On that I demand the yeas and nays. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to section 3(s) of House Resolution 8, the yeas and nays are ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 211, nays 219, not voting 3, as…

I reserve the balance of my time. Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Lee), the chairwoman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs.

I reserve the balance of my time. Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), the majority leader of the House of Representatives. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from Connecticut has…

I reserve the balance of my time. Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. Jackson Lee).

I am kind of a little confused. Last I looked, the Democratic Party controls the House, they control the Senate, and they control the White House. If they want to pass an omnibus bill, pass it. Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my…

I reserve the balance of my time. Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. Let me just say to you that we have heard from a number of advocacy groups urging the Congress to move on taking up a full-year…

I have a motion to recommit at the desk. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to recommit. The Clerk read as follows: Mr. Calvert moves to recommit the bill, H.R. 6119, to the Committee on Appropriations. The SPEAKER…

I think everybody knows, Madam Speaker, what the conditions are that have been pretty much publicized. National defense spending must go up and the balance of the appropriations has to come down; the legacy riders must come back in, and…

I reserve the balance of my time. Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from Minnesota (Ms. McCollum), the chair of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense. Ms. McCOLLUM. Madam Speaker, we are here today…

I just want to make a point. The Republicans on the Appropriations Committee want to increase our defense spending. We don't want to cut defense spending. Both the Republicans and the Democrats on the authorizing committee don't want to…

I reserve the balance of my time. Ms. DeLAURO. Madam Speaker, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Cartwright), the chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies.

I would like to remind my friends in the majority, we don't run the House, we don't run the White House, and God only knows who runs the Senate. But I do know this, that the gentleman that the majority leader referred to, the ranking…