Transcripts For CSPAN House Session Part 2 20170906

Environment, and related agencies for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2018, and for other purposes. The First Reading of the bill shall be dispensed with. Ll points of order against consideration of the bill are waived. General debate shall be confined to the bill and shall not exceed two hours equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on appropriations. After general debate the bill shall be considered for amendment under the fiveminute rule. An amendment in the nature of a substitute consisting of the text of rules Committee Print 11531, modified by rules Committee Print 11532 and the amendment printed in part a of the report of the committee on rules accompanying this resolution, shall be considered as adopted in the house and in the committee of the whole. The bill, as amended, shall be onsidered as the original bill for the purpose of further amendment under the fiveminute rule and shall be considered as read. Points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended, for failure to comply with clause 2 or clause 5a of rule 21 are waived except as follows beginning with the colon on page 327, line 22, through crime on page 328, line 2, beginning with the emicolon on page 535, line 12, through 12 United States code 3907b2. On page 536, line 14, and section 7080. Where points of order are waived against part of a section, points of order against a provision in another part of such section may be made only against such provision and not against the entire section. Section 2a, no further amendment to the bill shall be in order except those printed in part b of the report of the committee on rules accompanying this resolution, amendments en bloc described in section 3 of this resolution, and pro forma amendments described in section 4 of this resolution. B, each further amendment rinted in part b of the report of the committee on rules shall be considered only in the order printed in the report, may be offered only by a member designated in the report, shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for the time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, may be withdrawn by the proponent at any time before action thereon, shall not be subject to amendment except as provided by section 4 of this resolution, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question in the house or in the committee of the whole. C, all points of order against further amendments printed in part b of the report of the committee on rules or against amendments en bloc described in section 3 of this resolution are waived. Section 3, it shall be in order at any time for the chair of the committee on appropriations or his designee to offer amendments en bloc consisting of further amendments printed in part b of the report of the committee on rules accompanying this resolution not earlier disposed of. Amendments en bloc offered pursuant to this section shall be considered as read, shall be debatable for 20 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on appropriations or their respective designees, shall not be subject to amendment except as provided by section 4 of this resolution, and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question in the house or in the committee of the whole. Section 4, during consideration of the bill for amendment, the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on appropriations or their respective designees may offer up to 20 pro forma amendments each at any point for the purpose of debate. Section 5, at the conclusion of consideration of the bill for amendment pursuant to this resolution, the committee of the whole shall rise without motion. No further consideration of the bill shall be in order except pursuant to a subsequent order of the house. Section 6a, during consideration of h. R. 3354, it shall not be in order to consider an amendment proposing both a decrease in an appropriation designated pursuant to section 251b2aii of the balanced budget and emergency deficit control act of 1985 and an increase in an appropriation not so designated, or vice versa. B, this paragraph shall not apply to an amendment between the houses. Section 7, it shall be in order at any time through the legislative day of september 9, 2017, for the speaker to entertain motions that the house suspend the rules as though under clause 1 of rule 15. The speaker or his designee shall consult with the minority leader or her designee on the designation of any matter for consideration pursuant to this section. Section 8, the requirement of clause 6a of rule 13 for a 2 3 vote to consider a report from the committee on rules on the same day it is presented to the house is waived with respect to any resolution reported through the legislative day of september 9, 2017. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from oklahoma is recognized for one hour. Mr. Cole mr. Speaker, for the purpose of debate only, i yield the customary 30 minutes to my good friend, the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. Mcgovern, pending which i yield myself such time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Cole during consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for the purposes of debate only. Mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Cole mr. Speaker, yesterday, the rules committee met and reported a rule for consideration of h. R. 3354, the department of the interior, environment and related agencies appropriations act of 2018, also known as the make america secure and prosperous appropriations act of 2018. The rule provides for two hours of debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and Ranking Member of the Appropriations Committee. Mr. Speaker, the appropriations package in front of us is the second installment of the houses effort to pass all 12 Appropriations Bills on the floor for the First Time Since 2016. The overall package 2006. E overall package will cover 416 billion in total spending. It represents many months of work from the Appropriations Committee. This represents four divisions of the bill, the agriculture, rural development, food and Drug Administration and related agencieses appropriations act. The department of Homeland Security appropriations act, the department of state, foreign operations and related programs appropriations act, and the transportation, housing and urban development and related agencieses appropriations act. Together agencies appropriations act. Together they encompass 600 billion of discretionary spending. This represents a decrease of 7. 8 billion in f. Y. 2017 as Congress Seeks to fulfill its obligations of the American People to be fiscally responsible stewards of the taxpayers hard earned money. Most importantly, it represents the next step in fulfilling the greatest responsibility we have as legislators to fund the federal government and keep it open each year to provide our constituents the services they deserve while ensuring we appropriately prioritize where and how to spend taxpayer dollars. Mr. Speaker, the agricultural, rural development, food and Drug Administration and related Agencies Division will provide approximately 20 billion in appropriations, a decrease of 870 million from f. Y. 2017. The division will fund critical programs for farmers and ranchers, which is of critical importance to my home state of oklahoma. The bill also supports conservative priorities, including language rolling back regulations that harm businesses, industries, farming and ranching operations and rural and urban communities alike. In particular, the bill includes language allowing schools to get waivers from particularly problematic Obama Administration regulations governing School Lunches and prevents the Commodities Future Trading Commission from opposing imposing harmful trading activity that would force thousands of end users to comply with onerous regulatory requirements. The bill also includes language changing the food and Drug Administrations predicate date rules for premium cigars, ecigarettes and vaping and thereby regulating these industries out of existence. There is much to like in the agriculture division. On the securities side of the ledger, the department of Homeland Security Appropriations Committee provides 44. 3 billion, an increase of 1. 9 billion over f. Y. 2017. Of importance the bill provides 7 billion for immigration customs enforcement, an increase of 620 million. These funds will be used to enforce immigration laws and combat illegal immigration which our constituents have repeatedly told us they oppose. The bill provides 13. 8 billion for customs and border patrol, an increase of 1. 6 billion, to ensure that continued support security of our border. It also provides 1. 6 billion for physical barrier construction on the southern border, thus fulfilling the first step of one of President Trumps key promises. It proadvise 10. 5 it provides 10. 5 billion for the coast guard and supports Femas Disaster Relief Fund at 7. 3 billion. As with the earlier security appropriations package the house passed at the end of july, the funds in this division will help ensure Americas National security and go a long way towards funding key member priorities. The state and foreign operations appropriations division provides 47. 4 billion, a decrease of 10 billion from f. Y. 2017. Even with this decrease, the committee has funded key priorities. Security assistance is funded at 8. 8 billion. And full funding is provided for battling International Organized Crime antiterrorism programs and combating cybercrime. The bill also fully funds the 3. 1 billion memorandum of understanding with israel. The Appropriations Committee has prioritized programs of importance and deprioritized programs of importance thats not in the best interest of the United States, such as reducing funding of the u. N. By 939 million, eliminating all funding for unesco and eliminating funding for the Global Climate change initiative. In producing these this division, Appropriations Committee has a difficult choices about the nations priorities. And made them well. And ensured taxpayer dollars are going to the most important critical and efficient programs. Finally, the transportation, housing and urban development and related agencies Appropriation Division provides 56. 5 billion, an increase of 1. 1 billion over f. Y. 2017. That number does not include 45 billion also authorized to be spent by the Highway Trust Fund for americas highways. Of note, the bill provides 16. 6 billion for the federal aviation agency, an increase of 153 million to maintain and promote air travel and security. This sum includes 1 billion for socalled nextgen for more Efficient Air Traffic Control and 162 million for the contract tower program, a crucial safety net that covers many districts across the country, including facilities like west timer airport in norman, oklahoma, as well as towers in lawsuiton and ardmore in my lawton and ardmore in y own home district. Critically, it sustains section 8 and public and native American Housing programs at 27. 5 billion. It also includes increases in funding for programs benefiting vulnerable citizens, including 573 million for housing for the elderly, an increase of 70. 6 million over f. Y. 2017, and 47 million for housing for persons with disabilities, an increase of 800,000 over f. Y. 2017. In all, h. U. D. Appropriations covers important priorities and ensures our Nations Housing and transportation infrastructure will be adequately funded to meet our needs. Mr. Speaker, i encourage all my colleagues to support this rule and the underlying bill. The package before us represents a fulfillment of our most important responsibilities as members of congress and provides appropriate funding in four areas agriculture, state and foreign operations, Homeland Security and transportation and urban development. I applaud my colleagues in the Appropriations Committee for their months of work in making this bill a reality and i look forward to the completion of the f. Y. 2018 appropriations process. Mr. Speaker, i urge support of the rule and the underlying legislation and with that i reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. Mr. Mcgovern thank you, mr. Speaker. I want to thank the gentleman from oklahoma, my friend, mr. Cole, for yielding me the customary 30 minutes. I ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks, and i yield myself such time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore without objection, so recognized. Mr. Mcgovern i have nothing but the highest respect for my colleague from oklahoma, mr. Cole, and i know he wants this house to run better. But the fact of the matter is i feel bad that he has to defend this lousy restrictive and indefensible process. As i said last night in the rules committee, regular order in this house is dead. The current Republican Leadership has made it very clear that they have nothing but contempt for regular order. Todays appropriations package is only another example of that fact. Instead of considering bills one by one and allowing thoughtful debate and member input, Republican Leaders decided to call up eight appropriation bills all at once this week, and even set amendment deadlines while members were back in their districts for the august work period. In the rules Committee Republicans clocked 229 amendments for even coming to the floor on the four bills were talking about today alone. Those are democratic and republican ideas that wont be heard and wont be debated. Who knows how many more they will block on the next set of appropriation bills. Thats not the open promise we were promised thats not the open process we were promised by speaker ryan. Thats not regular order, my friends. Whats even worse than this terrible process is the substance of the bills being brought before us. They are filled with funding cuts and poison pill riders that attack womens health. Attack poor people, attack health care rights, repeal important financial reforms, undermine the Affordable Care act, make our land, air, and water dirtier, make our roads less safe, and undermine important civil rights protections. I could go on and on and on. These bills are political documents, mr. Speaker. They are read meat for the Republican Base which red meat for the Republican Base which think is around 15 of the American People. Thats right, mr. Speaker, the majoritys ideas are so unpopular that over 3 4 of the American People disapprove what they are doing here today. Thats not coming from any liberal or left wing source, that poll was released last week by fox news, you know the network you guys always watch. We all know we will need a continuing resolution to avoid a Government Shutdown on october 1. Why are we wasting the houses time on this partisan exercise when we should deal with the c. R. Oh, yes, we need to raise the debt ceiling, pass a budget, ten to Fund Hurricane Relief and so much more. Mr. Speaker, i am sick and tired of playing to the extremes. M sick and tired with this president picking a fight with a group of different people every week constantly trying to divide americans rather than unite us for the common good. The latest target are the dreamers. Dreamers are our coworkers, our relatives, our neighbors, and our childrens classmates. They have lived nearly their entire lives in america. They are part of the very fabric of our country. The decision to end daca is a cruel betrayal of their trust in the United States. It needlessly and stupidly robs us of the enormous talent, hard work, and ingenuity of these 800,000 young people. Ending daca is a loselose proposition for america and for us all. President trump vowed to show great heart in his decision and declared the dreamers could rest easy. Thats a lie and thats a etrayal. And shame on the Republican Leadership of this house that has avoided making daca a Permanent Program for nearly on the seven years. Shame on the Republican Party for voting against the dream act in 2010, even though it ultimately passed the house. Shame on the republicans in the senate for blocking cloture in 2010 when nearly seven years. Shame it was clear there were plenty of votes to pass the dream act then. Shame on the Republican Leadership of this house for not making daca a permanent law when president obama first initiated the program in 2012, shame on the House Republican leader for failing to take the senatepassed comme immigration bill for the last four years and included daca and a pathway to residency and citizenship for so many immigrants caught in legal limbo. Shame on the Republican Leadership for being such political cowards they have failed time and time again to demonstrate leadership and resolve these problems. 800,000 young people who are totally american in every way that matters put their trust in the United States government and in us here in this congress not just to protect them, but to be proud of them. They have been cruelly betrayed. The memo issued yesterday by the department of Homeland Security even says that they should be prepared to pack their bags and be deported to their countries of origin. Mr. Speaker, the simple truth is america is their home. It is unconscionable that the president pardoned radical racist share ref apaio who is a criminal while punishing 00,000 lawabiding dreerms. I stand with the c. E. O. Of microsoft and hundreds of other Business Leaders who said to the president to deport a dreamer you have to go through us. I stand with the thousands of religious leaders, college and University President s, mayors, state attorneys general and Civic Leaders who demand that we reject the president s decision and have Congress Pass the dream act immediately. This congress cannot and must not continue to fail these 800,000 young people. This morning this house passed emergency aid for hurricane harvey, a dreamer died in houston attempting to rescue vick tifments floodwaters. Another dreamer who was a houston paramedic and who worked night and day in rescue and relief efforts, just found out yesterday that his country, the only country he has ever known, has turned its back on him. I refuse to turn my back. Mr. Speaker, we all know that the dreamers need a permanent legislative fix. We can do that this very day. If we defeat the previous question, i will offer an amendment to the rule to bring up representative roybalallards bipartisan, bicameral bill, the dream act. What is right. Earlier today speaker ryan said, we have time to work this out. Really . The speaker seems totally content to have 800,000 people continue to live with uncertainty and fear. I think that thats sad and cruel. He also said we need to develop some sofert compromise. I dont know what hes thinking about. Maybe hes thinking about trying to add more Border Security money or this stupid wall the president keeps talking about. Heres the deal, there is nothing to compromise on. You either support the dreamers or you dont. They are not political pawns. They are people like you and me and our kids, they deserve better from us. Stop screwing around with their lives. Defeat the previous question. We can pass the dream act today. I reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. Many before that, members are reminded to refrain from engaging in personalities towards the president. The gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. Mr. Cole thank you very much, mr. Speaker. I yield myself such time as i may consume. I want to begin by discussing process with my good friend from massachusetts. Where i think he made some good points. But i think he fails to recognize the progress that this bill represents. My good friend knows, because we have the privilege of working together on the rules committee, i thought for many years, frankly, that we needed to get back to regular order. I remind this house the last time we actually operated under an appropriations process was in 2006. My friends were actually in the majority when we got rid of open rules on Appropriations Bills. My friends never brought all 12 Appropriations Bills to the floor where they were subject to amendments by various members. I would agree with my friend this is not a perfect process that we have. If i had my way, we would go back to the way we operated in 2006 before the last democratic majority actually bring the bills down individually and frankly give every member an open shot at amendment. I think thats the appropriate way to proceed. Again, my friends thought differently when they were in the majority and never made a move to restore regular order. Quite the opposite. We have actually fought to do that. Did have a period of open rules on Appropriations Bills. We can get every bill down here, i regret to say, but we got quite a few. But my friends decided they would engage in poison pill tactics. I regret, personally, that my conference gave into that. Were more worried about casting tough votes. I think youre sent here to cast tough votes. Ill make this commitment to my friend, ill continue to work with him and my colleagues on the other side of the aisle that like to return to that process. However, i do recognize this is significant progress towards doing that. Like to return this is the First Time Since 2006 that all 12 bills in one form or another will reach this floor. And frankly every Single Member has been free to offer amendments on any portion of those 12 bills that they care to. Of them were made in order by the rules committee. And i would hope we get past that again someday. Before my friends decry that too much, they ne of them were made order by the rules committee. Anded to remember the role they played in actually getting us out of that process. I also would like to talk just briefly to my friend about his thoughts about daca. And im sure well have a good discussion on that in the course of the day. I honestly think the discussion is helpful. I think the president of the United States did the right thing , when number one, he recognized that he does not have the constitutional authority, something even his predecessor wondered about, to engage in this law. And put this issue back in the hands of the congress. The congress now has six months to deal with it. The speaker assured us we will do that. I think the appropriate way to proceed is to have the committee of jurisdiction actually hold hearings and move forward, but well see which way we go. But i think theres a better chance for a longterm solution, as even my friend agrees if we have a legislative fix to the problem. I think that will involve some give and take, but my hope is well end up at a place where all parties are satisfied. Well see. Thats what the legislative process is all about. Point point to make, mr. Speaker, i think we need to recognize what were debating on here today in terms of these four Appropriations Bills, and well have another trauns of Appropriations Bills later, is actually a process. What point were really doins defining the position of the Majority Party as to where it stands on funding the government. I dont expect my friends to agree with that. There will be elements of these bills they agree with without a doubt. I dont think theyll oppose a lot of things that we do in or in o h. U. D. Thud regard to some of these other various programs. But at the end of the day, my side needs to recognize this, were going to end up in an negotiation with the United States senate and the administration sometime probably after the first of october. And that negotiation has to be ipartisan. As my friends know, the other body requires 60 votes that. Would mean there has to be democratic participation. Quite frankly the Appropriations Bills that have moved across the floor here in fiscal year 2015, fiscal year 2016, fiscal year 2017 have all been bipartisan. They have all been the product of negotiation. At the end of the day, i remind my friends in may a majority of them actually voted in favor of the omnibus spending bill for f. Y. 2017 in the house and in the senate as did, by the way, a majority of republicans in the house and senate, and President Trump signed it. So we know how this process ends. We know how to make it work appropriately. This is simply another step in the process. Its my hope at the end of the day we arrive at a bicameral, bipartisan process that actually funds the government and were able to accomplish in concert with one another things that we think are important to the American People. I have a great deal of confidence well get there because thats what we have done the last three years. Were doing it a little better this year. With that, mr. Speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves. The gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. Mr. Mcgovern thank you, mr. Speaker. I want to say to my good friend from oklahoma, whom i respect a great deal, if he wants to defend this process, can he go right ahead and do sow. I think most people watching this, the fact that 2 3 of all discretionary federal spending is going to be decided in a weeks time, i dont think is a good process. I dont think its one that the American People have much confidence in. I dont think its reasonable to expect any member has read all 1,305 pages of the eight bills that my friend is bringing to the floor. And im not sure everybodys had time to read all the 970 amendments that were proposed, many of them not made in order by the rules committee. This is not a pros sess i think anybody wants to defend. The final point im going to make with regard to the president s decision on daca, the gentleman as the gentleman knows, this congress, and the previous congresses, could have acted on this any time they wanted to. When the democrats were in control here in the house we did. We passed the dream act. Unfortunately, many of you wouldnt support it but it passed the house. We had republican obstructionism in the senate. If you want a legislative fix, we have the solution for you. Vote no on the previous question and well bring up ms. Roybalallards bill to pass the dream act. Get this done today, well have a day of consequence where were doing something to help people in this country. So, mr. Speaker, as i said im going to ask my colleagues to defeat the previous question. Well offer representative roybalallards bipartisan, bicameral bill h. R. 3440, the dream act. The legislation would help thousands of young people like the ones whose heroic stories my colleagues will highlight today and americans in every day except on paper. Mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to insert the text of my amendment in the record along with extraneous material immediately prior to the vote on the previous question. And to discuss our proposal, im happy to yield three minutes to the gentlewoman from california, ms. Roybalallard allard, the Ranking Member of the Homeland Security appropriations subcommittee. The speaker pro tempore without objection, so ordered. He. Roybalallard the president s cruel action is upending the lives and their families and sending a chilling message to our immigrant communities. It is unbelievable that we first introduced legislation to help dreamers in 2001. That is 16 years ago. The fight to protect dreamers has gone on for far too long. Defeating the previous question will enable us today to vote on the dream act of 2017, which is a bipartisan, bicameral bill that will protect our nations dreamers once and for all. The fact is this is our chance as members of congress to fulfill our responsibility on this serious issue. For those of my colleagues who say they support the dreamers but that they believe that daca is unconstitutional, this is your opportunity to help the dreamers through the legislative process. The dreamers did not choose to circumvent American Immigration laws, and they should not be punished for something they are not responsible for. Today, my republican colleagues can provide relief to these young people by voting to bring the dream act for a vote. Protecting dreamers is not only a moral issue, it is also an economic issue. The president s decision to end daca strikes a vicious blow to our economy the, forcing hundreds of thousands of young people out of the work force will disrupt businesses across our nation. California alone stands to lose 11. 6 billion annually, and the u. S. Stands to lose a cumulative 460 billion in g. D. P. Over the next decade if dreamers are removed from our economy. As members of congress, we represent the American People and the vast majority of americans, regardless of their political affiliation, support our nations dreamers. I urge my colleagues to vote no on the previous question so we can pass the bipartisan, bicameral dream act today to enable our dreamers to continue contributing to our nation without fear of deportation from the only country they know as home. I yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman yields back. The gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. Mr. Cole thank you, mr. Speaker. I reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves. The gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, im happy to yield to the gentlelady from california, ms. Lofgren, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman from california is recognized. Ms. Lofgren mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act, to protect dreamers like adam, a student at the university of californiasanta cruz, majoring in mathematics. The speaker pro tempore the chair would advise that all time has been yielded for the purpose of debate. Does the gentleman from oklahoma yield for purposes of this unanimous consent request . Mr. Cole i do not yield. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from oklahoma does not yield. Therefore, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, i yield to the gentleman from california, mr. Ruiz, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from california. Mr. Ruiz i ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act, to protect dreamers like missy, who attends the david Giffin School of medicine at ucla and dreams of saving thousands of lives. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back. Does the gentleman from oklahoma yield for the purpose of this unanimous consent request . Mr. Cole mr. Speaker, im reiterating my earlier announcement that all time yielded is for purpose of debate only and i will not yield for any other purpose. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from oklahoma does not yield and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, im happy to yield to the gentlelady from new york, ms. Velazquez, for the purpose of unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. Ms. Velazquez thank you, i ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act, to protect crystal, an attorney who came to this country when she was only 9 years old. The speaker pro tempore the chair understands that the gentleman from utah excuse me from oklahoma has not yielded for that purpose. Therefore, the unanimous consent cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, i am proud to yield to the gentlelady from hawaii, ms. Gabbard, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman from hawaii. Ms. Gabbard thank you, mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act, to protect dreamers like shangai, who came to the u. S. At 13, graduated with a Political Science degree at the university of hawaii and putting that degree into purpose today. The speaker pro tempore the chair understands that the gentleman from oklahoma has not yielded for that purpose. Therefore, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Fovegove mr. Speaker, im happen mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, im happy to yield to the gentleman from arizona, mr. Grijalva, for the purpose of a unanimous consent qufment mr. Grijalva i am proud to bring up h. R. 3440 to protect dreamers like juan who graduated from the university in mechanical engineering. The speaker pro tempore the unanimous consent cannot be enter taped. Mr. Mcgovern i am proud to yield to the gentleman from the northern mariana islands, mr. Sablan, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. Mr. Sablan i ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act, to protect dreamers like maria who grew up pledging allegiance to our flag and has worked for two members of this congress. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the chair understands that the gentleman from oklahoma has not yielded for that purpose. Therefore, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, i am proud to yield to the gentleman from california, mr. Correa, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from california. Mr. Correa mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to bring up 3440, the dreamer act, in honor dreamer marine corporal angel, the first to be killed in the iraq desert. The speaker pro tempore the chair understands that the gentleman from oklahoma has not yielded for that purpose and therefore the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, im proud to yield to the gentleman from new york, mr. Espyate, for the purpose of ess pat, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. R. Espiallat mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to bring up 3440, the dream act. The speaker pro tempore the chair understands that the gentleman from oklahoma has not yielded for that purpose. Therefore, unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, im happy to yield to the gentleman from california, mr. Carbajal, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. Mr. Carbajal mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act, to protect Daca Recipients like girardeau, a Computer Programmer in santa barbara, who has grown up, gone to school and worked in the United States for the last 13 years. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, im happy to yield to the gentleman from california, mr. Thompson, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from california. Mr. Thompson mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act, to protect dreamers like fernando, o is a drrtal student at ucsan francisco, under daca. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern im proud to yield to the gentleman from california, mr. Panetta, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. Mr. Panetta i ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act, to protect the 20,000 dreamers in my district on the Central Coast of california like adam, a student at the university of californiasanta cruz, majoring in mathematics. Thank you. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, im happy to yield to the gentleman from california, mr. Mcnerney, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. Mr. Mcnerney mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act, to protect dreamers like philippea, who works at microsoft, bing, skype and at a startup. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern im proud to yield to the gentlelady from california, ms. Matteau see, for the purposes of a unanimous consent request. Ms. Matsui i ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act, to protect dreerms like eduardo, a student at ucdavis. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, i yield to the gentlelady from new jersey, mrs. Watson coleman, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from new jersey. Mrs. Watson coleman thank you, mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act, to protect new jersey dreamers like christian, who arrived when he was 7 years old nd is a researcher at the ican school of medicine. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern i am happy to yield to the gentleman from texas, mr. Green, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. Mr. Green i ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act, to protect dreamers like Jose Contreras who is a paramedic who worked six Straight Days during hurricane harvey. He rescued people from floodwaters and transported them to local hospitals. Jesus needs to be supported. The speaker pro tempore as the chair advised on january 15, 2014, and march 26, 2014, even though unanimous consent requests to consider a measure is not entertained, embellishments constitutes debate and will be part of the time on the part of the member yielded for that purpose. Mr. Mcgovern id like to yield to the gentleman from new york, mr. Nadler, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from new york. Mr. Nadler thank you. Mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act, to protect dreamers like jessica who has been in this country since he had was 2 and hopes to become a doctor. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, im hoopy to yield to the gentleman from im happy to yield to the gentleman from california, mr. Aguilar, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. Mr. Aguilar mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act, to protect dreamers like maria, who is the coordinator of the dreamers resource Success Center at cal statesan bernardino. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent cannot cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, i am proud to yield to the gentlelady from guam, ms. Bordallo, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from guam. Ms. Bordallo i ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act, to protect dreamers like christine, who arrived in my home district of the territory of guam as a child and is now a registered nurse saving lives and caring for our community on guam. Thanks to daca. The speaker pro tempore excuse me, as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, id like to yield to the gentlelady from michigan, mrs. Lawrence, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from michigan. Mrs. Lawrence mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act, to protect dreamers like ola, a university of michigan premed student who aspires to be a surgical oncologist. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, im proud to yield to the gentlelady from the district of columbia who deserves a vote in this house for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from the district of columbia. Ms. Norton i thank my good friend and i ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act, to protect ricardo, who arrived when he was 4 and is studying to be a prosecutor to help fight crime. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, i am now happy to yield to the gentleman from florida, mr. Soto, tore the purpose of a unanimous consent for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. Mr. Soto i ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act, to protect dreamers like juan who obtained a masters degree from our Florida State university and works in digital advocacy. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, im happy to yield to the gentlelady from california, ms. Brownley, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from california. Ms. Brownley mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act, to protect dreamers like martha, who graduated from cal state universitychannel islands, and now is on staff supporting students. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, i am happy to yield im happy to yield to the gentlelady from california, mrs. Torres, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from california. Mrs. Torres thank you, mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act, to protect dreamers like my former intern, luis, who came to this country when he was 6 years old. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, i now would like to yield to the distinguished gentleman from california, mr. Takano, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from california. Mr. Takano mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act, to protect california dreamers like lucida who at age 31 hasnt been home to mexico in 27 years because this is her home. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, id like to yield to the gentlelady from new mexico, ms. Lujan grisham, who is the head of the congressional hispanic caucus. Ms. Lujan grisham i ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act, to protect vanessa, a dreamer from new mexico who dreams of becoming a doctor. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern im proud to yield to the gentlelady from california for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from california. Mr. Sanford mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent ms. Sanchez mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to bring up the dream act, to protect dreamers like nadia, who received a masters degree in Public Health from u. C. Davis. The speaker pro tempore as previously anounlsd, unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, im happy to yield to the gentleman from arizona for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from arizona. Mr. Gallegly mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent mr. Gallego mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to bring up the dream act, to protect vasthti. Ike vsa sfoip the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern im proud to yield to the gentlelady from california for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from california. Ms. Chu mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act, to protect dreamers like alfonso, who is in his third year at Western State college of law in orange county. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, a unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, im now happy to yield to the gentlelady from texas for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from texas. Ms. Jackson lee mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous con sent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act. To protect a daca recipient who is in my state, who is majoring in neuro science at the university of texas at austin. I ask unanimous consent. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, i am proud to yield to the gentlelady from california, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from california. Bargbarg mr. Speaker, i ask for unanimous daring ms. Barragan mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to bring up the dream act, to protect dreamers like elaine, who is in ing for her masters Public Health at ucla. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, im happy to yield to the gentleman from california for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from california. Mrs. Napolitano i ask unanimous consent to bring up 3440, the dream act, to protect dreamers like saida from california who is pursuing her m. B. A. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Ms. Pelosi i ask unanimous consent to to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act, to protect california dreamers like monica, a College Student who started her own business. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, i now yield to the gentleman from california, mr. Lowenthal, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from california. Mr. Lowenthal thank you, mr. Speaker. I ask consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act, to protect dreamers like eduardo, a ucla student and an antibullying activist. Thank you. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, im now happy to yield to the gentleman from california for the purpose of a unanimous concept request. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from pennsylvania. Mr. Cartwright mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act, to protect pennsylvania dreamers like jasmine here who aspires to become an attorney. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, it is with great pleasure that i yield to the gentleman from new york, mr. Tonko, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from new york. Mr. Tonko thank you. I ask unanimous kwon sent to bring up h. R. 3440rk the dream act torque protect dreamers like daniel, a first generation College Student. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, i now yield to the distinguished gentleman from california, mr. Huffman. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from california. Mr. Huffman mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act. To protect california dreamers like oscar, who says that daca has allowed him to go to school, to work and has made him feel free. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, its with great pleasure that i yield to the gentlelady from illinois, ms. Schakowsky, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from illinois. Ms. Schakowsky i ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act. To protect monica, an illinois dreamer with a nursing degree who has dedicated her life to taking care of others. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request annot be entertained. Ms. Tsongas i ask unanimous consent to bring up the dream act. To protect massachusetts dreamers like andre, who is working as an Engineering Technologies consult ability. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, i now am happy to yield to the gentleman from california, mr. Lieu,er to the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from california. Mr. Lujan thank you. Mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act. D, to protect dreamers like karina from my home state of california. She currently works in the iotech industry. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. The gentleman from arizona. Mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act, to protect ricky, mar of two, who a mother of two, who was recently arrested and detained despite having dakota avement the speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, i yield to the gentlelady from connecticut, ms. Delauro, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from connecticut. Ms. Delauro thank you. I ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act. Which would protect dreamers like gladys. Shes been able to buy a home and a car with her health care job. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, i now yield to the gentleman from michigan, mr. Kildee, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from michigan. Mr. Kildee mr. Speaker, i respectfully request unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act. To protect michigan dreamers like jonathan, who aspires one day to help the spacex and nasa space programs. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, i now yield to the gentleman from colorado, my colleague on the rules committee, mr. Polis, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from colorado. Mr. Polis mr. Chairman, i ask unanimous consent to bring up r. 3440, the dream act. For johana. She graduated from the university of colorado and went on to medical school and we need to bring this bill up for her. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, it is with great pride that i yield to the gentleman from maryland, mr. Raskin, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from maryland. Rassrass thank you very much, mr. Speaker mr. Raskin thank you very much, mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act. To protect fatima. Young brothers brothers were deported last month. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern i now yield to the gentleman from minnesota, mr. Nolan, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from minnesota. Mr. Knollenberg thank you, mr. Speaker. I mr. Nolan thank you, mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act. To protect the young woman from the midwest like amy, who works as a User Experience designer in a Technology Company in illinois. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, im happy to yield to the gentleman from texas for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from texas. Mr. Castro mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act. To protect julia, who joined teach for america and is a middle School Teacher in san antonio, texas, my hometown. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, i know we have a new manager on the republican side, maybe hell yield for a unanimous consent request. Im happy to yield to the gentleman. I appreciate the gentleman. I was not here for opening statements. Mr. Woodall i imagine that all time was yielded for the purpose of debate only. Mr. Mcgovern so we can resolve this issue today. I was hoping youd be more favorable than your predecessor. Id now like the speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman from georgia will control the time for the majority side. Mr. Mcgovern i want to yield now to the gentlelady from new york for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman from new york. Mrs. Maloney i thank the gentleman for yielding. I ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act. To protect young people like isabel, a dreamer who graduated from college in new york and now works to help lowincome veterans recuperate and get better thanks to daca better. Thanks to daca she was able to do this. Thank you. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, i now yield to the gentleman from texas, mr. Green, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the time will be deducted from the gentleman from massachusetts. Mr. Green mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act. To protect dreamers like daniel, who arrived at the age of 2 and graduated from the university of north texas. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, i now would like to yield to the distinguished gentlelady from california for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman is recognized. Ms. Speier i thank the gentleman for yielding. I ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream t. To protect dreamers like marella. She is a ph. D. Student at u. C. Irvine. Its time. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, i now would like to yield to the gentleman from new york, mr. Serrano, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from new york. Serser thank you for yielding mr. Serrano thank you for yielding. I ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act. To protect new york dreamers like mila, who was able to go to college, get a job and get a drivers license thanks to daca. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. The gentleman from massachusetts. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, id now like to yield to the gentleman from georgia for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from georgia. Mr. Johnson thank you, mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream ct. To protect dreamers like ray, a cathedral of christ the king in atlanta. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. The gentleman from massachusetts. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, i now would like to yield to the gentlelady from nevada for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from nevada. Ms. Titus thank you. I ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act. To protect dreamers like victor who arrived when he was 7 years old and now works as an i. T. Support analyst. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. The gentleman from massachusetts. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, its now my privilege to yield to the gentleman from maryland, distinguished whip, mr. Hoyer, for the purpose of a unanimous consent request. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from maryland. Mr. Hoyer i thank the gentleman for yielding. I ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440, the dream act. In order to carry out the peakers expressed intent. To protect dreamers like gene. As gene studies at the of maryland and is a credit to that institution, a credit to our state, and a credit to our country. I yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced, the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. The time will be deducted from the gentleman from massachusetts. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, id like to ask unanimous consent to insert into the record a letter from 18 evangelical religious leaders and other religious leaders in opposition to the president to President Trumps decision to end daca. The speaker pro tempore without objection, so ordered. Mr. Mcgovern id also like to ask unanimous consent to insert into the record letters from a letter signed by 20 state attorney generals in strong opposition to what the president has done. The speaker pro tempore without objection, so ordered. Mr. Mcgovern and, mr. Speaker, at this moment i would like to yield three minutes to the distinguished gentleman from illinois, mr. Gutierrez. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from illinois is recognized. Mr. Gutierrez how did we get here . The house passed the dream act right here on this floor. Almost all the democrats voted for it and a handful of republicans too. The goal was to legalize immigrants who had grown up in the u. S. , achieved education, and had no way of getting legalization status unless Congress Took action. Way back in 2001 i had introduced the first bill to legalize immigrant youth that took almost 10 years and passed in the house in 2010. Late that are same week, there was a vote in the senate, 55 out of 100 senators voted for cloture on the dream act, to legalize the status of undocumented immigrant youth. And we know you need 60 votes in the senate to move something forward so the dream act was blocked. Even though it had a majority of votes of the senator. Because of a filibuster led by republicans. And not just any republican led the filibuster. But the leader of the opposition to the dream act was none other than the attorney general of the United States, Jeff Sessionses. So yesterday the president sessions. So yesterday the president , unwilling to go out to the cameras and announce he was killing daca himself, sent Jeff Sessions out to tell 800,000 immigrants, we dont want you here anymore. Including in that announcement was was a halfhearted sales pitch for congress to pass legislation. But remember, when sessions had a chance to do exactly that, he led the fight to stop it. Thats hypocrisy on steroids. So, president obama finally took the only action he could take two years later, and crafted a narrowly defined program called daca that has been successful that has never been successfully challenged in court. Daca recipients are teachers, nurses. One is even a chicago policeman who straps on hises gun and a badge to protect people every day in my city of chicago. During hurricane harvey, dreamers were daca, were First Responders and volunteer and those who gave their lives to save others like alonso of texas. Look. We want a clean dream act. Up or down vote. And democrats, lets be clear. This is a crisis that requires swift action of legislation to fix it. As big a priority as anything else we need to pass this month , our votes are needed on the debt ceiling, democrats. On this bill, on the c. R. , and what are we getting for our votes, democrats . When the c. E. O. Of microsoft says you can only take my dreamers with daca by coming first through me, that is a challenge to every policymaker in this chamber and especially to my democratic colleagues. When will we throw down and say no, you can only have our votes unless you give us the dream act . When will we say, you cannot have our votes unless you bring 800,000 young lives with us . Lets demand a vote on the dream act and we can pass it right here, right now and give our young people the future of our narkse safety and security they need and deserve to contribute to the United States of america. The only country they have known. They are american in everything but a piece of paper. And we should all be ashamed of ourselves by not allowing a vote. 800,000 young people, once, twice, threetimes registered with the government. And what do they get . Six months, pack your bags and lee. They are pledged allegiance to only one flag, the United States of america, and this country, and this cowardly action turns its back on them. I say no c. R. I say no debt ceiling. Lets have a vote first on the dream act. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from massachusetts reserves, the gentleman from georgia is recognized. I dont think my colleague is confused about where he is on this issue and i dont think any amount of talking on the floor is going to change his mind on this issue. I would say that the underlying bill which makes in order over 100 underlying amendments so we condition can have a conversation about different ideas, different outcomes is the right way to craft legislation and with the support of this body and this bill, we will move on to that underlying debate and we will have that voice heard. With that i reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves. The gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. Mr. Mcgovern its interest, the gentleman neglected to mention the 227 amendments denied yesterday and the frustration that we have over here is that ere going through an exercise with these appropriation bills knowing theyre going nowhere and were going to have to deal with a shortterm continuing resolution and therell probably be a big omnibus passed at the end that may not in any way reflect the liberations were doing on the appropriations matters in the next couple of days tavepls little frustrating because we have other things to do. And what were saying is, lets make this weaker consequence and let us make this week a week of consequence and bring up the dream act. President trump did something horrible yesterday , he pulled the rug out from underneath 800,000 good, decent, lawabiding citizens in this country, who are american in every way except they dont have a piece of paper. Who were brought here in many instances as infants. They serve in our military. He pulled the rug right from underneath them. Its a cruel, awful, nasty thing to do. Listening to the rationale of this white house, i mean, this kind of schizophrenic tirade we have seen unfold where one minute hes against the dreamers, then he loves the dreamers, then hes against the dreamers, then he loves the dreamers. All of this kind of rambling we have seen out of the white house hasnt changed the fact that he has thrown 800,000 lives in turmoil. People now have to live in fear and uncertainty and its a rotten thing to do. What were saying is, lets fix it. My friends say they didnt like what president obama did through executive order. We tried to legislation, we did in we tried to legislate, we republicans he made sure we couldnt bring it to the floor of the senate. President obama stepped forward and put forth an executive order that protected 800,000 people my friends say they like the dreamers, want to help them. Lets help them. You guys are in charge. You can do anything you want. All were asking for is a vote. That is it. A vote. The way we can ensure a vote is to defeat the previous question and bring up the dream act. If you dont have the courage to bring it up yourself, defeat the previous question, well bring it to the floor. The speaker pro tempore members are reminded to refrain from engaging in personalities towards the president and to direct their comments to the chair. The gentleman from georgia is recognized. Mr. Woodall i thank you for that admonition. These are important issues. My friends have a legitimate concern about an immigration issue. Characterized with terms like cruel. And nasty. And rotten. And no courage. I would say to my friends, we can try to belittle each other into a compromise. Ive not seen that work before. We can try to insult each other into a solution. I have not seen that work before. I see my colleagues coming down the other side of the aisle, mr. Speaker, one after the other, to tell a compelling story about a man or woman they know that they believe would make an amazing United States citizen. They they they that they believe would add value to our communities. That they believe is serving admirably in our church. Is working admirably in our community. They have a story to tell and they should tell it. Guess what . Ive got a few of those stories to tell myself. , i i would say to my friends dont think, mr. Speaker, that the insults and the acrimony are going to get us where any of us want to be, and for my friends who believe differently, i would tell you, i think we have tried that path before. And it didnt take us where we want to go. With that, i reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves. The gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. Mr. Mcgovern im sorry my friend doesnt like words like cruel when it comes to the president s actions with regard to dreamers. I want to ask unanimous consent to insert in the record an article about a man named jesus con terrace, from houston, texas who helped rescue flood victims, d now faces deportation if stripped of his daca status. I dont know what you call that. I call it cruel. I cant imagine why anybody would want to take away this mans ability to live his life in the only country he knows. A man who is saving lives. Were telling these stories because were hoping maybe it might move some of my friends on the other side of the aisle. Maybe it might move the leadership to allow us to schedule a vote and actually fix this, you know. And remove the level of uncertainty and fear that now 800,000 people have to deal with because of what the president did yesterday, because of the inaction over the years of the congress. Mr. Speaker, id like to new yield to the gentlelady from california, ms. Lee, for the purpose of a unanimous consent qufment the speaker pro tempore without objection, so ordered they feel gentlelady from california is recognized. Ms. Lee thank you. Mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 3440 the dream act, to protect dreamers like laura who are just as american as you and me. The speaker pro tempore as previously announced the unanimous consent request cannot be entertained. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, id also like to yield to the gentlelady from ohio, ms. Kaptur, for the purpose of a unanimous consent qusm the speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from ohio. Ms. Kaptur i ask unanimous onsent to insert in the record support for revoking President Trumps attempt to deny dreamers legal status in this country and to support his executived offer affirming daca for so many young people across this nation, 4,400 in ohio, for example. Who are following the rules, who came here as children, who are as american as apple pie and only want a chance to succeed in our country, like linda, who was brought here from palestine when she was 8 years old, shes studying now in our area in a very difficult stem program and is working her way through college through work study in order to make a firm contribution to our nation in the future and to the future of whatever family she establishes. Why should they be denied this opportunity and made to feel so put upon by the government of the United States . So with this unanimous consent request, i stand on behalf of those 4,400 hiians as well as 800,000 Young Americans who are dreamers and will inject new energy, new possibility into our country, to help Fund Programs like Social Security which theyre paying into if theyre working and make their contributions to our countrys future. Its an honor to rise on her behalf and ask for congress to act immediately to pass legislation to protect these young people whose economic and cultural contributions will only make our nation stronger and they will not displace anyone, any person who has an application currently spending for our immigration service. But they will wait in line like everyone else because theyre fair people and deserve to be treated fairly by the government of the United States. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the remarks will be inserted into the record. Time will be deleted from the gentleman from massachusetts. Mr. Mcgovern id also like unanimous consent to insert into the record a letter to members of the congress from the United States conference of mayors strongly objecting to what the president did. Id like to ask unanimous consent to insert in the record the ticle that appeared on National Public radio webpage entitled microsoft president to trump, to deport a dream youll have to go through us. Id also ask unanimous consent to insert in the record a list of over 500 Business Leaders in support of daca who oppose what the president did yesterday and who are upset for congress for its inaction and id like to ask unanimous consent to insert in the record a statement dined by signed by over 1,00 catholic educators who call on President Trump and his administration to save daca and protect the dreamers. I reserve my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from georgia georgia is recognized. Mr. Woodall i would say to my friend from massachusetts, i am prepared to close when he is. I reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves. The gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. Mr. Mcgovern may i inquire how much time i have remaining . The speaker pro tempore 7 1 2 minutes. Mr. Mcgovern i yield myself the remaining time, mr. Speaker. First of all, with regard to the underlying bill that is being brought before the house today, a whole bunch of Appropriations Bills, bunched together in an unprecedented way, i would say in an undemocratic way as well. Nobody was nobody has had a chance to read these bills. Over 1,300 pages. I dont think anybody in this chamber has read them all. Close to 1,000 amendments were submitted. They were all asked to be submitted before we came back into session. While people were still on work recess. I dont think members have had a chance to review all the amendments. As i said, hundreds of good amendments have been rejected. And i i said last night in e rules committee, i invoked senator john mccains name, he wrote a piece in which he called on congress to go back to regular order. I agree with him. We ought to go back to regular order. Thats what the speaker of the house promised when the took the gavel. We would have regular order. This is not regular order. This is not the way we should decide spending matters. And i will tell you right now that therell be lots of mistakes in this legislation that is being rushed through. If it even goes anywhere. Because were now being told were going to have to do a continuing resolution an chances are well end up strog do a longterm spending bill. But process matters. When you bunch things together, when you rush things like this, mistakes are made. But as i said, in my open, we are going to ask for people to vote no on the previous question. If you vote no on the previous question, i will offer an amendment to bring up representative roybalallards bill which is the dream act. Which would actually solve the dilemma we face. It will soove the dilemma that 800,000 good people in this country are now facing as a result of President Trumps cruel decision yesterday to repeal daca. To end daca. These are people who as youve heard from all my colleagues theyve told their stories. These are people who are working in this country, theyre leading efforts to rescue people and in hurricaneravaged texas, theyre paramedic, they serve in our military, these are good people. This is their country. They were brought here as infants and this is the only country they know. And the fact that and the fact that we are treating these good people in such a terrible way, every one of us should be ashamed. Thats not who we are. We keep on saying that every time the white house does Something Else that we find offensive, we keep saying, thats not who we are, thats not who we are. Well, at some point we have to prove it. We have to show it. And if we believe that dreamers are a valuable part of our community, then we need to them. And this is a way to do it today. Theres no need for compromise and more discussion. Its a very simple question. You either support the dreamers or you dont. Thats it. Thats the only question at hand. If you want to load it up with all kind of other extraneous material, thats not a fair thing to do. Thats not the way thats not what these people deserve. So i urge my colleagues on both sides of the aisle, i mean, i know youre hearing from your constituents. I know youre hearing from your teachers and synagogues and mosques that we need to protect these people. Well, lets do it. The dreamers dont need your words, they dont need your sympathy. They dont need your empathy. They need your vote. We have an opportunity today, by voting no on the previous question, to have a vote. Today. On whether to protect the dreamers. It is that simple. So i ask my colleagues, if you truly many of you some of my colleagues on the republican side have spoken very eloquently about the dreamers. If you mean it, then give us your vote. If you mean it, do less talking and give us the vote. Thats what were asking for today. So vote no on the previous question. Let us help these great people. Let us help these people who have been such a valuable part of our community. Let us treat them with the dignity and respect that they deserve. Let us recognize that they view this country as their home and we should view this country as their home as well. So with that, vote no on the previous question. And if that doesnt work, then vote no on this lousy rule. I yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. Members are reminded to refrain from engaging in personalities toward the president. The gentleman from georgia is recognized. Mr. Woodall thank you, mr. Speaker. I yield myself such time as i may consume. I fear youre going to have to use that admonition a great deal in the coming days. And i regret that. I regret that folks have begun to confuse civility with weak aness. My experience weakness. My experience is when youre strong, you dont have insult the people around you. When youre strong, you dont have to call folks around you names. That civility and weakness are confused, but in fact more often than not there is a loss of civility when folks feel at their weakest. And my friends on the other side of the aisle right now, mr. Speaker, with good reason feel very restricted. Being the minority in the house of representatives is a hard place to be. For my friend from massachusetts, being the minority in the rules committee is one of the hardest places to be. So i dont fault him for his frustration one little bit. If i was in his shoes, i would be frustrated as well. But let me be clear. We are in the position with daca today for one reason and one reason only. And that is because instead of leading the congress and leading the nation, president obama chose to act alone in a be that he knew would not permanent. The instability that you see today is the result of folks acting in a way that was not stable. The confusion that you see today is the result of an administration that committed itself to that confusion instead of committing itself to consensus. I have been in this congress for seven years, mr. Speaker. Seven years. Four of those seven years the United States senate was led by the democratic party. Not once in those seven years has an immigration bill come to my desk from the United States senate. Not once. Now, i know as we sit here right now, the House Judiciary Committee has acted on immigration bill after immigration bill after immigration bill. Lets be clear, mr. Speaker. The situation that the dreamers is the mselves in today symptom of a nation that does not have the security of its borders. Had america had security of its borders, we would not have allowed these families to have put their children in these positions. Today we have an amazing opportunity, an amazing opportunity to have this debate and i tell you, our president is in a unique position to lead us. It frustrates me so much, mr. Speaker, that folks want to assume the worst about one another. And the ed and the medias all too anxious to report the worst about one another. The president could have just canceled the daca program. He could have instructed d. H. S. To start proceedings today. He didnt. He didnt. Wouldnt have been the right thing to do. Prudent ave been the thing to do. He didnt do it. What did he do . He said, ive read this thing called the United States constitution. Turns out only one group in the land has the opportunity to right the write the laws. Me and my friend from massachusetts, its the majority leader from kentucky and the minority leader from new york across the way. He said, congress, there was only one way this should have ever been done. It should have been done in the halls of congress. Thats not the way president obama chose to do it. He should have done better. He didnt. We can do better. Lets do. Now, to the skies falling skys falling reports that came out, one right after the other, almost with glee from the Fourth Estate, the president spoke again. To say, listen, you know what, if congress doesnt get it right, i may have to act myself. I hope he doesnt. I think that folks have too little confidence in what we can do together when we set our minds to it. But we do have to ask ourselves , watching the display here on the floor today, watching the displays weve had on the floor in the past, do we have a Serious Group of men and women here who want to Work Together on solutions or do we have a group of men and women here who want to get the next headline, who just want to send out that next tweet, who just want to make that next front page story of hysteria . I believe the former is true. I know the men and women on this floor, mr. Speaker. Not the caricature of the men and women on this floor that you read about in the newspaper, but the real men and women on this floor. Who each come here every single day to diligently serve the almost 700,000 men and women that they report to back home. Nd im proud to do it. I plead, mr. Speaker, for you to use your leadership to not allow us to devolve into the name calling and the acrimonyy that the Fourth Estate acrimony that the Fourth Estate would like to suggest characterizes this chamber. But to lead us to the sincere debate of care being people, of care being the rule of law, of caring about families. Let me just say, best part of this job is the case work that each one of us do back home. You all know it. People think the job happens in washington, d. C. It doesnt. It happens one family at a time back home. Youve heard the comments on the floor of the house today, mr. Speaker. I have families in my district separated from one another. You want to talk about families, you want to talk about uniting families. I have families separated from one another, standing in line to come to this country legally. I ask you, mr. Speaker, how many folks have you heard standing up for my constituents who have whose families have been separated because theyve been standing in line to get here for more than a year . How many folks have stood up for them . Not one. What about those families that have been standing in line for two years, mr. Speaker . Because ive got them in my district too. What about those families who have been separated for three years, standing in line, trying to get to america the right way, whos standing up for them . I dont hear those calls on the floor of the house because ive got them in my district too. Four years, mr. Speaker. Five years, mr. Speaker. Six years, mr. Speaker. If you want to bring your adult child in from mexico, you had to file in the 1990s for their number to be coming up today. Thats crazy. Crazy. Wheres the conversation about reforming the system that got us here to begin with . I applaud my friends for trying to solve the symptom. I beg my friends to work with me to cure the disease. And we have a president who can lead us in that direction, mr. Speaker. He has the credibility of being and he has ers, the heart of someone who wants to keep families united. We have an opportunity, mr. Speaker. We can take it or we can reject it. I believe were going to take it. But thats not for the Business Today, mr. Speaker. The Business Today is an appropriation process. My friend from massachusetts called it unprecedented. Hes right. And i take no small amount of pleasure in talking about how right he is. Because ive been in this body for seven years. And we dont generally get the Appropriations Bills done before the end of the year, mr. Speaker. Deadlines dont tend to mean anything to us. Were about to make that happen. 1997, mr. Speaker, was the last Time Congress funded the government ahead of schedule. Before the deadline. Its taken a continuing resolution every other year since 1997. We have an opportunity this year to do it. I dont know if well take it or not. I hope that we will. We cant solve everything every day. But we can solve something every day. We can make Something Better for somebody every day. And if you support this rule, we will bring to the floor four propings bills Appropriations Bills and 119, give or take, amendments. Were up in the rules committee right now making even more amendments in order, mr. Speaker. To have even more voices be heard. To have even more opportunity to make a difference for the families that we all represent back home. Support this rule. Be proud of this rule. Be proud of the work the appropriationses committee did. Mr. Speaker, you dont Appropriations Committee did. Mr. Speaker, you dont hear it on the floor of the house and it so frustrates me. If youd been in the rules Committee Last night, youd have seen democrat and republicans sidsithing side by side talking about the sitting side by side talking about the amazing work they did on the appropriations process, in the Appropriations Committee. Talking about the great admiration and respect that they had for one another because of the work they do together on the Appropriations Committee. We dont hear that here on the floor of the house and we should. We should hear more of that. We should hear more about the good work that were doing together and if we support this rule, mr. Speaker, we will get a chance. Not just to hear about it, but to experience it, to do it. I know my colleague from massachusetts and i have another six, seven, eight hours of rules Committee Work to do together tonight. And i know my colleague is going to challenge us to do even better than what were doing and im prepared to accept that challenge. But for today, mr. Speaker, for this moment, i urge my colleagues, come to this floor, support this rule. Move the appropriations process forward. Finish the appropriations process before the september 30 deadline. Serve your constituents back home like i know every man and woman in this chamber came to do. With that, mr. Speaker, i urge support for the rule, support for the underlying bill, i yield back the balance of my time and move the previous question. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. The question is on ordering previous question on the resolution. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. Mr. Mcgovern mr. Speaker, on that i ask for the yeas and nays. The speaker pro tempore the yeas and nays are requested. All those in favor of taking this vote by the yeas and nays will rise and remain standing until counted. A sufficient number having arisen, the yeas and nays are ordered. Members will record their votes by electronic device. Pursuant to clause 8 and 9 of rule 20, this is a 15minute vote on ordering the previous question, will be followed by fiveminute votes on adopting the resolution if ordered, and agreeing to the speakers journal if ordered. This is a 15minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] the speaker pro tempore on this vote, the yeas are 233 and the nays are 187. The previous question is ordered. The question is on the adoption of the resolution. Ll those in favor say aye. The speaker pro tempore a recorded vote is requested. Those favoring a recorded vote will rise. A sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a fiveminute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ]