Steny Hoyer

You are correct. Mr. McCARTHY. At any time, if I may finish, if I state that I voted for something that is incorrect, please bring it up.

I am going to reclaim my time, Mr. Leader, for this. Mr. McCARTHY. If I can finish, you had stated at the end of your last statement that you voted for that funding. I was just correcting. By voting against the omni, you voted against the…

I thank the gentleman for his observation. I share his delight that the Senate is moving bills. I would observe that they appear to be moving them in a bipartisan fashion, which I think is positive for an outcome on the appropriations…

Just as Federal agencies prudently provide support for State law enforcement in dealing with terrorism, Federal officials should give guidance and support in dealing with the election cybersecurity threat.

We cannot leave States to their own devices in defending against the sophisticated cyber tactics of foreign governments.

Because of that and because I would like to see a truly bipartisan bill supported overwhelmingly on both sides of the aisle to make sure that our community banks are not impacted in a way that was never intended nor should it be intended…

A moment of silence is not enough. I did not respond to the invitation of the gentleman from Texas to come and stand here. I lost a young woman at Great Mills High School in my district. I visited with her parents, I went to her funeral…

Is the gentleman aware that there are $95 billion of unobligated funds in the Department of Defense? I yield to the gentleman. Mr. McCARTHY. That is great. Will the gentleman offer an amendment to the bill?

The gentleman has not answered either one of my questions, A, whether there was a single red cent available in the Defense Department for rescission, because that money has been laying there 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 years. Is there a…

Although it was not on this list, I wonder if we might expect a budget resolution to be offered at some point in time in the future. Mr. Speaker, I yield to my friend. Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Speaker, I thank my friend for yielding. Even though…

I thank the gentleman for the information and for the bonus of a little longer-term view of what we might be considering on the floor of the House. One of the things I didn't hear on that, and perhaps I asked the majority leader about this…

Currently. Mr. McCARTHY. Right as of today, currently, you are only allowing 65,000 for brothers and sisters. That is not a mother, and that is not a child. Right now, today, there is more than a 30-year wait. So what we proposed is that…

Currently. Mr. McCARTHY. They can petition their brother and sister, and then they can petition their married children.

I'll be glad to hear the explanation. Mr. McCARTHY. So, when someone comes here, they can petition others. They can petition their parents. They can petition their children. They can petition their spouse.

Reclaiming my time, is the gentleman saying that, when we had discussions in your office and you wanted to eliminate the option to sponsor mothers and fathers by their children, was not that not part of the offer that you discussed in your…

The Budget Act is not the problem. The problem is a lack of discipline, not the Budget Act. I said yesterday on the constitutional amendment, if you want to balance the budget, do it. Do it. Offer a balanced budget. Mr. McCARTHY. We have.

Would the gentleman yield? Mr. McCARTHY. The one thing I would say, Mr. Speaker, my friend also told me he would let me answer this question without reclaiming his time.

I did. Mr. McCARTHY. So if you care about the military, you care about education, you care about opioids, and you are concerned about breaking a trust because you negotiated this, why did you vote ``no?'' Why did you vote against the…

It expired on September 30. You didn't bring it up until weeks after that. Mr. McCARTHY. With all due respect, I think you might want to ask your staff before you put that on record, with all due respect. Well, I am not sure you are…

He says it was because of our committee. I will tell you, Mr. Speaker, we can't stop anything in committee. They have a majority on every committee and can bring a bill up tomorrow--the next hour if they decide to do so. Mr. McCARTHY. May…

It has been over a year since Russia's unprecedented assault on the country's elections in 2016.

We hope that our Republican colleagues can join us and put politics aside so we secure our elections.

With a President unwilling or unable to put the country and its security first, Congress must act.

We have 10\1/2\ days remaining before we have another crisis in funding our government. Those are legislative days. We have more calendar days. Let us try to use every one of those days to reach agreement on funding the government so we…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, if we had entertained my unanimous consent request, we could have accomplished all that the gentleman from Oregon, the chairman of the committee, just discussed. I will remind you that the…