order it is now in order to consider and then that number two printed in the house report one tenth as seventy nine which is debatable for forty minutes for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california arise the gentleman from california is recognize it's really important that merican to hear every side of the budget argument that's why i'm proud to rise today to bring before the house gentleman will suspend the house is not in order country hear every side of the budget argument that's why i'm proud to rise today to bring for the house the congressional progressive peace and security budget alternative to the peace and security budget balances by the year two thousand and ten which is two years ahead of the democratic budget two years ahead of the republican substitute and light years ahead of the administration's budget a budget the debt doesn't balance anywhere in a ten year horizon turn it upside down the other way the congressional house budget and it shows the president's budget very clear indeed this is about domestic spending and we'll get to that later now let's look at exactly what happens with when we meet our our deficit and when we go into balance this is the progressive budget this is the president's budget here we are  light years ahead of the president's budget and two years ahead of the democratic budget the peace and security budget cuts defense spending spending by one hundred eight billion dollars below the president's budget all the while keeping america safe actually the congressional progressive caucus is budget is spends three hundred ninety five billion dollars on the fans that's a lot of money at the same time the c alternative increases domestic discretionary spending to four hundred eighty three billion dollars and this is the start our spending is eighty nine billion dollars over the president fifty eight billion dollars over the democrat and if you can believe this is thirty three billion dollars more than the social justice groups have been asking for so here you are we have the president's budget spending on the mystic funding we have the democrats and we have the progressive caucus how do we get there it's not as hard as you may think you can vest in domestic programs if you aren't spending precious tax dollars on a misguided occupation of another nation because of this we assume an end to the occupation of iraq by two thousand the end of two thousand and seven this will save us hundreds of billions of dollars in the next year alone we also roll back the but bush tax cuts for the top one percent of income earners that's people who make over a million dollars a year and we target waste fraud and abuse at the department of  including savings of sixty billion dollars a year from by eliminating and reducing cold war era relics that are still being produced in this country with these savings were able to put money where it's most needed the peace and security budget keeps its promise to a strong public education by fully funding no child left behind title one which will expand services about thirty billion dollars a year and fully fund and it also fully fund our commitment to special education to i d e a r substitute moves us closer to the promise of a universal health care system by putting seventy five billion dollars over five years into s chip to cover all eligible children we support a leaner smarter and more effective national security program by investing in emphasizing greater diplomacy and less combat our budget makes the veterans health care an entitlement including mental health services the progressive budget invests thirty billion dollars a year over ten years to completely transform our energy policy to ensure that our children and our grandchildren will have clean and renewable energy sources and finally we increase spending for domestic priorities like hiv aids section eight housing and community development block grant madam speaker it's time we stand up and challenge what is possible in a federal budget and the alternative prepared and brought here today by the congressional progressive caucus does that and does it boldly it puts money where we need it it cuts programs that are for not have for so long been sacred cows and it says to our country we want to take your death tax dollars and invest them in the people of this nation i thank you and i reserve the balance of my time a gentleman mr bounce a hard time what purpose does the gentleman from texas right now i essentially the same democrat budget that's being presented today they are all fiscally responsible they all promote the federal budget over the family budget they all compromise the future of our children and grandchildren let me tell you madam chair what they have in common each one each one would represent the single largest tax increase in the history of the united states of america now this particular chart madam chairman because i didn't have the numbers available on the progressive budget shows what the democrat conference budget would do almost four hundred billion us the single largest tax increase in america's history this particular version of the democrat budget see that red there i would have to have another chart a whole nother chart to represent that tax increase because i believe they actually double what the democrats offer its budget is doing him and i'm sure people need to know that every time you're increasing the federal budget you're decreasing some family budget some hard working family in america is trying to make ends meet many of those families are in my district the fifth congressional district of texas and i heard from one of those families recently i heard from linda her first name it texas and she writes dear congressman that tax increase would mean the difference of whether my daughter and her husband would be able to purchase a car not for my husband and i it helps us to continue with his radiation treatment his prostate cancer and allows us to continue providing in home assistance for my elderly parents one who has parkinson's in one who has dementia please allow us to retain this money for our needs please don't allow our government to take additional tax dollars from us please allow us to decide how this money will be spent madam chairman again when they take money to fuel the federal budget to fuel the federal bureaucracy they're taking money away from hard working families they need that money for their educational needs for their health care needs for their housing needs when is it did you ever have another of the taxpayers money already already in washington we're spending over twenty three thousand dollars per american household for only the first time in american history since world war two we must we must protect the family budget from the federal budget and prevent this single largest tax increase in american history from being imposed on hardworking american families and i reserve the balance of my t colleague our co chair of the progressive caucus congresswoman willing for her leadership on this issue and so many issues that relate to peace and security also to our executive director mr gold for all of your hard work and all of our sta and a phenomenal job and putting this together as i said with regard to the congressional black caucus as budget a budget is a moral document it defines what we as a community as a nation as a society i hold as sacred that's why i'm pleased that this progressive caucus budget also is a reflection of our values and our priorities there are several key elements in this budget i'd like to focus on especially the five main items first this budget will save up to six hundred and twenty three billion dollars over the next ten years by ending the occupation of iraq and bringing our troops home starting at the end of the year the costs are simply untenable  s estimates that we will have spent over i have trillion dollars by the end of fiscal zero eight on this unnecessary occupation of iraq this rate of expenditure and not to mention the cost in lives and cost to our international stability and credibility is simply on tenable next this budget takes steps at reducing our bloated military budget without compromise and actually in fact it enhances our national security it accounts for eliminating obsolete cold war era weapons systems and save six hundred billion dollars over the next ten years additionally this budget would say pans of billions of dollars over the next ten years by implementing recommendations by the government accounting office which they have actually made to eliminate waste fraud and abuse at the department of defense which are taxpayers should not allow to occur in the longer this budget increases funding for critical components to help rebuild our communities including those ravaged by hurricane katrina for example our budget increases funding to the community development block grants to four point one billion dollars and zero eight where as the president has repeatedly repeatedly targeted this program for cuts this budget also invest an additional one point six billion per year in section eight housing vouchers to ensure decent and affordable housing for all those who need housing assistance for this budget contributes to our national security entrance by doing more to meet the group growing humanitarian needs throughout the world especially with regard to increasing our contribution to the global fund to fight hiv aids tuberculosis and malaria we increase this by a hundred billion dollars also let me just say our nation's security is predicated on a strong and healthy very much the statistics as a relates to hiv and aids here in america a staggering according to the centers for disease control and prevention racial and ethnic minorities represent seventy one percent of new aids cases and sixty four percent of americans living with hiv and aids african americans represent fifty percent of new aids cases although only twelve percent of our population that tino's accounts for ninety nine percent of new aids cases although fourteen percent of the population are urge our colleagues to support this budget it clearly is a budget that is fiscally responsible and is a general dynamics by the gentleman from texas a manager at this time i'd like to yield one minute to the gentleman from california mr gentleman from california to recognize one minute mr speaker i rise in strong opposition to the alternative budget before it's now and the democrat budget the democrat majority party seems intent on raising taxes and increasing spending american families seniors and small businesses would all experience major tax hikes virtually no american would be spared the budget before it ignores a an official of the tax relief passed since two thousand and one this tax relief has spurred economic growth and created literally millions of new jobs meanwhile tax revenue to the federal treasury is surging helping to reduce the deficit their budget also ignores the out of control growth in entitlement spending this is deeply irresponsible tax tax bands band philosophy supported by my friends across the aisle is bad economics and bad for american people vote no gentleman from california progressive caucus and i rise this morning as the chair of the house veterans affairs committee and proud support of the progressive caucus as budget other budgets fund the war this budget funds the warrior i'm going to repeat that other budget fund the war this budget funds the warrior most of us in the progressive caucus are against the war in iraq but we are united in our view that when these young men and women come home and when all the other young men and women who came home in the past that they get all the care the support the honor the dignity the love that a grateful nation can be so we are united in saying we will honor those who come home they have done everything we've asked they have been brave and courageous they've had incredible loans both physically and mentally and we're going to give them the care and love and respect and honor that they deserve this is the only budget before us today that says we will have what is called mandatory funding of veterans health care mandatory funding means we don't have to wait five months like the republicans did last year when they didn't fund the veterans administration for the first five months assured funding mandatory funding means that they will be funded on the first day of the fiscal year and they will get automatic funding that doesn't have to go through a political fight we have a president says support the troops support the troops support the troops the speakers on the other side say support the troops support the troops support troops but when they get home who's supporting them  supporting these brave young men and women they come back we saw what happened at walter reed we saw what happened to bob woodruff when he had traumatic brain injury and those who were less fortunate he didn't get the treatment they need we had heard about the veteran who went to a minnesota back in a month he went home and he committed suicide that's not a veteran's administration that's not a country that is welcoming its troops home it's time that we fund the warrior and not just the war vote for the progressive c minutes i thank the gentleman for yielding and i rise today in opposition to the progressive caucus budget this debate today could be described as a debate about the good the bad and the ugly  kinder way you could describe it is the responsible the irresponsible and the reckless we're going to have the house republican budget brought forward on this floor today brought forward by our chairman mr ryan a responsible budget a good budget a budget that comes to balance in five years without raising taxes and tries to address the challenge that we face in the category of entitlements we have the democrat leadership budget that's going to be brought forward a budget that has the biggest tax increase in our nation's history and a budget i might add that not only clue includes significant increases in spending but as well makes no effort to just to deal with the challenge of entitlements and i'll just quote from the chairman of the federal reserve chairman bernanke who said without early and meaningful action to address entitlements the u s economy could be seriously weakened with future generations bearing much of the cost now to the budget alternative that we have right now in front of us i would describe as the ugly or the reckless or the completely irresponsible because not only does it include the biggest tax increase in our nation's history and significant increases in spending it runs up entitlement spending even further and the part that i think is the most egregious it actually calls our effort of our brave women and men fighting in afghanistan fighting in iraq to establish a beacon of liberty in that dark area of the world it calls that effort the single largest waste of taxpayers money and the biggest current drain on the u s treasury today i urge my colleagues to vote no on this gentleman from florida to bring to his attention that his budget actually cuts medicare and medicaid by two hundred fifty billion dollars taking a ninety almost ninety eight billion dollars out of energy and commerce and hundred and fifty four billion dollars out of ways and means and then when he speaks about that terms and what our budget does or does not in supporting veterans i'd like to remind them that the progressive caucus budget makes veterans health care including mental health an entitlement it does it no longer throws the veterans out there to be debated every year whether they deserve what we know we've promised them and they more than deserve and at this time i'd like to yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from california hill the so least a member of the energy and commerce committee in the enviro and hazmat subcommittee and i yield her two minutes the gentleman from california is recognized for two minutes i thank the gentlewoman from california and my colleagues of the progressive caucus i rise today in support of this budget resolution and as you know members this budget marks a new direction for our country it reflects the values of millions of hardworking people across the country and i'm proud that this budget rejects the president's cuts to core public health and environmental programs these core programs include by the way superfund programs land and water conservation fund drinking water state revolving funds state in tribal assistance grants leaking underground storage tank programs environmental justice programs and brownfield programs under misguided priorities of the bush administration funding for these programs at the e p a if you didn't know this had been dramatically cut back by twenty two percent in our communities continue to suffer under the president's f y i two thousand eight budget states will have lost over one billion dollars in federal funds since two thousand and four and may be forced to lay off numerous staff leave vacancies and fields shut down existing air monitors or otherwise curtail monitoring programs regional or contract personnel are making judgments about water safety systems despite not even being qualified and environmental justice those programs are on the chopping block right now two thirds of already overburdened cities who are working to create economic opportunities by revitalizing formally blighted communities in our country known as the brownfield programs have not received sufficient funding our budget this budget rejects these cuts by appropriat thirty one point four billion dollars for these programs and two point six billion over the president's budget this is a downpayment so that we can begin to reinvest in our neighborhoods in our communities and we're doing it without raising taxes for the middle class and i'm proud that this budget will help improve health care for all our families secure education address global warming issues and keep our promise to our nation's veterans i strongly urge my colleagues to support the he is so interesting as we always debate the budget it seems that the liberal elites always think they are smarter than everybody else in america and that they need to have the authority to come down here in the side how our communities are going to spend their money how families are going to spend their money because government never gets enough of your money that's one thing you can count on they want government to have it all well let me tell y i've got a little box in my office on my desk it's a tax box and if you don't think you're paying enough come to five out of nine cannon write out how much you want to give the government and stick it in they are there is nothing that is stopping you but the democrat budget increases taxes on tennesseans twenty six hundred eleven dollars a year the progressive budget is going to increase at about six thousand dollars a year they just can't get enough of the taxpayer's money and the fact that they would cut military spending and call it the single largest waste you know what madam speaker if it were not for the brave men and women in the u military there would be no need for us because we would not be a free secure nation we are free we remain free because we are ever vigilant that is the cost of freedom and to deny what they need and to say it is a waste i am very sorry to say that and at the same time to increase increase domestic spending with new programs when our friends across the aisle have repeatedly said they were going to cut it out they were going to cut programs they were going to cut spending that is unfortunate i thank the gentleman from texas for yolden and i yelled the balance of my time generally time is expired the gentleman from texas has twelve minutes remaining the gentle lady from california has six minutes remaining madam speaker i yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from my illinois minutes thank you you know budget resolutions give us the opportunity to debate national priorities the vision that we have not just for the next five years but for our future and nothing is more important for that future th providing opportunities for our children over the past weeks many of my constituents have called and written to ask that we reject the president's budget priorities particularly in the area of children's health nine million children are uninsured every forty six seconds a baby is born without health coverage in the richest country in the history of the world every day children are forced to go without the medical care that they need the president's budget doesn't solve this crisis it doesn't even come close the president wants to cut medicaid and his budget provides seven billion dollars less than what is needed just to maintain current case loads in the state children's health insurance program shortfalls would continue states would have to put more children on waiting lists benefits would be reduced the progressive caucus believes that no child should be forced to stand in a long line when it comes to health care our budget provides enough funding for the children's health insurance program to cover every eligible child our budget truly puts children first like th budget which provides an additional fifty billion dollars and schip money children's health insurance program money we are setting the priorities that will keep america's children healthy and make our country strong the republicans care about families all right rich families and they care about children and just and happen to be the children of ordinary working families in this country the progressive caucus budget does take care of those families and i yelled back gentleman has the other back a time gentleman from texas on this amount i'm sure of the likes of you two minutes to the chairman of the budget spending task force the republican study committee and co author of the american taxpayer bill of rights the gentleman from california mr campbell it raises taxes a whole whole bunch but the lady from california my colleague stood up here and admitted that and said yeah we're raising taxes in this budget that's what we're doing you know raising taxes is a legitimate policy decision it is something that i'm chair that people can make a decision to do and in all three democratic budget the authors of made the decision to raise taxes have made the decision to raise taxes but in this budget people beyond this are standing up you know they're proud about it when minute we're proud of it that's what we're doing where they're standing behind that policy decision to raise taxes they're raising taxes on almost everyone and they're they're proud to do that i think it's not a particularly good policy decision but it's a legitimate one they're raising taxes in all three of these budgets anywhere from three thousand dollars per taxpayer to seventy five hundred dollars per taxpayer per year legitimate policy decision i think it happens not be a particularly good one but at least they're standing up and saying that's what we want to do and that's what we're going to do and that's how we're going to raise the budget democrats as you put together madam chair as democrats put together these three budget that are raising taxes be proud you're raising taxes if that's what you want to do if that's what you're doing be proud of it stand behind it reflect the democratic priorities and values today i want to highlight the value added to the democratic budget by the two alternatives and thank my colleagues who supported the c b c budget alternative the c b c and progressive caucus alternatives offered to the american people and to this congress are rational and they are fiscally sound and morally responsible the c and progressive caucus alternative budget and best federal resources in the programs that benefit the constituency of of all the members of this house education health care economic opportunity retirement security and homeland security the c b c in progressive alternative budgets makes these investments while reducing the federal deficit which has spiraled out of control and out of sight over the last districts like mine and rule based congressional districts as well and investments in the care and treatment of victims of the annie the c b c and progressive caucus alternatives invest in our nation's veterans by strongest terms of a little over the last couple of weeks i have somewhat tongue in cheek talked about when the defeat in iraq caucus and with the defeat in afghanistan caucus get their way that it will be long before they declare a defeat divot is as you recall until i come today to find that the progressive caucus has already declared a seven hundred eighty one billion dollar defeat dividend we've got men and women in harm's way right now to give their lives for this country whether you agree to to not that's what they're doing where was this group last week when they said let's we're going to fight for a seventeen more months where were you when you why did you stand up and say that was ok and you call what they're doing the single largest waste of taxpayer money to american history you cannot have it both ways vote your co get him out of iraq now that's a legitimate position to defend but to say we're going to spend the people never seventeen more much stripped them of seven hundred eighty one billion dollars and in flak jackets and up armored humvees and all the things that would go that you take away from them recognized for two minutes thank you madam speaker of all the budget before congress this one hits the taxpayers the hardest over five years the progressive's budget will raise taxes by nine hundred and forty nine point three billion dollars over ten years a progressive budget will raise taxes by two point four trillion dollars over the next ten years they will essentially double the budget there's nothing progressive about democrats raising taxes that's been their only fiscal strategy of last seventy years it spends this budget spend six hundred forty three billion dollars over five years and new entitlement spend over and above what the president is asking it also spends drastically it also spends far less when it comes to military spending on our national defense it dresses drastically cuts military spending by seven hundred eighty one billion dollars over five years this is unconscionable beyond that it says that iraq and afghanistan are in our global war against islamic extremists is the largest single waste of u s taxpayer money that's coming from their budget their budget assumes a dream world where we're not fighting a global war against islamic extremists it is the ostrich approach where you stick your head in the sand and hope everything goes away it's ridiculous and it's not safe for the american people alternatively the republican budget that we propose here today takes social security off budget stops the raid on social security and a cheese balance while not raising taxes it's a huge difference between what republicans are proposing and the liberal left of the democratic caucus is proposing here on this house floor and beyond that what the democrats are saying with their full budget on the floor as well as us yield to the minority and tell they can catch up what we're looking to do is when you are ready to wrap up i would i have one speaker that would like to speak before the wrap up and then i would i at this time to yield four minutes to the author of the republican budget that will balance the budget preserve so security surplus without raising taxes the ranking member on the budget committee the gentleman from wisconsin mr gentleman is recognized for four minutes i think the gentleman for yielding i want to thank the gentleman from texas for his wonderful expertise on budget issues he's been a leader in this issue i also want to compliment the progressive for coming to the floor with an earnest budget i want to compliment the progressive for putting a budget together i mean these aren't easy things to do and you put together a budget that progressive have put together a budget that embodies their philosophy their opinions and i think that's good completely disagree with the direction of the budget cuts to defense incredible increases in spending across the board and a nine hundred forty nine billion dollar tax increase i think it's the wrong recipe for our economy but i compliment the progress is for bringing a budget adds up that actually achieve balance to the floor albeit by raising taxes madam chair i want to give a little foreshadowing on the budget that is about to occur in the next budget you're going to hear the word cuts we're going to hear the word drastic cuts and things like this i think we're going to hear that from the other side of the aisle because they proposed to control knows spending they propose to cut nothing not even controlling the growth of spending rather they choose to raise taxes on medicaid our budget will probably yes to increase spending albeit not as fast as it's going right now this will extend the solvency of medicaid we've proposed increase spending even faster than medicare medical inflation what about medicare again our red line below the blue line we proposed to even create medicare spending and re form the program what will our budget achieve it w saved that will extend the life and solvency of medicare what does the democrat budget achieve an exacerbation of the problem here is what our budget proposes to do on all entitlements i don't even know if the viewer can see the difference between the blue line which is the current trajectory of entitlement spending in the red line we propose to increase entitlement spending each year at four point one percent a year instead of four point seven percent a year is a drastic cut is that it arable awful cut programs let me repeat it one more time we're increasing in time and spending four point one percent a year instead of four point seven percent a year that's above inflation and what does th budget achieve here is the legacy of the democrat budget right now today according to general accounting office the current unfunded liability of medicare and social security is thirty seven trillion dollars that will go to sixty two trillion dollars of money we would have to set aside today to make these programs work for next two generations my generation of my children's generation by two thousand and twelve by doing nothing to save medicare medicaid and social security the democrat budget is actually increasing the liabilities of these programs and the democrat budget is making matters worse by postponing the necessary reforms that must occur but there is one thing the democrat budget does and it was just very well described in the washington post this morning and let me quote quote and while the house democrats say they want to preserve key parts of bush's signature tax cuts they projected surplus in tw twelve only by assuming that all of these tax cuts expire on schedule in two thousand and ten that means cap gains dividends income tax rates for child tax credit marriage sex but all those tax cuts go away let me make it very clear we use the congressional budget office by law to develop our budget and this red line shows you that in two thousand and ten tax cuts go away taxes increase and revenues go up that is the line the democrats are running their budget based on their budget requires assumes legislature needs these tax increases for them to balance the budget the green line is the line we used to write our budget we balance a budget without raising taxes and they raise taxes with that madam chair i yield back the balance of my time the gentlewoman from california man i'm speaker i'd like to know how many more speakers they have on the republican side this progressive caucus makes and that is that our domestic security here in our own country is an enterable part of our national security we have added four point eight billion dollars to our cops program for local law enforcement efforts we provided additional funds for gang violence prevention efforts and also we provided additional funding for job training and afterschool programs and many of our communities our young african american boys and latino young boys are dropping out of schools in unbelievable numbers we need a strong robust afterschool program with tutoring and our progressive caucus provides for that the american taxpayer is a compassionate people they want to see their tax dollars spent to eliminate poverty to provide health care for energy independence to educate our children the progressive caucus budget does just that it is a document that reflects the morality of keep our nation safe while investing needed necessary funds for domestic programs and you can do it and balance the budget at the same time our budget balances before the democratic budget before the republican budget and the president's budget doesn't ever balance it appears we can do that and at the same time we fully fund title one of no child left behind our investment in our promise to i d e a we make veterans health care and entitlement madam speaker is time we stand up to the challenge that is possible in a federal budget this alternative provides that all that challenge to the democrats and republicans of the house of representatives please vote for the congressional progressive budget thank you sure all of the democrat budgets are breathtakingly add in fiscal you're responsible for what they do they impose the single largest tax increase on american in american history on hardworking american families they represent the highest level of spending in the history of our nation at a time when we're taking twenty three thousand dollars away spending twenty three thousand dollars per family for only the first time since world war two but as breathtakingly bad as they are for what they do they are even worse for what they don't do because madam chair they are absolutely stone cold silent on the number one fiscal issue facing this nation facing the next generation and that is reforming entitlements spending which will plunge the next generation into trillions and trillions of dollars of debt and don't take want my word for it take the word of the comptroller general the chief officer of the united states of america who has said that we are on the verge of being the first generation to leave the next generation with a lower standard of living i mean think about that madam chair because we we are spending so much of the people's money these programs that have been vital to people for generations will go away if you do not reform medicare and so security and medicaid they will not be here for the next generation and madam chair as a father of a five year old daughter and a three year old son i cannot sit idly by and let that happen we must keep faith with prior generations by keeping faith with future generations let us reform entitlement spending let's give the next generation more opportunity and more freedom vote down the democrat budget gentleman's time has expired time for debate on the amendment has expired the question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from california all those in favor say  today this new congress will put america's fiscal house in order it will do so by presenting and voting on the democratic budget as designed by mr spratt the chairman of the budget committee and the house democrat i wish that it were coming to the floor with bipartisan support in the congress i know it has bipartisan support in the country i commend mr spratt for his exceptional leadership and bring to for a budget for the future a budget that will initiate an era of accountability in government spending and government accountability on our priorities it is a budget that  be come to balance in both the spending and also in terms of its priorities this reporting our house in order is necessary because for the last six years the bush administration and the republicans in congress have increased spending while giving tax cuts to the wealthiest few in our country leaving our our country awash in red ink more ging mortgaging our children's future it's just not right that they inherited when president bush took office he inherited a budget situation because of the paygo principles adopted by the clinton administration with the democrats in the congress because of those principles the last four clinton budgets were budgets in surplus because of those paygo principles coming out of the clinton years we were on  trajectory of pot five point six trillion dollars in surplus five point six trillion dollars in surplus on our way to ridding ourselves selves of the national debt because of the irresponsible budgeting of the republicans in congress and in the white house we are now on the chair directory of three trillion dollars in deficit  swing of approximately nine trillion dollars this is historic and again it is wrong it is wrong for our children it mortgages their future it is wrong for our economy the fiscal unaccountability will be corrected today with the passage of this budget and i commend chairman spratt and the democrats on the committee for taking us to this place just imagine we were on our way to ridding ourselves of the national debt we are now on our way to increasing it the budget put forth by the chairman is one that honors our responsibility to the american people a budget should be a statement of our national values our federal budget should reflect what is important to us as a nation that's how we should allocate our resources we should do it in an ethical way in a fiscally sound way and the most honest and open way and we must do it always with an eye to the future and that's what this budget  it honors our responsibility first and foremost to protect the american people and that is why it has the endorsement of almost every veterans group and they are actively supporting this legislation  advocating a yes vote it honors our commitment to grow our economy to create good paying jobs for the future by in investing in innovation and that's why it has the support of the council on competitiveness and almost any entity that is geared to the future to innovation and to make keeping america number one it honors our commitment to our children how they are cared for with their health care with their education and the economic strength of their families and that's why it has the support of so many organizations religious organizations who see a budget as a moral document and it honors our commitment to preserve our planet for the future and that's why it has the support right to left democratic and republican nonpartisan nonprofit any entity that you can name and volved in preserving our planet and energy independence and respecting god's creation which in nature is honoring that our commitment to nature and to the future preserving the planet this budget does that again it does it all in a fiscally sound way no new deficit spending pay as you go so think about what was inherited by this congress think of that what was inherited by this congress six years ago when the president five point six trillion dollars in surplus on a trajectory now we're three trillion dollars in a trajectory of deficit it's just not right we can reverse it today again the support outside this congress indicates that the american people are so far ahead of the congress of the united states when they think about our values and how our budget should receive flecked those values about accountability and how we how responsible we should be for the taxpayers dollar and about the future i urge my colleagues to support the spread house democratic budget to vote on that is a vote for the future it's a vote for an era of accountability new era of accountability it is a vote for a moral statement a statement of our every corded vote has been requested those in support of the request for a court of vote will rise and be counted