Instead of going to that purpose, they are going to stock buybacks, and foreigners own a 35-percent share of the value of U.S. corporate stocks, so they are getting a lot of that.

The reason the cost of providing services to CHIP went down is because those children, if they were denied that alternative through the Children's Health Insurance Program, would have gone into the Affordable Care Act exchanges.

the good news is the Congress reauthorized the Children's Health Insurance Program for 6 years, and as was referenced, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that it would actually save money, I think you said $6 billion, compared to…

the Penn Wharton budget model, which estimates that if you do what the House Republicans want to do, you would increase the Government debt by over $5 trillion over the next 20 years, and actually reduce GDP because of the drag on the…

But I remember a lot of our colleagues, I mean, I can roll back the video on the floor of the Senate.

If I was a typical American household, I would have read the President's remarks as saying I am going to get a $4,000 pay increase.

Mr. President, let me tell you how pleased I am for the people in Maryland that we are now in the process of ending this government shutdown. A government shutdown does not benefit anyone. It certainly doesn't benefit the Federal workers…

Mr. President, providing for the security of the American people is one of our greatest responsibilities. I salute the officers and analysts in our intelligence community, who are integral in combating our adversaries and protecting our…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for that information. I am hopeful that we can agree on the underlying issue which led to the necessity for a CR and the temporary closing of government. That is the underlying agreement on what budget…

Mr. Speaker, it is important for us to understand why we are here. We are here because the Republican majority in the House and the Senate and the President of the United States have not funded the government. Secondly, we also are here…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself 3\1/2\ minutes. Mr. Speaker, as I said this morning, the reason why the government shut down is because the Republican majority has failed to fund the government. They have the majority of the House, the…

Mr. Speaker, we have 10\1/2\ days remaining before we have another crisis in funding our government. Those are legislative days. We have more calendar days. Let us try to use every one of those days to reach agreement on funding the…

Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 266, nays 150, not voting 14, as follows: [Roll No. 44] YEAS--266 Abraham Aderholt Allen…

Mr. Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. McCarthy), my friend and the majority leader. (Mr. McCARTHY asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for…

Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for that information. Today, both Chambers have passed the CR that takes us to February 8. That leaves 17 calendar days. I was going to say it did 6\1/2\ legislative days, but the gentleman has now given…

Mr. Speaker, I represent 88,000 Federal workers in the Eighth Congressional District of Maryland who want to do their jobs for the American people. They are DREAMers, too, and they are doers. They work at NIH, NOAA, the National Cancer…

Mr. Speaker, a century ago, William Butler Yeats wrote a poem called ``The Second Coming,'' in which he said: ``Things fall apart; the centre will not hold; mere anarchy is loosed upon the world.'' But in America, that is not our destiny…

Mr. Speaker, we are in the second day of this Trump shutdown because Republicans won't take yes for an answer. Senator Schumer went to the White House and had a deal with President Trump until the Freedom Caucus vetoed it and forced the…