Lincoln Diaz-Balart: “Again, after hearing the chairman, who is always willing to work with colleagues--again, I just understand the difficult…”

I again thank the gentleman for bringing this forward. It is important that everyone realizes that we are going to continue to work on this. There needs to be transparency and we need to get answers. The gentleman has my commitment that I…

We deal with a lot of complicated issues in this House, and this is not one of them. Let's be clear: 12 hours from now the Federal Government shuts down if we don't act. This bill will fund the Federal Government for 45 days with a clean…

This bill does more for our national security and our allies with less taxpayer money. That is precisely how government is supposed to work. You do more and better with less money. That is how government is supposed to work. Mr. Chair, I…

Let's be very clear. We are going to know shortly who wants to shut down the government and who wants to keep it open because we are going to have a vote. In front of us today is this resolution to keep the government open. I know there is…