Mr. Speaker, H.J. Res. 59, the Senate clean bill, includes all programs administered by the VA. Let me repeat: all programs. The Senate didn't cherry-pick which programs get funded. It continues operations of the entire Federal Government…

Mr. Speaker, at this time I also would like to extend our condolences, and would also like to express our appreciation to the Sergeant at Arms and to the Capitol Police for their hard work in making sure that the people that work in this…

Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Arizona (Mr. Barber) for a unanimous consent request.

Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Veasey) for a unanimous consent request.

Madam Speaker, I yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. Takano) for a unanimous consent request.

Madam Speaker, at this time I yield 2 minutes to the gentlelady from New York (Mrs. Lowey), ranking member of the full Appropriations Committee.

Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Here we are again, deja vu all over again. The leadership of the other side of the aisle is again attempting to distract the American people from looking at their cynical shutdown…

Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. I'd like to point out the fact that while the bill may do what my good friend has suggested, it doesn't fund all of the accounts. There are a number of accounts, as has been pointed…

Mr. Speaker, at this time I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. Scott).

At this time I am happy to yield 1 minute to the gentlelady from Florida (Ms. Brown), a strong and consistent advocate for veterans and a member of the Veterans' Affairs Committee for over 20 years.

Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Maine (Mr. Michaud), ranking member of the Veterans Affairs Committee.

Mr. Speaker, how much time is remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Collins of Georgia). The gentleman from Georgia has 5\1/2\ minutes remaining. The gentleman from Texas has 7 minutes remaining.

I thank the gentleman. In order to end these childish games and put our government back to work for the American people, I ask unanimous consent, Mr. Speaker, that the House bring up the Senate amendment to H.J. Res. 59. The SPEAKER pro…

I think part of the winning strategy is passing a series of clean, targeted continuing resolutions...

This is what happens when you have a fundamental difference between the Congress and the president.

At some point, it's Harry Reid who is the obstructionist.

You have enough votes in the Senate now to pass every single one of those targeted continuing resolutions if Harry Reid would make then an orders --

Mr. President, I rise not to talk about ObamaCare, not to talk about a shutdown, not to talk about the debate we have been going through the last couple of days but, rather, I rise to talk about a man by the name of Chris Carr, who is my…