Many of us that have spoken here are appropriators. Our job is to bring 12 bills to this floor, 12 conference reports. We've done none. We've totally failed. We're not the first Congress to do that. We've had to pass 111 CRs in the 20…

For 111 times we've voted for CRs to feed everybody, not just a few. I yield 1 minute to the distinguished gentlewoman from Wisconsin, Gwen Moore. (Ms. MOORE asked and was given permission to revise and extend her remarks.)

How much time is remaining? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from California has 1\3/4\ minutes remaining; the gentleman from Alabama has 2 minutes remaining.

Thank you for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I'm an appropriator, like a lot of the speakers here today; and every time we have to deal with the CR, we're embarrassed. That's not our work. Our work is in appropriations bills, which we spend all…

May I inquire as to the time remaining. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from California has 4\1/2\ minutes remaining; the gentleman from Alabama has 2 minutes remaining.

We've passed 111 CRs without any of this rancor. There are no excuses. They have all been clean. I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from California (Ms. Roybal- Allard), a member of the Appropriations Committee.

It is my pleasure to yield 2 minutes to the distinguished doctor from Seattle, Washington (Mr. McDermott) of the Ways and Means Committee. (Mr. McDERMOTT asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr. McDERMOTT…

Give us back our committee. Give us back our chairman. Mr. Culberson worked, with all of us on both sides of the aisle, for about 6 months to do a veterans appropriations bill. This is not it. This is a disastrous bill, because this cuts…

Give us back our government. I am on the Appropriations Committee. We shouldn't be talking about CRs; we should be talking about passing appropriations bills. But those were stopped, and we are now down to the emergency tool that we have…

Thank you very much, Congresswoman Lowey, for yielding. Mr. Speaker, for those that may not understand what we're trying to do, all we have to do is pass one simple bill that was here in the House--the Senate gave it to us--and let's keep…

Bring us some leadership. There is only one issue before the United States Congress, and that's the issue to keep government open. The bill to do that is in this House. The bill to keep the government open is in this House. If it were on…

Here we go again. Last week, we averted an attack on the country of Syria. This week, we again attack the country of the United States of America. We attack the working poor. What is it about the GOP-led institution? They can find nothing…