Steve Scalise: “I agree that we need to continue these negotiations and get a resolution, and, hopefully, we will in the coming week…”

“I agree that we need to continue these negotiations and get a resolution, and, hopefully, we will in the coming week, both on COVID relief and on the funding of government. We have agreed on caps already. Hopefully, we will maintain that and get that done to give certainty to all of our agencies that we know how much money is involved. It costs the Defense Department, for example, every week that we are in a continuing resolution, potentially billions of dollars just in procurement and in the loss of those efficiencies. I share the gentleman's optimism that we can get it done. Obviously, we need to continue working through these final issues. I do want to thank the gentleman, as we talked last week at the colloquy about the ALS Disability Insurance Access Act, and I thank the gentleman for scheduling it this week. It passed without opposition. This is one of those examples where we do work and come together and do something that actually helps people. This will help hundreds, possibly thousands, of people struggling with ALS to be able to get access to the tools that they need that they, under the current law, are being denied. To see the House come together so overwhelmingly to do that shows that we can, when we put our minds to it, actually help people.…”