repeal it. with that, i'm pleased to yield to the distinguished democratic wip -- whip, mr. hoyer. mr. hoyer: thank you very much. senator collins and senatormy cullsky

the distinguished democratic wip -- whip, mr. hoyer. mr. hoyer: thank you very much. senator collins and senatormy cullsky and senator mccain voted what their 49 republican colleagues were thinking, it was not a bill that would have been positive for the american people and it would have been defeated. now it's our joint responsibility, the president and the house and the senate, to work together in a bipartisan that americans are not damaged by the inability to pass a replace. the affordable care act is the lew of the land and each of us have the responsibility to make sure that it is implemented in a way that's positive for americans and american families. i'm pleased to yield to the distinguished assistant leader, jim clyburn of south carolina. mr. clyburn: thank you very much . one of the things that i used to each when i first started my professional career was the governmental process. we as legislators make the laws and it's turned over to the xecutive to enforce. last night we had another step to making the law, now it's up thth to the executive branching to enforce that law,

minority whip, mr. hoyer. we have very much a regional partnership that is essential for metro in this -- and this bill reflects this resolution today reflects that. it lends congressional approval to the new interstate compact between virginia, maryland and the district of columbia to establish an independent state safety oversight program. in this case known as the metro safety commission. the previous iteration of metro safety oversight body was known as the tristate oversight commission and it responds to various accidents, inadequacies and outright failures the previous sec retear of transportation, anthony fox, used the authority we in congress together working with our regional delegation together gave him to temporary take over the safety oversight role of metro through the frppings administration. it was only meant to be temporary control. we still need a permanent body to provide this safety eversight for wmata, and the passage of this legislation today brings us one step closer to that goal. i would also like to mention because we had not done this in the time frame ini

, mr. hoyer, and i yield him three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the distinguished whip is recognized for three minutes. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman. i thank the ranking member for yielding, mr. engel, and i thank mr. royce. i have said this before, i will say it again, mr. royce as chairman and mr. engel as ranking member are example, frankly, for all of us how to work together productively in a bipartisan fashion to reach a resulthat's good for our country, for our people and indeed for international secuty. i also want to thank senators cardin and corker for their leadership and their involvement. this legislation is the product of very careful and sometimes difficult negotiations on a bipartisan basis. it is strong, tough and an appropriateesponse for russia's attpts to meddle in our election process, its support for violent separatists in ukraine, its illegal occupation of crimea and and, es, it's unhelpful work in syria. this threatens our gulf allies and israel. russia's power comes from its ability to coerce other nations by its energy distribution in many inst

finished product. that's the distinguished democratic whip, the gentleman from maryland, mr. hoyer, and i yield him three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the distinguished whip is recognized for three minutes. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman. i thank the ranking member for yielding, mr. engel, and i thank mr. royce. i have said this before, i will say it again, mr. royce as chairman and mr. engel as ranking member are example, frankly, for all of us how to work together productively in a bipartisan fashion to reach a result that's good for our country, for our people and indeed for international security. i also want to thank senators cardin and corker for their leadership and their involvement. this legislation is the product of very careful and sometimes difficult negotiations on a bipartisan basis. it is strong, tough and an appropriate response for russia's attempts to meddle in our election process, its support for violent separatists in ukraine, its illegal occupation of crimea and and, es, it's unhelpful work in syria. this threatens our gulf allies and israel. russia's power

that i'm pleased to yield to the distinguished democratic witness, mr. hoyer. >> thank you very much. senator collins, senator mccain voted with their 49 republican colleagues were thinking. it was not a bill that would've been positively making people. it was defeated. now it is our joint responsibility, the president, the house and the senate will work together in a bipartisan way to ensure that americans are not damaged by the inability to pass a replacement bill. the affordable care act is the law of the land, and each of us have a responsibility to make sure it is implemented in a way that is positive for americans and american families. i am pleased to yield to the distinguished assistant leader of south carolina. >> thank you very much. one of the things i used to teach when i first started my career was the governmental process. we as legislators make the laws, and it has turned over to the executive to enforce. last night we got another step in the law. it's now up to the executive branch of government to enforce that law and not do anything you want i'm looking forward to a

order. be members please take their the floor.ns off he house will be in order. mr. hoyer: mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland seek recognition. mr. hoyer: mr. speaker, i ask animous consent to speak out of order for one minute for the purposes of inquiring of the majority leader the schedule for the week to come. e speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. hoyer: i thank you, mr. speaker. yield to my friend, the majority leader, mr. mccarthy from california. mr. mccarthy: i thank the gentleman for yielding and i ask unanimous consent to revise remarks.d my the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. speaker, on meet at e house will noon for morning hour and 2:00 p.m. for legislative business. postponed until 6:30. on tuesday and wednesday, the house will meet at 10:00 a.m. or morning hour and noon for legislative business. on thursday, the house will eet at 9:00 a.m. for legislative business. mr. speaker, the house will consider a number of suspensions next week. a complete list of which will be announced by close of usiness to

this finished product. that's the distinguished democratic whip, the gentleman from maryland, mr. hoyer, and i yield him three minutes. the speaker pro tempore: the distinguished whip is recognized for three minutes. mr. hoyer: i thank the gentleman. i thank the ranking member for yielding, mr. engel, and i thank mr. royce. i have said this before, i will say it again, mr. royce as chairman and mr. engel as ranking member are example, frankly, for all of us how to work together productively in a bipartisan fashion to reach a result that's good for our country, for our people and indeed for international security. i also want to thank senators cardin and corker for their leadership and their involvement. this legislation is the product of very careful and sometimes difficult negotiations on a bipartisan basis. it is strong, tough and an appropriate response for russia's attempts to meddle in our election process, its support for violent separatists in ukraine, its illegal occupation of crimea and and, es, it's unhelpful work in syria. this threatens our gulf allies and israel. russia's power

gentleman from maryland, mr. hoyer, for five minutes. mr. hoyer: i ask unanimous consent to address the house, revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. hoyer: mr. speaker, yesterday we watched as senator john mccain returned to the capitol after having been diagnosed with cancer and undergoing a serious operation. all of us are praying for his swift and full recovery. in earlier days as we all know, he faced danger with courage. he's doing the same again right now. from spoke yesterday the senate floor, he talked about a time when legislators, republicans and democrats, despite their differences, worked together from to make progress. all be it incremental. on -- albeit incremental. on major issues through discussion and compromise. the recent s do i tendency to seek total partisan victory or nothing at all. something we see as much in the house as in the senate. senator tendency to seek total partisan victory or nothing at all. something we mccain said this, quote, we have been spinning our wheels on too many important issues because we keep trying to find

what purpose does the gentleman from maryland seek recognition? mr. hoyer: madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to speak out of order for one minute for purposing of the schedule for the week to come. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized. mr. hoyer: thank you very much, madam leader -- madam speaker. i now yield to my friend, the majority leader, mr. mccarthy. mr. mccarthy: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i ask unanimous consent to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. mccarthy: mr. speaker, on monday the house will meet at noon for morning hour and 2:00 p.m. for legislative business. votes will be postponed until 6:30. on tuesday a, wednesday and -- tuesday, wednesday and thursday, the house will meet at 10:00 a.m. for morning hour and noon for legislative business. on friday the house will meet at 9:00 a.m. for -- tuesday, wedne business. mr. speaker, how it's will consider a number of suspensions next week. a complete list of which will be announced by close of business tomorrow. one suspension w

tempore: the chair recognizes the gentleman from maryland, mr. hoyer, for five minutes. mr. hoyer: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consentto revise and extend. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. speaker, it is now seven months since the start of the 115th congress and sixonths sin republicans have controlled all the levers of power of our government. all we've seen are broken promises. donald trump and our republican colleagues in congress ran on a platform that included health care for everyone. massive investments in infrastructure and tax reform and a dramatic increase in jobs. on all four of these there's been zero progress. zero legislation sent to the president and zero effort to work with democrats to achieve any of those objectives. donald trump promised voters that he would be, and i quote, the greatest job president that god ever created. yet, neither he nor the republican congressional leadership have put forward a comprehensive jobs bill. instead, he and his republican allies in the congress have proposed budget that would slash investments in education, infrastr

yield three minutes to the gentleman from maryland, the democratic whip, mr. hoyer. the chair: the whip is ecognized. mr. hoyer: thank you very much, madam ranking member, for yielding. mr. chairman, members of the house. i served actively on the appropriations committee for 23 years. i'm still a member on leave. never in the 36 years that i've been here have i seen an omnibus appropriation bill or a mini bus appropriation bill brought to the floor before the august break. regular order is to bring each bill to the floor, debate each bill on its merit, have the opportunity to offer amendments, and debate the her pretties of the amendments and of that particular bill. however, the majority party has not done its job. i do not hold accountable the members of the appropriations committee. i want to make that clear. -- clear. but for whatever reasons, regular order has not been followed. so each member of the congress of the united states is confronted with either voting for all of the bill with , ponent parts, alleged bill defense bill, that they may not like. but if they vote no they will

whip, mr. hoyer. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from maryland is recognized for three minutes. thank you, mr. speaker. there is a lot of disorder in washington, d.c. there is chaos and conflict and confrontation in the white house. there is conflict within the majority party in the house of representatives. there was a representation that we were going to follow regular order. we have not. there was no budget which was supposed to be adopted some three months ago. a budget which would have told all the members of the congress and the country how much discretionary spending we were going to have. the majority party has been thise to bring a budget to floor and to pass it. because of the disarray and disorder that we find in this house. this rule represents a litany of broken promises and exposes, frankly, the hypocrisy of this republican majority. this rule would add an amendment to the underlying bill that directs $1.6 billion of american taxpayer dollars toward the construction of president trump's proposed border wall. this was not in the original bill. and the irony

yield the balance of the time to the distinguished minority whip, mr. hoyer from maryland. mr. hoyer: i'll use timewisely. the chair: the gentleman is recognized for 3/4 of a minute. mr. hoyer: this amendment is not about defense. this amendment is about politics. nd i congratulate the chairman for encouraging this bill not be added in committee. we ought to defeat this amendment. it has one purpose and one purpose only -- to politically denigrate some of our fellow citizens, to treat them less equally than we would want to be treated. let us not do that. let us not sink to that level. we're better than that. all of presentives of the people. reject this amendment. get on with the defense of this country and its values. i yield back the balance of my time. the chair: the gentleman's time has expired. the gentleman from washington yields back. the gentlelady from missouri is recognized for 15 seconds. mrs. hartzler: mr. speaker, this is about addressing korea, russia, isis. we need every defense dollar to go to meeting those threats, not anything else, and we need to make sure

maryland, the democratic whip, mr. hoyer. the chair: the whip is ecognized. mr. hoyer: thank you very much, madam ranking member, for yielding. mr. chairman, members of the house. i served actively on the appropriations committee for 23 years. i'm still a member on leave. never in the 36 years that i've been here have i seen an omnibus appropriation bill or a mini bus appropriation bill brought to the floor before the august break. regular order is to bring each bill to the floor, debate each bill on its merit, have the opportunity to offer amendments, and debate the her pretties of the amendments and of that particular bill. however, the majority party has not done its job. i do not hold accountable the members of the appropriations committee. i want to make that clear. -- clear. but for whatever reasons, regular order has not been followed. so each member of the congress of the united states is confronted with either voting for all of the bill with , ponent parts, alleged bill defense bill, that they may not like. but if they vote no they will be accused of being against the securit