I thank my friend from Georgia. The problem is that we are creating, really, a politics of divisiveness here because we are exempting some agencies at the expense of others. Even in the Department of the Interior, we still have 84 percent…

How much time do we have remaining on this side? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Virginia has 5\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Idaho has 2 minutes remaining.

This Republican shutdown is an outrageous abdication of Congress' responsibility. It didn't need to be this way. In fact, if the House leadership were to call up a clean continuing resolution appropriations bill today it would pass. There…

I would now like to yield 30 seconds to the distinguished gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Holt).

I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the very distinguished gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Lowey), the ranking member of the Appropriations Committee.

Will the gentleman yield? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman from Georgia has expired.

It is my great pleasure to yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the distinguished gentlelady from Minnesota (Ms. McCollum) on the Interior Appropriations Committee. Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Speaker, last night, this Congress rejected this Republican piecemeal…

At this point I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Oregon (Mr. DeFazio), the ranking member of the National Resources Committee. Mr. DeFAZIO. I thank the gentleman. So when the Republicans passed their shutdown bill, did they not…

It is my great pleasure to yield 1 minute to the gentleman from California (Mr. George Miller), the ranking member on the Education and Workforce Committee and former chair of the Natural Resources Committee. (Mr. GEORGE E. MILLER of…

I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Ryan) on the Appropriations Committee.

Thank you for yielding. I appreciate the time. I imagine, Ms. Jenkins, you're hearing some of the same things as I am as you return to Kansas and talk to our constituents. This is serious business. We're standing here tonight with a…

Madam President, I had a great honor this morning, and it will change the nature of the remarks I intended to make on the Senate floor. I just returned from the World War II Memorial. We had a group of 90 World War II veterans who flew…

This is unbelievable. All we need is less than 20 Republicans and we can open up the government today. You will have the Democrats voting to open up the government. Just give us 20 Republican votes and we can open it today. Instead…

Even after we exempt national parks, 81 percent of the entire Interior Department will be furloughed. I yield the remaining 30 seconds to the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Perlmutter).

It is with great pleasure that I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Pelosi), the very distinguished minority leader.

I thank my very good friend. As my friend understands, the reason why the World War II Memorial was closed down was for security reasons so that no one can damage it because there are no employees able to protect it. But I really ask…

I suspect we have an agreement that what we need to do is to pass a clean CR, and that fixes the whole problem so we don't have to do these little bills one after the other. That's what we need, a clean CR.

At this time, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Connecticut (Ms. DeLauro), the very distinguished ranking member of the Labor, Health, and Human Services Appropriations Committee, as well as the chair of our Steering and Policy…