On the recordJanuary 21, 2018
It is simple until you make it complicated. There is a poster in my office that says just that, and it kind of describes where we are at today. We are having a lot of debate in this House about the current government funding situation, our military, and the Children's Health Insurance Program, which, by the way, House Republicans actually voted to extend more than 2 months ago and did again this past week. Here is the simple part: the Children's Health Insurance Program can be reauthorized, the government can be reopened, and paychecks sent to our troops without delay if Senators Chuck Schumer and Bob Casey and other Senate Democrats change their votes to make that happen. The short-term funding bill and Children's Health Insurance Program reauthorization is about as bipartisan and noncontroversial as you can get around here, yet Senator Schumer decided to make a crisis out of it. Mr. Speaker, I would like to be able to ask Senator Schumer and Senator Casey: Would you vote to reopen the government today? Would it make a difference, if I said ``please?'' ____________________
