Thank you for taking my call. This is an example of conservatives saying they will thing, and that is not presented. Bill at the end of the session. An omnibus bill is being debated, and the government will be shut down at midnight. The president wants the bill passed because he does not want to the reached at christmas time, where federal employees will not receive checks before christmas. You can understand the white position, but i understand the democrats position. You are two main rider. Shame on conservatives who just elected a brandnew conservative party to take over the next congress, and this conservative party that is going out will not same one coming in. Thank you, american voters. You have shown the world again how to pick a winner. Tweet here we go to pennsylvania, pat, who also opposes the measure. Are you there . Yes, i do. Yes. Yes. Make sure you meet your television and go ahead with your comment. We are going to have to move on, pat. We go to lexington, kentucky. Hello. I support the bill mainly because harry reid would not call anything up in the senate so we could not get it passed to start with, and i do not know what the democrats are mad about e hillaryhey gavf clinton so much more money to run for president. Is ahe doddfrank bill dead bill anyway. All the democrats will be against it anyway. It is all political, partisan, democrats ands republicans, and we should just vote for it and they can take care of it later. The president did the same thing with the health care bill. And go onto vote it with it and keep the government running. Thank you. A look at what members are tweeting. Representative Maxine Waters is operation. A whip one more Michele Bachmann is retiring from congress. s she and steve king were two of the 16 who voted against the rule earlier today. Out cookie supporting the spending albuquerque supporting the bill. I am a democrat, and i think Elizabeth Warren is ridiculous in front to stop this. If we go with come as you pointed out about the 60day continuation, that will mean the republicans can sit there next year controlling both the house and the senate and got Everything Else that they want and force the president to decide whether or not what he can do, because he cannot override them. So it will put all in the president s hands. We should take what we have for now and fight another day. Thank you. Elizabeth warren needed the charge in the senate against the spending bill, this massive thebus bill, due to provisions related to the dodd frank financial relations law, and in particular about changing regulations dealing with socalled financial swaps. She spoke about it on the Senate Floor Today for about 10 minutes. [video clip] yesterday i came on the fort house progressed to in thevision was flipped last minute to benefit wall street. It was written by lobbyists. That provision means big money for a few big banks. It would let derivatives traders on wall street ramble with taxpayer money. And when it all boils down, require the government to bail them out. Readto be clear, i want to the title of the part of the law that will be repealed if this provision is not stripped out of the omnibus. The title, prohibition against federal government bailouts of swaps entities. That is what is on the table to be taken out of the law. Im here today to ask my republican colleagues who do not want to see another wall street bailout to join in our efforts to strip this wall street giveaway from the bill. This is not about partisanship. This is about fairness. This is about accountability and responsibility. This is about preventing another financial collapse that could again wipe out millions of jobs and take down our whole economy. Street banks want to gamble with their of money, so be it. But let them take their risks with their own money and let them live with the consequences of those risks. That is how markets are supposed to work. But they should not get to gamble with government insured money, and they should not get to run to the government when the deal goes sour. Opposition of it government bailout of wall street is not a liberal or conservative issue. Law would put in place was put in place years ago because after the collapse in 2008, people of all political persuasions were disgusted by the prospect of ever having to use taxpayer dollars to rescue to rescuefrom the big banks from their own bad decisions. This morning, senators from both parties, sherrod brown, a democrat from ohio, and dave vitter, from louisiana, called for this provision to be taken out of the spending bill, and here is what they said towall street banks want gamble, congress should force them to pay for their losses, taxpayers on the hook. Cognition not gamble on a possible shutdown by attempting to top this controversial provision into a spending bill without having been considered by the committees of jurisdiction where it can be subject to a transparent and rigorous debate. Senators brown and fitter are exactly right vitter are right. The provision has no place in this bill. Conservative activists have jumped in as well. They are raising their voices today to say that this provision passo place in a must spending bill. Here is what one front page introvert or on the conservative g red state said this morning i have no way to refute that point that democrats are making about the cromnibus spike right now. I might go for to say they are right. What possible good faith reason can republicans have for threatening to gum the whole works over doing a favor to wall street . Generally speaking, if nancy pelosi is opposed to something that instinctively i know i should be for it. Beyond that, i have not the slightest clue why the proposed tweak to doddfrank up to be anything resembling a pill the republicans should die for. This conservative activist is right. If you believe in smaller government, how can you support a provision that would expand a Government Insurance program and put taxpayers on the hook for the riskiest private activities . Banku thought the x. M. Expose taxpayers risk, even though it never crossed taxpayers a dime, how can you support a provision to prevent another calamity like the one that cost taxpayers billions of dollars just six years ago . House Republican Leaders are moving quickly to try to jam this bill through today before their own members have had a chance to digest this wall street they allow provision. The fact sheet republican appropriators sent around to their members explaining the provision does not describe it accurately. According to this fact sheet, the provision in question would protect farmers and other commodity producers from having to get awn collateral loan, expand their business, and hedge their production. Whatever you think about the bill, that description is flatly wrong. In fact, that description applies to yet another wall street reform rollback that the republicans are pushing right now, which is attached to a completely different bill. I do not know if Republican Leaders in the house are deliberately trying to confuse their members in voting for a government bailout program, or whether they cannot keep straight on their efforts to got financial reform. Reluctant leaders are about to bring this bill up for a vote. So here is the bottom line a vote for the this hill is a vote for future taxpayer bailouts of wall street. When the next bailout comes, and a lot of people will look back to this up vote to see who was responsible for putting the Government Back on the hook to bail out wall street. Two Republican Leaders in the house, i would ask this if they are against the out on wall street i have heard you say it again and again for five ares so why in the world you spending your time and your energy fighting for a provision, written by citigroup lobbyists, that would increase the chance of future bailouts . Why in the last minute as you head out the door and a spending bill must be passed are you making it a priority to do wall streets bidding . Who do you work for . Wall street or the American People . This fight is not about conservatives or liberals. It is not about democrats or republicans. It is about money, and it is about power right here in washington. This legal change could trigger more taxpayer ballots bailouts and could threaten our entire economy. It will also make a lot of money for wall street banks. According to americans for financial reform, this change oon toe a huge b just a handful of the biggest banks. They were frustrated with congress. Part of the reason is gridlock. But mostly it is because they see a congress that works just for the big guys and will not lift a finger to help them. As Big Companies can deploy their armies of lobbyists and lawyers to get congress to vote for special deals that benefit themselves, this confirms the view of the American People that the system is rigged. This is a democracy. The American People sent us here. Republicans, democrats, and independents. They sent us here to stand up for them, to stand up for taxpayers, to protect the economy. Nobody sent us here to stand up for citigroup. I urge my republican colleagues in the house to withhold or support from this package until this risky giveaway is removed from the legislation. It is time for all of us to stand up and fight. Thank you, mr. President. Is a choose it senator Elizabeth Moran form earlier this afternoon. The u. S. House has been in recess for about 2 1 2 hours now. They finish debate on the 1. 1 trillion spending bill, which would fund the government except for the department of geomet security which would be funded only through february. The latest is that democrats will be meeting this afternoon. A tweet ahead of that, a lot of meetings off the floor and in offices across the hill. This is from Maxine Waters her comments reflecting what you heard from Elizabeth Warren. Once the house did gavel out, a letterlosi put out to her caucus saying, dear democratic colleagues, it is clear that from this recess on the four that the republicans do not have enough votes to pass omnibus. This increases our leverage to get the two offensive provisions of this hill removed, the bank bailout and the big money to campaign provision. However you decide to vote in the end, i think those who commit to give us who continue to give us leverage to improve the bill. That is from nancy pelosi, at about 3 30 eastern, that later came out. Yourll continue to take calls on your thoughts on the federal spending bill, whether you support or oppose. 2027488920, support, 2027488921, oppose, 2027488922, others. Back to calls. New york, this is keith. Go ahead. That is not keith. Keith, there you are. Oh ahead. How are you doing . Doing fine. I kind of oppose this because all the addons they did with the bill for one reason. Spendother reason is they how many billions of dollars overseas. We need to take care of some of the problems we have in this country lets move to jeff in miami. Keith, you got more to say . What do you think . We spent how many billions of dollars in afghanistan, iraq. Give 5 billion to syria to arm them. Money bethat better off spent in this country . In the multi employer pension plan, congress enacted that in 1974, never updated it, and now it is in the toilet, and is like beyond repair, and Congress Response is take care of it yourself, and they do not want to do anything with it. There is an additional money for the training of the syrian rebels. There is miami, florida, jeff, good afternoon. Good afternoon. I oppose the bill because one of its provisions overturns the votersf 70 of the of washington dc who approved the use of cannabis. What possible reason that a few people wish to overturn the desire of a majoritarian of a majority of voters . It is the same thing they did with our call before prohibition. If they do not want to smoke cannabis, let them not smoke. Coming up on seven hours until the current spending measure expires. Way orthe other one the other, the house has to do something done today or the measure will expire. It was anticipated the senate would take a couple extra days, possibly to the weekend can finish up work on 2015 spendin. Spending. New york, go ahead. Hi, thank you for taking my call. I feel as though the bill is a dishonest question, a dishonest will come and i think you question whether you are for or against is a dishonest question because nobody really knows what is in it. I do not even think they know what is in it. It is massive, pages upon pages and, a lot of political chicanery, and i think it is a this service to the people of this country that this nonsense just keeps going on and on and on. And ift is my viewpoint, you have anything to add or say, i would appreciate it. I appreciate your call. We have a link to it on our website at cspan. Org. Two new jersey, daniel, hello there. Hello, how are you. I oppose this bill. How are you doing . Go ahead with your comment. I opposed this bill because bail these banks out once. The relations were put in place so it would not happen again. Banks could not risk our money, so if they want to risk their own money, that them risk their own money. Not ours. We dont them out once. Never again. Here is minnesota, and lane is on the others line. Hello. Thank you. It is interesting to see how our Government Works behind the scenes. We are seeing the spin from both sides, but leaders on both sides are brilliant strategists. I have not heard anyone comment that these two addons for the campaignfinance reform in the bailout are linked. Was saying how citigroup lobbyists wrote the course, thed, of Campaign Finance reform is the y,id pro quo where, her they help out the banks and where does the money come from in the campaign in the next session . Tied together and one does not work without the other for the republicans. The strategy is brilliant win forit is win,m w republicans. If there were democrats voted their way later when they take control of the house and the senate. It is a brilliant strategy, and it is unfortunate to see how our government really works behind the scenes. We are only seeing the details on the spin. Trying to keep our eye on political reporting. From abc news, who tweets abc has learned pelosi urges democrats to hold fast. Sid in North Carolina. Go ahead. And theport the bill, reason i do is because everything, the democrats is coming on tv and they are hollering and upset about this now. The bottom line is everything from the time obama has been in the white house has been a lie, and everything that you support on the democrats side now is a lie. They want marijuana legalized. It sound like a last guy smoked a joint. Ridiculous. It will really turn around when we take the house and the senate. Thank you. More of your calls, certainly later tomorrow morning on washington journal. Look at the latest numbers on facebook. The oppose rather far outweighing those who support the measure, 42929. Acebook. Com cspan we are going to show you the hour and 20 minutes of debate come and again, any news of the house gaveling in or we get word theyre coming back in, you will see it live here on cspan. Mr. Rogers i rise today as we face the expiration of the current continuing resolution to present the house amendment to the Senate Amendment on h. R. 83, legislation to fund the federal government for the rest of the current fiscal year. This amendment prevents a costly and damaging Government Shutdown while making Good Government funding and policy decisions and reining in Regulatory Overreach. Its good for the continuity of vital federal programs and services, its good for our economy, and its good for the American People. In total this legislation provides 1. 013 trillion for the operations of the federal government. This total is in line with the terms of the ryanmurray budget agreement. It includes full year appropriations legislation for 11 of the 12 annual Appropriations Bills. Reflecting the most up to date budgetary needs of each agency and department. The Appropriations Committees in both the house and senate went line by line through these all of these bills, prioritizing funding for effective and vital programs, making the tough decisions to cut funding for lower priority programs. In addition, the measure includes shortterm funding for the department of Homeland Security, holding the funding levels for those programs at current levels. This will ensure that efforts to secure our home front are maintained until february 27 of next year. This legislation is a compromise. The product of hardfought negotiations between the house and senate, with give and take from both sides. But at the end of the day, mr. Speaker, it reflects conservative priorities. Keeps our spending in line. And reins in the Regulatory Overreach that has been hampering our economy. As such, National Security is a top priority in this bill. We provides we provide a total of 554 billion for the department of defense, including 64 billion in overseas Contingency Operations to support our troops in the field, to combat isil, to train and equip our iraqi allies and to counter russian aggression. To further assist our economy, we include provisions that put the brakes on regulatory programs that are too intrusive and too burdensome on american businesses. For instance, the legislation prohibits funds for the army corps of engineers to act on two potentially harmful regulations, changing the definition of, quote, fill material, quote, and regulating water in certain agricultural areas under the clean water act. The bill measure prevents the listing of the sage grouse on the endangered species list a premature action that would have severe economic consequences on western states, especially. And the bill protects job creators from onerous regulatory burdens by amending doddfrank swaps pushout rules. This bill also demonstrates, mr. Speaker, fiscal restraint. It cuts 60 million from the e. P. A. It provides no funding for high speed rail, the preside