I thank the gentleman. Madam Speaker, as we approach bipartisan resolutions, we hope that the gentleman from Maryland and his side would work with us on those. It could have been a resolution that actually passed, had we been able to work…

I thank the gentleman from North Carolina for yielding and for bringing attention to what we are here to talk about tonight. This would have been the State of the Union that the President was initially invited by the Speaker to deliver…

As we, Mr. Speaker, work to reopen the government and to secure the border, clearly, there has been a divide on the other side. We were trying to get some kind of agreement on how much the majority is willing to work with us on, to put an…

The gentleman uses terms like ``hostages.'' The gentleman uses terms like ``ransom.'' I was in those meetings in the White House with the gentleman from Maryland and the Speaker of the House. In fact, in our third meeting--by the way, in…

Reclaiming my time, let's reflect on why we are here. We are here because the President said we have a difference of agreement on parts of government. We negotiated over the course of months to fund 75 percent of our government. The good…

I will be happy to tell the gentleman. I think the gentleman knows, one of the dilemmas we have been facing with negotiations is that the Senate has a 60-vote requirement. The Senate had that 60-vote requirement back when you all were in…

Once again, we are in a government shutdown. I could clearly argue that the gentleman from Maryland voted to shut the government down in December before we had hit an expiration of funding. Before there was a shutdown, we had a bill to…

Then a parliamentary inquiry would be: Can we make a motion to reconsider? The SPEAKER pro tempore. As I recall, the motion to reconsider has already been laid on the table.

Well, then, Mr. Speaker, is there any procedural motion that doesn't require unanimous consent that would be in order to request the Chair to reconsider H.J. Res. 28? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair does not give advisory opinion.

I would ask the gentleman to yield. There would be an opportunity for you to do, in fact, that, and that would be a motion to vacate the previous vote and postpone reconsideration until next week so that Members could be here and actually…

I would yield the Chair as much time as possible to get an answer on that parliamentary inquiry. The SPEAKER pro tempore. For what purpose does the gentleman from Louisiana seek recognition?

I don't want to get too carried away, but I appreciate that we were able to resolve this. And, again, I know tensions got a little heated because these are important issues. We want to get a resolution to get the government back opened…