I thank the majority leader for that information. I would reiterate what the majority leader has said because I believe this is accurate. There will be no votes before Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. next week--no votes prior to 6:30 p.m. next…

I thank the gentleman for his comments. Let me observe with respect to the gentleman's comment about we did send five bills, 75 percent of government spending, discretionary spending to the President. The President signed it. But when he…

Is the compromise we take the wall or we shut down the government? Is that the compromise? Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Speaker, if the gentleman will yield.

Is your answer to the question, yes, the wall, or we shut down government? Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Speaker, no. I am not one who shuts the government down. We went through that.

I am afraid we are going to almost finish the rest of that hour. Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Speaker, we should debate ideas; but if the idea is, ``What is your plan?'' it wasn't my plan that we had to do it alone. If we have to, we have proven we…

What is the solution? Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Speaker, do you know what the solution is? Sit down with us and come to a compromise, not that it is his way or no way. Mr. Speaker, let me ask the gentleman a question.

I am pointing out that when the gentleman says we didn't pass the appropriations bills, when I said we passed all 12 through the House, we did not shut down government. We ultimately got to a resolution of the differences between us. Mr…

Reclaiming my time, we didn't vote for it because we didn't like the bills. But the gentleman is in charge, and he has 240 Members. All he needed was 218. We didn't like his bill, so we did what we do when we don't like bills: we vote…

Me, too. Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Speaker, it will be quite interesting to watch. I know my struggles. I hope the gentleman doesn't have the same struggles, but I will make this promise to the gentleman: When we agree, I will be there. We do not…

Did they pass those bills? Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Speaker, no, we did not.

Reclaiming my time, I want to join the leader. It is important for the public to understand that much goes on in which there is agreement. Much goes on in this House between staff and between Members that is a positive and bipartisan…

Not that year. Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman voted. He whipped.

Reclaiming my time, everybody likes to talk about the Senate. What the gentleman has ignored is that I said the bill is in committee and in 340 days has not been brought to this floor. If that is the gentleman's policy, he has not brought…

The gentleman is talking about here? Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Speaker, here, yes.

What I hear is that the majority leader's plan is that we give up. Ninety-nine percent of the Homeland Security bill, I presume and believe, is directed at securing our borders. We have agreed with 99 percent of it, probably 99.9 percent…

I rise for the purpose of inquiring of the majority leader the schedule for the week to come. Mr. Speaker, I want to say I yield to my friend, but maybe I had better say it at the end to see how pleasant we are. I yield to the majority…

The gentleman is correct. We passed all 12 bills. We passed them one by one so that we can consider each one, and they went to the Senate. Unfortunately, the Senate didn't act in a fashion that I would hope. I will tell the gentleman, it…

Not necessarily one by one. We like his process, perhaps. I hope he likes it as much as he liked it the first time when he got that process, because I may--I have learned from the majority leader's skill and judgment so that we---- Mr…

We may pursue that process, and I know he is going to support it because it is his process that we are going to pursue, sort of like his schedule. {time} 1130 Mr. Speaker, we passed all 12 bills. We sent them to the Senate. Unfortunately…

I thank the leader for his comments, but what is your plan to do that? We have been now here in this Congress, this year, for over 330 days, 340 days. You haven't passed any plan on homeland security. You haven't brought it to the floor…

I thank the majority leader. I must say, Mr. Speaker, I have a serious suspicion--I trust the majority leader, but I believe that gift was probably purchased by Judy, his wonderful, beautiful wife. I yield back the balance of my time…

Why not? Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Speaker, because between those two bills, the gentleman held all of his Members to vote ``no,'' the same way he did with taxes, the same way he did with children's health, the same way he did on many other…

We haven't passed the homeland security bill through this House. It got out of committee; you didn't bring it to the floor. We haven't had a vote on it, so there is no consensus on that part of it. So, Mr. Speaker, let's pass those six…

I will ask the majority leader a question, just to make sure we all understand the schedule. But before I do that, I want to join the majority leader in saying how pleased we are that Steve Scalise not only came back, but is making such a…

Thank you. We look forward to being back on November 13. I thank the majority leader. ____________________