now one thirty in the afternoon very late into december and we have to decide how soon we want to get out of town so that we don't have to look at each other for the remainder of the year this vehicle is necessary to simply keep the government open while we are making the final decisions on  all remaining appropriations for the fiscal year there have been numerous meetings going on this week all over capitol hill and there are of obviously been many communications going on between the hill and other locus is of influence and power in the city and i would hope that those would bear fruition sometime soon meanwhile if we want to keep the government open we have no choice but to this continuing resolution it simply extends the the keeps the government open for another week to december twenty one two thousand and seven i think it's self explanatory and i reserve the balance of my time  about sometimes we talk more than we should i was intrigued by the fact that while he advised us to never miss the opportunity to shut up that the recently in latin america there discussion among latin leaders and which upheld mind which chavez kept talking and talking and talking and this is by way of suggesting that we don't really have to keep talking today i think it was the king of spain david who said the par and i could repeat that pirkei note the guy says that if we don't talk too much we'll be all right here today at the speaker it is kind of hard to believe that christmas is less than two weeks away and that david only provides me with material for my own presentation one more time while most americans are christmas shopping and decorating their christmas tree congress continues to stumble its way to completing its business for the year unfortunately we still have a long way to go so we find ourselves today considering yet another continuing resolution it was just one year ago the house passed a series of continuing resolutions to ensure the continuation of government funding programs into the new fiscal year my friend chairman david obey came to the house floor as a ranking member during that debate to criticize republicans in the house and senate for their failure to pass at the annual spending bills by the end of the fiscal year he spoke of the breakdown of the budget process and vowed that things would be different under a democratic majority we are now only only i say seventy four days in a new fiscal year and once again the ranking member of the appropriations committee is on the floor decrying the breakdown of regular order the only difference is that  committee's ranking member the breakdown of regular order particularly in the senate is largely to blame for our failure to complete our work in a timely matter earlier this year my  chairman was absolute beating us all over the room because of our failure to pass bills at the end of the year the senate leader held up our bills just rather you knew that we'd passed all of our bills in house by july for the year before we done the same thing and all the bills been signed by the president and lo and behold mr robey phaidon self frankly david i thought you had much closer relationships with the sense that i but here we are the breakdown of regular order particularly in the senate is largely to blame for our failure to complete our work in a timely fashion the president has been very clear all year long that he would veto any spending bill or any on this package that exceeded his budget requests all told the house passed spending bills exceeded the president's budget request by twenty three billion dollars and yet the democrat majority chose to do it to dismiss or ignore the president's clear intent that is until now a short time chairman o b instructed the committee staff compare an omnibus spending bill and pare spending back to exceed the president's request by eleven billion dollars not including this total there was over seven billion dollars being designated as emergency spending just in the last several days maybe even hours the democratic leadership finally got the message they came to the realization the most to spend california just in the last several hours perhaps days the democrat leadership finally got the message they came to the realization of the president was indeed serious so it all appears that after months of work by our exhausted committee staff work can finally begin on a spending package that the president may be able to sign i say may be able to sign because the president has not yet seen the details of the on this package that will come forward for good measure let me make very clear the president will veto any on the spending package that contains any controversal policy provisions any gimmicks or any consequential budgetary sleight of hand i urge chairman obie to resist the urge on his part that any so called contingency spending anywhere in this package as it may lead to a presidential veto i'd like to close by quoting my friend mr obi from a past c r debate he said and i quote we are here today with not a single dollar having been appropriated to any government program that has anything whatsoever to do with the domestic operations of this government that is a disgraceful disgraceful performance and so we are left with the choice of passing this continuing resolution or having the government shut down unquote again my friends these are the words of chairman david obi from last year then ranking member obie they are particularly meaningful today and with that mr speaker i these are the balance could simply do our job straightaway without having the usual trite partisan slogans uttered again and again i hope that we wouldn't continue to chew the same  and over again but evidently we can't so i will simply take a couple minutes to respond to the gentleman's comment for me to take lectures from the minority party on fiscal management or the management of appropriations would be akin to what we sutton lecturing the house on bank security it wouldn't be taken very seriously but let me nonetheless since the gentleman has chosen to engage in yet another round of carping let me simply point out that  the gentleman is now making a fuss once again because we have not passed appropriation bills singly and now face the prospect of an appropriation bill with all domestic appropriations tossed into one budget document if that in fact occurs what it will mean is that the president sent us one budget document and we sent him one back that's hardly a federal offense the last time that i checked secondly i would simply point out that this congress has passed and sent to the president appropriation bills totaling about seventy five percent of all of the discretionary spending in the budget the reason that none of the domestic bills as been finalized is because the president chose to veto the labor health education appropriation bill so we are now engaged in the only action left open to us which is to reach a negotiated agreement between the senate and the house and between the congress and the president on i'd like some order pleas know from scott's so now we are trying to achieve the required to negotiate a result between the two branches of government and between the two branches of the legislative portion of the government  let me simply say that there will be at the end of this year there will be one critical difference between this congress and the previous congress controlled by our friends on the other side in the previous congress they were able to pass not a single domestic appropriation bill through the congress they had passed them through the house just as we passed all of our appropriation bills for the house in fact they didn't pass all their appropriation bills for the house they didn't get the labor h bill passed last year which was the major domestic appropriation because they did not see fit to provide a minimum wage increase for workers and so they preferred to bury the bill rather than have a bill passed which carries a minimum wage increase for america's workers but the critical difference between them and us is that when we took over this congress in january that we had to first clean up their mess we had to spend the first six weeks passing appropriation bills to make up for the fact that they had not passed a single domestic appropriation bill and so as a consequence we will have one critical difference when our work is done hopefully at the end of next week we will have passed all of the appropriation bills necessary to keep the government running for a full fiscal year we may not have done it in sing single fashion as they would prefer but the fact is that whether they like the packaging we will have done our jobs and i would submit we will have done our jobs on a bipartisan basis there were on average sixty republicans who helped us every step of the way in trying to pass these appropriation bills i think that demonstrates that we had bipartisan legislation before us in virtually all instances on those appropriation bills and that was reflected in the pay in the fact that on average we had over sixty republicans supporting each of those bills we could not get the bills through the senate but they will in the end be passed and that in the end will be a critical difference between the result of the record produced by our friends on the other side last year and and one that will be produced i would hope on a bipartisan basis this year under different management knows he's never lectured us or anybody else and i'm not certain what may have gone on his own caucus that certainly doesn't match your us and if my quoting his own words takes the term carping well i guess it's difficult to not i'm a little bit well mr speaker i'm being requested to filibuster for a couple of minutes until the house leadership is ready to proceed and so i could  but a car back and work a little bit well i could get by out by her mother can you could do a little dance but let me let me simply take a moment to excess to indicate where i think we are on on the appropriation matters we have i think we have a reasonable prospect of finishing our our work for the year come the middle of next week i had originally been predicting that we would be out here on the twenty second of december and reconvene after the twenty seventh i'm now slightly more optimistic than i was initially and i think that while none of us may be particularly enamored of the final result i think that we are getting closer to having a result which can be supported by many people on both sides of the aisle at least so at least in the house itself i cannot speak for what the senate will will produce but i would hope that members would so milieu arise themselves as soon as we have the final product available we will do it we will try to make the product available to members so that they have an lewis of california mr recommit to joint resolution ha rent sixty nine the committee on appropriations with instructions to report the same back to the house promptly with the following amendment at the end of the joint resolution and the following ninety two is further amended by adding at the end the following this section section one fifty one appropriation signs and other authority made available by this joint resolution that are related t appropriation for one or more of the appropriation accounts included in such title nine and two are designated as being for overseas deployment and related activities pursuant to subsection c two e n t y e to recommit that i was about to present it is is quite simple the motion will ensure that we continue provid which will ensure that we continue to provide funding for our troops in harm's way until congress takes necessary action to pass a bridge fine or a four year war supplemental is  speaking of the point of order on the motion to recommit question is whether the point of order is well taken