Washington, Feb. 3 -- Congressman Steve Scalise issued the following press release:

Today, House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-La.) joined Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.), House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), and Conference Chairwoman Lisa McClain (R-Mich.) to discuss Democrats' opposition to funding the government and Republicans' efforts to prevent another long, painful Democrat shutdown.

Highlights from Leader Scalise's remarks:

"Once again, today, Republicans will reopen the government after Democrats shut it down. It's like we've seen this movie before, just a few weeks ago, that Democrats shut the government down for a record amount of time. It took President Trump working with Republicans to finally get it reopened. We're goin...