i talked to mr. ryan. i talked to mr. van hollen. mr. ryan has not talked to mr. van hollen. with all due respect to this discussion about talking, they're not talking. i talked to senator murray. no discussion on how we resolve the difference. i talked to the chair of the appropriations committee, the ranking member here and the chair on the senate side. nobody is talking to them about how we resolve the question at the end of next month and we won't be here at the end of next month. we are in session two weeks in september. i want to use a quote, but we should not pass a continuing resolution and i will not vote for a continuing resolution unless we talk about preconditions. for going to conference. talk about preconditions. talk about demands and ultimatums. i will not vote for a continuing resolution unless it defund obamacare. continuinge of the resolution. nobody in america believes that is going to be done. thet of people i know, majority people tell me -- the majority leader would tell me that a lot of people wanted done. the president won't sign the defunding of obam

mr. nugent: mr. speaker, it's always great to hear from mr. van hollen. he's been in front of the rules committee i think half a dozen imes on this particular issue. but that's not the issue we're talking about today. today we're talking about a rule to bring forward two bills and one is the appropriations bill for the defense of this country. i appreciate his comments but, you know, he also forgets to mention that in the last congress, this house passed two pieces of legislation to actually do what he was talking about doing. and guess what? it went over to that place where they have rocking chairs, where they do nothing. and they didn't discuss it, didn't debate it, didn't even send it back to us because they just didn't have the time to do it in their busy schedule. so i understand that. i would be glad to yield 30 seconds. mr. van hollen: look, as the gentleman knows, we're in a new congress right now. and in the new congress, the rules, the law requires that we pass a federal budget by april 15. we're obviously way overdue. it's undisputed that the s

i talked to mr. ryan. i talked to mr. van hollen. mr. ryan has not talked to mr. van hollen. with all due respect to this discussion about talking, they're not talking. i talked to senator murray. no discussion on how we resolve the difference. i talked to the chair of the appropriations committee, the ranking member here and the chair on the senate side. nobody is talking to them about how we resolve the question at the end of next month and we won't be here at the end of next month. we are in session two weeks in september. i want to use a quote, but we should not pass a continuing resolution and i will not vote for a continuing resolution unless we talk about preconditions. for going to conference. talk about preconditions. talk about demands and ultimatums. i will not vote for a continuing resolution unless it defund obamacare. for the time of the continuing resolution. nobody in america believes that is going to be done. a lot of people i know, the majority people tell me -- the majority leader would tell me that a lot of people wanted done. the president won't sign the

i talked to mr. ryan. mr. ryan -- i talked to mr. van hollen. mr. ryan has not talked to mr. van hollen. with all due respect to this discussion about their talking, they are not talking. i talked to senator murray. no discuss how we resolve the differences. i talked to the chair of the appropriations committee, both the ranking member here, mrs. lowey, and the chair on the senate side, senator mikulski. nobody's talking to them about how we resolve the question at the end of next month. and we won't be here at the end of next month. we are in session two weeks in september. , but we use a quote should not pass a continuing resolution, and will i not vote for a continuing resolution unless we talk about preconditions. preconditions for going to conference. talk about preconditions, talk about demands and ultimatums. i will not vote for a continuing resolution unless it defunds obamacare. for the period of time of the continuing resolution. nobody in america believes that's going to be done. a lot of people i know the majority leader would tell me, want it done. we had an elec

i talked to mr. ryan. i talked to mr. van hollen. mr. ryan has not talked to mr. van hollen. with all due respect to this discussion about talking, they're not talking. i talked to senator murray. no discussion on how we resolve the difference. i talked to the chair of the majority leader, that we are willing to work together. we have been willing to compromise. we have compromised in every one of these agreements we have reached. my friend, the majority leader would say they have as well. but you cannot compromise if you don't sit down. i will tell you nobody has called me to ask me how i believe we can get to the end of this year with a continuing resolution. nobody has asked me that. i talked to mr. ryan. i talked to mr. van hollen. mr. ryan has not talked to mr. van hollen. with all due respect to this discussion about talking, they're not talking. i talked to senator murray. no discussion on how we resolve the difference. i talked to the chair of the appropriations committee, the ranking member here and the chair on the senate side. nobody is talking to them about how we

van hollen and i offered burg the national defense authorization act. we have added mr. coffman, a republican and mr. murphy, a democrat. but we made important changes to the amendment. what does the amendment do? it seeks to take the budget back down to what the pentagon asked for. the pentagon asked for $81 billion. the committee saw fit to give them $86 billion and we think letting the pentagon decide is a good basis for discussion and the basis for this amendment. there is one exception and this is where the important discussion comes in. there was some concern, mr. van hollen it was ill life founded but there was concern whether it prejudiced the national guard. we disagreed with their position. for that reason, that specific reason, there is explicit language in this amendment that ex cludes the national guard. instead of going to back down to where the pentagon asked for we are giving them what they asked for plus the $1.5 billion for the national guard. for folks who had difficulty with our amendment a couple of months ago because they had concern with the impact

i talked to mr. ryan. i talked to mr. van hollen. mr. ryan has not talked to mr. van hollen. with all due respect to this ,iscussion about talking they're not talking. i talked to senator murray. no discussion on how we resolve the difference. i talked to the chair of the appropriations committee, the ranking member here and the chair on the senate side. nobody is talking to them about how we resolve the question at the end of next month and we won't be here at the end of next month. we are in session two weeks in september. i want to use a quote, but we should not pass a continuing resolution and i will not vote for a continuing resolution unless we talk about preconditions. for going to conference. talk about preconditions. talk about demands and ultimatums. i will not vote for a continuing resolution unless it defund obamacare. for the time of the continuing resolution. nobody in america believes that is going to be done. a lot of people i know, the majority people tell me -- the majority leader would tell me that a lot of people wanted done. sign thedent won't defunding o

mr. van hollen: thank you, madam speaker. in april the international energy agency concluded that despite some progress in deploying clean energy, that the average unit of energy produced in the world today is essentially polluting as it was 20 years ago. as president obama stated at georgetown university last month, we cannot afford to slow walk our transition to a lower-carbon future. climate change and its consequences are not waiting and neither can we. the good news is the transition to a cleaner global economy presents a great economic for t states. bloomberg news energy finance estimates that private, clean energy investment will more than triple by 2030. we should be fighting to attract that investment here in the united states. but we are at risk at missing out on that opportunity. china and other countries have made firm national commitments to generate more electricity from clean energy sources and that reality is reflected in their current levels of investment. $65 billion investment in china compared to $35 billi

this is what budget committee ranking member chris van hollen has put forward seven times, mr. speaker, only to see it prevented by the majority from receiving a vote. the speaker says let the house work its will. well, perhaps this is the will of the house. i hope not. i urge my colleagues to work together across the aisle so we can end the sequester, end the sequester and restore fiscal discipline in a way that does not harm our security, our economy, the most vulnerable in our country or america itself and i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: members are reminded not to traffic in the well when someone -- when someone is peaking from the well. the chair recognizes the gentleman from virginia, mr. rigell, for five minutes. mr. rigell: i thank the speaker. i come to the floor this morning to call for a change in the house calendar. r. speaker, leader set priorities. they identify the challenges and opportunities that face their organization. and they assess them and put them in the right order and then they align their rganization's calendar to make su

budget committee ranking member chris van hollen has proposed a balanced alternative seven times, but the majority has not allowed us to consider a balanced plan on this floor. if we had on this floor an alternative to the sequester that achieves real deficit reduction which we know we need through a balance of revenues and targeted spending cuts, mr. speaker, i believe that the majority of us, republican and democrat, will come together and support it. it's time for speaker boehner to appoint budget conferees to the house and senate negotiators so they can begin to reach agreement on a balanced compromise. i will continue, mr. speaker, to call on both parties to listen to the men and women of packs river, of webster field, of indian head, quantico, folks in north carolina that mr. jones represents, folks in maryland that i represent, the folks in connecticut that mr. courtney represents, the folks in massachusetts that my good friend, the ranking member, almost ranking member on the rules committee represents and the gentleman from illinois represents. they and i will continue to --

hollen buskirk. he was killed -- van abouts-u buskirk. he was killed while participating in a rescue mission outside of las vegas. he was 36 years old. to he me dave was more than a constituent, he was more than a public servant. he was one of my medics, and a teammate. you see prior to coming to advantage, i was a member of the search and rescue team and the department's medical director. a 1-year veteran of the department and one of only seven missioned search and rescue officers on this elite force, officer vanbuskirk was called to rescue a hiker stranded on a rocky ledge above mary jane falls on mount charleston. once he reached the hiker via vanbuskirk fficer secured the man and himself with harnesses to go back to the helicopter. it was some point during the lift that he became detached from the harness and fell to the ground below. the hiker survived, he was saved by the heroic actions of officer vanbuskirk. david's career with the department was marked by many accomplishments. but the notable