Of the house. I think the gentleman for yielding. On monday the house will meet at 12 00 from monday morning debate, 2 00 pm for legislative business with votes postponed until 6 30 p. M. Tuesday and wednesday the house will meet at 10 00 am for morning debate and 12 00 pm for legislative business. Thursday, the house will meet at 9 am for legislative business, last votes of the week are expected later this week. We will consider several bills under suspension of rules including hr 4634, and Terrorism Risk Insurance Program reauthorization act, significant and bipartisan bill. The complete list of suspension bills will be announced by the close of business today. In addition, madam speaker, the house will be considering and continuing resolution through december 20th to keep government open, operating on behalf of the American People. Madam speaker, i am deeply disappointed by the senates failure to complete their work on appropriations to consider another continuing resolution. This is evidence of failure, not success. It is absolutely essential we pass the ocr to keep the government operating but it is an indication that we have not gotten our Business Done as we should. I would remind house members, we passed 96 of the funding of government by june 26th of this year or approximately three months before the end of the fiscal year, a little over three months. By the end of the fiscal year the United States senate had passed not a single appropriation bill. Im disappointed by that but recognize passing ocr is absolutely essential. Rather than kick the can further down the road we must use that time between now and december 20th toward an agreement on 300 to be a locations which will allow us to move appropriation bills in line with bipartisan budget caps agreement. Lastly the house will consider hr 1309, Workplace Violence prevention for healthcare and social Services Workers act, this bipartisan bill directs the Occupational Safety and Health Administration to issue a standard requiring healthcare and social service to write and implement a Workplace Violence prevention plan, to prevent and protect employees from violent incidents at work and i yield back to the republican leader. Thank you for walking through the schedule. As we have been hearing about the cri expressible the disappointment we have not been able to get the full year appropriations bill agreed upon by the house and the senate as we work incredibly hard to get a two your budget deal, very bipartisan agreement and the objective of getting into your budget deal in last Years Congress was to ensure that we could agree on levels of funding for our troops which we did, to make sure instead of having crs we have a full Year Spending bill agreed on by both sides so that we can get certainty to our troops. They are not getting the tools they need but we agreed on the levels of funding and yet still not agreed negotiation was this isnt a case where the house can just sit back and wait for the senate to do something. We are in a cr now where there is a limited amount of time. I understand the cr will go through december 20th so for a few more weeks it is not a matter of waiting for the senate to come to an agreement between republicans and democrats. It is a matter of getting the house and senate to get an agreement that at some point somebody in the leadership of the House Majority is going to have to sit down with somebody in the leadership of the Senate Majority and everybody has their different parties in different ideas. They are going to have to stay in the room until they get an agreement. It has happened before but it hasnt happened yet. I dont know of those negotiations are going on but whoevers in the House Majority will be in lead position to head that negotiation and on the senate side, might be appropriations chairs in your appropriations chairs whoevers designated by the house. There has to be a commitment to sit in a room until they figure out their differences. We agreed on a number, we passed it to your budget deal for the purpose especially of making sure our military doesnt go in limbo and other federal agencies that are important too that need to get the agreed numbers they can come to an agreement on but ultimately we know the costs, we are hearing the costs from our military generals of cr and it is probably 1 billion a month. That they lose, that they are not able to properly by the club and our troops need when operating under cr so i hope we get to that agreement soon where whoever it is is the point person that is authorized to get a deal to go sit down with the senate and just stay until they get the deal. I know there are a lot of other things going on over here and we wont get into the impeachment infatuation and what it is taken away i hope it has not taken away from the ability to get this agreement and this is something both sides have to do, house, senate, republican, democrat until both sides meet that agreement we are at an impasse. The most disappointing thing as we already agreed on the budget numbers, that is usually the big fight. We had that fight and have an agreement, bipartisan, this how much we spend on defense, this is how much we spend on nondefense and even with that agreement we cant get the final bills brought to the floor, not partisan bills but bipartisan bills that can ultimately get signed. I hope it gets done soon. Both sides have to do it. House, senate, republican, democrat and i would yield. Madam speaker, the gentleman talks about bipartisan agreement. He does not talk about the fact the house did its job. We passed bills, we passed 96 of the funding of government. The senate led by republicans, prior to the end of the fiscal year, past 0 . It is hard to come to an agreement when the senate doesnt pass anything nothing 0 mainly because they need the president to say simon says. I know that for a fact based on conversations with the leadership of the senate. The president signing off, and we know that the acting chief of staff when he was here in this body voted to shut the government down and voted against opening up, and said we ought to have a sequester for this fiscal year. That was his position. It was mister botts position as well who is the acting omb. I mirror the acting chief of staff. The republican whip, to say geewhiz we are wringing our hands, we passed partisan bills, of course we pass partisan bills because your side would not work with us on our bills. That was a strategy, i suggest, madam speaker, not simply a difference of opinion. As a matter of fact on the defense spending the gentleman mentioned i know for a fact because i talked to her, on the republican side in both of the committees on appropriations in authorizing the 733 figure that we use was an acceptable figure. Of figure, by the way acceptable to the joint chiefs of staff. It is very hard to reach an agreement of one side doesnt say anything, doesnt send any bill, doesnt take any action. There was nothing to negotiate on. The gentleman talks about a bill. First of all the only thing that was agreed to is how much money we are going to spend overall on discretionary spending, about 30 , 30 of the entire budget. But there was no agreement on the distribution of those dollars to the various committees, the gentleman says so much on defense side, so much on nondefense side, the gentleman is correct. But very frankly, what the Senate Democrats are concerned about, that they will be passing bills and money will become from programs we feel are very important, to build a wall, a wall that somebody bought a 100 saw at home depot and cut a hole in. So i would reiterate my disappointment with the total failure of the United States senate led by republicans to enact any bill that appropriated money for the operations of government prior to the end of this fiscal year. So i say to my friends there are people meeting and as you know the speaker and Steve Mnuchin had agreement. What does that reflect . Simon says. Because the senate will not act as an independent body, coequal branch of the government of the United States. Mister mcconnell has said as much, we wont pass anything unless the president will sign it. Is if we had no mind of our own, as if the representatives of the American People who vote by majority and pass something or by 60 votes in the senate only one vote counts, the president of the United States. I lament that fact, madam speaker. I tell a minority leader, the minority whip that i regret and i will tell him and i hope he believes me because i believe it, if it were democratic president i would be prepared to vote for bills on this floor that i believe the American People would support and this body would support. And if the president signed that he signed it and if he doesnt we see if we have two thirds under our constitution and if we dont the bill does not become law but that is the way the system not to work. But we are negotiating with Steve Mnuchin, not with the senate, not with mister lady and senator mcconnell. We are simply waiting for the president to tell the senate this allocation is okay. That is why in my view they didnt pass a single bill before the end of the fiscal year. I hope the crss cleaners can be. There are anomalies that have to be taken care of and we will take care of those, things that have to be extended because they will expire on the 21st of the month, this month so i hope we do that and i hope we can join together in a bipartisan way and do that and i join my friend, the minority whip and hope we can get bipartisan agreement, theres nobody in this body that showed me for any length of time that knows i dont work for it today and i will continue to work towards that end. I yield back. Thank the gentleman for yielding. Lets be clear we both know the senate operates differently than the house, the senate has a 60 vote requirement which means for the senate to move anything it takes republicans and democrats to come to an agreement. The gentleman can talk about issues where republicans are in disagreement, i can go through areas where democrats are in disagreement. For example funding over Border Security which is a clear sticking point, one of the holdups in getting an agreement, we probably have a pretty good agreement on defense even though while the gentleman says the house did its job, the houses job is to pass bills that can ultimately become law, to advance all the things that we agree upon and there is a president s part of this process and so like in previous administrations when we have these negotiations often times it is not just a house in the senate, clearly we need more serious agreements in negotiations between house and Senate Leaders to come to an agreement but ultimately also have to produce a bill that the white house is in agreement with that they will sign. Doesnt mean you take what they want, the president is not getting many things he requested but at some level if the president is going to veto a bill it is probably worth having negotiations to see if you can get beyond that so this would not be the First Administration where the house and senate negotiated with the white house. The gentleman has been in meetings as i have been in meetings with many president s where we negotiate and try to come to an agreement, doesnt mean they all end up being signed into law. Might be vetoed, the president has the power of veto so it is worth all our time to see if not only thousand senate can get an agreement but also if we can get an agreement with the white house too, not the first time that has happened, those negotiations are going on but the the wall is a big sticking point. We are building a wall, 81 2 billion the Previous Year was allocated and we are going to negotiate, that is part of the negotiation and hopefully we can come to an agreement. It shouldnt be that difficult but it is one of the sticking points. There are a number of sticking points but as the sticking points happen we all acknowledge it costs our defense, our Nations Defense suffers when we operate under crs. The cr being talked about currently goes through december 20th. My question to the gentleman is currently the week of december 16th the house is scheduled not to be in session and that would be the same week the cr that is being contemplated would expire. Are we planning on coming back into session the week of december 16th if december 20th is going to be the expiration of the current cr that is being negotiated and i would you. Thank the gentleman for yielding. I would advise all members on both sides of the aisle not to schedule any business outside of washington dc between the 16th and the 20th of this month and i will advise them further if in fact we do not Fund Government by the 20th they made the here longer than that. We will not leave without funding the government of the United States of america. I yield back. I appreciate the update from the gentleman on the schedule and with that just to clarify. On december 20th, not of number 20th. The week of december 16th. Im advising, madam speaker, all members, to ensure their schedules accommodate sessions between the 16th and 20 december. Which was originally is the gentleman points out not schedules, but that it was thought that we would rationally get past the only bills we have to pass, that is Appropriations Bills and by the way, the way that should work is we pass a bill, the Senate Passes a bill, yes, it requires 60 votes, what does that mean, it means they have to come to a compromise at a higher number. We didnt have to do that. We got some republican votes for some of the bills, but the fact is we did our business and frankly we did it before it has been done since i have been here, 96 of the governmentfunded. And we sent them to the senate. And the senate has not considered a single one of those bills because they had no stomach for compromise. That is stomach which is why we are negotiating with Steve Mnuchin and not the Senate Leadership, to listen to what apparently the president will accept. I agree with the minority whip that considering the administrations views is important because of course we want the bills signed but we have known for a very long time that the republicans could not, on this floor, speaker ryan or speaker baynard could negotiate with mister mulvaney. The minority whip knows that. Is a matter of fact a lot of the republicans talked to me about how difficult make mulvaney is to deal with. But we waited. From the chief of staff for the president himself, we waited, not we in the house, in the senate. So i tell my friend, the senate was not prepared to bring their bills, not our bills to the floor to try to achieve that bipartisan agreement of which the minority whip speaks. Not a single bill was brought to the floor before the end of the fiscal year. You are not going to get any kind of agreement if you dont try to move forward, if you just wait for what make more than he wants us to do. I yield back. I think the gentleman for yielding. Just working with mcilvain he yesterday on us mca, something i hope to see us bring to the house for by the end of this year, should have been done a long time ago but something i know he and many others in the administration, mister lighthizer has been taking the point to get negotiations included so that we can create more jobs, better trade opportunities for our families that we represent. Even if Steve Mnuchin were to get an agreement we all know he doesnt have a vote in the senate. Even if every republican agreed with him you still cant passable in the senate because it takes democrats working as well. The families we represent are much less concerned about whose side thinks they are right as they are about saying go in a room and work it out. It has been done before, not to be done this time and i would encourage between now and december 20th we dont have to wait until december 16th. I would hope those leaders on your side and the majority would go get with the leaders in the senate and come to an agreement and i am sure they will have conversations with the white house too banana minimum to get the house and senate to come to agreement, not complain about who passed bills into didnt. It never happened before in history of congress, you chose to do a partisan bill where there is a bipartisan bill to be had. And that was put on the side. There is a bipartisan way to do or a partisan way to do it and ultimately you are in the majority, you get to decide that. The senate has their own different set of rules and we might want to change them but that is how they operate and at the end of the day both sides have to get in a room and work it out and i would encourage us to do it, encourage both sides to do that. I yield to the gentleman. I would like to make an additional comment. It is ironic that the minority whip expresses such great concern about funding the armed forces of the United States we passed a bill at a figure the joint chiefs of staff thought was a figure that was acceptable and supportive of our National Security and almost every republican voted against it. The levels funding wasnt the issue. It was the Defense Department to be able to do their job properly that were added in when everyone knew they were partisan additions that had never been in previous bills. We can get it done without partisan bills, you want to do the partisan poison pills that is your prerogative but it will not get signed into law. Our job should be to make law, put differences on the side and work through and get it done. It has always been done before. It has never been a partisan bill until this year. I yield. Madam speaker i would say that is not accurate but having said that we hope we can move forward