mr. speaker , i appreciate the gentleman yielding . 
everyone is working as hard as they can . 
as the gentleman knows , this bill has taken a long time to work out the differences between the house and the senate . 
we get very close every time we reach the deadline of an expiration date . 
the expiration date is set on wednesday . 
everybody is going to be working over the weekend , and we are working as hard as we can with the goal to bring that conference report to the floor before the expiration of the short-term funding measure . 
