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.

I rise for the purpose of inquiring of the majority leader the schedule for the week to come, and I yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. McCarthy). (Mr. McCARTHY asked and was given permission to revise and extend his remarks.) Mr…

You had that opportunity to do it. You won't do it. I guarantee you that you won't do it. You can say whatever you want. Mr. Speaker, they won't do it. They haven't done it. There will not be a balanced budget on this floor from either…

But the gentleman says that I shut down the government. Can you tell him that the Senate didn't adopt the budget? With all due respect, I don't vote in the Senate. Mr. Speaker, I yield to my friend. Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Speaker, I appreciate…

Reclaiming my time. Mr. Leader, I am not sure. I want to understand. They upheld their word. Ninety people voted against the bill you are saying supported the military, 90 of your people voted against that. The majority of Democrats voted…

Reclaiming my time. I said I had voted for balanced budget amendments in the past when I spoke on the floor, and I said that I rose not to oppose the constitutional amendment, but to deride it. It was such a politically patently dishonest…

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…

I have heard that argument, Mr. Speaker. I heard it in 1981. We passed a massive tax cut. The debt increased over the next 7 years 187 percent. That was Ronald Reagan's tax cut. And, frankly, Bob Dole helped raise some revenues to offset…

Did the majority leader hear me say that is a reasonable thing to do? Mr. Speaker, I yield to my friend. Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Speaker, I look forward to the gentleman's support, because we didn't have it last time. Mr. Speaker, in these…

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

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 thank the gentleman for yielding me this time, and I rise today not so much to oppose this legislation, as to deride it as a sham, as a fraud, as a pretense of fiscal responsibility. If you want to balance the budget, just do it. I have…

Since President Trump took office, this year, fiscal year 2018, $980 billion in deficits; next year, $1 trillion. Every year thereafter, during the Trump administration, another $1 trillion of debt. It will total some $14 trillion. After…

Not a single person has read this bill. It was filed at 8 o'clock last night. If we had put this on the floor, not a single one of those on the other side of the aisle would have voted for it. Not one. They have demagogued for years about…

I thank the gentleman from Massachusetts for yielding. I have been here long enough to see my Republican colleagues bring to the floor these bills and plop them down heavily on the table. I have been here long enough to have citizens…

I thank the Speaker, and I thank Mrs. Lowey. Mr. Speaker, we brought this country from the brink of depression to a growing, robust economy with a stock market that has almost tripled by passing the National Recovery and Reinvestment Act…

Mr. McGovern hasn't read the bill. I have not read the bill. It was 8 o'clock last night. The only person that could read this bill is the supercomputers. None of us even claim to be supercomputers. This rule ought to go down. Very…

When the Speaker became the Speaker, he said: ``We will advance major legislation one issue at a time.'' How can any self-respecting Member of this House, how can any self- respecting Republican who made that representation to my Tea Party…

I am not going to read the remarks in their entirety, but I do want to highlight one thing Matt had to say, which I thought was so profound. He concluded his remarks by saying: `` . . . their right to own an assault rifle does not outweigh…

I am saddened and angered that the high school in my district, Great Mills High School, in St. Mary's County, was the site of the most recent school shooting, of which there have been 17 just since the beginning of this year. Two students…

The majority leader talked about a lot of issues, one of which was NICS. What he didn't say was they put a poison pill in the Fix NICS bill, which is why so many of us voted against it on concealed carry. There is a disagreement in this…

Reclaiming my time, my question was, will you agree--you talked a lot about NICS and where it is failing, and we can fix it. We agree with that. So what I am asking you--you put the Rutherford bill on. I think most of us are going to vote…

The leader spoke in a very calm and reasoned way. I will do the same. As an aside, I will tell you the CHIP bill passed on November 3, over a month after its authorization expired. Mr. Speaker, the majority leader talks about coming to…

I thank the majority leader for that information. Mr. Speaker, throughout the last year, we have continually run up against deadlines on how we were going to keep the government of the United States operating properly. The omnibus is…

I am pleased to yield to the gentleman from California (Mr. McCarthy), my friend, for the purpose of inquiring of the majority leader the schedule for the week to come. (Mr. McCARTHY asked and was given permission to revise and extend his…