The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The prayer will be offered by the guest chaplain, pastor Kenneth Codner, great baptist church, bellefonte, pennsylvania. The chaplain please bow with me in prayer. Heavenly father, i am humbled to be able to stand before you on behalf of this assembly here today. Lord, we are sinners, deserving none of your favor. But, father, i come to you in the merit of the lord and savior, jesus christ, who washed me from my sins in his shed blood. Father, we are aware more than any of the bitterness and bitter divisiveness throughout this room and across this nation of ours. I know that this grieves your heart, father. And i pray that we would repent of our sins, that you might forgive them and heal this land of ours. I pray that youll work in the hearts of the members of congress, that they be willing to put aside their political expedience and partisan politics and personal agendas, that they would strive to do what is best for our nation as a whole, and uphold the constitution, which they have vowed to uphold. Father, that they would seek to do what is pleasing in your sight, that they would seek your will and wisdom, for the decisions of this day and each and every day. I ask these things in the precious name of jesus christ, my savior. Amen. The speaker pro tempore the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. The pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from texas, mr. Green. Mr. Green i pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation, indivisible, with iberty and justice for all. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. Thompson, is recognized for one minute. Mr. Thompson thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i rise today to welcome pastor Kenneth Codner to the house of representatives as todays guest chaplain. Hes a native of owego, new york, and graduated from alfred agricultural and Technical College in 1973. A couple years later through the help of a coworker he trusted the Lord Jesus Christ as his personal savior. He had the desire to make his life count for god. In 1976, he enrolled in the Bible Program at tennessee temple university. Two years later he transferred to north Star Bible Institute in rochester new york, graduating in 1983 with a degree in theology. In june, 1983, moved to kansas dove he pastor of the Bible Baptist Church serving there for 15 years. Hes married and god blessed their union with five wonderful children. In september of 2000 they moved to bellefonte, pennsylvania. And in 2002 he grounded the grace bantists church. Its an honor to have him and his family here today. Thank you, mr. Speaker. I yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back. For what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise . Mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to take from the speakers table Senate Concurrent Resolution 28 and ask for its immediate consideration in the house. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the concurrent resolution. The clerk Senate Concurrent Resolution 28. Concurrent resolution providing for a correction in the enrollment of senate 782. The speaker pro tempore is there any objection to the consideration of the concurrent resolution . Without objection, the concurrent resolution is agreed to. And the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. The chair will entertain up to 15 further requests for oneminute speeches on each side of the aisle. For what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition . Mr. Poe mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. The speaker pro tempore without objection. The gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Speaker, its game seven of the world series. Best hitting team in baseball, the Houston Astros orange, versus the best pitching team in baseball, the l. A. Dodgers g seven of the world series. Best hitting team in blue. The series is tide up three games apiece. Top of the second inning. Springers at the plate of the its the third pitch. Spinninger loads up and belts it. Home run springer smacks his fifth roundtripper of the world series. The astros are up 50. Next inning, next several innings, all the bats are silent except l. A. , the best record team in baseball, gets a run. Its the bottom of the ninth. Astros take the field. Score. 51. One out. Two outs. Houston pitcher morton sends a sinker straight across the plate. Its a ground ball. Three outs. Its all over but the shouting. Astros win astros win astros win world champions of 2017. The championship predicted by the 2014 Sports Illustrated with springer on the cover. Finally happens after 55 years. And the city of houston goes astronomical. Thats just the way it is. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back. For what purpose does the gentleman from new york rise . Unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Million higgins the tax policy center, Whartons School in virtually every rational economist have reviewed the House Republican tax cut plan, the results are clear. No new good economic growth. Big debt and deficit. And big tax cuts for corporations. And very rich americans. Three million wealthy americans will get a tax cut next year of 220,000. 250 million not so rich 250 million not so rich americans will get a tax cut of 2,21. If you make 730,000, your income next year will increase by 8 1 2 . If you make 150,000, it will increase by 1 . Where are all the deficit hawks . Where are any of the deficit hawks . This tax plan is nothing more than fraud. Being perpetrated against middle america. I ask my colleagues to reject this plan. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. For what purpose does the gentlewoman from new york seek recognition . Mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. Revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Speaker, i rise today to urge my colleagues to support the champion healthy kids back. This Critical Health care legislation provides a fiveyear extension to the Championship Program that so many children and lowincome families rely on. Ms. Stefanik in my district alone, over 21,000 children use chip for access to lowcost health care services. Proud this legislation includes a needed twoyear extension of funding for Community Health septemberers. This is an issue i worked hard on as over 95,000 people in my district receive Critical Health care and Preventive Services from these centers. There is still much more work to do to improve our Health Care System for families in the north country. In congress, ill keep fighting programs our district depends on and ill continue working programs our district depends on and ill continue working toward the affordable, high quality Health Care System that die midistrict deserves. Thank you, mr. Speaker. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman yields back. For what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition . I ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Le mr. Green mr. Speaker, members, first of all i want to thank the Houston Astros for winning the world series and giving some folks in houston and Southeast Texas something to cheer about. We have had a tough few months, but you can see from last night theres a lot of cheering in houston. But im here to talk about a major issue thats really important. The Childrens HealthInsurance Program, the Championship Program, both programs are chip program, providing Health Insurance for over nine million lowincome children and serving on the frontlines of primary care providing high quality primary and Preventive Care for 25 million americans. Congress let funding for this program expired a month ago, and we must act in a bipartisan manner to strengthen and ustain them. Both chip and Community Health centers have always had strong bipartisan support since their reaction, 20 and 50 yearsing a respectively. Not this time. We should not cut medicaid to fund these two programs. You are taking money away from the poorest children to give to the less poor children. We need to support vaccination programs, Infectious Disease detection, prevention, and chronic disease prevention. We need to make sure this bill is bipartisan and its not right now. Thank you. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. For what purpose does the the gentlewoman from florida seek recognition . Mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend. Ddress the house for one minute. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. Ms. Roslehtinen thank you so much, mr. Speaker. There are less than 21 legislative days left this calendar year and the house has yet to vote for a permanent solution to protect dreamers from deportation. H. R. 3440, known as the dream act, introduced by congresswoman lucille roybalallard, and me is an effort to put an end to the fear and to the uncertainty that surrounds over 800,000 young immigrants living in our country. This bill will allow qualified dreamers the opportunity to better plan for their future in the only country they truly know as home, the United States. After several years, they will able to apply for conditional permanent residency, and eventually for citizenship. During that time, they will continue to participate in their daily activities such as contributing to our communities, helping our economy, showcasing their talent and ingenuity. Mr. Speaker, lets do whats right for these young immigrants. Because they are already americans in their hearts and minds. Lets bring the dream act for a vote so that these Young Professionals can make their American Dream a reality. The clock is ticking, mr. Speaker. Thank you for the time. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman yields back. For what purpose does the the gentlewoman from california seek recognition . Unanimous consent to revise and extend. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Mrs. Davis mr. Speaker, i received hundreds of letters from constituents who are deeply worried about the proposed tax plan. One told me without the state and local Tax Deduction his family of seven faces a loss of over 40,000 in deductions. Another constituent told me his family would lose 20,000 to takehome pay under this tax plan. Why on earth would we do this to middle class families . Why would we cap the mortgage deductions middle class home buyers depend on to lower their xes, to lower taxes for huge corporations . This plan is simply reckless and hurtful to the american and our economic growth. So lets take a look at real tax reform for real people, not a plan that helps those who need it the least. And our the speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman yields back. For what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition . To address the house for one minute. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Spree, today i would like to recognize the local Fire Departments in texas district 25, specifically the ones located in Johnson County. Mr. Williams all together First Responders in this county were deployed for over eight to help with Hurricane Harvey relief efforts. 20 firefighters and personnel were sent from bono, godly, grand vue, and to help with hur departments to help out with the storms impact. Two weeks ago these First Responders were honored during the Johnson CountyEmergency Services number one monthly meeting. Over the course of two months they contributed a great deal o the total number of 17,000 rescue missions in texas. More than 33,000 individuals were displaced as a result of this tragedy and these heroes put their own lives on hold to help out their fellow texans. Mr. Speaker, these crews who serve their local community are a rare find. They are heroes. And i am honored to represent them in the 25th Congressional District of texas. They voluntarily left their families and put their lives on the line in order to save others. The folks in rescue missions in texas. More than houston and south texas will be forever grateful. Texas is still recovering and together we will be stronger than ever before. So god bless texas. God bless the First Responders. And god bless the United States of america. In god we trust. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. For what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition . Mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Speaker, today i rise to pay tribute to a living legend, my friend and colleague, congressman sam johnson. Recently rehad the opportunity to honor him by renaming the vietnam archive at Texas Tech University the same johnson vietnam archive. Nobody in the United States congress enjoys more esteem from his colleagues on both sides of the aisle than sam johnson. His legacy of service is awe inspiring. 29 years in the United States air force. Combat missions in korea and vietnam. Nearly seven years as a p. O. W. , roughly three of those years in solitary confinement. Mr. Arrington there are many forces and politics that pull us from pill to post and many interests that compete for our time. There is one force that drives this man, his desire to fight for the future of his country. There is only one interest, thats only whats in the best interest of all americans. Im grateful to texas tech for honoring congressman johnsons service and sacrifice and im proud of the example sam has set for all of us who serve in the peoples house. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. For what purpose does the gentlewoman from texas seek recognition . Ms. Jackson lee i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. Jackson lee good morning, america. What about those astros . The Houston Astros, members of the 18th Congressional District and the great city of houston. Let me thank the Houston Astros a harvey worn community to the highest limb. We have never won the world series. Minute maid is a fine stadium. And the l. A. Dodgers were a very fine a harvey worn community to the highest compet let me thank all of them for the great sportsmanship, the character that was shown, show what americas about. You can be two great adversaries on the battlefield of baseball, but you can still be great friends and colleagues and part of the Great American pastime. Thank you to the mayor, county government, the state government, all of those fans out there, thank you, thank you to George Springer who caught the final out. I was so excited. Congratulations to those southern boys. They did a create grob did a great job and were the world series champion, the American League champion. Go Houston Astros. Mr. Speaker, i thank you for your kindness. Im so excited. They are great young men. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady yields back the balance of her time. For what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition . Mr. Thompson mr. Speaker, request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute, revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Thompson thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i rise today to congratulate dan glotts on receiving the 2017 Warren County chamber of Commerce Chamber of business and Industries Community service award. The chamber presents the award annually to an individual who has made significant contributions to the community. Dan was raised in Warren County, graduated from warren high school, and he currently serves as the Warren County planning director. He has given us time his time to numerous organizations, including the boy scouts of america, where he has served in many roles o