We are confronting a very serious situation, as all of us know, and that is we have not reached agreement on how to fund the government between now and September 30 of this year. Almost one-third of fiscal year 2018 is gone. At some point…

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 1, noes 418, answered ``present'' 1, not voting 10, as follows: [Roll No. 37] AYES--1 Massie NOES--418 Abraham Adams…

We don't have the power to shut it down either. It is entirely in the hands of the majority. By the way, on that previous CR, 90 of your Members voted against it. Did they vote against the military? Did they vote against the first…

We want to address other urgent health priorities as well. You want to pass CHIP, but you do not want to pass the community health centers. My colleague Betty McCollum told us about that. Many CHIP children will have no place to go--you…

I thank the gentlewoman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, we are now 4 months into the fiscal year and this is our fourth continuing resolution. The gentleman says now is the time to work things out. Every Democrat voted to extend the fiscal year…

I thank the gentleman for that information. I presume the CR, or continuing resolution, is anticipated, as the gentleman referenced. Is that accurate? Mr. Speaker, I yield to my friend. Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for…

I thank the gentleman for that. Will that continuing resolution be clean, from the gentleman's standpoint--that is to say, it will not include other items on it--or does the gentleman have any anticipation that other items might be…

I thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, nobody has any intention, of course, of holding the military hostage. Secretary Mattis and his predecessors have all believed that a CR is damaging to the military's ability to move forward and plan. I…

I thank the gentleman. Mr. Speaker, the gentleman and I had the opportunity to be at the White House with the President earlier this week. He and I are attempting to work on seeing if we can make sure that we protect our DREAMers. I think…

As I said at the beginning, we are bringing this bill to the floor, a retread. This is not new legislation that they are offering. The only thing new about it is they put two natural resources bills attached to it. We should be focused, as…

What a sad state of affairs. There are scores of critically important issues that need to be considered by this House, not the least of which is funding our government. We failed to do that, and now we are confronted with a bill that is…

I thank Mrs. Lowey for yielding. Here we are again, Mr. Speaker. Two weeks ago, the Republican majority asked for another 2 weeks to write an appropriations package to fund the government, yet now they are asking to kick the can down the…

The Appropriations Committee used to be an extraordinarily bipartisan committee where we worked together, not on a partisan basis, but on a basis of trying to determine which priorities were important for our country, what funds were…

I thank the gentleman for yielding time to me. Mr. Speaker, I agree with everything the gentleman said. Maybe he is not the best floor director--I have got a pretty good one myself--but he is a very, very good floor director.

I was going to say that one of the problems that I have with Mr. Bravo is that he thinks that Louisiana crabs are better than Maryland crabs, but loyalty is an important aspect of our service. Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise to join my…

The other thing that the chairman did not say is that, after your last round of tax cuts, we had the deepest recession anybody in this body has experienced, starting in December 2007, when you had the Presidency, the House, and the Senate…

This bill adds $1.5 trillion to the deficit. This is not tax reform. So Republicans may pat themselves on the back in the coming days for having finally passed something out of Congress. Unfortunately, it is a bad thing. I urge them to…

I was here in 1981. They said the 1981 bill would pay for itself. David Stockman, a former colleague from Michigan, was here. He was at OMB. A few years later, he wrote a book and he said: I said it would pay for itself, and I knew that…

I yield to the gentleman from California. Mr. McCARTHY. Let's make sure we are comparing apples to apples. That had a debt ceiling in it.

I thank the gentleman for yielding and for taking this opportunity on the Special Order. I think, as an aside, I need to apologize to him for making him wait so long for this Special Order. I also want to tell the American people, Mr…

You are in charge. There is no doubt when we were in charge and you didn't support us, we passed every piece of legislation we wanted to pass on this floor with 218 Democrats. We were united as a party. Now, we lost some, but never enough…

Reclaiming my time, I don't know who the gentleman is relying on for that information, but I will tell you I have talked to Mr. Pallone. That is not correct. I don't know who you think directed him not to reach an agreement, but I will…

I yield to the gentleman from California. Mr. McCARTHY. The gentleman is correct. There are many times we have worked together, on sanctions, on homeland and others. We work very well together. The gentleman knows I came to you about CHIP…

Reclaiming my time, let me say to the gentleman very respectfully: Do not expect cooperation from our side if we don't get cooperation from your side, if we don't get some inclusion in making decisions. {time} 1230 We are, after all, 194…

Let me reclaim my time just so the gentleman can further explain. Does that mean 90 of your people did not want to pay the bills of the United States and default on our debt? Mr. Speaker, I yield to my friend. Mr. McCARTHY. Mr. Speaker, I…