Restore the health care programs that are being stalled for veterans and Medicare recipients who are getting home health.

Chuck Schumer has shut it off because he needs a political argument right now.

There has to be reforms to that subsidy, because there’s a lot of fraud, waste and abuse involved in it.

We’re not saying that we won’t negotiate it. We’re saying turn the lights back on in Congress.

We passed a bipartisan, very clean continuing resolution a couple of weeks back now, and sent it to the Senate.

What I’m saying is we have to keep the lights on in the building so that we can have those discussions and debates.

We have plenty of time to debate that very complicated issue.

They want to spend $1.5 trillion, and they want to return hard-working taxpayer dollars to fund health care for illegal aliens.

I mean, look, I’m working on the policy.

There's not, Margaret. Good morning. Good to hear your voice. It's kind of quiet around here.

[Massie] doesn’t have a point.

The House did its job. We passed a bipartisan, very clean continuing resolution...

I pray that more Democrats in the Senate will come to their senses and do the right thing.

I'm telling you my position- I'm the Speaker of the House.

This is very important. Yes it does.

We were always planning to do that. Again, that funding runs out December 31.

The House did its job. The reason that House Republicans are home working in their districts, and I suspect House Democrats should be as well, is because we did that.

The reason that House Republicans are home working in their districts... is because we did that.