Depend on. The additional time, just under month, will allow congressional leadership of the white house to come to a final budget agreement with legislation including a limited number of technical changes to ensure good governance. It also includes language to continue the Childrens HealthInsurance Program through fiscal year 2023. To help Sick Children from lowincome families get better and to ensure they have healthy and happy futures. Additionally this proposal extends several health carerelated tax provisions. Mr. Chairman, a continuing resolution is not the preferred way to reduce to conduct the nations fiscal business but at this point it is absolutely necessary to avoid a costly, destabilizing Government Shutdown. It is my hope that this will be the last continuing resolution the leadership of the house and senate and white house will quickly come to an agreement on top line spending levels and then we can complete our appropriations work for fiscal year 2018 in short order. Its critical we enact all 12 fullyear funding bills to ensure that our armed forces have the resources they need to accomplish their mission. Both at home and abroad. And that our Government Supports and maintains programs that are lives and the livelihoods of all americans. Mr. Chairman, i urge yes on this critical legislation and reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from lives and new je reserves. The gentlewoman from new york is recognized. Mrs. Lowey mr. Speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman from new york is recognized. Mrs. Lowey since President Trumps draconian budget was released, democrats have warned republicans that a bipartisan budget agreement was needed to adequately invest in American Families and communities. Without a budget agreement, programs as diverse as head start, job training, terrorism prevention grants are in danger of inadequate funding at best. Yet, Republican Leadership and the white house have no appropriation strategy other than endless continuing resolutions. Mr. Speaker, the most powerful country in the world now being completely run by a republican government cant keep the lights on longer than four weeks at a time. How did we get here . If this bill passes, is there any reason to believe we will not be back in the same place next month stumbling from one crisis to another is an irresponsible way to govern. Attempting to avoid a shutdown every month denies federal agencies budget certainty and waste taxpayer dollars. Several of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle have lamented the damage that the r. S. Inflicts on our military. I agree with them. Yet, time after time they vote for the exact same strategy they bemoan. I encourage my colleague to take action, hasten agreements on immigration and spending caps that would lead to responsible funding bills that keep americans safe. It is also unconscionable that instead of advancing a solution to this impasse, the president personally reneged on his word and rejected a bipartisan compromise on immigration. Protection of American Teens and young adults from impending deportation to a country they dont know is the key to unlocking a responsible bipartisan spending agreement. How can we expect to ever fund the government responsibly when the president cannot be trusted to keep his word . The majority has failed to address a number of high priority items, like funding to combat the Opioid Epidemic, pension protections, funding for Community Health centers. The continuing resolution lacks an important anomaly requested i will the administration to provide by the administration to provide help the Small Business administration while the disaster supplemental is stalled in the senate. Without this language, the Small Business administration will run out of funds by the end of january and will be unable to continue approving loan applications from puerto rico. My friends, this is not how the appropriations process is supposed to work. Its time to protect young americans, lift budget caps, allow chairman frelinghuysen and all of our Committee Members to roll up our sleeves and get to work. Instead of wasting dollars on time, on further c. R. s, we should instead immediately pass a budget agreement and help dreamers, which would facilitate fullyear funding bills the committee could begin writing today. Thank you, mr. Speaker, and i reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman reserves the balance of her time. Members are reminded to refrain from engaging in personalities toward the president. Mr. Frelinghuysen i yield to mr. Diazbalart of florida for three minutes. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from florida is recognized for three minutes. Mr. Diazbalart i rise in strong support of this bill. Look, this short resolution, this continuing resolution will give us time to negotiate a budget and addresses our nations priorities. Lets be very clear. If this does not pass now, go to the senate, pass there, sent to the president for his signature and is signed, the federal government will shut down this week. So we all know, as the chairman said, shortterm c. R. s, thats not something we want to do. Thats not our preference. Again, if this one does not pass now, the federal government will shut down. And this is no time to shortchange our first responders, our military. Respond to e to the threats that face us abroad, this is no time to shut down the federal government. The c. R. Supports ongoing Transportation Safety missions, include air traffic control. Again, we cannot allow to shut down and put all that in jeopardy. It allows us to continue the house to house the most vulnerable families, especially our veterans. This is not the time to let them down by shutting, again, the federal government down. It also funds medical care for millions of children, blocks burdensome Health Insurance taxes and, again, supports missioncritical defense activities. This is not the time to let them all down and shut down the federal government. And finally, mr. Speaker, the shortterm c. R. Will allow us to Work Together to find Common Ground on, again, fullyear 2018 bills that meet our defense and domestic priorities. Something else, mr. Speaker. I want the country to know we also have to deal, have to solve the issue of daca. Both sides, not only have been at fault for in many cases refusing to sit down in good faith to negotiate a solution, this c. R. Gives us some time to make sure we solve that issue. Its not time now for political games and gamesmanship and politics. We need to be able to solve the issue of those young folks. We cant do that if the government is shut down. Its time for leadership, for courage. Lets sit down, work out our differences, help secure the border and provide a solution for these deserving kids. For that reason and for so many others, mr. Speaker, it is essential that we do not allow the federal government to shut down. Voting against this resolution is a vote to shut down the federal government. I believe that will be highly irresponsible, so i urge a strong yes vote. I yield back, mr. Speaker. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from florida yields back. The gentleman from new jersey reserves. The gentlewoman from new york is recognized. Mrs. Lowey mr. Speaker, im pleased to yield three minutes to the gentleman from maryland, the democratic whip, mr. Hoyer. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from maryland is recognized for three minutes. Mr. Hoyer i thank the gentleman i thank the gentlelady for yielding. Mr. Speaker, we are now four months into the fiscal year, and this is our fourth continuing resolution. The gentleman says now is the time to work things out. Every democrat voted to extend the fiscal year by 90 days. Nothing was worked out. Why . Because you spent all your time on a tax bill, giving resources 83 of the resources to the richest people in america. Republicans control all the levers of the legislative process the house, the senate, the white house. They have the votes on their own to keep the government open or choose to shut it down as they did by policy some years ago for 16 days. We dont want to shut down the government. Keeping the government open by passing appropriation bills is the most basic responsibility of any governing majority. This governing majority has not sent a single not one appropriation bill to the president of the united states. Not one. Republicans ought to have gotten this work done in the spring and summer, but they wasted their time trying to repeal the Affordable Care act. Thats all they did. After failing to do so, they asked for more time in september. And we voted, every one of us, to give them that time. They squandered it. They had to do more two more extensions. They squandered that time. Now they want to have another time where they can squander more time. Instead of using the extra time to use the job of governing, they wasted it on passing tax overhaul that added 1. 5 trillion in new deficit spending and raise taxes on the middle class. So here we are again, mr. Speaker. Americans are right to be frustrated by the inability or unwillingness of the Republicanled Congress to do its job and keep the government open. You have 241 votes. Get them. Get them. You have the authority to do it and you have the responsibility to do it. Get the votes. Even some republican lawmakers are openly expressing the frustration with their own leadership. Let me quote representative mark meadows. He hit the nail on the head yesterday when he asked, whats the plan . When are we going to deal with immigration . My previous speaker talked about dealing with it. We havent dealt with it. Put something on the floor. You havent done it. When are we going to deal with spending . This is mark meadows. At what point do you quit kicking the can down on the road . This is republican mark meadows, not me. And passing just another continuing resolution in the hopes things get better in a few weeks. Democrats dont want the government to shut down. May i have one additional minute . We dont have the power to shut it down either. Thats entirely in the hands of the majority. And by the way, on there previous c. R. , 90 of your members voted against it. Did they vote against the military, did they vote against the first responders, did they vote against Education Funding . And we wring our hands about the military funding. You think its any easier to run a nondefense agency with a c. R. . Youre wrong if you think that. They undermine our deposk agencies as well. And i hope domestic agencies as well, and i hope they are equally worried about the impact of doing one shortterm funding bill after another on the domestic side. Americans are frustrated that their congress cant agree on what we agree on. Republicans have previously supported the principles of parity when raising spending caps. That was the paul ryan deal. Hes the speaker. He said, yes, well increase military and domestic the same. That was his deal. Paul ryan, the speaker. Thats all were asking for. Paul ryan, make your deal again. And he wont do it. Instead, he wants to just keeping the can down the road once, twice, thrice, now four times. Yes, we want, as the previous speaker said, all dreamers to stay in this country. We all want to reauthorize the chip program, to prevent nine million children from losing their Health Insurance. I dare you to put it on the floor. It will pass with every vote in this house. No, you want to blackmail us into passing something that we dont like and we dont think is good for the country. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. Mr. Hoyer one additional minute . The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Hoyer we want to address other Urgent Health priorities. You want to pass chip but you do not want to pass the Community Health centers. My colleague, betty mccollum, told us about many chip children will have no place to go. You passed a bill but no place to go. So why dont republicans sit down and Reach Agreement . Mr. Speaker, i urge my colleagues across the aisle, dont shut down the government. I implore them, use your majority not to delay but to govern, and i tell them, democrats are still ready to work with you as we have been throughout to sit down and reach bipartisan compromise on our most pressing challenges. E voted to give you 120 days to do that. Now you want some more time. You come to the door and ask for some cake and your neighbor says, come back tomorrow, and you come back tomorrow and you ask the same thing and he says, come back tomorrow and you go back the next day and he says the same thing, come back tomorrow. Thats what the republicans are saying. Come back tomorrow. Come back tomorrow. Come back tomorrow. But there has been no tomorrow. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. Mr. Hoyer vote against this c. R. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. The gentlewoman from new york reserves. Members are reminded to address their statements to the chair. The gentleman from new jersey is recognized. Mr. Frelinghuysen mr. Speaker, im pleased to yield a minute to the chairman of the ways and means committee, the gentleman from texas, mr. Brady. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. Mr. Brady thank you, mr. Speaker. You can tell from the previous speaker how eager our democrat colleagues are to shut down this government. Get the votes to keep this government open because we wont provide them. Get the votes to keep funding our military and security but we wont provide them. Get the votes to provide health care, longterm for our children and families because our democrat colleagues wont provide not one vote. Get the votes to delay the damaging impact of obamacare taxes, the Health Insurance tax, the cadillac tax, medical device, you get those votes, republicans, because we will not give you even one of them. These taxes are so damaging to our families, to our workers and job creators its sending jobs out of america, overseas. Get the votes, republicans, because we claim we support this. We just wont support it with our votes. Its regrettable because these are bipartisan issues, and politics are shutting this government down. I urge my democrat colleagues to stand with republicans on behalf of children, families, and workers, keep this government open. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. The gentleman from new jersey reserves. The gentlewoman from new york is recognized. Mr. Speaker, im very pleased to yield two minutes to the gentleman from ohio, the Ranking Member of the energy and water subcommittee, ms. Kaptur. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman from ohio is recognized for two minutes. Ms. Kaptur i thank the Ranking Member of the full committee, congresswoman lowy of new york, for yielding me this time congresswoman lowey of new york, for yielding me this time and let me just say that our side has not been consulted. The republicans have 238 votes. To pass anything here, they had the vast majority. You only need 218 votes. So if you wanted to pass, it you could do it right now. You could have done it a month ago. You could have done it two months ago. You could have done it three months ago. But theres something fundamentally wrong on that side of the aisle and of course you have to deal with the other body where you hold the majority and you cant get it done there either. Now, in football you would call this fumbling the ball. In baseball, youd call it flubbing the ball. And honestly, if you cant consult with our side of the aisle, why would you expect anybody would want to work with you anyway . You treat us like were from, i dont know, born yo. Borneo. Why would you think we would want to vote on something that we cant agree with because of its essential unfairness . I really cant understand why youre putting the republic through all these contortions. You dont have a budget. You know, weve been asking for a budget. And you dont make decisions about departments until you have a budget. Because you might underfund one department or overfund another department. So we want to do this in a very orderly way. But our republican friends appear to hope the government will function with no road map. Are they really asleep behind the wheel of the car . They are sure careening and they might even hate brick wall. If the republicans cannot put together hit a brick wall. If the republicans cannot put together a Framework Agreement for a vote this week, its safe to say they fumbled and flubbed every opportunity they had. Reminds me of the old loony toon character elmer fud. They cant even catch bugs bunny when hes staring them right in the face. They arent making progress. And indeed losing ground. There was hope on september 8 when we voted the first time for a shortterm extension that you could actually Reach Agreement. But here it is. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewomans time has expired. Ms. Kaptur and we still dont have agreement. Might i ask the Ranking Member for an additional period of time . 45 seconds . The speaker pro tempore the gentlewomans time has expired. Mrs. Lowey 30 seconds. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman is recognized for an additional 30 seconds. Ms. Kaptur so here we are, january 18, 2018. One day before the risk of another shutdown. And theyre fiddle their fiddling is unprecedented. Dont have a budget framework, cant make decisions, dont consult with our side. Why should we be in a helpful mood . We were always told republicans are stern pass masters. Not only have they failed to pass a budget. Now theyve added 1 trillion more to the deficit and the longterm debt because they wanted to give tax giveaways to all their donors. I urge my colleagues to oppose this sinking effort and demand action for a final full year funding plan. That is what is responsible. That is essential and that is what the American P