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Date: 2015-03-24
Speaker: TOM PRICE (republican)
Chamber: H
State: Georgia

Mr. Chairman. I yield myself such time as I may consume. I thank the chairman. and I want to thank my ranking member on the committee. the gentleman from Maryland
Date: 2015-03-24
Speaker: TOM PRICE (republican)
Chamber: H
State: Georgia

Mr. Chairman. so much misinformation just presented and we will work through that over the course of the next 3 hours as we debate this bill. I guess the most disheartening thing is the rhetoric that divides the American people. This is a time for the country to come together and solve the challenges that we have. An individual who has been leading in that is the current chairman of the Ways and Means Committee. the past chairman of the Budget Committee. I am proud to yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from Wisconsin .
Date: 2015-03-24
Speaker: TOM PRICE (republican)
Chamber: H
State: Georgia

Mr. Chairman. this appears to be a common theme. moving forward with this rhetoric that is hyperbole and dividing American against American. It is just not positive. It is not what this Nation needs. The gentleman from Maryland said that it is all about math. Math is math. And he is right. We now spend about $12.000 per American every single year. and we collect about $10.000 per every single American each year. It doesnt work. What does it get you? This is what it gets you. This is the debttogross domestic product ratio. the debt since 1940 of this country until 2015. The red line is where the debt is going. This is the Presidents plan. This is the Democrat plan right here. That is what will crush this country. Our friends want to stick their heads in the sand and ignore that. This is what destroys lives. This destroys every American. We stand for all Americans. We believe that having a balanced budget for a stronger America is the way to solve these challenges. We believe it is important to save and strengthen and secure the programs that are so vital for the American people. I am proud to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Indiana . the vice chairman of the Budget Committee who has been working diligently on this from the very beginning.
Date: 2015-03-24
Speaker: TOM PRICE (republican)
Chamber: H
State: Georgia

Mr. Chairman. I was amused by my friend from Marylands comments about the global war on terror fund. understanding that in 2015. 2014. and 2013. for those fiscal years. he voted for the appropriations bills that included the defense money and the OCO money. In fact. the levels were $91.9 billion. $91.9 billion. and $98.7 billion that the gentleman voted for.
Date: 2015-03-24
Speaker: TOM PRICE (republican)
Chamber: H
State: Georgia

Maybe I will yield to the gentleman later if I have time. I am pleased to yield 312 minutes to the gentleman from California . my friend and a member of the Budget Committee.
Date: 2015-03-24
Speaker: TOM PRICE (republican)
Chamber: H
State: Georgia

Mr. Chairman. I would note for the gentleman that if he reads the budget resolution. we accommodate for appropriate funding for infrastructure and for highways in section 510. With a deficitneutral reserve fund. that means that we actually accommodate for paying for it. for transportation and for infrastructure. because we believe it is a priority. We believe it is a priority for the American people. Mr. Chairman. I am pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Arkansas . a member of the Budget Committee.
Date: 2015-03-24
Speaker: TOM PRICE (republican)
Chamber: H
State: Georgia

Mr. Chairman. I yield myself such time as I may consume. I want to make a comment about the highway trust fund that was referenced. My colleague from Maryland stated there is nothing in this budget that will deal with the problem that is about to occur in a month and a half. And he is right. This budget deals with fiscal year 2016. which begins in October. The good news. Mr. Chairman. however. is that in last years budget. FY15 budget. which addresses this year. this current year that we are in right now. we also had a proposal to be able to provide for a deficit neutral reserve fund for transportation. which was used previously for MAP21. So a path to how we are able to actually solve the challenges before us. I am so pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from California
Date: 2015-03-24
Speaker: MIMI WALTERS (republican)
Chamber: H
State: California

Mr. Chairman. I rise today in support of the House Republican fiscal year 2016 budget resolution. A Balanced Budget for a Stronger America. At a time when our Nation is grappling with over $18 trillion in national debt and an uncertain economic future. now more than ever Washington must learn to live within its means. Washingtons spending problem is one that cannot be taken lightly. According to former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen. the "single. biggest threat to our national security" is our national debt. House Republicans are working to confront this issue head on. In our budget proposal. we seek to tackle Washingtons spending addiction by reducing Federal spending by $5.5 trillion and balancing the Federal budget in less than 10 years. This is a sharp contrast to President Obamas budget. which never balances. ever. despite the Presidents continued insistence on raising taxes. Our budget aims to strengthen vital programs like Medicare and Social Security in a fiscally responsible way so that we can fulfill the promises we have made to our Nations seniors. One of the Federal Governments top priorities is providing a strong national defense. This budget boosts defense spending above the Presidents levels so we can ensure a strong. safe. and secure Nation. Furthermore. our proposal repeals ObamaCare in full. including the laws taxes. regulations. and mandates that are crippling hardworking Americans and small businesses nationwide. We also empower patients by repealing the Presidents Independent Payment Advisory Board. an unelected. unaccountable board of bureaucrats charged with making patients health care decisions. The Republican budget is a positive step forward for our Nation. It seeks to address our Nations debt crisis while also supporting the programs that are critical to our national and economic security. I urge my colleagues to support this budget resolution.
Date: 2015-03-24
Speaker: TOM PRICE (republican)
Chamber: H
State: Georgia

I yield myself such time as I may consume. Mr. Chairman. we have heard our friends on the other side talk about gimmicks. If you want to talk about a gimmick. lets talk about the Presidents budget and what he does for defense. The President comes out and pounds his chest and says: I am a big defense hawk. I think we need to give our defense folks more moneysomething that we actually believeto keep this Nation safe. protect us from the threats we have today. The President says: Oh. oh. I believe in our budget. we will put $566 billion in our budget for defense. in the base defense budget. What the President knows. what our friends on the other side of the aisle know. is that that number is fiction. You talk about a gimmick. The President doesnt lay out any path at all to deal with the sequester cap. to deal with the law of the land right now that says that that number is going to be $523 billion unless the law is changed. which is why we positively. honestly. sincerely bring about appropriate increases for our men and women who are in harms way and defending our liberty and freedom. If this House actually stuck with the Presidents number. went with the Presidents numberand the President lays out no path to be able to change the lawthat number would snap right back down to $523 billion as soon as the next fiscal year. the next calendar year begins. That is why we believe it is appropriate to lay out that path. to lay out the path to be able to solve the challenge that we have. and we do that in our budget. You talk about gimmicks. Mr. Chairman. the Presidents budget is full of gimmicks. What it isnt full of is responsibility. as I mentioned before. increasing the debt beyond where the eye can see. So we have got a positive budget. A Balanced Budget for a Stronger America. I am pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from the great State of Georgia . my colleague on the Committee on the Budget. to talk about the responsible things that this budget can do.
Date: 2015-03-24
Speaker: TOM PRICE (republican)
Chamber: H
State: Georgia

Mr. Chairman. I thank the gentleman for bringing up the issue of business in America. jobs in America. I include in the RECORD letters from the Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America and from the National Federation of Independent Business in support of our budget.
Date: 2015-03-24
Speaker: TOM PRICE (republican)
Chamber: H
State: Georgia

Mr. Chairman. I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from the Commonwealth of Virginia . a senior member of the Republican Conference.
Date: 2015-03-24
Speaker: TOM PRICE (republican)
Chamber: H
State: Georgia

Mr. Chairman. I am pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Ohio . the former mayor of the great city of Dayton.
Date: 2015-03-24
Speaker: TOM PRICE (republican)
Chamber: H
State: Georgia

Mr. Chairman. it gives me particular pleasure to yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from the great State of Missouri . one of the most diligent and dedicated Members of this Congress who is a member of both the Armed Services Committee and the Budget Committee.
Date: 2015-03-24
Speaker: TOM PRICE (republican)
Chamber: H
State: Georgia

Mr. Chairman. I am now pleased to yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from South Carolina . a senior member of the Armed Services Committee.
Date: 2015-03-24
Speaker: TOM PRICE (republican)
Chamber: H
State: Georgia

Mr. Chairman. may I inquire as how much time remains on each side? The Acting CHAIR . The gentleman from Georgia has 27 minutes remaining. The gentleman from Maryland has 101/2 minutes remaining.
Date: 2015-03-24
Speaker: TOM PRICE (republican)
Chamber: H
State: Georgia

Mr. Chairman. I am now pleased to yield 4 minutes to the gentleman from California . a member of the Armed Services Committee and a gentleman who has served this country in the armed services.
Date: 2015-03-24
Speaker: TOM PRICE (republican)
Chamber: H
State: Georgia

Mr. Chairman. I also want to address this issue of morality. We have had a number of folks on the other side of the aisle talk about the morality of a budget. And budgeting is priorities. it is a moral document. there is no doubt about it. In the earlier debate. a number of folks on the other side talked about this notion that moral documents. moral issues. are raised in budgets. And I agree. there is no doubt about it. Budgets say what kind of people we are. They say what kind of people we want to be. So I want to ask this question. Mr. Chairman: What is the morality of trapping disadvantaged people in a web of welfare programs that discourage selfsufficiency and instead shackle them to government dependency? What is the morality of that? What is the morality of keeping retirees in a health care coverage program that is going bankrupt. becoming insolvent. not according to my numbers. according to the trustees of the program itself. and that cant keep its promises if its socalled providers keep blocking reform? What is the morality of that? What is the morality. Mr. Chairman. of forcing lowincome people into a secondrate health care program in which many cant get appointments with doctors and those doctors are grossly underreimbursed by the government? What is the morality of that? What is the morality. Mr. Chairman. of stifling medical innovation. preventing new treatments from reaching patients because of everexpanding Washington bureaucracy and red tape? Where is the morality in that kind of program? What is the morality of tying college students to years of crippling debt because of a governmentrun student loan program that drives up tuitions? I hear my friends on the other side talk about how difficult it is for students. and it is. Mr. Chairman. it is difficult because of the student loan program that they put in place when they were in the majority that doesnt give students access to low interest rate loans. Where is the morality of that? Where is the morality of heaping trillions of dollars of debt onto future generations to finance todays government spending because todays policymakers refuse to stop outspending our tax revenue? Where is the morality in that. Mr. Chairman? And these are only a few examples of the regrettable consequences of wellintentioned. governmentsponsored compassion. Our Republican budget aims to break that pattern. We aim to respect the American people and talk to them about the seriousness of the challenges that we face. but provide positive alternatives. real solutions with real results. That is what they are longing for. real leadership in this town. Our budget isnt about cutting programs. it is about improving and saving them to ensure a sustainable safety net for those who need it. while encouraging and helping others sustain themselves. the most truly compassionate thing one can do for another. That is the morality of our Republican budget. I reserve the balance of my time.
Date: 2015-03-24
Speaker: TOM PRICE (republican)
Chamber: H
State: Georgia

I would say to my friend that I am prepared to close. so I am happy to have the gentleman close.
Date: 2015-03-25
Speaker: TOM PRICE (republican)
Chamber: H
State: Georgia

Madam Chair. I yield myself such time as I may consume. I want to commend our friends in the Progressive Caucus for bringing forward a budget. It is not necessarily an easy thing to do. and so we want to thank them for bringing their budget forward. There arent many times in Congress when we actually get to compare like products to like products side by side. so I think it is important to compare exactly where this budget that is being proposed would take us. These are the three budgets that are going to be offered this afternoon by our friends on the other side of the aisle. The Progressive Caucus is the first one. So how does it compare to the budget. A Balanced Budget for a Stronger America. that we have offered for this Chamber? First. taxes. their budget would increase taxes over $7 trillion over the next 10 years. Spending? Spending increases $9.3 trillion over our budget. Deficits? $2.4 trillion increase over the next 10 years. Debt? $2.8 trillion increase in debt over the Republican option. A Balanced Budget for a Stronger America. Defense. decreasing defense spending by $529 billion. When does it get to balance? Never. Never gets to balance. Actually. Madam Chair. it clearly is not the direction that the American people desire or the American people need. So we stand strongly in favor of A Balanced Budget for a Stronger America. I yield my remaining time to the gentleman from California . and I ask unanimous consent that he be allowed to control the time. The Acting CHAIR. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Georgia?
Date: 2015-03-25
Speaker: TOM PRICE (republican)
Chamber: H
State: Georgia

Mr. Chair. I want to commend our friends in the CBC for coming forward with a budget. It is not an easy thing to do. having worked these last 10 or 11 weeks to try to fashion a budget that could be dealt with on the floor of the House. I also want to just point out that this is one of the few opportunities that we have. as Congress. to look at a comparison of apples to apples. of similar work products with each other. There are three budgets that will be offered by our friends on the other side. We have talked just now about the Progressive Caucus. In the middle is the CBC budget. the one that we are discussing right now. I just want to highlight the differences between this budget. from a numerical standpoint. with the budget that has been offered by the Republican majority. A Balanced Budget for a Stronger America. In the area of taxes. what does the CBC budget do? Increases taxes by over $3.2 trillion over the next 10 years. Spending? Increases spending by over $7 trillion over the next 10 years. compared to the Republican budgets. Deficits? Increases deficits by over $4 trillion over the next 10 years. Debt? Same. $4 trillion added to the debt. What do they spend on the defense of our Nation at these perilous times? Decreased spending on defense by $314 billion. The big question is: When does their budget ever get to balance? Because a balanced budget is what we need to get this economy rolling again. When does it ever get to balance? The answer is never. It is a worthy endeavor that our friends in the CBC have undertaken. however. it is not right for the country and certainly doesnt stand up to the scrutiny of A Balanced Budget for a Stronger America. Mr. Chairman. I yield my remaining time to the gentlewoman from Tennessee . and I ask unanimous consent that she be allowed to control the time. The Acting CHAIR. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from Georgia?
Date: 2015-03-25
Speaker: TOM PRICE (republican)
Chamber: H
State: Georgia

I appreciate the gentlelady yielding. The gentlelady from Tennessee controls our time. and we do have another speaker or two. But as soon as your time expires and if we have time remaining. then we will be happy to yield some time to the CBC.
Date: 2015-03-25
Speaker: TOM PRICE (republican)
Chamber: H
State: Georgia

Mr. Chairman. I yield myself such time as I may consume. Before I begin. I want to join with my colleague on the Committee on the Budget. the ranking member. in providing a letter for the RECORD commending Doug Elmendorf. Director of the Congressional Budget Office. whose time at the CBO is coming to a close. His final day is March 31. He has served this Nation for the last 6 years as the Director of the Congressional Budget Office. and the ranking member. Mr. VAN HOLLEN. and I will be inserting a letter into the RECORD to commend him for his service. I yield to the gentleman from Maryland to say a few words about Director Elmendorf.
Date: 2015-03-25
Speaker: TOM PRICE (republican)
Chamber: H
State: Georgia

Mr. Chairman. may I inquire as to the time remaining on each side? The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Georgia has 51/2 minutes remaining. The gentleman from Maryland has 71/2 minutes remaining.
Date: 2015-03-25
Speaker: TOM PRICE (republican)
Chamber: H
State: Georgia

Mr. Chairman. I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment in the nature of a substitute is as follows: Strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following:
Date: 2015-03-25
Speaker: TOM PRICE (republican)
Chamber: H
State: Georgia

Mr. Chairman. I want to thank my colleagues for their participation yesterday. We had extensive debate on the committee mark yesterday. so I will review. very briefly. the committee mark and then touch on the differences between this and the next substitute amendment. This amendment is the committee mark. It is A Balanced Budget for a Stronger America. As we have talked about. this balances the budget in less than 10 years. It does so without raising taxes. which is absolutely vital. All of the other alternatives that were brought from our friends on the other side of the aisle to the floor today. every one of them. raised significant taxes on the American people. We set out a path to be able to provide for a fairer. simpler. a more appropriate tax code where Washington isnt picking winners and losers. Our underlying resolution repeals all of ObamaCare. It eliminates the Independent Payment Advisory Board. It lays out a path for patientcentered health care. where patients and families and doctors are making medical decisions. not Washington. D.C. We ensure a strong national defense. Our numbers. when you combine the base budget with the global war on terror budget. are above the Presidents numbers required for making certain that our men and women who stand in harms way have the resources available to make certain they can protect not just us. but protect themselves. We secure our future by laying out a path to save and strengthen and secure Medicare and Medicaid. It is so incredibly important. Medicare. itself. has been estimated by the trustees to go insolventto go brokein 2033. It is absolutely vital that this Congress recognize the challenge before us and lay out a path for saving and strengthening and securing Medicare. and we do just that. We restore federalism. We think it is important to increase choices and opportunities for the men and women back home. It is imperative that we have increased flexibility for States. not just in the area of health care and in the area of Medicaid. but also in the area of nutritional assistance and in the area of education. Folks in our States and in our local communities know better how to respond to the needs of their citizens. and we cut corporate waste. fraud. and abuse and corporate welfare. Positive solutions. Mr. Chairman. in a bill that we label "A Balanced Budget for a Stronger America." solutions that will get us on track to revive this economy. get folks back to work. and make certain that we put a cap on the debt and begin to put us on a path to paying off the debt. we can only do that if we get to balance. This is A Balanced Budget for a Stronger America. I encourage our colleagues to adopt and to support this substitute. I reserve the balance of my time.
Date: 2015-03-25
Speaker: TOM PRICE (republican)
Chamber: H
State: Georgia

I ask the Chair how much time remains on each side. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Georgia has 21/4 minutes remaining. The gentleman from Maryland has 3 minutes remaining.
Date: 2015-03-25
Speaker: TOM PRICE (republican)
Chamber: H
State: Georgia

I yield myself the balance of my time. Mr. Chairman. as I said yesterday. somewhere across this land somebody has turned to their wife at home and said: "Hide the kids and pets. dear. They are talking about the budget." I really am amazed. Well. I shouldnt be amazed. but I really am amazed at the level of misinformation and hyperbole that goes on. The gentleman on the other side knows that the way that we treat the defense spending. $613 billion with base defense and global war on terror funding. is exactly the way it has to be treated until the law is changed. The gentleman on the other side didnt even recognize that. the Democrats dont recognize that. the President doesnt recognize that. He puts a phony number in his budget that will snap right back down to the sequester level of $523 billion unless the law is changedsomething that we actually support. something in our budget that we provide a path to be able to do. We provide the path to a solution. The other folks are just providing rhetoric. What about balance? Here are the deficits over the next 10 years. Mr. Chairman. The red line is current policy. What the President and our friends on the other side do actually mirrors. basically. that line. You will notice that at the end of this. this gets near to a trillion dollars of deficit in 1 year. These folks think you can just spend and spend and spend. This is our line. This gets us down to balance. This is how you begin to pay off the debt. This is how you begin to provide greater opportunities for the American people. a budget of real hope. real opportunity. Our friends on the other side say it is harder on seniors and students and workers and Medicaidnot true. What we actually do is propose solutions to the challenges that we face. We cant stick our head in the sand and expect these problems are going to get solved. I just wish that our friends on the other side would join us together and help solve these challenges. The challenges are huge. The American people know it. What our budget does. A Balanced Budget for a Stronger America actually lays out a path to be able to solve these challenges. positive solutions for the American people. They recognize that. We are standing up on behalf of all Americans to solve the challenges that we have. I urge a "yes" vote. I yield back the balance of my time. The Acting CHAIR. The question is on the amendment in the nature of a substitute offered by the gentleman from Georgia .