it's now in order to consider amendment number three printed in house report one one zero das seven nine which is debatable for forty minutes for what purpose does the gentleman purpose is the gentleman from wisconsin rise but mr chairman i have a minute to death i will read an amendment of the nature of a substitute numbered three for it in house report number one ten dollars seventy nine offered by mr of wisconsin the gentleman from wisconsin mr ryan and a member opposed each will control twenty minutes the chair recognizes the gentleman from wisconsin for twenty minutes as chairman elegiac the house in the wild in the meantime the house is not an older gentleman is correct the house is not an order house please come to order gentlemen from wisconsin on how to organize our nation's finances how do we want to prepare the budget for the next five years for our country there's a big debate the debate that really underscores the different philosophies between our two parties the democrats have chosen they've chosen the path of higher spending and a lot higher taxes the three democrat budgets we had before us here on the floor today one raised taxes by four hundred billion dollars another raised taxes by seven hundred eleven billion dollars and a third one raised taxes by nine hundred forty nine billion dollars the last tax increase we had was the last time the democrats had a majority and that was a two hundred forty one billion dollar tax increase now three months into their new majority they're proposing anywhere from a four hundred to a trillion dollar tax increase we don't believe that we should take more money out of the pockets of hardworking americans we don't believe we should tax tax tax and then tax more the american economy and the american family and the american worker we believe washington has  spending problem and that is why we are proposing to control spending and that is how we achieve a balanced budget not only do we achieve a balanced budget but we stop the rate of the socially trust fund and pay down one hundred billion a debt in the fifth year of our budget now here's the difference the blue line is our line the spending line the revenue line where we keep the tax cuts intact the red line is the line where the democrats raise the taxes the green line trajectory of spending we have to control spending if we're going to ever fully balance the budget even if we accept the democrats tax increases the budget the balance they achieve in in five years will only last for a couple short years because we'll go right back into deficits if we do nothing to control spending now you're going to hear a lot of words about our budget in the next few minutes cut this cut that we're savaging this we're taking a chainsaw out of that we're hitting medicare and medicaid let's be really clear medicaid spending goes up every year from here to the next to the next to the next medicaid spending under our budget will grow faster than health care inflation but we're going to reform the program so that it works better doesn't cost as much and extend its solvency so that it's there for people medicare are we cutting medicare no we're not cutting medicare we're growing medicare we're growing medicare not as fast as it's currently scheduled to grow because we're reforming medicare and what do we do we extend the solvency of medicare overall if you take a look at the difference in spending we propose over the next five years on entitlement spending we propose growing increasing adding entitlement spending at four point one percent a year for the next five years instead of four point seven percent a year now at the end of the day it's about what how we get our fiscal house in order here is the devastation of the democrat budget and i'm just going to pick one program please medicare the unfunded liability of medicare is thirty two trillion dollars thirty two trillion dollars is how much money we would have to set aside today in current dollars to make sure that medicare is there for my children when they receive medicare under the democrat budget the medicare unfunded liability will go to fifty two trillion dollars that means doing nothing to reform medicare doing nothing to reform medicare at all will actually lead to adding a huge debt onto the problem it will mean that our children and grandchildren have another twenty two trillion dollars in debt for own onto them if we decide not to do a thing for the next five years to reform our entitlement programs but that in fact is what the democrat budget does the actual household burden today on medicare is two hundred eighty two thousand dollars and four hundred that's what we have to set aside today per household to make sure medicare is there for my children when they retire if we do nothing for the next five years the democrats propose goes up to almost four hundred seventy six thousand dollars a household we've got to fix these programs we've got to reform these programs we've got to reform them so they work better they were written in the sixty's we are now in the twenty first century we can make these programs work better we can better meet the mission of medicare medicaid and social security income security health security and we can do it without bankrupting our children the problem is we can't put our heads in the sand for five years and do nothing that is what the democrat budget proposes to do absolutely no savings no spending control no reform we have to reform these programs madam speaker madam chairman because if we don't our debt gets higher we go back into deficits and there isn't another tax you can raise to get out of that hole with that mr chairman i reserve the balance of my time shelmon reserves the balance of his time for what purpose playing with time  democrat budget is a giant step in the right direction this budget law's taxes on middle class families it does not contain one penny of new taxes instead our budget explicitly provides for middle income tax credits including the marriage penalty child tax credit the ten percent bracket and the duction for state and local taxes this house budget provides immediate relief for thirty twenty three million middle income families who would otherwise be subject to the alternative minimum tax and provides for a permanent fix but i'll tell you what i am of particularly appreciative of in this budget this budget responds to the ongoing recovery for the people of gulf coast region here in our country it creates a reserve reserve from the three point four billion dollars and provide an additional one billion dollars that could be used to meet urgent recovery needs this budget maintains the president's tax cuts for eight for organizing and for if we extend these tax cuts we must subject these tax cuts to the same pay go rules that we subject new programs to so there is no cut there is responsibility here and i thank john spratt for meeting that responsibility expired substitute there is a clear difference between the two proposals on the table the democratic plan despite the protestations of its proponents does in fact contain the largest tax increase in american history we've heard time and again them refer to the language that is in their bill which talks about tax cuts but i would suggest their tax cut promises are written with invisible ink they talk about how they want to do it but there is no means by the way they will do it and they also promise to have a balanced budget and yet without the tax increases inherent in their proposal they cannot reach it we have no tax increases period none in this budget and the democratic budget they include twenty two billion dollar increase in non defense spending above the player president's request on top of the twenty two billion dollars of unrequested spending in the supplemental and six billion dollars in the us our budget includes a freeze on nondefense nonsecurity spending while providing additional funds for veterans for the war on terrorism for a community of relevant black block grants for n r a and science and technology in entitlements they criticize us for attempting to look at entitlements and to bring across savings we admit we attempt to do that because we recognize the obligation we have as stewards of the people's money and stewards of the future of our children and grandchildren so come on here and critic size us for attempting to look at these entitle many programs to begin just to begin to get the courage to deal with what we know we have to deal with now our budgets can either be made so flimsy that they will fly away in the wind or they can actually have some weight to them so that we begin the tough process and it is a tough process of dealing with reform of entitlements so that we do the job that is expected of us by our constituents and more importantly by our children and our grandchildren i rise in strong support of this substitute by the republican challenger south carolina to talk just a bit about what is truly contained in this budget resolution the devastating cuts it imposes on sensitive areas worked as mr dicks the chairman of the interior  subcommittee of appropriations thank you mr chairman i write you a little two minutes and i write in strong so gentlemen from washington is recognized for two minutes sank you i rise in strong support of this budget resolution which thankfully reverses years of decline in federal government spending on environmental programs john spratt has made wise decisions on function three hundred last month i did testified before the budget committee urging increase spending on these important programs the chairman said he would consider my request and he's a man of his wor pleased to say that the programs including function three hundred will be funded at a level one point nine billion or nine percent above what the president requested in his budget and fifteen point seven billion between overweight and twelve this budget resolution rejects the president's proposal to further cut the land and water conservation fund the fish and wildlife service refuge program and the e p a s clean water assistance program in addition the budget resolution accepts the best idea in president's budget and that is to increase funding for the national parks the ryan amendment in the way it would cut one point five billion below current services and four point six billion between a wait and zero twelve many of the numbers contained in the president's budget were bleak the president proposed  budget for these programs which were two point eight billion less than what is required to maintain current levels of service for example funding for e p a based a reduction of five hundred eight million the forest service down three hundred forty three million of funding for the park service would have been reduced by two hundred seventy three million and worse the president's proposed of forest service the president's proposed cuts after seven years of decline are severe the interior department's been cut by sixteen percent e by twenty nine percent the forest service by a whopping thirty five percent these cuts evidently lead to declines in services for visitors to our parks refuges and forests and to dramatic reductions in assistance to state and local communities for environmental conservation activities i urge you to vote against the ryan amendment and vote for the spratt budget if you care about the environment of our country i yield back the balance of my thought shelmon yells back to balance this time gentleman from wisconsin at this time mr chairman i would like to yield two minutes to the ranking member of the ways and means committee mr mccrary of louisiana gentleman from louisiana is recognized for two minutes thank you mr chairman unlike the budget put forward by the democratic majority the republican alternative offered by mr ryan avoids the largest tax increase in our nation's history and begins to deal with the long term problem of growing entitlements this char here gives us an idea of the difference in the scenarios between the republican budget this line of for tax revenues and the democratic budget this top line for revenues if you look at it in terms of the percentage of p consumed by federal revenues you should know that this year federal revenues constitute about eighteen point six percent of g d p under the republican budget alternative the bottom line that stays about the same about ten years from now it's approximately the same percent of g d p but the democratic budget this top line that figure is going to go up to over twenty percent of g d p over twenty percent only once since one nine hundred sixty two has federal revenues constituted that a higher percentage of our g d p our economy is certain to drag on to the weight of those kinds of tax increases and the worst will be yet to come because the democrats budget ignores demographic reality and offers no reform of entitlements no savings from entitlements in two thousand and nine the social security surplus will begin to decline in two thousand and seventeen we'll have to pay out more money in those security benefits then we take in in taxes the problem gets worse after that with more baby boomers and retirement fewer workers to support them and the difficulties facing social security are relatively manageable compared to those facing medicare and medicaid i should need to reiterate t facts everyone in this house should be familiar with them but somehow the democrats budget ignores those facts completely the republican budget would freeze non defense discretionary and reform entitlements please reject the thank my friend mr spratt for yield in iraq today mr speaker and strong support for the democratic budget resolution mr speaker the blue dog didn't submit our own budget this year because the democratic budget under chairman sprats leadership includes many of the priorities that that we advocate for and mr spratt put into the bill first it here strictly to pay go rules and this is the biggest difference between this budget and the failed  budgets of the past six years our budget put an end to new deficit spending paygo has a proven record of success it was instrumental in the return of budget surpluses during the ninety's it's worked in the past and to work again in this congress let side criticizing our budget and talking about debt but let me tell you something the republicans in the past refused to adopt paygo rules and spending has skyrocketed and under their leadership they financed their plan by borrowing three trillion dollars over the last six years from countries like china and many times in the past the appropriations bills have not been enacted and we've had to do omnibus bills eighty percent of those were not and acted last year in short mr speaker we have to return to fiscal sanity we've created a mess in the last six years and it's going to take this congress working hard together in a bipartisan way to come up with a plan that will put us back on a glad path to balance and mr spratt bill to the budget resolution which we have a chance to vote on today is the best start for us to return to that path and i want to applaud him for  gentleman from south carolina the gentleman from ohio is recognized for two minutes and thank you chairman sprout for your leadership and for yielding me this time as the only freshman democrat on the budget committee i rise to urge my fellow freshman and all of my colleagues to support the democratic budget mr speaker last november the american people made it clear that they are ready for a government that will be fiscally responsible this nation spoke loud and clear when they elected us and put a new party in power in congress they're asking for responsibility and a new direction in our fiscal priorities education health care the care of our children our seniors and our veterans these are issues that americans care about our budget restores common sense to our national spending and sanity to our national priorities it restores the president's attempt to cut children's health care program and community block grants it puts forth the single largest increase in veteran spending in our nation's history and not a moment too soon it finds math and science programs for our kids programs like head start and pell grants to provide access to education that so many of our children need and this budget concerns itself with the need to create jobs and build a bright economic future it restores funding for job training programs and it does so while it hearing to the paygo role it's been a long six years for this nation just six years ago we were looking at a projected five point six trillion dollar surplus that is collapsed into a nine trillion dollars deficit every american in this country owes twenty nine thousand dollars worth of debt under republican leadership the budget became woefully out of balance to school early and out of balance with the priorities of the american people the people elected us to take this country in a new direction this budget will do so and it will do so in a fiscally responsible manner mr speaker it's time for congress to be accountable to the american people again thank you gentleman's i'm budgets are about values where your treasure is the bible says they're also your heart but if you cut through all of the arcane detail of the numbers it's hard to find the heart in this resolution and resolution buried in this budget resolution if you dig deep enough for some enormous cuts exceeding anything is ever been proposed much less passed in the past particularly respect to health care which people are totally dependent these cuts is so extreme so deep as they go to the reality of this whole resolution it turns on these cuts and there's a real question is whether or not they're politically practically possible these cuts are dictated by an extraordinary process called reconciliation here's why the cuts amount to our committee the budget committee if this resolution were adopted would be dictating to the energy and commerce committee with church action over medicare and medicaid cuts of ninety seven billion dollars over the next five years were first back to medicare this committee this resolution if it were adopted would direct that the ways and means committee go back to medicare and cut another hundred and fifty three billion dollars out of medicare or if they couldn't get that much out of medicare cut it out of the safety net programs that are in the promise of the ways and means committee shredding the safety net for s s i the town up and other programs altogether the cuts in the health care and title months in this resolution come to two hundred sixty six billion dollars and then not just the healthcare entitle its are in jeopardy education labor four point nine billion dollars where does that come from student loans pell grants natural resources you heard mr dick samantha go where does that come from clean water environmental protection agency conservation twenty two billion dollars less than we provide over five years education forty six billion dollars over five years for function five hundred less than we provide there's a huge difference but it have a sneaking suspicion that when all of these cuts are put together we're going to be right back where we've been for the last six years that is deeper in deficit and that's because in addition to making spending cuts the total two hundred seventy eight billion dollars the same reconciliation instructions call for tax cuts tax decreases of four hundred forty seven billion dollars and when you net the spending cuts against the tax cuts you get and the impact of one hundred sixty eight point five billion dollars on the deficit it you cannot abuse a process of reconciliation and use it for the purpose of worsening that physicality used to improve the deficit uses extraordinary powers to improve the deficit so that's why we say the run resolution should be defeated we think it's sham we don't think it will achieve it just isn't stated purposes we think it'll put us right back on this track of debt accumulation that we've seen in which we have seen three point one trillion dollars added to the national debt over the last six year gentleman's time has expired gentlemen from wisconsin mr chairman at this time i'd like to yield to the distinguished gentleman from indiana two minutes mr pence from indiana the gentleman from indiana is recognized for two minutes thank you gentlemen are you willing ask unanimous consent to revise and extend without speaker i've always believed the government should live within its means no one was a harsher critic of runaway federal spending under republican control than me when our majority faltered i said we didn't just lose our majority we lost our way but thanks to the leadership of the gentleman from wisconsin this republican substitute budget alternative should be entitled lessons learned the contrast between the democrat plan and the republican plan is startling under the republican budget alternative no tax increases period or a courageous freeze on nondefense nonsecurity spending two hundred seventy nine billion in savings for common sense reform of entitlement and real budget process reform a contrast the democrat budget allows for the largest tax increase in american history includes twenty two billion dollars in increases in non defense spending and completely ignores budget process reform or the looming entitlement crisis that our nation faces mr speaker the voters vote last fall democrats promise voters a return to fiscal discipline and reform but this budget proves only one party got the message i urge my colleagues to reject the democrat majority effort to return us to the tax and spend policies of the past and vote yes on the republican substitute budget and i yield back the gentleman yield back the balance of his time gentleman from south carolina way to go speak as a reserve the balance gentleman from wisconsin has nine and a half minutes gentlemen from south carolina eight and a half minutes at this time mr allen from wisconsin i would like to yield two minutes to a member of our leadership mr cantor from virginia gentleman from virginia is recognized for two minutes i think the gentleman in listening to the debate i can't help but thinking about five and a half years ago when the nine eleven attacks and the simultaneous bursting of the technology bubble here in this country it was the bush tax cuts of two thousand and one and three that provided a desperately needed shot in the arm lifting us from our malazan dispelling fears that the economy was sliding irrevocably into recession but today after years of study economic growth stock market low inflation a low unemployment a deflated housing market has shaken confidence in this economy with the tax cuts set to expire in two thousand and ten the last thing investors and the american people need right now is the largest tax hike in the history of our country and that's the reality they are smart enough to see despite claims on the other side of the aisle otherwise the real difference between the ryan budget and that of the majority's is whether you believe that tax cuts expiring is a tax hike i do and i think the american families who will bear the brunt of a four hundred billion dollars tax increase will light will do likewise in my state of virginia the facts are particularly a which taxpayers on average facing thirty one hundred twenty dollars in additional taxes each year around the country forty five million families with children will be hit by an average tax increase of twenty eight hundred sixty four dollars again this is because the minority does majority does not agree that expiring tax cuts or a tax hike i do instead of chat choking our economy we need to make the tax cuts permanent if we let the democratic tax hike genie out of the bottle it's going to be awfully hard to put it back in and i yield back on the nields back the balance of his time the gentleman from south carolina radio i speak on every one of these budgets and because i've been here a long time i know the history of these budgets going back a quarter century gramm such people like dick armey and economist the majority leader of your party and i think to myself how confused the american public must be when the assertions are made article that dave stockman and day's paper you may have seen david broder wrote an article about that mr stockmen's in a little bit of trouble with assertions that things that he said were true in fact were not true in fact david stockman admitted in one nine hundred eighty three what he said was true was not true what he said they thought they did not think american public need to place it in that context i've heard a lot i say to my friend from missouri over the last few hours about debates about we're going to make these tax cuts permanent and we're not now i'm sure the him aurukun public knows that the president for the last six years been a democrat been a republican i'm sure they know that the leadership in the house for the past six years been republican and i'm sure they know that the leadership in the senate has been republican and guess what never did you make those tax cuts permanent why not because you want to play fiscal games that's why not you want to count your out years and looking better than they did why are you having a two hundred seventy four billion dollar tax increase in this bill how do i say that because you're not fix the a m t why aren't you fixing it because it's s t i your stealth tax increase you like s d i this is a stealth tax increase where you say one year we're going to fix it but guess what for the next four years we'll get that additional tax revenue tax increase there are no tax increases in this bill in fact it provides for tax cuts for the middle class but they have to be paid for george bush the first and dick gephardt the leader of this hour came together and said ladies and gentlemen we have to have fiscal responsibility and we're going to do it the way we're going to do it is when i have pay go we're going to pay for what we b george bush signed that and guess what the republican side of the aisle excruciating the president and states george bush for entering into an agreement that ultimately would bring a surplus i've also lost this these debates and seen some very earnest very intelligent very articulate young man mr ryan is the third in a series of those earnest intelligent energetic articulate young men who talk about their vision for america talk about where they want to take america mr ryan puts up the children now unlike mr ryan who i think has children i've got children i've got grandchildren and as some people know i have a great granddaughter and i'm very concerned about all of those children whose taxes you have raised you know almost every year you've been  specific members that there's more ways to skin a cat than one this i tell the chair that i've heard the argument of these earnest young men who have all stood on this floor david stockman at the age of thirty four telling the country as director of o m b how we were going to balance the budget how ronald reagan said we're going to balance the budget ronald reagan ran over a trillion dollars in deficits over h eight years over trillion dollars deficit there is one person in america who can stop spending in its tracks only one and that's the pres in the united states ronald reagan ran a trillion dollars in deficit actually three in four george bush in the first just just four years ran a trillion dollars in deficits and this president this president in the six years he's been president has run over a trillion six in deficits four point one trillion dollars of deficits during the reagan administration the bush one ministration and the bush two administration now tell the speaker that my friend does not seem to be paying attention to these dramatic vague years but the ladies and gentlemen of this house i hope are and i hope all of our constituents are listening as well because the rhetoric on this floor is cheap but the performance is not and during those eighteen years of republican leadership of this country we ran four point two trillion dollars in deficit during the eight years that bill clinton was president we had a sixty two point nine billion dollars surplus the only president in the life time i tell the speaker of my young friend from wisconsin that that has been accomplished not and i heard the same rhetoric i tell my friends on this side of the aisle that i'm hearing today the same rhetoric and dick armey not only was the majority leader of the republican house but he was also he was in republican house then but he was annual deficits that was the representation i tell my friends on this floor those representations were all wrong that's why when we listen to debate on this floor today and we see a balanced budget responsible budget that invests in our future and i tell mr speaker if i were speaking directly to a martel my young friend i've heard about these cuts that you talk about for a quarter century i've heard about these cuts why is it that you spent more money as a party with the president with control of the senate tro l house by a factor of two twice as much spending rise under the bush administration than on the clinton administration why is that why do you come here and crow about cutting spending when you doubled the grade of rote growth when you controlled everything that's what the american public need to judge and i had some repair prepared comments here and i've apologized to my good friend who spent so much time doing this but ladies and gentlemen lewis carroll is not writing this budget alice is not going to have to live under this budget my children my grandchildren my great grandchild and more importantly my country we're going to have to live under this budget we didn't adopt a budget last year we didn't adopt appropriation bills last year we didn't do any of the fiscal business that we should have done last year why because your party could not agree with one another so you had no fiscal program your fiscal program was spending more money i hope that this faust for the first time in six years adopts a responsible budget that will move us towards balance it won't get there overnight and when i say that it is not empty rhetoric because when we in one thousand nine hundred three passed that program we took this country for four straight years out of deficit now i know you will say well we republicans took over in one nine hundred ninety five and my response  that of course is you didn't have the presidency when you had it all why couldn't you do it when you had the presidency when you had the senate when you had the house tell me why you couldn't do it i'll tell you wh because it was the present united states who said this is the way we're going to do it or i'm going to be to what this president can veto it we will be able to override his veto i understand that he's in charge that's why we have these deficits because he has not vetoed one spending bill he vetoed one bill embryonic stem cell research not one spending bill every nickel that's been spent in this country has been spent on to the signature of george bush the president united states every nickel so i asked my friends vote for responsible budget movies as we did during the ninety four years out of debt four years into surplus the first time that happened and left you folks that took over with a five point six trillion dollars surplus that us squandered into a three trillion dollar deficit and yes nine eleven had an impact on that and your tax cut we had a very shallow recovery you know that every economist says that and a relatively shallow downturn in the economy this budget offered by mr spratt is a responsible budget that provides for tax cuts for the middle last provide investment in education and competitiveness of our country provide for investment in our veterans provide for investment in defense using the same number that the president gave us so that we can keep america strong  spratt i thank you i thank the members of your committee for having the courage and the wisdom and the fiscal soundness to come forth with this budget it is worthy of support of every member of this congress and i urged this house to adopt this budget oh well of three thousand two hundred thirty eight dollars per household this will affect two million two hundred fifty nine thousand maryland taxpayers at this time mr chairman i would like three minutes to the distinguished gentleman from missouri the minority leader mr art the minority  whenever we had a budget chairman in those years when we balanced the budget apparently no credit given for that mr k sick did draft a budget that balanced certainly mr nussle day it certainly there was a president and i agree with my friend when he said nine eleven didn't have an impact nine eleven did have an impact the defense cost after no nine eleven had an impact the cost after nine eleven of homeland security had an impact  the flat economy coming out of two thousand had an impact and our tax policies had an impact in fact in night and in two thousand and five the largest increase in revenue in the history of the federal government fourteen and a half percent in two thousand and five because our tax policies work and produce more than a shallow recovery permanent taxes we'd like to see permanent taxes but as my good friend and others know unless you have sixty people on the other side of the building in the hundred member senate you can't have permanent taxes we've extended these taxes in a way that's extended our economy extended our growth increased our global competition in the marketplace mr ryan's alternative continues to do those things and the overall budget that we're talking about today as the underlying budget doesn't do that our friends on the other side in fact my very good friend from maryland just said that they're that this that they aren't increasing taxes they're just letting current tax policies expire when you make the same income and your taxes go up that explanation rings pretty hollow your taxes increased as this budget anticipates they would and then they say that many of these tax increases don't occur until the third year of this budget so you're not going to see an immediate tax increase but of course you're going to see an immediate increase in the spending of the money that those new tax revenues provide those tax increases do happen to start for some american  early as the first of january next year take for example a line in the tax code allowing many of our nation's veterans and war fighters to collect the earned income tax credit this budget anticipates that when that expires on december thirty first two thousand and seven it does not come back as part of the tax code and the money that's produced by that tax increase is part of what this budget spends the majority budget renews the death tax the majority's budget renews the marriage penalty that we've eliminated and forty eight million couples in two thousand and eleven would pay twenty nine hundred dollars more every year in washington taxes than they did the year before for that and many other reasons mr speaker i urge that we stick with the policies that have grown our economy that let us compete that appreciate families and support this alternative i and yes in the ninety's we did balance the budget i would just remind him and i don't want to do start my speech this way but the first budget you proposed led to a government shutdown it was president clinton that led the way to a balanced budget and a surplus now i want to thank you some of my critics that colleagues to criticize i want thank you i want thank you because to govern is to choose and we have to clear choices here and there's no doubt about it president kennedy once said to govern  choose we're offering a new direction you're offering the status quo and has no doubt about it because you have given us and nobody's really quite that thank you enough to your four trillion dollars of new debt and you need to be appreciative for it because i've always said there's one thing you can say about george bush and the republicans when it comes to the economy will forever be in your debt and that is the one thing that is absolutely clear about your stewardship of this economy four trillion dollars the largest accumulation of debt in the shortest period of time in american history don't look at your shoes when i'm saying it now because you know that's your legacy now what are the priorities in the differences in medicaid and medicare let's just take a look at health care number one economic issue for the american people you cut two hundred fifty billion dollars from medicare and medicaid democrat double the size of the children's health care program in this country two choices the status quo a new direction you cut three you cut five billion dollars from college assistance for people who are trying to achieve the american dream we expand college assistance by three point five billion dollars you have made a decision to make cuts in other areas like agriculture we make sure that our farmers have a future where their children can inherit the farm and have a future in rural america the choices are clear we have a balanced budget that's balanced with our priorities you maintain a economic strategy that adds to the nation's as you have in past years every year of our budget the deficit declined every year and under our budget five years in a row the budget decline doubled budget deficit the kleins until it reaches balance and eventually a surplus every year you achieve your goals by cutting one hundred two how much time i have left the gentleman has ten seconds remaining i hope those are standing ten seconds roosevelt once said we have nothing to fear but fear itself and you've taken that and turned it on its head and said all we have to offer is fair this is a new direction versus a status quo budget there are clear choices and i'm glad that we balance the budget deal back the remainder michael gentleman's time has expired the gentleman from wisconsin mr chairman as i yield to my friend from michigan i'll note that illinois taxpayers will pay three thousand two hundred eighty two dollars higher every year that hits four million seven hundred thirty one thousand illinois taxpayers out of their budget  minute to the gentleman from michigan gentleman from michigan is recognized for one minute thank you very quickly to the chairman like you're my my friend that all spending bills originate in the house not need secular branch of congress and then a lot of those broke ration bills which certainly bipartisan at the time what we have here in front of us is a clear choice a choice to move america forward as we have tried to do or a choice to move america in a new direction backwards where going back to the one nine hundred seventy there's a child of the one nine hundred seventy s in the carter administration remember how we got  defense i remember how our nation had no intelligence worth anything and i look back to the clinton era and i see how the budget deficit that we now exist accumulated in a time of war was necessitated by the reduction in our military the gutting of our intelligence networks the inability to defend america's basic vs the rush of free trade which was signed by the clinton administration and now the bill came home to roost on the watch of george bush in the american people on september eleventh two thousand and one it is a history lesson that i hope was not lost on the american people finally to quote l carroll's one of his admirers living is easy with eyes closed misunderstanding all you see it is time for america to be wide awake to the choice in front of them and let us come back and move america forward gentleman's time has expired the gentleman from south carolina e joan from texas a member of the ways and means committee mrs gentleman from texas is recognized for two minutes of this debate underscores the genuine change the new direction that is occurring here in washington we're beginning to rein in these in los republican deficits the old republican why a budgeting doesn't just crunch numbers it crushes people we're concerned not only about the fiscal deficit but the opportunity deficit that  occurs in communities across this country when all the members of the community are unable to contribute their god given potential when young people are unable to pursue higher education when families are denied health care when veterans are denied the services that they have earned there are two fundamental ways in which the democratic approach to tax relief differs from our republican colleagues first we believe it's possible to target tax relief to working middle class families without letting the super rich piggyback along and claim most of the benefits and second we say if tax relief is worth having then pay for it instead of going to our grandchildren borrowing from our grandchildren we say go to grand cayman how about going to all those giant corporations that have dodged their fair share of taxes and asking them to bear a little the burden of our national security and so we provide the tax relief  middle class families need but we do it in a fiscally responsible way some people have imaginary friends these republicans have imaginary demons about what might eventually happen with this budget is a welcome return to reality fiscal reality and responsibility those who are hallman are trying to determine who's right about these republican claims of the demon of tax relief i think we need only turn to a bipartisan group like the concord coalition which looked at this budget had no axe to grind except the acts of trying to achieve this goal responsibility and said no tax thirty seconds to the jones bargain must follow me now to then return to close so i yield thirty seconds the gentleman from oregon gentleman from oregon is recognized for thirty seconds our republican friends have no credibility on fiscal affairs they had three times to take a bite of the tax cut apples in two thousand and one two thousand and three and two thousand and four they ducked solving the looming a t m crisis instead implementing a grab bag of tax benefits for the most well off now this budget puts at the top of their list more tax cuts a trillion dollars for the top one percent financed by cuts in medicare medicaid the environment and education when they had their hands on all the levers of power they couldn't even pass a budget they left on past eleven of the thirteen appropriations bills i strongly suggest rejection of their misguided fanciful approach and support for the majority resolution gentleman from wisconsin is recognized for three and a quarter minute here comes mr chairman the closing of this debate we've heard it all we've heard the quotes these are cuts are so deep so extreme about the republican budget well let's just see how deep and extreme these cuts are instead of spending over the next five years fourteen point nine seven six trillion dollars our budget proposes fourteen point nine two eight trillion dollar over the next five years instead of growing in time and spending at four point seven percent a year we will grow to four point one percent a year what do we accomplish with this what do we do with that we balance the budget with out raising taxes we stopped the raid on the source today trust fund and we paid down debt that's what we accomplish with our budget what do the democrats accomplish it no matter how they spend it no matter how they dug it no matter how they hide they are raising taxes don't ask me just look at the washington post that said quote and while the house democrats say they want to present preserve key parts of bush's signature tax cuts they projected surplus  twenty twelve only by assuming that all of these tax cuts go away meet the new democrat majority mr chairman same is the old democrat majority in the last time they had a majority ninety three what did they do they passed the largest tax increase in american history two hundred forty one billion dollars now three and a half months into the new majority what are they proposing to do passing the largest tax increase in american history about four hundred billion dollars is that to control spending or something like that no they're engaging on a gorge of new spending fifty billion dollars are already thrown out the door just this year and it's not even april into their new majority mr chairman this is a direction this is a choice between two visions do we or do we not let people keep more of their own hard earned money or do we just keep taxing them more and more and more and spending more and more and more that's the choice we believe in the people we believe people should keep more of their own money we believe people should keep their child tax credit we don't want to tax people for being married we really small businesses should be taxed no more than large corporations we believe seniors ought availed to enjoy their retirement savings we believe in preserving saving and enhancing our entitlement programs by extending their solve are they going to do they're hastening the demise of our entitlements they're accelerating the bankruptcy of these programs and they're giving us the largest tax increase in american history like it or not the numbers are clear you can reserve fund everything you want you can put any wish list you want in a piece of legislation but numbers don't lie and the numbers are crystal clear and they tell the truth this budget the democrat budget gives us the largest tax increase in american history and the republican budget keeps taxes low and it balances the budget by controlling spending and it stops the rate at the source tree trust fund and it pays down day past the republican budget  rip the democrat but gentleman's time has expired the gentleman from south carolina look at what it does for reconciliation because it does elsewhere with him the budget proposal mr ryan proposes crippling in masculine cuts to medicare and medicaid totaling over two hundred fifty billion dollars two hundred seventy eight billion dollars altogether in hypothetical wholly impractical and unlikely cuts but what is the net effect because at the same time in the same bill he raises he lowers taxes has a tax cut of four hundred forty seven billion dollars the net seven eight nine and ten italy's until the future the decision as to whether or not and to what extent they renew these tax cuts when they expire not because of this resolution but because of the way you wrote them in the year certain twenty t we fully fund offense we don't have a lot left over but what you have we husband our resources to do more for education more for science and innovation more for veterans health care and more for s chip which barely ranks an honorable mention in that budget it is a centerpiece of our efforts that year to say that more american children will be covered by a program known as the children's health insurance program otherwise we restrain spending and throughout our budget resolution we apply religious fully the rule we adopted this january that's rule page we go so that every mandatory spending increase will make possible we provide that it has to be all set by mandatory spending cuts elsewhere we protect the tax cuts the sleigh present a good budget resolution not say call time for debate on the amendment has expired the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from wisconsin all those in favor say aye and all those opposed say no so it's the opinion of the a significant number haven't risen a recorded vote is ordered members will record their votes by electronic device