The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition . I send to the desk a privilege red port from the committee on rules for filing under the rule. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title. The clerk report to accompany House Resolution 670, providing for consideration of the Senate Amendment to the bill h. R. 1370 to amend the Homeland Security act of 2002 to require the secretary of Homeland Security to Issue Department of Homeland Security guidance and develop Training Programs as part of the department of Homeland SecurityBlue Campaign and for other purposes. Providing for consideration of the bill h. R. 4667 making further supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2018, for Disaster Assistance for hurricanes harvey, irma, and maria and calendar year 2017 wildfires and for other purposes and providing for proceedings during the period from december 22, 2017, through january 7, 2018. The speaker pro tempore referred to the house calendar and ordered printed. The chair lays before the house the following communication. The clerk the honorable the speaker, house of representatives, sir, pursuant to the permission granted in clause 2h of rule 2 of the rules of the u. S. House of representatives, the clerk received the following message from the secretary of the senate on december 21, 2017, at 9 25 a. M. , that the senate agreed to Senate Concurrent Resolution 31, that the Senate Passed senate 117, that the Senate Passed senate 501, with best wished i am signed sincerely karen l. Haas. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition . Mr. Woodall by direction of the committee on rules i call up House Resolution 670 and ask for its immediate consideration. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the resolution. The clerk house calendar number 115, resolved that upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to take from the speakers table the bill h. R. 1370 to amend the Homeland Security act of 2002 to require the secretary of Homeland Security to Issue Department of Homeland Security wide guidance and develop Training Programs as part of the adopt of Homeland SecurityBlue Campaign and for other purposes with the Senate Amendment thereto and to consider in the house without intervention of any point of order a motion offered by the chair of the committee on appropriations or his designee that the house concur in the Senate Amendment with an amendment consisting of the text of rules Committee Print 11552. The Senate Amendment and the motion shall be considered as read. The motion shall be debatable for one hour equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on appropriations. The previous question shall be considered as ordered on the motion to its adoption without intervening motion. Section 2, upon adoption of this resolution, it shall be in order to consider in the house the bill h. R. 4667, making further supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending september 30, 2018, for Disaster Assistance for hurricanes harvey, irma, and maria and calendar year 2017 wild fires and for other purposes. All points of order against consideration of the bill are waived. The antidepressants printed in the report of the committee on rules acompanying this resolution shall be considered as adopted. The bill as amened shall be considered as read. All points of order against provisions in the bill as amended arewayed. Clause are waived. Clause 2e of rule 21 shall not apply during consideration of the bill. The previous question shall be considered as ordered on the bill as amended and on any further amendment thereto to final passage without intervening motion except one, one hour of debate equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on appropriations and two, one motion to recommit with or without instructions. Section 3. On any legislative day of the first sofingse the 115th congress after december 21, 2017, a the journal of the proceeds of the previous day shall be considered as approved and b, the chair may at any time declare the house adjourned to meet at a date and time within the limits of clause 4, section 5, article 1 of the constitution to be announced by the chair in delairing the adjournment. Section 4. On any legislative day of the second session of the 115th congress before january 8, 2018, a, the speaker may dispense with organizational and legislative business, b, the journal of the proceed offings the previous day shall be considered as approved if applicable, and c, the chair may at any time declare the house adjourned to meet at a date and time within the limits of clause 4, section 5, article 1 of the constitution to be announced by the chair in declaring the adjournment. Section 5. The speaker may appoint members to perform the duties of the hair for the dureation of the periods addressed by sections 3 and 4 of the resolution as though under clause 8a of rule 1. Section 6. Each day during the periods addressed by sections 3 and 4 of this resolution shall not constitute a calendar day for the purposes of section 7 of the work war powers resolution, 50 u. S. C. 1546. Section 7, each day during the periods addressed by sections 3 and 4 of this resolution shall not constitute a legislative day for the purposes of clause 7 of rule 13. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from georgia is recognized for one hour. Mr. Woodall thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, during consideration of this resolution all time is yielded for the purpose of debate only but i would like to yield 30 minutes to my friend from massachusettsmark mcgovern, pending which i yield myself such time as i may consume. The speaker the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Woodall id also like to ask unanimous consent that all members have five dedge have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Woodall most of what you just heard from the reading clerk you could have heard during the previous four hours of testimony that weve been taking in the rules committee. I understand there was no other game in town going on this morning so if folks were tuning in to cspan, they were tweeted treated to my friend from massachusetts, our Ranking Member from new york, our chairman from texas and all the gang there on the rule committees as we worked through this. But forbid the thought if someone had Something Else on their mind this morning, i want to go through just briefly what you heard from our reading clerk. This is a single rule that provides for consideration of two measures. The first is the Senate Amendment to h. R. 1370. Its that continuing appropriations to make sure the lights stay on and the checks go out the door. It makes in order a motion to concur in the Senate Amendment with an amendment consisting of the toveks this continuing resolution. To debate that, mr. Speaker, we provided an hour of debate between divided between the chair and Ranking Member of the appropriations committee. I think every member of this chamber understands the nature of this legislation but we provided that time nonetheless. The second measure is h. R. 4667. Its the disaster aid package, mr. Speaker, as you know, this house has been working through in a bipartisan way funding our neighbors who have been so dramatically affected by disasters, whether in the Virgin Islands , in puerto rico, in florida, in texas, the devastating wildfires and in california, this has been a National Focus and billions of dollars have already gone out the door to meet the initial emergency needs. This is an additional appropriations measure. It comes under a closed rule, mr. Speaker, but it does make in order, im sorry, does selfexecute two amendments that had been offered, an amendment by mrs. Walters an an amendment by ms. Gonzalezcolon. It also it provides for an hour of debate and provides a motion to recommit for the minority. The rest of what you heard from the reading clerk, mr. Speaker, was that typical language that you hear year end when members are going to be traveling to allow for the housekeeping that takes place here and allow the house to function as the traditional authorities provided in december and january during the district work period. With that, mr. Chairman, again, i think we have debated these issues. Urge my colleagues to support the rule and get onto the underlying measures and i reserve. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. The gentleman from massachusetts. Mr. Mcgovern i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks and i yield myself such time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Mcgovern we are strongly opposed to this rule. And i have to say to my colleagues this is really a sad day, not only for the institution, but for the United States of america. It is frustrating that we are here today doing a third continuing resolution. You know, for those who are watching these proceedings, we should be passing appropriation bills that fund the government for an entire year. We shouldnt be funding the government week to week, month to month, but yet my republican friends have ended up doing such that. They cant get their act together. They are in control of the house of representatives. They are in control of the United States senate. And are in control of the white house. They simply cannot govern. They are lucky that the American People cant sue them because they would be sued for political malpractice. The one thing, the one thing that they are supposed to do is to keep this government running, keep the lights on, and yet we lunch from one crisis to another crisis to another crisis to another crisis. Today, they are saying kick the can down the road to january 19. And then we will be in the same situation and probably kick the can down the road another few weeks. Thats not the way government is supposed to run. People need certainty. And this congress has delivered anything but certainty. And it has to stop. It is frustrating. You know, a solution, if i could be so bold to suggest a solution to dealing with some of the problems that the Republican Leadership is confronting, might be a little bipartisanship. Might be opening up this process a little bit. Might be more deliberation on the floor of the house of representatives. There are a couple of ways you can govern. One is you can govern in a way where you respect all points of view, where you actually respect the view point of the minority, where you open the process up so the minority can every once in a while offer some amendments and offer some alternatives, where you negotiate on spending bills in good faith where you know you are not going to get everything and the minority knows they arent going to get everything but you end up with a compromise that is good enough to get bipartisan support. Thats the way things used to be done around here. And i dont know why its so difficult to get back to those days, but if you want government to run better, thats what you have to do. You have to stop this my way or the highway on every piece of legislation that comes before this body. My friend have invoked have had more closed rules than any other session of congress. This is the most closed session in the history of the congress. Thats what this session will go down in history as being. The most closed session in the history of congress. Law have used mart inch al and emergency meetings to get us to this point. We are kicking the can down the road for a few weeks. Thats it . What we should have been doing is working together not only to keep government open but raise the caps. Democrats want a Strong National defense. We also need an equal increase in our domestic budget which includes Critical National security functions and commitments to hardworking families. My friends ought to know onethird of the nondefense domestic budget goes to National Security, veterans, Homeland Security, the state department and Justice Department counterterrorism initiatives and Housing Initiatives and investing in education and Environmental Protection so our fellow citizens dont have to drink water that is contaminated with lead. That is part of our National Security. We ought to be working in a bipartisan to resolve these issues together. We need to work to fund the opioid epidemic. We are giving lots of speeches about how terrible this epidemic is. We talked about the need to support our local communities. We have done a lot of talking, but what we need to do is appropriate the necessary money so communities can implement the strategies to deal with the crises in their areas. We need additional veterans funding. Democrats are urging republicans to provide resources to veterans facing a dire shortfall at the v. A. To ensure that no veteran is left behind or denied the care and opportunities they deserve upon return from the battlefield. Chip, the Childrens HealthInsurance Program and Community Health centers are incredibly important to us and to all people throughout this country. We are calling for immediate reauthorization of these vital initiatives one that doesnt rob peter to pay paul. One that doesnt take money away from the Prevention Program that provides money for immunizations and dealing with lead paint and other issues that affect our kids. We need emergency Disaster Relief that is adequate to meet the needs of all the states and localities and territories that have been impacted by these terrible natural disasters and save americans endangered pensions. Pensions are at risk and we are calling for bipartisan action to enact a responsible reform plan to ensure these struggling pensions will keep ongoing. And we also believe we ought to pass a bipartisan dream act. We spent a lot of time in the rules committee talking about the dream act today. Nancy pelosi, our democratic leader and steny hoyer and representative Lujan Grisham spent hours there today. Nancy pelosi spent 2 1 2 hours testifying on the need to pass the dream act. We ought to do that before we go home for christmas. There are 800,000plus people whose lives are in the balance because on september 7, donald trump decided to end protection for the deemers. I heres the heres what dont think the president appreciates, but we learned about this today in the rules committee is we dont have until march to deal with the dream act. Each and every day, people are losing their status, on average 122 a day were told. There are people who are here who had the protections under daca, who are losing their status and losing their jobs and livelihoods and lives are thrown into turmoil. Why in the world would we do that . The majority of americans overwhelmingly, democrats and republicans and independents, all believe we should protect the deemers. We heard in the rules committee, well, we need more committee deliberation. Again, the president took their protections away on september 7. 21. Now on december what have you been doing . You said the Judiciary Committee needs more hearings. They set up a bill, this concealed carry reciprocity bill that allows people from states that almost have no standards to issue permits for people to carry concealed weapons to go to any state in this country and basically endangering my constituents. They brought that to the rules committee and there was not a single hearing, none. And we had this tax scam bill that we just voted on where 83 of the tax breaks go to the top 1 wealthiest in this country. You know the bill that the president just celebrated with my republican friends. That came before this house and not a single hearing on it. Now we need to have hearings protecting the dreamers. This is outrageous. These deemers are contributing. We should celebrate and we should value them. They have served in our military. They are out front leading Disaster Relief efforts, saving lives and working in fortune 500 companies, they are going to school and valued members of our community. And we treat them like this . Come on. If we brought the dream act to the floor today it would pass with democratic and republican support. There is no reason to continue to stall on this issue. All that will happen as a result of our stalling is that more people will lose their status and more lives thrown into turmoil. I would just say to my colleagues, its the Christmas Season. This is a time, if ever, where the spirit ought to take over. And we ought to do something good for the American People, not just for your donors, but for people. Giving a tax brea