I yield myself such time as I may consume. First of all, I would like to thank the President and the leaders in the House and Senate on both sides for the compromise and for averting a government shutdown. I think there was a major…

It strikes me, and I have one major question, and that is: Why are we considering H.J. Res. 37 when we are on the verge of shutting down the House of Representatives? I hope and I think a deal is very close at hand, but Republicans are…

We could have done it a little earlier, is all I am saying. Mr. Speaker, I withdraw my reservation. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from California? There was no objection.

So this would look a lot like the Dicks amendment that was offered in the Rules Committee for a clean CR?

Reclaiming my time. I reclaim my time. This is an important day. And what we are saying on our side is we want to enact a clean continuing resolution at some point today so we can take care of our troops and so we can move forward with the…

I yield 2 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from New York (Mr. Israel), who is a former member of the Appropriations Committee doing great things in his new job.

I just want to make sure that everyone has heard the Statement of Administration Policy that was issued today: ``The administration strongly opposes House passage of H.R. 1363, making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the…

I will yield myself 4\3/4\ minutes. (Mr. DICKS asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.)

I yield myself 15 seconds. I would just remind the gentleman that if we had a clean CR, the troops would also be taken care of, and a clean CR would be signed into law by the President of the United States so it would be effective. What is…

I would invite the gentleman to go ahead with a couple of more speakers at this juncture.

I yield 2 minutes to the distinguished gentlelady from Ohio (Ms. Kaptur), who is the most senior woman in the House of Representatives and on the Appropriations Committee.

I yield 3 minutes to the distinguished gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Price), who is the ranking member on the Homeland Security subcommittee.