Harold Volkmer: “here we go again. There are not many on the floor again. We are not doing anything. Day before yesterday we did a few…”

“here we go again. There are not many on the floor again. We are not doing anything. Day before yesterday we did a few minor bills. Yesterday we did one conference report that everybody basically agreed with, very few Members disagreed with. What have we done so far today? Nothing. What are we going to do today? I do not know. Talk about lunacy. A mental institution, that is what this is. I never saw any place that operates like this. There is one Member, we are supposed to take up a continuing resolution today to continue the operations of the Federal Government that are not funded because the Republicans have not passed the appropriation bills. They have been working behind closed doors, some of them, maybe 5 or 10 of them at the most, not one Democrat, not one member of the public, not one member of the media been working on that bill. Nobody knows what is in it. I have been told that there is one Democrat, one that just recently got a copy of what he thinks might be the latest version, which has gone through many changes on what they are proposing to do this afternoon to keep the Federal Government open. It is very easy. All they have to do is come up here with a resolution that is clean and says that the Government shall be funded, those that are not shall be funded continuously for another 30 days, 60 days, up to September 30, anything they want to do. That is all they have to do. And it will pass here overwhelmingly.”