Yet Republicans seem willing to jeopardize the full faith and credit of the United States of America unless we eliminate the Affordable Care Act.

Instead, he is allowing a small group of Republican extremists to pursue their ideological crusade to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

I thank the gentleman from New York for yielding. Madam Speaker, as ranking member of the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, I rise in strong support of paying our Federal workers, but I oppose the parliamentary gimmicks being…

Even worse, our country is rapidly approaching the debt-ceiling deadline of October 17th.

I represented a number of people, and they--when they got a notice of audit from the IRS or they got certain letters from the IRS, they base--would get very upset and very nervous.

Speaker Boehner has refused to allow the House to vote on a clean continuing resolution that would end the shutdown.

I have seen a lot of things as a Member of Congress over my 17 years, but I have never seen a committee chairman tell the head of an agency that he could not be present during a public hearing with one of his own employees.

You err on the side of opening up government.

If they had such a problem with it they probably -- they could have challenged it, I guess, in the Supreme Court on that basis.

I did not come to the Congress to throw Mr. Labrador's constituents under the bus, and I'm not throwing mine under the bus.

I guarantee you. I bet everything I've got, except my wife and kids, that if you put this order forward with a clean, a clean CR it would pass.

You've got to -- let's keep our government open, number one, and let's pay our debts.

They realize that they could not -- they tried to defeat it when we got it through the House and the Senate.

Negotiate over what? See, that's the question.

We're supposed to keep the government open and we're supposed to pay our debts.

May I inquire as to how much time we have remaining on both sides? The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Maryland has 1 minute remaining; the gentleman from Ohio has 3 minutes remaining.

I remind the gentleman we could get it done today. We want to open up the entire government today. With that, Mr. Speaker, I yield 45 seconds to the gentlewoman from Maryland (Ms. Edwards). (Ms. EDWARDS asked and was given permission to…

I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Speaker, it is critical that the House pass H.R. 3223 to ensure that our dedicated Federal employees are made whole and receive backpay once this shutdown comes to an end. Federal employees have…

I would say that we on this side of the aisle say ``yes'' to opening the entire government. And with that, I yield 45 seconds to the distinguished gentleman from Washington (Mr. Kilmer).

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule XX, this 15- minute vote on the question of passage of the bill will be followed by a 5-minute vote on the motion to…

Today is the first time the Federal Government has shut down in 17 years. This has happened because a small group of Tea Party Republicans has taken our country hostage as a part of their ideological crusade to overturn the law of the land…

If they put a clean resolution on the floor, it would pass and there would be no government shutdown.

I urge my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to ask your leadership to put a clean CR on the floor and end this shutdown today.

Wolf, I don't care what kind of relationship it is, you and your wife or your son or daughter, if you've got one person saying, my way or the highway, it doesn't work.

They want to shut the government down. I am convinced.