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The gentleman from alabama is recognized with one and a half minutes remaining in his remarks. Where was i before my post of senator schumer was ruled in order . Ah, yes, Government Shutdowns have devastating implications on so many different areas, especially when it comes to our nations military. All active duty military personnel will come to work but cannot be paid. Critical Maintenance Operations and training that are not directly related to Ongoing Military Operations are forced to stop. All because of the schumer shutdown. Mr. Speaker, the government funding bill in question also includes six years funding for the Childrens Health insurance al kids in wn as ar alabama. But representative pelosi recently said that the efforts to fund the government and fund hip the speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The gentleman deserves to be eard. The speaker pro tempore the entleman may resume. The gentleman may resume. Mr. Byrne leader pelosi said hat the efforts to fund the speaker pro tempore ladies and gentlemen of the house, the chair needs your help. Please take your conversations off the floor and lets allow the gentleman to be heard. The gentleman may resume. Mr. Byrne leader pelosi cently said the speaker pro tempore the gentleman will resume. Mr. Byrne leader pelosi recently said. The speaker pro tempore will the gentleman be seated. The speaker pro tempore the ouse will be in order. The gentleman from alabama may proceed. Mr. Byrne leader pelosi said recently the efforts are like a bowl of doingy doo. To the over 150,000 children in my state who receive insurance through the program. Mr. Speaker, i have a message to my colleagues in the senate, enough is enough. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from georgia. I ask that the words be taken down. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from alabama will be seated. The clerk will report the records. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. For what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition . Mr. Speaker, i realize that this is a very difficult time. Mr. Lewis for all of us, but we all need to be a little more andn, a little more patient in order to have civility among all of us. I withdraw my objection. The speaker pro tempore the demand has been withdrawn by the gentleman from georgia. Now the gentleman from alabama, with 40 seconds remaining, may esume his remarks. Mr. Byrne stop with the political stunts to put our military at risks and the antics that create uncertainty for families. Stop playing to the resistance games and get our Government Back open for business. I encourage adoption of this rule and i finally yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from alabama yields back. The gentlelady from new york. Ms. Slaughter 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. Fore the gentleman speaks the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Hoyer let me say at the tset, we ought to put sank timoney asides. Each side is choosing. Mr. Speaker, you voted to close down the government and then you voted against opening it up. Both sides have accused the other of what they have done. Now the fact of the matter is, ladies and gentlemen, we are re because we have not succeeded in passing the appropriation bills and sending them to the president. That is why you need a continuing resolution. My republican friends are in charge of the house and my republican friends are in charge of the senate. And they are in charge of the white house. We have not passed a single appropriation bill. My view is, we have not done so because we have been unwilling to compromise. Thats what this is about. Its about republicans frankly being unwilling, in our opinion, to Work Together to get to agreement. We dont want this shutdown. Our republican friends are are saying they dont want the shutdown and we are willing to work across the aisle to prevent it. Republicans have had four opportunities. 100 of the democrats voted for a 90day c. R. To give us time to get to agreement on Appropriations Bills. And a level of funding. Mr. Speaker, you know that. We have been talking about that for some time. We have not come to depreement. And therefore, we find ourselves, notwithstanding the fact that we agree on a lot. We have asked to adhere to parity, mr. Speaker, as you know. It is the process that you agreed with senator murray that we have followed for the last four years. All were asking is lets follow it again. That is why were here. Because we have not been able to get such an agreement. We have also asked that we be able to protect at the request of the president of the United States, agreements, put something on the floor, as he said and he would sign it. We want to reauthorize the chip program and Community Health centers and other health programs. We agree on that. The American Public has got to be so distressed that they see this going on on this floor of the house. We want to provide disaster elief to those in texas, florida and puerto rico and Virgin Islands. Ms. Slaughter im going to give you one have minutes. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Hoyer i thank my friend. I urge my republican colleagues who are in the majority and control the legislative process, end this shutdown. Use the authority you are asking for under this rule to bring to the floor the items on which we agree. Mr. Speaker, you have said, you would do that, take the tough issues ahead one at a time. I admire my statement. I will tell my statement, i will admire more the performance. Speaker ryan he said we will not kick the can down the road, we will lead, we will not blame others. Mr. Speaker, i ask you to do just that. Stop ignoring responsibility as the Majority Party to keep the government open and serve the American People. Now, mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to bring up h. R. 4 72, the end of shutdown act of 2018, a continuing resolution through tuesday that would immediately reopen the government while negotiations continue on a budget agreement that adheres to parity, reauthorizing the Childrens Health Insurance Program, and other Critical Health care programs, addressing the issue of dreamers as was requested by the president of the United States, and providing a assistance to americans impacted by natural disasters. S the as the minority whip must surely know, time dedicated for this debate is for debate only. Would the gentleman from texas yield for that purpose . Mr. Sessions i do not. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman does not yield and as such, the request cannot be entertained. Mr. Hoyer parliamentary inquiry. Did the speaker hear mr. Meadows objecting to my unanimous consent request . The speaker pro tempore the request was not even entertained. The gentleman from texas is recognized. Mr. Sessions mr. Speaker, at this time id like to yield three minutes to the distinguished gentleman, the chairman of the energy and commerce committee, the gentleman from hood river, oregon, mr. Walden. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. Mr. Walden my colleagues. Lets set the record straight about Childrens Health Insurance Program, funding for Community Health centers, stopping the cuts on our lowincome hospitals, extending the special Diabetes Program for native americans. Chairman of the energy and commerce committee, i can tell you we did our work. We held hearings, we held markups, we bought a pack brought a package to the floor and approved it on november 2. Tragically, only a dozen or so democrats voted for that package at that time. It was fully funded. Community Health Centers would have two years funding. The Childrens Health Insurance Program, phi years and the largest Funding Amount ever accorded to chip. Special Diabetes Program, funded. We care about these programs as a conference. And yet it was a partisan divide, tragically, and it went to the senate where they couldnt find the votes to pass it. So we have come back consistently thereafter to approve Childrens Health care. The Childrens Health Insurance Program provides Insurance Coverage for nine million American Children and pregnant women. We all support that as a congress. We have had to emergency extend the funding in various continuing resolutions, most of which my colleagues on the the democratic side have opposed. Today we find ourselves with seven states about to run out of money and cancellation notices going out to about two Million People. This is a necessary this is unnecessary, it is unconscionable, it should not happen but it is. That is why the Childrens Health Insurance Program now can be funded for six years in the c. R. We all voted in the c. R. We all voted on and never nearly every democrat voted against. We can do six years funding for chip and with the changes in other law and the tax code we did not have to identify ways to pay for it, thats already taken care of. That is why it is troubling to me to hear the remarks of some of my colleagues who say theyre all for this. They want to vote for this, when we have given the entire house this opportunity on numerous occasions to fund Childrens Health insurance, to fund Community Health centers, to fund the special Diabetes Program. We zrnt to be here. And you sure as heck didnt have to shut down the government. Our choice yesterday was vote to fund the government or not. Vote to fund Childrens Health insurance for nine million children and by the way, states like mine that also includes daca kids. When you voted against that yesterday, you voted not to provide insurance to children and pregnant women in our state that is wrong. We are here to govern. We are governing as republicans. We will get this government up and running and we will take care of those children. With that, mr. Chairman, i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the entlemans time has expired. The gentlelady from new york. Ms. Slaughter im pleased to yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from maryland, mr. Hoyer. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for 30 seconds. Mr. Hoyer i thank the gentlelady. Ladies and gentlemen of this use if we had entertained my unanimous consent request, we could have accomplished all that the gentleman from washington just discussed. Excuse me, oregon. Had just discussed. The chairman of the committee. I will remind you that the reason democrats voted against it was because you took the money for Childrens Health out of Childrens Health. You decreased the Prevention Trust fund by some 6 billion which had in part inoculation for children against disease. We thought robbing from peter to pay paul was not a good policy to pursue. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expire. The gentleman from texas. Mr. Sessions at thistime id like to yield two minutes to the distinguished chairman of the energy and commerce committee, from hood river, oregon, chairman walden. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Walden im happy to have this discussion, the Prevention Fund which the gentleman referenced is a very Important Fund to do what . Provide Preventive Health care. What do you think Childrens Health insurance is about . Providing health care. Childrens the Prevention Fund, oh, so you dont think providing insurance for pregnant women and children is about good health . Holy smokes new york wonder you voted no. No wonder you voted no. And you have used the Prevention Fund in the past, mr. Chairman, those on the other side the speaker pro tempore the gentleman will adriss address his remarks to the chair. Mr. Walden i thought i was. Both parties have used the Prevention Fund to do things they thought was important. I cant think of anything more important than use a portion of a fund that gets replenished by 2 billion every year, which the proachtors, goth bless them derek side how those funds get appropriated every year we can thought it made sense to use a portion of that fund for Childrens Health. There was still going to be an enormous amount of money left to be appropriated. We also thought that people on medicare making 500,000 a year, 40,000 a month, roughly could pay 137 more for their medicare so we could take care of pregnant women and children and keep our Health Centers open. That was one of the payfors. That was one of the payfors. We had and we were open to negotiating because we knew wed have to with the senate on how else wed pay for it. The long and short of it is, why are they pitting one group of kids in america against another . Governor sandoval said as much from nevada he supports what we did yesterday. Governor Charlie Baker of massachusetts, i talked to him yesterday, he wants the chip bill funded. Cant we put the politics behind us and take care of americas children . With that, i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from new york. Let the chair remind both sides of the time remaining. The gentlelady from new york has 15 and one quarter minutes remain, the gentleman from texas as 13 1 2 minutes remaining. Ms. Slaughter im pleased to yield 30 seconds to the gentlelady from connecticut, ms. Delauro. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady is recognized. Ms. Delauro the gentleman doesnt know what the health and Prevention Fund is all about. It is more than Childrens Health. It is vaccines. It is insulin. It is lead paint protection programs. Know what it is. This is a majority who has spent the better part of the year decimating an Affordable Care act and not caring a whit about what was happening to children and their health care. We do not fund Community Health centers and children who are eligible for chip will not be able to get the help they need because they cant go to a Community Health care center. If you are really concerned about the children of this nation and their health care, bring a clean chip bill to this floor and lets make it permanent. Dont hide, dont hide behind the children of this country. The speaker pro tempore the gentleladys time has expire. The gentleman from texas. Mr. Sessions we know who vetted yes and we know who voted no. Mr. Speaker, at this time id like to yield two minutes to the gentleman to defend the republican position, the gentleman, chairman walden. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. Mr. Walden mr. Speaker, i appreciate my colleague from connecticuts strong words. Heres the deal. Democrats have used money out of Prevention Fund to fund tax cuts over time. Thats a true statement. Youve used it for all kinds of things. But the long and short of it is, we brought you two clean chip bills, one that fully funded Community Health centers, and a special Diabetes Program and Teaching Hospitals that stopped, you know the only thing that did against obama care that i think a lot of you wrote and asked me to do . We turned off the cuts to dish hospitals. Thats a requirement under the existing obamacare law. You asked us, you got to turn off these cuts to our hospitals that serve the lowincome people, we said you know what, youre right. Thats most of what we did was bipartisan. We all agreed on. Then when you didnt like that, and i think only 15 democrats voted for that whole package, theyre all for Community Health centers, all for special Diabetes Programs, all for turning off the dish cuts, theyre all for chip. Until they have an opportunity to vote for it. And then they voted no. And then we brought a clean chip bill to the floor as part of keeping the federal government open and they didnt like that. They were for a fiveyear chip bill until they wanted 10. We give them six, they cant figure out how to vote yes. They vote no. What is it we have to do here, ladies and gentlemen, to get this done, to get you on board to stop the partisan politics, mr. Speaker . You know this. Youre on appropriations. This is important work. Seven states, including my own, are on the cusp of running out of funds. Two million americans are about to get notices from insurers that this cannot be extended. Because the money is running out. We have performed as republicans, we should perform as republicans and democrats, we should put the helicopter of americas Children First