Rob Andrews: “I want to enter your contest for a new name for nontraditional students. I would call them survivors.”

I think you are doing some of the most important work in our country and you are all doing it very well.

I thank my friend for the time. Mr. Speaker, there's been an avalanche of talk from both sides, an avalanche of opinion. That's democracy. I think there is one indisputable fact, and that is the one way to end the government shutdown today…

On rollcall No. 1, I was unavoidably detained and had I been present, I would have been recorded as ``present.'' ____________________

I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 261, noes 157, not voting 12, as follows: [Roll No. 587] AYES--261…