ms. granger: madam speaker, i rise today in support of this short-term continuing resolution. this bill extends government funding until march 8 for four bills and march 22 for others. given the differences between this year's house and senate bills, we knew finding common ground would not be easy, but we've made progress and we need a few more weeks to finish drafting the bills. we also need to give members adequate time to review them. in the meantime, we can't afford a harmful government shutdown. i urge my colleagues to support this c.r. and i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. roy: madam speaker, here we are again, kicking the can down

the road and for other purposes. buy more time to spend more money we don't have, at a time we're going to eclipse more interest is, more spending on interest on our national defense this year, and by 2026, we're going to be spending a trillion dollars on interest and we're going to continue to spend moneys at the nancy pelosi spending level of an omnibus bill the republicans roundly oppose. that's what's happening on the floor of the united states house right now. we're going to continue funding this government at nancy pelosi's omnibus spending level. that is a level that will continue, by the way, to fund all the priorities we oppose. we're going to continue to fund the open borders that led to the death of americans. we're going to continue to fund the united nations at $12.5 billion undermining our freedom, working against us to move people illegally in the puns. we're going to fund unrwa funding hamas, an enemy of israel, and fund the i.r.s.

targeting americans and we're going to today rather than exercising the power of the push, the james madison articulated in federalist 58, this body is supposed to check an out-of-control executive branch. that's what's happening today and we should oppose it and i will yield to as much time as the gentleman may consume to the gentleman from florida. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. gaetz: watching the house republicans is like watching a football team whose best play is the punt and the block. i tried to throw a few hail maries along the way and i'm glad we blocked the bad lankford bill but punted on needed fisa reforms and blocked the mcconnell supplemental for now but punt again on needed spending cuts. we blocked additional aid and additional u.s. involvement in this war in ukraine and indeed

punted kevin mccarthy who authorized $115 billion to ukraine. but here we gather to punt yet again. last i checked, the republicans actually have a majority in the house of representatives but you wouldn't know it if you looked at our checkbook because we are all too willing to continue the policy choices of joe biden and the spending levels of nancy pelosi instead of showing the will and the courage to say that this woke and weaponized government has to be defanged, it has to be attacked and see reductions in spending. while many americans have lived most of their lives not actually paying a price for the national debt because we are $34 trillion in debt, because we are on our way to $50 trillion in debt, the americans who work hard all over this country are seeing higher gas prices, higher grocery prices, higher interest rates, and all we seem to offer is low energy and see it in the face of those mounting challenges. we ought to reject this c.r. and

pass sing single subject spending bills and vote for the cuts this country desperately need. i yield back. mr. roy: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas reserves. the gentlelady from texas is recognized. ms. granger: i yield to ranking member delauro from connecticut for five minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized for five minutes. ms. delauro: i rise to support this appropriations process. the continuing resolution keeps the government open while the appropriations committee in the house and senate finalize the 2024 funding bill that are in line with the agreement that has been the law since last june, reaffirmed in the top lines agreed to by leader schumer and speaker johnson earlier this year. while at the time of passing our

last continuing resolution, i had hoped that we would not need this measure. now, we owe it to the american people to do our due diligence in reaching the end of this process. i appreciate the respectful bipartisan cooperation that took place to put forward this continuing resolution and move us closer to the finish line. there is now a shared understanding that the ultimate conclusion to the saga of 2024 funding will be in the appropriations bills that earned the support of democrats and republicans in the house and the senate, bills that will likely need to pass under suspension of the rules, like the bill we are considering today. in addition to passing the 12 appropriations bills, congress still must respond to president biden's request for our urgent national security needs. there is no time to waste. we must quickly provide support for ukraine in their fight against russian tyranny. we must provide support for our

middle east allies, and crucially, we cannot wait any longer to provide humanitarian aid for the civilians caught in the crossfire of these conflicts. without the swift action, the legacy of this congress will be the destruction of ukraine, the appeasement of a dictator, and the abandonment of starving children and ailing families. we must come to a bipartisan compromise and show the american people that congress is still able to address urgent needs, show the world that america is still unwavering as a defender of democracy, wherever it is being fought for. congress must avoid a shutdown. we must enact full-year spending bills and mcassistance for our national security and deliver for the american people as soon as possible. to those ends, let this be our last continuing resolution. thank you, and i yield back the balance of my time.

the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. gentlewoman from texas reserves. gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. roy: thank you, mr. speaker. the gentlelady, it's important to note, voted against the f.r.a. last year because specifically noted in the gentlelady's press release, besides deals that are being put in place in this exercise that we're going to be putting for next week in appropriations bills, those side deals were not in the law that the gentlelady just referred to. to be very clear, everyone is going to go around talking about following the deal that was cut last year, that we're spending at a certain level. the fact is another $70 billion was added in side deals, and that's why the gentlelady opposed the f.r.a. last year, but those side deals are a part of this agreement that is funding the bureaucracy that is at war with the american people. that is the truth. that is the truth no matter how much people want to gloss over it on either side of the aisle, but particularly this side of

the aisle. because this side of the aisle want to campaign on border security. and you know what? the border is not secure. and we're going to be passing a continuing resolution that continues to fund a d.h.s. that refuses to secure the border. these americans are dead. these americans are dead because illegal immigrants, illegal aliens were released into the united states by this administration. laken riley one week ago today was alive and well and now she's gone because somebody from venezuela was released on mass parole in el paso, went into the united states, went to new york, was released after assaulting somebody, moved to athens, georgia, and killed this young woman. because of the policies of the radical progressive democrats that my colleagues on this side of the aisle want to campaign against, but refuse to use the power of the purse to stop. james madison gave us the power of the purse, and we should darn well use it. with that, i'm going to yield three minutes to the gentleman

from arizona. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from arizona is recognized. >> i thank the gentleman. he's exactly right. what is the legislative branch's remedy to an executive branch that refuses to follow the law? it is to remove spending. i introduced legislation, introduced legislation that said we'll fund c.p.s., we're going to fund t.s.a., air traffic controllers. mr. biggs: our military personnel, and we're not going to fund anything else except for mandatory until this administration actually enforces the border. but we can't do that, because there's this fear of a shutdown. you explain that to the american people. you explain that to the american people in my community. you go down there and take a look at the national forest, where there's now a squator's camp set up filled with people who are coming across our

border. so our leader, who said in november, we're not going to do any more short-term c.r.'s. had it with them. this is the third one. and you know what happens? we just keep spending money. we keep the policies that are in place, and that means the border remains open, this country remains in danger because of this administration. but not just this administration, but because this body does not use what the founders gave us as the ultimate tool, and that is the pursestrings. it is really shameful. with that, mr. chairman, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas reserves. the gentlelady from texas is recognized. ms. granger: i yield to the jam from ten ten, the chairman of the energy and water subcommittee, mr. fleischmann, for three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the distinguished gentleman from tennessee is recognized for three minutes. mr. fleischmann: thank you, mr.

speaker, madam chair, i wish to thank chairman granger and her outstanding staff, and really all the staff on the majority and minority side in both houses. mr. speaker, our founding fathers gave us a great constitutional republic. and in that regard, each and every one of the members of this chamber stands for election or re-election every two years. i represent the people of the great state of tennessee, east tennessee, wonderful people, god-fearing people. they love this country. they love our history, and they are just so proud of what we are doing as a nation. i realize that other people in other parts of our country have a different ethos, have different priorities. but we are where we are, the american people gave us a very slim majority in the house, the

senate, the other party has a slim majority, and the white house is controlled by the other party. i want the american people to know, mr. speaker, that this negotiation has been difficult. but to close the government down at a time like this would hurt people who should not be hurt. let me give one example. i chair, as our distinguished chair has said, the energy and water subcommittee of appropriations. as part of that, funds our great national labs, and our office of science and so many other great things, but as a part of that, through the national nuclear security administration, it funds our nation's nuclear arsenal. we're in a very dangerous world right now. our adversaries are ramping up. i wish we were not on the precipice tv another armed races -- precipice of another

armed race, but i'm afraid we are am we can't close that down. we can't shut that down. and so that i can be abundantly clear, government shutdowns, and i have lived through three, never work. they cause more harm than they do good. they cost more money. they cost the american taxpayer more money, because when they revamp and start up again, basically we lose all those person hours, and it just causes havoc. this continuing resolution, to be clear, is a process continuing resolution. it's just to allow these six bills to next week, when we will actually pass a fiscal budget, which i think is the obligation of the house, the senate, and the white house to do. we will do that. we will do that with the other bills. and i do respect my friends who are very passionate today in opposing this. but the reality is the american

people want us to do our work. to do our work well, we've got to keep the government open. with that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. gentlelady from texas reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. roy: i thank the speaker. i would note that the gentleman, for whom i have a great deal of respect, was just using a lot of the arguments i've heard over and over again, and it's something that we've come to understand in this town as what we call the glossary. when you run out of the sort of, what are we actually going to fight over, we just bring out all the terms, right? we talk about, oh, we only have a slim majority. i will remind my colleagues on this side of the aisle, the democrats had a slim majority when they jammed through numerous massive bills, whether it was obamacare, whether we're talking about the inflation reduction act. yet here we sit, and we're walking away from the majority that we were given to use that majority to use the power of the purse, to stop an executive branch that is out of control. a continuing resolution will continue to fund biden's border,

war on our border. independents not just biden. it's the radical progressive democrats as a whole. it's a war on our well-being, a war on our safety. young lady who was killed in georgia last week, that is happening over and over again in texas. a young cheerleader that was killed, found in a bathtub by somebody here illegally. a 2-year-old right here in montgomery county, maryland, outside of d.c., who was killed by someone here illegally and released. a young person in louisiana who was raped last week in louisiana by somebody here illegally from honduras, released. when are we going to stop it? when is this side of the aisle going to use the power of the purse to stop it? i can promise you the radical progressive democrats want it. they want open borders. we're continuing to fund a weaponized i.r.s., continuing to fund a weaponized department of justice, like the d.o.j. that went after scott smith. we're funding a electric vehicle mandate. i heard my colleague talking about energy and water.

what are we going to do to preserve american energy? well, the american people suffer, because our colleagues on the side of the aisle are pursuing unicorn energy policy. e.p.a. rules killing coal and natural gas plants, the. a.t.f. is banning pistol braces, our second amendment rights. the president of the united states went to the microphone and applauded ignoring the united states supreme court. what are we going to do? fund it. we're going to keep funding it. what about the n.i.h. and the f.d.a. and covid curry knee? what about the department of veterans affairs, the chief diversity officers, the abortion travel fund, taxpayer funded sex change, transgender surgeries? your tax dollars are funding all of that. and we're going to continue it with a continuation resolution to do what? buy time to cut a deal that will do what? spend even more money. rack up even more debt, to continue these policies at war

with the american people. with that i yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from colorado. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from colorado is recognized for two minutes. ms. boebert: the deal to keep spending taxpayer dollars like drinking sailors is a horrible deal for the american people. it is immoral and unsustainable to continue the reckless spending in washington, d.c. this debt is going to our children and our children's children. and the american people elected a majority that promised to cut spending and cut this out of control spending from washington, d.c. and put an end to the biden regime policies that are destroying america. this bill does the opposite of what we the majority promised the american people. voting for this bill is voting to fund joe biden's wide-open border policies that killed 22-year-old laken railey last

thursday. crime in venezuela sure is going down, and that's because they are all coming through our wide-open borders. criminal, illegal aliens coming through, and voting for this bill is voting to enable the cartel, who have operational control of our southern border to continue the flow of fentanyl into our communities, that is killing our children and our families, our loved ones. they are foreign, they are a foreign terrorist organization. and they are guilty of narcoterrorism. we need to execute our military's ability to stop them. and instead we're funding these policies to continue. voting for this bill is voting to continue nancy pelosi's spending, taxpayer-funded abortions, and green new deal policies, everything we campaigned against, we won this majority on, and now we are

going completely against it. we need to govern as we campaign and do what we promised the american people that we will do. that's why i have led to impeach joe biden for his dereliction of duty to secure the southern border, and now we must use the power of the purse and not fund a government that is allowing this against its people. i am voting no on this continuing resolution, and i urge you all to do the same. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: reserved. the speaker pro tempore: members are reminded to refrain from engaging in personalities. the gentlelady from texas is recognized. ms. granger: i yield to the gentlelady from texas, ms. jackson lee, for two minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from texas vehicles for two minutes. ms. jackson lee: 331 million

americans. thank you, chairwoman granger and ranking member delauro. those americans are depending on us to save their lives. if we do not vote today, we will cause the loss of life. if we don't vote on the supplemental that was sent over a year ago to deal with the southern border and lives have been lost. but as a texan, i won't accept your challenge i want people to die, absolutely not. and the constitutional right of the power of the purse is one that i have used recklessly. they've used it responsibly and the budget numbers, whether it's nancy pelosi and the negotiators are responsible for helping the 331 million americans. in my state, your state, you

will not pay 172,000 active duty soldiers when we don't pass this today. the small business administration will stop handling $2 billion in loans. there will be no re-entry programs for those who are trying to get their life straight. we will eliminate the funding for our public schools and department of education in things like early education and the feeding program. we will stop 176,000 people from flying through airports because you will not be able to fund aspects of homeland security. 786,000 people will lose their access to the women and infant program which i understand is one of those being attacked. you are causing the loss of life. and i will not stand here and accept that challenge. you are my friends. we work together. but your arguments are false. the responsibility of the power

of the purse is to be responsible. and so 168,000 federal workers who do vital work will be lost if we do not proceed. it is important that food and drug is able to be funded, that housing is able to be funded, that the department of agriculture is able to be funded. let me say, mr. speaker, as i close, we must be responsible. 331,000 people want us to fight for them and we're going to win this fight and pass this and avoid a government shutdown. i yield back. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: members are reminded to direct their remarks to the chair. the gentlelady from texas reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. roy: well, respecting my friend from texas, i will say, where were my democratic colleagues when we were passing h.r. 2 which would secure our borders. it's hard to take seriously the claims of my democratic colleagues, all radical progressives, want to secure the border and don't understand that

laken riley was killed by a illegal alien which h.r. 2 would have fixed it. my democratic colleagues were nowhere to be found. this body, this side of the aisle did their job in passing a strong border security measure. we had legislation on the floor that did the job but we had no support from our democratic colleagues because it would have worked. my colleagues on the other side of the aisle in the senate passed legislation in the senate that would not do the job, and now they want to hide behind that. that's the actual truth. with that, i will yield up to three minutes to my good friend from kentucky, mr. massie. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky is recognized for three minutes. mr. massie: i want to give the people an overview of the debate happening today. why are three members of congress controlling time on the floor? i thought there were only two parties. no, when it comes to spending there is only one party, the uni

party. that's because republicans and democrats have united today to kick the cab down the road. they wanted to control all time for debate today but my colleague, mr. roy from texas, came down here and used a parliamentary procedure so the people who take their oath to the constitution most seriously, the people who are most concerned about debt, the people who want to represent the good folks back home have a voice here today because of my colleague chip roy who has claimed 20 minutes in opposition. and what are we doing here today? we're going to pass a c.r. and kick the can down the road. is it going to solve any problems? no, it creates another crisis next week. you see, that's what they want, another crisis. they want to threaten you with a shutdown so they can get more spending. but is this a clean c.r.? we're told you can't add anything to it. no. it deals with student aid in this c.r. are the american people concerned about student eight ride now?

is that the most pressing issue to address in this spending bill? we have a crisis at the southern border. we can add one sentence to this bill that would help tremendously, just say none of the funds hereby appropriated may be used to disassemble border security erected by the states on our border. put that one sentence in this continuing resolution. that would help tremendously. i'm worried we're not going to prevail today. the third group debating here against the uni party. and if the other side prevails, what will happen? what will happen today this evening after this passes? will we stay here and work hard for another week to get the 12 separate appropriation bills done? no. guess what we're going to do this evening? everybody's already got their plane tickets. they're sending us home early. congratulations. you moved the crisis down another week. go home, have a four-day weekend. we're going to let staff and a few members in the senate and a

few members in the house write this big bill, and then you can take it or leave it next week. gone is any semblance of regular order from this process. what we have is what the swamp always does. and i urge my colleagues to oppose this continuing resolution that does nothing but kick the can down the road and i yield back to my colleague from texas. mr. roy: reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas reserves. the gentlelady from texas is recognized. mr. granger: mr. speaker, i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. roy: i yield up to two minutes to my friend from virginia. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. >> mr. speaker, i stand here today again opposing the status quo of more reckless spending in washington. this house is supposedly run by republicans and yet here we are continuing to pass the pelosi,

biden, schumer spending levels and the policies connected to them, predictably with the majority of democrat votes. mr. good: as a matter of fact, this morning i had a democrat member tell me in a private conversation he likes it when we're in charge because nothing changes but we get the blame for it because we have the majority. our national debt continues to skyrocket. we're at $95 trillion. that's a hard number to grasp, it's more than $100,000 per citizen and that figure grows by the day. biden inflation is further exacerbating the crisis and the congressional uniparty is progressing it on a daily basis. we may get future relief with the resignation of the democrat minority leader in the senate but some of us here in the house came here to actually represent the american people, to do what we said we'd do, and that does not mean continuously kicking the can down the road and passing more resolutions that

hurt the american people. people are scared of a government shutdown. i'll recognize a government shutdown is not the worst thing, the worst thing is keeping in place the biden, schumer, pelosi policies that are bankrupting our kids and grandkids. they're keeping in place the border invasion, the very invasion we campaign against, the very invasion that's the greatest threat to our country. but that's what's going to happen here today. we're going to fund that border invasion another week as a bridge to another spending bill that will keep all the policies in place and actually increase them over the pelosi, schumer levels back before we had the majority. we could have passed a full year stopgap spending bill that would have passed $100 billion and attached to it border security to stand up for the american people. as a bonus, that would eliminate thousands of earmarks for tens of billions of dollars more. but here we are today. true leadership involves making difficult decisions. cutting spending is difficult and why nobody does it here. when will the debt matter in this chamber beyond a campaign

talking point? i urge know and yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from texas. mr. roy: reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from texas is recognized. ms. granger: i reserve my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. roy: i would yield one minute to my friend from alabama. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, this c.l. controls the out-of-control spending by biden and pelosi that fuels our inflation rate. this legislation provides no funding for president trump's border wall. more than 600,000 illegal alien criminals and 300 on the terrorist watch list have entered our open southern border under bidened a there's no doubt american families are in danger. just this week in alabama, two illegal aliens were arrested as part of a child trafficking sex ring. last week in georgia, a young girl with a bright future ahead of her was murdered by an illegal alien.

mr. moore: the list of tragedies is growing and it's time to do something about it. i signed the accountability pledge to oppose all government funding until action is taken to secure our southern border. instead of kicking the can down the road with another c.r., the number one priority of this congress should be funding trump's wall and defunding this invasion. we must fund president trump's wall and defund biden's backdoor regulations sending illegals to a city near you. it should not take more than one tragedy to a border to become priority. it's time to finish the trump wall and protect americans. with that i'll yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. mr. roy: reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from texas is recognized. ms. granger: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas? mr. roy: yield to the gentleman from new jersey. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute.

>> america, here we go again. the house is set to extend the bloated stationary spending levels that left our country $34 trillion in debt and fuels a government that is at war with the american people. mr. burlison: this is now the fourth time that we've kicked the can down the road since last september. it's now the fourth time we've shrugged our shoulders and said sorry, america, we don't have the fight in us this time but we'll try again next time. we all promised we wouldn't do this crap when we got up here. the american people have demanded responsible spending and border security for years but we failed them. when will wee heed the calls of our constituents to rein spending and secure the borders. the last line of the declaration of independence has a bold and courageous statement by the people who signed it, they said we mutually pledge to each other our lives, our fortunes, and our

sacred honor. sadly, we're not serving with those people today with the same resolve. i urge my colleagues to vote against this c.r. mr. roy: reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas reserves. the gentlelady from texas is recognized. ms. granger: i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from texas reserves. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. roy: how much time do we have left? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas has one minute and the gentlelady from texas has 11 1/2 minutes. mr. roy: reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas reserves. the gentlelady from texas is recognized. ms. granger: i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady from texas has the right to reserve to close. the gentleman from texas is recognized. mr. roy: prepared to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. roy: to my colleagues on either side of the aisle, we have a fundamental responsibility under the constitution of the united states to use the power of the

purse to check an executive branch that's not following the law. it's not enough to impeach, send to the senate, sit back and grab the popcorn and watch. we have a duty to actually defund tyranny and lawlessness. that is precisely what the founders said. it's what the founders wrote in the federalist papers and what they contemplated in article 1 of the constitution. and do not go out and have talking points about dead americans because of what this administration is doing, letting people into this country to kill americans like laken riley last week and then write the

good morning is friday, march 1. president biden and former president trump toward the border.