mr. serrano: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognize for such time as he may consume. mr. serrano: we keep saying, folks watching it may wonder why we keep saying it, little by little you're reopening the government but it may take to 2025. our hope is to pass the resolution in the senate to reopen the government. this one is an easy one this bill should pass on voice vote so we can get folks and pay them proper he for services they're rendering. but there are other people that need to come to work. there are americans who need to be serviced. this is not the way for taos behave. a little bit of history. i know that some people in the last couple of days have either refused to mention it or gave up on it, and that is that this all started not because there were differences in economic

mr. serrano: ms. mr. veasey of is recognized for unanimous consent. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york. >> unanimous consent request. >> before i state my unanimous consent request, may i ask a point of information? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman may state your inquiry. >> my inquiry is who is the speaker of this house? is it john bayne ore ted cruz. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is out of order. mr. tau cano: my unanimous consent request is that the house bring up senate amendment h.j.res. 59, the clean c.r. to go to conference on a budget. the speaker pro tempore: as the chair previously advised that cannot be entertained absent appropriate clearance. mr. serrano: i recognize for unanimous consent the entlelady from ohio. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. p beity: i ask unanimous consent that the house bring up -- the speaker pro tempore: as the house has previously advised that request can in the be interteen. the gentleman from new york. mr. serrano: i recognize for unanimous consent requ

mr. serrano: i yield two minutes to one of the great gentlemen, the gentleman from maryland, mr. cummings. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. cummings: as ranking member of the committee on oversight and government reform, i rise in strong support for paying our federal workers, but i oppose the parliamentary gimmicks being used by the majority to consider h.j.res. 89. this resolution would ensure the more than 1.2 million dedicated federal employees who have been required by their agencies to work during the government shutdown will receive their paychecks on time. these committed men and women have been at their duty stations without pay for eight days since the republican extreme ifments -- extremists took hostage of our fellow sitens. it -- citizens. it is only fair and right that we pay them for the services they have rendered. they have mortgages, student loans and children in college and have to provide for their families and they need their pay zhrep checks. the ouse passed h.r. 3223, retroactive fairness in pay act. which would give back pay to fed

serrano. mr. serrano: mr. speaker -- the speaker pro tempore: the chair would ask that any member seeking recognition remove any communicated badge while making any request. mr. serrano: you mean this sticker? the speaker pro tempore: yes. mr. serrano: we're allowed to bring posters and other items to the floor. why not this red, white and blue sticker? the speaker pro tempore: badges are not allowed. mr. serrano: i'll take it off but it's with great pain i do so. mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that the house bring up the senate amendment to h.j.res. 59, to open the government and go to conference on a budget so that we end this republican government shutdown now. the speaker pro tempore: as the chair previously advised, this cannot be entertained absent appropriate clearance. the gentleman from virginia. mr. moran: mr. speaker, i now yield for the purpose of a unanimous consent request to the gentleman from california, mr. mcnerney. mr. mcnerney: thank you. mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that the

mr. serrano: i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognize for such time as he may consume. mr. serrano: we keep saying, folks watching it may wonder why we keep saying it, little by little you're reopening the government but it may take to 2025. our hope is to pass the resolution in the senate to reopen the government. this one is an easy one this bill should pass on voice vote so we can get folks and pay them proper he for services they're rendering. but there are other people that need to come to work. there are americans who need to be serviced. this is not the way for taos behave. a little bit of history. i know that some people in the last couple of days have either refused to mention it or gave up on it, and that is that this all started not because there were differences in economic reasoning or behavior. it started because a group of people on your side wanted to attach kill og ba ma cair, the affordable care act and they were willing to do whatever they needed to to to accomplish t

serrano. mr. serrano: mr. speaker -- the speaker pro tempore: the chair would ask that any member seeking recognition remove any communicated badge while making any request. mr. rrano: you mean this sticker? the speaker pro tempore: yes. mr. serrano: we're allowed to bring posters and other items to the floor. why not this red, white and blue sticker? the speaker pro tempore: badges are not allowed. mr. serrano: i'll take it off but it's with great pain i do so. mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that the house bring up the senate amendment to h.j.res. 59, to open the government and go to conference on a budget so that we end this republican government shutdown now. the speaker pro tempore: as the chair previously advised, this cannot be entertained absent appropriate clearance. the gentleman from virginia. mr. moran: mr. speaker, i now yield for the purpose of a unanimous consent request to the gentleman from california, mr. mcnerney. mr. mcnerney: thank you. mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that the ho

mr. serrano: i thank the gentlewoman. i will strongly support this bill tonight because it not only opens our government but it makes us meet our obligations in a proper way. but if we walk away from this tonight not having learned the lesson, this will have all been a futile exercise. the lesson that we have to learn is that we can't become obsessed with one issue and close down the government over one issue. when a bill becomes a law and gets signed by a president and gets judged on and approved by the supreme court, that's the law of the land. and we have to abide by that. we should in no way continue to act as if things really didn't happen, only what is happening now happened. and secondly, we need to understand that there are no winners or losers tonight. the real losers are only the american people who had to put up with this situation for these weeks. if we go away tonight not learning that lesson, that we cannot allow that to happen again, it would have been a waste of time. so i hope that we move ahead on the bu

serrano, is recognized. >> thank you, mr. chairman. while no one could argue against paying our essential employees i wish that we were here to consider a bill that would reopen the entire government. this bill would pay all essential federal employees across the government as they would normally be paid irrespective of the shutdown. while this bill will provide some certainty for our federal employees there is much easier and better method of complying this goal. this committee should be providing right now a rule for consideration of the clean senate continuing resolution which would reopen our federal government immediately. even if the house passes the bill being considered here today, the shutdown is still causing many problems for americans that depend upon federal agencies for assistance and protection. within the subcommittee that i am a ranking member of financial services and general government subcommittee the shutdown has required the small business administration, for instance, to furlough almost 2/3 of its workforce. the

mr. serrano: i yield myself the balance of the time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. serrano: this is not an easy time. you would hate to think that 23 years of agreeing with mrs. norton on the issue of the d.c. budget and how we should treat d.c. goes up in smoke in one afternoon. we have never disagreed and i know that starting in about 30 seconds or a minute or two minutes, we won't disagree again. but we also cannot be ignorant of the fact that this is a sham, that this is part of a trick. it's a good trick. it's one that sells. in fact, the results may show that it sells. but it's still a trick. it's still a trick to get at obamacare on the day that it starts to take place all over this country. it's still a trick to keep the government closed. it's a trick to say that we will single out certain people, certain monuments, certain areas, certain needs, but not others. it's easy for me personally to say yes to this bill on the district of columbia, but i also know that in another territory or in another plac