pursuant to clause to be able eighteen declare the house is often to the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for consideration of the concurrent resolution concurrent resolution three twelve revising the congressional budget for the united states government for fiscal year two thousand eight establishing the congressional budget for the united states government for fiscal year two thousand and nine and setting forth appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal year two thousand and ten for two thousand and thirteen the first reading of the concurrent resolution shall be dispensed with all points of order against consideration of the concurrent resolution our way general debate shall not exceed four hours with three hours confined to the congressional budget equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the committee on the budget and one hour on the subject of economic goals and policies equally divided and controlled by representative maloney of new york and representative saxon of new printed in the report of the committee on rules accompanying this resolution each amendment they be offered only in the order printed in the record may be offered only die member designated in the report shall be considered as read shall be debatable for the time specified in the report equally divided and controlled by a proponent and an opponent and shall not be subject to amendment all points of order against the amendments printed in the report are ways except current resolution to the house with such a limit as may have been adopted the previous question shall be considered as ordered on the concurrent resolution and a minute there to final adoption without intervening motion except the minutes offered by the chairman of the committee on the budget pursuant to section three o five a five of the congressional budget act of nine hundred seventy four to achieve mathematical consistency to concurrent resolution shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question of its adoption section two after a motion that the committee right has been rejected on a legislative day the chair may intervene another such motion on that day only if offered by the chairman of the committee on the budget or the majority leader or a designee after a motion to strike out the resolving words of the concurrent resolution as described in clause nine of will eighteen has been rejected as the chairman interchange another such motion during further consideration of the concurrent resolution section three during consideration in the house of house concurrent resolution three twelve pursuant to this resolution notwithstanding the operation of the previous postpone further consideration of the concurrent resolution to such time as may be designated by the speaker section for after adoption of the house incurred resolutions three twelve it shall shall be in order to take from the speaker's table senate concurrent resolution seventy and to consider the senate concurrent resolution in the house ah point of order again to senate concurrent resolution and against consideration our way it shall be in order to  strike all after the resolving clause of the senate concurrent resolution and to enter in lieu there of the positions of the house concurrent resolution three twelve as adopted by the house on point of order against that motion our  house resolution ten thirty six provides for consideration of house concurrent resolution three twelve the concurrent resolution on the budget for f y two thousand and nine under a structured rule the rule provides a total of four hours of general debate three hours to be controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the committee on the budget and one hour on the subject of economic goals and policies to be controlled by to be controlled by representative maloney of new york and representative of new jersey the rule makes an order the three substitute amendments one by representative kilpatrick of michigan one by representative lee of california and a final substitute by representative ryan of wisconsin each amendment is debatable for sixty minutes the rule also permits the chairman of the budget committee to offer amendments in the house to achieve mathematical consistency finally the rule provides that they can current resolution shall not be subject to a demand for division of the question speaker this is the traditional rule for consideration of the budget resolution and i welcome today's debate on the alternative budgets that will be presented by the republican leadership the congressional black caucus and the congressional progressive caucus mr speaker i want to begin by expressing my thanks and appreciation to budget committee chairman spratt and ranking member ryan for their leadership and hard work on the house budget committee although they hold very different points of view the committee always operates in a cordial and collegial manner i have served on the budget committee for two years and it has been a privilege to learn from such two distinguished members how to work in a bipartisan way despite sh philosophical differences and all of us are supported by and all of us are supportive mr speaker biased a purse and dedicated committee staff mr speaker budgets are moral documents they reflect our priorities and for two law and this congress pass budgets with the wrong priorities for too long our budgets but the desires of the powerful before the needs of the poor for too long our budgets pretended that people who are struggling didn't even exist let alone matter that has begun to change the democratic budget before us today is a budget with a conscience today we continue the new direction set last year to bring the federal budget back to fiscal health and responsibility as we begin this debate our country faces major challenges a looming recession a crisis in the credit markets a plunging housing market rising unemployment declining family income skyrocketing costs and health care aging infrastructure and a safety net struggling to keep up with the growth number of americans unable to meet their basic needs faced with these challenges president bush president bush proposed the same tired worn out failed fiscal and economic policies after seven years the bush legacy is the highest deficits in our nation's history let us remember mr speaker when president bush took office when the republicans had total control over the white house the senate and this house they were welcomed with a five point six trillion dollar projected ten year budget surplus the financial gift of the last democrat to sit in the white house that has been completely completely squandered resulting in the largest fiscal deterioration in american history and the president's f y o nine budget proposal only more of the same the national debt exploded under president bush and his republican rubber stamp congress at the end of two thousand and eight c b o project nine point six trillion dollar debt an increase of nearly four trillion four trillion dollars brought to you courtesy of george bush future generations our children and our grandchildren will be forced to pay the price for this unprecedented rise in debt thanks to the republicans fiscally reckless and irresponsible policies and to top it off the president's budget continues the bush legacy of deep cuts in many of the most important programs and services for the american people five hundred billion dollars in cuts in medicare one hundred billion dollars in cuts to medicaid which serves the poorest americans including families with children the elimination of the commodity services block grant and the social services block grant and deep cuts in the community development block grant which provides nearly every city in town in america with federal support for basic services elimination of the community oriented policing grants the cops grants and deep cuts for states and local are in force meant at a time when states and local communities are finding it hard to meet the needs of the first responders and deep cuts in many other vital programs that provide health care infrastructure environmental protection and other services to our states and to our neighborhoods let me give but one example mr speaker the low income home energy assistance program or law he last week the worst snowstorm in a century hit the people of ohio in the midwest two weeks ago the people of central massachusetts were facing over three feet of snow across the country people are suffering in the cold home heating costs have gone up by eighty percent under george bush a barrel of oil now cost one hundred eight dollars but president bush decided to cut five hundred seventy million dollars out of the law he program the president decided to turn up the heat for one point two million households forcing families to choose either to heat or to eat and why so he can continue tax cuts for the wealthiest most fortunate billionaires in america  the democratic budget rejects the president's priorities every jacks the callous view of the republican party that tens of millions of american families are expendable that our communities can manage without basic services that our roads bridges and water systems should be allowed to crumble and fail and that we can run up america's credit card without cost or consequences instead the democratic budget restores fiscal responsibility to the federal budget returning it to balance in the year two thousand and twelve it rejects the president's harmful cuts to basic services and invest in proven programs that boost economic growth create jobs and make america safer the democratic budget helps families struggling to make ends meet in this economic downturn and provides fiscally responsible tax relief to millions and millions of households finally the democratic budget remembers those who serve at home and abroad it provides strong in substantial funding for national defense including quality of life for our troops and our families it provides more funding for homeland security programs including first responders including first responders more than the president would and finally it tastes hear about veterans and rejects and rejects president bush's cynical new fees for that trans health care instead the democratic budget increases health care funding for our veterans well above current services announced to allow the v a to treat five point eight million patients in two thousand and nine including over three hundred thirty three thousand iraq and afghanistan war veterans mr speaker the underlying legislation house concurrent resolution three twelve the fiscal year two thousand and nine budget resolution is a budget all americans who believe in fiscal responsibility and the common good can support i reserve objection don't recognize the speaker there are only two ways to balance a budget whether it's your family budget or the federal budget you can either spend less or you can increase the amount of money coming in the majority as reflected in their budget have flat out rejected option one and have chosen higher spending higher taxes and an ever growing federal government the republicans have chosen what i believe it's a more responsible approach by committing to spending less and letting workers families and small businesses keep more of their hard earned income to save invest and spend as they see fit see fit while republicans have faith in the ability of families and workers to decide how best to use their paychecks the majority budget reflects their belief that the federal government can make better choices at spending money than individual americans and that's really a fundamental difference between democrats and republicans in order for the majority to fund their government spending their budget raises taxes mr speaker by two thirds of eight trillion dollars over the next five years let me repeat that two thirds of a trillion dollars you can call this a tax increase or you can call it letting tax cuts expire but the bottom line is that under the democrats budget every american will pay more of their paycheck to the federal government although the but jordie will try to claim otherwise the numbers in their own budget document show that taxes will increase nearly three times more under their budget than the largest enacted tax increase to date in history making this the largest tax increase in american history while the majority claims that their budget will protect middle class families their budget numbers tell a different story under the massive tax increases in the majority's budget the average taxpayer in the state of florida for example will see their annual tax bill rise over three thousand dollars the majority's budget does not extend tax relief from the marriage tax penalty this means of actually forty eight million married couples will face an average tax increase of three thousand dollars a year it does not extend the one thousand dollars tax credit that many young families  the majority's budget would cut that credit in half it doesn't extend the state sales tax deductibility fairness the majority's budget mr speaker even manages to the death tax it doesn't fix the alternative minimum tax for middle class families it does not protect those who pay the lowest tax rate either it would again impose taxes on six million lower income americans who now pay no taxes thanks to the two thousand and one tax relief law passed by congress mr speaker in order to boost our economy to incentive a growth increase investment in the united states and create jobs congress should not be raising taxes by the largest amount in history this critically important tax relief should not be repealed or allowed to expire to to ask unanimous consent to have inserted in the record letters from the hamilton project the center on budget and policy priorities and the bipartisan concord coalition all which state clearly and resolution it is specifically mentioned that we endorse the extension of the middle class tax cuts including things like the marriage penalty relief the child tax credit and the ten percent tax bracket our budget also  provides paid for relief from the alternative minimum tax i think the difference between the democrats and republicans is we believe in paying for these these tax cuts so that we don't add to the debt and for the burden our kids and our grandkids at this point  speaker like the all three men is for the gentleman from texas a member of the budget committee mr duggan gemma's economics of three minutes i think the general and some folks think that president bush's term ins on january the twentieth of two thousand and nine many americans have a big red circle or a happy face on their calendar are ready on that day their key change in their watches that tech down ever so slowly backwards toward that happy time but while president bush may be gone from the white house in three hundred fourteen days this administration and its congressional enablers have done so much damage that generations of american families will be footing the bill for their  recklessness with compound interest long long after president bush retires to texas this administration has consistently chosen to sacrifice long term fiscal stability on the altar of political expedience they have offered the free lunch plan the pain free solution to almost every challenge that our country has encountered and the greatest sacrifice that they have demanded at a time of national peril for most americans is to tell them to go shopping well this administration has now created a record three trillion dollars of additional national debt  own during the bush years what would even just one of those trillions of dollars of debt have accomplished had it been expended in a more appropriate manner one trillion that's fifteen million public school teachers one trillion that's health care for five hundred thirty million children four year our university scholarships for forty three million students and in iraq this is ministration this w every week week after week month after month year after year three billion dollars with the cost of the war in iraq in two weeks we could pay for the entire cancer budget of the national institute of health for years showering tax breaks on the richest the most privileged few was hemorrhaging twelve billion dollars every month in iraq this administration has created more than a federal deficit it has created deficits opportunity deficits for millions of american families administration's failure to address our educational needs means that there's an opportunity deficit that millions of young people are not able to achieve their full god given potential because of the lack of support of both the public education level and for student financial assistance the failure of the bush administration to address our healthcare problems means a health care deficit for millions of american families the largest single cause of personal bankruptcy in america today the health care crisis and the failure of the bush administration to address our energy deficit boy that is a really you have another minute joan recognise traditional minute that is a deficit that arab very american feels at the pump when they get all their money taken out of their pocket and shifted over to some tyrant in an oil producing area the cost of the bush's the bush administration budget of their fiscal failure is felt the most by those who are least able to bear our students are uninsured are minimum wage workers the elderly and small business owners this democratic budget attempts to buy a while to bail us all out but it's mighty hard to keep this country afloat and keep our families afloat when the administration is still so busy drilling drilling holes in the bottom of the boat arch support for the rule and support for the democratic budget as the best hope we have to do that in this difficult time i yield back general jones this time gentleman from florida biggers why a privilege deal five minutes we're about to decide which path we want to take in america we're about to decide what budget is right for americans well let's think about what americans are facing today as we consider their budget for the next five years what's happening in america today while joblessness is up the economy is in a downturn it may be going into recession prices are up people are having a hard time afford the cost of living gas prices are at an all time high health care costs are at an all time high and growing very fast home heating costs are very high and it's a lot more expensive just paper food today because food prices are up so the question is as we debate the values that are underneath this budget can the american people afford this democratic budget now my friends on the other side of the aisle are going to try and say all day today they're not raising taxes we really aren't believe us trust us well my friends numbers don't lie and this budget is series of numbers and the numbers they're bringing before this house in their budget resolution requires assumes banks plans on the largest tax increase in american history when we looked at the one thousand nine hundred three budget that passed last decade even then senator patrick moynihan a democrat a very very wise man a statesman adored by both sides said at that time that that was the largest tax increase in history that tax increase was two hundred forty one billion dollars under the same logic and the same math on the same process that we have here today the tax increase in this budget is six hundred  eighty three billion dollars but let's look at what kinds of taxes we're talking about and this begs the question can the american people afford this budget this increases the marriage penalty in two and a half years can in american people afford that it cuts the thousand dollars child tax credit in half it eliminates the marriage penalty tax relief and increases marginal tax rates it eliminates capital gains and dividends relief and it brings back the death tax let's take a look at what numbers are income tax rates go up across the board to the top rate of almost forty percent capital gains and dividends which are the tax on our pensions and our savings in our four one k s go up across the board as high as forty percent the death tax comes back in to fifty five percent the marriage penalty comes in hits an average of four hundred dollars per couple the child tax credit goes from one thousand down to five hundred dollars and the lowest tax bracket goes from ten percent up to fifteen percent let me just give you some numbers of what this will mean to average americans roughly one hundred sixteen million taxpayers will see their taxes increase on average by one thousand eight hundred thirty three dollars and that's a made eighty four women which is staying on average a tax increase of two thousand one hundred twenty one dollars approximately forty eight million married couples were incurred an average to of over three thousand dollars taxes would increase by an average of two thousand three hundred twenty three dollars for forty three million families with children some twelve million single women with children will see their taxes increase on average by one thousand nine hundred dollars for eighteen million elderly individuals taxes would increase on average two thousand one hundred eighty one dollars and the tax bills for twenty seven small million small business owners would rise on average b more than four thousand dollars more than six million taxpayers who previously owed no taxes at all will become subject to the individual income tax as a consequence of the tax increase in this budget these aren't rich people these are ordinary americans working paycheck to paycheck trying to get by the problem we have today is our paychecks aren't going as far as they did before because we have rising gas prices high home heating costs high health care costs so the question is can the american people for this budget i ask people watching this send us your e mail give us a call call your member of congress and tell us is that what you want us to do and the more important question is should we balance the budget yes both democrats and republicans say we ought to balance the budget here's the difference we believe we're to balance the budget by controlling spending not by raising taxes on unfortunately what the democrats choose to do is increase spending and taxes so their budget will show by the congressional budget office and their numbers they will achieve balance the way they achieve balance is they spend an extra two hundred eighty billion dollars over five years but they increase taxes a whole lot more than that to get to a balanced budget what's more important about this budget for our children and grandchildren is not that the economic damage that will be done by this budget with these huge tax increases for every income tax payer for married people for people what really is troubling about this budget is not as much as what is in this budget the largest tax increase in history what's really almost most troubling about this budget is that by doing nothing by doing nothing to save money by doing nothing to reform our entitlement programs we just heard my friend from texas i'm on two committees with a gentleman he said three trillion dollars increase in debt over the last five years this budget proposes in just two programs to increase  fourteen trillion dollars let me go through that again by doing nothing to rescue in save social security and medicare this budget proposes by its own virtue to increase the debt to those two programs by fourteen trillion dollars we have an obligation to the next generation to be good stewards of of taxpayer dollars we have an obligation to the next generation to leave them with a bit better fiscal state our friends on the other side of the aisle chosen to walk away from that responsibility they have chosen to have more money to spend today to raise taxes and to make matters worse for the next generation we think that's the wrong way to go we don't think the american people at this time of economic downturn at this time of high prices we can afford a tax increase of all times we don't think there ever should be a take time where we increase taxes because you know what mr speaker washington doesn't have a tax revenue problem washington has a spending problem and our friends on the other side of the aisle are making it worse by not only increasing spending but even increasing higher taxes that's the wrong recipe for this country that's the wrong message to send our children our grandchildren and that's the dead wrong thing to do at a time of high prices and economic downturn i think we should vote this budget down and do so on behalf of our children are grown children of the american taxpayer so we can give our chance of our economy to actually grow you're not going to grow our economy by giving us the largest tax right question what are american families facing what are american families facing after seven years of bush budgets and republican budgets which are facing our challenges like never before according to the u s census bureau the real income of the typical family has fallen by almost one thousand dollars since george bush became president the democratic budget provides funds to keep up with rising food housing and heating and transportation costs and the air of education the democratic budget provides seven point one billion dollars more for education and job training than the bush budget it increases funding for head start special education no child left behind in title one under george bush only four out of ten children eligible for head start receive services the democratic budget increases funding for head start so that more children will enter school ready to learn and again let me repeat mr speaker the hamilton  project of the brookings institution the center on budget policy and priorities in the concord coalition have all said members of congress letters stating in phatic lee that the democratic budget does not increase taxes let me say one thing the democratic budget does do and that is it relieves the burden of debt that has been thrust upon our kids and our grandkids the republicans during these last several years have increased the debt to historic  and in doing so they have created a debt tax on our kids and our grandkids we want to remove that tax burden from future generations with that mr speaker i yield two minutes the gentleman from virginia a member of the budget committee mr scott gentleman from virginia is recognized for two minutes thank you mr speaker mistake arise in support of the rule because it makes an order the congressional black caucus alternative question black caucus budget offers this congress and the american people the choice between fiscal and moral responsibility and tax cuts for the wealthy on the restored ship of the congressional black caucus alternative the federal budget returns to balance as a short chart shows in the fourth year and the fifth year the president budget isn't red in deficit all the way through even returns to deficit in the fifth year we compared to the president's budget we save five hundred sixty four billion dollars better on the bottom  line in fact we save so much that we say forty eight billion dollars in interest compared to the president's budget at the same time we provide significant funding for essential priorities for example education health care veterans justice programs all much better funded under the congressional black caucus budget than the president's budget mr speaker we've heard that this we do this by canceling the tax cuts that got us in the first go mess that we're in today except for those tax cuts that primarily affect that portion of your income under two hundred thousand dollars that cancelling those tax cuts has been called the greatest tax increase  whatever they want to call it mr chip mr speaker already doing is canceling the tax cuts that got us in the ditch when these tax cuts first passed we had a projected surplus of five and a half trillion dollars for ten year budget those ten years look like they're going to come in at a three trillion dollar deficit we haven't created jobs at the same time so we have a choice we can have fiscal responsibility and address our important needs or we can fund those tax cuts for the wealthy the congressional black caucus chooses fiscal responsibility and i'm morally supportable budget addressing our priorities and therefore i support the rule that makes the congressional black caucus budget in order gentleman's time has expired february fourteenth the majority decided to leave washington to take a president's day recess and allowed the protect america act to expire two days later rendering u s intelligence officials unable to begin new terrorist surveillance without cumbersome bureaucratic hurdles at the end of this week the house and senate plan to adjourn for a two week district work period therefore we only have a few days left to address one very important issue and that is taking action on permanently modernizing the foreign intelligence surveillance act this didn't have to happen mr speaker earlier this month the senate passed february actually by a bipartisan vote of the sixty eight to twenty nine legislation updating the foreign intelligence surveillance act fison a bill that the chairman of the intelligence committee called said quote is the right way to go in terms of the security of the nation and quote we could have easily considered that legislation but the majority instead decided to head home and they may just do that again this week the house should vote on the senate measure and we should do it now we must always stay one step ahead of those who wish harm on americans now is not the time to in any way to tie the hands of our intelligence community the modernization of foreign intelligence surveillance into the twenty first century is a critical national security priority i'm pleased that several my colleagues on the other side of the aisle agree on january twenty eighth twenty one members of the blue dog coalition sent a letter to the speaker in support of the senate pfizer legislation the letter states and i quote the rockefeller bond pfizer legislation contains satisfactory language addressing all these issues and we would fully support that measure should it reach the house floor without substantial change we believe these components will ensure a strong national security apparatus that can thwart terrorism across the globe and save american lives here in our country end quote today i will give all members of the house an opportunity to vote on the bipartisan long term modernization of pfizer i call on all my colleagues including members of the blue dog coalition that signed the letter to the speaker to join with me in defeating the previous question so that we can immediately move to concur in the senate amendment and send the bill to the president to be signed into law i will remind my colleagues that the feeding the previous question will not prohibit consideration of the budget the security also means the economic well being of our citizens and because of republican priorities over the last seven years record numbers of our citizens are struggling never before the very rich have done very well and the rest have not me those are the facts the democratic budget that has been put forward restores fiscal responsibility it rejects the president's harmful cuts in programs like medicare and medicaid it rejects president's proposal to impose new fees for our veterans and i military retirees it strengthens our economy it invest more in innovation and invest more in energy renewable in clean energy and invest more in education and in our infrastructure it also provides tax relief to help struggling families it accommodates tax relief from the alternative minimum tax for more than twenty million households as well as middle middle income tax cuts and other tax relief so long as they comply with the page you go rule and invest more in children's health it provides more funding for safety net programs record numbers of our citizens are literally falling through the cracks  in our country and invest in defense and in veterans and in homeland security the facts are mr speaker that for years we have we have been forced to accept the priorities of george bush and his republican colleagues who have controlled the congress that it is now changing for nearly seven years we have watched as they have accumulated huge debt historical debt we ha watched as they have chipped away at some of the most important programs that help some of the most desperate people in our country the american people have had enough that's what the last election was about they've had their chance they have shown us their priorities and the american people have rejected them it is now time to create a budget that has a conscience that responds to the needs of the struggling middle class in this country and the budget socratic budget that will be operated a will do that and change the course in this country with that mr speaker i yield back the balance of my time and i move the previous question questions on ordering the previous question on the resolution number having risen the a the nays are ordered members will record their votes by electronic device for so in the called a clause not of rule twenty this fifteen minute vote on the previous question will be followed by five minute votes on adoption if ordered and the motion to suspend the rules on h r fifty five sixty three this will be a fifteen minute