Tim Huelskamp: “I thank my colleague from the East and also my colleague from the South for their comments. I'd like to follow up first…”

“I thank my colleague from the East and also my colleague from the South for their comments. I'd like to follow up first on Congressman Bridenstine's laying out the record of what has occurred. Here you see a list of the votes the House has taken since the government shutdown began. First, as was mentioned, the Senate refused to negotiate, sit down and actually talk. That happened at 1 a.m. on October 1. Senator Harry Reid said, We're not going to talk; we're not going to negotiate. Since then, we've gone to work. The U.S. House, House Republicans said we're going to try to take care of the veterans. Let's try to take care of funding our national parks. Let's take care of funding the NIH, cancer research for our children. Let's take care of making certain that folks that serve at FEMA are taken care of--a list of vote after vote after vote for the last 4 days. And Congresswoman Hartzler, I appreciate you being here to take the opportunity so that we can show we are at work. We would like to open up the government. The Senate does not. But I'd like to point out how busy the Senate has been for the last 4 days. This, Madam Speaker, is a list of all the votes the U.S. Senate has taken since the shutdown occurred: October 1, the first day of the Harry Reid shutdown, no votes. Day two in the U.S. Senate, no votes. Day three in the United States Senate, not a single recorded vote. Day four--they must be getting tired over there--not a single recorded vote in the U.S. Senate.…”