rich and the wealthy, the extreme republicans will cut social security, they've said it, we have the words, they will do it. they will slash public school funding horribly, horribly for those schools that most need it. and they'll criminalize abortion over of. over and over again they have told us what they intend to do in their appropriation bills. they're going to make it hard

for women to get access to health care they need and they deserve everywhere. and with that, i would only say that this bill is shameless. i yield. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts reserves. the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. mr. reschenthaler: madam speaker, i'd like to yield my good friend from michigan five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. >> thank you and i appreciate the gentleman yielding. the short-term stop gap government funding measure we're debating here today not only keeps our government open, which is very important, it responsibly reduces spending, makes critical reforms to secure the border, and, importantly, contains the text of my bipartisan bill to establish a fiscal debt commission. heuz heuz the fiscal -- mr. huizenga: the fiscal commission act of 2023 now included in this bill will create a commission that proposes recommendations to finally tackle our nation's unsustainable debt trajectory in

the medium and the long term. furthermore, both chambers of congress will be required, madam chair, to take a vote on the commission's proposal. with this key provision, congress can no longer kick the can down the road on the rapidly growing threat of our national debt. given the bipartisan support of this legislation upon introduction, it is clear that both republicans and democrats understand that time is running out. the federal government is already spending more on interest on the national debt than it spends on children. something that my colleagues i know are very concerned about because they talk about it. the interest is already nearly more than what we spend on defense. and we are rapidly approaching a point where interest on the debt will be more than social security and medicare. in building the fiscal commission act of 2023, we learned from past commission mistakes and gave this legislation reality, practicality, urgency and clear goals for congress to come face to face with its massive

challenge. specifically, the commission is made up of 16 commissioners that include 12 members of congress, as well as four private sector experts that are selected by leaders of both the house and the senate. the commission is tasked with identifying policies to improve our fiscal situation in the medium term and to achieve a sustainable debt to g.d.p. ratio in the long-term. importantly, it will put forward solutions to ensure the solvency of our 20-plus trust funds for decades to come. the commission will also propose recommendations designed to balance the budget at the earliest reasonable date, including a minimum stabilizing the debt to g.d.p. ratio at or below 100% within 10 years. all while addressing the growth of direct spending and the gap between revenues and expenditures. the proposal will then come to congress in the days shortly after the 2024 election, where the house and senate must take up an up or down vote on the

recommendations without amendment and without delay. i'm proud to say that joining me in the introduction of the fiscal commission act of 2023 there were even a number -- there were an even number of republicans and democrats. so with this inclusion that the continuing resolution before us today -- inclusion of the continuing resolution before us today, i urge members on both sides of the aisle to keep our government open this week and secure our nation's fiscal future for generations to cup. with that, i yield back -- come. with that, i yield back to the gentleman. mr. reschenthaler: reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. mcgovern: i just remind the gentleman from michigan that if the republican shutdown moves forward, he has 5,607 people in his district who are federal employees who will lose their paycheck. and in the rules committee today, madam speaker, democrats offered an anticipated saying, yeah, we're happy to talk about how to keep social security and medicare solvent, but we want to guarantee that we're not going to cut people's benefits. and the republicans rejected that. so we know what this is about. this is about going after security and trying to make it

solvent by cutting people's benefits and democrats are against that. unequivocally. madam speaker, i would like to yield 1 1/2 minutes to the gentlewoman from texas, ms. jackson lee. ms. jackson lee: people of america are suffering. we've repeatedly told them that they are our priorities, but the people of america are suffering. why my colleagues insist on a government shutdown, which is what they are doing? blatantly they have violated the very agreement that speaker mccarthy and the president of the united states agreed to to be able to go forward on a funding scheme that would save the american people. but yet we stand here today where my very constituents in houston, texas, are going to have the soldiers that serve in our nation's military not paid. it's going to have $2 billion in loans to small businesses not given. it's going to stop $800,000

children not getting nutrition. it's going to top 456 million people from getting housing and yet we are standing here, that we are patriots. i don't want a government shutdown. food safety will be in essence in jeopardy. law enforcement will not be paid. these are the people who say we are pro-law enforcement but yet they will not be paid. and what goes on with the senate? it is a bipartisan resolution that if we vote on it today as it comes across, the government will stay open. i support the previous question because the people of america are suffering. and i don't expect this draconian cutting everything, losing salaries for the military, cutting out food benefits, cutting social security payment, cutting medicare payments, medicaid payments, to be our definition

of individuals who are standing here working for the american people. my commitment is to be here to insist that the government not close. i don't know why a commonsense continuing resolution cannot be passed. i do want to say that as this has been offered into the record, the president's statement, how can we run government, if a deal that was made by the speaker, mccarthy, cannot be kept that was made with the president of the united states on behalf of the people of this nation? so, as i stand here today, i want to insist that the people are suffering. let us stop their suffering, keep the government open. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. mr. reschenthaler: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield the gentleman from florida a minute and a half. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. gaetz: the house of representatives has passed funding bills to fund our veterans, our troops, our border patrol, our state and foreign ops. these are the core functions of government, the senate should take up and pass those bills to make sure those folks are paid

and they should do it today. but the rule we are on now advances a continuing resolution that weakens the republican position on strong border policies. just last night we passed a department of homeland security appropriations bill that was lashed to policy requirements at the department of homeland security. they had to do certain things to fix the border, to get the money. and one of those things was e-verify. last night we stood together and we demanded that e-verify be included if mayorkas wanted the money. and this continuing resolution that the rule we're on now would facilitate strips e-verify and takes it out. why would republicans just overnight back away from such a strong and necessary provision as e-verify? i will be voting against this continuing resolution because i want house republicans to have the strongest position on the border, the american people will come with us on that.

we've just got to have the courage to lead and not surrender. i know the big businesses don't want e-verify but we should want it anyway for the american worker. i thank the gentleman's indulgence and i yield back. mr. reschenthaler: reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i would just point out to the gentleman who just spoke that the senate can't even take up the homeland security appropriations bill because of the way the republican it's wrote the rule -- republicans wrote the rule was that they're not going to send it over until the senate passes h.r. 2, without changing a comma, and the president signs it into law. so lots of luck with that. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. mr. reschenthaler: let's remember that the senate has passed zero appropriations bills. i'd like to yield two minutes to my friend from arizona, mrs. lesko. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized. mrs. lesko: thank you. and thank you, mr. speaker. i am in support of funding the

government so our military, border patrol officers and other dedicated employees that are protecting our nation can continue with their job and get paid while they're doing it. i'm also in support of house republicans pushing and demanding that the senate secure our border by including the bill that we've already passed out of this house, h.r. 2. one of the biggest crises in our nation right now is the result of this administration's disastrous border policies. president biden's policies have allowed 233,000 border crossings in just august of this year. compared to 50,000 three years ago under president trump. biden has invited 211,000 additional migrants to fly directly into the united states

from their home foreign country. biden has accepted 263,000 additional migrants to apply for asylum via his new border one app. biden has allowed 151 migrants to enter our country that are on the terrorist watch list and that's just who we've caught. biden has allowed migrant women and children to get raped by cartels. his policies have allowed young migrant children to be sold into sex slavery. his policies have allowed fentanyl to flood our border and kill our citizens. this has got to stop. and republicans are here to stop it and protect our nation. house republicans have already passed a bill to secure our border that is now sitting over in the senate waiting to be heard. schumer won't even bring it up for a vote. it's time for the democrat-controlled senate to pass our border security bill.

it is time for the insanity at our southern border to end. it's time to pass this bill and pressure the democrats in the senate to secure the border and i yield back. mr. reschenthaler: reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from pennsylvania reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i yield 1 1/2 minutes to the gentleman from colorado, a distinguished member of the rules committee, mr. neguse. mr. neguse: i thank the ranking member for his indulgence. i come back to the floor to say, only in washington can you have members who claim they want to avoid a shutdown while they take every step to shut down the government. only in washington can you have members who claim to support law enforcement while they promote a bill that cuts funding for law enforcement. only in washington can you claim that you want to secure the border while engineering a shutdown that will force border patrol agents to work without pay. only in washington can you claim that this so-called debt

commission that they have designed will not harm programs like social security months after roll out a plan -- rolling out a plan that guts social security. my colleague from pennsylvania, he's a member of that group. the gentleman who spoke earlier, who apparently has proposed this amendment from michigan, he's a member of that group. why don't they be honest with the american people about their plans? because they know that the plan to cut social security is deeply unpopular. and yet they soldier on. 24 hours, mr. speaker, that's how much time we have. defeat the previous question. let's support the amendment to give an up or down vote on the bipartisan deal that republicans and senate democrats have been working on. let's keep the government up and running, let's avert this extreme republican government shutdown. with that, ranking member, i yield back. mr. speaker, i yield back to the

ranking member. the speaker pro tempore: does the gentleman from massachusetts reserve? mr. mcgovern: reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from massachusetts reserves. the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. mr. reschenthaler: thank you, mr. speaker. i would just ask my good friend from massachusetts if he has any further speakers. mr. mcgovern: no, i do not. mr. reschenthaler: i thought that was the case. just wanted to make sure. i am prepared to close and with that i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, may i inquire how much time remains for both sides? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has 3 1/2 minutes remaining. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i yield myself the remaining mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker, i yield myself the remaining time. mr. speaker, it's an absolute joke we're here today dealing with this, as i said at the beginning of my remarks, piece of garbage. that's what this is. it's not a serious attempt at legislating, it's a maga

republican press release at best and it's allowsy press release. all the priorities that are in this bill represent deep cuts to things that matter to democrats. yeah, when we talk about national security, we just don't only talk about the size of our military and the number of bombs we have, we talk about whether people in this country have access to jobs, whether they have food or whether or not we have good schools or people have access to health care, retirement security. we talk about things like the purity of our environment. my republican friends talk about bombs and they talk about tax cuts for the rich and big corporations. they don't care about the people that are at the heart and soul of our concerns on the democratic side. because if they did, they wouldn't cut and slash programs like w.i.c., the women's, infants and children's program, providing nutrition for low

income pregnant moms and newborn babies. they wouldn't cut liheap, a program that provides vulnerable people with help to heat their homes in the winter. they wouldn't cut it by 74%. who does that? who thinks like that? and who would come to the floor and defend that kind of garbage? so the bottom line is, we don't share the same values, it is that simple. and i am going to tell you, we're going to fight as hard as we can against all the things you claim you value in this book because this is not what america is about. basically this is about turning our back on people. this is essentially a government shutdown in and of itself. let me close with a couple comments to our moderate friends who go on msnbc and give all these quotes about how they want a balance and how they want this and how they criticize their

leadership and then come to the floor and vote with the majority. enough of that. you know, it is votes, not quotes that matter. it is votes, not quotes. so if you really want to avoid a government shutdown to the so-called moderates on the other side of the aisle, vote with us. vote no on the previous question so we can guarantee that the senate passed bill will have a vote here in the house. vote no on the rule so we don't have to waste time today arguing over this nonsense, this hard line right wing garbage that guts the heart and soul of our social safety net. we can do so much better. at the end of the day, we have to come together, democrats and republicans, and come up with a bill. my friends keep going in the wrong direction. they keep going further and further to the right. that's a road to nowhere. i mean, the senate, to their credit, democrats and republicans, are talking. you guys can't even talk with

yourselves. you're fighting among yourselves. maybe, this is a radical idea, maybe sit down and try to negotiate a bipartisan solution here because you control one half of one branch of government, and barely, but you never know it when you see this kind of stuff come to the floor. enough of the nonsense. people sent us here, at the minimum, to keep the lights on. you've got to do that. work with us. stop this nonsense. vote no on the previous question. vote no on this garbage. i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized. mr. reschenthaler: thank you, i'm prepared to close and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. reschenthaler: last week our national debt reached a record high of, wait for it, $33 trillion. this is a result of the white house, a result of the previous democrat controlled congress spending trillions outside of the appropriations process. let's remember, under democratic

control, we saw the highest inflation in over 40 years, we saw the highest interest rates in over 20 years, and we saw a 17% increase in consumer prices. that's why this underlying legislation establishes a bipartisan fiscal commission to get our nation on the right course. but this is just one of the many manufactured crises caused by the democrats' reckless far left policies. look at our southern border. at the southern border president biden's immigration policies caused a flood of illegal immigrants into our nation and itily his its fentanyl into our communities. last week our nation set a all time record for illegal crossings in a single year. over 25,000 pounds of fentanyl have also been trafficked across our southern border this year. to put that in perspective, this is enough to kill every single american citizen.

sadly, too many towns across my home state of pennsylvania have felt the consequences of the democrats' pro open border agenda. in pennsylvania alone, there were over 5,000 reported overdose deaths in 2022. not only is the white house doing nothing to address this crisis, the democrats' pro crime agenda actually encourages it. if you doubt me on that, take a look what happened in pittsburgh recently. in pittsburgh, law enforcement caught a drug trafficker with $2 million worth of fentanyl and to put that in perspective, that's enough to kill 35% of the population in pennsylvania. and then to make matters worse, a far left radical judge released that criminal on the streets the very next day, and he has since fled the state. this is absolutely ridiculous. house republicans are the only leaders in washington willing to do something about this.

thanks to republicans and our commitment to america, the underlying legislation will reduce our exploding national debt, avert a government shutdown, and secure our southern border. for those reasons i urge my colleagues to vote why on the previous yes and yes on the rule. i yield back my time and yield the previous question on the resolution. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields. the question is on ordering the previous question on the resolution. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. mcgovern: i ask for the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and remain standing until counted, a sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. pursuant to clause 9 of rule 20, this 15-minute vote on ordering the previous question will be followed by five-minute votes on adoption of the resolution, if

ordered, and agreeing to the speaker's approval of the journal, if ordered. this will be a 15-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.]

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 217 and nays are 207. the previous question is ordered. the question is on the adoption of the resolution. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. mr. mcgovern: mr. speaker? the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman rise? mr. mcgovern: i ask for a recorded vote. the speaker pro tempore: a recorded vote is requested. those favoring a recorded vote will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is

ordered. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this question are postponed. shhhhhh. the house will be in order. for what purpose does the gentlelady from california seek recognition? ms. pelosi: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute for the purpose -- the speaker pro tempore: without objection. ms. pelosi: thank you, mr. speaker. for the purpose of speaking with great sadness and emotion about the loss of our great senator, our senior senator from california, senator dianne feinstein. i do so, i say personally, as a friend, neighbor, and fellow san franciscan. we do so with great pride.

the longest serving woman senator from california. she came here with barbara boxer. she stayed on and left on her own terms. the first woman mayor of san francisco coming into office under sad circumstances but leading us with great dignity, with great effectiveness, and great leadership. much more will be said about it. we'll have so much time to talk and brag about dianne feinstein, her legacy will be a long one that we will all be inspired by, but today at this time, just hours since her passing, rather than talk about her, let us just pray that she rests in peace. in that regard, mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all present in the chambers, as well as members and staff throughout the capitol, to please rise for a moment of silence in

remembrance of the late, honorable, senator dianne feinstein. mr. pelosi: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: pursuan t to clause 8 of rule 20, the unfinished business is the vote on the adoption of house resolution 741 on which the yeas and nays are ordered. the clerk will report the title of the resolution. the clerk: house calendar number 40, house resolution 741, resolution providing for

consideration of the bill h.r. 5525, making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2024 and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the adoption of the resolution. members will record their votes by electronic device. this is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.]

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the speaker pro tempore: on this vote, the yeas are 218 and the nays are 210. the resolution is adopted.

without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table.

pursuan t to clause 8 of rule 20, the unfinished business on the question of agreeing to the speaker's approval of the journal which the chair will put de novo. the question is on agreeing to the aprfl of the speaker's journal. those in favor, say aye. those opposed, no. in the opinion of the chair, the journal stands approved.

the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. members, please take your conversations off the floor.

the house will be in order. members, please take your conversations off the floor. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california seek recognition? ms. pelosi: mr. speaker -- the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order. please take your conversations off the floor. ms. pelosi: thank you plrks speaker. with deep condolences and sympathy to senator feinstein's daughter katherine and granddaughter eileen, i offer a privileged be reeivement resolution and ask for its immediate consideration.

the speaker pro tempore: this is a resolution that is vitally important and should be heard. the clerk will report the resolution. the clerk: house resolution 74 # resolved that the house has heard with profound sorrow of the death of senator feinstein a senator from the state of california. resolved, that the clerk report these resolutions to the senate and transmit a copy thereof to the family of the deceased. resolved when the house adjourn today it adjourn as a further mark of respect in memory of the deceased senator. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the resolution is considered and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table.

for what purpose does the gentleman from florida, mr. diaz-balart, seek recognition? mr. diaz-balart: i call up house resolution 741 call up the bill h.r. 5525 and ask for its immediate consideration in the house. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: a bill making continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2024 and for other purposes. pursuant to house resolution 741 amendments printed in house report to 230 are adopted and the bill is considered.

the bill shall be debated for one hour equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking member of the committee on appropriations or their respective designees. the gentleman from florida, mr. diaz-balart, and the gentlewoman from connecticut, ms. delauro, each will control 30 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from florida. mr. diaz-balart: i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and include extraneous materials on the measure under consideration. i the speaker pro tempore: without objection mr. diaz-balart: i am proud to speak on the spending reduction and border security act of 2024. as we all know, the most basic duty that congress has and must complete every year is that

constitutional power of congress to fund the federal government. this bill, mr. speaker, will provide funding to keep our government open until october 31. so unless we act now, the government will shut down midnight on saturday. let's be very clear, mr. speaker, the house has already passed four appropriation bills. they constitute the majority of funding for our government. now unfortunately, the senate continues to sit on its hands and has failed to pass any of them, any of them thus far. and unfortunately, it's something we have seen something time and time again from our friends across this building. the country, mr. speaker, has nearly $32.9 trillion, trillion

with a t, mr. speaker, dollars in debt. and our deficit this year is $1.9 trillion dollars. the biden administration has gone on a crazy and irresponsible spending binge with money that we do not have to spend, money that is borrowed mostly from communist china. it is time, it is time that we slow this out of control, unsustainable spending to a level that is sustainable. yesterday, mr. speaker, i was proud that the house of representatives passed the state and foreign operations appropriations bill, one that i was pleased and honored to lead that cut wasteful spending while making crucial investments in our national security, all while

the total cost of that bill passed last night, is way below fiscal year 2015 spending levels. that bill that we passed will slow our spending by really taking discretionary spending back to fiscal year 2022 overall. now excluded from those reductions in this bill are any reductions from defense, veterans, homeland security and disaster relief. it is a very important start and well overdue to fund our priorities the american peoples' priorities but doing so in a responsible way that does not bankrupt the american taxpayer. mr. speaker, in addition, this bill provides flexibilities of the department of defense for new starts. but this bill does more than

just out of control spending. it will help stem the just inhumane tide at our southern border. our southern border is out of control. the biden administration has failed to do the bare minimum to secure our border. as i have said before, mr. speaker, it is beyond negligence and incompetence and it has fatal consequences that just irresponsible attitude of the biden administration when it comes to the southern border. in just the last few days, we have seen a surge at the border with an average of over 9,000 apprehensions each and every day. this is unsustainable. it's unthinkable and i would

add, it's immoral. mr. speaker, our border is out of control. actually, no, let me correct myself right here on the floor of the house, mr. speaker, no, it is controlled now 100% by the narco terrorists cartels on the mexican side of the border. that's who the administration hasc eded control of the southern border to and this crisis will continue to get worse and worse unless we act. earlier this year, the house approved the bill that i was just honored to lead, h.r. 2, the border security act of 2023. as you know, this bill would make changes to our immigration policies that would reclaim control of the southern border and i am proud to say that the spending reduction and border security act of 2024 which i am speaking about today includes

the border security act of 2023 already passed by this house. this bill provides a solution, this bill i'm talking about now, mentioning now, provides a solution to keep the government open. this bill keeps the government open, and it restrains the growth of government while giving us an opportunity to continue negotiation on the appropriation bills. so mr. speaker, i urge my colleagues to do the responsible thing, support this bill so that we can send it to the senate and keep the federal government open. that's what we are dealing with. that's what the vote is about. and i urge all of our colleagues to do the right thing and vote yes on this bill. i reserve the remaining part of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the

gentleman from florida reserves. the gentlewoman from connecticut is recognized. ms. delauro: thank you. i yield myself as much time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. delauro: i rise to oppose this resolution. if you cannot agree to the funding levels of 2024 in order to keep government open, you must pass a continuing resolution. a 30% slashing of the federal government only, quote, continues the majority's inability and unwillingness to govern responsibly. i would argue you can't call it a, quote, conservative resolution either. there's nothing conservative about the indiscriminate destruction of public investments in america's families. but regardless of what it is called, this bill inflicts serious consequences on the american people, whether it is signed into law, which it never will be, or because of the

costly shutdown it triggers. we are less than 48 hours from a government shutdown, and what do we have to show for it? the american people are tired of the double-speak coming from the majority. there are house republicans who have repeatedly assured the public that nobody wants a shutdown, and there are others who tell us they think a shutdown would be a good thing for the country. and maybe they are not worried about a shutdown because they know that members of congress will not miss a paycheck. i can speak for every democrat in the congress when i say we oppose this republican shutdown, a shutdown that will be devastating for our country. so what have the republicans offered as their effort to avoid

a government shutdown? what would this bill do? this bill would slash investments in cancer research, leave communities recovering from natural disasters out to dry, undercut allies with a $1 billion cut to israel, and further cuts to our support of ukraine. it defunds law enforcement by 30% and makes our communities less safe, and it takes food out of the mouths of millions. this bill raises costs on american families at a time when the cost of living is already too high. it cuts title 1 education funding, the bedrock of public education, to the tune of 150,000 teachers being pulled out of classrooms and 275,000 children would lose access to head start, undermining early education and making it harder for parents to work.

in an unprecedented move, the house republican bill cuts the low income home energy assistance program, the liheap program funding, by roughly 74%, more than five million households will lose their home heating or cooling benefits or have their benefits cut by hundreds of dollars, threatening their ability to heat their homes in winter or cool their homes in summer. house republicans are threatening public health by cutting food safety and inspection service by 30%. withouted a get inspection of our meat -- without adequate inspection of our meat and poultry factories. it raises the cost of food for american families and risks the

consumption of contaminated food. with the cuts in this bill, 400,000 fewer small businesses would be assisted by the small business administration. entrepreneurial development programs, this would have significant impact on small business owners especially among veterans, women, and native american entrepreneurs. this bill has no future. at best, it is dead on arrival in the senate and would never be signed by the president of the united states. everyone in this room knows that keeping the government operating and passing bills to fully fund the next fiscal year will require bipartisan cooperation. you need the house and the senate, democrats and republicans, to pass appropriation bills. and yet house republicans are

refusing to work with and negotiate with democrats. this is a pointless charade with grave consequences for the american people. house democrats are ready to work. we were ready in the spring. we were ready last week. we are ready this weekend. we are ready today, tomorrow, and every day to work in good faith with our colleagues on the other side of the aisle to meet the needs of the american people. let's get to work, serious work. thank you and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from connecticut reserves. the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. diaz-balart: mr. speaker, let's be very clear. we're going to know shortly who wants to shut down the government and who wants to keep it open because we're going to have a vote. and this in front of us today, this resolution, is to keep the government open. i know there's going to be a lot of talk.

but we're going to have a vote. if you vote for this resolution, it keeps the government open. and if you vote against it, government shuts down saturday night. that's not too complicated. the american people are smart. they get that. so all the talk that we're going to hear, we will know on that vote if you vote for this resolution, you're voting to keep the government open. if you vote against it, well, you're voting to shut it down. i now would like to yield two minutes to the distinguished chairman of the committee of natural resources, mr. weserman -- westerman, for two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. westerman: serving in congress means making big choices on the big stage that are chronicled in our votes. take out all the policy disagreements and after this debate, every member of the house will have a vote to make

and making choices is about setting priorities. house republicans have made it clear that cutting spending, securing the border, and keeping the government open while we finish the year long spending bills are our priorities. it's no secret based on previous actions that my friends across the aisle prioritize out of control spending and an open border. i guesstimate their priorities will outweigh keeping the government open. that's their choice. since president biden took office, our debt skyrocketed, inflation is strangling our citizens, thousands of pounds of fentanyl and millions of illegal immigrants, including more than 150 on the terror watch list, have poured over our southern border and into our communities. this immigration crisis is so bad the biden administration has resorted to building migrant

shelters in our national parks and waiving environmental laws to do it. this has to stop. the choices are clear. the conservative solution will avoid a government shutdown, secure our borders, and will keep us on track to restore fiscal sanity. a vote against this bill, let me be clear, a vote against this bill is a vote to continue down the path of out-of-control spending, to keep our borders open and to shut down the government. i've made my choice to vote yes, and i encourage others to do the same and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves back. the gentleman from florida reserves? mr. diaz-balart: yes, thank you, sir. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. delauro: with this bill you will cut 1, 460 teachers from your district and almost 46,000 households will be terminated

with their low income energy assistance benefits. with that let me yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from florida, the distinguished ranking member of the military construction and veterans' affairs subcommittee, ms. wassermann shultz. the speaker pro tempore: how long? ms. delauro: two minutes, i'm sorry. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for two minutes. ms. wassermann shultz: thank you. i rise in opposition to this so-called c.r. which is a maga gift basket to extremists. let's address the reality. the gutting cuts in this bill do not continue current funding like we've historically done in continuing resolutions. the so-called c.r. slashes cancer and alzheimer's research, defunds police and undercuts allies like israel and ukraine. republicans claim to care about our borders but this invites more immigration problems. instead of giving migrants the path to work and pay taxes, it leaves them to languish in

substandard prison also. this grab bag of garbage has no chance of becoming law and slingshots to a shutdown in 36 hours and it harms everyone from seniors and service members to this nation's most vulnerable in its very security and snarls small business loans and delays home loans and can force government contractors in chaos. my home state of florida will feel it first. the longer it drags, the deeper the airport lines will get as t.s.a. agents and traffic controllers go without pay and passport processing slows down. at worse, it makes our military serve without pay. don't forget in the 2019g.o.p. shutdown they forced coast guard members into food banks. it doesn't make america stronger. instead of making communities less safe and handcuffing fema's responsiveness which this c.r. does, why don't republicans join democrats to fight big phrma and lower drug prices like insulin instead of a shutdown which closes social security field

offices which this c.r. does and takes food from the mouths of children, why won't republicans join democrats to bolster education, health care and climate investment like americans want. why? because maga extremists don't want to make life better for all americans but inflict pain on our own leadership, our government and the american people. why? because it covers up their lack of agenda and excites their base and throws gas on their bonfires of distraction and chaos. america deserves better than that and so does this institution. i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentlewoman from connecticut reserves? ms. delauro: yes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. diaz-balart: thank you, mr. speaker. it's a privilege to yield to the chairman on the committee on the budget, mr. arrington, for two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. arrington: policies have consequences. over the last two years we've seen a string of self-inflicted crises because of my democrat

colleagues and this president. i'll give you two examples. $11 trillion over two years from my democrat colleagues. $6 trillion went to the national debt, all of which lit the fuse on this inflation firestorm, this cost of living crisis that is punishing working families from coast to coast. we've got to stop the spending that's bankrupting this great country of ours. this president's dereliction of duties to uphold the laws of the land, his failure to provide for a common defense, to defend our sovereign borders, and to put the safety and security of the american people first has created unmitigated and unprecedented crisis at the border where we are being flooded with criminal activity and drugs that are killing people 300 a day, leading cause of death in the united states. i've got a plan. we have a plan.

and my democratic colleagues are going to have to respond to that. we're going to fund the government and keep it open but we're going to give you measures to secure the border and prioritize the safety of the american people. and we're going to reduce the spending. we're going to save this country and our children's future while we're at it because that's the responsible thing to do, not only for our country and our citizens of our country but future generations of americans who will inherit the whirlwind if we don't start reining in this wasteful washington spending. i rise in support of the republican funding bill and i ask my colleagues to do the same. i yield back. mr. diaz-balart: reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from connecticut is recognized. ms. delauro: i would like the gentleman from texas the state of texas will lose -- almost

14,000 teachers. going to be tough to explain that to families when their children do not have a teacher in the classroom. in addition to that, 77,000 texans will lose their low-income energy assistance or have the benefits cut. going to be a tough time for folks come the cooler months or the warmer months for them to take advantage of this. i think people need to be mindful of the consequences of 30% cut or in the case of liheap a 74% cut that they are proposing here today. with that, i yield two minutes to the the gentlewoman from illinois. the speaker pro tempore: the gam -- the gentlewoman from illinois is recognized.

>> i have to remind my colleagues that we are a nation of immigrants. but you know what -- i'm going to come to this podium after republicans have a.m. niece where their families come from. introducing a continuing resolution that cuts services, ending asylum and shows the truth about my colleagues. they are more willing to scape goat and sacrifice immigrants, children, they say they care so much about, veterans, the elderly and people experiencing poverty that to do the hard work of owning up to their failures, hypocrisy. it is hypocritical to target immigrants when many of the people in this chamber have

reaped the benefits of immigrant labor and have become wealthy on the backs of immigrant sacrifice. let me tell you, because my mother tells me about her journey, it takes courage to cross the border, to seek a job and raise children in safety. this stands in contrast to the coward is of our colleagues. there is nothing noble or redeeming about this. it is time for a clean c.r. that does not scape goat the people this nation has been built on and for this reason, speaker, i will offer a motion to recommit back to the committee. i would have offered the motion with an important amendment to my bill. that amendment would strike the section that makes 30% cuts across the board. i ask unanimous consent to enter

into the record -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. >> i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: without objection the request is granted. reserve. the woman from connecticut reserves. the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. diaz-balart: i would remind my colleagues in the house just last year 900 immigrants died trying to cross the border. that is not humane. that is insane. and that we are not willing to look away and tolerate in the name of what? no. that is what is intolerable and i will not be lectured, mr. speaker when 900 migrants died to get to the united states, died. and when there are thousands of

children who are now missing that were supposed to be taken care of by the united states federal government. you don't hear about that. that is not humane. this legislation puts an end to that insanity. mr. speaker, now i am honored to yield to the gentleman from ohio, the chairman of the committee on judiciary, mr. jordan, for two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized mr. jordan: the fiscal year ends in 36 hours this bill funds the government. 33 trillion debt, this bill cuts spending. we have a border that's wide open. this bill secures the border. three simple commonsense things. the most important of these three is the one that mr. diaz-balart was talking about, the border situation. 2021 was the highest number on record for illegal migrants

entering until 2022 and that was the highest year on record until this year. that's how bad this is. and here's the important point, it's not just conservatives or republicans talking about securing the border. the mayor of new york said the crisis will destroy new york city. everyone in the country what needs to be done. this bill does it, does it in a commonsense way. reasonable cuts in spending to deal with the huge deficits but addresses the most pressing issue we have which is the border situation and everyone in the country knows it except democrats in the united states congress. i urge a yes vote. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentlewoman from connecticut. ms. delauro: i would like to let the gentleman now, 232,000 people in ohio will be without

low-income energy assistance benefits. and further, there will be 5500 teachers pulled out of classrooms and the families in those instances will suffer while the gentleman talks about issues that are not truly affecting what is happening in the every day lives of the people that he represents. with that, let me yield two minutes to the the gentlewoman from texas, ms. jackson lee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from texas is recognized for two minutes. ms. jackson lee: let me take a moment to offer my deepest sympathy to the people of california, her family and people of this nation for the passing of senator feinstein. this is a serious moment in history. this is a serious moment for

patriots and persons courageous enough to do the right thing. i started out this morning by saying it will be the american people that will suffer. it will be my neighbors in houston and fellow texans. we have a solution and i think it should be very clearly stated what my friends on the other side of the aisle are arguing, they are arguing chaos and confusion. they are arguing no solution. they are shouting from the top of their lungs to be heard and to generate excitement and social media, but we have a very calm solution. the senate has voted 77-19 to put forth a reasoned extension keeping the funding and making sure our military is being paid,

not cutting off women and infants and taking care of the firefighters in the west who are suffering after fighting fires and other natural disasters. they have a c.r. it will come here. it has a privileged status. that status will allow us to vote the government will be opened and engagement on issues that are in disagreement or agreement could be worked. but if we continue this shrill talk and don't reasonably act courageously as patriots and to be able to stop the suffering of the american people, we will have 50,000 pounds of cocaine because we won't have customs and border officers. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired -- ms. jackson lee: we'll have your children where parents are going to work will have no hid start

slots. 65,000 children will not have access to child care. seniors will be robbed of nutrition programs and 2.3 million infants, women and children without w.i.c. fewer teachers, 4,000 safety inspections and undermining law enforcement. if anyone wants to be shrill, here's the solution. bring the temperature down. pass the senate c.r. and stop these draconian cuts. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from connecticut reserves. the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. diaz-balart: i remind everyone what we are talking about today this keeps the government open. it secures the border and frankly reduces wasteful spending. that's what we are dealing with here. it is a real pleasure to the gentleman from tech as, mr. roy,

two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from tech as is recognized. mr. roy: i rise in support of this legislation strongly in support of this legislation. this is legislation that will make sure our troops are paid. it will make sure that our military can continue to do its job. it will make sure that our border is secure and it will simply return funding to the federal bureaucracy to precovid levels. that's what we are talking about here. that's what my colleagues on the other side of the of the aisle are upset about. we must have a budget so bloated or your life as you know it is going to end. when the declaration of independences was written, when our inalienable rights were drafted, those rights did not

come from this floor. that pursuit of happiness did not come from this floor or anywhere in this building because that building didn't exist. it didn't come from congress because congress didn't exist. no matter what happens heading into this weekend, whatever the result, there are 50 state governments that are continuing to operate. there are 3,000 counties, county governments operating. there are 20,000 city and municipalities with governments operating, 12,000 school districts operating. and we are supposed to take care of ourselves, families and communities not supposed to bankrupt our country and devalue the dollar and drive up inflation such that the american people can no longer afford to live and that's what my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are doing with blank checks, more spending.

that stops now. we stand up on this side of the aisle for sanity and a secure border. i support this legislation. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time the gentleman from florida reserves. the gentlewoman from connecticut is recognized. ms. delauro: i'm finding it hard to believe that wasteful spending on teachers who teach our youngsters and 14,000 of them will be gone in the state of texas. wasteful spending to deal with 77,000 people who will lose their liheap benefits. is that wasteful spending to have heat or cool. talk about the tax cuts that the other side of the aisle is willing to give to the richest corporations and tax cheats i might add as well. i yield two minutes to the gentleman from new york,

mr. espaillat. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized. mr. espaillat: i rise in strong objects the so-called spending reduction and border security act. you want border security, mr. speaker. let's do immigration reform and do ronald reagan did it when he looked at all the families and allowed them in so they could work and contribute to our economy. this is a reprehensible spending bill that slashes critical resources from working class families. house republicans are defunding law enforcement, the so-called party of law enforcement. something is happening in your district and something happening in your neighborhood and you call the police and they're late, blame these cuts on law enforcement. their response time will be

impacted dramatically. social security offices will be closing. i see the lines going around the block with seniors as early as 6:00 in the morning. guess what? they will be closing and taking food out of children's and families' mouths, impacting title 1 schools with property levels unseen poverty levels and title 3 students, english-language students and taking thousands and thousands of teachers out of the classroom. is this a way to avoid a shutdown. this hurts working class and middle class families that depend on these vital programs to survive and move forward. nearly 150,000 teachers and service providers will be removed from the classroom serving low-income students and students with disabilities. in addition to that,

approximately 275,000 kids will lose access to head start, head start. the only program the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman's time has expired. mr. espaillat: i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from connecticut reserves. the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. diaz-balart: it's a privilege to yield to a neighbor and a friend in my district from the great state of florida, mr. donalds, for two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. donalds: $33 million in debt and washington wants to continue to grow. inflation cripples every family in our country and 8% interest rates squeezing our real estate market and washington wants to grow and grow. our cities are overrun with migrants because of the reckless

policies of the president of the united states and fentanyl is killing 85,000 americans year over year. and the congressional democrats refuse to secure the border. mr. speaker, enough is enough. this bill does two very important things. number one, it turns our government back to precovid spending levels of 2019. 2019 is over. why can't the government live within its means? people have to live within their means. our government should as well. i remember when there was a baby formula shortage and mothers couldn't get food for their infants. joe biden was nowhere. congressional democrats were nowhere. all they said was spend more money while the problems persisted. when they're building shelters in parks in new york city to house migrants, congressional democrats say there's no issue at the border though everybody sees the problems that exist. this is the time to secure the border of our nation.

cut wasteless spending in our government. if year going to have a society and government worthy of the people that we serve, washington has to do something that washington never seems to want to do, america, restrain itself. we have a fundamental obligation to secure this nation and to secure the people that we all serve. coming out here, talking about what's going to happen with w.i.c. is not going to solve the problem. talking about the fiscal house of this -- fiscal health of this nation will solve the problem. our national debt has been downgraded twice now. the democrats want to spend more money. support this measure. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from yields back. the gentleman from florida reserves. the gentlewoman from connecticut is recognized. ms. delauro: to both the the gentlemen of florida, 8500 teachers gone. think of the kids going to school and there's no teacher for them. think about folks who need to

heat or cool their homes. we're looking at 36,000 households that will be without those benefits. do they really care about those folks? probably "sportscenter's not top 10". probably not. and as a democrat who took the lead on the infant formula crisis, i don't know where my colleague was during that crisis, and called to attention a company that knowingly sold tainted product and wound up killing three or four people. i don't know where he was during that effort. i know where i was and i know where the administration was. let me provide two minutes to the gentleman from mississippi, the distinguished ranking member of the homeland security committee, mr. thompson. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from mississippi is recognized for two minutes. mr. thompson: thank you very much, mr. speaker. and i thank the gentlelady from connecticut for the time.

i rise in strong opposition to h.r. 5525, a bill more designed to appease the extreme maga wing of the republican party than to stave off a government shutdown. with just hours remaining before our nation is struck into an unnecessary shutdown, the house is being forced to waste time on a measure that would impose draconian cuts to vital federal programs and compel the enactment of h.r. 2, the child deportation act. when we considered h.r. 2 in may, i called it a cruel, extreme, unworkable immigration and border security measure. time has not been kind to the bill. it still would wreck our economy, cripple our ports of industry, destroy the asylum system, criminalize visa overstays, force unaccompanied children into dangerous

situations, jail families and children indefinitely, and on top of all that, worsen conditions at the border. the child deportation act would upend c.b.p.'s ability to process migrants at ports of entry and borrow funding to humanitarian organizations that provide transportation and legal assistance to children and families fleeing horrific conditions. and it does nothing to stem the flow of deadly fentanyl in the united states. the senate will not take up h.r. 5525 and it will never go to the president's desk. the house must come together today and stop coddling extreme maga members looking to get former president trump's failed, illegal, and immoral policies enacted into law. i urge my colleagues to join me in defeating h.r. 5525 and call upon the speaker to have the house consider the senate's

bipartisan continuing resolution. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman yields back. the gentlewoman from reserves? ms. ms. delauro: reserves. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. diaz-balart: it's a privilege to yield to the gentleman from arizona whose life's story symbolizes what america's dream is all about, a member of the appropriations committee, for two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. >> thank you. we're living in a border crisis, the worst we've ever seen. mr. sisisky cities mr. ciscomani: the tucson sector where i live, we're seeing street releases, last week alone, 11,000 apprehensions and during this month about 40,000.

these are again annual numbers in the past and now they are -- what we consider almost on a weekly basis. now, i live on the county that's on the border. and we are seeing it firsthand. i know exactly how life is there. as mario diaz-balart, my good friend from florida mentioned, i'm an immigrant myself. i know the journey. i became a u.s. citizen in 2006 and became a u.s. congressman in 2022, 16 years later. i know this country is the country of opportunity and i get why people want to come here. however, this administration has allowed the cartels to run amuck and handle the border and abuse people while trying to do so. our local communities are suffering because of that. they hold the burden. i hear cries on both side of the aisles. i hear from mayors that are democrats, mayors that are republicans. it doesn't matter the party, they're all being impacted the same way. this administration has not prioritized this crisis. and i have to tell you, living on the border, i understand what

i call the three buckets, we can talk about immigration and trading commerce and we can talk about security and all three are suffering now because of the lack of attention on this issue, and it's also a humanitarian problem when this administration has lost track of 85,000 miners, it's nothing short in the humanitarian crisis as well and not even that will make them wake up to this. this is the worst time to be on the verge of a shutdown in less than 48 hours. we cannot shut down and have to do what we can to protect our border and keep our government funded. with that i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from florida reserves? mr. diaz-balart: may i inquire to the time remaining? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has 10 minutes. mr. diaz-balart: i would reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from connecticut is recognized. ms. delauro: let me remind the gentleman from arizona, there will be 6300 households in arizona who will be without the

low income energy assistance benefits. and this is not -- these are not numbers, these are people. and what's happening in their lives. and how we are making it more difficult at a time when there is serious inflation, when there is in fact a high cost of living. my colleagues on the other side of the aisle are only adding and increasing to that high cost of living. i might also remind the gentleman from arizona that we are looking at about 2800 teachers. now, again, this is just not a number. children go to school. if there is no teacher to teach them, what is the result? what happens to parents when they find out that their teachers are gone? and now there's a teaching

shortage. this will make it even worse. that is the result of the cuts that my colleagues on the other side of the aisle want to make. it's there. it's in black and white. you can't make up the numbers. with that, i'm proud to be able to yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from michigan. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for two minutes. >> thanks so much. there are human beings behind every number we talk about. but folks want to debate policy and different kinds of extremist agenda items when they're in charge. ms. tlaib: they can have committee hearings and deal with it separately. right now we're literally hours away from direct impact to families and even federal workers, many of which are living paycheck to paycheck. a government shutdown will harm the american people and that needs to be at the center of the urgency in this chamber as we move forward. in michigan i'm going to see

2 -- 200,000 lose w.i.c. that provides nutrition assistance and nearly 100,000 of them are directly children. i still remember, mr. chair, in 2019 there was a shutdown for 35 days. colleagues were wondering why the federal workers were in food bank lines. why can't they get loans some of them said? what are you talking about? these are federal workers you're expecting for a whole month where not only federal employees are living paycheck to paycheck and you're expecting them to pay their rent and get food on the table and all the utilities that continue to go up but let's cut liheap by 75%. republicans' priorities in this chamber are clear, starve, evict families living in poverty, and cut people from essential services. but they don't care. you don't care because you'll continue to get paid. y'all will continue to get paid while your residents are getting impacted. and if i hear one more time you

lying to the american people and say federal employees will get paid, they're not. they'll be forced to work without pay, especially those on our military bases and those that are on the frontlines that cannot sit at home while y'all fight among each other. it's time for republicans to stop playing these games with the american people's lives. they know it's an extremist bill. many of them know it's not going anywhere. the american people deserve better. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. members are reminded to direct your remarks to the chair. ms. delauro: reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. diaz-balart: thank you, mr. speaker. i'd now like to yield to the gentleman from texas, mr. pfluger, for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. pfluger: i thank the chair. thank you. i rise in strong support of the house republican's plan to cut spending and keep the government

open and to shut down the border. the president has failed americans. he's failed texans. he's failed us but not securing our border. 7.5 million illegal immigrants, 150 people just this year who matched the terror watch list, 100,000 plus fentanyl poisoning deaths. it's unacceptable. enough is enough. this plan which also would include h.r. 2, the most secure border act in decades, puts the president on notice. now is the time. this is the most important border security vote in 20 years. this vote right here not only cuts spending but it shuts down the border and the disaster and chaos and unacceptable level of death our president has caused. this bill deserves our attention. i urge my colleagues to cut the spending to keep the government open and to shut down the border and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired.

mr. diaz-balart: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from connecticut is recognized. ms. delauro: i remind the gentleman from texas the eyes from texas are upon you when you're thinking about really 77,000 seniors, kids without any benefits from the low income energy assistance program, and also 14,000 teachers that will be gone from texas schools. with that, let me yield 1 1/2 minutes to the gentlewoman from new york, ms. clarke. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york is recognized for 1 1/2 minutes. ms. clarke: mr. speaker, i rise on this day in opposition to the continuing resolution which includes the republican extreme and restrictive immigration and border security legislation, h.r. 2. this cruel legislation would force draconian restrictions and punishments on migrants and asylum seekers and set america's

immigration priorities back decades. this bill would damage the asylum process, millions upon let's be clear. any bill that would allow migrant children to be detained for up to a month to be ripped from their families and locked up from the world is unacceptable and fundamentally unamerican. to treat npt people who are looking for a better life in our nation while putting american families vulnerable to put food on their tables.

that's not leadership. every american no matter how long call this country their own should be outraged at the g.o.p. embracing the trump administration failed and immoral border policies to keep the government open. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. the gentlewoman from connecticut reseverance. the gentleman from florida. mr. diaz-balart: i yield to mr. johnson for two minutes from south dakota. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. johnson: as you know so often around here we vote on hair measures and bills that are in a modest way. this is not this bill. this is an opportunity and one vote to shut the border and keep the government open and reduce spending. the five conservative leaders crafted this proposal knew that

bold action was needed. crisis one, for $33 trillion in debt that is pushing us towards insolvency and has grown by 50% in the last four years. this bill puts us back on the right track and cuts billions of spending even in the next month. number two, a shutdown accomplishes nothing. it does not save a nickel but costs american taxpayers millions. and number three, 1.8 million illegal crossings at our southern border is unacceptable. this bill puts into place the policies that we know work to secure our border. i'll admit to not understanding fully those who oppose this bill. i do not understand why anyone would choose open borders over

an open government. mr. speaker, we are here to solve problems. chaos is not a legislative strategy. in a few moments i will vote to keep the government open to cut spending and secure our border. i urge my colleagues to do the same and i yield. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time the gentleman from florida reserves. the gentlewoman from connecticut is recognized. ms. delauro: almost laughable to think about chaos. the ma jofort has demonstrated overwhelmingly the last several days and months unwillingness and inability to govern and chaos, general chaos here. the gentleman from south dakota where last i understood little bit like the northeast and new england, where it gets cold. it gets cold in the winter time in south dakota.

but the gentleman is happy to see 24,000 individuals not get energy assistance, low income heating assistance. maybe taking up a collection of hats and coats and gloves, hornets because they are not going to get their liheap benefits in a cold climate. with that, i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from connecticut reserves. the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. diaz-balart: i am pleased to yield to the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. grothman for one minute. mr. grothman: we are here today the government going to shut down on sunday because there are supposed to be 12 separate bills that comprise our budget that was supposed to be passed now. we have passed the you four most

important. the senate hasn't passed any. we don't know what the shutdown means. i hope the press is on the ball and pays careful attention, if anything is shut down that president trump did not shut down a few years ago. there is a lot of flexibility for presidents to show their compassion or not. if there is anything that president trump doesn't shut down. listen to the problems. two big things, going on at the border. 10,000 people cross the border a month. we are addressing it. the american public are tired and seeing an open border every night. we have to pass the bill. we have to make a dent on the out of control spending. in any event, i urge my colleagues to vote yes on h.r. 5525.

mr. diaz-balart: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from connecticut is recognized. ms. delauro: i want to let the gentleman know 195,000 households are beneficiaries of the lie heap program. if you think it's cold in this chamber, head to wisconsin and you'll know how cold it is in the wirm time. think twice about whether or not you will vote to cut 195,000 peoples' benefits. i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman reserves. the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. diaz-balart: i yield to the distinguished the gentleman from georgia, mr. scott, for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized mr. scott: i thought i would go ahead and respond because as soon as i sit down the gentlelady is going to talk about the school teachers in georgia and my sister and she

gets the check from the county. it bothers me you think they get the check from the federal government. they get paid by the county. how do we get there. the left talked about the chaos caucus candidly and what gives them the power. well, it only takes five of them to create a disruption. and how do five get the power? the five in our party get the power because 212 of you on the democratic side are going to vote with them to shut down the government. a continuing resolution is a 30-day piece of legislation i will admit is not perfect and better than a shutdown and we as republicans and the american citizens have to eat a $2 trillion deficit is absolutely ridiculous. we are not at war.

we are not in a recession and no health emergency. show a little responsibility. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired mr. diaz-balart: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. remind members please direct your remarks to the chair. ms. delauro: reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady reserves. the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. diaz-balart: pleasure to yield to the the gentlewoman from new york. the speaker pro tempore: for how much time? mr. diaz-balart: one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for one minute. >> i hope the american people are listening right now that the democrats would rather shut down government than unsustainable and unsafe border crisis that has flooded our streets with fentanyl and illegal immigrants destroying new york city as mayor adams says and only enriching the drug cartels. this bill is common sense.

it does three things things that the american people want, avoids a shutdown, cuts excessive wasteful spending and led us to $33 trillion debt and stops an unsustainable crisis. put tax paying hardworking american citizens and their safety first. my colleague from new york city that this is cruel. you know what's cruel? a 7-year-old girl was sexually abused. you know what was ruled that someone was established at the roosevelt shelter in manhattan and dozens of crimes are being committed and you are doing nothing about it. mr. diaz-balart: i would like to inquire how much time is remaining. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman has 41/4 minutes.

and the gentlelady from connecticut has 3 1/2. ms. delauro: i find it unbelievable that the gentlewoman from new york would support a bill that cuts money from ourial eye and i reserve. the chair: the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. diaz-balart: i yield to the gentleman from from arkansas for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized mr. hill: i thank the chairman from florida. this is an important day, mr. speaker. this congress needs to come together to go back and get our spending under control and also get our border under control, both of which are concern to the american people. we hear it in our offices every day. spending is unsustainable, 2,000 people a month coming across the border and living in this

country illegally is unsustainable. this is a product of hard work for weeks to give us time to complete our appropriations work and negotiate with the senate while at the same time reducing spending that has been an avalanche of out of control spending for the last two years and secure our border. i urge my colleagues to support it. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time the gentleman from florida. mr. diaz-balart: i reserve. ms. delauro: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. diaz-balart: i yield 1 1/2 minutes to the gentleman from new york. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 1 1/2 minutes. >> after pouring trillions of dollars into the american economy and after ignoring the crisis at our southern border, after closing schools and forcing kids to learn from home, after denying life-affirming

services to young people with disabilities we have been lectured to about how great these last two years have been for the american people. we have in this very moment the ability to avert a government shutdown and at the same time to take some responsibility for reckless, wasteful federal spending. this is no excuse to pick the pockets of hardworking american families who are already overburdened because of inflation, high cost of gas and groceries, inability to access or find a job, running up their credit cards. we have the ability to avert a government shutdown, control government spending and secure the border, an open border that is taking too many american children's lives because of fentanyl and destroying communities. the mayor of new york saying the president has ignored his call and that inaction at the border is destroying the city of new

york. we have the ability to avert a shutdown, respect american taxpayers and secure the american borders. and with that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. diaz-balart: i would like to inquire of the ranking member of the full appropriations committee if she has any further speakers? ms. delauro: no, i don't. i yield to you to close. mr. diaz-balart: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida reserves. the gentlelady from connecticut is recognized for the purpose of closing. ms. delauro: what we are looking here is at a piece of legislation that makes a 30% cut in programs that have a serious, serious effect on the lives of the people in this country.

let me just lay out some of them because these have not been talked about so far. the national institutes of health will be cut. there would be a reduction of 7,000 research grants. i'm a cancer survivor and we have people in this chamber on both sides of the aisle who have a loved one with a cancer diagnosis, alzheimer's or heart disease but there is a willingness to cut 7,000 research grants. look at our ally and israel and ukraine and israel will receive a $1 billion cut in the funds that the u.s. provides and we talk about israel as being our closest ally in the middle east. people should understand what is people should ups what's in this

bill. we defund -- not we, my republican colleague defund law enforcement. redeuces federal law enforcement officer, eliminates hundreds of state and local law enforcement. and they talk about crime, they talk about law and order. but there's a willingness to cut the funds in order for us to make our communities safe. social security offices. the field offices. would be forced to close down. reduce access to in-person services. people applying for disability benefits will wait additional months for the processes, that's what is in store nor bill if you support it. wild fire suppression efforts will be hindered. 57% cut and we know what devastation wildfires have had all over our country. look at what happened in maui. unbelievable. that they would talk about a

bill and talk -- and extol a bill that has such devastate regular percussions on the people this country. they slashed the resources for the 988 suicide crisis line. opioid use disorder. they talk about worried about the opioid crisis but let's cut off the avenue where people can get treatment and help and potentially save their lives. education. it is an abomination what they will do to education. because they're on a march to eliminate public education in the united states. that opportunitier that all of our families have said, go to school, get an education so you can succeed. rural america? let's care about rural america. not cutting the loans and grants for farmers and rural communities. they will make it harder for farmers to access loans and grants, to make home ownership more difficult. they cut rural house, rural you

tillties, broadband. to keep people in touch. and they eliminate health services for rural and underserved families. two million vulnerable individuals and families will lose access to health care services. they take food out of the mouths of children. fam -- out of the mouths of children, families and seniors. mr. speaker, there needs to be a no vote on this irresponsible continuing resolution. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman from florida is recognize -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from florida is recognized. mr. thrart: oh, so many words. we have a choice right now to vote yes to keep the federal government open, to control inflation-causing overspending, and to secure the southern border. that's a yes vote.

or vote no to shut down the federal government, to keep the narco cartels in control of the southern border. this is simple. government likes to complicate things but this is simple. we have a choice. i ask our colleagues to do the responsible thing. secure the border. stop out of control inflation-causing spending, and yes, keep the government open by voting yes. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. pursuant to house resolution 741, the -- the question is ordered on the bill as amended. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. third reading. the clerk: a bill making

continuing premises for fiscal year 2024 and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from illinois seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i have a motion to recommit at the desk. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the motion. the clerk: mrs. ramirez of illinois moves to recommit the bill h.r. 2325 to the committee. the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion to recommit. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the noes have it. the motion is not agreed to. ms.mrs. ramirez: i ask for the s and nays. the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. those favoring a vote by the yeas and nays will rise. a sufficient number having risen, the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. pursuant to clause 9 of rule 20, the chair rill reduce to five

minutes the minimum time for electronic vote on the question of pass aiming. this is a 15-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.]

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote, the yeas are 210 and the nays are 216. the motion is not adopted. question is on passage of the bill. those in favor, say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. the bill is passed, and -- the gentlelady from connecticut. ms. delauro: i ask for the yeas and nays.

the speaker pro tempore: the yeas and nays are requested. those favoring a vote will rise. a sufficient number having arisen, a vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.]

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 198, the nays are 232. the bill is not passed. without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table.

the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order.

the house will be in order. members, please take your conversations off the floor. the chair will now entertain requests for one-minute speeches.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recog recognition? >> i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for one minute. mr. payne: mr. speaker -- the speaker pro tempore: the house will be in order.

members please take your conversations outside, please. the gentleman from new jersey will continue. mr. payne: i rise today to honor the late u.s. senator feinstein. as a senator, she served the people of california for 31 years and longest serving female senator in american history. senator feinstein was a true trailblazer. first woman elected to the san francisco board of supervisors. first woman elected to serve as san francisco's mayor. and as a senator, she was the first woman to chair the powerful senate rules and senate intelligence committees. senator feinstein leaves a legacy of incredible accomplishment. she wrote the popular assault

weapons ban in 1994, a ban that we need to re-introduce today and created the nation wide amber alert to help communities find abducted children and re-authorized women against violence act. she was a strong advocate for women and betterment of all americans and will be missed in the senate and in california. and with that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? >> i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection the gentleman from new york is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker, i rise today in honor of childhood cancer awareness month. it is being observed through the end of september. during this period of

reflection, americans from coast to coast honor our nation's youngest warriors and their battle against pediatric cancer and recommit to find a cure to such a terrible disease. one of those is one-year-old cooper graham of oceanside, new york, who is fighting the good fight at such a young age. cooper is a tough little guy, always with a smile and i know all long islanders are standing with him and his fight right along his parents michael and rachel and big sister riley. during childhood cancer awareness month we are coop's troops and we will stand with childhood canner warriors. cooper, we all remain coop strong. i yield back.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for one minute. >> i rise today to ask why, why are with hours to go before a government shutdown wasting precious time debating bills that are so extreme and so backwards they have no chance of becoming law. why this week have we spent more time voting to defund individual salaries of public servants than passing a bill to prevent millions from going unpaid. why are we focused on the baseless impeachment inquiry if we do not prevent a shutdown, we are asking our military, law enforcement officers and t.s.a. and traffic controllers all to come to work and protect our

nation without a paycheck. thousands of families in my district are being put at risk as well as millions more. s.b.a. loans, taxpayer assistance and social security services. mr. speaker, i ask why. i also ask when, when will this chamber get back and off insanity island and budget. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition? mr. carter: i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection mr. carter: mr. speaker, i rise today in remembrance of william buck crosby. he served as an indicator of chemistry and biology and retired as interim superintendent of glen county schools. he was a member of the ymca board and held the position of

first vice president. he was a recipient of many awards in his community including being inducted into the benedict college class of 2023 athletic hall of fame and first and only african-american chairman of the hospital authority. and he was the first african-american to receive the 10th bishop of georgia's bishop award. he will be remembered a teacher, administrator, a friend to all and capital for all of us to live up to. i would like to extend my deepest sympathies to his family. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from commonwealth of pennsylvania seek recognition? >> i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection

ms. dean: mr. speaker,la teesha was a track star and in her freshman year she was assaulted and forced to withdraw from her studies to focus on her recovery and faced student loan debt and when repayments began she ultimately defaulted. her story is not common common. -- uncommon. i'm reintroducing the student loan to provide extensions to the student loan repayment policy. this bill would allow victims of assault to pause student loan payments up to three years to focus on mental and physical well-being. many like her are unable to return to school. but with time to heal, survivors can get a fresh start.

she is a dedicated advocate in preventing sexual absolute and supports this bill. let her work be our light and let us pass this legislation. i yield the remainder of my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection mr. lamalfa: i rise today to recognize a dear friend aviator and northern california al community leader nick macy. tragically he received his wings at the final reno air races just recently where my son and myself were attendance. this loss will be felt deeply. i feel the pain deeply myself.

nick was a friend to my office and worked with him over a decade trying to resolve a silly bureaucratic issue at his airport. he was a friend to myself and my office and to so many. he is a soft-spoken leader. he was a figure in his community and valued his hometown in the agricultural industries. he is the son of a world war b-24 instructor. fighting fires and aviation six-time national champion and ever-t in the six-cat air racing team. and he truly loved his community, his family and friends and did everything to ensure their prosperity. he was acorner stone of the ag community. he is devoted.

my prayers to his wife, his children and grandchildren. to all his family and friends so many gathered at the air race and feel his presence. nick, god speed to you. thank you what you were to us. your legacy will live on in our hearts. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from ohio seek recognition? >> i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. >> thank you, mr. speaker. while extremists threaten to shut down the government unless they receive cuts, families in 13th congressional district, programs that families in ohio 13th congressional district, social security, k-12 assistance, i am committed to keep these services running. my constituents are worried how to pay bills and food on their

bill. i introduced two, pay our military act and feed our families act. both put people over politics. bipartisan paramilitary act would ensure our servicemembers people who sacrifice every day aren't forced to serve every day and feed our families would ensure that no family goes hungry during the shutdowns. republicans should uphold their end. if they won't, i remain committed to ohio's 13th congressional district. put the american people first and fund our government. event that extremists won't and which seems they won't, i encourage my colleagues and support the pay our military act and feed our families act. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> i request unanimous consent to address the house for one

minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection >> well, with the failure of that last vote, we are now less than two days away from shutting down the entire united states government not because we don't have a path forward but because the party of lincoln has and you are filled with passion and intensity. extreme relationship cans are choosing to destroy that makes america great which while enablelers have no conviction to oppose. do you have a plan to land this plane because it seems like you skipped that part of flight school. every single american is going to feel the pain of this crash, every soldier who wants to get paid and woman who needs food assistance and housing support and the train they are riding on has been inspected. we don't have to be here,

mr. speaker. we need some of you, any of you to stand up. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california seek recognition? >> i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. >> we are less than 34 hours from a republican-government shutdown. this is not the time for political theater or political grievancees we are spiraling toward a shutdown that would devastate thousands of working families that i represent throughout california's inland empire. if extremist republicans are allowed to continue their theatrics, over 4,000 federal employees in my district, mothers, fathers, caretakers among them could miss their next paycheck. t.s.a. agents will have to work without pay and over 25,000 women and children who rely on

federal food assistance could miss their next meal. it is beyond hypocritical that republicans want to cut benefits for hardworking families and making it easier for billionaires to cheat on their taxes. we need to get serious about governing or get out of the way. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from north carolina seek recognition? >> i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection gentlewoman is recognized. >> i rise today to condemn the impending government shutdown and house republicans' refusal to set politics aside for the good of the american people. rather than working across the aisle with democrats to fund government like -- my republicans are threatening a

shutdown unless their extreme demands are met. make no mistake. a government shutdown is entirely preventable. extreme republicans in the house are choosing to put politics over the american people. a government shutdown threatens the lives and livelihoods of our servicemembers, small business owners, children and families who rely on head start and w.i.c. and so many more. mr. speaker, with only one day left until the government funding runs out, house democrats are willing to work across the aisle to keep government open. it is time for republicans to do the same for the american people. thank you, mr. speaker. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from georgia seek recognition? >> i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my without objection, the gentlewoman from the great state of georgia is recognized for one minute.

>> mr. speaker, i rise today to celebrate the longest living president and one of georgia's finest, president jimmy carter, who is turning 99 years young. on sunday, october 1, i had plans to be home in georgia for this birthday celebrations but the looming republican government shutdown has me here in d.c. doing the work for the people. president carter has led a distinguished life, winning a nobel peace prize, eradicating diseases and uplifting the lives of millions of manager nallized people. ms. williams: but he will probably say his most important accomplishments are his christian faith as a member of the baptist church, marrying his moved wife, -- his block offed wife, building houses for habitat for humanity and being one of the best peanut farmers in the land. for me, president carter is an inspiration. my husband and i even named our son carter after this great president. and i strive every day to make sure that my carter cakes has the same humility and commitment to service as his namesake. the best birthday gift that president carter could receive

from us would be us all working together to make the world a better place for the most marginalized. and we can do that by following president carter's example and building on his legacy. starting with keeping the government open for the american people. happy 99th birthday, president carter. mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from the great state of texas seek recognition? ms. jackson lee: to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman from texas is recognized for one minute. ms. jackson lee: i too want to acknowledge our great president, jimmy carter, and thank him for his life and service. it is becoming that we stand on the floor today to be able to speak in contrast to the generosity of the carters to where we are today. because we are supposed to be saving america. but, frankly, we now have a challenge where the leadership,

the republican leadership cannot even find a way to stop the government from shutting down. but i think if the american people knew what their plan was, you might ask the question, it is impossible to lead in this way. attacking the national institutes of health, that is what they're doing. cutting education and dollars for disabled children and taking money away from 150,000 teachers who i'll be engaging with in my hometown by phone. of course, not recognizing the needs of energy support for those low income families. not helping those communities that are suffering every day from natural disasters. we know the west has suffered from fires. we in the southwest have suffered from floods. and of course disrespecting the needs of israel and ukraine. this is not the american way. and now we're gone because the bill they put up could not even

get their republican votes. let's do what's right for the american people. don't shut down. stand up for the american people. the speaker pro tempore: and you are the hardest woman to gavel down. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from ohio seek recognition? without objection, the gentlewoman from the great state of ohio is recognized for one minute. ms. kaptur: mr. speaker, i rise to share my deepest condolences upon the passing of united steel workers president, tommy conaway, who passed away this past weekend at 71 years old. the steel workers of the united states, the labor movement, and our nation have lost a true hero who helped to revitalize and reinvest in the u.s. steel industry. as someone who has spent much of my career working to save the industrial america, including in ohio and across our country, i can say that there is no greater advocate to save this vital u.s.

industry than tommy conaway. he understood to his core what america makes and grows, makes and grows america. and was absolutely committed to making things in america and making sure as president of the united steel workers that he fought every single day to protect workers, make sure they had good pay, retirement security and safety on the job. he was dedicated to the idea that all working people should be able to live a good middle class way of life, something we both understood growing up in -- understood. growing up in union households is what unions truly mean he to work -- mean to workers and families, moving into the middle class. tommy will be missed by many but never forgotten. i hope his long-time partner, sons and grabbed children are comforted in knowing how much good he has done for so many and what a great man tommy conaway was. thank you, mr. speaker, and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will recognize members for special order speeches out of prejudice to the possible resumption of legislative business.

under the speaker's announced policy of january 9, 2023, the gentleman from arizona is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority party. mr. schweikert: thank you, mr. speaker pro tempore. i'm going to yield such time as he may consume to mr. grothman for a memorial. mr. grothman: thank you. this week i introduced legislation to rename the post office in wisconsin after trevor casper. now, i know many in this body may have not heard of trevor, but back in wisconsin, he's not just the son of our state, he's a shining example of dedication and service. trevor casper was born in sheboygan on may 21, 1993, to parents, kevin and deborah. he graduated from high school with the class of 2011 where he was active in wrestling, soccer

and coaching youth sports. after high school, trevor pursued a degree in criminal justice at lake shore technical college, graduating in may of 2014. during his time there, he was active in color guard and served as president of the l.t.c. student government. it was clear that trevor was not just interested in a career, but passionate about making a difference in his entire community. trevor's dream was to continue his education at the state patrol academy, which he did, successfully graduating on december 18, 2014. following his graduation, trooper casper was stationed at the state trooper base in fond du lac where he continued to serve his community with honor and dedication. tragically, on his first assignment, he made the ultimate sacrifice. on march 24, 2015, he was shot in fond du lac while apprehending a bank robbery and

murder suspect. though mortally wounded, trooper casper returned fire on the suspect, killing him, and protecting those in the nearby vicinity. he was the youngest law enforcement officer to ever make the ultimate sacrifice in the state of wisconsin. his bravery in the face of danger, his commitment to upholding the law and his willingness to protect our community were unwavering. trooper casper is a true hero and he deserves to be remembered and honored for his selfless sacrifice. renaming the post office in his honor is a small but meaningful gesture and will ensure that future generations see the name trevor casper and will hear about his great sacrifice and what a great human being he was. i yield the remainder of my time to the gentleman from arizona.

mr. schweikert: thank you, mr. grothman. and i apologize to the speaker and the body, as we're sort of organizing the slides here. mr. speaker, anyone that's listening, ok. so the house is in a fairly can tank rouse spot right now. but part of my frustration and part of the reason for actually grabbing this hour is -- what's a nice way -- what's a morelle gantt way to use the -- more elegant way to use the word, i need to stop the lying? actually, i don't think we're supposed to say that on the floor. the people just making crap up. so, let's actually have a sore of educational -- sort of an educational discussion here. if you don't like math, please just turn off your television, stop watching. because this is becoming a math-free zone around here. and why is there the fighting here on the house?

what's the fussing? you do understand, every dime, every dime a member of congress votes on now is all borrowed money. there's a very good chance and we'll know next week when the final treasury data is posted that for this fiscal year, the 2023 fiscal year, which ends this weekend, we will borrow -- sorry, but this is how you need to think about it, we will borrow functionally 90% of g. dmpt p. so -- g.d.p. so 90% of the entire economy will be just the borrowed money, not the spent money, the borrowed money. we are hitting numbers that should be terrifying. i don't know why they're not terrifying to the folks on the left. basically you just saw it, they just came to the microphone saying, we want more money. where's it come from? so let's actually walk through

just some basic facts. this isn't republican or democratic math, it's just math. and as the family saying is, math will always win. it may take a while, but the math will always win. so the reason for this chart, mr. speaker, is one more time to try to visualize, this is the 2023 budget. ok. in that 2023 budget, here's what we call discretionary spending. this is defense and nondefense. ok, it's -- we have 1dz.7 trillion -- $1.7 trillion on this chart. this wedge over here is actually -- let's just call it medicare. social security still has its own trust fund. which is out in nine years. so when you hear democrats saying, well, we don't borrow any social security, you shouldn't be talking about it the trust fund's gone in nine years and the recapitalization of it is brutal.

but once again, our brothers and sisters on the left don't want to actually deal with the math because it's such a great campaign hit on anyone that actually cares about not doubling senior poverty in nine years. so back to this chart. so when you look at this, you got to understand, this blue wedge is all we get to vote on. all the red, the 72% of spending we call mandatory, is on auto pilot. you get that benefit because you worked your 40 quarters, you earned your social security benefit. you worked, you know, a certain amount, you paid into your medicare, you turned 65, you get that benefit. you hit a certain age. thaits vast, vast majority -- that is the vast, vast majority of the spending and it's also, if you go from today through the next 30 years, it's 100% of the future debt. it's demographics. i say this over and over and over and over and the idiot class around here who wants to say, no, it's republicans not

willing to tax people more. stop it. because i'm going to walk you through all the democrat tax proposals and show you how little of g.d.p. it creates, even at tax maximization. there's this concept of, at this rate you maximize tax receipts without rolling over the economy and rolling over the fall of receiving less tax receipts. i'm going to show you the math on maximizing, it's nowhere near what the democrats keep telling you. and it's really crappy economics. so one more time, this board is incredibly important. you want to know why there's fussing around here. it's all borrowed now. and what's happened in the last couple months, interest rate-wise? think of this as just a thought experiment. august 1 until today. the movement in interest rates, just that movement in interest rates is about $50 billion of

interest next year. we're borrowing over $6 billion a day. that is functionally -- let's take a look here. if you take a look at our borrowing over the last 12 months, it's $72,932 a second. $72,000 a second. and that's why the i had yosy here of -- i had yosy -- idiocy here of people who say, i'm going to save $1 million here. that's real money, great. but let's see, if you're borrowing $72,000 a second, that's how many seconds did you just cover? you know, the $300 million that was stripped out in one of the bills, ok, fine. but it's 57 minutes of borrowing over an entire year. there's just this delusion. every dime, i believe, of foreign aid is like now -- i

used to say 12 days of borrowing. someone pointed out it's closer to nine days of borrowing. because we in the political class, math is hard, our audiences often don't want to hear it because it doesn't satiate the feelings. we make public policy now by feelings, not a calculator. and so you have a world now where you get up and say, hey, it's demographics. we got old. it's health care costs are the primary driver of debt and they look at you and go, no, it's waste and fraud and foreign aid. and you show the little charts that says, ok, i can get maybe a couple weeks of borrowing eliminated, what would you like to do with the rest of the year and people just look at you in daggers. then then you have the left who just makes crap up. and i don't think it's meant to be evil, i think -- you get something in your head and

repeat it over and over and over and over and the mathis delusional. i'm going to walk through some boards here and some of these are complex and i will do my best so they make sense, because how do you save this republic if you have a bunch of people who can't agree on the baseline -- this was on the c.b.o. joint tax, their data sets -- if no one read their reports. joint economic committee, i chair the republican side. we gave options where you can save this country and crazy stuff, if you could eliminate or moderate, take on, do the moral thing with our brothers and sisters and talk about diabetes and obesity. few trillion over 10 years.

but require complex policies and decisions to be difficult. i'm going to hold this board up. this board is from three weeks ago and already out of date. what does this board say? it says next year, interest will pretty much equal the defense budget. interest will equal the defense budget and the reason it's out of date is just the movement of interest rates in the last three weeks on the u.s. 10 year-sovereign. interest will be more than. and if if the trend line continues, there is a very good chance that interest isn't going to be $830 billion, it is going to approach the trillion dollars next year. and why is that a big deal? let's do something else

interesting. ok. for people have never really thought about it, how does the united states finance itself? 30 cents of every dollar we spend is borrowed. where does that 30 cents come from? we issue bonds. every couple weeks like three days ago, treasury issued a $30 billion of five-year instruments. so you sit there and have to calculate coverage was a little disturbing and 2 1/2 coverage and it means huge lines to buy u.s. bonds weren't there. the lines are getting shorter and shorter, interest to buy our debt. interest rates will go up. what happens to bonds that were sold in previous years? because the last three treasury secretaries did something stupid and we couldn't get them to

change it because it benefited them politically that week. they went short-term on the bonds, issue one-year, two-years, three-years when interest rates were almost free. those bonds are coming due. so in the next fiscal year, if we bring $2 trillion of new virgin issue, the borrowing for next fiscal year, let's just pretend next year is about two, well we have a little problem. there is about $9.6 trillion of borrowing coming at virgin issues or refinanced next year and at higher interest rates. your government is functionally an insurance company with an army and a budget problem. what do we look like at the end

of 2024 when we have just refinanced a little bit under $10 trillion at these interest rates? it basically means that number when you go into the 2025 budget cycle of $25 trillion interest coverage and if you are -- how many new weapons, social justice agenda, interest buys you what? this is what we are doing to ourselves. reality. and interest keeps moving away from us. so let's do -- let's continue on some of the more difficult stuff. just simple math, we are going to spend some time talking about how do you fix things when you can't even get the other side that you need we have to do this together, it's complex, it's

hard and it's politically brutal because this place has lied to the public for a decade. let's use the most optimistic and one side of these numbers are wrong. it is saying next year, projection months ago the 2024 budget year was only going to borrow $1.7 trillion. i think we're going to $2 trillion. let's do the tax and took every american, you make $500,000, every dime you make we take all of it. and people keep working. the basketball player, the scientist, the entrepreneur just keeps working. don't say i made $500,000 and keep working and paying into the

government. just for a math experiment let's say we are going to confiscate a dime from people making over $500,000. you raise about $1.5 trillion. did i mention the borrowing from c. pomplet was $1.7. you can't borrow if you take every dime of those high-income earners. and yet, i will show slides like this at certain town lalls and democrat activists say that is republican math. no, i think this one came from cato and some from o.m.b., c.b.o., it's all the same. we are living in a math fantasy world. so i'm going to go out of sequence here because i'm angry that i saw a california member

on cnn a little while ago holding a white board and completely lying to the press because it is such good politics. republicans shouldn't talk to social security because it doesn't add anything to the deficit because there is a trust fund that has cash in nine more years. what happens in nine more years and reason we want to talk about it to save it. in nine years, the average couple on social security gets a $17, 400 cut, you double poverty of seniors in america in nine years. absolutely immore. but the recapitalization of this is going to be complex, nine years from now, the first year shortfall is $616 billion. do this with me.

you don't have to be good at math. nine years from now, boom, the trust fund is gone. $616 billion shortfall in 2033. you don't care, nine years from now. but here's the democrats' policy. we are just going to raise taxes on those who make $400,000 and up. the democrats' piece of legislation, $400,000 and pay the 12.4 fica tax. great. you get no benefit from it. let me slow down and let me explain. today, you pay your fica tax up to $160200. so you create this doughnut hole under democrat policy and then you start paying the tax again

when you hit $400,000. that produces $86.3 billion in 2033, 2034. let's use 2033, because that's the year -- can anyone do the math. $86 billion of new taxes, 616 shortfall. anyone notice a math problem? you are covering 1/7 of the shortfall. and that's the democrats' solution. let's do the more grand one. people will say, david, we will be just fine, just eliminate that cap and make people pay the 12.4 social security tax on every dime. a person makes a billion, pay it on that and they get no benefit for the higher taxes. ok. and people say, that solves the

problem and then you show them this. remember the first year, $616 billion shortfall. eliminating the social security cap produces $154,000. and this is the democrats' grand solution. this is why for those who own a calculator around here and have a soul of not wanting to double senior poverty were willing to get the crap kicked out of us. you are not allowed to do that. we are trying to save it because you have people manipulating to you and lying to you about the math. this is immoral. in nine years, you doubling senior poverty in america and their solution only covers 1/7 of 20%. this is what you have been given. and then you wonder why there's

friction. some people want to tell great stories and some people would like to save -- save the cou country. let's walk through a few more of these. mike, if you are bored, you are welcome to join me. ok. you can stand here with me. mike kelly, congressman from pennsylvania, he is my senior, so he sits to my left in ways and means which annoys me because we have to explain part of the inside joke. in congress, there's only one committee that is solely by seniority and ways and means committee. people to your he left, retire,

quit, you move up. on this side, makes no difference. so you are senior to me. i love you. mike kelly chairs the tax subcommittee. and mike, this is one -- i was trying to do something that was a little -- no one else has been willing to do this math. our brothers and sisters on the left say we'll tax our way out of the crisis. we -- the first chart, i was trying to be somewhat brutal saying ok, tax revenues versus expected deficits under different wealth models so basically we have some debt saying, ok, here's the deficit and baseline deficit number and here's what you got. understand, it's probably unconstitutional. this is where they would take and come in and say we are confiscating some of your

wealth. the big one they are pushing one is the tax where they say if you are really rich and every year take a percent of your wealth. the problem is -- i have $1.8 trillion and this is basically covering what? $230 billion of shortfall and below zero up the economy but doesn't get you anywhere -- and i'm not here to defend really, really rich people but here to defend math. and look, you have a personality -- i'm like a walking calculator. why am i failing to communicate the reality that the proposals we are getting absurd and only cover a fraction of the shortfalls. mr. kelly: i'm going to walk down front and help us the folks.

-- come to believe that nobody should serve in the public sector unless they have been in the private sector. my whole life has been making sure on the 6th and 21st of each month, those are days that the people who work with me every day got paid. we used something called kitchen table economics. i am more of a person who says you know what, you use kitchen table manuals and people can understand them. i want to show you something. i reduced this down to a $1 bill and our friends talking no. no. no. no. no. no you can cut spending. think of this not as a member of congress who can spend whatever he or she wants because it isn't coming out of your pocket but the hardworking american taxpayers and took a dollar

bill. mandatory spending, money that has to be spent out of every dollar we collect. . . . we're talking about social security, we're talking about medicare, we're talking about medicaid, and, as all of you know, any loan you ever had, you're actually charged interest on it. 10 cents of every $1, and this year that represents $663 billion just to pay for the interest on our debt. that leaves us a whopping 27 cents out of every single $1 we collect from you. and this is the important thing. i am so fed up with elected officials talking about what they've done for you. they do nothing for you, every single thing we do in this country is paid for by a taxpayer. or a debt that you co-signed

that you didn't know about. now, i told you a little bit about my history. i'm an automobile dealer. most people, 97% of the people that we sell a car or truck to, borrow money to pay for that car or truck. they sign their name to a contract. and we take great time to explain to them exactly what is exacted of them. now, so i told you this, 63 cents goes for social security, medicare and medicaid. 10%, 10 cents on each $1 just to pay our debt down. $663 billion. that's why i want to reduce it down to kitchen table economics. this is what's happening to your dollar. now we have 27 cents that we can spend any way we want and what does that mean? that includes transportation, education, defense and other programs. so let's take a look at the 27 cents of our budget, of our revenues that we have left to

spend. of the 27 cents of each $1, spending for defense, 13 cents. we don't ever want to walk away from that in the world -- that, in the world we live in now, are you kidding me? we're going to stop that? that leaves us, my friends, with 14 cents that we can actually control. every single dollar out of your pocket is reduced down to this. so when people say, you just have to learn how to cut spending. so you gave me $1 bill, i can adjust 14 cents. mr. schweikert: it's worth pointing out, for everyone looking at that, you see that chart of defense and, let's call it nondefense, it's all borrowed. every dime of that today is on

borrowed money. plus another $400 billion of the mandatory. and i think that's actually what so many of our brothers and sisters around the country don't understand. it's so out of whack now because -- look, the number one growth is health care costs. but that's sort of on auto pilot because every type we try to fix it, the lobbyists, the democrats lose their minds and we're just trying to save the country. so we end up having the fights that are going on right now over that 14 cents and, look, there's waste, there's fraud, there's things in there we need to fix. but it's a fraction of the budget and it's all on borrowed money, which adds the additional stress of there is a morality of squeezing everything we can out of it. mr. kelly: and because we sit beside each other every day, and we keep, honestly, these are things that keep me up at night.

in another month my wife and i will be celebrating our 50th anniversary. i don't know what she was thinking, all i is it was ask, she said yes, and then for half a century we've been going at this. so we have 10 grandchildren. 10 grandchildren. and i'm constantly asked by people, how can you be so responsible when it comes to spending our tax dollars? i said, we don't want to be irresponsible. david and i sit there, sitting beside him is hard because he has so much going on in his head at one time, it's like a calculator, and i keep going back just to the basics. the 14 cents -- mr. schweikert: in other words, you're telling people the truth, i drive you nuts. mr. kelly: social services, natural resources, science, space and technology and other programs. we are down to the very -- 14 cents of $1. and this is $1 that you paid, by the way. this is out of your taxes. mr. schweikert: they're paying the interest on it now. mr. kelly: the interest is $663

billion of what we owe. mr. schweikert: and $800 billion next year. mr. kelly: yes and it keeps growing and it keeps growing and it keeps growing. no responsible person would ever sit back and work this model. the greatest country, the greatest nation the world's ever known, the wealthiest nation the world's ever known has been totally irresponsible in the way she has spent her money. and it wasn't done by her. this incredible group of people that sit down here, and remember i said this to begin with, i don't believe anybody should serve in public office until they've been in the private sector. i myself have been in situations on the sixth of the month and the 21st of the month where i made sure earn person at the dealership got paid. there were many times i did not pay myself because i didn't have the money to do it. the point i think we keep trying to make is when are we going to wake up to what is going on? this is a titanic moment for our country. and the reason i say that is

because the titanic, when full -- went full speed ahead into an iceberg and what did the captain of the titanic see? just a small part, just a small part. of the iceberg. they didn't see what was hidden. my friends, right now the hidden part of what it is that we're spending, i would just ask you to please think with us as we go through this. reduce it down to where it makes sense and understand what is happening right now on the floor of this congress. we represent you, we do not represent ourselves alone. we represent you. so, david, if we talk about this and this is where we are and i would just think that at some point we would sit back and we would say, i cannot watch this and allow this to happen to hardworking american taxpayers. mr. schweikert: i think in some ways you just described why the fussing over the budget documents is going on. look, we put together a fairly -- some interesting slides here. we've never presented them before. we took these from a researcher at manhattan and a couple other places. and then we did joint economic

-- some of my economists, we did some math here. we set this for 2033. so we had a year that's 10 budget years from now. we did not, we did not put in the fact that the social security trust fund is gone and there's $616 billion that needs to somehow be recapitalized. that's actually not in this deficit number. we also rolled the number so we'd baseline, for anyone that's really geeky out there, we ran this to the standard debt to g.d.p. number. because there's a new update on what debt will be in nine years from now that's now $3.1 trillion, if interest rates stay as high as they're spiking right now, could be as high as 3.7%. but we're going to use the $2.5 trillion. the reason this board exist, i have a bunch of slides so we're going to walk through, but i need to set up the pitch first. if we took every tax that our democrat colleagues talk about

in the ways and means committee and did what they call a revenue maximizing rate, there's a rate that you can charge that the economists, and this is, you know, the economic modeling, where you maximize tax collections before it rolls over and people change their behavior and the tax collections go down, so we actually added up, maximize state taxes and income taxes and corporate taxes and capital gains taxes. so we maximized everything. and then we also then came back and said, all right, here's the maximum number, taxing the rich. this is the top 2%. if you make $400,000 or higher, you're part of the top 2% of income earners in america. you got to understand that. and then we also did, if you did the economic effect, what they call the dynamic score, which is always the real number we get. so here's our $2.5 trillion

borrowing. if you did the full max on democrats and got every dime, you get about $700 billion. and if you actually do the real number where the dynamic score comes in at about $450 billion. so you've just maximized all taxes. it gets you a fraction of the talking points. and the reason we're going through these boards, how do i say this politely without sounding like a jerk? our brothers and sisters on the other side, they may actually believe these numbers, but they're not real and how do you make public policy that saves this country when half your brothers and sisters here say, no, we just tax people over $400,000, we'll be fine. and you show the slide and it's nowhere near that. they don't -- the unwillingness to deal with the reality of the math. and this is one you and i have talked about a couple times.

where if you basically look at our history, so go back to 1950, because actually what's fascinating is from 1950 until recently, you actually have history where sometimes we've had really, really high marginal tax rates. 90% for the top income earners. and then, you know, after tax reform, you'll lower, but you took away a bunch of the deduction. you took half of society and removed them from the tax roles. they don't pay income taxes -- rolls. they don't pay income taxes. but we actually built lots of charts that show that during times of high tax rates, eh, you get pretty much the same part of the size of the economy in taxes. low marginal tax rates, you get the same part of the economy in taxes. there's this concept of, it always goes back to the mean. so the way you get more tax receipts to government is a growth in economy. that's the magic. that's how you get more tax receipts is growth. but when we have really high

marginal rates, the chart after chart after chart just shows, you get the mean. when you've had very low, you get the mean, but it's a bigger pie because the economy starts growing again. and you show this to our democrat brothers and sisters and they'll often say, yeah, i've seen that, but my voters don't like that. because it doesn't satiate the feeling of punishing -- mr. kelly: whether we've talked about this, because we have time when we're in meetings to talk about this, but i want you all to try to bear with me a little bit and i know at some point you say, i don't know if i like this dog and pony show. in my district, pa-16, the average income for a family of four, mom, dad, two children, is $54,000. now, and this is because this is where it really starts to make sense. federal revenues this year will be the highest we've ever got. they're projected to be. $5 trillion. that's a lot of money.

i mean, it's almost incomprehensible. now, what we're projected to spend is $6.9 trillion. you say, well, ok, that's only -- that's not that far apart. only $1.9 trillion. here's what it means. and please, this is where it starts to sink in. that means a family that i represent in western pennsylvania earning about $50,000 a year is spending $69,000 a year. so you see what we're getting to? you see where it is? because when we reduce the numbers down, first of all, the high numbers are just so high, it's unmanageable -- unimaginable. it's also unimaginable that we can never pay the debt down but i would say this to you. if we continue on the path we are going, if we disregard the basic math that stands there, and the way we do it, and most of us, i can tell you most of

the time when i pay monthly bills, it is at our kitchen table and i open my checkbook and i start doing subtract, subtract, subtract and i just try -- trying to understand how we can be so reckless. none of you, none of you, none of you would do this because you have too much respect for your children and grandchildren's future and you also have too much respect for yourselves. nobody would consciously do this. that's the problem. one of my favorite movies, i think this is what i just want to make a point -- mr. schweikert: you're not going to do movie review, are you? mr. kelly: it's called "a few good men." you have seen this movie? mr. schweikert: yes. mr. kelly: jack nicholson's in it and he's being cross examined in a military trial. and they keep asking him a question and at the end he becomes so frustrated he says, you can't handle the truth. in our lives, the people who raised us, our moms, our dads,

our grandparents would never have done to us what we are -- happening right now and we're doing to our own grandchildren. we have to handle the truth, we have to face the truth and, david, this path that we're on and this mission that we're on and this idea that somehow we have to get the message out to our hardworking american taxpayers, our future is being destroyed because of irresponsible spending. now, just to be sure on this,y you are social security will never be touched -- on this, your social security will never be touched. medicare, medicaid is not going to be touched. and the banks are never going to for give us the interest -- forgive us the interest on our loans, ok? that's the reality of it. so when you understand it that way, it becomes, oh, my gosh, what are we going to do? and so, my friend, as we sit there and try to figure out what is it that we can do to save the future for our children and i looked at pictures yesterday with your two children and we

say, what are we doing to these kids? mr. schweikert: in some ways we're the yin and mr. schweikert: we are the yin and yang of districts, i have a fairly prosperous district, fairly well-educated district, i am blessed to have group up there. but i have to accept my financial experiences will be different than yours. back to helping people try to understand reality. i need to amend something you're saying, though. we used to talk that this debt is an existential risk to our grandkids. i'm cor rirk it's a risk to your retirement. there's the reality. if you're retiring any time in the near future, you've got to understand. we're head twharygd time where we're going to have to turn the

printing presses off. when you -- turn the printing presses on. when you tush the printing presses on, we wipe out your savings. besides the misery we create through the devaluing of the dollar, decentralling the save, making it sure your -- making it so your kids can never afford, high breast rates boo the future. it's in a -- it's not a crash. it's an extension of potentially decades of misery. folks done think this way. i keep coming back to trying to make the tax collection argument. so why this is so important. here's the 1950's where we had over -- we had a 90.5% tax on the top income earners. so -- a little deep secret. actually the tax code today is more progressive than it was back then because they had the lower middle class pay -- income taxes back then. today they're off the tax rolls. but back then we used to get 7.2% of the economy came in in

income taxes. even though we had a 90%. you go over all the years there's been tax reform. so today, 2020, let's do that year. we functionally had a mean tax of 37%. not 90%. as that high part of the marginal tax rate. ok? but we're getting 9.2% of the economy. ok. most people have no idea what i'm talking about when i say that. but here's the economy. here's a really high marginal tax rate. we have a history of this. repeatedly you're only getting about 7% of the economy in taxes. we lowered the marginal tax rate for the tax brackets and now we're getting over 9%. we get dramatically more because the economy got bigger. and you show that our brothers and sisters on the left and they'll often say yeah, i know it. but it doesn't feel like i'm punishing people.

and the amazing irony, you know the highest income americans vote for democrat, not republicans. it's the bizarreness. how many billionaires do you think you have in your district? mr. kelly: not many, the people i have are in the mine, on the rail, they're farmers, they're blue collar. the nuclear family, the mom and dad raising children, is the key to our success going forward. and an education based on the very foundations of what we know is true and is accurate and has been proven over the ages. the gift that america gave all of its citizens was the gift of education. sometimes you look at it and say, honestly, we can talk all day. i want you all to understand, i wish the gallery was full.

i really wish the gallery was full. that is a message, it's not a message of aryng. it's a message of hope. we have got to change our spending. we just cannot sustain this irresponsible tra directory. mr. schweikert: there's a path where this work. i want to make it clear. we're not defending rich people. we're not defending poor people. we're not defending middle class. we're just trying to tell the truth. this is how it works. this is about a society that prospers. prosperity is moral. and we first need to shut down the excuses for not actually doing anything. say, oh, don't worry, we're take those 400,000, ok, do it, fine. you had all sorts of chances to do it before this session. but they knew the math was a fraud. but it's great talking points. because they can get on msnbc or cnn and say, we just do this,

we'll be fine. it's not true. doesn't seem to be a reporter in this city who owns a calculator. look, this is one you and i have actually touched on. it was what happens when you have really high capital gains rates? or really low capital gains rates? when you raise capital gains rates really high like some of our democrat propose acialtion you get less revenues. and we have charts of this going back to 1954. when we started to play with some of those rates. so this is why, back to that concept. i'm going to show some number here's when we get ready to close that if everything was at revenue maximizing. whether capital gain, whether it be a state, whether it be income, whether it be corporate. you take a look and you're only going to get about 1.5% of the economy of additional revenues.

additional receipts. this year we're borrowing 9% of the entire economy. just this year. and there's why the elegance of really good, really good pro-growth tax policy and then doing some of the things -- i've been on this floor dozens of times. you and i have talked about for a couple of years now. there's things you could do to crash the price of health care. the adoption of technology. the taking on something that's very uncomfortable. take on obesity. take on diabetes. take on the things that are both killing our brothers and sisters, remember the last four years, life expectancy in america has gone down. in a decade, next decade, we have more deaths than births in america. how do you help people understand, it's beyond just those who are math and budget geeks. the morality is what you talk

about. that's why i asked -- i was asking you to come share this time with me. i need someone like you who is able to talk to people's hearts. sometimes i don't think i do it well, i sound like an accountant on steroids. the morality of opportunity. the morality of prosperity. the morality of our brothers and sisters. i don't care if you're in a tribal community, rural community, urban community. take a look at the statistics of our brothers and sisters dying of diabetes. and other diseases. when we actually can have incredible impact of having them be healthy. how do you get this body to see sometimes great math is also great morality. so i'm -- mr. kelly: i would just pose this to those of you watching this. are we making sense? if this makes sense, would you please raise your hand? no, it doesn't make sense. we can't have the interaction. the only thing --

mr. schweikert: not aloud to see them react. mr. kelly: this is your house, we just represent them. everything that goes on in this house is being done by people who are voted in to represent you, not represent themselves bus represent you. that's why if it's not making sense we need to know because i've got to tell you it makes no sense to me at all. of what we're doing. not only to our future but to our present. and if we can't grasp what's happening right now, that's why i talked about the kitchen table economics. if i can reduce it down to a $1 bill, i would hand you a a $1 bill and say by the way the first 73 cent, give it back to me. you can keep the 27 cents but then i'm going to take another 13 cents out of -- when you get down to it, it's so small of what it is we can control in. your own lives, you know if you have a mortgage payment come due if you have a car payment come

due. if you have health care costs come due. you can't walk away from that. and at some time or other a lender is going to say to you, you know what? we'd love to help you but we can't. the math doesn't work. it's not good for you. so david, i -- because we went, when we talked about this the other day. the real -- the real challenge is to make sure that we understand the path that we are on. and not try to sugar coat it for you. i know for myself, the hardest lessons in life to learn are not something. and i think all of us at one time or another. i wish i could go back and one day have time to sit across from my mother and father and thank them for what they did for us. my grandparents and thank them for what they did for us. and say i can't thank you enough for what you did for us. i'm just so disappointed that we haven't performed as well as you have. had. that made it possible for us to

enjoy the most incredible country the world has ever known. a nation of people so diverse. there's no place else in the world. none of us are thinking about leaving to go someplace else. it's our responsible to make sure that it is a sustainable business model. if i'm not connecting with you, i apologize for that. but only pause we have to understand the dilemma we are in. this is not a scare tactic, by the way. that is a -- forget woke, this is a wakeup moment that we have to be aware of what is happening right now to each of us every day in every way. mr. schweikert: i'm sorry you have to hear it all the time sitting next to me but the math will win. mr. speaker pro tem what's our remaining time? excellent, thank you, mr. speaker pro. the mike, i'm going to run through a couple of boards real quick. it's going to be a little thick. i'm going to do them quick.

we will put these up on the website. if anyone really wants to dive into this, i believe brian reedle, about two weeks ago, published a fairly substance -- substantive, amazing footnotes so you can, if you actually care about the subject, get it, read it. pull out your calculator. you'll see it proofs out. so let's just -- i'm going to blow through this real quick and help people understand why -- why is some idiot on the floor of the house walking people through, you know, maximum sustainable revenue calculations. i'm trying make a point. there isn't an easy fix here. if we do a deficit commission, or something of that nature, it turns out it's going to be complex. you're going to have to deal with things that don't seem interrelated but they are. you'll have to talk about immigration. you'll have to talk about technology. you'll have to talk about maybe a.i., a tax code that promotes growth, you're going to have to talk about changing the way we

finance parts of health care. and you have to do it all at the same time. and you've seen this place. we're having trouble walking and chewing gum at the same time. let's blow through this real quick. part of the studies out there, and this is from c.b.o., o.m.b. and also the tax policy center and the u.s. treasury have all con filmed these numbers. if you did a maximum sustainable revenue from taxing the rich, let's first do individual income taxes. if you took the rich and said you're the top 2% income earners, functionally anyone other $400,000. we'll put a tax rate that maximizes receipts before the calculations say revenues would roll over. and you know, for some of those, that's like adding another 10 points on top of it. then you actually tax some other parts of estate, you put a bunch of money into enforcement. so you do all the things. these are all the democrat proposals added up. and you're picking up another couple of points, another half a

point of g. deform p. or so. i have a board where i add it all. then we added in maximizing corporate taxes. looks like we can get up to about ant .8% of g.d.p. if you maximize taxes. we have a problem in the united states. you go up to like the 28% corporate tax rate. the next inkrement you see, you say screw it, we'll recharter the headquarters in ireland you hit this point where you start to roll over. this is in the liberal model, conservative models, people who just do models. you walk through everything, the corporate tax hikes biden is promote, the new international tax that secretary yellen is pushing. you do the additional, some additional corporate savings by i.r.s. ins forment mechanisms. add that all up. what do you get from that? then add in investment taxes. we'll raise our capital gains up

to 39.6% which we know at that point you hit a wall and get less money in the taxes you do other type you close all the loopholes. you may actually remove, remove the ability to roll over certain assets. 1031 exchanges. like-for-like in kind. take those away. basically take and say we've done everything. everything to start to maximize income taxes from the rich. ok. that's a lot of money. but you actually take a look and i'm sorry. but we had very little time we feel took these directly from the report. you can get up to if you do what they call static, no economic effects, that's about 2% of the economy. in new taxes. then when you do then when you do the actual, ok, people stop working, it changes investment, people basically hunker down, so the economic models, you actually get about

1.1% to 2%, so a mean of 1.5%. ok. that's a lot of money. 1.5% of the economy in new taxes. yea. but did i mention we're borrowing 9% of the economy just this year? so the utopian tax everything of that $400,000 and up. you've maximized every single tax. we're borrowing 9% of the economy just this year and every tax proposal gets you another point and a half. does anyone see a little problem? we're living in this fantasy world and, look, god knows i love my charts and i sometimes feel guilty for all -- but this one's actually really important for, particularly, if you're one of my progressive left acquaintances and you care about

income inequality and progress iivity and all those things, today's number tax code is the most progressive in u.s. history. that top percent of income earners now pay more of the federal income tax than any time in u.s. history. and this is after our tax reform that mr. kelly and i worked on. and yet, i promise you, today, tomorrow, someone will come to that microphone, well, the republicans give away to rich peep, except we're taxing -- people, except we're taxing them as a percentage more because we moved so many of our brothers and sisters, the 50% of folks in the economic term, lower quartiles, don't pay income taxes now. and there's the problem. it grew the economy right up to the time of the pandemic. then we started spending money

like crazy on corporate subsidies. democrat proposals. it's fascinating. they accuse us of liking big business, yet they're the ones giving hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of billions of dollars out as subsidies to corporate america and at the same time our tax receipts are falling when they're doing it. it's the weirdest economy you've ever seen. it basically shows monetary policy, their keynesian economics have fallen flat on their face. last board. even when you start to do the adjustments for, you know, they call income inequality, you normalize those, we have a more progressive tax system today than we've ever had before and when a member of congress looks you in the eyes and says, well, we're just going to tax people over $400,000, that solves the problem, i showed you the boards. it doesn't come close to solving

the problem on saving social security in nine years. it's only 1.5% of g.d. pmpt when we're borrow -- g.d.p. when we're borrowing 9%. is there anyone -- you've been here longer than i have. do we have anyone we work with that owns a calculator that's willing to save this country? i'll let you do the close. mr. kelly: well, thank you for the chance to work with you and for all our friends in the gallery. this is called the people's house because it is truly your house. anybody that's here was elected. they just didn't walk in and sit down. they take an oath of office to do things in your best interest. so what we've been trying to do throog, we look at all the -- to go through, we look at all of the charts. i want you to manage, take this $1 bill, this is what you actually can control. when it comes to the spending. so when i hear this thing about,

well, you just have to cut spending, you just have to cut spending, i said, that's fine. could you please give me a road map of what you want us to cut? and that's not accepted because that's not what's being fed here. so i have to tell you, listen, we're here because of you. we're here for you. i thought the dollar bill was the easiest way to show because we're all used to that. i have 10 grandchildren. maybe you can all relate to this. when our kids were growing up, they liked to go skiing and in the wintertime, because i'm from pennsylvania, they came to me one a time and said, dad, can we go skiing? i said, no, i don't have the money to go this weekend and they said, sure you do. and they went under the bed and they picked out my checkbook that has three checks to a page and my son said, here, you have all kinds of money. i said, well, you have to put the money in before you can write the check to take it out. that was a con stheapt a child didn't understand -- a concept

that a child didn't understand and unfortunately there are too many children representing you here right now that don't understand what is taking place in every american home and with every one of our hardworking american taxpayers. we're here for you. i don't care if you're republican, democrat, libertarian or just say, i just wish people would stay the heck out of our live, we're here, we're representing you. i would ask you, please, communicate with the people who represent you, to let them know that you're concerned about the way the country is going and the future. not only for our grandchildren and for our children, but also for us. so, with that, i just think that -- i hope we got through and if we didn't, please contact us. we are here every day for you. for you. there's no other reason for us to be here other than for you. so i want to thank you. the speaker pro tempore: your time is expired. remind members to refrain from referencing occupants in the gallery. under the speaker's announced policy of january 9, 2023, the chair recognizes the gentleman

from tennessee for 30 minutes. mr. burchett: thank you, mr. speaker. thank you, mr. speaker. i want you folks to know that i won't be as eloquent as my friends, but i won't be as long either. so y'all will be able to get out of here if you're waiting for a break. and if you need to get up and go, you go. you're not hurting my feelings one bit. mr. speaker, i am absolutely disgusted with the way our government spends money and where it puts its priorities. we've spent over $114 billion on ukraine. don't get me wrong, putin is a thug and i wish the lord would take him out. but russia's g.d.p. is somewhere between that of france and

canada. we've given afghan refugees over $2,200 a month and we only sent the maui residents a single, one single $700 payment when they lost everything. illegal aliens cost the texas taxpayers somewhere around $850 million. and, folks, we're over $33 trillion in debt. fitch, which is a rating agency, recently downgraded the united states' credit rating because of the general government deficit, which it anticipates will be 6.3% of gross domestic product in 2023 when it was only 3.7% in 2022. that's a huge jump for one year, and, folks, that is doubled, almost doubled. another reason they gave was leadership. and that's been over the last 20 years. so that cuts both ways.

that's both parties. the united states spends approximately $300 billion each month. that's nearly $7 million each minute. it only takes our government two hours and 22 minutes to spend $1 billion. if you can imagine that. we are on the verge of a government shutdown which none of my colleagues want. contrary to popular belief, we're not sitting -- some of us conservative folks aren't sitting in a room hoping for this because we don't want our constituents to suffer any undue pain because of our lack of work. however, this out-of-control spending, it needs to change. and many of my republican colleagues, we're going to fight for that change to happen today. not in 30 days or three months or right before christmas. because that's pretty much been the plan. we pass a continuing resolution for 30 days, and then they say, well, we need another one for 30 days. and then guess what, we're

backed up to the christmas holiday. and then they say, well, we need to pass an omnibus. and basically an omnibus is just a continuation, a large continued resolution and in my opinion it's chalk full of goodies for powerful members of this body. it's also chalk full of godys for -- goodies for lobbyists and their special interests that we continue to grease. there are several solutions we can bring to the table. my colleague, jodey arrington from texas, chairs the budget committee, mr. speaker. i was on that committee and i actually asked to be taken off of it because if you know anything about our history and the last 30 years, we have noes passed a -- we have not passed a budget. we haven't even attempted to. because we don't want to. the people in power, both parties, we pass a budget, there'd be a lot more accountability. and you all would know what was going into it and you'd probably get disgusted and send a few of

us home. but my friend chairs that committee now and -- excuse me, mr. speaker -- he has a plan that would balance our budget in the next 10 years. if we just went back to pre-covid spending levels. pre-covid spending levels, mr. speaker. we could balance this budget. now, i dare say there's probably very few americans that can tell me something that was -- that's been added to their plate since covid from the federal government that they can do without. that they could not do without. yet we continue on this spending spree. as i've stated many times, we're like, with these continued resolution, they tell us to pass a continuing resolution so we won't have to pass another continuing resolution, well, that line of think something like telling a crack head that i'm going to give you more crack to get you off of crack. the truth is, we're just addicted to money and we're

addicted -- now we're addicted to our great grandchildren's money. we need to make some serious cuts to our bloated government in areas we don't need it. we have way too many bureaucrats. yesterday i brought several amendments to the floor literally due to the holman rule which allows us to line out certain people, individual people's pay. they were caught doing something illegal in the past administration and they were fired. yet this administration seemed like they should bring them back. and they brought the people back that helped them get back. and that is your federal government. now, my daddy fought in the second world war, in the marine corps, in the first marine division, all the way across the specific. my mama's brothers all went to the war. my dad's brother went to the war. and my mom actually flew an airplane during the war. because her oldest brother, roy,

had gotten killed. i tell you all that to tell you this. our pentagon is a bloated disaster. i prefer to call them the war pimps. because that's exactly what they are. every year we pass a bigger and more bloated budget for the pentagon. this year i believe it was $30 billion more than the year prior to the last budget. i believe that's correct. more than even president joe biden had asked us to put in. yet when folks like myself question it, people question our patriotism. i'm not offended by much up here, mr. speaker, but that really does -- that is the cherry on top. we should stop focusing so much on passing a bill that will be totally fine in the senate. as we said during the debt ceiling debate, we should put our stake down. yet now we don't want to put our stake down, we want to send a

bill over there at one time that would just cut the rate of growth. which is washington speak for not cutting anything. we're not senate democrats, we can't pass a budget that looks like theirs. but the art of compromise should be in there. when i was in the state legislature in tennessee, we passed -- i was the house sponsor of a bill to raise the speed limit. now, i asked for 85, knowing that i would get 70. and oddly enough, my senate colleague was steve cohen, who is now my colleague here in the united states congress. and we compromised. but we knew what we needed. i actually -- truth be known, mr. speaker, i'd brought peyton manning to the floor of the house the week before. i probably could have gotten 100 miles per hour and maybe even gotten communism, i'm not sure, or might have been anointed as king at that point because

peyton manning was and still is that popular. but that was a different time. we've got to make some serious changes now. or we're going to lose our country. i always remember my daddy, who is a world war ii veteran, we were at our house in west knoxville, 8220, bennington drive, i no longer live there. we were in the living room. and -- i mean, in the dining room, i remember. one of the few times it was cleaned out. we always cleaned it out for thanksgiving and christmas. but most of the time it was for storage. but we were in there and we had this little color tv that was over there and wemp watching the -- we were watching the election results come in that night and they were not going very well. and i remember my daddy said the blessing, it was just me and him and we had a pizza, or as i like to say, wemp having a that -- we were having a traditional italian meal, but don't send me any letters, i know that's not very traditional. daddy said the prayer and the blessing and all he said was, lord, please do not let us lose our country.

and i guess that's what drives me i guess that's what drives me now. because dadgumit, i'm afraid we're going to lose our country. this road to reckless spending is going to get us there. we need to stop spending the american people's hard-earned money like we're kids in a candy store. one of the areas we could be doing some cuts. we could close down the department of education. i have a degree in education. my mama was a schoolteacher her whole life my sister is has a degree in education. my daddy was a principal in tennessee. if we could stop washington, d.c. from take its cut off the top i think we could go a long way. there's not one bureaucrat in washington, d.c., in the department of education, that ever taught a little kid

thousand read at sara moore green elementary school in knoxville, tennessee, and i dare say there never will be. but they'll be taking care cut off the top like the mob does and that needs to stop. allow the states the responsibility that they deserve to be responsible stewards of our money and send it to them and let them decide. what works in washington, d.c., sure as heck doesn't work in clayborn county in east tennessee. we've got to stop spending the american people's hard-earned money like we're a kid in a candy store with a credit card with no limit. because that limit is coming due. we do not need a continued resolution. we don't need to play any more games. we just need clean bills with real cuts to get our country back on track. mr. speaker, i thank you for your time. and i appreciate the folks in the audience's indulgence. thank you and i yield the remainder of my time.

the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. members are reminded to refrain from referencing occupants in the gallery. pursuant to clause 12-a of rule 1, the chair declares the house in recess subject to the call of the

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