[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 10]
[House]
[Pages 14989-14998]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




  NATIONAL PARK SERVICE OPERATIONS, SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION, NATIONAL 
GALLERY OF ART, AND UNITED STATES HOLOCAUST MEMORIAL MUSEUM CONTINUING 
                    APPROPRIATIONS RESOLUTION, 2014

  Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Speaker, pursuant to House Resolution 370, I call up 
the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 70) making continuing appropriations 
for National Park Service operations, the Smithsonian Institution, the 
National Gallery of Art, and the United States Holocaust Memorial 
Museum for fiscal year 2014, and for other purposes, and ask for its 
immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the title of the joint resolution.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 370, the joint 
resolution is considered read.
  The text of the joint resolution is as follows:

                              H.J. Res. 70

       Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
     United States of America in Congress assembled, That the 
     following sums are hereby appropriated, out of any money in 
     the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and out of 
     applicable corporate or other revenues, receipts, and funds, 
     for National Park Service operations, the Smithsonian 
     Institution, the National Gallery of Art, and the United 
     States Holocaust Memorial Museum for fiscal year 2014, and 
     for other purposes, namely:
       Sec. 101. (a) Such amounts as may be necessary, at a rate 
     for operations as provided in the Full-Year Continuing 
     Appropriations Act, 2013 (division F of Public Law 113-6) and 
     under the authority and conditions provided in such Act, for 
     continuing projects or activities (including the costs of 
     direct loans and loan guarantees) that are not otherwise 
     specifically provided for in this joint resolution, that were 
     conducted in fiscal year 2013, and for which appropriations, 
     funds, or other authority were made available by such Act 
     under the following headings:
       (1) ``Department of the Interior--National Park Service--
     Operation of the National Park System''.
       (2) ``United States Holocaust Memorial Museum--Holocaust 
     Memorial Museum''.
       (3) ``Smithsonian Institution''.
       (4) ``National Gallery of Art''.
       (b) The rate for operations provided by subsection (a) for 
     each account shall be calculated to reflect the full amount 
     of any reduction required in fiscal year 2013 pursuant to--
       (1) any provision of division G of the Consolidated and 
     Further Continuing Appropriations Act, 2013 (Public Law 113-
     6), including section 3004; and
       (2) the Presidential sequestration order dated March 1, 
     2013, except as attributable to budget authority made 
     available by the Disaster Relief Appropriations Act, 2013 
     (Public Law 113-2).
       Sec. 102.  Appropriations made by section 101 shall be 
     available to the extent and in the manner that would be 
     provided by the pertinent appropriations Act.
       Sec. 103.  Unless otherwise provided for in this joint 
     resolution or in the applicable appropriations Act for fiscal 
     year 2014, appropriations and funds made available and 
     authority granted pursuant to this joint resolution shall be 
     available until whichever of the following first occurs: (1) 
     the enactment into law of an appropriation for any project or 
     activity provided for in this joint resolution; (2) the 
     enactment into law of the applicable appropriations Act for 
     fiscal year 2014 without any provision for such project or 
     activity; or (3) December 15, 2013.
       Sec. 104.  Expenditures made pursuant to this joint 
     resolution shall be charged to the applicable appropriation, 
     fund, or authorization whenever a bill in which such 
     applicable appropriation, fund, or authorization is contained 
     is enacted into law.
       Sec. 105.  This joint resolution shall be implemented so 
     that only the most limited funding action of that permitted 
     in the joint resolution shall be taken in order to provide 
     for continuation of projects and activities.
       Sec. 106.  Amounts made available under section 101 for 
     civilian personnel compensation and benefits in each 
     department and agency may be apportioned up to the rate for 
     operations necessary to avoid furloughs within such 
     department or agency, consistent with the applicable 
     appropriations Act for fiscal year 2013, except that such 
     authority provided under this section shall not be used until 
     after the department or agency has taken all necessary 
     actions to reduce or defer non-personnel-related 
     administrative expenses.
       Sec. 107.  It is the sense of Congress that this joint 
     resolution may also be referred to as the ``Open Our National 
     Parks and Museums Act''.
        This joint resolution may be cited as the ``National Park 
     Service Operations, Smithsonian Institution, National Gallery 
     of Art, and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum 
     Continuing Appropriations Resolution, 2014''.

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The joint resolution shall be debatable for 
30 minutes, equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking 
minority member of the Committee on Appropriations.
  The gentleman from Idaho (Mr. Simpson) and the gentleman from 
Virginia (Mr. Moran) each will control 15 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from Idaho.


                             General Leave

  Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members 
have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks and 
include extraneous material on H.J. Res. 70, and that I may include 
tabular material on the same.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Idaho?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Well, here we are again, Mr. Speaker. We were here yesterday, with 
the Republicans trying to open the government back up and the Democrats 
opposing opening the government back up. But, Mr. Speaker, I rise today 
in support of this important legislation to fund the operations of the 
National Park Service, the Smithsonian Institution, the U.S. Holocaust 
Museum, and the National Gallery of Art.
  Mr. Speaker, I spoke yesterday about some of the effects of the 
government shutdown, which began a couple of days ago. With each 
passing day, we hear of more and more impacts resulting from the 
shutdown across the country and in our Nation's Capital.
  I want to remind my friends on the other side of the aisle that all 
401 National Park Service units in the United States, 19 Smithsonian 
museums and galleries, including the National Zoo, the Holocaust 
Museum, and the National Gallery of Art, remain closed to the public. 
This legislation, if adopted, would reopen these national treasures to 
the American public.
  Mr. Speaker, the government shutdown is having a real impact on real 
people and on the national economy. I remind my colleagues that it is 
estimated that the local economy is losing up to $200 million a day, 
with the National Zoo, Smithsonian museums, Holocaust Museum, the 
National Gallery of Art, and other popular attractions closed to the 
public. This doesn't even begin to measure the national and 
international impacts of these closures.
  Think of the families, the veterans groups, the groups of students 
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have saved for months and, in some cases, years to travel to our 
Nation's Capital from across the country to visit the Air and Space 
Museum, the Lincoln Memorial, the World War II Memorial, the National 
Zoo, Ford's Theater, or the National Gallery of Art.
  This government shutdown has a real impact on real people. Think of 
the families who made reservations to visit Yosemite or Yellowstone or 
the Statue of Liberty and now find these national parks shuttered 
today. This government shutdown, again, has real impacts on real 
people.
  Think of the impact the government shutdown is having on Ford's 
Theater, one of the most hallowed National Park Service historic sites 
in our country. Not only are tourists denied entrance to the historic 
theater, but the shutdown has forced evening performances of the 
theater to be moved to another location because of the budget impasse.
  Think of the young people who have a National Park Service permit to 
get married at the Jefferson Memorial this Saturday. Their families are 
arriving from all over the country, over 130 people, for what should be 
the happiest day of this new couple's life. But because of the 
government shutdown, they are not able to get married at the Jefferson 
Memorial and are now scrambling to find an alternative location to get 
married.
  Let's pass this bill so this couple and millions of Americans across 
this country can enjoy our national parks and this couple can get 
married at the Jefferson Memorial.
  There's a photo on the front page of today's Washington Post showing 
National Park Service employees putting up barricades around the Martin 
Luther King Memorial on The National Mall. Remember, this is open air, 
accessible to the public 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a 
year, and we are putting barriers around it.
  Just down the street, barricades were put up around the World War II 
Memorial--again, a memorial accessible to the public 24 hours a day, 7 
days a week, 365 days a year. Fortunately, these temporary barriers 
didn't stop a large group of visiting World War II veterans, members of 
the Greatest Generation in their eighties and nineties, many of them in 
wheelchairs, from storming the barricades so that they could witness 
the memorial built in their honor of courage and sacrifice.

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  Tourists visiting Washington, and, indeed, many furloughed Federal 
employees are, today, finding actual physical barriers to prevent them 
from experiencing our open-air national monuments honoring Lincoln, 
Jefferson, King, and our World War II heroes.
  At some point, Congress and the President will overcome their 
differences over Federal funding. But, isn't it ironic and even cynical 
that when the government shuts down, the President's administration 
actually builds physical barriers at sites that are otherwise open 24 
hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year?
  How cynical is that?
  Now, some people say they put those barriers there to protect them 
from vandalism. So we use the Park Police to put up and protect the 
barriers, but not the monuments. That doesn't make a lot of sense to 
me.
  To my friends on the Democratic side of the aisle and to the 
President, I say this: If you seek a solution to this government 
shutdown, if you seek a bipartisan solution, Mr. President, you can 
start by tearing down these barriers.
  Let's open our national parks. Let's open the Smithsonian, the 
National Zoo, the Holocaust Museum and the National Gallery of Art.
  Why are the House and Senate Democrats denying the American people 
the right to visit these treasured sites?
  To my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, I will close with 
this thought. By opposing this legislation, you are voting to keep our 
national parks closed, to keep Yellowstone closed, to keep Yosemite 
closed, to keep the Statute of Liberty closed, to keep Ford's Theater 
closed.
  You are voting to keep the Smithsonian closed. You are voting to keep 
the National Zoo closed. You are voting to keep the Holocaust Museum 
closed. You are voting to keep the National Gallery of Art closed.
  We should not be using our national parks, the Smithsonian, the 
National Zoo, the Holocaust Museum and the National Gallery of Art as 
hostages for the Democratic ``my way or the highway'' shutdown, and 
that's exactly what this is. This is the Democratic ``you either agree 
with us, or we will shut the government down.''
  We just simply wanted to go to conference, but no, that's not good 
enough either. We can't go to conference to talk about these 
differences, so let's shut it down, and that's exactly what the 
Democratic Party has done.
  Mr. Speaker, this is a commonsense bill, and I encourage my 
colleagues on both sides of the aisle to support it. Let's reopen these 
national treasures.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to direct their remarks 
to the Chair.
  Mr. MORAN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Speaker, as Yogi Berra would say, it's deja vu all over again.
  Yesterday, the majority rushed to the floor this very bill to 
partially open the National Park Service, the Smithsonian, the 
Holocaust Museum, and the National Gallery of Art. We had a spirited 
debate, and the House failed to pass this bill.
  But now, here we are back again, debating the very same bill. It was 
a bad idea yesterday, and it certainly hasn't improved over the last 24 
hours.
  I'll explain why. Because, instead of reopening the entire Federal 
Government, or even the entire Interior Department, the majority has 
resorted to singling out publicly visible programs for action, while 
leaving thousands of important functions of government shut down and 
hundreds of thousands of Federal employees furloughed.
  It's time to stop using Federal employees as pawns in this cynical 
game.
  Mr. Speaker, this GOP act of desperation is evidence of how 
politically bankrupt this position has become. It's degenerating down 
to picking winners and losers among Federal workers. The American 
public is getting burned, and some of the political heat is finally 
getting to the Republican majority.
  So now they would allow workers at the Smithsonian, the Holocaust 
Museum, and the Gallery of Art, and a few of the employees directly 
involved in the operation of our National Park System, to return to 
work.
  Do they really think that this is going to save them from the 
public's wrath?
  Under this bill, thousands of National Park Service employees 
involved in historic preservation and national recreation programs and 
maintenance and construction still remain furloughed.
  And what about the 10,200 furloughed employees of the Bureau of Land 
Management, the 7,751 furloughed employees at the Fish and Wildlife 
Service, the 18,800 furloughed employees of the Forest Service, the 
16,000 furloughed employees of the Social Security Administration?
  Doesn't the majority value their work or support the important 
programs that they carry out?
  We should value all of our Federal employees. We should value the 
scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey and the health professionals 
at the Infectious Disease Control and Immunization Program at the 
Centers for Disease Control just as much as the park ranger and museum 
workers.
  How do you explain to the Library of Congress workers that they are 
less important than their Smithsonian counterparts?
  I want to see our national parks and museums reopened, as do all of 
the Democrats on this side of the aisle. We want to open the 
government, and we would vote today to do so if you'd let the bill come 
to the floor, because we want to see all 561 units of the National 
Wildlife Refuge System opened, 155 national forests, the 866 areas of 
the National Landscape Conservation System reopened. But you're keeping 
all those closed.
  Does the majority really believe that those are not important, that 
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don't deserve to be opened, that the public doesn't deserve to be able 
to use those national assets?
  This bill is a Band-Aid, and it won't stanch the open rage that the 
public is beginning to feel. This shutdown is disrupting the work of 
all Federal workers and the American public that depend on the work 
that they do. It's an attempt at a quick fix to deflect the political 
heat the majority is facing.
  This idea that we'll pick and choose among Federal activities, which 
ones are allowed to operate and what has to remain shut down, is 
politically bankrupt, and it's morally bankrupt as well, Mr. Speaker.
  I implore my Republican colleagues to abandon the junior Senator from 
Texas' plan to play politics with the economy for a dead-on-arrival 
idea from an extremist ideologue.
  The President has reaffirmed that he would veto these cherry-picked 
bills. We know that the Senate will reject them. So this is a waste of 
time. People are out of work, and we're wasting our time on this.
  If we could just have 20 Republicans, less than that, vote on a clean 
CR, it would pass. The government would open today. And you won't do it 
because you're afraid of this ideological extremist faction within your 
party. You don't want to get them upset.
  It's time to stop these games. The House GOP needs to let our 
hostages go and get on with the real business of governing.
  Let's vote on a clean CR. Reopen the whole government.
  Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Speaker, it just stuns me that the gentleman from 
Virginia is unwilling to put his constituents back to work in opening 
and working in our national parks.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Washington (Mr. 
Hastings), the chairman of the Natural Resources Committee.
  Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I 
rise, again today in support of this resolution.
  Mr. Speaker, while it's understandable that, during this shutdown, 
some services would be limited in some parks and visitor centers, I 
believe this administration is going out of its way to take 
unreasonable and unnecessary steps to block public access to parks and 
monuments.
  There is absolutely no reason why open-air parks and monuments here 
in Washington, D.C., should be barricaded off. These are places without 
doors, gates or fences where people are allowed 24/7, 365-day access to 
these memorials. Why are they closed now?
  Furthermore, memorials that weren't closed during the last government 
shutdown in 1996 have been barricaded today. This administration is 
choosing to do this. It wants the effect of this government shutdown to 
be as painful as possible.
  And the worst example of this is how the Obama administration erected 
steel barricades to keep our World War II veterans out of the memorial. 
These men are national heroes who flew here from across the country. 
The Park Service knew that they were coming. The veterans didn't 
deserve to be greeted by armed National Park Police at the entrance.
  Now, Mr. Speaker, it doesn't cost the Federal Government a single 
penny to let these veterans walk around this outdoor, open-air 
structure. But ironically, the Federal Government is spending money to 
proactively keep them out. It may very well be costing more money to 
keep these visitors out than it would to simply let them in.
  To add further insult to injury, the Obama administration isn't even 
applying this policy consistently. While highly visible monuments are 
barricaded off, others remain open. The Obama administration is 
selectively choosing which memorials to keep open and which to close, 
further proof, in my mind, that they're just playing politics.
  So this bill today would end these type of political games.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. SIMPSON. I yield an additional 15 seconds to the gentleman.
  Mr. HASTINGS of Washington. I want to say that, as chairman of the 
House Natural Resources Committee that has jurisdiction on our national 
parks, we have started investigations into why this administration did 
these precise actions.
  Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Speaker, how much time do we have on either side?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Florida has 10 minutes 
remaining. The gentleman from Idaho has 6\3/4\ minutes remaining.
  Mr. MORAN. I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the very distinguished 
gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. Lowey), the ranking member of the 
Appropriations Committee.
  Mrs. LOWEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the Republican 
shutdown. Of course we support funding for our national parks. But the 
House has not had that opportunity because Republicans couldn't even 
advance their own Interior bill out of the committee.
  Why is opening parks now more important than investments in job 
training centers that are dependent on their expected allotment of 
funds, or allowing all of our food inspectors to continue to protect 
the American food supply?
  Today's bill doesn't even include funding for essential firefighting 
efforts for the Park Service. Funding one budget item at a time, while 
doing nothing about other critical services, is no way to fulfill our 
constitutional responsibility to keep the government running or to grow 
our economy.
  The bill we are considering is nothing more than a Republican ploy. 
It would not be necessary if Republicans had not been so reckless 
throughout the budgetary process, forcing us into a shutdown.
  We could end the Republican shutdown today if the majority will only 
allow a vote on the Senate-passed bill to keep the government running, 
which includes the funding levels Republicans support and would be 
signed by the President.
  Pass the bill today, and the couple can get married at the Jefferson 
Memorial, and the 200 patients who would have been admitted to the NIH 
clinical trials each week will not be turned away.
  The House majority apparently can't take the heat from the fire they 
lit, so now they have put forward this reckless political attempt to 
shift blame for the shutdown. End the shutdown now.
  Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Chairman, it is now my pleasure to yield 1\1/2\ 
minutes to the gentleman from Riverside, California (Mr. Calvert), a 
valuable member of the Interior Subcommittee.
  Mr. CALVERT. Mr. Speaker, today marks the second day of the 
government shutdown, a shutdown that I and my Republican colleagues 
absolutely oppose. The shutdown has been made necessary because our 
friends on the other side of the Capitol refused to negotiate or 
compromise. So, in an effort to find some common ground, House 
Republicans are introducing narrow funding bills for government 
services that are completely noncontroversial.
  Americans who planned their vacations around a national park are 
severely disappointed this week. I was pleased that I was able to take 
constituents from my hometown on a tour of the Capitol this morning 
because all the other D.C. tours had been canceled.
  Many Americans around the country have been simply forced to cancel 
their plans. Yesterday a group of World War II veterans that you heard 
about, American heroes, bypassed the barricades outside the World War 
II Memorial in order to see the memorial that was built in their honor.
  Other World War II veterans scheduled to visit the memorial next week 
were told by the National Park Service that they would be arrested if 
they attempted to view their memorial. This is not right.
  We have a chance to come together on a bipartisan basis, to alleviate 
some of the hardship of this shutdown.
  The bill before us, H.J. Res. 70, would fund the operation of the 
National Park Service, the Smithsonian Institution, the Holocaust 
Museum, the National Gallery of Art.

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  I urge my colleagues to support the bill, reopen our parks, honor our 
veterans, show the American people we can work together.
  Mr. President, tear down these barricades.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to address all remarks 
to the Chair.
  Mr. MORAN. Mr. Speaker, I'm honored to yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the 
gentleman from Maryland (Mr. Hoyer), the very distinguished Democratic 
whip of the House.
  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  My friends on this side say they want to keep the government open. We 
say we want to keep the government open.
  My friends on this side sent a bill over to the Senate that had $986 
billion in funding. We agreed to $986 billion in funding.
  What's the problem?
  We need to open all of the government, as the gentleman from Virginia 
said.

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  We have a responsibility to reopen all of our government, not just a 
little here and a little there. House Republicans shut the government 
down, and now they're worried about having to answer for it.
  These piecemeal bills are on this floor because Republicans are 
realizing, yes, there are real-world consequences to a shutdown. Now 
they're engaged in a gimmick to fund only those pieces of government 
that the media or their constituents notice immediately. But by picking 
winners and losers, Republicans are ignoring critical agencies and 
functions across our Nation.
  We need a full reopening of government in order to provide Head Start 
for our children. Are Head Start children less important than somebody 
visiting our parks? Perhaps those are your priorities. Nutrition 
assistance to women and families, training for law enforcement agents 
who keep us safe. Seventy percent of the CIA are on furlough today--
now--right now.
  We need to put people back to work to ensure that our food is safe 
and small businesses can get the loans they need.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The time of the gentleman has expired.
  Mr. MORAN. I yield the gentleman an additional 30 seconds.
  Mr. HOYER. Mr. Speaker, put the Senate's clean compromise bill that 
gets our government open--the government of the people of the United 
States--and then let's go to conference on the budget, as Democrats 
have long called for, to resolve our differences and achieve a long-
term solution.
  A shutdown is not a political strategy; it is a failure for our 
country. We need a government that is open and that works for all of 
our people. Let us have a vote on the Senate's bill to reopen our 
government--at the number you put in your bill and that you sent to the 
Senate, on which we will now agree.
  Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Speaker, it is now my pleasure to yield 2\1/2\ 
minutes to the gentlelady from Michigan (Mrs. Miller).
  Mrs. MILLER of Michigan. I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Mr. Speaker, it seems that every time there's any sort of 
disagreement with Congress, President Obama does everything he can to 
make it hurt the American people as much as possible.
  Earlier this year, when the sequester took effect, the White House 
immediately slammed the door on the American people and ended public 
tours at the White House. And yesterday, the Obama administration even 
tried to slam the door on the World War II Memorial to the heroes who 
stormed the beaches of Normandy and Iwo Jima; but just as the Japanese 
and Germans found out, these men would not be denied, and they pushed 
past those barriers. What great patriots they are.
  It's interesting to note that the World War II Memorial is open 24 
hours a day, but it's only staffed part of that time. So instead of 
actually leaving the memorial open, the Obama administration actually 
spent extra money to build the barricades to keep our heroes out, and 
then paid the Park Police to enforce that.
  We are, Mr. Speaker, about to vote to fix that problem by passing 
legislation to open up our parks, to open up our memorials, and to open 
up the Smithsonian Institution.
  Now, I know our Democratic friends are saying that they will vote 
against this bill because they want an entire clean CR or nothing at 
all, and yet they are accusing us of being the absolutists. I would 
just ask this, Mr. Speaker: Who are the absolutists? Really? Is it 
those of us who want to open the Grand Canyon or Yellowstone Park 
today, or those of us who want to keep those closed until they get 
everything they want?
  Who are the absolutists? Is it those of us who want to have the 
Statue of Liberty's light shine bright or those that want to keep that 
light snuffed out until they get everything that they want?
  I would hope that the Senate will join us in allowing those who drove 
through the barricades put up by the German Army at Normandy the 
opportunity to visit the World War II Memorial without having to drive 
through the barricades that have been put in place by the Obama 
administration.
  I hope my friends on the other side of the aisle, Mr. Speaker, put 
aside their absolutist demands and put the American people at the head 
of the line. Open up their parks and open up their memorials and let 
them celebrate this great, great Nation of ours.
  Mr. MORAN. It is my great pleasure to yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the 
distinguished gentlelady from Minnesota (Ms. McCollum) on the Interior 
Appropriations Committee.
  Ms. McCOLLUM. Mr. Speaker, last night, this Congress rejected this 
Republican piecemeal approach. But here we go again.
  It's clear that the GOP doesn't have a coherent solution to the 
shutdown crisis they've created. With this bill, they are proposing 
funding for our national parks and certain museums, but not the Bureau 
of Land Management or the Fish and Wildlife Service.
  Invasive species efforts have been halted, including research to stop 
the spread of Asian carp. Families hoping to visit the Minnesota Valley 
National Wildlife Refuge this fall are being met with a ``closed'' 
sign. Nothing in this bill will change that.
  I'm confident that every Member here wants our national parks open, 
and I applaud the Tea Party commitment for funding the National Gallery 
of Art.
  But I have a better idea: the House should pass a clean CR to fund 
the entire Federal Government for all of America. We can do that today 
with the support of commonsense Republicans and Democrats to end this 
GOP--Grand Old Party--shutdown.
  Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Speaker, I am now pleased to yield 1 minute to the 
gentleman from California (Mr. McClintock), who represents what may be 
one of the most beautiful places in this country, Yosemite National 
Park.
  Mr. McCLINTOCK. I thank the gentleman for yielding.
  Last night, Mr. Speaker, the House attempted to reopen our National 
Parks, and 22 Democrats defied their party leaders and joined with the 
majority to provide for this vital relief.
  The little towns around Yosemite National Park depend on tourism for 
their economy. They're still reeling from the Yosemite Rim fire that 
brought tourism to a near standstill last month.
  When tourists are needlessly barred from our national parks, all of 
the vendors, all of the concessionaires, the lodgekeepers and 
shopkeepers in all of the surrounding communities are devastated. They 
have to lay off employees and often have to close. And unlike 
government employees, these taxpaying, job-generating private sector 
working people never get paid back when it's all over.
  Having already agreed to spare our military from the effect of this 
impasse, why would anybody object to funding other critical functions 
while we wait for the larger issues to be resolved?
  Mr. MORAN. Mr. Speaker, how much time do we have remaining on this 
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  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Virginia has 5\1/2\ 
minutes remaining. The gentleman from Idaho has 2 minutes remaining.
  Mr. MORAN. At this point I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from 
Oregon (Mr. DeFazio), the ranking member of the National Resources 
Committee.
  Mr. DeFAZIO. I thank the gentleman.
  So when the Republicans passed their shutdown bill, did they not know 
it was going to close down the national parks? No, they knew that. But 
in their little bizarre echo chamber they thought the American people 
would rise and applaud their move to shut down everything that relates 
to the government. Instead, they've gotten a big raspberry, if not an 
invitation to read between the lines. They're a little bit surprised 
and shocked.
  Now, what did they leave out of this bill? Yeah, we'll reopen some 
national parks and other iconic places. They left out 155 national 
forests, 20 national Grasslands, seven national monuments, and 28 Job 
Corps Civilian Conservation Centers shut down. That's thousands of kids 
working hard to get an education, get skills, and not get thrown out in 
the street. Have you ever visited one? I've been there. I can't believe 
you guys would shut that down.
  There's 440 Wilderness Areas, 560 National Wildlife Refuge units, 
including locking out hunters and fishermen. Come on, guys--all BLM-
managed campgrounds.
  There's only one reason this bill is on the floor, and it's because 
their constituents love iconic national parks and monuments, as the 
Republicans just learned, much to their chagrin.
  They can't take the heat from the government shutdown they're 
responsible for. What's next? This is whack-a-mole. What is tomorrow? 
CDC preparations for flu season. That's kind of important. Still shut 
down.
  How about our Capitol Hill Police keeping us alive and guarding us 
every day, who are having their leave canceled and they're not getting 
paid, and they're still standing out there. Are you going to put them 
on the list? When are you going to take care of them?
  Put the whole government back to work now.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded that they are to 
address their remarks to the Chair.
  Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Speaker, I am now happy to yield 1 minute to the 
gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Lamborn).
  Mr. LAMBORN. I thank the gentleman.
  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak in favor of reopening our national 
parks and museums.
  This morning, I met with some of our great World War II veterans down 
at the World War II Memorial on our National Mall. One of these 
veterans, 97-year-old Eugene Morgan of West Memphis, Tennessee, came 
with his son, Jeff. When they arrived, they were met by 
``Obamacades''--a series of rented barricades intended to keep our 
veterans from visiting the memorial--their own memorial.
  The closure of this memorial is hard to comprehend. It is an open-air 
memorial that is normally accessible to the public 24 hours a day, all 
year long, with little or no staff. It was built using private money. 
Veterans have been planning for months to visit this memorial. This may 
be the last time they come back east to see it.
  Other Americans are trying to visit national parks all around the 
country, including in my home State of Colorado, but it's unacceptable 
that we are closing parks, some of which don't even need staff.
  For many of our elderly veterans, this might be their last 
opportunity.
  Mr. President, these parks belong to us. Take down your barricades 
and let the people in.
  I urge my colleagues to support this bill to open our national parks 
to the American people.
  Mr. MORAN. It is my great pleasure to yield 1 minute to the gentleman 
from California (Mr. George Miller), the ranking member on the 
Education and Workforce Committee and former chair of the Natural 
Resources Committee.
  Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. Mr. Speaker, Members of the House, 
the chairman of the committee says that we should think of the impact 
before we act; that we should think of the impact on the parks before 
we vote against this bill.
  Did you think about the parks when you voted to shut down the 
government? Did you think about the impacts?
  The gentleman from Montana yesterday came to the floor and said it's 
hurting the local economy. The gentleman from California came and said 
it's hurting the towns around Yosemite. Was he thinking about that when 
he voted originally to shut down the government? He was prepared to 
sacrifice the local economy. He was prepared to sacrifice the towns 
around Yosemite when he was on the jihad against American citizens 
getting access to health care. He was fully prepared to sacrifice the 
parks and the economy and fire recovery.
  But you know what you found out in the last 24 hours? That millions 
of Americans went to find health care, to sign up for health care, to 
get access to health care. And millions of Americans decided that 
you're doing the wrong thing in shutting down their government.
  So when you were on the jihad against Americans' access to health 
care, shutting down the parks wasn't a problem. Shutting down NIH 
wasn't a problem.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman's time has expired.
  Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. I was telling them, Mr. Speaker, 
that they thought it was okay to shut down----
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman's time has expired. The 
gentleman is out of order. The gentleman is out of order. The gentleman 
is not recognized.
  Mr. GEORGE MILLER of California. * * *
  Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Speaker, I am disgusted that the gentleman from 
California would actually use the word ``jihad'' on the floor of the 
House. We should all reject his comments and he should be censured, but 
I won't call for it.
  I'm the last speaker, and I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. MORAN. I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from Ohio (Mr. Ryan) 
on the Appropriations Committee.
  Mr. RYAN of Ohio. I thank the gentleman.
  Mr. Speaker, we've heard in the last hour or two people worried about 
lab rats at NIH, the zoos closing down. They're worried about cancer 
patients at NIH. Just a few. But if we want to provide health care to 
all children so that no family has to worry about it, we don't hear 
anything but a defunding proposition from the other side.
  You want kids to go to the zoo, but if we want to provide them health 
care, you guys are MIA.
  Now you've been infighting. You've been called lemmings. You've been 
called wacko birds by your own party.
  So it seems to me that there is one zoo open in the Nation's 
Capital--and that's the House Republican Conference.
  Mr. MORAN. I yield 30 seconds to the gentleman from New York (Mr. 
Meeks).

                              {time}  1745

  Mr. MEEKS. You know, many Americans were born at night, but they 
weren't born last night. You can't fool them. There is an old saying: 
You can run, but you can't hide.
  We're here for one reason. The members of the majority party don't 
like the Affordable Care Act, and that's the whole reason we're here. 
They want to stop the Affordable Care Act. It has nothing to do with 
anything else. So all of America is held hostage because they do not 
like the Affordable Care Act.
  But you can run, but you can't hide. You can't hide from the fact 
that you closed down the government. You can't hide from the fact that 
by just now suggesting you put a few up, that all of the government is 
not shut down. We need to open up the entire government.
  You can run, but you can't hide.

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  Mr. MORAN. Mr. Speaker, I would now like to yield 30 seconds to the 
distinguished gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Holt).
  Mr. HOLT. Mr. Speaker, I very much thank the ranking member of the 
subcommittee.
  Now, why, the Republicans say, are we not eagerly endorsing their 
plan? Now suppose someone comes into your neighborhood, builds a 
barrier around your house, a fence, locks you and your family out, 
won't let you in. Two days later, they come to you magnanimously and 
say we've modified your house; we'll let you into one room. And they 
can't understand why we don't enthusiastically embrace that deal. 
That's what you're offering here.
  Of course we should be funding the National Park Service. Of course 
we should be funding the CDC and food inspections. Bring up the clean 
CR and we will do it.
  Mr. Speaker, today the Tea Party continues its reckless and damaging 
government shutdown. Yet in an effort to distract from their 
irresponsibility, they have offered what they claim is a compromise: to 
reopen only those agencies of government which they deem, for their own 
political reasons, to be necessary.
  This notion--that the Tea Party can pick and choose which agencies of 
government to reopen--proceeds from a false premise. It is based on the 
idea that the Tea Party, which represents one faction of one party in 
one house of Congress, possesses the unilateral authority to choose 
which parts of government are worthy and which are unworthy.
  This idea is wrong-headed, it is arrogant, and it is astonishingly 
irresponsible.
  The members of the Tea Party are not dictators, nor are they 
inventing a new government from scratch. They are, rather, the latest 
in a centuries-long line of democratically elected representatives who 
have, with the people's mandate, established our entire government.
  Yes, that government includes the functions that the Tea Party today 
has deemed worthwhile: the Department of Veterans Affairs, the National 
Institutes of Health, the National Parks Service, and so on.
  But it also includes many other functions that the Tea Party has no 
right to unilaterally reject. Our government includes the Centers for 
Disease Control and Prevention. It includes loans for small businesses 
seeking to expand and for students seeking to attend college. It 
includes food safety inspections and public health research and Head 
Start. It includes grants to help towns build roads, bridges, and 
schools. It includes public servants who process applications for 
Social Security and visas and passports.
  If the Tea Party truly believes that the functions they seek to 
defund today are unnecessary, there is a clear, democratic process by 
which they can dismantle them. They could introduce a bill to abolish, 
say, Head Start. That bill could be considered by this House, by the 
Senate, and by the President--and if it were to pass and were to be 
signed, it would become the law of the land. That outcome would be, to 
my mind, catastrophic, but it would at least be constitutional and 
democratic.
  The Tea Party is right about one thing: this government shutdown--
which they demanded, incited, and celebrated--is causing great pain. I 
hope that they are, as they claim to be, dismayed by the suffering they 
have created. And I hope they will act upon their dismay by finally 
bringing to the floor a bill to put the entire government back to work, 
which the Senate already has passed and the President has promised to 
sign into law.
  Mr. MORAN. Mr. Speaker, I yield 30 seconds to the distinguished 
gentleman from New Mexico (Mr. Ben Ray Lujan).
  Mr. BEN RAY LUJAN of New Mexico. Mr. Speaker, the House Republicans 
are not fooling anyone. Right now is hunting season in New Mexico. The 
Republican bill does nothing to keep open access to hunting on Federal 
lands, on the BLM or Forest Service. The Republicans are keeping 
hunters stranded and turning a blind eye to the small business owners 
and guides that depend on hunting season.
  Hunters across America, call the House Republicans and tell them to 
let us vote on the clean Senate CR.
  Mr. MORAN. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself the balance of my time to 
share with the House the fact that the National Wildlife Federation, 
America's largest conservation organization, said it best. They just 
sent us a letter:

       House Members from both sides of the aisle say the votes 
     are there to pass a clean continuing resolution. Speaker 
     Boehner should do the right thing and allow an up-or-down 
     vote on that bill.

  Now, the problem with these votes, Mr. Speaker, is that they 
shouldn't be necessary. If in fact we were going to open the government 
and not keep it shut for weeks on end, you wouldn't be doing this. This 
would all be moot. The reason you're doing this is to have some excuse 
to continue the shutdown. That's the problem with these votes.
  The other problem is that you voted to shut down the national parks. 
You did it last week. You voted to shut down the National Institutes of 
Health. You did it last weekend. You voted to shut down the Veterans 
Administration, and now you want to reopen just them.
  We voted against shutting down those agencies. We voted against 
shutting down the government. That's what you should be doing. Give us 
a clean vote. Let's get on about our business. Stop this nonsense.
  I yield back the balance of my time.

          House Plan To Reopen Only National Parks Falls Short

       Washington, DC.--The House of Representatives is 
     considering several bills that would provide continuing 
     resolution funding for select parts of the federal 
     government, including one that would re-open National Parks.
       Larry Schweiger, president and CEO of the National Wildlife 
     Federation, said today:
       ``This bill fails to address the concerns of sportsmen. 
     While re-opening the National Parks is an element of our 
     displeasure over the government shutdown, there are a wide 
     range of public lands that this bill would leave shuttered, 
     including National Forests, National Monuments and National 
     Wildlife Refuges.
       ``House members from both sides of the aisle say the votes 
     are there to pass a clean continuing resolution. Speaker 
     Boehner should do the right thing and allow an up or down 
     vote on that bill.''

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Members are reminded to address all remarks 
to the Chair.
  Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Speaker, may I inquire as to how much time I have 
remaining?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Idaho has 1 minute 
remaining.
  Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Speaker, most people might not realize that Mr. 
Moran from Virginia and I are pretty good friends and we share a lot 
relative to our Interior Subcommittee. But I will tell you, what it 
reminds me of, when I'm listening to my colleagues on the other side of 
the aisle, is if you say something long enough and often enough, maybe 
you will get the American people to believe it.
  Nobody over here voted to shut down the government. In fact, every 
time we passed a bill and sent it to the Senate, it was to keep the 
government operating. Did it include more than that? Yes, it did. And 
it was rejected by the Senate. So we sent them another one with another 
offer. They rejected it. We keep sending them things.
  Finally, what we said to them is: Let's go to conference and work out 
our differences. But no, they won't even sit and talk to us. So the 
distinguished minority whip from Maryland says: Let's do this; pass our 
idea, do it my way, and then we'll negotiate.
  Well, that's just backwards. We need to go to conference and settle 
our differences and get a bill out here that keeps the government 
operating. That's what everyone here wants to do.
  It is not a Republican shutdown. It is a Democratic ``my way or the 
highway.'' You agree with us or we will shut the government down. 
That's exactly what the minority party has done here.
  I would encourage my Members to support this bill, and I yield back 
the balance of my time.
  Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Speaker, I rise to speak on the Continuing 
Resolutions to re-open our National Parks. Today, 368 national park 
sites were closed and we now see that the majority has noticed.
  On August 25, 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed a law that is a 
solemn promise to the public that our nation would ``conserve the 
scenery and the natural and historic objects and wildlife,'' for all of 
the people of this great nation for all generations to come.
  The United States unlike many other nations does not allow our 
national monuments and natural wonders to be privatized--they belong to 
us all and should be treated with the utmost care and respect.

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  Over 22,000 Parks Service Personnel care for and manage the over 400 
areas designated as under the management of the National Parks Service.
  Here in our nation's capital we see the damage caused by the majority 
of the House with insisting on a Federal government shutdown when 
surviving veterans of World War II who came to see the memorial built 
in their name and were nearly prevented from doing so.
  Our nation's parks range from unimaginably large and majestic 
manifestations of God's beauty on Earth to very small structures, but 
each is served by dedicated federal employees. The nation's laws 
regarding national parks do not treat some parks more special than 
others.
  Around the nation people are not able to complete vacation plans 
because they will not be able to visit some of the nation's most 
beautiful areas, which include our nation's first national park 
Yellowstone National Park designated in 1872.
  The National Parks Service's stewardship includes over 84 million 
acres of park lands, 4 million in land around oceans, lakes and 
reservoirs, 85,049 miles of rivers and streams, 68,561 miles of 
archeological sites, 43,162 miles of shoreline, 27,000 historic 
structures, which include presidential birthplaces, the preservation 
and protection of over 121 million objects in museum collections, 
21,000 buildings, 12,250 miles of Trails and 8,500 miles of roads.
  Mr. Speaker, Texas is graced with 20 Federal Parks that include Big 
Bend National Park, Alibates Flint Quarries National Monument, Amistad 
National Recreation Area, Big Thicket National Preserve; Chamizal 
National Memorial; Fort Davis National Historic Site; Guadalupe 
Mountains National Park; Lake Meredith National Recreation Area; Lyndon 
B Johnson National Historical Park; Padre Island National Seashore; 
Palo Alto Battlefield National Historic Site; Rio Grande Wild and 
Scenic River; and San Antonio Missions National Historical Park are all 
closed during the shutdown.
  Texas also has national Forests and grasslands: Angelina National 
Forest; Davy Crockett National Forest; Sabine National Forest; Sam 
Houston National Forest; Caddo and Lyndon B. Johnson (LBJ) National 
Grasslands; Black Kettle and McClellan Creek Grasslands; Kiowa and Rita 
Blanca National Grasslands.
  All of them are closed today because of the reckless behavior of the 
majority in the House of Representatives.
  Perhaps over the last few days members of the majority of the House 
of Representatives received their first education directly from 
constituents about our nation's national parks and how much our parks 
and park lands are loved.
  Federal parks also contribute to the local economies where they are 
found and create tens of thousands of tourist related jobs. Because 
they are closed today those jobs are at risk as well as the incomes of 
the Park Rangers who are stewards of our nation's most precious 
treasures.
  It is not as simple as opening the gates and letting people enter--
people while enjoying these treasures, can become lost, injured, or 
need assistance. The National Parks Service staff working at these 
sites are there to protect these them and to be a resource for visitors 
and more important to keep them safe while at Federal Parks.
  The House should take up the clean Senate Continuing Resolution to 
fund the entire government. Today, the Department of Homeland Security, 
the Federal Bureau of Investigations, the ATF, the Office of the 
Director of National Security, Military Reservists, Centers for Disease 
Control, Health and Human Services, National Oceanographic Atmospheric 
Administration and hundreds of other small and large agencies are being 
impacted.
  Mr. Speaker I have often heard members of the majority compare their 
state to the entire United States as if the comparison are equivalent. 
From what we have learned from the majority they will leave everyone 
else behind if they get their way. They do not see the nation as large, 
but as a small place with small minded people.
  I represent a District in the State of Texas, one of our nation's 
largest states with diversity in land and people that is rivaled by 
only a few other states, but I would not say that everything done in 
Texas would be the right decision for the entire United States.
  The United States is a very large place with large minded people with 
big hearts, who do not believe in leaving others behind.
  Mr. Speaker, instead of exempting certain groups and persons from the 
harm caused by a government shutdown, we should instead be focused on 
reopening the government as soon as possible.
  Texas is experiencing the impact of cutbacks in the $64.7 billion in 
federal spending that it receives annually, including the threat that 
the State may lose: $518 million in federal highway funds, $411 million 
for interstate highway maintenance, $130 million in home energy 
assistance for the poor, $71 million in Homeland Security grants, $55 
million in coordinated border infrastructure and $97 million in federal 
adoption assistance.
  For these reasons, we cannot wait for the majority to discover all of 
the reasons why we have a federal government or the importance and 
purpose of each agency.
  We have to pass a clean CR now--we do not need to wait, just bring to 
the floor the bills sent to this body by the Senate.
  Ms. LEE of California. Mr. Speaker, here we are day two of the 
hurtful Republican Government Shutdown.
  We still don't have a viable solution to reopen the government.
  The Republican refusal to back off their extreme, ideological demands 
has taken our country down a dangerous path with no solution in sight.
  Mr. Speaker, while all of us believe it is important to keep the 
government functioning, hostage taking is no way to run federal 
departments and agencies.
  Members of Congress are elected to make sure our government 
functions.
  Yet, instead of working on a serious option to reopen the government, 
Republicans latest strategy is to exploit our National Parks and the 
staff who work to keep them open by voting on piecemeal bills that will 
not end impacts of a shut down that extend across our country.
  Mr. Speaker, of course we want to keep our National Parks open. But 
let's not pretend this is not part of a strategy to score political 
points and advance an ideological agenda.
  The Senate passed continuing resolution would fund the government for 
an additional six weeks and all this House has to do is pass that bill 
to end this manufactured crisis.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. All time for debate has expired.
  Pursuant to House Resolution 370, the previous question is ordered.
  The question is on the engrossment and third reading of the joint 
resolution.
  The joint resolution was ordered to be engrossed and read a third 
time, and was read the third time.


                           Motion to Recommit

  Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at the desk.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentleman opposed to the joint 
resolution?
  Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Yes, I am in its current form.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to 
recommit.
  The Clerk read as follows:

       Mr. VanHollen moves to recommit the joint resolution H.J. 
     Res. 70 to the Committee on Appropriations with instructions 
     to report the same back to the House forthwith with the 
     following amendment:
       Strike all after the resolving clause and insert the 
     following:

     That upon passage of this joint resolution by the House of 
     Representatives, the joint resolution (H.J. Res. 59) making 
     continuing appropriations for fiscal year 2014, and for other 
     purposes, as amended by the Senate on September 27, 2013, 
     shall be considered to have been taken from the Speaker's 
     table and the House shall be considered to have (1) receded 
     from its amendment; and (2) concurred in the Senate 
     amendment.

  Mr. VAN HOLLEN (during the reading). Mr. Speaker, I ask that further 
reading of the motion be dispensed with.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the 
gentleman from Maryland?
  Mr. SIMPSON. I object.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Objection is heard.
  The Clerk will read.
  The Clerk continued to read.
  Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Speaker, I reserve a point of order on the 
gentleman's motion.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. A point of order is reserved.
  The gentleman from Maryland is recognized for 5 minutes.
  Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Mr. Speaker, if we really want to keep the National 
Institutes of Health open, if we really want to make sure we keep the 
national parks open, if we really want to help our veterans, there's a 
very easy way to do it right now; and that's for the Speaker of this 
House to allow the Members of this House to have a vote, to have a vote 
on the very simple proposition: Are we going to keep the entire Federal 
Government operating

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now? Because that would pass if in the people's House we were given 
that opportunity.
  So we have a very simple question, Mr. Speaker: Why is the majority 
afraid of democracy? Why are they afraid of allowing this House to work 
its will? Because if we had a vote, we could make sure the entire 
government was kept open.
  I mentioned earlier that I have the privilege of representing the 
congressional district that's home to the National Institutes of 
Health. These are scientists doing important work. They're not 
Republican scientists or Democratic scientists, but they're all smart 
people. I've heard from them and they've said: Are you kidding? We're 
not going to be fooled by this piecemeal approach.
  They understand if you want to help NIH, you vote to send the bill to 
make sure the government stays open. And, by the way, they all have 
kids. They want to keep the Department of Education open as well. And 
they want to keep not just the National Institutes of Health open, but 
the Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of 
Veterans Affairs.
  Why is the Speaker not allowing a vote in this House? I think we all 
know the answer. Here's what The Washington Post said just the other 
day: ``House Republicans Hope to Use Cruz's Plan B''--that's Senator 
Cruz. Here's what it says:

       Adopting a strategy first suggested by Senator Ted Cruz, 
     House Republicans are pushing a new approach that would break 
     up the Federal spending bills.

  Once again, Senator Cruz is in charge of this House, and you have a 
reckless minority blocking a vote of the majority, a majority of 
Republicans and Democrats.
  Now, earlier today we learned that the Republicans in this House went 
so far as to change the standing rules of the House to force this 
through in an undemocratic way. The rules of the House, when you have a 
situation like this, would allow any one of our Members to get up and 
move and ask the House to vote on the bill that would keep the whole 
government open. That's the standing rules. But our Republican 
colleagues changed the rules. It says only a Republican Member--in 
fact, only the majority leader can bring that up and allow us to vote. 
That's not a democracy.
  This is the same approach we're hearing from our colleagues when it 
comes to paying our bills on time. They want to fund a little piece of 
government at one time. They don't want to pay all our bills. They say 
let's pay China first. Let's not pay Medicare doctors. Let's not pay 
our troops in the field. Let's not pay all our bills; let's just pay 
some of our bills. Let's pretend we're going to cherry-pick different 
pieces of government to keep open so the rest of it can shut down and 
die on the vine.
  Well, my constituents are not fooled. My constituents who work at NIH 
are not fooled. They don't want to be used as pawns in this game. And 
they understand full well that we could get this done tonight, that we 
could keep the whole government open now, and all that needs to happen 
is the Speaker to let us vote.
  If the Speaker and our Republican colleagues want to vote to keep the 
entire government shut down, go for it. Do it in the light of day. Let 
the American people see that that's what you want to do. But for 
goodness sakes, explain to the American people why you won't allow a 
vote to keep the government open right now. That's all we're asking 
for. That's all we're asking for, Republicans and Democrats to come 
together and have a vote.
  The gentleman mentioned that, well, the House had voted on this, but 
they also indicated that they had added these attachments, like 
shutting down affordable care for all Americans. Let's have a clean, 
simple vote, just like we should also have a vote to pay our bills on 
time for goodness sakes.
  We have stood by for months trying to have a negotiation on the 
budget. At every turn, we've been blocked. The Speaker didn't allow us 
to appoint budget conferees, budget negotiators. In the Senate, we were 
blocked. So what did we do? They ran out the clock, ran the country up 
against the wall and said: You know what? We want it our way or the 
highway. We want you to shut down the Affordable Care Act or we're 
going to shut down government. We want you to pay China first or not 
pay our troops, or guess what? We're going to collapse the economy.
  Mr. Speaker, I just ask that we vote ``yes'' on this to keep the 
government funded now, and I yield back the balance of my time.


                             POINT OF ORDER

  Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Speaker, I insist on my point of order.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Idaho may state his point 
of order.
  Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Speaker, I make a point of order against the motion 
to recommit. This motion is not germane and as such is a violation of 
rule XVI, clause 7, which states:

       No motion or proposition on a subject different from that 
     under consideration shall be admitted under color of 
     amendment.

  This motion deals with a proposition unrelated to the matter 
addressed by the joint resolution and brings in a matter under the 
jurisdiction of the Committee on Rules, which fails the committee of 
jurisdiction test, and therefore is a violation of rule XVI, clause 7.
  I ask for a ruling from the Chair.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Does any Member wish to be heard on the 
point of order?
  Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Yes, Mr. Speaker, I'd like to be heard on the point 
of order.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Maryland is recognized on 
the point of order.
  Mr. VAN HOLLEN. I'm trying to understand why a motion to keep the 
entire government open is not in order on this measure. Why would the 
rules have been written in a way that a simple motion to keep the 
entire government funded now would not be in order in the people's 
House? Why would it be written in a way that this House cannot work its 
will on keeping the government open?
  This is the people's House. Why would a rule be written in a way that 
we cannot have a vote to keep the entire government open now, tonight?
  So we apparently have a rule in this House that says we're shutting 
down democracy tonight. We can't have the opportunity to have a vote to 
keep the government open. That's what's happening here. Let's not play 
any games, my colleagues. That is what's happening here. You know if we 
had a vote tonight, it would pass.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair is prepared to rule.
  Mr. VAN HOLLEN. I want to be heard, Mr. Speaker. I asked a question 
related to the point of order.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair has heard argument and the Chair 
is prepared to rule.
  Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Mr. Speaker, I would like to be further heard 
because, as I understand what the ruling was, it was because this 
measure before the House is limited to one little tiny sliver of the 
government, that a motion to keep the entire government open is not in 
order. Is that correct?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair is hearing argument on the point 
of order. There has been no ruling. Does the gentleman have an argument 
on the point of order?
  Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Yes. My argument is that our government is a whole. 
And the question is: How can you say that it would be totally 
irrelevant to the purpose of funding government operations to offer a 
motion that would keep all the government operations open now? How can 
that be?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair is prepared to rule.
  Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Mr. Speaker, I'm just trying to understand how it is 
that in this House there was a rule that was written that would deny 
the majority an opportunity to vote?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Chair will not entertain questions in 
advance of ruling.
  The Chair is prepared to rule.
  Mr. ANDREWS. Mr. Speaker, I would like to be heard on the point of 
order.

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  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from New Jersey is recognized.

                              {time}  1800

  Mr. ANDREWS. Mr. Speaker, my understanding of the principle of 
germaneness is that the underlying subject matter of the bill has to be 
the subject matter of the motion to recommit.
  We have heard repeatedly from the offerers of this bill that they 
believe it is necessary to fund what they view as vitally important 
services for the United States of America. We have a difference of 
opinion. We think everything in the budget in the Senate CR is vital 
for the United States of America. We think it all should be funded.
  Now, our view, our concept of what is vital is different than theirs. 
But if the germane issue here is funding what is vital, then why isn't 
the motion to recommit germane?
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Idaho makes a point of 
order that the instructions proposed in the motion to recommit offered 
by the gentleman from Maryland are not germane.
  The joint resolution extends a certain class of funding within a 
portion of fiscal year 2014--namely, funds for the operations of the 
National Park Service, the Smithsonian Institution, the National 
Gallery of Art, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. The 
instructions in the motion propose an order of business of the House 
relating to funding for all other agencies and Departments subject to 
the annual appropriations process for the remainder of the fiscal year.
  Among the fundamental principles of germaneness is that an amendment 
must confine itself to matters that fall within the jurisdiction of the 
committees with jurisdiction over the pending measure.
  The joint resolution addresses the appropriation of certain funds. 
That subject matter falls within the legislative jurisdiction of the 
Committee on Appropriations, and accordingly, House Joint Resolution 70 
was referred to that committee.
  The instructions contained in the motion to recommit propose an order 
of business of the House. That subject matter falls within the 
legislative jurisdiction of the Committee on Rules. For example, the 
Chair would note the referral of House Resolution 424 of the 106th 
Congress, a measure that contained a similar order of business, to the 
Committee on Rules.
  By addressing a matter within the jurisdiction of a committee not 
represented in the joint resolution, the instructions propose an 
amendment that is not germane. The point of order is sustained. The 
motion is not in order.
  Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Mr. Speaker, I appeal the ruling of the Chair.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is, Shall the ruling of the 
Chair stand as the decision of the House?
  Mr. SIMPSON. Mr. Speaker, I move to lay the appeal on the table.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to table.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the noes appeared to have it.
  Mr. VAN HOLLEN. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
  The yeas and nays were ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 8 and clause 9 of rule 
XX, this 15-minute vote on the motion to table will be followed by 5-
minute votes on passage of the joint resolution, if arising without 
further proceedings in recommittal, and passage of House Joint 
Resolution 73.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 230, 
nays 194, not voting 7, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 512]

                               YEAS--230

     Aderholt
     Amash
     Amodei
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bentivolio
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Coble
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Conaway
     Cook
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Daines
     Davis, Rodney
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Heck (NV)
     Hensarling
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Kelly (PA)
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Lankford
     Latham
     Latta
     LoBiondo
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Petri
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Radel
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Royce
     Runyan
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stockman
     Stutzman
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walorski
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                               NAYS--194

     Andrews
     Barber
     Barrow (GA)
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bera (CA)
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Brady (PA)
     Braley (IA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Bustos
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Carson (IN)
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     DelBene
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Enyart
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Foster
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanabusa
     Hastings (FL)
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Holt
     Honda
     Horsford
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jackson Lee
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilmer
     Kind
     Kirkpatrick
     Kuster
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lipinski
     Loebsack
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch
     Maffei
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Maloney, Sean
     Matheson
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McIntyre
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Michaud
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Murphy (FL)
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Negrete McLeod
     Nolan
     O'Rourke
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Peters (CA)
     Peters (MI)
     Peterson
     Pingree (ME)
     Pocan
     Polis
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Richmond
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruiz
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schneider
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Sinema
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Titus
     Tonko
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth

                             NOT VOTING--7

     Garcia
     Herrera Beutler
     Hinojosa
     McCarthy (NY)
     Pelosi
     Rush
     Sarbanes

                              {time}  1828

  Mr. CAPUANO, Ms. DeGETTE, Messrs. BRALEY of Iowa, COURTNEY, BARBER, 
Mrs. NAPOLITANO, Ms. LINDA T. SANCHEZ of California, and

[[Page 14998]]

Mr. JOHNSON of Georgia changed their vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  Messrs. CRAWFORD, LATTA, and Ms. FOXX changed their vote from ``nay'' 
to ``yea.''
  So the motion to table was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Stated against:
  Mr. GARCIA. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 512, had I been present, I 
would have voted ``no.''
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the joint 
resolution.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.


                             Recorded Vote

  Mr. VISCLOSKY. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. This is a 5-minute vote.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 252, 
noes 173, not voting 6, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 513]

                               AYES--252

     Aderholt
     Amash
     Amodei
     Bachmann
     Bachus
     Barber
     Barletta
     Barr
     Barton
     Benishek
     Bentivolio
     Bera (CA)
     Bilirakis
     Bishop (UT)
     Black
     Blackburn
     Boustany
     Brady (TX)
     Braley (IA)
     Bridenstine
     Brooks (AL)
     Brooks (IN)
     Broun (GA)
     Buchanan
     Bucshon
     Burgess
     Bustos
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Cantor
     Capito
     Carson (IN)
     Carter
     Cassidy
     Chabot
     Chaffetz
     Coble
     Coffman
     Cole
     Collins (GA)
     Collins (NY)
     Conaway
     Cook
     Cotton
     Cramer
     Crawford
     Crenshaw
     Culberson
     Daines
     Davis, Rodney
     DelBene
     Denham
     Dent
     DeSantis
     DesJarlais
     Diaz-Balart
     Duffy
     Duncan (SC)
     Duncan (TN)
     Ellmers
     Farenthold
     Fincher
     Fitzpatrick
     Fleischmann
     Fleming
     Flores
     Forbes
     Fortenberry
     Foster
     Foxx
     Franks (AZ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Gallego
     Garamendi
     Garcia
     Gardner
     Garrett
     Gerlach
     Gibbs
     Gibson
     Gingrey (GA)
     Gohmert
     Goodlatte
     Gosar
     Gowdy
     Granger
     Graves (GA)
     Graves (MO)
     Griffin (AR)
     Griffith (VA)
     Grimm
     Guthrie
     Hall
     Hanna
     Harper
     Harris
     Hartzler
     Hastings (WA)
     Heck (NV)
     Hensarling
     Holding
     Hudson
     Huelskamp
     Huizenga (MI)
     Hultgren
     Hunter
     Hurt
     Issa
     Jenkins
     Johnson (OH)
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones
     Jordan
     Joyce
     Kelly (PA)
     Kilmer
     King (IA)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kinzinger (IL)
     Kline
     Labrador
     LaMalfa
     Lamborn
     Lance
     Lankford
     Latham
     Latta
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Loebsack
     Long
     Lucas
     Luetkemeyer
     Lummis
     Maloney, Sean
     Marchant
     Marino
     Massie
     Matheson
     McCarthy (CA)
     McCaul
     McClintock
     McHenry
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinley
     McMorris Rodgers
     Meadows
     Meehan
     Messer
     Mica
     Miller (FL)
     Miller (MI)
     Miller, Gary
     Mullin
     Mulvaney
     Murphy (FL)
     Murphy (PA)
     Neugebauer
     Noem
     Nugent
     Nunes
     Nunnelee
     Olson
     Palazzo
     Paulsen
     Pearce
     Perry
     Peters (CA)
     Petri
     Pittenger
     Pitts
     Poe (TX)
     Polis
     Pompeo
     Posey
     Price (GA)
     Radel
     Reed
     Reichert
     Renacci
     Ribble
     Rice (SC)
     Rigell
     Roby
     Roe (TN)
     Rogers (AL)
     Rogers (KY)
     Rogers (MI)
     Rohrabacher
     Rokita
     Rooney
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Roskam
     Ross
     Rothfus
     Royce
     Ruiz
     Runyan
     Ryan (WI)
     Salmon
     Sanford
     Scalise
     Schneider
     Schock
     Schweikert
     Scott, Austin
     Sensenbrenner
     Sessions
     Shimkus
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sinema
     Smith (MO)
     Smith (NE)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Southerland
     Stewart
     Stivers
     Stockman
     Stutzman
     Terry
     Thompson (PA)
     Thornberry
     Tiberi
     Tierney
     Tipton
     Turner
     Upton
     Valadao
     Wagner
     Walberg
     Walden
     Walorski
     Weber (TX)
     Webster (FL)
     Wenstrup
     Westmoreland
     Whitfield
     Williams
     Wilson (SC)
     Wittman
     Wolf
     Womack
     Woodall
     Yoder
     Yoho
     Young (FL)
     Young (IN)

                               NOES--173

     Andrews
     Barrow (GA)
     Bass
     Beatty
     Becerra
     Bishop (GA)
     Bishop (NY)
     Blumenauer
     Bonamici
     Brady (PA)
     Brown (FL)
     Brownley (CA)
     Butterfield
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardenas
     Carney
     Cartwright
     Castor (FL)
     Castro (TX)
     Chu
     Cicilline
     Clarke
     Clay
     Cleaver
     Clyburn
     Cohen
     Connolly
     Conyers
     Cooper
     Costa
     Courtney
     Crowley
     Cuellar
     Cummings
     Davis (CA)
     Davis, Danny
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delaney
     DeLauro
     Deutch
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Doyle
     Duckworth
     Edwards
     Ellison
     Engel
     Enyart
     Eshoo
     Esty
     Farr
     Fattah
     Frankel (FL)
     Fudge
     Gabbard
     Grayson
     Green, Al
     Green, Gene
     Grijalva
     Gutierrez
     Hahn
     Hanabusa
     Hastings (FL)
     Heck (WA)
     Higgins
     Himes
     Holt
     Honda
     Horsford
     Hoyer
     Huffman
     Israel
     Jackson Lee
     Jeffries
     Johnson (GA)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Kaptur
     Keating
     Kelly (IL)
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kind
     Kirkpatrick
     Kuster
     Langevin
     Larsen (WA)
     Larson (CT)
     Lee (CA)
     Levin
     Lewis
     Lofgren
     Lowenthal
     Lowey
     Lujan Grisham (NM)
     Lujan, Ben Ray (NM)
     Lynch
     Maffei
     Maloney, Carolyn
     Matsui
     McCollum
     McGovern
     McNerney
     Meeks
     Meng
     Michaud
     Miller, George
     Moore
     Moran
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Negrete McLeod
     Nolan
     O'Rourke
     Owens
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor (AZ)
     Payne
     Perlmutter
     Peters (MI)
     Peterson
     Pingree (ME)
     Pocan
     Price (NC)
     Quigley
     Rahall
     Rangel
     Richmond
     Roybal-Allard
     Ruppersberger
     Ryan (OH)
     Sanchez, Linda T.
     Sanchez, Loretta
     Sarbanes
     Schakowsky
     Schiff
     Schrader
     Schwartz
     Scott (VA)
     Scott, David
     Serrano
     Sewell (AL)
     Shea-Porter
     Sherman
     Sires
     Slaughter
     Smith (WA)
     Speier
     Swalwell (CA)
     Takano
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Titus
     Tonko
     Tsongas
     Van Hollen
     Vargas
     Veasey
     Vela
     Velazquez
     Visclosky
     Walz
     Wasserman Schultz
     Waters
     Watt
     Waxman
     Welch
     Wilson (FL)
     Yarmuth
     Young (AK)

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Herrera Beutler
     Hinojosa
     McCarthy (NY)
     McDermott
     Pelosi
     Rush


                Announcement by the Speaker Pro Tempore

  The SPEAKER pro tempore (during the vote). There are 2 minutes 
remaining.

                              {time}  1834

  So the joint resolution was passed.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
  Stated against:
  Mr. McDERMOTT. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 513 I was delayed in 
traffic and missed the vote. I would have voted ``no.'' Had I been 
present, I would have voted ``no.''

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