October 4, 2017 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7777 Boyle, Brendan Grijalva O’Rourke Soboleff Commission on Native Children unlock tax reform, and support an F. Gutie´rrez Pallone Commission. economy that creates opportunity for Brady (PA) Hanabusa Panetta Thank you for your attention to this ap- Brown (MD) Hastings all Americans. Pascrell pointment. Brownley (CA) Heck In past years, our budget resolution Payne Sincerely, Bustos Higgins (NY) Pelosi was a vision document, but this year it Butterfield Himes Perlmutter NANCY PELOSI, Capuano Hoyer Democratic Leader. is different. With the election of Presi- Peters dent Trump, our budget goes from Carbajal Huffman Peterson ´ f Cardenas Jackson Lee Pingree being a vision document to being a gov- Carson (IN) Jayapal Pocan erning document that outlines how we Cartwright Jeffries CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON Polis Castor (FL) Johnson (GA) THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR build a better America for our children Price (NC) Castro (TX) Johnson, E. B. and our grandchildren. Quigley 2018 Chu, Judy Kaptur Today, we have the opportunity to Cicilline Keating Raskin GENERAL LEAVE Rice (NY) fulfill our promises to the American Clark (MA) Kelly (IL) Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Speaker, I ask Clarke (NY) Kennedy Richmond people. Balancing the budget by 2027 is Clay Khanna Roybal-Allard unanimous consent that all Members our top priority. Our national debt Cleaver Kildee Ruiz have 5 legislative days to revise and ex- stands at $20 trillion, with $9 trillion Clyburn Kilmer Ruppersberger tend their remarks and include extra- added over just the last 8 years. For Cohen Kind Rush Connolly Krishnamoorthi Ryan (OH) neous material on H. Con. Res. 71, cur- too long, both parties in Washington Conyers Kuster (NH) Sa´ nchez rently under consideration. have failed to abide by a simple prin- Cooper Langevin Sarbanes The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there ciple that all American families and Correa Larsen (WA) Schakowsky objection to the request of the gentle- small businesses do, that we must live Costa Larson (CT) Schiff Courtney Lawrence Schneider woman from Tennessee? within our means. Crist Lawson (FL) Scott (VA) There was no objection. Balancing the budget requires us to Crowley Lee Serrano The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- make some tough decisions, but the Cuellar Levin Sewell (AL) consequences of inaction far outweigh Cummings Lewis (GA) ant to House Resolution 553 and rule Shea-Porter any political risk we may face. Davis (CA) Lieu, Ted Sherman XVIII, the Chair declares the House in Davis, Danny Lipinski Sinema the Committee of the Whole House on Unless we take bold steps to bring DeFazio Loebsack Sires the state of the Union for the consider- our excessive spending and debt under DeGette Lofgren Slaughter control, a sovereign debt crisis is the Delaney Lowenthal ation of the concurrent resolution, H. Smith (WA) natural conclusion. Failure to take DeLauro Lowey Soto Con. Res. 71. DelBene Lujan Grisham, Speier The Chair appoints the gentleman swift and decisive action is not only in- Demings M. Suozzi excusable, it is immoral. DeSaulnier Luja´ n, Ben Ray from Colorado (Mr. LAMBORN) to pre- Swalwell (CA) The budget resolution before us takes Deutch Lynch side over the Committee of the Whole. Takano Dingell Maloney, real steps to put our country on a Thompson (CA) Doggett Carolyn B. b 1402 sound fiscal path that balances in 10 Thompson (MS) Ellison Maloney, Sean years and will allow us to start paying Engel Matsui Tonko IN THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE Eshoo McCollum Torres Accordingly, the House resolved down our national debt. Espaillat McEachin Tsongas itself into the Committee of the Whole Building a Better America also as- Esty (CT) McGovern Vargas sumes bold reforms to strengthening House on the state of the Union for the Evans McNerney Veasey programs that our seniors and our Vela consideration of the concurrent resolu- Foster Meeks most vulnerable citizens rely on and Frankel (FL) Meng Vela´ zquez tion (H. Con. Res. 71) establishing the Visclosky ensure that these programs can con- Fudge Moore congressional budget for the United Gabbard Moulton Walz tinue to serve them for generations to States Government for fiscal year 2018 Gallego Murphy (FL) Wasserman come. Garamendi Nadler Schultz and setting forth the appropriate budg- While our budget includes reforms to Gomez Napolitano Waters, Maxine etary levels for fiscal years 2019 Gonzalez (TX) Neal Watson Coleman discretionary spending, we also strong- through 2027, with Mr. LAMBORN in the Gottheimer Nolan Welch ly believe that mandatory spending Green, Al Norcross Wilson (FL) chair. must be addressed in this budget reso- Green, Gene O’Halleran Yarmuth The Clerk read the title of the con- lution and in budget resolutions to NOT VOTING—13 current resolution. come. Amodei Kihuen Scalise The CHAIR. Pursuant to the rule, the Mandatory spending is already more Bridenstine Long Schrader concurrent resolution is considered than two-thirds of all of our Federal Doyle, Michael Loudermilk Scott, David read the first time. spending, and that number will only F. McCarthy Titus General debate shall not exceed 4 Hultgren Rosen continue to grow, and that is why our hours, with 3 hours confined to the con- committee felt strongly about address- b 1359 gressional budget, equally divided and ing mandatory spending programs in So the resolution was agreed to. controlled by the chair and ranking this budget through reconciliation. The result of the vote was announced minority member of the Committee on Our budget requires 11 authorizing as above recorded. the Budget, and 1 hour on the subject committees to find a minimum of $203 A motion to reconsider was laid on of economic goals and policies, equally billion in savings and reforms over the the table. divided and controlled by the gen- 10-year budget window with an expec- tleman from Ohio (Mr. TIBERI) and the tation that the reforms will result in f gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. significantly higher savings. CAROLYN B. MALONEY) or their des- This package of mandatory reforms COMMUNICATION FROM THE ignees. is the largest since the 1990s, through DEMOCRATIC LEADER The gentlewoman from Tennessee reconciliation, and it is the first step The SPEAKER pro tempore laid be- (Mrs. BLACK) and the gentleman from to change the culture of Washington in fore the House the following commu- Kentucky (Mr. YARMUTH) each will our spending. nication from the Honorable NANCY control 90 minutes of debate on the Our budget also promotes tax reform PELOSI, Democratic Leader: congressional budget. and regulatory reform to get the Fed- OCTOBER 4, 2017. The Chair recognizes the gentle- eral Government out of the way and Hon. PAUL RYAN, woman from Tennessee. allow our free market economy to Speaker of the House of Representatives, U.S. Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chair, I yield my- thrive. The larger the government, the Capitol, Washington, DC. self such time as I may consume. less freedom individuals and businesses DEAR SPEAKER RYAN: Pursuant to section 3 Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support have to thrive, grow, hire, and inno- of the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter Soboleff Commission on Native Children Act of H. Con. Res. 71, our budget, Building vate. The Obama economy left millions (Pub. L. 114–244), I am pleased to appoint Dr. a Better America. Our budget takes of Americans behind with over 14 mil- Dolores Subia BigFoot of Norman, Oklahoma real, tangible steps to balance the lion people leaving the labor workforce to the Alyce Spotted Bear and Walter budget, build a stronger military, in just the last 8 years.

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It will also simplify too many young people in this country, For example, under this tax plan, the Tax Code, allowing about 9 out of the opportunity to live the American millions of families making $50,000 a 10 Americans to file their taxes on a Dream is out of reach. A government year would be subject to a tax increase, simple postcard. that was supposed to be of, by, and for while millionaires get a $230,000 aver- Many of our friends across the aisle the people has left them behind. age tax cut. That is not tax reform. and in the media said that a 1.9 percent Building a Better America requires a That is a shakedown. economic growth is the new normal government that spends within its In total, individuals will see their and that we are doomed to continue means, a military with the resources to taxes go up by more than $450 billion, the economic stagnation of the Obama complete the mission, an economy that while corporations, wealthy pass- years. creates the opportunity for all, and a through entities, and rich estates get a They have a pessimistic view of our Federal bureaucracy that respects the tax cut totaling $2.9 trillion. Nation’s ability to create jobs and to taxpayers. One might justifiably ask why any- build our foundation of greater oppor- It also requires an understanding one would want to do that. After all, tunity for all. that the greatness of America does not the income disparity in the United America has the greatest workers, lie in the grand buildings and the stone States is greater than almost every the greatest innovators, and the entre- pillars of Washington, D.C. The great- other country on Earth, and it is get- preneurial ethos to far surpass the eco- ness of America lies in the spirit and ting larger. Just a few decades ago, the nomic growth of the last 8 years, if the tenacity of the people. wealthiest 1 percent of Americans only the Federal Government would We designed Building a Better Amer- earned about one-fourth of all national get out of the way. ica to put this vision into practice, to income. Today, it is close to 40 percent. In this budget, we put our trust in empower individuals to live their Yet, once this plan is fully phased in, the American people. But a stronger version of the American Dream. Future 80 percent of the entire tax cut in this economy is not enough; we must also generations of Americans are counting plan goes to just the top 1 percent, strengthen our military. on us, and failure is not an option. while 45 percent of all households with The number one job of the Federal I want to take this opportunity to children see a tax increase. Government is to protect its citizens. thank the members of this committee You could be someone who gets a $1 Over the last 8 years, the weak foreign for their hard work that they have million salary, owns billions in cor- policy of President Obama has led to done, for the months that we have porate stock, be a partner in a hedge an increase in threats from all corners worked tirelessly to come together and fund, or just the heir to a massive for- of the globe while the funding for our build a budget that reflects our prin- tune, no matter the type of millionaire men and women in uniform has failed ciples. you are, Republicans make sure you to keep pace. Building a Better Amer- It hasn’t been easy, but producing a will get a tax cut. No matter how many ica invests $621.5 billion in our military budget that puts our vision for fiscal times President Trump, Secretary and $75 billion specifically for the glob- sanity into practice will be worth it, Mnuchin, or my colleagues across the al war on terrorism for fiscal year 2018. and I thank each and every one of you aisle say it and how much they hope These resources will help our men and for your hard work. the American people will fall for it, women in uniform complete the mis- Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of these tax cuts won’t pay for them- sion with which they have been tasked. my time. selves. Building a Better America presents Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chairman, I That is not just my argument. That us with an opportunity to change the yield myself such time as I may con- is the conclusion of the Federal Re- trajectory of our country forever. The sume. serve, the Congressional Budget Office, election of President Trump was a sig- Mr. Chairman, the Republican budget and respected economists of all stripes. nal to all of us that the American peo- we are debating here today is a Conservative economist and former ple will no longer accept the status shockingly extreme document that CBO Director Douglas Holtz-Eakin quo. gives to the rich and takes from every- said: ‘‘There is just no evidence that This budget is also a very personal one else. It calls for more than $5 tril- the tax cuts actually pay for them- one for me. As I and my committee lion in spending cuts that threaten our selves.’’ have gone through the long and ardu- economic progress and our national se- Even Goldman Sachs, Secretary ous process of getting this budget to curity, and it willfully ignores the Mnuchin’s former employer, says any the floor, I have had to stop and think needs and priorities of the American growth will be minimal, maybe up to about not just what we are doing but people. two-tenths of a percent. where we are going. This budget isn’t about conservative Bruce Bartlett, the man who wrote I have a picture of my six grand- policy or reducing the size of our debt Reaganomics, which codified the trick- children taped to the back of my vot- and deficits. It is not even about Amer- le-down theory, told Congress last ing card. I was a nurse for more than 40 ican families. This budget is about one week that he now thinks it is: ‘‘bull.’’ years and still hold my license today. thing: using budget reconciliation to Well, that is half of the word he used, Government and public service was ram through giant tax giveaways to but you get the idea. never an ambition of mine, but when I the wealthy and big corporations and The historical record is clear. We saw what was happening in my State to do it without bipartisan support. went through this in the early 1980s, and in this country, I couldn’t sit back the early 2000s under George W. Bush, and do nothing. b 1415 and we recently saw it play out to dis- Every time I put my voting card into This budget and the tax cuts it exists astrous effect in Kansas. Now congres- a slot, I am reminded of why I left the to support are built on a foundation of sional Republicans want to try it career that I loved to join the political lies. They are part of a dangerous and again. fray. It is for them. It is for my chil- deceptive three-step process Repub- We all know the truth. The tax cuts dren and grandchildren and for yours licans have used before with serious in this plan will increase deficits and as well. consequences for our Nation and the debt by approximately $2.4 trillion in I grew up in an America where a poor American people. the first 10 years alone and trillions girl, whose parents’ only ambition was This is what they do. First, my Re- more in the years after. These aren’t for her to finish high school, could publican colleagues call for massive special, supernatural tax cuts. They graduate from college, become a nurse, tax cuts for the rich, claiming they aren’t going to magically defy expert and eventually become a Member of will generate so much economic analysis, historical precedence, and the House of Representatives. growth, that they will pay for them- empirical evidence. This budget will

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Mr. Chair, I rise today as a member promised and these tax cuts keep I encourage all Members of the House of the Budget Committee to express my digging our economy down deeper and to vote in favor of this budget, and strong opposition to this budget resolu- deeper, Republicans will again bemoan that is because our national debt con- tion, which, if passed, would leave the horrors of deficits and debt. tinues to grow exponentially every countless working families behind, and These cries will lead us to the third day, every hour, every minute, and not to mention would, in fact, raise the and final part of the plan. They will every second. We cannot afford to have Federal debt by at least $3 trillion over call for congressional action, not to any more time waiting to address the the first decade and by at least $6.6 roll back the tax cuts to the wealthy spending crisis that we are in. trillion by the end of the second 10 that caused all the damage, but for This budget begins to put these irre- years. drastic cuts to important programs sponsible elitist policies behind us, and This proposed budget is an atrocious that the American people need and sup- creates a culture around here that representation of our values. As more port. Education, healthcare, research, makes sure that our friends and neigh- Americans find it harder and harder to infrastructure, and veterans’ benefits bors who really need the help get the get by, this budget guts what people are already threatened in this budget. help without forcing our Nation’s bills need to be most successful. It takes It includes an astonishing $5.4 trillion on our children and grandchildren, fu- away dollars from education; it takes in spending cuts; $1.5 trillion from ture generations, some of whom don’t away dollars from the programs we Medicare and Medicaid alone. It even even exist yet. rely on for retirement, for switching assumes $49 billion in cuts to veterans’ Specifically, this budget reforms between jobs, for healthcare. benefits. mandatory spending so it is focused on We should be focused on funding the The enormity of these cuts and the those, Mr. Chairman, in our commu- things that will enable the workforce severity of the consequences for Amer- nities who really need help. This will to prepare for the 21st century, not ican families cannot be overstated, but ensure that our country will focus lim- gutting programs that will leave them more cuts will be coming if my Repub- ited resources on those who are most falling further behind. licans get their way with this budget. vulnerable, while encouraging a cul- Rather than funding luxury travel We will see more attacks on Medicare, ture of self-reliance instead of govern- for the Trump administration, let’s in- Medicaid, Social Security, nutrition ment dependence. vest in quality education, job skills We should be measuring, Mr. Chair- assistance, on important benefits and training, and properly fund the State man, success of these programs on how services that help American families Department and foreign aid programs many people we get off of them, not get ahead, and on key investments that that Secretary of Defense Mattis and how many people we trap in them. keep our economy and our Nation Mr. Chairman, as the chart I am Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff strong. holding shows, because mandatory Dunford have said are critical to our To be clear, and with all due respect spending is over two-thirds of our total national security. to my friend and colleague from Ten- annual spending, reforming this part of This budget puts working families, nessee, by voting on this budget, for our spending is the only way to really our economy, and our national security this budget, they are jeopardizing get our debt and deficits down. This at risk. meals and food assistance for 515,000 budget, for the first time, starts ad- Passage of this budget would also hungry children in Tennessee so that dressing this part of the pie, $203 bil- pave the way for Republican tax re- the wealthiest person in that State, lion worth, and that is because of the form, if you want to call it that, which who has a net worth of $8.8 billion, can leadership here of Republicans in the would favor big businesses that destroy get a massive tax cut. House of Representatives. our small towns. Democrats have a different budget Now, this budget also protects our It shouldn’t be easier for a company and a far different vision for our coun- friends and neighbors by making sure to get a tax break on buying another try. Our priorities reflect the priorities our families are safe, that the military robot than training their employees to of the American people. has the tools that they need, and that gain skills for the modern economy. We invest in programs that will grow the administration has the money it We need a tax plan to incentivize com- our economy, create good-paying jobs, needs to secure our border. panies to invest in their workers in- and provide real support for working This budget also jump-starts tax re- stead of engaging in a race to the bot- families; public investments that lead form, which will put money back in the tom where workers are viewed as a bur- to a brighter future, such as rebuilding pockets of hardworking Hoosiers and den rather than an asset. roads, bridges, and other vital infra- all Americans. We need a budget that will foster eco- structure; retirement security for sen- Mr. Chairman, in closing, as Presi- nomic growth for all of our people, and iors now and for millions of Americans dent Ronald Reagan once said: ‘‘We we need to make taxes more simple and who fear they will never be able to af- don’t have a trillion-dollar debt be- fair for working families, not give ford to stop working; affordable edu- cause we haven’t taxed enough; we handouts to the rich. cation so that young people will be have a trillion-dollar debt because we Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to able to compete for the careers of the spend too much.’’ vote ‘‘no’’ on this proposed budget so future; affordable, quality childcare for That is still true today, Mr. Chair- that we can go back to the table—or, hardworking parents; and affordable man, except that that $1 trillion is now actually, to go to the table for the first quality healthcare for all Americans. $20 trillion and growing. time as Democrats and Republicans, We believe in a government that Again, I encourage all my colleagues and have a conversation about funding helps individuals with nowhere left to to vote in favor of this budget. the resources that will actually move turn and a Tax Code that helps families Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chair, I would our economy and country forward into get ahead. Those are American prior- note for my colleague from Indiana the 21st century and beyond. ities, and they should be the priorities that by voting for this budget, he will Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chairman, I yield 4 of this Congress. force 1,150,553 seniors, disabled individ- minutes to the gentleman from Florida I, therefore, urge my colleagues to uals, and other seriously ill people in (Mr. DIAZ-BALART), who is also a mem- oppose this budget and support the Indiana to pay more for lifesaving ber of our committee and also of the Democratic alternative. Medicare all so that the wealthiest per- Appropriations Committee. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of son in his State, who has a net worth of Mr. DIAZ-BALART. Mr. Chair, I my time. $8 billion, can get a massive tax break. must first start by thanking Chair- Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chair, I yield 2 Mr. Chair, I yield 2 minutes to the woman BLACK for her excellent work minutes to the gentleman from Indiana gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. on this bill. (Mr. ROKITA), the vice chair of the MOULTON), a distinguished member of There are a lot of things that I can Budget Committee. the Budget Committee. talk about that are very positive in

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We have to hood, K–12, and higher education pro- place in the world. Our chairwoman upgrade our defense systems and weap- grams, as well as job training and ap- and our committee stops that, reverses ons systems, and we have to ensure the prenticeships. It guts nutrition assist- that, and begins to invest. readiness of our military. ance, which provides benefits to more Mr. Chair, I just want to end by The United States must continue to than 43 million Americans a year, al- pointing out the long-term solution lead on a global scale. This budget most half of whom are children. It con- here to our problems really is entitle- takes us in that direction by investing tinues the destructive cycle of neglect- ment reform. We have to get serious in our national defense. Obviously, cou- ing our already crumbling infrastruc- about mandatory spending. It is two- pled with targeted soft diplomacy fund- ture, even though we know the longer thirds of the budget now. Without ing, we accomplish that. we wait, the more costly repairs will be changing the direction we are going, it This budget takes us, as I said, in in the future and the less economically will be 81 percent a decade from now. It that direction, and it does so in a very competitive our communities will be. is simply not sustainable. positive way. I believe this budget Slashing programs that help working It is nice to talk about this discre- makes those critical investments. families in order to line the pockets of tionary program or that discretionary Mr. Chairman, I don’t have to tell the wealthiest Americans has never led program. The fundamental problem you that under the previous adminis- to jobs or economic growth, and it that we face is mandatory spending. tration, cuts to our defense spending never will. Every dollar we spend is a The chairwoman addresses it in her left the world a more dangerous place reflection of our values, which is why I budget. We can come back and build on and it left our country in a more vul- am deeply disappointed that this budg- what she does next year and continue nerable place. Thankfully, the current et demonstrates an utter disregard for to go after the area that really administration recognizes the failure middle class Americans, a lack of vi- unbalances the budget. Mr. Chair, I urge the passage of the of the last 8 years and is, again, willing sion for what our future could look like budget. with smart, targeted investments, and to lead again. Now it is up to us to do Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chair, I would a complete lack of empathy for the our part to provide the resources to note, for my friend and colleague, that allow the administration and our mili- most vulnerable. by voting for this budget, he will force Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to tary to lead again. This budget gets us 678,763 seniors, disabled individuals, vote ‘‘no.’’ there. I am pleased to support it. and other seriously ill people in Okla- Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chair, I yield 2 Mr. Chair, I want to thank the chair- homa to pay more for lifesaving Medi- minutes to the gentleman from Okla- woman for her invaluable leadership. I care all so that the wealthiest person homa (Mr. COLE), a member of the urge my colleagues to do the same and, in his State, who has a net worth of Budget Committee and also the Appro- again, make sure that we stand toe to $10.2 billion, gets a massive tax cut. toe with our adversaries and we stand, priations Committee. Mr. Chair, I yield 2 minutes to the most importantly, with the national Mr. COLE. Mr. Chair, I want to thank gentleman from California (Mr. the chairwoman for yielding time to security interests of the United States. CARBAJAL), a distinguished member of Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chairman, I me, and I particularly want to con- the Budget Committee. want to note for my friend and col- gratulate her on doing something that Mr. CARBAJAL. Mr. Chair, I rise league from Florida that by voting for is going to be pretty remarkable today. today in opposition to the fiscal year this budget, he is jeopardizing meals She is bringing a budget that actually 2018 Republican budget resolution, a and food assistance for 1,448,000 hungry balances in 10 years. budget that comes nearly 6 months children in Florida so that the wealthi- My good friends on the other side late and days into the new fiscal year. est person in his State, who has a net will bring us three budgets, none of This Republican budget betrays mil- worth of $13.2 billion, can get a massive which come into balance in 10 years. In lions of hardworking middle class fami- tax cut. that, to be fair, they follow the tradi- lies, while showering billionaires with Mr. Chair, I yield 2 minutes to the tion that President Obama set, who irresponsible tax cuts. gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. never ever brought us a budget that By cutting $211 billion over the next DELBENE), a distinguished member of balanced and left us with a national 10 years for student loans and college the Budget Committee. debt roughly twice the size of the one aid, it makes it harder to send our kids Ms. DELBENE. Mr. Chair, I rise in op- he had when he came into office. If we to college. It abandons our Nation’s position to this dangerous budget pro- don’t do what Chairwoman BLACK sug- crumbling infrastructure by cutting posal. gests here, we are going to be in ex- $245 billion over 10 years for transpor- With many working families and actly that same position. tation. It turns its back on families businesses still struggling to adapt to a I particularly want to congratulate putting food on the table with SNAP rapidly changing economy, our top pri- the chairwoman for having the courage by cutting $150 billion from the pro- ority in Congress should be to help ex- to take on the tough issue of entitle- gram over the next 10 years. It neglects pand opportunities and sustain long- ment and mandatory spending reform. our grandparents and our seniors with term economic growth and security so She has $200 billion of it. It sounds like a $487 billion cut to Medicare in the no American is left behind as we forge a lot of money, but it is out of $30 tril- next decade, and it assumes the repeal new paths ahead. lion over 10 years. This is something of the Affordable Care Act, leaving we can do—frankly, we should do more over 20 million Americans uninsured. b 1430 of—and that is the way to actually I offered two amendments during the To spur robust job growth, we must move toward balance. markup of this budget—one to fully invest in our education system to pro- I also want to congratulate the chair- fund programs for our veterans, and vide the training and skills workers woman for actually working with other another to reject paying for a border need to be prepared for the jobs of committee chairmen to help them wall—both of which were blocked by today and tomorrow. identify the cuts so they are real. They my Republican colleagues. We should invest in infrastructure are not just fictional things in an This budget boosts defense spending that will put people to work and make imaginary document. to $622 billion, $72 billion above the our communities better places to do Finally, I particularly want to com- budget cap for defense and well over business, and we should invest in grow- mend her for a wise investment in na- even the President’s request, and it ing a strong middle class, the backbone tional security. That is a tough deci- underfunds nondefense spending at $5 of our economy. sion to make, but we have all seen the billion below the cap.

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That is where Mr. Chair, I yield 4 minutes to the four taxpayers. economists warn we run the risk of gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. The CHAIR. The time of the gen- damage or even loss of our access to NEAL), the ranking member of the tleman has expired. credit, a sovereign debt crisis. Ways and Means Committee. Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chair, I yield If you want to know what that looks Mr. NEAL. Mr. Chair, since the gen- the gentlemen from California an addi- like, Venezuela is going through it tlewoman, my friend from Tennessee, tional 15 seconds. right now, and within our own terri- remarked upon economic growth, let Mr. CARBAJAL. Mr. Chair, this tory, the Commonwealth of Puerto me, as one who was here at the time, budget completely ignores a balanced Rico—pension systems implode, basic perhaps correct the RECORD. approach to achieving fiscal sustain- services falter, the economy collapses. Bill Clinton’s economic growth was ability and stacks the deck even higher Two years after that, in 2024, 6 years higher than Ron Reagan’s, and that is against middle class families, seniors, from now, the CBO warns that the an- not in dispute. Barack Obama’s eco- and students. nual interest cost on our debt will nomic growth was higher than George Mr. Chair, I reject today’s Repub- reach $654 billion. That is more than W. Bush’s. We were losing 800,000 jobs a lican budget and ask my colleagues to we currently spend on defense. month at the end of the Bush adminis- oppose it. I would remind my friends on the left tration, to bring up one point, which, Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chair, I want to re- that you cannot provide for the com- by the way, is closer to 2.1 percent. mind my colleagues from the other mon defense or promote the general People here know I follow these side of the aisle that, during the time welfare if you can’t pay for it, and the issues like a hawk, but the truth is of the previous administration, there ability of our country to do so is being that this budget today that is being was $9 trillion added to the debt, 1.9 undermined by our spending trajec- put forward is a threat to Medicare and percent economic growth, and that was tory. Social Security down the road. the high of that period of time, and At the same time, we charge the The previous speaker said he is con- there were 14 million people who left highest corporate tax rate in the indus- cerned about mandatory spending. I the labor workforce. If their policies trialized world, sending trillions of dol- gotcha. Put out a plan. Put out a plan worked, we wouldn’t see these kinds of lars of capital and hundreds of thou- on Social Security and Medicare. And statistics. sands of jobs to other countries. In the don’t do it in the backdoor way here as Mr. Chair, I yield 4 minutes to the last 8 years, we have averaged only half they complain about deficits and they gentleman from California (Mr. of our postwar economic growth. prepare to embrace a tax cut of $1.5 MCCLINTOCK), a member of our Budget I remind my friends that corpora- trillion or, over 10 years, $2.2 trillion Committee. tions do not pay corporate taxes. Cor- on top of the Bush tax cuts in 2001 and Mr. MCCLINTOCK. Mr. Chair, I porate taxes can only be paid in one of 2003 which amounted to $2.3 trillion. So thank the gentlewoman for yielding, three ways: by consumers through we are at $5 trillion worth of tax cuts, and I thank her for her leadership on higher prices, by employees through and the Clinton administration left us this important issue. lower wages, by investors through with four balanced budgets and $5 tril- Mr. Chairman, for the first time in lower earning. Cutting corporate taxes lion worth of surplus. many years, this budget uses reconcili- means lower prices for consumers, This is not a budget that supports ation for the purpose it was intended: higher wages for employees, and higher meaningful tax reform. I am ready, and to bring mandatory spending under earnings for investors. she knows because of our working to- control. Tax relief is absolutely vital to reviv- gether in the past, prepared to work The appropriations that dominate so ing the economy, but experience does with Republicans on fundamental tax much of the debate comprise less than warn us that revenue growth only par- reform. The system is begging for it. one-third of our total spending, and tially offsets revenue lost to tax reduc- Don’t call tax reform tax reform that is called discretionary spending. tions. Indeed, when we are told that when it is really a tax cut. And that is The budget sets a level; the appropria- the choice is between taxes and debt, where this is headed, and I think they tions process spends to that level. That those are two sides of the same coin. know that as well. is everything from general government Taxes and debt are the only two pos- This is a partisan roadmap that has to defense. sible ways to pay for spending. Once we failed in the past. They are using rec- We have actually been able to bring have spent a dollar, we have already onciliation instruction so that the ma- that under control, but the other two- decided to tax it. We either tax it now, jority can ram through a tax plan here. thirds of spending is called mandatory or we borrow it now and tax it later. That is all it is about. Last night, by the way, the tradeoff spending. It is beyond the annual con- Either way, it is entirely driven by is in some States you can keep the trol of Congress. It continues auto- spending. By restraining spending, this mortgage interest deduction if you are matically until and unless the statutes budget makes possible the tax relief willing to give up the State and local that call for it are actually changed. that our economy desperately needs to tax deduction. It is the mandatory spending that is grow. I want to tell you something, I guar- eating our country alive. Mandatory Frankly, we could do much more if antee you right now, based on long his- spending is supposed to be controlled we summon the political will, and I tory, we will end up keeping both, and by reconciliation. Instructions are sent will be presenting such a budget tomor- they will have to add more to the debt to the various authorizing committees row on behalf of the Republican Study as time goes on. to make whatever changes are nec- Committee. Is this a cut for the wealthy? Eighty essary in current law to stay within But this budget moves us a long way percent of the tax cut goes to the top 1 our means. But this powerful fiscal in the right direction. It sets in motion percent in 2027. tool has been ignored or squandered in the policies that Presidents from Cal- past budgets, and this neglect is under- vin Coolidge to John F. Kennedy to b 1445 mining the solvency of our country. Ronald Reagan have all used to revive This is from the Tax Policy Center in For the first time in many years, the and expand our economy. It brings us Washington. Incidentally, how great is House budget finally restrains manda- closer to that day when families will it to have a nonpartisan scoring com- tory spending by instructing our com- awaken to a new and prosperous morn- mittee offer us a snapshot of the fu- mittees to find at least $200 billion in ing for America. ture? savings over the next decade. That Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chair, I want to The average tax cut for millionaires, means this budget will get us back to note for my colleague that, by voting $230,000 a year in 2027. The average tax

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Mr. Chairman, I provide our military with the resources community colleges; we should be in- yield myself such time as I may con- they need for national defense, and cut vesting in vocational education. sume. more than $200 billion in mandatory So 45 percent of all households with I want to note for my colleague that, spending. children will see a tax increase in 2027. by voting for this budget, he will force Picture this: $6.5 trillion in total def- Among households earning between 2,154,337 seniors, disabled individuals, icit reduction over 10 years. On that $50,000 and $150,000, you are going to see and other seriously ill people in Ohio fact alone, I would hope my colleagues a one-third tax increase in 2027. to pay more for lifesaving Medicare all would support this legislation. I look at this and say: Why are we so that the wealthiest person in his This budget also paves the way for not offering some relief to middle class State, who has a net worth of $6.2 bil- the recently released Unified Frame- Americans? Why are we not investing lion, can get a massive tax cut. work for Fixing Our Broken Tax Code. in them? Do we not have enough faith And just in case my colleagues on the On a telephone townhall with thou- in them to help them get through what other side are wondering where this in- sands of constituents on the phone have been difficult times with children formation comes from as to the from my district, 53 percent of partici- in college and costs mounting all of the wealthiest person in each State, it is pants reported that their most impor- time? from that notoriously leftwing maga- tant priority for tax reform is a sim- Instead, it is back to tax relief for zine, Forbes, this year. pler, fairer Tax Code. The framework people at the very top. I guess con- Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to does just that and more. centrated wealth in America now is not the gentleman from New York (Mr. I urge all of my colleagues to support a big issue. I guess the top 1 percent in HIGGINS), a distinguished member of the budget, to reduce the deficit, and America who, by the way, aren’t even the Budget Committee and the Ways take a huge step toward progrowth tax asking for tax relief—that is the irony and Means Committee. reform that will increase paychecks, of this. They are not asking for tax re- Mr. HIGGINS of New York. Mr. spur economic growth, and make our lief. They are arguing for more invest- Chairman, any budget requires an ex- Tax Code simple, affordable, and com- ment in America rather than concen- amination of how and who pays for it petitive. trating more money in fewer hands. and how that budget impacts the econ- Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chair, I would The American people deserve a Tax omy. like to note for my colleague that, by Code that is based on fairness. Our code We were told by President Trump and voting for this budget, he is jeopard- should reward hardworking, middle Treasury Secretary Mnuchin that izing meals and food assistance for class families, small business, innova- there would be no new tax cuts for the 809,000 hungry children in Georgia so tion, and ensure that no one, no matter wealthy; and that this budget, and its that the wealthiest person in his State, how wealthy they are, can avoid pay- blueprint, is a middle class miracle. who has a net worth of $12.6 billion, can ing their fair share. That was last Wednesday. get a massive tax cut. Our focus is going to be on helping One week later, this Wednesday, the Mr. Chair, I yield 3 minutes to the the middle class, creating jobs, boost- facts are in. If you make $730,000 in gentleman from Maryland (Mr. HOYER), ing wages, and giving people the assist- America, next year your income will the Democratic whip. ance they need in a complicated econ- rise by 8.5 percent, or $129,000, or $10,750 (Mr. HOYER asked and was given omy with their grocery bills and a month. permission to revise and extend his re- childcare as well. Invest in human cap- If you make $67,000, your income will marks.) ital today. rise by 1.2 percent, or $670 next year, or Mr. HOYER. Mr. Chairman, the Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 a whopping $56 a month. This is no mir- Budget Act, adopted in 1974, requires minutes to the distinguished gen- acle. This is fraud being perpetrated that the House complete work on its tleman from Ohio (Mr. JOHNSON), a against the middle class. budget for the next fiscal year by April member of our committee. We are told that tax cuts pay for 15. That is 172 days ago. Mr. JOHNSON of Ohio. Mr. Chair- themselves through the magic of dy- Yet we now have a budget resolution man, it kind of blows my mind. You namic scoring. Their budget will in- on the floor, already into the fiscal look at the sign that was just displayed crease the deficit by $2.5 trillion over year for which the budget supposedly is by our colleague; it says that the Re- 10 years. Where are all the deficit planned. Some may ask why. The an- publican budget is a bad deal for work- hawks? Where are any of the deficit swer is a simple one. ing Americans. hawks? This is, first of all, not a realistic Well, I don’t know what Americans Goldman alumnus Mnuchin and Gary budget which could or should stand as you folks are talking to, but the mid- Cohn, the National Economic Adviser, a budget resolution. No, this budget is dle class Americans that I talk to, they said that this bill will grow the econ- not about putting our country on a sus- want an economic growing, job cre- omy. Goldman economists said that tainable fiscal path, and—this is indis- ating, tax cutting budget and tax relief their budget will have no good impact putable—it is not a budget to inform effort. That is what they want out of in terms of growth in the Federal budg- the appropriators of budget priorities the House. That is what the Republican et over the next several years. and constraints. plan is bringing. Finally, infrastructure. The infra- No, the Appropriations Committee We not only rebuild our military, but structure budget for America, a nation will not be informed. Why? Because we we do something that has not been of 300 million people, for the next 10 have already passed the appropriations done in years. We begin to get into years is about the same as we spent re- bills. This budget doesn’t have any- that mandatory spending and the out- building the roads and bridges of Iraq thing to do with the appropriation of-control spending that we have here and Afghanistan over the last 10 years. bills. They are passed. they are gone. in our Nation’s Capitol. This is unacceptable. We can do much They are in the Senate. Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs better. This is merely a vehicle for achieving of Staff said that the biggest threat to Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 partisan tax reform of the kind that our national security is our national minutes to the gentleman from Geor- President Trump and Republican lead- debt. How are we ever going to do that gia (Mr. ALLEN). ers in Congress outlined last week. De- if we don’t begin to address mandatory Mr. ALLEN. Mr. Chairman, I thank spite what this sham of a budget pre- spending? the chairwoman for her work on this tends, their plan is to push through tax Mr. Chair, we have brought a good incredible budget that we are talking changes that massively increase defi- budget, a responsible budget, one that about here today. cits—I call it the granddaddy of all balances in 10 years to the floor. We I rise today in support of the FY18 debt increases—while shifting even need to get every colleague in this budget entitled ‘‘Building a Better more wealth from middle class and

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This budget comes crease in SNAP benefits. We saw 330,000 $900,000 per year. after the fact, and it is only for tax people, or over 14 percent of our State’s Despite promises from President cuts for the wealthy. population of able-bodied, working-age Trump and Republicans here in the adults, getting their health insurance 1500 House, their plan actually raises b through Medicaid expansion. taxes—hear me—while cutting taxes on Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chairman, I yield We need to focus on addressing our those over $900,000, it actually raises myself such time as I may consume. budget woes. We need an economy that taxes on 1 in 3 middle class families Mr. Chairman, I want to remind my is growing and a labor force that is who earn between $50,000 and $150,000. colleagues on the other side that we working. We need a military that is The CHAIR. The time of the gen- are talking about the budget. We are strong. We have to address the 70 per- tleman has expired. not talking about tax reform. We are cent component of spending that is Mr. YARMUTH. I yield the gen- going to have an opportunity to talk driving our debt. This budget is the tleman from Maryland an additional 1 about that later. first step in achieving those results, minute. Our budget does not assume that tax and I urge everyone to vote for this Mr. HOYER. Even though Repub- cuts pay for themselves, and our budg- budget. licans continue to assert the discred- et does not reflect that claim. Our Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chairman, I ited supply-side mantra that tax cuts budget includes a host of pro-growth would note for my colleague that by pay for themselves, no responsible economic policies, including com- voting for this budget, he will force economist believes that, not one—re- prehensive tax reform, as one of those, 594,596 seniors, disabled individuals, sponsible is the operative word. The but regulatory reform; a reform in the and other seriously ill people in Arkan- Tax Policy Center’s analysis found improper payments; restoration of in- sas to pay more for lifesaving Medicare all so that the wealthiest person in his that their tax cuts would add $2.4 tril- centives for people to work and save State, who has a net worth of $38.5 bil- lion to deficits over the next 10 years. and invest. lion, can get a massive tax cut. The previous speaker said this bal- Most economists believe that this ances the budget in 9 years. That is Mr. Chair, I yield 2 minutes to the bundle of pro-growth tax policies will gentlewoman from California (Ms. Alice in Wonderland balance. It will lead to a stronger economy than what LEE), a distinguished member of the never happen. I have been here for 36 we have under the current law. But we Budget Committee and the Appropria- years; I have heard those comments all are talking about the budget here. So I tions Committee. the time. It never happened. would like for my colleagues on the Ms. LEE. Mr. Chairman, first, I want But it is even worse, Mr. Chairman. other side of the aisle to speak about to thank the gentleman for yielding The budget resolution also proposes to the budget, and we will talk about tax and for his leadership as our ranking disinvest in job creation, pretends Re- reform at another time. member on our Budget Committee. publicans were able to repeal the Af- 1 Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 ⁄2 minutes to I rise in strong opposition to the Re- fordable Care Act—it hasn’t been re- the gentleman from Arkansas (Mr. publican’s so-called budget plan. I am a pealed, yet they pretend it has been re- WESTERMAN), a distinguished member member, yes, of the Budget Committee pealed—to kick 23 million off their cov- of the Budget Committee. and the Appropriations Committee, erage and make those with preexisting Mr. WESTERMAN. Mr. Chairman, I and I know, because we work on this conditions uninsurable. rise in support of the budget resolu- each and every day, that our national It guts Medicaid and would end the tion, and I commend Chairwoman budget is a statement of our national Medicaid guarantee. BLACK on her leadership and tireless ef- priorities and our values. I know very Furthermore, it would severely cut forts. well that the Republicans have put for- programs that reduce poverty and pro- Much has been said about our $20 ward, quite frankly, a sinister budget vide the kind of job training proven to trillion debt, and I would like to add whose chief purpose is to hand tax get more people back into the work- that we know that that debt can only breaks to billionaires. force. be paid back with tax dollars that will Budgets are moral documents. They The CHAIR. The time of the gen- be extracted from future taxpayers. should not be rigged in favor of special tleman has again expired. interests and the wealthy few, but the Mr. YARMUTH. I yield the gen- We debated and passed 12 appropria- tions bills in this Chamber. As heated Republican budget is. Our Nation’s tleman from Maryland an additional 1 budget should prioritize working fami- minute. as those debates were, they were on less than one-third of Federal spending. lies and the middle class, too many of Mr. HOYER. This resolution is a grab whom are making low wages and living bag of all the worst Republican poli- To attack our debt, we have to attack mandatory spending. This budget does below the poverty line. cies: partisan tax cuts for the wealthy It should assist those struggling to that. that leave the middle class behind, the find a job and investment in workforce As I traveled around my district and cruelty of TrumpCare, and draconian training, education, job creation, and talked to people in my district, I have reductions in domestic investment. job training. Instead, this Republican been pleased to hear that business is The product is just as bad as the sum budget creates tax cuts for billionaire, good. Businesses want to grow, and of its parts; indeed, it is worse. millionaires, and corporations. Instead, we ought to be working to- they want to expand. But I have not Our budget should expand to protect gether to enact bipartisan tax reform been pleased when they told me that healthcare for all. Instead, this budget that is fiscally responsible and focused they cannot find employees. So I went steals nearly $2 trillion from lifesaving on the middle class. back and looked at data. Arkansas has Medicaid and Medicare. I urge my colleagues to defeat this our lowest unemployment rate ever Our budget should also invest in our resolution, and I ask Republicans, who right now, but we have also got the crumbling infrastructure, which, of believe that tax reform must be perma- lowest labor participation rate. course, creates jobs. But the Repub- nent and, therefore, bipartisan, to join In the years from 2008 to 2016, we saw lican budget cuts funding for our roads, us in doing so. a 5.7 percent population growth. We our bridges, and our railways. Only one person can stop spending; saw a decrease in unemployment from Finally, with nearly 40 million Amer- that is the President of the United 6 percent down to 4 percent, or 51⁄2 icans living in poverty, our Nation’s States. He can veto spending bills. down to 4 percent, but we had fewer budget should contain a serious and ef- The debt under Ronald Reagan in- people actually working in 2016 than fective strategy to end poverty, espe- creased 189 percent. Under Bush I, 55 we had in 2008. We had a decrease of 0.8 cially for communities of color and

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Yet, because wages are so at the corporate level, and certainly at wrong choices for America. By calling low across this country, millions of the governmental level. for trillions of dollars in spending re- families now rely on nutrition and food I think it is about: Is our tax load ductions, the Republican budget under- assistance. Yet this budget cuts $150 sustainable? mines America’s investments in infra- billion from SNAP, food assistance, Spending drives tax loads, which is structure, the environment, scientific and nutrition assistance, which will interesting. I pulled a chart that shows research, and much more. create more poverty for people who are for the first 100 years of our country’s I wanted to use my limited time to working. It doesn’t make any sense. It existence, we spent about 3 percent of focus on its harmful impacts on the ju- is fundamentally immoral. GDP. It bumped up after World War II. risdiction of the Education and the The Acting CHAIR (Mr. COLLINS of We are now roughly around 20 percent, Workforce Committee, where I serve as Georgia). The time of the gentlewoman and we are on our way to 30 percent. the Democratic ranking member. has expired. The question we have to ask in this Under the Republican budget resolu- Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chair, I yield an budget or any other budget like it is: tion, children in need of a healthy additional 30 seconds to the gentle- Can we continue to do this without school meal, students in pursuit of an woman from California. going to the exact spot that Erskine affordable college education, and work- Ms. LEE. Mr. Chair, once again, Re- Bowles was talking about? ers in search of skills and training to publicans are determined to balance The Acting CHAIR. The time of the get a better job all take the back seat their budget on the backs of the most gentleman has expired. to tax cuts to the wealthiest Ameri- vulnerable; to hand tax breaks to mil- Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chair, I yield an cans and corporations. lionaires, and billionaires, and corpora- additional 30 seconds to the gentleman In education, the budget harms stu- tions; and slush funds for Pentagon from South Carolina. dents and families by undermining our contractors. Mr. SANFORD. Finally, I would sim- Nation’s education system, and in- This budget is cruel and unusual pun- ply make this point: Not only can you structs the House Education and the ishment for those who are not rich. I only squeeze but so much blood from a Workforce Committee to eliminate $20 urge my colleagues to reject this un- turnip—and there are certainly limits billion in investments in higher edu- American, heartless budget, and to that have shown themselves, which is cation by providing less funding for vote ‘‘no.’’ around 18 or 20 percent of GDP, regard- Pell grants and student loans. Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 less of tax rate, up, down; there is In terms of other instructions, it in- minutes to the gentleman from South that—but there is also this: You can structs the Department of Labor to re- duce funding designed to provide job Carolina (Mr. SANFORD), a member of pay me now, or you can pay me later in training, protect workers from wage our Budget Committee. life. Mr. SANFORD. Mr. Chair, I would A deficit is simply a deferred tax. A theft, and ensure that there is a suffi- cient number of inspectors to make say to my colleague from Kentucky, I debt is simply an accumulation of de- sure that workers can come home safe- think the rhetorical device that he is ferred taxes. One of the things, again, we have to get our arms around is that ly from their jobs. using at the end of each speaker is very The budget also threatens child nu- we are stacking up deferred taxes. We effective and it is persuasive. But I trition programs. In fact, during the are stacking up an accumulation of would challenge him with this: I think Budget Committee’s hearings, it was one of the things that we have got to taxes with debt and deficits. This budg- made clear that child nutrition pro- struggle with as a body, both Repub- et, I think, begins to nudge us in the grams are a target for savings to pay licans and Democrats alike, is not right direction in doing something for tax cuts. being selective on the issue of the defi- about it. Today, almost 10 million children cits. What we can’t say is deficits are Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chairman, I ap- and 20,000 schools have access to uni- okay if it involves more spending for preciate the comments of my colleague versal, healthy school meals, where all of us as a body to distribute as we from South Carolina, and I certainly children are served nutritious meals see fit, but deficits are not okay if they have a great deal of respect for his without the stigma or need for paper- involve a tax cut and sending money thoughtfulness. But I also must note work. Cutting investments in programs back to individuals within each of our that if he votes for this budget, he is to ensure that children have healthy communities. jeopardizing meals and food assistance school meals to partially fund tax cuts It is for that reason, again, I have for 366,000 hungry children in South shouldn’t be our Nation’s goal. voiced my concerns with regard to Carolina so that the wealthiest person Mr. Chairman, the Federal budget is some of the components of this budget. in his State, who has a net worth of $3 a statement of our values. Unlike other But I think that the big issue for me is, billion, can get a massive tax cut. Democratic substitutes that respon- simply, we cannot continue to spend as Mr. Chair, I yield 3 minutes to the sibly strengthen our economy and ex- we are and have the ship of America gentleman from Virginia (Mr. SCOTT), pand opportunity for all Americans, sail forward. the ranking member of the Education the Republican budget undermines pri- It was Erskine Bowles who was the and the Workforce Committee. orities in which students, workers, and Democratic Chief of Staff to former Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Chair- their families take a hit, and lays the President Clinton who observed: ‘‘We man, I rise in opposition to the Repub- groundwork for a return to a regressive are walking our way toward the most lican budget resolution and its intent framework benefiting a wealthy few. predictable financial crisis in the his- to fast-track tax cuts to the wealthiest Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to tory of man if we don’t get our arms Americans and corporations. This reso- join me in rejecting the Republican around spending.’’ lution, first of all, is not serious. It as- budget resolution. So, for me, while not perfect—and I sumes $800 billion in savings from the Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 certainly cede that point—I think the repeal of the Affordable Care Act, minutes to the gentleman from Illinois building blocks of what this budget is which we know will not happen. We (Mr. ROSKAM), who is the chairman of trying to get toward is a sustainable have the Treasury Secretary being the Tax Policy Subcommittee. economy. quoted as saying that ‘‘massive tax Mr. ROSKAM. Mr. Chairman, I thank How do you have a sustainable econ- cuts will actually reduce the def- Chairwoman BLACK for yielding. omy? icit. . . .’’ Imagine what our opinion would be of Many of the things that my Demo- Well, we know how that works. You a movie review where the reviewer sim- cratic colleagues have talked about in cut taxes for the wealthy and say they ply looked at a movie poster and then

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They ments is necessary to reduce the debt, sion has left us on the brink of bank- saw nothing other than a movie poster but this is a false choice. Why would ruptcy. We are $20 trillion in debt, and they came to a conclusion. the Republican majority give tax cuts which puts our country in the worst We would dismiss that and we would to the very wealthiest if it means this debt position in the history of Amer- say: How ridiculous. How absurd. country has to take a backseat to ica, and this with the sacred constitu- Mr. Chairman, that is exactly what China in research and development or tional charge to secure liberty for our the Tax Policy Center did this past let our own workforce go without the posterity. That means give freedom to week. They wrote a review of a pro- training to fill 21st century jobs? our children. posal as it relates to tax reform, and We know there is a role for govern- Mr. Chairman, there is no freedom they didn’t have the details. ment where the private sector has left with this level of debt. If we don’t do Why didn’t they have the details? voids. Many in the private sector be- something about this looming debt cri- Because many of these details don’t lieve we should be investing more in sis and stay on our current spending exist. basic research, STEM programs, and trajectory, in less than 10 years, we b 1515 public transportation. This budget and will be at $30 trillion in debt. We will Specifically, they wrote a review the appropriations bills that enact this have $1 trillion in annual deficit. We which was very pejorative, which the budget have fallen short in these areas. will be spending more—get this—on our Wall Street Journal completely Given the budget is 6 months late interest on the debt we owe than on na- trashed. They made this finding, and and the appropriations process has ac- tional defense. they had no notion of what the income tually moved before the budget, we do Mr. Chairman, enough is enough. I brackets are like in our proposed tax not have to guess the implications of rise in support of this budget, a budget reform plan. They had no notion about the budget. We have seen what the Re- that begins to rein in this reckless the anti-abuse rules that the Ways and publicans would do under these draco- spending, a budget that funds our na- Means Committee is working through nian levels. tional priorities and our core respon- to make sure there is not an abusive Just look, Mr. Chairman, at the sibilities and initiates a historic oppor- situation as it relates to pass-through Labor, Health, and Education bill that tunity for tax relief for middle and entities. They had no notion about passed the House last month. That bill working class families. some of the offshore protections that eliminated entire job training pro- Let’s stop spending our children’s fu- are being contemplated. grams like apprenticeship grants, cut ture and stop pretending that they Let’s avoid the hyperbole. Let’s avoid the Pell grant surplus, and eliminated won’t inherit a disaster as a result. the hackneyed, old, tired, and faded Supporting Effective Instruction State Let’s live in the same reality as every bumper sticker that says that any kind grants, a $2 billion investment that re- other American. Let’s focus on our of pro-growth tax reform is a sop to the duces class sizes and improves class- main mission as a limited Federal Gov- rich. It is complete nonsense. room instruction. This cut would cost ernment by rebuilding our military, by I think the proof will be in a tax re- 8,500 teachers their jobs. maintaining our infrastructure, and by form proposal that this House hope- The transportation spending bill securing our food supply so we can fully will be considering in the coming eliminated the Department of Trans- maintain the ability to feed our own weeks and months that will bring portation’s major infrastructure grant people. buoyancy, optimism, and a real oppor- program, TIGER, a direct contradic- Let’s unleash our job creators from tunity for us to take advantage of a tion to the President’s promise to im- the highest tax burden in the free once-in-a-generation opportunity for a prove our Nation’s infrastructure and world. Let’s allow our families and in- Tax Code that nobody can defend and which Transportation Secretary Elaine dividuals to keep more of their hard- nobody likes. But let’s get real and Chao confirms ‘‘funds innovative earned money, and let’s hand this evaluate real numbers and not just projects that improve the safety of country safer, stronger, and freer than look at posters and bumper stickers. America’s passengers and goods.’’ we found it. Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chair, I would Mr. Chairman, we can and should— Mr. Chairman, let’s pass this budget. note for my colleague from Illinois we must—do better than this. I urge a Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chairman, I that, by voting for this budget, he will ‘‘no’’ vote on the Republican budget. would like to note for my colleague force 2,066,376 seniors, disabled individ- Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 that, by voting for this budget, he is uals, and other seriously ill people in minutes to the gentleman from Texas jeopardizing meals and food assistance Illinois to pay more for lifesaving (Mr. ARRINGTON), a member of the for 2,060,000 hungry children in Texas Medicare, all so that the wealthiest Budget Committee. so that the wealthiest person in his person in his State, who has a net Mr. ARRINGTON. Mr. Chairman, for State, who has a net worth of $38.2 bil- worth of $8 billion, can get a massive too long Congress has been allowed to lion, can get a massive tax cut. tax cut. play by a different set of rules than the Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to Mr. Chair, I yield 3 minutes to the American people in regard to how we the gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. gentlewoman from New York (Mrs. budget. No one lives in a world where JACKSON LEE), who is a distinguished LOWEY), who is the ranking member of there is seemingly an endless supply of member of the Budget Committee. the Appropriations Committee. money, that is, until you enter the fan- Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Chairman, I Mrs. LOWEY. Mr. Chair, I thank tasy world of Washington, D.C. thank my good friend, my fellow alum, Ranking Member YARMUTH for the However, hardworking American for his leadership. I recognize and time to speak in opposition to the Re- families, businessmen, and business- thank the chairwoman of the com- publican budget. women live in the real world. They mittee. As ranking member of the Appropria- have to budget. They have to prioritize To my good friend that was on the tions Committee, I am really perplexed and make trade-off decisions: wants floor, I think he wants limited govern- as to why the majority continues their versus needs, what is good and what is ment when disaster is not in his dis- assault on American excellence, fol- essential. The bottom line, they have trict. lowing President Trump’s lead and di- to live within their means. So I think it is important as a mem- vesting from investments in American But, apparently, our government has ber of this Budget Committee of which global leadership, science, and infra- been exempt from such basic principles I am so very proud of its service, as the structure. of fiscal responsibility under which we Democrats have worked so hard, and as This budget would cut $5 billion for the people must live. The prevailing a member of the Homeland Security domestic and international invest- budget philosophy over the years Committee, a committee called upon

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America will not be made great by stealing of individuals even coming to the It is a refuge and a relief for the Amer- another $1.5 trillion from Medicare and Med- United States across the border, the ican people. icaid, abandoning seniors and families in very border wall that was told to us Vote ‘‘no’’ on the Republican budget. need, depriving students of realizing a dream would be paid for by the people of Mex- Mr. Chair, as a member of the Budget Com- to attend college without drowning in debt, or ico. mittee, a senior member of the Homeland Se- disinvesting in the working families just to give But I think the important point is curity Committee, the Ranking Member of the unwanted tax breaks to wealthy corporations that my good friends who are sup- Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and the top 1 percent. porting this dastardly budget that Homeland Security, and Investigations, and America will not be positioned to compete tears at the fabric of America are, as the proud representative of the 700,000 resi- and win in the global, interconnected, and dig- well, supporting a tax cut for the dents of 18th Congressional District of Texas ital economy by slashing funding for scientific wealthy that will provide $2.9 trillion who are still coping with the devastation research, the arts and humanities, job retrain- of debt to the American people and in- caused by Hurricane Harvey, I rise in strong ing, and clean energy. crease the debt as well as the deficit. It and unyielding opposition to H. Con. Res. 71, Even a cursory review leaves the inescap- will mean that working and middle the Congressional Budget Resolution for Fis- able conclusion that this budget represents a class families will have taxes raised on cal Year 2018. betrayal—of our values as a nation, and of the Why do I urge every Member of this House them by $470 billion. We will see the promises made by the President during the to vote against this Republican budget resolu- heavy brunt of this budget on low-in- election campaign. tion, laughingly called the ‘‘Building a Better come families, students struggling to This Republican budget is not a budget for America Budget,’’ but which more accurately afford college, seniors, and persons the real world that real Americans live in but should be named the ‘‘Nightmare on Capitol with disabilities. is as much a fantasy budget as the Trump Hill Budget’’? Just a few hours ago, I said the Let us count the ways; here are eight to ‘‘Skinny Budget’’ in that it pretends to achieve American people do not need to have start. balance by assuming that painless spending the government step on them; and I 1. Republican budget mandates $5.4 trillion cuts can and will be made by the following can assure you, with this budget, which in spending cuts to top priorities like disaster standing committees of Congress in the fol- cuts more than $1.5 trillion from Med- relief, education, infrastructure, research, vet- lowing amounts: icaid and Medicare, we will step on the eran benefits, and programs that expand op- 1. Agriculture Committee: cut $207 billion American people. portunities for American families. 2. Armed Services Committee: cut $33 bil- We will end the Medicare guarantee, 2. Republican budget provides $2.9 trillion in lion and it will narrowly shortchange soft tax cuts to millionaires, billionaires, and 3. Education and Workforce Committee: power by cutting and decimating the wealthy corporations, while raising taxes on $326 billion State Department, the very partner working and middle class families by $470 bil- 4. Energy and Commerce Committee: that we need to continue the security lion. $1.656 trillion of the American people, raising de- 3. The budget includes fast-track reconcili- 5. Financial Services Committee: cut $124 fense, of whom I support all of our ation procedures to push through cuts to pro- billion military. Texas is a military State. grams that tens of millions of Americans count 6. Homeland Security Committee: cut $25 But it is $72 billion above cap, and that on totaling $203 billion across 11 House com- billion is not giving our military personnel mittees. 7. Judiciary Committee: cut $67 billion their due. It is going above the needs of 4. The steep reductions in program invest- 8. Natural Resources Committee: cut $59 the military. ments proposed in this Republican budget fall billion We need to be prepared, but this most heavily on low-income families, students 9. Oversight and Government Reform Com- skinny budget will undermine edu- struggling to afford college, seniors, and per- mittee: cut $282 billion cation and the workforce at $326 bil- sons with disabilities. 10. Transportation and Infrastructure Com- lion, energy and commerce at $1.56 bil- 5. Republican budget immediately guts in- mittee: cut $3 billion lion, homeland security by $25 billion, vestment critical to expanding economic op- 11. Veterans Affairs Committee: cut $49 bil- justice and the needs of civil justice by portunity by lowering the already inadequate lion $67 billion, and veterans by $49 billion. austerity-level spending caps by an additional 12. Ways and Means Committee: cut $800 It will cut the Community Develop- $5 billion in 2018 and by even more in subse- billion ment Block Grant, and it will hurt Vir- quent years. 13. Unassigned (i.e., Intelligence; Foreign gin Islands U.S. citizens, Puerto Rico 6. Republican budget adopts Trumpcare but Affairs; Small Business; Science, Space, and U.S. citizens, and Texas, that is still does even more damage because in addition Technology Committees: cut $747 billion struggling. to depriving more than 20 million Americans of 14. Total Cuts: $4.38 trillion Before I came to this floor, I was en- healthcare, denying protection to persons with To put these reckless, irresponsible, and gaging with my State about more dis- preexisting conditions, and raising costs for draconian budget cuts in perspective, it is use- aster food stamp sites because I have older and low-income adults, cuts more than ful to examine what they mean when applied people who are unhoused in the 18th $1.5 trillion from Medicaid and Medicare. to the programs depended upon by Americans Congressional District, who are need- 7. Republican budget ends the Medicare to rise up the economic ladder, plan for the fu- ing the resources. guarantee and calls for replacing Medicare’s ture, provide for their families, and strive to The Acting CHAIR. The time of the guaranteed benefits with fixed payments for achieve the American Dream. gentlewoman has expired. the purchase of health insurance, shifting The elimination of funding for Community Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chairman, I costs and financial risks onto seniors and dis- Development Block Grants (CDBG) drains re- yield the gentlewoman from Texas an abled workers; this represents a $500 billion sources from communities, even in times of additional 30 seconds. cut to Medicare over ten years. disaster because CDBG provides flexible Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Chairman, I 8. The Republican budget focuses too nar- grants to local communities for a wide range have individuals who our wonderful rowly on the military, shortchanging American of unique needs, including Meals on Wheels, first responders had to drag out of the soft-power and other essential elements of na- housing programs, and community infrastruc- raging waters in Hurricane Harvey. I tional security by increasing defense spending ture improvements. have homes that were underwater that by $72 billion above the cap and hollowing out The Republican budget targets disaster need disaster relief. I have individuals the State Department and foreign aid agencies grants made by the Federal Emergency Man- who are walking along highways like with cuts of $11 billion and environmental and agement Agency, which help families and oceans, and then I have children who natural resource protection by more than $6 businesses when their disaster-related prop- are with families who do not have jobs billion. erty losses are not covered by insurance.

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That means no particularly low-income students, to afford col- The Republican budget assumes, despite all money for research, for medical, for lege and compounds the damage by making it precedent and evidence to the contrary, that education, and for all of those discre- more difficult to repay student loans by elimi- tax reform will be revenue neutral, even tionary dollars that are so wisely nating the Public Sector Loan Forgiveness though Republican tax plans are projected to spent. and Teacher Loan Forgiveness programs. lose between $3 trillion and $7 trillion. We have to begin to bend the spend- The Republican budget’s solution to the af- Given these budgetary shenanigans, never ing curve now, and that means cuts in fordable housing crisis currently facing cities could it more truly be said that ‘‘figures don’t mandatory spending, while responsibly large and small all across the country is to lie, but liars figure.’’ using the other dollars, the discre- convert all discretionary spending on afford- As the late and great former senator and tionary dollars, to advance good pro- able housing into a block grant, which means Vice-President Hubert Humphrey said: grams. there will be even less assistance to help the The moral test of government is how that b 1530 71 percent of extremely low income renter government treats those who are in the dawn households who spend more than half their in- of life, the children; those who are in the That takes discipline, that takes ef- come on housing. twilight of life, the elderly; and those who fort, that takes making tough deci- The Republican budget cuts $154 billion are in shadows of life, the sick, the needy, sions that are unpopular but necessary from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance and the handicapped. for the future of our country. Program (SNAP) over the next ten years by It is for this reason that in evaluating the Our Budget Committee wrestled long essentially converting it to a block grant, cut- merits of a budget resolution, it is not enough and hard to present what you are going ting off funding for eligible individuals and re- to subject it only to the test of fiscal responsi- to vote on, and I am proud of the fact quiring cash-strapped states to either fill in the bility. that with the discourse and debate that gap or take away food assistance from mil- To keep faith with the nation’s past, to be we had over tough issues, in the end, lions of working families, children, and seniors. fair to the nation’s present, and to safeguard the American people are taking a next Mr. Chair, as economists and policy experts the nation’s future, the budget must also pass first step forward towards fiscal re- have documented time and again, immigration a ‘‘moral test.’’ sponsibility that reflects the reality reform would expand the size of the U.S. The Republican budget resolution fails both that we owe to our grandchildren, just workforce, and in turn would increase the size of these standards. like our parents and grandparents felt of the economy and reduce deficits. Because the American people deserve to that they needed to do for us during The Republican budget, however, again re- know exactly what ills Republicans have in the Great Depression and a couple of jects comprehensive immigration reform that store for them, I strongly oppose H. Con. Res. World Wars to make sure that we have would bring clear and just rules for those 71 and urge all Members to join me in voting a physically viable country. This budg- seeking citizenship and help secure the na- against this reckless, cruel, and heartless et is a next first step. tion’s borders. measure that will do nothing to improve the Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chairman, I In doing so, the Republican budget squan- lives or well-being of middle and working class would note for my colleague that, by ders an opportunity to reduce deficits by an families. voting for this budget, he will force estimated $900 billion over the next two dec- Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 1,895,558 seniors, disabled individuals, ades, boost the economy by 5.4 percent, and minutes to the gentleman from Michi- and other seriously ill people in Michi- extend the solvency of Social Security. gan (Mr. BERGMAN), who is a member of gan to pay more for lifesaving Medi- Mr. Chair, none of us can forget the Presi- the Budget Committee. care all so the wealthiest person in his dent’s favorite boast and central campaign Mr. BERGMAN. Mr. Chairman, it has State, who has a net worth of $5.9 bil- promise that he would build a wall on our been an honor to work with the chair- lion, can get a massive tax cut. southern border and guarantee that Mexico man of the Budget Committee as a new Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to would be made to pay for it. Member of Congress because it is such the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. CON- The Republican budget deprives the Presi- a learning curve to understand the NOLLY), a distinguished member of the dent of the opportunity to make good on his challenges that we have in our country Oversight and Government Reform foolish boast by forcing American taxpayers to in so many ways, but especially on the Committee and an alumnus of the foot the bill for President Trump’s $1.6 billion fiscal side of things. Budget Committee. border wall that will do nothing to stop unau- I would like to spend my time talk- Mr. CONNOLLY. Mr. Chairman, ugly thorized entry into the country and will not fix ing to my grandchildren right now. I is ugly. our broken immigration system. am talking to your grandchildren as This is an ugly budget, and it exists The Republican budget continues to target well. primarily to be a vehicle for tax cuts federal employees by cutting their compensa- In the last 48 hours, I have had an op- for the already fortunate, the top 1 or tion and benefits by at least another $163 bil- portunity—it was more of a responsi- 2 percent in America, at the expense of lion over ten years, which comes on top of the bility—to chat with my grandchildren everybody else. It will hemorrhage red $182 billion in cuts federal employees have al- about the horrific events that occurred ink for as far as the eye can see. ready absorbed in the form of higher retire- in Las Vegas. When you are 8 or 16, you That is not a theory. That is what ment contributions, pay freezes, and fur- assimilate those things in different happened in the previous massive tax loughs. ways. I talk to them a lot about re- cuts, both under Ronald Reagan and The Republican budget puts U.S. transpor- sponsibility for behavior, responsi- George W. Bush. tation network on the road to ruin by slashing bility for money, and responsibility for Let me give you one example of the transportation spending, by $254 billion over their own lifestyles. ruinous aspects of this budget, and it ten years, or 25 percent below current esti- I talked to them today to say that we has to do with Federal employees. mates. are not going to put you into the debt This budget cuts Federal employee The Republican budget cuts hurts veterans hole caused by the spending that has compensation and benefits by another by cutting veterans benefits by nearly $50 bil- occurred over the last decades in this $163 billion over the next 10 years, $32 lion over the next ten years, with newly eligible country. We are not going to pass that billion of which is included in rec- veterans experiencing cuts in programs that along to you, because the hole is only onciliation and instructions which I pay for education benefits as well as loan getting deeper and more extensive, and sought to strike with an amendment guarantees. we are passing it along to those next submitted to the Rules Committee that Finally, Mr. Chair, it must be pointed out generations. Not only is it not right, it was not allowed. that the Republican budget’s pretension to bal- is morally wrong and absolutely irre- The Republican cuts include higher ance is based on reliance on trillions of dollars sponsible. retirement contributions; elimination in budget games and gimmicks to rig the num- We have to ask ourselves the ques- of the FERS supplement, which law en- bers. tions: If not now, then when do we forcement retirees heavily benefit

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The Federal workforce provides vital all so that the wealthiest person in his The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman is services to our Nation. It includes State, who has a net worth of $38.5 bil- reminded to direct all remarks to the those who patrol and secure our bor- lion, can get a massive tax cut. Chair. 1 Mr. PASCRELL. I am making all my ders, protect us from terrorists, take Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 ⁄2 minutes to care of our veterans, help run our air- the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. remarks through the Chair. Mr. Chairman, 1 percent would be the ports, counter cybersecurity attacks, PASCRELL), a distinguished member of recipients of 80 percent of the Repub- find cures for deadly diseases, and keep the Ways and Means Committee. lican tax cuts within 10 years. our food supply safe. Veterans make up Mr. PASCRELL. Mr. Chairman, I rise in opposition to the budget resolution This budget, like the phony tax plan, 31 percent of those Federal employees. is a joke and is insulting to us as Mem- Federal employee pay and benefits before us today. You have got to get a charge out of bers of Congress. I know you have some are not the cause of this country’s def- problems with your own Conference. I icit and debt. The Federal workforce what you are hearing and listening to today. don’t know how you are going to figure has already contributed nearly $200 bil- that out. Don’t expect us to bail you lion toward reducing the country’s def- If one were to draw a chart from 2001 and 2003 to the present time, what con- out. icit in the form of pay freezes, pay Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues raises insufficient to keep pace with in- tributes to the deficit and the debt? I am glad to hear someone from the to vote ‘‘no.’’ flation, furloughs, and increased retire- other side talk about that debt, be- Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 ment contributions. cause I thought you forgot all about it. minutes to the gentleman from Geor- We should honor and revere the serv- This budget seems to think that you gia (Mr. FERGUSON), a member of the ice of our Federal workforce, not deni- have amnesia. Budget Committee. grate it with the attacks included in If you look at the chart, what grows Mr. FERGUSON. Mr. Chairman, I this ugly budget. the debt? The tax cuts that you put would first like to thank the gentle- Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 into effect in 2001 and 2003, which woman from Tennessee for her leader- minutes to the gentleman from Arkan- helped the rich and brought us to an ship during this budget process. She sas (Mr. WOMACK), my dear friend. economic abyss 4 years later. You did has done an amazing job of showing Mr. WOMACK. Mr. Chairman, I it, and you are trying to do it again. wisdom and patience and negotiating thank the distinguished chair of the So we will see if Democrats are irrel- this all through this process. My sin- Budget Committee for a job well done. evant, since you didn’t include us, so cere thanks are given to the gentle- Mr. Chairman, I came to the floor far, up to this point. So much for our woman. today to weigh in on this budget de- bipartisanship. This budget is a critical step in get- bate. You asked for $203 billion in manda- ting our economy growing and our na- I find it incredible that my friends on tory spending cuts across 11 commit- tional debt under control. Not only the other side of the aisle seem to be in tees. It will have to be reconciled with does it balance in 10 years and put our a state of denial on the fact that this a Senate budget that explodes our def- country on the path to fiscal stability, country, the greatest on the planet, is icit by $1.5 trillion. Good luck. it also lays the groundwork for tax re- $20 trillion in debt. While this Republican budget claims form. These are the same people in opposi- to balance in 10 years, it does so with With this budget, we are dem- tion, Mr. Chairman, who will present a unnamed cuts, gimmicks, and magical onstrating that it is possible to have budget tomorrow that will add nearly thinking about the economic growth. fiscal discipline and keep our promises $3 trillion in more taxes and more than The budget is built on the same to the American people. We can no $6 trillion in more spending. This debt premise on which you tried to cut the longer continue to kick the can down is going to land squarely on the shoul- ACA, the Affordable Care Act. Let’s the road on our mandatory spending ders of our children, our grandchildren, take $750,000, cut down on Medicaid, crisis. We are leaving behind more and and—let me just say it for the record— and we will give that money in tax cuts more debt for our children and grand- is so large that it is going to land on to the very wealthy. That was your children, and it is morally wrong. our grandchildren’s grandchildren. plan. You saw how the country re- We must put politics aside and have When does this insanity stop? ceived it. tough conversations to ensure that we There is not an easy way out of the This budget cuts Medicare by $487 can keep the promises that we have mess. This budget puts us on a path to billion by eliminating the Medicare made to Americans and to future gen- fiscal sanity. It targets Federal spend- guarantee. How can you justify that erations. ing that is outside the purview of the and look into the eyes of seniors in this This budget does not solve our man- Appropriations Committee. country? datory spending crisis overnight, but it The budget ensures a strong national It assumes repeal of the Affordable begins that process by achieving a $203 defense. It puts us on a path to fiscal Care Act. You want to use the Afford- billion savings in mandatory spending. sustainability, and it gives us the op- able Care Act’s money, but you want to By passing this budget, we will also portunity to do deficit reduction. The dissolve it, choke it, and starve it. It kick-start tax reform. I have said time budget has progrowth policies that assumes an appeal of that act, which and time again that America should be move us in a more sustainable direc- would take 23 million Americans off the best place in the world to do busi- tion. their healthcare insurance. ness, yet we have a Tax Code that tells I understand the opposition coming It assumes a $1 trillion cut to Med- our businesses that they should take from the other side. Their answer, Mr. icaid—it is in your budget—and $2.5 their jobs and their profits overseas. Chairman, as always, is: let’s tax more trillion in other mandatory cuts, with Every American benefits from lower and let’s spend more. That is not a re- no specifics. taxes and growing the economy. The sponsible course. It won’t lead to a The gentleman from Michigan needs tax reform framework we released last good outcome for this country. to study the facts. You have got to get week will do just that. Americans will Mr. Chairman, let me finally say that him the facts. get to keep more of their hard-earned it is time we had a national conversa- The greatest contributor, as I said, paychecks, companies will have the tion about the math problem facing were the two tax cuts of 2001 and 2003. freedom to reinvest in their businesses this country. This budget starts that We know the breakdown of where that and workers, and more people can conversation. I encourage all my col- went to. move to the American Dream.

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It is about Ameri- us to this day, because this budget not solve our debt crisis, however, cans who are counting on us to keep would take us back to that terrible without economic growth. That is why our commitments. We must do the time when dreams were dashed, futures our budget provides reconciliation in- tough work of reforming our manda- were uncertain, and hope was all but structions for tax reform. tory spending programs and reforming lost, put back to a time when people Today we have a Tax Code that is our Tax Code. were hurting. overly complicated, punishes work, re- I am excited to support this budget That is not the America I want. That wards special interests, and discour- to build a better America and pledge to is not the America our constituents de- ages job creation and investments here continue working toward comprehen- serve. They deserve a better deal for all in America. The result has been an sive mandatory spending reform. Americans. anemic recovery of only 1 or 2 percent. Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chairman, I The Acting CHAIR. The time of the This stagnation has made it harder for would note for my colleague that, by gentleman has expired. families in Minnesota and all over the voting for this budget, he will force Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chairman, I United States to realize the American 1,519,461 seniors, disabled individuals, yield an additional 30 seconds to the Dream. and other seriously ill people in Geor- gentleman from New York. That is what this is about. Every gia to pay more for lifesaving Medicare Mr. CROWLEY. Mr. Chairman, time tax reform has been tried in the all so that the wealthiest person in his Democrats believe that our constitu- 1920s, in the 1960s, in the 1980s, it has State, who has a net worth of $12.6 bil- ents deserve a better deal, a better deal worked to make America globally com- lion, can get a massive tax cut. for all Americans, a plan to bring bet- petitive by encouraging private sector Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to ter jobs, better wages, and a better fu- investment that is more productive. the gentleman from New York (Mr. ture to everyone, and a vision to give That is why today I urge my col- CROWLEY) the Democratic Caucus every American the opportunity to leagues to support this budget, tax re- chairman. prosper and to succeed. form, economic growth, and fiscal san- Mr. CROWLEY. Mr. Chairman, I That is the kind of America we ity. thank the gentleman, my friend and should be working towards. That is the Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chairman, I colleague from Kentucky, for yielding. better idea that America should be would like to note for my friend and Mr. Chairman, the Republican budget working towards. That is why I will colleague that by voting for this budg- proposal is just cruel. It isn’t just vote ‘‘no’’ on this terrible plan. et, he is jeopardizing meals and food cruel; it will set our country back- Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chairman, I tell assistance for 216,000 hungry children wards. It is worse than cruel. you what is cruel. That is doing the in Minnesota so that the wealthiest It puts more than $5 trillion in cuts same thing over and over again and person in his State, who has a net on the backs of working and middle getting the same results. That is cruel. worth of $5.4 billion, gets a massive tax class Americans. At the same time, it Especially when we look in our grand- cut. doles out billions of dollars in tax children’s eyes and say: We are really Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to breaks to wealthy individuals, while sorry we didn’t take 40-year-old pro- the gentlewoman from California (Ms. leaving everyday Americans empty- grams and reform them so they could MAXINE WATERS), the ranking member handed. be better, so we could reduce the spend- of the Financial Services Committee. Are you a senior who relies on Medi- ing, we could give good services and re- Ms. MAXINE WATERS of California. care or Medicaid for important duce the spending. That is cruel when Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong opposi- healthcare needs? you don’t do that. tion to the Republican’s 2018 budget, Too bad, says the Republican budget. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to which would dramatically increase our Your care will simply be cut. the gentleman from Minnesota (Mr. deficit and debt by trillions of dollars Are you a student looking to get a LEWIS), a member of our Budget Com- to give millionaires and billionaires a good education and launch your ca- mittee. massive tax cut. reer? Mr. LEWIS of Minnesota. Mr. Chair- Don’t be fooled. This plan directly Tough luck, says the Republican man, I rise today in support of the benefits President Trump, his family, budget. Pell grants are on the chopping Building a Better America budget. Last and his administration, including block, if Republicans have their way. month, our country’s national debt ex- Treasury Secretary Mnuchin, Edu- Are you struggling to recover after a ceeded $20 trillion. Interest payments cation Secretary DeVos, and Commerce natural disaster? under that alone are scheduled to go up Secretary Ross, but offers breadcrumbs Forget about it, says the Republican to $768 billion per year and will sky- for the middle class and nothing for budget. Grants from FEMA and other rocket to $1 trillion should these artifi- low-income Americans. programs that help rebuild our Nation cially low interest rates return to their The craziest thing about all of this is will be eliminated. normal levels. that Republicans have been crowing for The facts are clear: this Republican The debt not only threatens to bank- 7 years that the deficit is too large and budget does nothing to invest in Amer- rupt our country, it threatens our chil- that it is hurting our job growth, yet ica, the American people, or our future. dren’s future and the American Dream. here they go abandoning their prin- It cuts funds for our crumbling infra- Now, we can’t change the culture of ciples to cash out their rich bene- structure, rather than rebuilding our spending in Washington overnight, but factors. schools and roads and putting millions this budget puts us on the right path to I also want to talk about some of the back to work. It slashes investment in fiscal sustainability. Our budget bal- ways Republicans partially pay for this green energy technology, rather than ances in 10 years, works to begin pay- tax cut for the rich. During the same preparing a new generation of Ameri- ing down the debt, and promotes job week that Equifax and Wells Fargo ex- cans to lead us into the economy of to- growth policies like tax, regulatory, ecutives are testifying about the harm morrow. and entitlement reform. they have caused to millions of Ameri- Worst of all, it ramps up funding for For the first time in decades, this cans, Republicans propose gutting the endless wars overseas while gutting budget resolution finally directs Con- Consumer Bureau, which has success- programs that help the brave veterans gress to address mandatory spending, fully helped millions of our constitu- who served their country so well. the main driver of these deficits. As ents receive compensation by effec- Eighty years ago, then-President this graph shows, if nothing is done to tively eliminating its funding and inde- Franklin Delano Roosevelt spoke of a address entitlement programs and our pendence.

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Why not just give the tax That is what we call the American peatedly break the law and harm mil- credits to working families? Dream. There are countless stories like lions of consumers. Yet, both the Con- The President’s Wall Street bankers that: the idea that we can begin with sumer Bureau and the megabank wind- have a different theory that only gets little or nothing, work hard, play by down authority are sacrificed to pay credence in the beltway. This is not the rules, and achieve our dreams. for the richest 1 percent tax cut. about economics. This is about com- So I would urge all of my colleagues mon sense. Think about it. You don’t Unfortunately, in today’s economic to reject this measure. have to be a Ph.D. economist to know environment, for many, the American Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 that the better way to raise wages is Dream seems out of reach. minutes to the gentleman from Michi- not to cut taxes for corporations, but Mr. Chair, that is why this budget is gan (Mr. MITCHELL). to actually give the tax relief to people so important. Not only will it put us on Mr. MITCHELL. Mr. Chairman, I rise making under $75,000. a sustainable fiscal path, but it lays in support of the Building a Better You don’t have to be a Ph.D. econo- out the path forward for tax reform America budget. That is truly what it mist to know that if you cut taxes for that will give American families the does. For too long, our government has shareholders and corporate CEOs, they opportunity to improve their lives. spent money on a credit card with our are probably going to invest it over- Consider a constituent that I spoke children and grandchildren’s name on seas. If you cut the taxes or give the to this week. This particular con- it. It shocks some here in this Cham- tax relief to people making 50 grand in stituent is a single father of 5 in Lan- ber, but the era of overspending is over. Michigan or Ohio, they are going to caster County. He asked me if our tax Adopting this budget will allow us to spend it and create jobs in the United plan means more money in his pay- deliver the key promises we have made States. check. Now, he makes it work today, to Americans: getting our spending This is just common sense. You don’t but it is difficult for him, and he could under control, balancing the budget, have to be a Ph.D. economist to know use some help. This is exactly the kind and paving the way to deliver meaning- that if you really want to create jobs, of hardworking American we are trying ful tax reform. invest in technical training for the to help with our reforms. This resolution balances the budget million skills gap we have, instead of within 10 years and produces a $9 bil- putting hopes on corporate CEOs who Americans deserve this budget be- lion surplus in fiscal year 2027. It already have record profits, that some- cause it lets us pass tax reform to help achieves deficit reduction of $6.5 tril- how they are going to create more jobs. families like the one I just described. lion over 10 years. It also reduces the Mr. Chair, it used to be that there They deserve it because too many size of our bloated government by giv- were serious thinkers on the Repub- Americans today do everything right ing instructions to 11 House commit- lican side, people like Jack Kemp. I but still struggle to make ends meet. tees to achieve at least $203 billion in disagreed with him, but at least he had Americans deserve it because they mandatory savings. innovative ideas of enterprise zones should have a more honest Federal Tax This resolution curbs our and how to really create jobs. But for Code and a simplified filing process unsustainable spending while main- the past 20 years, the Republican party that allows them to spend more time taining a strong defense and protecting has been devoid of ideas. with their family, to save for their critical programs like Medicare. It is a mantra: tax cuts, tax cuts, tax children’s college fund, or to plan for There is much work to be done to cuts. their retirement. create jobs and get our economy mov- Oh, we are changing into a digital Passing this budget helps to make ing beyond the pathetic 2 percent economy. How do we solve it? Tax cuts. these things possible, and I strongly growth. This budget is an important That is not a constructive solution. urge my colleagues in this Chamber to step to doing just that. Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chairman, I do support it. This budget allows us to deliver on want to talk about common sense just Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chairman, I our promise to the American people to for a moment. Common sense is if our want to note for my colleague that by fix our broken Tax Code. Workers liv- other OECD countries have an average voting for this budget, he is jeopard- ing paycheck to paycheck, like my par- corporate rate of 18 to 20 percent and izing meals and food assistance for ents did, need relief and they need it ours is between 35 and 39, and we have 734,000 hungry children in Pennsyl- now. We cannot delay any longer. companies that now decide to go over- vania all so that the wealthiest person My colleagues on the other side of seas. It seems to me to be common in his State, who has a net worth of the aisle seek to raise taxes by $3 tril- sense to at least be equal to what other $3.8 billion, gets a massive tax cut. lion and simply spend more. I suggest countries are doing. they study how that approach worked Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to in Greece. the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. the gentlewoman from Florida (Ms. I urge my colleagues to support the SMUCKER), a member of our Budget WASSERMAN SCHULTZ), a distinguished Building a Better America budget. Committee. member of the Budget Committee. Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chairman, I Mr. SMUCKER. Mr. Chairman, the Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. Mr. would note for my colleague that by national debt is a staggering $20 tril- Chairman, debating this budget resolu- voting for this budget, he will force lion. We are handcuffing future genera- tion is a partisan and pointless exer- 1,895,558 seniors, disabled individuals, tions with what—if we don’t take ac- cise, and I will point out to the chair- and other seriously ill people in Michi- tion—will become an unsurmountable man that it is October, after the fiscal gan to pay more for lifesaving Medi- fiscal crisis. This budget resolution be- year has expired and after we have al- care all so that the wealthiest person fore us today is a step toward putting ready passed every single appropria- in his State, who has net worth of $5.9 our Nation back on a sustainable fiscal tions bill out of the House of Rep- billion, can get a massive tax cut. path. But even more, it will lead to resentatives, and, I might add, a con- Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to greater prosperity and opportunity for tinuing budget resolution. the gentleman from California (Mr. American families and generations to KHANNA), a distinguished member of come. b 1600 the Budget Committee. My own experience as a 17-year-old, I Mr. KHANNA. Mr. Chairman, in a had the good fortune to be able to buy Just as when we considered it in nutshell, here is the Republican and a small construction company from my committee this summer, this resolu- the President’s case. They want you to older brother for $1,000 when I was tion stands as a demonstration of the

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If this budget passes, the tax struc- aires and wealthy corporations; taking Not only is our debt unsustainable, ture it creates will cause a dramatic healthcare away from 20 million Amer- but high levels of government debt increase in the tax burden on working icans; blowing up our deficit with an needs substantial resources, and tax- families. ineffective, immoral border wall; and payers’ dollars must go to servicing There is no doubt that our Tax Code gutting crucial investments in jobs, our debt. Over the next decade, the needs to be updated, but we need to do education, and medical research. cost to service our debt will rise 219 so in a way that upholds the Presi- Instead, this House should be enact- percent, meaning we will spend close to dent’s promise that working families ing legislation to expand background $800 billion by the year 2027 simply to would not see a tax increase. checks and ban assault weapons to pay the interest on our debt. Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to combat senseless firearm violence after This budget reduces spending by $5.4 oppose this double taxation budget and this Nation witnessed, once again, the trillion over a 10-year window. It does this increase in taxes on working fami- deadliest mass shooting in U.S. his- not expand the size of Federal Govern- lies. tory. ment. It does not encroach on State or Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 This House should be passing the local authority. minutes to the gentleman from Illinois Dream Act to protect DREAMers who This is a conservative path forward (Mr. SHIMKUS). call this Nation home and protect them and will help us accomplish what we (Mr. SHIMKUS asked and was given from this administration’s heartless came here to do: meaningful tax re- permission to revise and extend his re- deportations. form. marks.) Finally, instead of wasting taxpayer While I would like to see our govern- Mr. SHIMKUS. Mr. Chairman, I rise dollars and our constituents’ time with ment make even more wise choices in support of the fiscal year 2018 budget this harmful budget resolution, this with taxpayers’ dollars, this budget resolution, and I thank Chairman House should be reauthorizing CHIP, resolution puts us on the road to BLACK for her hard work developing the bipartisan-backed Children’s achieving that goal. With this resolu- this blueprint. Health Insurance Program, which ex- tion as a vehicle for updating our out- Our Nation’s national debt now ex- pired over the weekend and which po- dated Tax Code, Mr. Chair, I truly be- ceeds $20 trillion. While there are many tentially is going to leave children who lieve we can accomplish something factors driving our Nation’s fiscal badly need healthcare insurance twist- that has not been done in over 30 years. health and long-term spending outlook, ing in the wind without it. Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to I am working to address one of those Congressional Republicans have cho- support this budget resolution. items this year: our Nation’s need to sen instead to bring this incredibly ir- Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chairman, I dispose of spent nuclear fuel. responsible and extreme bill to the would remind my colleague that, by In 1982, Congress passed the Nuclear floor. voting for this budget, he will force Waste Policy Act and enacted a formal In stunning ignorance of reality, it 941,169 seniors, disabled individuals, nuclear waste management program assumes TrumpCare will still pass. and other seriously ill people in South for the Federal Government and set a Just how many times must the major- Carolina to pay more for lifesaving 1998 deadline for the Department of En- ity be reminded that TrumpCare is not Medicare, all so that the wealthiest ergy to begin to dispose of used fuel. going to become law and the Affordable person in his State, who has a net Nuclear utilities signed a contract with Care Act is the law of the land that worth of $3 billion, can get a massive DOE requiring this deadline to be met. Americans support? tax cut. Unfortunately, the Federal Govern- How many times will the majority Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to ment did not meet that deadline and try to cut Medicaid by $1 trillion, cut the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. has yet to take title to this material. Medicare benefits, and raise insurance KRISHNAMOORTHI), a distinguished Since then, the Federal Government costs on elderly and low-income Ameri- member of the Oversight and Govern- has been held liable for not meeting cans? ment Reform Committee. this deadline, and the courts awarded Enough is enough. Instead of pan- Mr. KRISHNAMOORTHI. Mr. Chair- financial damages to utilities due to dering to the well connected and our man, I thank the ranking member for the breach of contract. The payments worst impulses, this budget should em- yielding. resulting from these lawsuits are paid body America’s best values, and it is Mr. Chair, the budget before us today from a specific Department of the far from it. sets up a tax plan that would harm Treasury account, known as the judg- The Acting CHAIR (Mr. WEBER of hundreds of thousands of working fami- ment fund, a permanent, unlimited Texas). The time of the gentlewoman lies in Illinois and millions across the fund not subject to budget caps or an- has expired. Nation. nual appropriations. Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chair, I yield It has been widely reported that this Since 2009, DOE’s total liability has the gentlewoman from Florida an addi- tax plan enables a budget that would escalated from $12 billion to nearly $30 tional 30 seconds. eliminate the State and local tax de- billion, or over $2 billion in total liabil- Ms. WASSERMAN SCHULTZ. Sadly, duction, also known as the SALT de- ity for each year of delay. Last year this budget does not reflect our respon- duction, S-A-L-T, SALT deduction. alone, the nuclear waste costs were sibility to care for and invest in the In my home State of Illinois, this about one-third of all Federal Govern- American people. SALT deduction represents a sizeable ment payments due to litigation. Put Mr. Chair, I urge a ‘‘no’’ vote. portion of taxpayers’ income, account- another way, American taxpayers are Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 ing for approximately 6 percent of the paying over $2 million every single day minutes to the gentleman from South average itemizers’ average gross in- in which we neglect our moral and Carolina (Mr. NORMAN). come. legal obligation to permanently dis- Mr. NORMAN. Mr. Chair, I rise in Within my district, the SALT deduc- pose of spent nuclear fuel. support of the proposed budget resolu- tion allows families in Cook County to It is time to get our nuclear waste tion, which will provide the spending save an average of $4,000 a year. In management program back on track. cuts that Washington needs and give a Kane and DuPage Counties, the num- Bipartisan legislation I introduced, pathway to reconciliation for tax re- bers are even greater, $5,000 and $6,600, H.R. 3053, the Nuclear Waste Policy form. respectively. Amendments Act of 2017, which passed Our national debt sits at an astro- Simply put, Mr. Chair, this SALT de- out of the Committee of Energy and nomical $20 trillion and is projected to duction prohibits double taxation on Commerce by an overwhelming vote of

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The gentleman budget process. budget. from Kentucky has 331⁄4 minutes re- I am looking forward to this. With Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chair, I reserve maining. The gentlewoman from Ten- this legislation, we contribute money the balance of my time. nessee has 371⁄2 minutes remaining. to solving some of our national debt. Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chair, I reserve The small area of 1002 in the National minutes to the gentleman from Texas the balance of my time. Wildlife Refuge is an area of 2,000 acres, (Mr. BRADY), the chairman of the Ways Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 smaller than Dulles Airport. and Means Committee. minutes to the gentleman from New b 1615 Mr. BRADY of Texas. Mr. Chair, Mexico (Mr. PEARCE). first, let me thank Chairman BLACK for Mr. PEARCE. Mr. Chair, I thank the Potentially, though, we have a little her leadership on this remarkable gentlewoman for yielding. over 20 billion barrels of oil. Think how budget. Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to rise much money that would bring to the When I ask my constituents from today in support of the fiscal year 2018 Treasury immediately through the bid- Texas about their biggest concerns for budget resolution. ding process. their family and the Nation’s future, On behalf of Chairman HENSARLING, I This is an issue I have been working the overwhelming response is about the would like to take a moment to speak on for the last 45 years. It is time we debt our country faces. Washington’s about the instructions given by the passed it. Once it went to the Senate, spending just continues to grow too chairwoman of the Budget Committee and President Clinton vetoed it be- fast. Our national debt has topped $20 to the Financial Services Committee cause it wouldn’t help us with that em- trillion, and without action, our great to find savings of $14 billion. bargo we had at that time. country is poised for a difficult and Now, that is what we were sent here Now is the time to make sure this painful fiscal reckoning. to do: to find those places where it Nation is independent totally. It won’t Today, with this budget, we have the makes sense to cut the budget and we happen overnight, but only Congress opportunity to do something about it, don’t harm anything. In fact, in this can do this. It is not a wilderness area. the opportunity to tackle our Nation’s case, the Financial Services Com- It is designated to be drilled at the be- fiscal challenges head-on with a strong, mittee is going to help things in rural hest of the Congress for the good of the two-part approach. communities by finding those savings Nation. First, this budget provides real fiscal that the chairwoman instructed us to It will reduce the debt. Again, I said responsibility. It balances within 10 find. I expect bids of about $10 billion to $20 years. It preserves and improves Medi- Several years ago, the Democratic billion just to have the right to drill. care for the long term. It returns power majority passed the Dodd-Frank reso- With the new royalties that are coming to our State and local governments so lution, the Dodd-Frank Act. That en- down from the Secretary of the Inte- they can do what is best for their com- shrined too big to fail. It created unac- rior, we will have not only a large munities, not Washington. countable agencies like the Consumer amount going into the Treasury, we Now, these measures get us moving Financial Protection Bureau. will have about 776,000 new jobs created in the right direction, but fiscal ac- Earlier this year, this body passed by the discovery of this oil. countability is only one crucial piece H.R. 10, the Financial CHOICE Act. We have already seen what we have of the puzzle. If we want a healthier That was trying to prune back the ca- been able to do in other States by American economy for the long term, pabilities of CFPB to hurt the rural fracking and becoming more energy we need a growing American economy areas, which it had been doing in my independent and how that controls the for the long term. That is why this district. OPEC nations. But this is the area budget by Chairwoman BLACK also lays Carlsbad National Bank recently which oil has been developed by God. It the groundwork—the runway, if you shared with us how it takes them 185 is only going to be available to the will—for a once-in-a-generation pro- pages to complete a mortgage loan, 185 United States, and it is time that this growth, pro-family, pro-middle class pages for a small bank for just the sim- Congress steps forth and brings this to tax reform. ple resolution of buying a home. fruition for the people. The House and the Senate are unified Many times our community banks We will hear a lot from the other side with President Trump in delivering a are simply stopping to offer that serv- of those interest groups that have no new Tax Code for a new era of Amer- ice. No one else is willing to come in to knowledge at all about the area I am ican prosperity. We have released bold New Mexico and lend into these rural talking about. We hear that the car- ideas to deliver more jobs, fairer taxes, communities. So we are facing a very ibou herd will be affected. It is ironic and bigger paychecks for the American serious problem. that Prudhoe Bay has produced 17 bil- people, especially our middle class fam- Sometimes community banks are lion barrels of oil, and when we started, ilies. having to consolidate. That hurts rural there were 5,000 caribou. Now we have We are united in getting tax reform communities even worse, because the about 31,000 caribou. Oil didn’t disturb legislation to the President’s desk this consolidation usually moves the bank’s them. year, but if we do not pass the budget, headquarters outside the State or out- Oil is not evil. It is the necessity for tax reform doesn’t move forward. So I side the community. It weakens the this Nation socially to create jobs. It would like to ask all my colleagues fabric of the community. will make a healthier economy. I am today on both sides of the aisle: Where So by finding the savings in this asking my colleagues again to consider do you stand? Are you content with an budget resolution which we were in- this legislation. It is necessary for this unsustainable national debt, a slow- structed to do, we not only save the Nation. It is necessary, very frankly, growth economy, and a broken pro- money, but we also stop the encroach- for the good of this Congress. With $20 Washington, pro-special interest Tax ing regulations that CFPB is putting trillion in debt, I have yet to hear any- Code, or do you stand in support of fis- out, harming the rural communities, thing that will create new wealth. You cal responsibility and pro-growth tax harming rural homeowners. can cut all you want to cut, I will cut reform that allows all Americans to So for those reasons, I gladly support what I want to cut, but you have to keep more of their paychecks? H. Con. Res. 71, the Budget Resolution create new wealth. You have to bring it This is our time to show the Amer- Act, and urge its passage. into the fold of the general budget ican people we don’t accept that slow- Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chair, I reserve process and for the economy of this Na- growth future. the balance of my time. tion.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:41 Oct 05, 2017 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00040 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K04OC7.070 H04OCPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with HOUSE October 4, 2017 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7793 Let’s not keep putting our heads in Among other things, here is what we rate spiked to 44.6 percent due to the sand and saying: Oh, we don’t need heard yesterday at the hearing. First, Obama administration policies. to do this; it is not the time to do it. simplify the Tax Code. Entrepreneurs Many on the other side of the aisle Now is the time for the good of the Na- spend way too much time and way too will say that most small businesses tion and because we are in debt. much money complying with the Tax don’t pay the top rate, but taxpayers Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues Code instead of focusing on growing who do pay the top rate, those small to consider this in this budget. I com- their businesses. businesses, in many cases, are respon- pliment Mrs. BLACK and her work, her Second, lower the tax rates that our sible for much of our economic activity chairmanship, on the budget. It is a companies and employers pay. That is and our employment as pass-through very difficult process. something that foreign governments businesses. Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chair, I reserve around the world, both friends and Every small business owner dreams the balance of my time. foes, have already done to attract more of being successful, and the high top Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chairman, I reserve jobs, more businesses. rate punishes the very success that we the balance of my time so we can hear Third, let companies of all sizes write want them to achieve in America. Add- from the Joint Economic Committee. off the cost of their growth-producing ing to the Federal rate, the tax rate, The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman investment immediately, this is called the local rate, many of these small from Ohio (Mr. TIBERI) and the gentle- expensing, instead of deducting them businesses pay over 50 percent in taxes. woman from New York (Mrs. CAROLYN slowly from the taxes over many years The tax reform framework not only B. MALONEY) each will control 30 min- under very complicated depreciation slashes rates for American employers utes on the subject of economic goals rules. but our small businesses as well. The and policies. Fourth, stop punishing our busi- top rate for pass-throughs will be 25 The Chair recognizes the gentleman nesses for investing overseas profits by percent. from Ohio. Another feature of the tax reform Mr. TIBERI. Mr. Chair, I yield myself bringing them back home to America. such time as I may consume. Move away from the system that dou- framework, Mr. Chair, would allow Mr. Chair, we are making a choice ble taxes American companies that do businesses of all sizes to deduct their today about the kind of future that we business overseas. business expenses, their investments, want. We can choose a future of more These steps will boost economic immediately through expensing. This deficits and more debt piled onto our growth. Growing markets will give en- would encourage companies to make children, or we can continue having a trepreneurs the confidence to risk the kind of investment like buying weak economy where people in their starting a business, which many won’t state-of-the-art equipment that would prime working years can keep leaving even do today, as we have seen more lead businesses to grow, create more the job market. and more startups not making it to the jobs, pay better wages, higher eco- Or we can choose a future where starting line. nomic growth, and the best part of all, America’s job creators, people who go More startups create more jobs, an larger paychecks for workers. to work every day, decide that they average of six new jobs per startup, and Mr. Chair, we have a choice to make. will be better off starting or moving more economic growth means con- We can turn our backs on the most vul- their business overseas. tinuing to spread that prosperity. nerable Americans and doom them to Or we can choose the future of more I am happy to report that these rec- more of the same, subpar growth, stag- of the same, and it is not the wealthy ommendations are a large part of our nant wages, more debt, less oppor- who will suffer more of the same. It is tax reform framework that has just re- tunity, a complex and outdated Tax the most vulnerable, low-income Amer- cently been unveiled: simplicity, lower Code that punishes job creation and in- icans trying to climb out of poverty. It tax rates, expensing, stop double tax- vestment in America, or I hope we is the middle class families who find it ing our American businesses that do choose a better path forward, a better harder and harder to keep up, to get business abroad, reward investment in future for Americans, bigger pay- ahead—people like my dad, a machine America, and boost economic growth. checks, and it starts today with the operator who is now retired as a United We need a Tax Code that makes passing of this budget. Steelworker. America the best place in the world to Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of It is our children and our grand- do business and grow your business and my time. children who will have to pay tomor- keep your business. Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New row for the mistakes that we make Our job creators who are corporate York. Mr. Chair, I yield myself such today. taxpayers now face the highest tax rate time as I may consume. But we can instead choose a better in the developed world. While other Mr. Chair, I urge a ‘‘no’’ vote on this future, Mr. Chair, where the govern- countries aggressively lower their tax budget. ment learns to live within its means rate, Mr. Chair, to attract new busi- Ultimately, a national budget is like and move forward toward balanced nesses, we left our businesses standing a deal between the American taxpayers budgets; a future where job-creating still. and Congress about how this country small businesses aren’t punished by our Mr. Chair, the tax reform framework will spend their money. Anyone who Tax Code when they succeed; a future would slash our corporate rate from looks at the fine print in this budget where we stop losing jobs and busi- the highest in the world, at 35 percent, plan can tell, with a glance, that the nesses to foreign countries with lower to a competitive 20 percent. Instead of American people want, need, and de- tax rates, when workers can finally get the worst, we get much better. In a serve a better deal. the pay raises they deserve, more global economy, that is just not a lux- In the Republican tax plan that goes money in their pockets, and more pros- ury, that is a necessity. with this budget, 80 percent of the Re- perity is widespread, not just con- Our tax reform framework will not publican tax cuts go to the top 1 per- centrated on our coasts and a few large only help American companies com- cent. The top 1 percent gets an average urban cities. pete with foreign ones, but also bring of $200,000 in tax cuts. We will be voting soon on a budget capital back to America to invest and A better deal would drop plans to that restores fiscal responsibility and grow jobs here at home. slash Medicare and Medicaid to pay for paves the way for a world class Tax Let’s look at how the Tax Code is massive tax cuts for the wealthiest Code built for growth and a better fu- punishing our small businesses who few—a deal that instead would be a bi- ture for our kids and our grandkids. pay individual taxes as pass-throughs, partisan effort to bring middle class Yesterday, at the Joint Economic not just with complex taxes but also tax relief, badly needed investments, Committee, Mr. Chair, we held a hear- high tax rates. and greater opportunity. ing on the decline in business startups, When Main Street businessowners But what we have instead is a budget the engines of job growth and innova- went to sleep on December 31 of 2012, that cuts $5.4 trillion in spending over tion in America, and the role tax re- their highest tax rate was 35 percent. 10 years, including $4.4 trillion in cuts form could play in reversing this down- When they woke up the following year to the mandatory programs that help ward spiral. in January of 2013, Mr. Chair, their top average Americans get and stay ahead.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:41 Oct 05, 2017 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00041 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K04OC7.072 H04OCPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with HOUSE H7794 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE October 4, 2017 These aren’t just paper cuts. These We have a second chart that shows mortgage interest reduction, chari- are huge cuts—cuts that would cause the post-World War II GDP change, an table reduction, whatever. But most enormous damage in the lives of chil- average of 3.1. The American middle Americans are going to be able to pay dren, students, veterans, and other class was built on opportunity, lower their taxes on a postcard. Americans. About half of these cuts in taxes, economic stimuli, and growth. It In the polling in this country, the nondefense spending are in programs wasn’t built on this 2.3 to 1.6 that we frustration of Americans with the IRS that help people who need the help the are going to get if we don’t get back to is directly related to the fact that no- most—cuts in programs that provide some serious business-centric, invest- body can fill out a tax form anymore. food to those in need, programs that ment-centric tax reform. So we have great progress here. help students from low-income families There is another equally inescapable Mr. Chair, I appreciate the oppor- afford a college education. They even fact, and that is that capital is fun- tunity to speak. have cuts in the badly needed disaster gible. If tax treatment nurtures it, like Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New relief that is helping so many in our watering your yard, it will grow. If not, York. Mr. Chair, I yield myself such country. it will be invested somewhere else. Just time as I may consume. In fact, by 2027, more than one-third look at Texas, just look at my home According to the nonpartisan Tax of the resources for low- and middle-in- State of Florida, and look at Ireland, Policy Center, 80 percent of the Repub- come people would be gone. Struggling for example. lican tax cuts go to the top 1 percent, Americans deserve a better deal than When the tax climate is nurturing and the top 1 percent gets an average that. And who pays under the Repub- and favorable for investment, you get of $200,000 in tax cuts. And what we see lican tax plan? Seniors, single parents, money put in, you get jobs created, you in this budget is a slashing of invest- and middle class families, it goes up. get economic growth. Investment goes ments in the future strength of our Nondefense discretionary is already where it is most favorably treated. So country. at its lowest level since the category going to 20 and 25 percent from 35 to 40 Instead of slashing infrastructure has been tracked. Republicans want to percent will unleash a torrent of cap- spending, as this budget does, we cut even more, and so they target sen- ital investment and job formation. should be increasing our spending to ior citizens and healthcare. Rapid capital recovery by expensing fill the giant infrastructure pothole This budget cuts half a trillion dol- capital assets purchases will attract that Republican policies have left us lars from Medicare, replacing Medi- massive investments, stimulate our with. care’s guaranteed benefits with a economy, make our manufacturing We have airports that feel Third voucher-like system and increasing its companies do better, and build up the World. We have bridges that are crum- eligibility age to 67. capital stock of our country again, like bling, tunnels that need replacing, b 1630 we used to do. This is going to create roads that need fixing. Failing to do so The CBO estimates that these cuts one thing: job-creating economic costs all of us in time, money, and eco- would cause part B premiums to in- growth. nomic development. crease 25 percent by 2020. And this That is what we need and that is This budget totally fails to recognize budget claims that it ‘‘saves’’ $1.5 tril- what the Republican reform program the value of infrastructure investment. lion by repealing the Affordable Care offers. It cuts $254 billion from transportation Act, even though they have already It also offers one more thing and it over 10 years. Funding would drop from tried to repeal it about 60 times on this changes treatment of foreign income, $92 billion next year to just $65 billion floor, without success, thank God, and which is something I have some experi- in 2022. the American people have made it ence in, and it will incentivize compa- It eliminates the Transportation In- clear that they don’t want it repealed. nies to keep their income here. That is vestment Generating Economic Recov- They still have no replacement plan a good thing for America. ery grant program used for infrastruc- for the Affordable Care Act. So that So I might just mention for just a ture development and repair projects means that they would just be leaving second about what they say and what for interstate highways, bridge im- millions without health insurance and we say. They say tax cut for the provements, and ports. This is incred- threatening the coverage of all those wealthy. No, it is not a tax cut for the ibly shortsighted. with preexisting conditions and chron- wealthy. It lowers taxes on all busi- According to a study by the Amer- ic illnesses, and would leave millions nesses and middle class Americans. ican Society of Civil Engineers, failing facing huge premium increases. They say rising brackets on low in- to close the infrastructure investment Their plan also cuts $114 billion from come. This is an absolute incorrigible gap brings serious economic con- Medicaid, ripping away coverage from falsehood. No. We are taking the 10 per- sequences: $3.9 trillion in losses to the low-income families and the disabled. cent rate to zero. We are taking the 15 U.S. GDP by 2025; $7 trillion in lost This is just plain wrong. Our seniors percent rate to 10. By the way, Ronald business sales in 2025; and 2.5 million deserve a much better deal than that. Reagan reduced the 11 percent rate to lost American jobs in 2025. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of zero. I have seen with my own eyes what my time. The Acting CHAIR. The time of the infrastructure development can mean Mr. TIBERI. Mr. Chair, I yield 2 min- gentleman has expired. to business development and the qual- utes to the gentleman from Florida Mr. TIBERI. Mr. Chair, I yield an ad- ity of life in the city that I serve. The (Mr. FRANCIS ROONEY). ditional 1 minute to the gentleman. Second Avenue Subway, built with the Mr. FRANCIS ROONEY of Florida. Mr. FRANCIS ROONEY of Florida. help of Federal funds, opened in Janu- Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman They say it will explode the deficit, but ary and has already had a huge eco- for the opportunity to speak a little bit we all know that economic growth nomic impact. Stores say their busi- here about the tax reform opportuni- shrinks deficits. Ronald Reagan proved ness is up 20 to 30 percent along that ties that we are seeing now. that in spades, and we are going to see line and it has cut overcrowding and Some people don’t like to admit it, it again. When we eliminate many of reduced traveling times. but there is a proven, inescapable cor- these narrowly-crafted, special inter- New York’s old Kosciuszko Bridge, relation among tax treatment, capital est, lobbyist-driven credits and deduc- which was first opened in 1939, was investment, and job creation. As this tions, we are going to save enough originally designed for 10,000 vehicles a chart right here shows, unequivocally money. Especially when we eliminate day. It was carrying 18 times that and correlating an investment of capital the State and local tax deduction, we had become an accident choke point. with economic change, when you have are going to save a couple of trillion Thanks to Federal funding, it has more money put in, you get more jobs dollars that will help balance this. been replaced, and the biggest city in and more economic growth. And some Then they say loss of itemized deduc- the country will have a brand-new, 21st people don’t like to admit that connec- tions is a bad thing. When we double century bridge soon because these tion, but it is inescapable. It has been the standard exemption, no one is kinds of investments boost produc- that way ever since the first commerce going to need to itemize. The people tivity and bolster our economy, with took place in the Roman era. that do itemize, fine, they can have each $1 in infrastructure investment

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Their savings, as ing today about the miracle of tax irresponsible to slash spending on our well as the government’s ability to ful- cuts: that huge tax cuts for the most crumbling highways and bridges now, fill its commitment to Social Security fortunate would pay for themselves, because if we don’t make needed in- and Medicare, could be undermined if and that they would help grow our vestments today, we will jeopardize our we don’t grow our economy at a higher economy by trickling down through competitiveness tomorrow. rate. the miracle of so-called dynamic scor- Let’s be clear: we are already signifi- So both Republicans and Democrats ing. cantly underinvesting in infrastruc- agree that it is time to fix our broken But as we know from history, that ture. As you can see from this chart, Tax Code. No one is defending the sta- was not the case. One year after the public investments in infrastructure tus quo, Mr. Chair. Our current Tax Bush tax cuts in 2002, here is what and other public fixed assets have fall- Code punishes American workers and Brookings Institute said was happening en over the last few years, dropping to manufacturers. It is a maze of special- in real life: a low of $274 billion in 2014, from more interest loopholes that are unfair to Our findings suggest that Bush tax cuts than $357 billion in 2009. hardworking Americans. It burdens will reduce the size of the future economy, We have created a giant infrastruc- families and small businesses with ex- raise interest rates, make taxes more aggres- ture spending pothole that you see cessive paperwork and compliance sive, increase tax complexity, and prove fis- right here. All told, it costs our Nation costs, creating unnecessary frustration cally unsustainable. more than half a trillion dollars in lost each and every tax season throughout A year after that, in 2003, the Brook- investment over 5 years. the year. That is why 9 out of 10 Ameri- ings Institute said: ‘‘Over the past 2 The people of this country deserve cans either pay someone to do their years our country has experienced a modern infrastructure. They deserve a taxes or have to buy the financial soft- dramatic deterioration in the Federal better deal. ware to do their taxes. budget outlook.’’ This budget also cuts $154 billion Mr. Chair, our Tax Code is holding In January 2001, when President from nutrition, from the Supplemental our country back. It is holding our George Bush took office, the Congres- Nutrition Assistance Program, ignor- economy back. So we have a stark sional Budget Office projected sur- ing the more than 40 million low-in- choice. We can either truly grow the pluses of $5.6 trillion—as in ‘‘T,’’ tril- come families, including children, the economy and put ourselves back on a lion—from 2000 to 2011. working poor, the elderly, and the dis- path to real prosperity, or we can con- But in 2011, nearly a decade after the abled, to say nothing of the 8 million tinue with weak economic growth, GOP promised their budget would un- people, including 4 million children it which only benefits ‘‘the few’’ and will leash the economy through tax cuts for lifts out of poverty. The hungry chil- do nothing for the rest of us when the the wealthy and budgets that cut serv- dren of America deserve a better deal next economic downturn happens. ices to the vulnerable, this is what we than that. Tax reform, for me, is about one found, from National Public Radio: Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of thing and one thing only. It is about ‘‘Conservatives often promote tax cuts my time. restoring the hope for a prosperous fu- as a way to stimulate economic Mr. TIBERI. Mr. Chair, I yield 5 min- growth, but the years after 2001 were utes to the gentleman from Minnesota ture for ourselves, for our parents, and, most importantly, for our children. marked by the slowest growth since (Mr. PAULSEN), a senior member of the World War II.’’ It is about Paula in my district, in Joint Economic Committee, as well as All of us remember when President Plymouth, Minnesota, who said that a senior member of the Ways and Obama came to office that this country the Tax Code is hurting her small busi- Means Committee. was shedding 800,000 jobs a month and ness and preventing her from hiring Mr. PAULSEN. Mr. Chairman, the it was a long time to dig ourselves out more employees and giving them a budget that is being considered here of that big Republican hole and get us raise. today sets in motion the process of the moving in the right direction with job first major tax reform that we will It is about an owner of an extrusion growth. have been able to see in 3 decades. We company in Chaska, Minnesota, that I So let’s not go down that road again. are on the cusp of a really exciting op- just spoke to. He said he would invest I call upon my colleagues to remember portunity to give Americans what they in new equipment and machines if this history. deserve: a Tax Code that works for tax plan passes. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of them, not against them. And it is about lowering rates across my time. Now, on the House Ways and Means the board for all Americans, as well as Mr. TIBERI. Mr. Chairman, I would Committee, we spent many months small businesses, so that they can keep again like to point out this little chart meeting, holding hearings, discussing, more of their first dollars earned. that shows facts. At the bottom of the working on almost a daily basis ways Tax reform means increasing the per- chart, if the viewers can see, is the to craft a tax plan that is simpler and sonal income for average Americans United States with our corporate tax fairer for all Americans. The frame- and reducing the cost of living so that rate. All of these other countries, most work that was just rolled out last week day-to-day expenses are more afford- of whom are our friends, even France, takes that into account and lays out a able. This will lead to families being is lower than the United States, Spain, plan that will lead to more jobs and, able to save for their future and their Canada, Netherlands, Austria, Turkey, most importantly, bigger paychecks. retirement. It will allow people to take Italy, New Zealand, Japan—you can go You know, the economic ‘‘recovery’’ more control of their lives and their fi- on and on. since the Great Recession hasn’t nances so that they can save and spend Mr. Chairman, we have the highest worked for a lot of Americans. It cer- and invest their hard-earned money as corporate rate in the industrialized de- tainly hasn’t worked for a lot of Min- they see fit. veloped world. Facts are a stubborn nesotans that I represent. Economic Mr. Chairman, this is a really impor- thing to deal with, Mr. Chairman. This growth has been anemic, and we re- tant opportunity we cannot let slip budget, as Congressman PAULSEN said, main uncompetitive in far too many away to help middle-income families is the first step into dealing with some- areas. Many are living paycheck to and small businesses. Passing this thing that we haven’t dealt with in 31 paycheck, and either have or now are budget puts us on a path for tax reform years. at risk of having a lower standard of that has so much potential to unleash Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of living than their parents. and grow our economy to the benefit of my time. Young people, like my daughter’s middle-income families in Minnesota Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New generation, will go backwards if this and across the country. York. Mr. Chair, I yield 5 minutes to

VerDate Sep 11 2014 02:41 Oct 05, 2017 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00043 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K04OC7.075 H04OCPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with HOUSE H7796 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE October 4, 2017 the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. campaigned hard on more infrastruc- pany is going to attempt to extract fos- BEYER), my distinguished colleague. ture investment, not a cut. sil fuels at this time. Mr. BEYER. Mr. Chairman, I appre- This budget cuts student aid by $211 We believe the ANWR must be pro- ciate the opportunity to address the billion when we know from our Joint tected from the budget for future gen- House on this issue. I hear so much Economic Committee hearings that the erations, its wildlife, and the native from my friends on the other side that student debt our young people carry is people who inhabit it. I agree with, and I very much would one of the reasons they don’t start new Part two, Mr. Chairman, is the budg- like to work closely with them. businesses, one of the things that sup- et also attacks Federal Government I point out to the chairman of the presses the growth of new businesses in employee retirement benefits. It in- Joint Economic Committee, my friend America. structs the Oversight and Government from Ohio, that while we have the We also know that human capital is Reform Committee to reduce the def- highest corporate rate in the world, 35 the key to economic growth all icit by $32 billion. This clearly targets percent, which is clearly not desirable, through history and today. It contains Federal employee retirement benefits I served in Switzerland for 4 years, massive cuts to Medicare and Med- because that is the only substantial where there were 700 American compa- icaid, making healthcare more expen- mandatory spending within the Com- nies because the tax rate was so much sive for those who can least afford it, mittee on Oversight and Government lower. Yet that 35 percent rate, in ac- and that is not a way to grow the econ- Reform’s jurisdiction. tuality, turned out to be less than 14 omy. By slashing these promised benefits, percent across all American corpora- We have an opportunity to enact fis- the budget will eliminate any sense of tions, and a quarter of American cor- cally responsible, sustainable, bipar- financial security that Federal employ- porations pay zero. tisan tax reform that focuses on the ees currently have. We should be pro- As we look at refining this, it is not Americans whose wages have been tecting their rights and benefits. This just about dropping that rate. It is stagnant for 30 years. I believe the was the original bargain they made. about making sure that every Amer- Democrats are prepared to engage in Most gave up much more lucrative ca- ican corporation pays a fair share of real reform. It should be simpler. It reers in the private sector for the op- their taxes to the U.S. citizens. should be fairer. We should absolutely portunity to serve all Americans, and I rise in opposition to the Republican do away with the special deals and for a small but secure Federal pension. budget resolution. Budget resolutions, credits and gimmicks, but we need a It is also going to make it a lot more by their nature, are political docu- lower rate for most Americans, and not difficult for us to recruit and retain the ments. But this one also has an instru- make sure that 80 percent of the tax quality employees who make America mental purpose, because the only rea- benefits go to the people who need great. son this budget resolution is on the them the least, who have the smallest Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to re- floor is to pave the way for the par- propensity to spend and to invest. ject this budget, and let’s work to- tisan process for the tax bill, which There are many other things wrong gether to create a Tax Code that really will significantly increase the deficit with this budget. Let me just point out does simulate our economy and that in order to give tax breaks to those two particular problems. Number one, works for all Americans. who need them least. the budget attacks the Arctic National Mr. TIBERI. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 I think everyone in this body agrees Wildlife Refuge. It essentially sac- minutes to the gentleman from Illinois that the average American taxpayer, rifices wildlife and environmental pro- (Mr. LAHOOD), who represents the cen- those who have had virtually no raise tections to pay for tax cuts for the tral part of Illinois, and is a new mem- for 30 years, deserve and need tax wealthiest. ber of the Joint Economic Committee. breaks. If we can give them that tax re- ANWR encompasses more than 19 Mr. LAHOOD. Mr. Chairman, I thank lief, the economy will grow faster. million acres and is one of the last in- the gentleman for yielding. But the Senate reconciliation in- tact landscapes in America. It is essen- Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support structions that will ultimately pass are tial that we protect this wild and spec- of H. Con. Res. 71, the fiscal year 2018 written to allow for a $1.5 trillion in- tacular land. The government briefly budget resolution. This bill makes nec- crease in the deficit, and that is assum- opened ANWR to seismic testing in the essary and responsible funding deter- ing that the fuzzy math and the rosy 1980s, and the damage from that activ- minations by reducing the size and expectations actually work out. I ap- ity is still visible today. Truck tracks scope of government, cutting Federal preciate the charts that my friend and still scar the expansive tundra where spending by $5.4 trillion over 10 years, colleague, Mr. ROONEY, showed that the permafrost never healed. Since and balancing the Federal budget in pointed out that we would like to get then, the Federal Government has pro- fiscal year 2027. to 3.1 percent economic growth. I tected ANWR from harmful oil and gas Given our Nation’s more than $20 heartily agree. drilling because of concerns about the trillion in debt, it is past time to get But if we look at the period right impact on species like polar bears, serious about our Federal spending so now where we now have the worst dis- muskoxen, and caribou. that important programs are able to be parity in wealth and the worst dis- Mr. Chairman, there are 37 land sustained long term. In addition, this parity in income that we have had in a mammal species, 8 marine mammal bill sets the stage for much-needed tax long time, that tracks this decline species, 42 fish species, and more than reform. Small businesses and farmers from 3.1 percent to 1.6, 1.8, 2 percent. 200 migratory birds that inhabit the are the bedrock of the American econ- When I started off in our family busi- ANWR. Seismic testing could do last- omy. For decades, we have allowed our ness, the corporate tax rate was 78 per- ing damage to the fragile ecosystem Tax Code to balloon with loopholes and cent, and our economic growth was a way before drilling. Seismic activity tax breaks for special interests, hurt- lot higher. Not that we want to go back sends shock waves underground, dis- ing our local economies and middle to 78 percent, but putting more money turbing denning polar bears. class workers. in the hands of the top 1 percent is not The Acting CHAIR. The time of the That is why it is so crucial that we what is going to make this economy gentleman has expired. pass this commonsense budget as the grow more quickly. Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New first step in reforming our Nation’s Actually, looking at the critical pro- York. Mr. Chair, I yield an additional 2 outdated Tax Code. Our current system grams that are cut in this Republican minutes to the gentleman from Vir- continues to fail small business own- budget gives us almost a handy guide ginia. ers, farmers, and middle class families of more effective ways to spend money. Mr. BEYER. Mr. Chairman, the car- with its overwhelmingly complex sys- For example, this budget cuts trans- ibou are a food source for Alaskan in- tem. That is why over 90 percent of portation spending by 25 percent at a digenous groups who have lived off the Americans have to pay for help with time when we have a D in our infra- land for thousands of years. All of this filing their taxes every year. structure by the American Society of devastation will likely do very little in Not only does this cost people their Civil Engineers, when President Trump the short run to reduce the deficit. The hard-earned money, but this also costs and candidate Hillary Clinton both oil prices are so low that no oil com- us our valuable time. Every year we

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In addition, it also cuts $3.3 bil- billion from science, space, and tech- status quo, as some on the other side of lion from the Pell grant surplus, which nology precisely at a time when we the aisle continue to do, but to sim- provides a much-needed reserve to should be increasing investments in plify our Tax Code and lower the rates cover the cost of future education. these sectors. for businesses and the middle class. If that is not enough, after students It is important to the future pros- Another crucial part of reforming our graduate, this budget makes it increas- perity of America. Cuts now mean Tax Code must be the elimination of ingly difficult to pay off student loans fewer jobs and economic growth in the the death tax, which harms farmers and steers graduates away from public future; they mean less innovation and like those in the 18th Congressional service and teaching jobs by elimi- less prosperity. So if my colleagues District of Illinois. Family-owned busi- nating the Public Service Loan For- across the aisle want to grow the econ- nesses and farms that use their hard- giveness and Teacher Loan Forgiveness omy, turning this trend around is an earned dollars to invest back in their programs. Our students and our teach- important way to do it. businesses are often forced to sell off ers deserve a better deal than that. Now, I have heard all day from my parts or all in order to pay the death I must say that we are suffering from colleagues on the other side of the aisle tax. three hurricanes, devastating hurri- how very, very concerned they are canes, yet this budget eliminates three There is nothing fair about penal- about the deficit, but the GOP tax plan programs that play very key roles in izing our job creators and the drivers of makes it worse. The tax framework re- disaster relief. The Community Devel- leased last week by the White House our economy for investing in and grow- opment Block Grant program, ing their business. In fact, it is esti- and Republican leaders would add $2.4 AmeriCorps, and the Legal Services trillion to the deficit in the first 10 mated that repealing the death tax Corporation are all eliminated. This would grow our economy by 0.9 percent years and another $3.2 trillion in the budget abolishes these programs that next 10 years. over 10 years. are literally supporting our relief ef- These small business investments are So the Republican budget is just to- forts from Harvey, Irma, and Maria. tally unacceptable. This budget flat- often necessary for small businesses Our Nation’s veterans—our Nation’s out ignores the reality. So if Repub- and farmers who depend upon expen- veterans—our bravest, are not spared licans are concerned about the deficit, sive machinery to earn their living. the carnage of this heartless proposal. then they should really rewrite their Our current Tax Code, however, en- The GOP budget proposes $50 billion in budget proposal. courages businessowners to put off cuts to mandatory spending on vet- In conclusion, look at the fine print their investments as they are only able erans programs over 10 years, including of this proposed deal and imagine the to deduct the cost of equipment over education benefits and loan guaran- harm it would cause to millions of many years. By allowing full expens- tees. So after we have already asked so American families, to our children, to ing, businesses and farmers can fully much of our men and women in uni- our seniors, to our sick and suffering, invest in the tools they need to become form, this budget refuses to give them to our disabled and our destitute, to more productive, all the while earning the tools they need to transition to ci- our economy, to our research, and to more savings. vilian life. Our veterans deserve a bet- our infrastructure. It is clear—clear— According to the Tax Foundation, ter deal than that from the country beyond any and all doubt that Ameri- full expensing would save businesses that they have served so honorably. cans deserve a better deal. money, leading to nearly a 5 percent Cuts to research, where research is Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance increase in income for low- and middle- the future of our country, and this of my time. income workers. budget would also cut investments that are directly tied to our country’s fu- Mr. TIBERI. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 The Acting CHAIR. The time of the minute to the gentleman from Texas gentleman has expired. ture prosperity by slashing basic re- (Mr. CONAWAY), who is the distin- Mr. TIBERI. Mr. Chair, I yield an ad- search funding. I want to point out how important guished chairman of the Agriculture ditional 1 minute to the gentleman Committee. from Illinois. research funding is to our country. In 1996, two Stanford graduate students Mr. CONAWAY. Mr. Chairman, I rise Mr. LAHOOD. Mr. Chair, tax reform today in support of the budget before is about getting our economy back to took a $4.5 million research grant from the National Science Foundation and the House. working for the middle class, and for developed a new algorithm called As a legislator, but more impor- our small businesses, growing it from PageRank. Two years later, these same tantly, as a father and grandfather, I the inside out. This budget is the nec- students took PageRank and launched am seriously concerned about the essary first step in that process, and I a new internet search engine we now mountain of debt our Nation is passing am proud to support it. It will help call Google. Today Google is worth on to our children and grandchildren. bring relief to those who need it most. over $600 billion and employs over Our Nation’s total Federal debt is now Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New 72,000 Americans, and it all began with bigger than our gross domestic prod- York. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself a Federal basic research grant of $4.5 uct. such time as I may consume. million. Think about that. As the leader of Mr. Chair, just to remind my col- Google is just one example on a long the free world and the driver of global leagues, the nonpartisan Tax Policy list of technological advancement com- innovation and entrepreneurship, over Center points out that 80 percent of the panies and, most importantly, jobs the next 10 years, we expect to reach a Republican tax cuts go to the top 1 per- that trace their roots to basic research point where annual interest payments cent. investment. It is what has kept this to our creditors will exceed the amount But in this budget resolution that we country on top. we spend on defending our Nation. are discussing, it slashes education According to the Brookings Institu- It is imperative that we change this funding, putting the drain of a college tion, two-thirds of the most influential trajectory, and I commend Chair- education for average Americans even technologies over the past 50 years woman BLACK and her colleagues on further out of reach. It asks the Amer- were supported by Federal research the Budget Committee for providing a ican people who already experience grants. It has brought us lifesaving blueprint for tackling the problem. crippling student loan debt to reach vaccines, the laser, touchscreen, GPS, While Congress has made many deci- even deeper into their pockets for their and even the internet, technology that sions ahead of us to rein in mandatory education by cutting $211 billion from has served as a launching pad for cut- spending, this budget is a critical student financial aid programs. ting-edge medical treatment. starting point.

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They have to live to think that is really where we should Americans. within their means, Mr. Chairman. be using those numbers right at this As a CPA with a current license, I The Federal Government, for too point in time to give a definitive sce- look forward to the very real prospect long, hasn’t lived within its means, and nario. I did want to say that that of fundamental tax reform. This budget this budget is about that. This budget would be a good thing for people to is the vehicle that can make that hap- is about tax reform. This budget is look at if they would like to get a brief pen. about growing our economy. We idea. Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues haven’t seen the growth in this recov- Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance to support this budget. ery that we have seen in others. of my time. Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New Mr. Chairman, I remember when I Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chairman, I York. Mr. Chair, I request the amount got my first job at McDonald’s. My im- yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman of time that is remaining. migrant mother and my immigrant fa- from Washington (Ms. JAYAPAL), a dis- The Acting CHAIR (Mr. ZELDIN). The ther sat me down and talked to me tinguished member of the Budget Com- gentlewoman from New York has 4 about the taxes that I would pay com- mittee. minutes remaining. The gentleman Ms. JAYAPAL. Mr. Chairman, I 1 ing out of my first paycheck. I clearly from Ohio has 10 ⁄2 minutes remaining. thank the gentleman from Kentucky Mrs. CAROLYN B. MALONEY of New remember my dad saying to me: Don’t (Mr. YARMUTH), our ranking member, York. Mr. Chair, I yield myself the bal- let the taxes that you pay stop you for yielding and also for his tremen- ance of my time. from saving most of this money, be- Mr. Chair, in closing, I believe that cause in America, not only do you get dous leadership. this proposal that is before us is an ab- taxed when you earn it, you get taxed Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong opposi- solute disaster. We should be charting when you save it, and if you save tion to this deeply flawed Republican a fundamentally different course. enough, you will get taxed when you budget resolution. When you listen to people around die. That was my immigrant father When we considered this resolution their dinner table in America tonight, with a fifth grade education. He was a in July, Democrats offered 28 amend- they would be talking about their con- steelworker. ments. The amendments that we of- cerns in education, infrastructure, Mr. Chairman, it is incredibly sad in fered were meant to help set a course jobs, healthcare, security, environ- America today when a successful entre- away from the disastrous path that the ment, and disaster relief. But this plan preneur will pay over 50 percent of Republican majority and the Trump delivers, instead, deep and sometimes what he or she makes in taxes at the administration are steering us down. disabling cuts to badly needed pro- Federal, State, and local levels. We offered amendments on a broad grams for millions in order to give Mr. Chairman, it has been 31 years range of issues important to our com- away benefits to a fortunate few. This since we reformed our outdated Tax munities and our families. These in- is just plain wrong. Budgets are about Code, and now is the time—now is the cluded protecting our communities values and priorities, and the people of time—at this crossroads to change the from the effects of climate change; pre- this country deserve better. direction of America for our kids and serving healthcare; investing in public We should not be cutting our edu- our grandkids. I urge a ‘‘yes’’ vote on health, research, and diplomacy; and cation spending. Failing to train the this responsible budget to live within investing in our Nation’s workforce world’s most highly educated work- our means, and I yield back the bal- and infrastructure. Not surprisingly, force is irresponsible and puts our en- ance of my time. not a single one of those made it tire economy at a disadvantage. We The Acting CHAIR. The gentlewoman through. should be investing more in education from Tennessee has 33 minutes remain- Instead, we have the resolution: a at every level—early education and ing. The gentleman from Kentucky has love letter to millionaires, billionaires, high schools—motivating students to 331⁄4 minutes remaining. and corporations, and nothing but a become engaged in science, technology, The Chair recognizes the gentle- manifesto of contempt for America’s math, and engineering. We should be woman from Tennessee. working families. leading the way in developing new and Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chairman, I yield Mr. Chairman, the resolution we will improved technical and trade training myself such time as I may consume. be asked to vote on is based on the programs for those who would prefer it. Mr. Chairman, I do want to just same faulty assumptions as the bill We should be doing more, not less, to begin this next section by making a that came through committee. These make college and postgrad study af- brief comment about my good friend include assuming that the repeal of the fordable once again. To do anything from Kentucky, who has been using Affordable Care Act happened, which it less is to fail in our obligation to the some information off of Forbes as he did not, and an unrealistic economic rising generation. responds to our speakers. I just want to growth of 3 percent. We already trail much of the eco- say, I went out to look at Forbes to see The Republican budget resolution nomically advanced world when it what was on Forbes while we were on does little but hurt millions of Amer- comes to healthcare. We get sicker, die this brief intermission, and I found this ican families in order to fast-track tax sooner, and pay more for our care than article that was in Forbes just the day cuts for millionaires, billionaires, and most developed nations. Millions are before yesterday that does say that the corporations. just one serious illness away from fi- GOP tax framework is a pay raise for In addition, after all the Republican nancial ruin. But this budget plan middle class families. talk of deficit reduction, this cruel budget resolution massively increases would cut spending for healthcare, and b 1715 this budget would weaken the pillars of the Federal debt by over $2.4 trillion financial security for our seniors. The I encourage people to take a look at over the next 10 years and $3.2 trillion proposed cuts to Medicare and Med- this. It actually does some scenarios in the 10 years after. icaid will come at the expense of sen- for what we know at this point in time. Where does putting the interests of iors, the disabled, and the middle class. However, I do want to say that what corporations and the wealthiest ahead Mr. Chairman, we cannot afford this has been put out is a framework. It of working families get us? budget. I urge my colleagues to reject doesn’t really have enough details to Well, we have seen where this ends. it, and I yield back the balance of my give too much on these scenarios, be- Earlier this summer, the Republican- time. cause there are some very important dominated Kansas Legislature was Mr. TIBERI. Mr. Chairman, I yield pieces that are missing. forced to roll back its 2012 tax cuts. In myself such time as I may consume. Guessing on these key points really fact, a recent Brookings Institution Mr. Chairman, America is at a cross- doesn’t allow us to do a proper anal- analysis found that the tax cuts re- roads, and this budget is about choices. ysis. Things like the brackets have not sulted in an ‘‘anemic level of revenues,

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It re- They are going to eliminate all long- yield the gentlewoman from Wash- flects our values. This budget is a stark route trains, isolating rural America. ington an additional 1 minute. reminder that the majority and the They are going to lose essential air Ms. JAYAPAL. This Republican Trump administration are waging a service in rural America. And, by the budget resolution will lead us into that war on the middle class and evis- way, the Republicans want to toll your same hole, yet we know that this will cerating the social safety net programs interstate. So if you live in rural only give Republicans license to call that help our most vulnerable citizens. America, you can get in your car to go for further cuts to critical programs The social safety net was built on a somewhere, but now you are going to like Medicare, Social Security, and bipartisan basis. Why is the majority have to pay to use the highway you al- education. hell-bent on destroying it? ready paid for. We know who wins under this budget Older Americans will suffer under Secondly, it eliminates critical fund- resolution. It paves the way for a Re- this budget. It cuts $1.5 trillion from ing for our urban areas, the economic publican tax proposal that gives a huge Medicare and Medicaid. It betrays mid- engines of this country. It eliminates tax cut to the wealthiest in our coun- dle class job seekers by cutting job TIGER grants for freight and try. training, education programs, and multimodal projects. It eliminates new Consider this: 80 percent of the Re- other nondefense programs by 34 per- investment in transit, new start publican tax cut goes to the top 1 per- cent over the next 10 years. projects. It eliminates all investments cent by 2027; the average tax cut for It decimates the Food Stamp pro- in high-speed rail and eliminates spe- the top 1 percent would be $207,000; for gram, SNAP benefits and assumes the cific funding for bicycle and pedestrian millionaires, the tax cut would provide enactment of the House-passed repeal projects. The Republicans just hate bi- $230,000 a year; and 42 million middle of the Affordable Care Act, targeting cycles. class households would face a tax in- American families who are struggling It also goes on—and this is totally crease, including those people earning to get by. amazing—seriously, you are going to between $50,000 and $150,000. If we were serious about addressing cut funding for the Federal Emergency Mr. Chairman, this budget resolution the problems that face middle class Management Agency? Haven’t you is unfair to working families and to our families, we would be voting on a budg- been watching television? I think they country’s future. I urge my colleagues et resolution that invests in their pri- are already out of money. You are to vote against this resolution. Let’s orities: job training, apprenticeships, going to cut funding? work together on a moral budget blue- paid family and medical leave, fair We want to do away with those pro- print that supports all Americans. trade, and equal pay for equal work. grams that might mitigate the disaster Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chairman, I reserve Instead, we are considering a budget of future floods and hurricanes. You the balance of my time. that is merely a means for the major- are going to cut grants for firefighters. Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chairman, I ity to jam through their tax cuts for Then, that is not enough. We are yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman the wealthy and for corporations. going to roll back Davis-Bacon protec- from California (Ms. JUDY CHU), a dis- The biggest economic challenge of tions for people who work on federally tinguished member of the Ways and our time is that too many people now funded projects. We are going to roll Means Committee. are in jobs that do not pay them back Buy American? Really? So it is Ms. JUDY CHU of California. Mr. enough to live on. We should be grow- ‘‘Buy Chinese’’ in the Republican budg- Chair, typically, a budget is a blueprint ing the middle class and looking for so- et. Buy Chinese. for how our government plans to meet lutions that work for America’s fami- They want to devolve the obligation our obligations to our people; but not lies. to fund Federal highways to the this time. We ought to be prioritizing the needs States. I have got news for you: we By including reconciliation instruc- of working families, the ones who have have tried that. tions for their tax plan, the Repub- entrusted us to come to Washington to The Acting CHAIR. The time of the licans are using this budget as a blue- fight for them and to fight for their gentleman has expired. print to give tax cuts to the wealthiest families. Instead, this budget puts cor- Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chairman, I few, without requiring bipartisan sup- porate profits first. It caters to those yield the gentleman from Oregon an port. with the most lobbyists. additional 1 minute. Under this bill, a family making This budget is a disgrace to the Mr. DEFAZIO. This is Kansas and $50,000 a year could see their tax bur- promises that we have made to the Oklahoma. This is Kansas before we den go up, while millionaires will save American people, and I urge my col- had the Eisenhower—by the way, a Re- $230,000. And who will pay to make the leagues to oppose it. publican—National Highway Program. rich richer? Our working families, chil- Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chairman, I reserve They built their turnpike. Oklahoma dren, and seniors. the balance of my time. said they would build theirs. They This budget slashes priorities like Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chairman, I didn’t. They were out of money. They education, infrastructure, and vet- yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from didn’t build it until they got an 80 per- erans’ benefits, and even guts Medicare Oregon (Mr. DEFAZIO), the ranking cent Federal match. and Medicaid by $1.5 trillion. member of the Transportation and In- So let’s go back to the good, old ‘‘You can’t make guarantees,’’ is how frastructure Committee. days. We are going to devolve the obli- Treasury Secretary Mnuchin responded Mr. DEFAZIO. Mr. Chairman, I thank gations of putting together a 21st cen- when asked if the Republican tax plan the gentleman for yielding. tury transportation system in this would help the middle class. But the I rise in strong opposition to the Re- country, knitting our country to- thing is, you can make guarantees. If publican budget proposal. gether, getting rid of congestion, mov- this Republican budget moves forward, As the ranking member on the Trans- ing people and goods more efficiently, it will guarantee that inequality gets portation Committee, I want to focus but we are going to do it on a State-by- worse, while the rest of us pay to help in a little bit on what they do to trans- State basis. That is nuts. I just can’t make millionaires into billionaires. portation. believe this. Mr. Chairman, I reject this budget We heard great promises from Presi- Then, there is another little trick. and ask my colleagues to oppose it. dent Trump of a trillion dollars in new The chairman of my committee wants Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chairman, I reserve investment. Nothing has come from to privatize the airspace in the United the balance of my time. the White House. The first substantive States and reduce the ticket tax that

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So this nifty little thing ica (ACCA), Alabama Retail Association, cery Manufacturers Association, Hastings here contains a reserve fund of $100 bil- Alaska Chamber, Allen Fairview Chamber of Area Chamber of Commerce (NE), Heating, lion to try and make up for the fact Commerce (TX), Alliance for Competitive Air-conditioning & Refrigeration Distribu- and hide the fact that they are cutting Taxation (ACT), American Bakers Associa- tors International (HARDI), Henderson $100 billion of taxes that pay for the tion, American Bankers Association, Amer- Chamber of Commerce (NV). ican Council of Engineering Companies, Hilliard Area Chamber of Commerce (OH), current system. American Exploration & Production Council, How are you going to pay for the Hillsboro Chamber of Commerce (OR), Home American Farm Bureau Federation, Amer- Furnishings Association, Illinois Chamber of next system? ican Forest & Paper Association, American Commerce, Independent Insurance Agents & The airlines will determine that, not Foundry Society, American Gas Association, Brokers of America, Independent Office Congress. American Hotel & Lodging Association, Products & Furniture Dealers Alliance, Inde- Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chairman, I yield American International Automobile Dealers pendent Petroleum Association of America, myself such time as I may consume. Association, American Iron and Steel Insti- Indiana Chamber of Commerce, Inter- Mr. Chairman, I include in the tute, American Made Coalition, American national Foodservice Distributors Associa- Petroleum Institute (API). tion, International Warehouse Logistics As- RECORD a letter that has been signed American Supply Association, Americans sociation, Iowa Chamber Alliance, Irrigation by 242 agencies and think tanks sup- for Tax Reform, Ames Chamber of Commerce Association, ISSA, The Worldwide Cleaning porting this budget. (IA), Argentum, Arizona Chamber of Com- Industry Association, Jefferson Chamber of merce and Industry, Asian American Hotel Among those who have signed this Commerce (LA), Jenkins County Chamber of Owners Association, Asphalt Roofing Manu- letter are the American Bankers Asso- Commerce (GA), Job Creators Network, facturers Association, Associated Builders ciation, American Farm Bureau Fed- Johnson City/Jonesborough/Washington and Contractors, Associated Equipment Dis- eration, Americans for Tax Reform, County TN Chamber, Joliet Region Chamber tributors, Associated General Contractors of of Commerce & Industry (MO), Kalispell Business Roundtable, Financial Serv- America, Associated Wire Rope Fabricators, Chamber of Commerce (MT), Kansas Cham- ices Forum, Manufactured Housing In- Association for Hose and Accessories Dis- ber of Commerce, Kingsport Chamber (TN), stitute, National Association of Manu- tribution (NAHAD), Association of American Kyndle (Henderson County KY Chamber of facturers, the National Black Chamber Railroads, Association of Equipment Manu- Commerce). of Commerce, National Grocers Asso- facturers, Association of Washington Busi- Lake Havasu Area Chamber of Commerce ciation, National Retail Federation, ness, Auto Care Association, Baton Rouge Area Chamber (LA), Battle Creek Area (AZ), Lancaster Chamber (PA), Las Vegas Tennessee Chamber of Commerce & In- Metro Chamber of Commerce (NV), Lemont dustry, The Kentucky Chamber, and Chamber of Commerce (MI), Boca Raton Chamber of Commerce (FL), Brainerd Lakes Chamber of Commerce (IL), Lima Allen U.S. Chamber of Commerce, among Chamber of Commerce (MN). County Chamber of Commerce (OH), Little many others. Bristol County Chamber of Commerce Rock Regional Chamber (AR), Long Beach Area Chamber of Commerce (CA), Louisiana SEPTEMBER 28, 2017. (MA), Buckeye Valley Chamber (AZ), Buffalo Association of Business and Industry, Manu- TO THE MEMBERS OF THE UNITED STATES CON- Niagara Partnership (NY), Business Council factured Housing Institute, McLean County GRESS: We urge Congress to expeditiously of Alabama, Business Council of New York pass a budget resolution with reconciliation State, Business Roundtable, Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce (IL), Metals Service instructions so that the promise of tax re- Metro Economic Alliance (IA), Cellular Tele- Center Institute, Metro South Chamber of form can be made a reality. communications and Internet Association Commerce (MA), Metropolitan Milwaukee It has been 31 years since Congress last re- (CTIA), Central Louisiana Regional Chamber Association of Commerce (WI), Michigan Re- formed the tax code. Since then, the code has of Commerce, Chambers of Commerce Alli- tailers Association, Minnesota Retailers As- become an anchor weighing down the econ- ance of Ventura & Santa Barbara Counties sociation, Missouri Chamber of Commerce omy, job creation, and wage growth for (CA), Chester County Chamber of Business & and Industry, Monroe Chamber of Commerce American families. Industry (PA), Coeur d’Alene Chamber of (LA), Montgomery Area Chamber of Com- This Congress has a once-in-a-generation Commerce (ID), Colorado Association of merce (AL), Motor & Equipment Manufac- opportunity to fix the problem. Over the past Commerce and Industry, Colorado Retail As- turers Association, Myrtle Beach Area several years, tremendous work has been sociation, Consumer Bankers Association, Chamber of Commerce (SC), National Asso- done to prepare for this moment. In the 113th Convenience Distribution Association, Coral ciation of Chemical Distributors, National Congress the Ways and Means Committee Gables Chamber of Commerce (FL), Council Association of Manufacturers, National As- conducted a comprehensive look at tax re- for Citizens Against Government Waste, Cov- sociation of Mutual Insurance Companies, form. Last year House Republicans released ington County Chamber of Commerce (MS), National Association of Professional Em- a Blueprint for reform. During the last Con- Crowley Chamber of Commerce (LA). ployer Organizations. gress, the Senate Finance Committee con- Davis Chamber of Commerce (UT), Dayton National Association of Real Estate In- vened bi-partisan working groups that tack- Area Chamber of Commerce (OH), Eatonton- vestment Trusts, National Association of the led all the major aspects of reform. Putnam Chamber of Commerce (GA), Edison Remodeling Industry, National Association President Trump has outlined his goals for Electric Institute (EEI), Edmond Area of Wholesaler-Distributors, National Beer reform, and the ‘‘Group of Six’’—consisting Chamber of Commerce (OK), Edwardsville/ Wholesalers Association, National Black of members from the House, Senate, and Ad- Glen Carbon Chamber of Commerce (IL), En- Chamber of Commerce, National Club Asso- ministration—has presented a framework to ergy Equipment and Infrastructure Alliance, ciation, National Council of Chain Res- guide the drafting and markup of legislation Entertainment Software Association, Finan- taurants, National Electrical Contractors in the Ways and Means and Finance Commit- cial Services Forum, Florida Chamber of Association (NECA), National Grocers Asso- tees. Commerce, Florida Retail Federation, Food ciation, National Lumber and Building Ma- While much work remains to be done, we Marketing Institute, Fox Cities Chamber of terial Dealers Association, National Marine believe Congress is well-positioned to move Commerce (WI), Gas and Welding Distribu- Manufacturers Association, National Office forward with comprehensive, pro-growth tax tors Association, Georgia Chamber of Com- Products Alliance, National Ready Mixed reform. merce, Georgia Retail Federation, Glenwood Concrete Association, National Restaurant The single-most important next step is for Springs Chamber Resort Association & Film Association, National Retail Federation, Na- Congress to adopt a budget resolution with Commission (CO), Granbury Chamber of tional Roofing Contractors Association, Na- reconciliation instructions that will permit Commerce (TX). tional Stone, Sand and Gravel Association, tax reform to move forward without the Grand Rapids Area Chamber of Commerce Nebraska Chamber of Commerce & Industry, threat of a filibuster. (MI), Greater Bakersfield Chamber (CA), Nebraska Retail Federation, NFIB—National Just like Members of Congress, each of our Greater Cedar Valley Alliance & Chamber Federation of Independent Business. organizations will continue to advocate for (IA), Greater Coachella Valley Chamber of North Carolina Chamber, North Country specific priorities within tax reform as the Commerce (CA), Greater El Paso Chamber of Chamber of Commerce (NY), North Dakota relevant committees and ultimately the full Commerce (TX), Greater Flagstaff Chamber Retail Association, North Kingstown Cham- House and Senate consider tax reform legis- of Commerce (AZ), Greater Ketchikan Cham- ber of Commerce (RI), North Myrtle Beach lation. ber of Commerce (AK), Greater Lehigh Val- Chamber of Commerce (SC), North Orange But failing to pass a budget resolution now ley Chamber of Commerce (PA), Greater County Chamber (CA), North San Antonio may mean that tax reform never moves for- Louisville Inc. (KY), Greater North Dakota Chamber (TX), Office Furniture Dealers Alli- ward. That outcome is unacceptable to all of Chamber, Greater Oklahoma City Chamber ance, Ohio Chamber of Commerce, Ohio

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:16 Oct 05, 2017 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00048 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K04OC7.083 H04OCPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with HOUSE October 4, 2017 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7801 Council of Retail Merchants, Oklahoma Re- The Republican’s so-called Building a health of all people and communities, I write tail Merchants Association, Oshkosh Cham- Better America budget shows us they in strong opposition to the House FY 2018 ber of Commerce (WI), Oxnard Chamber of do not value education, infrastructure, budget resolution, H. Con. Res. 71. This pro- Commerce (CA), PA Chamber of Business and posal does not eliminate sequestration and Industry, Pennsylvania Retailers Associa- research and development, veterans’ would drastically cut nondefense discre- tion, Plano Chamber of Commerce (TX), benefits, and other programs which ex- tionary spending. Such cuts would devastate Portland Cement Association, Prattville pand opportunities for America’s fami- our Nation’s public health and safety net Area Chamber of Commerce (AL), Precious lies. system and would have a disproportionate Metals Association of North America, Pro- 1730 impact on our Nation’s most vulnerable citi- fessional Beauty Association. b zens. Reforming America’s Taxes Equitability This budget is immoral. It provides The proposal also includes the House (RATE) Coalition, Reno+Sparks Chamber of trillions of dollars in tax money to mil- passed repeal of the Affordable Care Act that Commerce (NV), Retail Association of Ne- lionaires and wealthy corporations would force millions to lose coverage, end vada, Retail Association of New Mexico, Re- the Medicaid expansion, drastically reduce tail Council of New York State, Retail Indus- while shifting the burden onto the mid- Federal funding for the Medicaid program, try Leaders Association, Retailers Associa- dle class. It cuts $5.4 trillion from pro- and lead to increased cost and fewer benefits tion of Massachusetts, Richardson Chamber grams that American families rely on; for millions of Americans. of Commerce (TX), River Heights Chamber of programs like SNAP, Pell grants, So- This letter from the AFSCME, Amer- Commerce (MN), S Corporation Association, cial Security, and healthcare. ican Federation of State and County Sacramento Metro Chamber of Commerce The budget ends the Medicare guar- (CA), Salt Lake Chamber (UT), San Diego Municipal Employees: antee. It cuts Medicare alone by almost On behalf of the 1.6 million members of Regional Chamber of Commerce (CA), San $500 billion over 10 years. A vote for Gabriel Valley Economic Partnership (CA), AFSCME, I urge you to oppose H. Con. Res. Schuylkill Chamber of Commerce (PA), Se- this budget destroys American families 71, the fiscal year 2018 budget resolution ap- curities Industry and Financial Markets As- in favor of a select few. This budget proved by the House Budget Committee and sociation, Service Station Dealers of Amer- does not build a better America. I urge scheduled to be considered in the full House. ica and Allied Trades (SSDA–AT), Silver my colleagues to vote ‘‘no’’ on this This budget would impose considerable hardship on many Americans in order to City Grant County Chamber of Commerce budget. (NM), South Summit Chamber of Commerce slash taxes for the wealthy and corporations Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chairman, I reserve to boost defense spending. Rather than in- (OH), Southeastern Lumber Manufacturers the balance of my time. Association. creasing revenues for investment that cre- Southwest Indiana Chamber, St. Cloud Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chairman, I ates jobs and spurs economic growth, the Area Chamber of Commerce (MN), St. Joseph yield myself such time as I may con- proposed budget creates a fast-track process Chamber of Commerce, St. Tammany West sume. for tax cuts that overwhelmingly benefit cor- Chamber of Commerce, State Chamber of Mr. Chairman, we have had numerous porations and the wealthy. In fact, according to the nonpartisan Tax Oklahoma, Steel Manufacturers Association, letters submitted to us taking a posi- Tampa Bay Beaches Chamber of Commerce Policy Center, the Trump GOP tax cut would tion in opposition to this budget reso- largely benefit the richest 1 percent. The (FL), Tennessee Chamber of Commerce & In- lution, and I think they are pretty dustry, Texas Retailers Association, The budget also relies on the gimmicks of dy- Chamber of Commerce of the Santa Barbara compelling, and I would like to read namic scoring and sham accounting, hiding Region (CA), The Chamber of Medford/Jack- from some of them. the true cost of unnecessary and harmful tax son County (OR), The Chamber Grand Forks/ Here is a letter from the Main Street cuts. East Grand Forks (ND), The Fertilizer Insti- Alliance: And this, from AARP: tute, The Financial Services Roundtable, Main Street Alliance, a network of small Proposals creating a defined contribution The Kentucky Chamber, The Longview business owners throughout the country, premium support program, restricting access Chamber of Commerce (TX), The Ohio Soci- strongly urges you to oppose H. Con. Res. 71, by raising the age of eligibility, or allowing ety of CPAs, The Real Estate Roundtable, the fiscal year 2018 budget resolution. This hospitals and providers to arbitrarily charge Tile Roofing Institute, Tioga County Cham- budget, if enacted into law, would cut $3.4 customers higher prices than Medicare can ber of Commerce (NY). trillion from Medicaid, Medicare, Social Se- make healthcare unaffordable for older Tire Industry Association (TIA), Truck curity, education, employment and training, Americans. These proposals do little to actu- Renting and Leasing Association, Tucson food and housing assistance, and infrastruc- ally lower the cost of healthcare but simply Metro Chamber (AZ), Tulsa Regional Cham- ture spending over the next 10 years. This shifts cost from Medicare on to individuals, ber (OK), U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Union will significantly harm small business own- many of whom cannot afford to pay for their County Chamber of Commerce, United Cor- ers and their employees, damage local econo- care. pus Christi Chamber of Commerce (TX), Efforts to reduce or cap Medicaid funding mies, and decimate State budgets. USTelecom—The Broadband Association, could endanger the health, safety, and care We urge you to protect Main Street small Utah Food Industry Association, Utah Retail of millions of individuals who depend on the business owners, working families, commu- Merchants Association, Virginia Chamber of essential services provided through this pro- nities, and economies, and oppose the House Commerce, Virginia Small Business Partner- gram. ship, West Baton Rouge Chamber of Com- budget resolution. Reject any budget that Furthermore, caps could result in signifi- merce (LA), Wholesalers Association of the enables tax cuts for the very wealthy and cant cost shifts to State governments unable Northeast (WANE), Window and Door Manu- large profitable corporations to lose revenue, to shoulder the cost of care without suffi- facturers Association, Wisconsin Manufac- since it will force deep cuts in vital programs cient Federal support. turers and Commerce, WMDA/CAR Service that harm small business. Proposals to block grant the program or Station and Automotive Repair Association. This letter from the National Com- impose work requirements will make SNAP Mrs. BLACK. There are 242 different mittee to Preserve Social Security and less responsive and accessible in times of entities that signed this letter to say Medicare: need, and without clear work requirement exemptions for the elderly and disabled, that passing a budget is what we On behalf of the millions of members and would bar these individuals from receiving should be doing and that would lead us supporters of the National Committee to SNAP benefits. to tax reforms. Preserve Social Security and Medicare, I We ask you to reject the cuts proposed in Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance urge you to oppose H. Con. Res. 71, the House H. Con. Res. 71. We stand ready to work with of my time. fiscal year 2018 budget resolution, and the you to develop proposals that protect and Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chairman, I Republican Study Committee budget. In- improve Medicaid, Medicare, Social Secu- stead, I ask you to support the Democratic rity, and SNAP. yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman Caucus, Congressional Progressive Caucus, from Ohio (Ms. FUDGE), a distinguished and Congressional Black Caucus budgets. This from the Alliance for Retired member of the Agriculture Committee The committee-passed budget resolution Americans: and a fellow rabid Cleveland Indians would slash funding to Medicare and Med- On behalf of the more than 4.3 million fan. icaid, repeal the Affordable Care Act, and members of the Alliance for Retired Ameri- Ms. FUDGE. Mr. Chairman, I thank make it easier for Congress to cut Social Se- cans, I am writing to urge you to vote the gentleman for yielding. curity, all to pay for massive tax cuts for the against H. Con. Res. 71, the budget resolution Mr. Chairman, I rise today in strong very wealthy and profitable corporations. for FY 2018. This budget blueprint cuts opposition to the Republican budget. This from the American Public spending by $5.4 trillion over 10 years, dis- As Vice President Biden stated: seminating numerous domestic programs, in- Health Association: cluding those that benefit older Americans. ‘‘Don’t tell me what you value. Show On behalf of the American Public Health It is shocking that the same budget that me your budget and I will tell you Association, a diverse community of public cuts services for many low-income Ameri- what you value.’’ health professionals who champion the cans and raises taxes on the middle class will

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:49 Oct 05, 2017 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00049 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A04OC7.027 H04OCPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with HOUSE H7802 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE October 4, 2017 also carry instructions to provide $2.4 tril- the ticket into the middle class, and budget period because runaway Federal lion in tax cuts to corporations and wealthy into economic competitiveness, this debt is not political or partisan—it is Americans. budget will make it harder to climb the an economic, generational, and civil These tax cuts, which will increase the def- icit, sets up the perfect scenario for Congress economic ladder with major cuts to rights issue. We commend you and to slash Medicare and Medicaid. We are not Pell grants and other student assist- your committee for reporting a resolu- fooled by the House leadership’s tax give- ance programs, and it will limit our in- tion that balances within the budget away to the wealthy at the expense of ordi- vestment in education and job training period; its adoption is very much in the nary Americans and urge you to oppose this for American workers that are already national interest.’’ draconian budget. We will be watching how out there trying to upgrade their And again, this comes from The Com- you vote on this important issue. skills. pact Commission, Compact for a Bal- This is a letter from the Coalition on What does the Republican budget do anced Budget. Human Needs: with all the money they save from cut- THE COMPACT COMMISSION, C/O COM- On behalf of the Coalition on Human ting the middle class and working peo- PACT FOR AMERICA EDUCATIONAL Needs, I strongly urge you to vote ‘‘no’’ on ple, seniors, and those who are trying FOUNDATION, INC., H. Con. Res. 71, the proposed FY 2018 budget to get ahead? Well, it stuffs the pock- Houston, TX, August 8, 2017. resolution, and to vote for the substitute Re 2018 House Budget Resolution and the budgets advanced by the Congressional Pro- ets of those at the top and the large Compact for a Balanced Budget. multinationals. gressive Caucus, Congressional Black Cau- Hon. DIANE BLACK, cus, and the Democratic alternative budget What President Trump and his Re- Chairman, House Budget Committee, House of resolution. Our members understand that publican cohorts say their plan is, it Representatives, Washington, DC. the economic security of millions of Amer- isn’t. You know, only last week, Trump DEAR CHAIRMAN BLACK: We have reviewed ican families depends on building on the said this about his tax plan: ‘‘I don’t the text of the budget resolution reported by progress we have made in health coverage, benefit. I don’t benefit. In fact, very, your Committee (House Concurrent Resolu- jobs, basic living standards, and ensuring very strongly, as you see, I think there tion 71) and write to offer our support. That that our children are well prepared for pro- rarest of political outcomes—sound policy ductive lives. is very little benefit for people of that represents a win-win scenario for nor- But the majority’s proposed budget does wealth.’’ mally divergent factions—is possible as the not build. It breaks apart our engines of Well, the analysis of the one tax re- budget process moves forward. progress. It will make our Nation weaker for turn that leaked out suggests that Our nation is facing a fiscal crisis. It is es- decades to come. President Trump will benefit to the sential that the federal budget returns to The budget advanced by the House Budget balance within the ten-year budget period Committee would be a dangerous backwards tune of more than $1 billion. Eighty percent of the tax breaks in this pro- because runaway federal debt is not political plunge, stripping trillions of dollars from or partisan—it is an economic, generational programs that work to reduce poverty and posal go to the top 1 percent. That is and civil-rights issue. We commend you and create security and opportunity. people who are making more than your Committee for reporting a resolution Medicaid, Medicare, working family tax $730,000 a year while one in four Ameri- that balances within the budget period; its credits, nutrition assistance, education, and cans could actually see a tax increase. adoption is very much in the national inter- housing assistance, these are just some of That is why you can understand that est. the services the budget would massively cut. they say they can’t guarantee that We also commend the Committee for in- The budget takes trillions in funding that cluding Section 501 in the resolution, which supports economic security and progress and taxes won’t go up for many people in endorses adding a balanced budget require- hands it to the wealthy and corporations in the middle class. And overall, this is a ment to the Constitution. the form of enormous tax cuts. budget that is dripping in red ink. Section 501 identifies the Compact for a Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to The Acting CHAIR. The time of the Balanced Budget, which we represent on be- the gentleman from Texas (Mr. DOG- gentleman has expired. half of current and future member states. We believe the most practical, prudent enforce- GETT), a member of the Ways and Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chairman, I yield an additional 1 minute to the ment mechanism is the state-of-the-art bal- Means Committee. anced budget amendment (BBA) being pro- Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Chairman, Re- gentleman from Texas. posed by the Compact. This state-of-the-art publicans have chosen to lavish huge Mr. DOGGETT. Mr. Chairman, we BBA has been specifically designed to over- tax breaks on large multinationals and begin to understand why Trump calls come concerns expressed in 40 years of con- the top wealthiest few in our country himself ‘‘the king of debt,’’ because gressional hearings that have considered how instead of growing our economy by in- there is plenty of debt that will be a BBA should be drafted. Such concerns may added onto this plan. have prevented prior BBAs from being pro- vesting in all Americans. Investing in posed. our workforce, in our physical infra- For Trump and his cohorts, fiscal re- To advance the policy prescription in Sec- structure, in entrepreneurship, that is sponsibility is just a political slogan tion 501 of the budget resolution in the the way to really grow the economy; that they use to undermine those edu- House, we recommend: updating this section not these retread Republican tax poli- cation and social service programs to reflect that the concurrent resolution to cies that offer all the benefits to the they were never for in the first place. effectuate the Compact (House Concurrent top and hope something will eventually The Republican budget is not just Resolution 73) was introduced on July 26, numbers. It has a real human cost. By 2017; and incorporating the language of trickle down to everyone else, that House Concurrent Resolution 73 into Section only grow the national debt, as has slashing investments in our economic 501. This could be done as one of several been shown time and time again. future, it is a recipe for weakness, not amendments you are probably already plan- Our Republicans today call their strength. I urge my colleagues to side ning to bring up during floor consideration budget a vision for our country, and with the middle class, with working as the manager’s package, and requires only what a grim vision it is for anyone who folks all over America, and reject this a majority vote as opposed to the two-thirds does not count themselves among the budget. required for balanced budget amendment proposals made by members of Congress. top 1 percent. Republicans would only Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chairman, I include Taking these steps establishes a strong en- widen income inequality with massive in the RECORD a letter from the Com- forcement mechanism, sustaining the budget tax breaks for the few, while slashing pact for a Balanced Budget Commis- resolution following its adoption. It would trillions from initiatives that give sion, and I will read a portion of this also strengthen the appeal of the budget res- more Americans the chance to get letter. They say: ‘‘Dear Chairman olution to fiscal conservatives in the House ahead, while, at the same time, Black: We have reviewed the text of and taking these steps prior to the consider- the budget resolution reported by your ation of legislation to raise the debt ceiling strengthening our overall economic fu- should expedite approval of that legislation. ture. committee, H. Con. Res. 71, and write Supermajorities of Americans have de- For seniors, this is a budget that to offer our support. That rarest of po- manded a balanced budget for decades. Our breaks Trump’s promise not to cut litical outcomes—sound policy that nation’s debt threatens future generations to Medicare to the tune of about half a represents a win-win scenario for nor- default or austerity, but we believe there’s a trillion dollars in cuts, and it would mally divergent factions—is possible as chance here for a third option: principled the budget process moves forward. leadership on the matter of debt and spend- slash an additional $1 trillion for Med- ing. icaid, upon which so many seniors rely. ‘‘Our Nation is facing a fiscal crisis. We hope you and your Committee members For students and families that are It is essential that the Federal budget will agree that there is a path here which ac- struggling to get a college education, returns to balance within the 10-year knowledges the need for long-term fiscal

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:16 Oct 05, 2017 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00050 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K04OC7.087 H04OCPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with HOUSE October 4, 2017 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7803 sanity while also meeting shorter-term po- supplies and the necessary equipment I consider myself to be a policy wonk. litical and policy needs. that it takes to protect them as they As I look at these various programs, I Regards, protect us. say there is nothing that we are doing CHAIR MEAD TREADWELL, Look at what happens with Medicaid. in my life that I did 40 years ago that Alaska Commissioner. We will be spending less on Medicaid I am doing exactly the same. So if a VICE CHAIR PAULATE RAKESTRAW, that is for people who are the blind, the program has been around for 40 years, Georgia Commissioner. disabled, the elderly, the children, the should we not want to say maybe we GREG SNOWDEN, pregnant mothers. can reform it? Not necessarily cut, but, Mississippi Commis- We talk about wanting to put our in the reforming, you may find a way sioner. money and our values where we see the to decrease the spending that you are Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chairman, I want values really belong. Is this really doing in that program. to just bounce off of that and take a where we want our values to be in the Can’t we all lock arms, Democrats look at the chart that we have here. money that we spend, $768 billion in in- and Republicans, and acknowledge that When we take a look at interest—and terest compared to what we are spend- there are some decisions that have to somehow we don’t always talk that ing on our military, what we are spend- be made with programs that have been much about interest here. We talk ing on our Medicaid? there for a very long time? about borrowing money and raising our Look at our veterans, our veterans Can we not acknowledge that there debt ceiling continually. I have been that we talk about how much we honor are some programs that perhaps have fraud, waste, and abuse that we can here now for 61⁄2 years, and the con- them: $248 billion as opposed to $768 versation is about raising that debt billion in interest. take care of, take that money and use ceiling so that we can pay for our debt, Again, we must question where we it in these places where we really say but there comes interest on that. are going and if this is the right direc- our values lie? Just as when we go to a bank and we tion. Is this the direction that we can So I would say that, as we talk about this budget, I am very proud of what borrow money, we have to pay interest all just raise our hand up and say, yes, we have done in this budget, in the on that. I remember years ago, when I we are making good decisions for the cuts or, as I say, reforms in those pro- bought my first house, we were at a pe- future of our country? Because look at grams that would result in $203 billion riod of time when President Carter was where the interest is compared to the worth of savings over a 10-year period, the President and the interest rates other programs that we both, Repub- that these are programs that we gave were outrageous, and our interest rate licans and Democrats, have said are so the committees of jurisdiction an op- on our house at that time, when we important to us. portunity to look within their jurisdic- purchased it as a young married cou- Over and over again, we have had col- tion and to make those decisions and ple, was, I think, somewhere between leagues on both sides of the aisle go and speak about the importance of do the homework. It is your jurisdic- 14 and 16 percent. tion; it is not mine. We gave them rec- Interest rates now are very much what our values are. Our budget is a vi- ommendations and suggestions, but it more reasonable for young couples pur- sion of what our values are. Transportation, and I have heard is their jurisdiction. chasing. And so I want to turn our at- Let them evaluate where it is that more and more times on both sides of tention to this chart here to take a there are programs that can have new the aisle talking about infrastructure, look at the outlays in 2027 under the and creative ideas, things that can save how important that is for our Nation. CBO baseline. us money, not necessarily using the Look at what our transportation and If we continue down this path that word ‘‘cut,’’ but in savings. Yes, you our infrastructure will be. I don’t know we are going in, without taking a look may have some cuts that are done, but that we want to spend only $110 billion at our mandatory spending, the these are good cuts. These are things on that and $768 billion on interest. amount of money that we borrow, and that you have spent a lot of time Think of how many roads we could the debt that we pile up with an inter- thinking about. est to it, just what will that look like? build, how many bridges we could re- That is really where we want to go. pair if we reverse this trajectory. b 1745 That is what this budget does is it Then, finally, at the bottom here is says: Open up your minds. Think dif- I think if we look at our own house- science-based technology. We all want ferently. Let’s not do things the same hold and we would say that our inter- to be competitive with those around old way and keep putting the same old est that we are paying on the credit the world to make sure that we are programs out there that maybe aren’t card or whatever, or the car interest or spending the money where we need to working. the House mortgage, if it were more spend the money to stay in front of And you know what? Maybe they are than all of the other things like the these other nations with our science not even working for the people that food and maybe the education for our and our space and our technology. we give them to. Maybe they are not children and buying books and pencils I want to recommend here that there working for them, because work is dig- and things that they need for school, are only two other programs, Social nity. we would be looking at the way in Security and Medicare, that exceed When we say that someone who is which we were managing our household that net interest. So we will say Social able-bodied and without any depend- income and saying, wow, that is not Security, Medicare, and then our net ents should be at work, that is not something we want to keep doing. We interest; and from there, everything cruel. Do you know what that is? That are going to have to get on some kind else that we say, both the Republicans is dignity. When people go to work, it of a budget plan and reverse the trajec- and the Democrats, are so important, is a dignified activity. tory of where we would be going. that we say are our values, are going to I always say, after I ask you what So here we are. At the end of the pe- be underneath the interest. I don’t your name is, and we all do it, we say: riod of 2027, if we look at 17 years down think that is really where we want to What do you do? And when someone the road and we don’t do anything go. cannot tell you what they do, they about the kind of mandatory spending, I have to think, my oldest grandchild don’t feel dignified. which is two-thirds of our budget, cur- right now is 19 years old, soon to turn Look, I don’t want to be cruel to peo- rently, and continues to grow, here is 20, when he is 30 years old, he might ple who are disabled, people who are what happens: say to me: Mimi, what were you doing having a really tough time and have We see $768 billion being spent on in- when you were in Congress? What were other circumstances, but we should ac- terest alone. you doing to help us, because now we knowledge that there is dignity in We see the next one down, the de- are paying more in interest than we work; and when we can give people an fense, at $741 billion. We would actu- are all of these other programs that we opportunity to have that dignity, we ally be paying more in interest than we contend to be so important to us? should be willing to stand up and do were in the security of our Nation and So these are difficult decisions to that. supporting our men and women who make, I will acknowledge that. But I Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of serve in the military, and all of the will also say to you, as someone who— my time.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:49 Oct 05, 2017 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00051 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A04OC7.024 H04OCPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with HOUSE H7804 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE October 4, 2017 Mr. YARMUTH. Mr. Chairman, I new companies. Maybe their children money to the people who already oc- yield myself the balance of my time. will do it if they inherit it. Maybe they cupy one of the strongest economic po- Mr. Chairman, this has been a robust have given some of it away so those es- sitions in a country with the greatest debate. We had a robust debate in the tates aren’t quite as big. I suspect disparity of wealth in the world. Rules Committee yesterday, and we many of them have. So as we conclude this debate, I urge have had robust debates in the com- The point is, when you are talking my colleagues to carefully consider the mittee markup and during hearings, as about wealth, collectively, the wealthi- alternatives that will be proposed by well, over the priorities of this coun- est persons in the 50 States, collec- the Democratic Caucus, by the Con- try. tively, have $750 billion in net worth, gressional Black Caucus, and by the As we close this debate tonight, rec- which means that, if they paid the es- Congressional Progressive Caucus, and ognizing there will be a few minutes to- tate tax, there would be over $300 bil- compare the values and the priorities morrow for comments, I just want to lion in money that they would save if of those budgets to those that the Re- say that, since this could very well be you eliminated the estate tax. publican budget represents. the last time that I get to appear in So while, yes, we may be off plus or I think, on balance, anybody in good Budget Committee business with minus 3 percent or 5 percent or 10 per- faith will say that those budgets, not Chairman BLACK, I have truly cher- cent, the fact is that this is an enor- the Republican budgets, are the budg- ished the 9 months that we have spent mous break for the people who have ets that will create a stronger, fairer working together. been the most fortunate in this coun- society in this country, and those are The chairman is a gracious, fair, try. I think it is more than fair to say, the ones that we should proceed to thoughtful, and very, very collegial in- if you say you are going to eliminate adopt. dividual, and I wish her the best in her the estate tax, if you say you are going Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of campaign, at least through the pri- to eliminate the AMT, the alternative my time. mary. I thank her and her very, very minimum tax, and we can go look at b 1800 President Trump’s 2005 tax return, competent and professional staff for all Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chairman, I yield of the courtesies they have shown us which said he paid $31 million in tax because of the alternative minimum myself the balance of my time. during this year and this process. I likewise, would like to just say that tax, it doesn’t take any details to know I also want to pay tribute to the the ranking member, Mr. YARMUTH, that he would have saved $31 million in Democratic staff, people who work has just been wonderful to work with, that year if you eliminate the alter- very, very hard every day and are bril- and we may have differences of opin- liant in their fields and make me sound native minimum tax. So, yes, the rates may vary. Ulti- ion, but we can do it in a very South- smarter than I probably am, but I ern hospitality way. I just so much ap- would like to read their names: Jon mately, the tax bill that we have pre- sented to us may not lower the highest preciate his demeanor, his leadership Antista; Erika Appel; Ellen Balis, the on the committee, the way he honors staff director; Hayden Flanery; Jon rate from 39.6 to 35 percent, but if it does, we know the impact that that the members of the committee, both Goldman; Elliott Grantz; Jocelyn Har- Democrats and Republicans, and it has ris; Najy Kamal; Sam Lau; Sheila will have. We know who will benefit most from that. It is the wealthiest 1 just been a joy to work with him. I am McDowell; Diana Meredith; Farouk going to miss working with him and Ophaso; Kimberly Overbeek; Scott Rus- percent of this country. As I will say tomorrow when we close being able to have lively debate, which sell; and Ted Zegers. this debate, I am in the top 1 percent. is good for this body and it is good for They do terrific work, and I want Half of this body are millionaires. They America. them to know how much I and all the are all going to benefit. We are all I want to also thank all the members members of the Budget Committee, the going to benefit. Meanwhile, the people who participated in the debate today, minority, appreciate their work. who rely on many of the programs that both the Democrats and the Repub- I would also like to thank my per- will be slashed under this Republican licans. This is what our democracy is sonal staff, led by my chief of staff, budget will suffer. That is not fair. about, being able to voice our opinions Julie Carr, for the work they con- Now, Republicans will make the ar- and at the end of the day being able to tribute to this process as well. gument, as they always do because this come to a conclusion after that debate. In closing, there are a few comments is a matter of religious faith to them, I look forward to continuing discussion I want to make about this debate. that if you give people more money, and voting on the final passage tomor- We heard several times during the they will magically create all this row. day that it is really not fair to talk growth. Well, has that really hap- As we finish up, I also want to thank about the consequences of the tax pro- pened? our staff for their hard work, and there posal that will be the end result of this Out of the Fortune 500 companies, I are many of them, so I am not going to process because the details haven’t think, in a recent study, 92 of them read all of them to you. I do want to been ironed out yet. That is, you know, paid 20 percent or less in corporate tax. mention some of those who are the fair enough as it goes, but there were Collectively, they eliminated 300,000 leaders of the House Budget Committee enough details in the outline that we jobs over a 5-year period. So they had staff and have just been great to work saw last week to make a pretty good more money than corporations paying with. guess as to what the impact of these 35 percent. Did they use it to create Rick May, who is the staff director; tax cuts would be. more jobs, more wealth among middle Jenna Spealman; Andy Morton; Tim Now, we have read over and over, as class and working families? No. They Flynn; Mary, who has been here with Republican speakers spoke, the fact used it to pay dividends, to buy back me at my side the entire time. What that they were willing to jeopardize stock, and to increase the wages of would I do without having somebody to the health and safety and nutrition of their CEOs. pass papers to us? So Mary has been their citizens to give the wealthiest That is what has happened in modern great. Jim Bates, and I am going to people in their State tax cuts. Most of history every time we lower corporate leave it at that because I am going to these numbers that we read were in the tax rates or we let them bring taxes in get in trouble if I don’t announce all of billions of dollars: $38 billion, $16 bil- from overseas. They do not create more them. lion. These are individuals with net jobs with the money that they save. The staff has just been tremendous to worths of astounding amounts. So I think it is very, very fair for us work with, many hours, weekends, and, The outline that was publicly re- to look at this entire process, the budg- indeed, even holidays that they have leased last week said that the Repub- et proposal, which does anticipate a been here helping to gather the infor- licans intend, under this tax proposal, tax cut—which they claim is revenue mation both for the Budget Committee to eliminate the estate tax. If they neutral, but it is a tax cut—and the hearings and then, also, for this today. eliminate the estate tax, much of that outline that we saw last week and say: Mr. Chairman, I look forward to a money is not going to be taxed. They Who, really, is this going to help? more lively debate tomorrow. I include will get to keep it. I don’t think that It is not going to help the people who in the RECORD the names of the staff of they are going to be out there creating need the help. It is going to give more the Budget Committee.

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HOUSE BUDGET COMMITTEE MAJORITY STAFF TITLE I—RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND Sec. 513. Policy statement on the State Chil- Rick May AMOUNTS dren’s Health Insurance Pro- Jenna Spealman Sec. 101. Recommended levels and amounts. gram. Andy Morton Sec. 102. Major functional categories. Sec. 514. Policy statement on medical dis- Tim Flynn TITLE II—RECONCILIATION AND covery, development, delivery, Patrick Louis Knudsen RELATED MATTERS and innovation. Benjamin Gardenhour Sec. 515. Policy statement on public health Gary Haglund Sec. 201. Reconciliation in the House of Rep- preparedness. Chris Hartline resentatives. Sec. 516. Policy statement on Social Secu- Sarah Corley TITLE III—BUDGET ENFORCEMENT IN rity. Sage Peterson THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Sec. 517. Policy statement on Medicaid work Jim Bates Subtitle A—Budget Enforcement requirements. Mary Popadiuk Sec. 301. Point of order against increasing Sec. 518. Policy statement on welfare reform Jonathan Romito long-term direct spending. and Supplemental Nutrition Elise Anderson Sec. 302. Allocation for Overseas Contin- Assistance Program work re- Policy Advisors gency Operations/Global War on quirements. Jenna Spealman Terrorism. Sec. 519. Policy Statement on State flexi- Steve Gonzalez Sec. 303. Limitation on changes in certain bility in Supplemental Nutri- Robert Cogan mandatory programs. tion Assistance Program. Eric Davis Sec. 304. Limitation on advance appropria- Sec. 520. Policy statement on higher edu- Robert Yeakel cation and workforce develop- Ellen Johnson tions. ment opportunity. Andy Morton Sec. 305. Estimates of debt service costs. Sec. 521. Policy statement on supplemental Emily Goff Sec. 306. Fair-value credit estimates. wildfire suppression funding. Brad Watson Sec. 307. Estimates of macroeconomic ef- Brittany Madni fects of major legislation. Sec. 522. Policy statement on the Depart- Steve Waskiewicz Sec. 308. Adjustments for improved control ment of Veterans Affairs. Alex Stoddard of budgetary resources. Sec. 523. Policy statement on moving the Joe Guillen Sec. 309. Scoring rule for Energy Savings United States Postal Service on Performance Contracts. budget. PERSONAL STAFF (REPRESENTATIVE DIANE Sec. 310. Limitation on transfers from the Sec. 524. Policy statement on the Judgment BLACK, TENNESSEE, 6TH DISTRICT) general fund of the Treasury to Fund. Teresa Koeberlein the Highway Trust Fund. Sec. 525. Policy statement on responsible Dean Thompson Sec. 311. Prohibition on use of Federal Re- stewardship of taxpayer dollars. Heather Douglass serve surpluses as an offset. Sec. 526. Policy statement on tax reform. Jon Toomey Sec. 312. Prohibition on use of guarantee TITLE I—RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND Ace Burch fees as an offset. Katie Mitchell AMOUNTS Subtitle B—Other Provisions Hillary Lassiter SEC. 101. RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND Zachary Royster Sec. 321. Budgetary treatment of adminis- AMOUNTS. Greg Dowel trative expenses. The following budgetary levels are appro- Nicholas Ayers Sec. 322. Application and effect of changes priate for each of fiscal years 2018 through in allocations and aggregates. 2027: Mrs. BLACK. Mr. Chair, I yield back Sec. 323. Adjustments to reflect changes in the balance of my time. (1) FEDERAL REVENUES.—For purposes of concepts and definitions. the enforcement of this concurrent resolu- Mr. BISHOP of Utah. Mr. Chair, I rise to Sec. 324. Adjustment for changes in the tion: share my concern regarding potential budget baseline. (A) The recommended levels of Federal reconciliation instructions to the House Over- Sec. 325. Application of rule regarding limits revenues are as follows: sight and Government Reform Committee. on discretionary spending. Fiscal year 2018: $2,670,356,000,000. These instructions could potentially result in Sec. 326. Exercise of rulemaking powers. Fiscal year 2019: $2,767,357,000,000. significant harm to federal employees and fed- TITLE IV—RESERVE FUNDS IN THE Fiscal year 2020: $2,870,414,000,000. eral retirees, many of whom I represent. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Fiscal year 2021: $2,963,953,000,000. The national debt is a serious challenge that Sec. 401. Reserve fund for commercialization Fiscal year 2022: $3,077,586,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $3,195,139,000,000. Congress must address, but I urge members of air traffic control. Sec. 402. Reserve fund for investments in na- Fiscal year 2024: $3,325,690,000,000. of this body to maintain the promises made to tional infrastructure. Fiscal year 2025: $3,475,784,000,000. federal employees at the time of their hiring. Sec. 403. Reserve fund for comprehensive tax Fiscal year 2026: $3,642,629,000,000. At a minimum, any changes to federal em- reform. Fiscal year 2027: $3,811,687,000,000. ployee retirement or benefits should only be Sec. 404. Reserve fund for the State Chil- (B) The amounts by which the aggregate made on prospective employees, not current dren’s Health Insurance Pro- levels of Federal revenues should be changed or former employees. gram. are as follows: The Acting CHAIR (Mr. DUNCAN of Sec. 405. Reserve fund for the repeal or re- Fiscal year 2018: -$63,213,000,000. Tennessee). All time for general debate placement of President Fiscal year 2019: -$66,151,000,000. Obama’s health care laws. Fiscal year 2020: -$80,162,000,000. has expired. Fiscal year 2021: -$95,958,000,000. Pursuant to the rule, the concurrent TITLE V—POLICY STATEMENTS IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Fiscal year 2022: -$105,330,000,000. resolution shall be considered for Sec. 501. Policy statement on a balanced Fiscal year 2023: -$122,777,000,000. amendment under the 5-minute rule budget amendment. Fiscal year 2024: -$136,738,000,000. and is considered read. Sec. 502. Policy statement on budget process Fiscal year 2025: -$146,394,000,000. The text of the concurrent resolution reform. Fiscal year 2026: -$146,749,000,000. is as follows: Sec. 503. Policy statement on Federal regu- Fiscal year 2027: -$146,700,000,000. (2) NEW BUDGET AUTHORITY.—For purposes H. CON. RES. 71 latory budgeting and reform. Sec. 504. Policy statement on unauthorized of the enforcement of this concurrent resolu- Resolved by the House of Representatives (the appropriations. tion, the appropriate levels of total new Senate concurring), Sec. 505. Policy statement on Federal ac- budget authority are as follows: SECTION 1. CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE counting. Fiscal year 2018: $3,232,597,000,000. BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2018. Sec. 506. Policy statement on Commission Fiscal year 2019: $3,286,018,000,000. (a) DECLARATION.—The Congress deter- on Budget Concepts. Fiscal year 2020: $3,299,573,000,000. mines and declares that prior concurrent res- Sec. 507. Policy statement on budget en- Fiscal year 2021: $3,290,186,000,000. olutions on the budget are replaced as of fis- forcement. Fiscal year 2022: $3,441,975,000,000. cal year 2018 and that this concurrent resolu- Sec. 508. Policy statement on improper pay- Fiscal year 2023: $3,483,686,000,000. tion establishes the budget for fiscal year ments. Fiscal year 2024: $3,528,872,000,000. 2018 and sets forth the appropriate budgetary Sec. 509. Policy statement on expenditures Fiscal year 2025: $3,655,413,000,000. levels for fiscal years 2019 through 2027. from agency fees and spending. Fiscal year 2026: $3,746,208,000,000. (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of con- Sec. 510. Policy statement on promoting Fiscal year 2027: $3,824,652,000,000. tents for this concurrent resolution is as fol- real health care reform. (3) BUDGET OUTLAYS.—For purposes of the lows: Sec. 511. Policy statement on Medicare. enforcement of this concurrent resolution, Sec. 1. Concurrent resolution on the budget Sec. 512. Policy statement on combating the the appropriate levels of total budget out- for fiscal year 2018. opioid epidemic. lays are as follows:

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:49 Oct 05, 2017 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00053 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A04OC7.025 H04OCPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with HOUSE H7806 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE October 4, 2017 Fiscal year 2018: $3,164,885,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $2,233,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $3,265,306,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $41,521,000,000. (B) Outlays, $1,207,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $3,283,026,000,000. (B) Outlays, $43,643,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: Fiscal year 2021: $3,323,464,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $2,324,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $3,441,603,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $40,210,000,000. (B) Outlays, $1,370,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $3,467,047,000,000. (B) Outlays, $41,207,000,000. (5) Natural Resources and Environment Fiscal year 2024: $3,497,308,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (300): Fiscal year 2025: $3,620,210,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $39,428,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: Fiscal year 2026: $3,727,971,000,000. (B) Outlays, $39,965,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $31,720,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: $3,806,792,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (B) Outlays, $35,641,000,000. (4) DEFICITS (ON-BUDGET).—For purposes of (A) New budget authority, $38,654,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: the enforcement of this concurrent resolu- (B) Outlays, $38,585,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $31,856,000,000. tion, the amounts of the deficits (on-budget) Fiscal year 2022: (B) Outlays, $33,751,000,000. are as follows: (A) New budget authority, $37,623,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: Fiscal year 2018: $494,529,000,000. (B) Outlays, $38,021,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $33,255,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $497,949,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (B) Outlays, $33,581,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $412,612,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $38,445,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: Fiscal year 2021: $359,511,000,000. (B) Outlays, $37,795,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $32,704,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $364,017,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (B) Outlays, $32,652,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $271,908,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $39,285,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: Fiscal year 2024: $171,618,000,000. (B) Outlays, $38,102,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $34,295,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $144,426,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (B) Outlays, $33,909,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: $85,342,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $40,174,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: Fiscal year 2027: -$4,895,000,000. (B) Outlays, $38,643,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $34,684,000,000. (5) DEBT SUBJECT TO LIMIT.—The appro- Fiscal year 2026: (B) Outlays, $34,186,000,000. priate levels of debt subject to limit are as (A) New budget authority, $41,121,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: follows: (B) Outlays, $39,365,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $34,598,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $21,059,756,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: (B) Outlays, $34,081,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $21,720,619,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $42,025,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: Fiscal year 2020: $22,263,387,000,000. (B) Outlays, $40,175,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $35,520,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $22,717,657,000,000. (3) General Science, Space, and Technology (B) Outlays, $34,921,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $23,120,068,000,000. (250): Fiscal year 2026: Fiscal year 2023: $23,414,924,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $36,186,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: $23,577,205,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $28,524,000,000. (B) Outlays, $35,526,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $23,665,687,000,000. (B) Outlays, $30,072,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: Fiscal year 2026: $23,701,446,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $36,742,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $29,107,000,000. (B) Outlays, $36,078,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: $23,484,672,000,000. (B) Outlays, $29,365,000,000. (6) Agriculture (350): (6) DEBT HELD BY THE PUBLIC.—The appro- Fiscal year 2020: Fiscal year 2018: priate levels of debt held by the public are as (A) New budget authority, $29,702,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $24,223,000,000. follows: (B) Outlays, $29,360,000,000. (B) Outlays, $22,913,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $15,399,966,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: Fiscal year 2019: Fiscal year 2019: $15,971,804,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $30,346,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $21,091,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $16,477,150,000,000. (B) Outlays, $29,718,000,000. (B) Outlays, $20,200,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $16,920,847,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: Fiscal year 2020: Fiscal year 2022: $17,371,706,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $31,018,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $19,786,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $17,720,326,000,000. (B) Outlays, $30,259,000,000. (B) Outlays, $19,293,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: $17,949,306,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: Fiscal year 2021: Fiscal year 2025: $18,156,356,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $31,694,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $18,217,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: $18,299,466,000,000. (B) Outlays, $30,797,000,000. (B) Outlays, $17,660,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: $18,345,826,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: Fiscal year 2022: SEC. 102. MAJOR FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES. (A) New budget authority, $32,378,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $17,835,000,000. The Congress determines and declares that (B) Outlays, $31,325,000,000. (B) Outlays, $17,339,000,000. the appropriate levels of new budget author- Fiscal year 2025: Fiscal year 2023: ity and outlays for fiscal years 2018 through (A) New budget authority, $33,112,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $18,153,000,000. 2027 for each major functional category are: (B) Outlays, $31,928,000,000. (B) Outlays, $17,713,000,000. (1) National Defense (050): Fiscal year 2026: Fiscal year 2024: Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $33,854,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $18,880,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $629,595,000,000. (B) Outlays, $32,550,000,000. (B) Outlays, $18,331,000,000. (B) Outlays, $607,810,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: Fiscal year 2025: Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $34,602,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $19,863,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $660,832,000,000. (B) Outlays, $33,162,000,000. (B) Outlays, $19,225,000,000. (B) Outlays, $636,795,000,000. (4) Energy (270): Fiscal year 2026: Fiscal year 2020: Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $20,214,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $693,646,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$3,088,000,000. (B) Outlays, $19,593,000,000. (B) Outlays, $666,519,000,000. (B) Outlays, $2,559,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: Fiscal year 2021: Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $20,422,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $728,125,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $1,704,000,000. (B) Outlays, $19,817,000,000. (B) Outlays, $698,761,000,000. (B) Outlays, $1,714,000,000. (7) Commerce and Housing Credit (370): Fiscal year 2022: Fiscal year 2020: Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $731,818,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$11,179,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$7,287,000,000. (B) Outlays, $717,568,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$11,813,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$19,601,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: Fiscal year 2021: Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $735,468,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $1,871,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$7,517,000,000. (B) Outlays, $720,401,000,000. (B) Outlays, $786,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$15,753,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: Fiscal year 2022: Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $739,157,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $1,705,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$10,358,000,000. (B) Outlays, $720,755,000,000. (B) Outlays, $445,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$18,126,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: Fiscal year 2023: Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $742,886,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $754,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$13,446,000,000. (B) Outlays, $729,581,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$491,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$22,106,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: Fiscal year 2024: Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $747,414,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $437,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$12,880,000,000. (B) Outlays, $734,037,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$727,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$22,470,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: Fiscal year 2025: Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $751,098,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$4,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$12,330,000,000. (B) Outlays, $737,798,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$1,052,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$22,598,000,000. (2) International Affairs (150): Fiscal year 2026: Fiscal year 2024:

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:49 Oct 05, 2017 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00054 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A04OC7.028 H04OCPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with HOUSE October 4, 2017 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7807 (A) New budget authority, -$10,989,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $475,015,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$22,362,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $82,350,000,000. (B) Outlays, $464,925,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (B) Outlays, $83,539,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, -$10,255,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $484,414,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$22,849,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $86,279,000,000. (B) Outlays, $475,140,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: (B) Outlays, $85,843,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, -$11,141,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $492,453,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$23,569,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $86,641,000,000. (B) Outlays, $489,299,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: (B) Outlays, $87,897,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, -$11,933,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $475,767,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$24,521,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $86,977,000,000. (B) Outlays, $468,217,000,000. (8) Transportation (400): (B) Outlays, $88,522,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: Fiscal year 2018: Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, $484,425,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $88,095,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $87,459,000,000. (B) Outlays, $471,370,000,000. (B) Outlays, $91,796,000,000. (B) Outlays, $89,186,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: Fiscal year 2019: Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, $493,048,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $88,892,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $88,216,000,000. (B) Outlays, $480,920,000,000. (B) Outlays, $90,602,000,000. (B) Outlays, $90,080,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: Fiscal year 2020: (11) Health (550): (A) New budget authority, $502,057,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $82,748,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (B) Outlays, $496,505,000,000. (B) Outlays, $90,508,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $579,328,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: Fiscal year 2021: (B) Outlays, $551,277,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $511,675,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $37,190,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (B) Outlays, $505,382,000,000. (B) Outlays, $77,995,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $564,387,000,000. (14) Social Security (650): Fiscal year 2022: (B) Outlays, $570,419,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $66,950,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $39,475,000,000. (B) Outlays, $65,076,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $552,405,000,000. (B) Outlays, $39,475,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (B) Outlays, $541,949,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $66,895,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $43,016,000,000. (B) Outlays, $68,694,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $512,289,000,000. (B) Outlays, $43,016,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (B) Outlays, $518,445,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $67,483,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $46,287,000,000. (B) Outlays, $69,617,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $528,560,000,000. (B) Outlays, $46,287,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (B) Outlays, $533,688,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $68,481,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $49,748,000,000. (B) Outlays, $69,074,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $547,998,000,000. (B) Outlays, $49,748,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: (B) Outlays, $549,687,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $69,714,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $53,392,000,000. (B) Outlays, $69,044,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $571,335,000,000. (B) Outlays, $53,392,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: (B) Outlays, $569,207,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $70,948,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $57,378,000,000. (B) Outlays, $69,741,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $594,923,000,000. (B) Outlays, $57,378,000,000. (9) Community and Regional Development (B) Outlays, $591,171,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (450): Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, $61,764,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $618,119,000,000. (B) Outlays, $61,764,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $4,365,000,000. (B) Outlays, $613,682,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (B) Outlays, $18,626,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, $66,388,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $623,810,000,000. (B) Outlays, $66,388,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $4,170,000,000. (B) Outlays, $626,774,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: (B) Outlays, $16,983,000,000. (12) Medicare (570): (A) New budget authority, $70,871,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: Fiscal year 2018: (B) Outlays, $70,871,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $4,240,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $593,830,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: (B) Outlays, $11,842,000,000. (B) Outlays, $593,567,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $75,473,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: Fiscal year 2019: (B) Outlays, $75,473,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $4,353,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $652,984,000,000. (15) Veterans Benefits and Services (700): (B) Outlays, $9,558,000,000. (B) Outlays, $652,740,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: Fiscal year 2022: Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $176,704,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $4,487,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $692,126,000,000. (B) Outlays, $178,038,000,000. (B) Outlays, $6,386,000,000. (B) Outlays, $691,917,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: Fiscal year 2023: Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $191,507,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $4,556,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $739,367,000,000. (B) Outlays, $190,235,000,000. (B) Outlays, $5,090,000,000. (B) Outlays, $739,161,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: Fiscal year 2024: Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $194,930,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $4,673,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $826,276,000,000. (B) Outlays, $193,931,000,000. (B) Outlays, $4,745,000,000. (B) Outlays, $826,057,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: Fiscal year 2025: Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $199,751,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $4,857,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $845,800,000,000. (B) Outlays, $197,856,000,000. (B) Outlays, $4,767,000,000. (B) Outlays, $845,593,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: Fiscal year 2026: Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $215,442,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $5,077,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $850,393,000,000. (B) Outlays, $213,337,000,000. (B) Outlays, $4,805,000,000. (B) Outlays, $850,177,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: Fiscal year 2027: Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $212,567,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $4,953,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $916,244,000,000. (B) Outlays, $210,444,000,000. (B) Outlays, $4,809,000,000. (B) Outlays, $916,009,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (10) Education, Training, Employment, and Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, $209,943,000,000. Social Services (500): (A) New budget authority, $988,183,000,000. (B) Outlays, $207,908,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (B) Outlays, $987,942,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $69,920,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, $227,991,000,000. (B) Outlays, $89,295,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $1,053,671,000,000. (B) Outlays, $225,820,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (B) Outlays, $1,053,435,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, $79,090,000,000. (13) Income Security (600): (A) New budget authority, $234,947,000,000. (B) Outlays, $81,404,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (B) Outlays, $232,660,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $491,789,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, $80,305,000,000. (B) Outlays, $477,428,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $243,718,000,000. (B) Outlays, $81,129,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (B) Outlays, $241,501,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $464,425,000,000. (16) Administration of Justice (750): (A) New budget authority, $81,922,000,000. (B) Outlays, $454,786,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (B) Outlays, $82,479,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $51,367,000,000.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:49 Oct 05, 2017 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00055 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A04OC7.028 H04OCPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with HOUSE H7808 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE October 4, 2017 (B) Outlays, $61,079,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $623,786,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$115,139,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (B) Outlays, $623,911,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$115,139,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $58,245,000,000. (19) Allowances (920): Fiscal year 2026: (B) Outlays, $58,867,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, -$117,033,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, -$44,505,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$117,033,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $59,720,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$23,272,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: (B) Outlays, $60,036,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, -$127,808,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, -$42,219,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$127,808,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $61,054,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$34,499,000,000. (22) Overseas Contingency Operations/Glob- (B) Outlays, $60,946,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: al War on Terrorism (970): Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, -$45,246,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $62,092,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$40,640,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $86,591,000,000. (B) Outlays, $61,925,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (B) Outlays, $45,781,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, -$48,056,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $63,671,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$44,164,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $60,000,000,000. (B) Outlays, $63,462,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (B) Outlays, $50,748,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, -$50,544,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $65,285,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$47,877,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $43,000,000,000. (B) Outlays, $65,043,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (B) Outlays, $43,076,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, -$52,326,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $66,947,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$49,819,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $26,000,000,000. (B) Outlays, $66,498,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (B) Outlays, $31,635,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, -$53,659,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $69,907,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$51,411,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $12,000,000,000. (B) Outlays, $70,200,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (B) Outlays, $18,768,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, -$55,439,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $70,270,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$53,060,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $12,000,000,000. (B) Outlays, $69,722,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: (B) Outlays, $13,799,000,000. (17) General Government (800): (A) New budget authority, -$51,908,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: Fiscal year 2018: (B) Outlays, -$52,127,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $12,000,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $23,564,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: (B) Outlays, $11,957,000,000. (B) Outlays, $23,091,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$55,254,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: Fiscal year 2019: (B) Outlays, -$53,919,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $0. (A) New budget authority, $23,948,000,000. (20) Government-wide savings and adjust- (B) Outlays, $4,171,000,000. (B) Outlays, $23,314,000,000. ments (930): Fiscal year 2026: Fiscal year 2020: Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $0. (A) New budget authority, $23,557,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $34,145,000,000. (B) Outlays, $1,160,000,000. (B) Outlays, $23,303,000,000. (B) Outlays, $2,778,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: Fiscal year 2021: Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $0. (A) New budget authority, $23,386,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$1,555,000,000. (B) Outlays, $165,000,000. (B) Outlays, $23,190,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$2,528,000,000. (23) Across-the-Board Adjustment (990): Fiscal year 2022: Fiscal year 2020: Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $23,127,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$67,381,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$909,000,000. (B) Outlays, $23,013,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$47,665,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$740,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $26,420,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$120,155,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (B) Outlays, $26,057,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$97,069,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$931,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: Fiscal year 2022: (B) Outlays, -$837,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $26,351,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$153,376,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (B) Outlays, $26,168,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$137,459,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$956,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: Fiscal year 2023: (B) Outlays, -$895,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $26,246,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$174,438,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (B) Outlays, $26,060,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$159,489,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$979,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: Fiscal year 2024: (B) Outlays, -$944,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $26,083,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$194,373,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (B) Outlays, $25,917,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$179,541,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$1,004,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: Fiscal year 2025: (B) Outlays, -$968,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $25,855,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$193,336,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (B) Outlays, $25,722,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$187,355,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$1,030,000,000. (18) Net Interest (900): Fiscal year 2026: (B) Outlays, -$993,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, -$246,573,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $376,842,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$223,016,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$1,056,000,000. (B) Outlays, $376,842,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: (B) Outlays, -$1,018,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, -$258,801,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $409,185,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$240,977,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$1,083,000,000. (B) Outlays, $409,185,000,000. (21) Undistributed Offsetting Receipts (950): (B) Outlays, -$1,045,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: Fiscal year 2018: Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, $450,859,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$83,212,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$1,112,000,000. (B) Outlays, $450,859,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$83,212,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$1,070,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: Fiscal year 2019: Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, $493,778,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$86,409,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$1,140,000,000. (B) Outlays, $493,778,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$86,409,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$1,099,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: Fiscal year 2020: TITLE II—RECONCILIATION AND (A) New budget authority, $531,929,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$86,316,000,000. RELATED MATTERS (B) Outlays, $531,929,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$86,316,000,000. SEC. 201. RECONCILIATION IN THE HOUSE OF Fiscal year 2023: Fiscal year 2021: REPRESENTATIVES. (A) New budget authority, $565,282,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$90,347,000,000. (a) SUBMISSIONS PROVIDING FOR RECONCILI- (B) Outlays, $565,282,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$90,347,000,000. ATION.—Not later than October 6, 2017, the Fiscal year 2024: Fiscal year 2022: committees named in subsection (b) shall (A) New budget authority, $589,292,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$93,573,000,000. submit their recommendations on changes in (B) Outlays, $589,292,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$93,573,000,000. laws within their jurisdictions to the Com- Fiscal year 2025: Fiscal year 2023: mittee on the Budget that would achieve the (A) New budget authority, $607,012,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$100,001,000,000. specified reduction in the deficit for the pe- (B) Outlays, $607,012,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$100,001,000,000. riod of fiscal years 2018 through 2027. Fiscal year 2026: Fiscal year 2024: (b) INSTRUCTIONS.— (A) New budget authority, $620,536,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$105,371,000,000. (1) COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE.—The Com- (B) Outlays, $620,536,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$105,371,000,000. mittee on Agriculture shall submit changes Fiscal year 2027: Fiscal year 2025: in laws within its jurisdiction sufficient to

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:49 Oct 05, 2017 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00056 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A04OC7.028 H04OCPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with HOUSE October 4, 2017 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7809 reduce the deficit by $10,000,000,000 for the secutive 10-fiscal year periods beginning mandatory programs that, if enacted, would period of fiscal years 2018 through 2027. after the last fiscal year of this concurrent cause the absolute value of the total budget (2) COMMITTEE ON ARMED SERVICES.—The resolution. authority of all such changes in mandatory Committee on Armed Services shall submit (c) LIMITATION.—In the House of Represent- programs enacted in relation to a full fiscal changes in laws within its jurisdiction suffi- atives, the provisions of this section shall year to be more than the amount specified in cient to reduce the deficit by $1,000,000,000 not apply to any bills or joint resolutions, or paragraph (3), shall not be in order in the for the period of fiscal years 2018 through amendments thereto or conference reports House of Representatives. 2027. thereon, for which the chair of the Com- (2) AMENDMENTS AND CONFERENCE RE- (3) COMMITTEE ON EDUCATION AND THE WORK- mittee on the Budget has made adjustments PORTS.—It shall not be in order in the House FORCE.—The Committee on Education and to the allocations, aggregates, or other budg- of Representatives to consider an amend- the Workforce shall submit changes in laws etary levels in this concurrent resolution. ment to, or a conference report on, a bill or within its jurisdiction sufficient to reduce (d) DETERMINATIONS OF BUDGET LEVELS.— joint resolution making appropriations for a the deficit by $20,000,000,000 for the period of For purposes of this section, the levels of net full fiscal year if such amendment thereto or fiscal years 2018 through 2027. increases in direct spending shall be deter- conference report thereon proposes a change (4) COMMITTEE ON ENERGY AND COMMERCE.— mined on the basis of estimates provided by in mandatory programs that, if enacted, The Committee on Energy and Commerce the chair of the Committee on the Budget of would cause the absolute value of the total shall submit changes in laws within its juris- the House of Representatives. budget authority of all such changes in man- diction sufficient to reduce the deficit by (e) SUNSET.—This section shall have no datory programs enacted in relation to a full $20,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years force or effect after September 30, 2018. fiscal year to be more than the amount spec- 2018 through 2027. SEC. 302. ALLOCATION FOR OVERSEAS CONTIN- ified in paragraph (3). (5) COMMITTEE ON FINANCIAL SERVICES.—The GENCY OPERATIONS/GLOBAL WAR (3) AMOUNT.—The amount specified in this Committee on Financial Services shall sub- ON TERRORISM. paragraph is— mit changes in laws within its jurisdiction (a) SEPARATE ALLOCATION FOR OVERSEAS (A) for fiscal year 2018, $19,100,000,000; sufficient to reduce the deficit by CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS/GLOBAL WAR ON (B) for fiscal year 2019, $17,000,000,000; and $14,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years TERRORISM.—In the House of Representa- (C) for fiscal year 2020, $15,000,000,000. 2018 through 2027. tives, there shall be a separate allocation of (c) DETERMINATION.—For purposes of this new budget authority and outlays provided section, budgetary levels shall be determined (6) COMMITTEE ON HOMELAND SECURITY.— on the basis of estimates provided by the The Committee on Homeland Security shall to the Committee on Appropriations for the chair of the Committee on the Budget of the submit changes in laws within its jurisdic- purposes of Overseas Contingency Oper- House of Representatives. tion sufficient to reduce the deficit by ations/Global War on Terrorism, which shall $3,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years be deemed to be an allocation under section SEC. 304. LIMITATION ON ADVANCE APPROPRIA- TIONS. 2018 through 2027. 302(a) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974. Section 302(a)(3) of such Act shall not (a) IN GENERAL.—In the House of Rep- (7) COMMITTEE ON THE JUDICIARY.—The resentatives, except as provided for in sub- Committee on the Judiciary shall submit apply to such separate allocation. (b) SECTION 302 ALLOCATIONS.—The sepa- section (b), any general appropriation bill or changes in laws within its jurisdiction suffi- rate allocation referred to in subsection (a) bill or joint resolution continuing appropria- cient to reduce the deficit by $45,000,000,000 shall be the exclusive allocation for Overseas tions, or amendment thereto or conference for the period of fiscal years 2018 through Contingency Operations/Global War on Ter- report thereon, may not provide advance ap- 2027. rorism under section 302(b) of the Congres- propriations. (8) COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES.— sional Budget Act of 1974. The Committee on (b) EXCEPTIONS.—An advance appropriation The Committee on Natural Resources shall Appropriations of the House of Representa- may be provided for programs, projects, ac- submit changes in laws within its jurisdic- tivities, or accounts identified in the report tives may provide suballocations of such sep- tion sufficient to reduce the deficit by or the joint explanatory statement of man- arate allocation under such section 302(b). $5,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years agers, as applicable, accompanying this con- (c) APPLICATION.—For purposes of enforc- 2018 through 2027. ing the separate allocation referred to in current resolution under the heading— (9) COMMITTEE ON OVERSIGHT AND GOVERN- (1) GENERAL.—‘‘Accounts Identified for Ad- subsection (a) under section 302(f) of the Con- MENT REFORM.—The Committee on Oversight vance Appropriations’’. gressional Budget Act of 1974, the ‘‘first fis- and Government Reform shall submit (2) VETERANS.—‘‘Veterans Accounts Identi- cal year’’ and the ‘‘total of fiscal years’’ changes in laws within its jurisdiction suffi- fied for Advance Appropriations’’. shall be deemed to refer to fiscal year 2018. cient to reduce the deficit by $32,000,000,000 (c) LIMITATIONS.—The aggregate level of Section 302(c) of such Act shall not apply to for the period of fiscal years 2018 through advance appropriations shall not exceed— such separate allocation. 2027. (1) GENERAL.—$28,852,000,000 in new budget (d) DESIGNATIONS.—New budget authority authority for all programs identified pursu- (10) COMMITTEE ON VETERANS’ AFFAIRS.— or outlays shall only be counted toward the ant to subsection (b)(1). The Committee on Veterans’ Affairs shall allocation referred to in subsection (a) if des- (2) VETERANS.—$70,699,313,000 in new budget submit changes in laws within its jurisdic- ignated pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of authority for programs in the Department of tion sufficient to reduce the deficit by the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Veterans Affairs identified pursuant to sub- $1,000,000,000 for the period of fiscal years Control Act of 1985. section (b)(2). 2018 through 2027. (e) ADJUSTMENTS.—For purposes of sub- (d) DEFINITION.—The term ‘‘advance appro- (11) COMMITTEE ON WAYS AND MEANS.—The section (a) for fiscal year 2018, no adjustment Committee on Ways and Means shall submit priation’’ means any new discretionary budg- shall be made under section 314(a) of the et authority provided in a general appropria- changes in laws within its jurisdiction suffi- Congressional Budget Act of 1974 if any ad- cient to reduce the deficit by $52,000,000,000 tion bill or joint resolution continuing ap- justment would be made under section propriations for fiscal year 2018, or any for the period of fiscal years 2018 through 251(b)(2)(A)(ii) of the Balanced Budget and 2027. amendment thereto or conference report Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. thereon, that first becomes available for the TITLE III—BUDGET ENFORCEMENT IN SEC. 303. LIMITATION ON CHANGES IN CERTAIN first fiscal year following fiscal year 2018. THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES MANDATORY PROGRAMS. SEC. 305. ESTIMATES OF DEBT SERVICE COSTS. Subtitle A—Budget Enforcement (a) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term In the House of Representatives, the chair SEC. 301. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST INCREASING ‘‘change in mandatory programs’’ means a of the Committee on the Budget may direct LONG-TERM DIRECT SPENDING. provision that— the Congressional Budget Office to include, (a) POINT OF ORDER.—It shall not be in (1) would have been estimated as affecting in any estimate prepared under section 402 of order in the House of Representatives to con- direct spending or receipts under section 252 the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 with re- sider any bill or joint resolution, or amend- of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def- spect to any bill or joint resolution, an esti- ment thereto or conference report thereon, icit Control Act of 1985 (as in effect prior to mate of any change in debt service costs re- that would cause a net increase in direct September 30, 2002) if the provision were in- sulting from carrying out such bill or resolu- spending in excess of $2,500,000,000 in any of cluded in legislation other than appropria- tion. Any estimate of debt service costs pro- the 4 consecutive 10-fiscal year periods de- tion Acts; and vided under this section shall be advisory scribed in subsection (b). (2) results in a net decrease in budget au- and shall not be used for purposes of enforce- (b) CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE ANAL- thority in the budget year, but does not re- ment of such Act, the Rules of the House of YSIS OF PROPOSALS.—The Director of the sult in a net decrease in outlays over the Representatives, or this concurrent resolu- Congressional Budget Office shall, to the ex- total of the current year, the budget year, tion. This section shall not apply to author- tent practicable, prepare an estimate of and all fiscal years covered under the most izations of programs funded by discretionary whether a bill or joint resolution reported by recently agreed to concurrent resolution on spending or to appropriation bills or joint a committee (other than the Committee on the budget. resolutions, but shall apply to changes in the Appropriations), or amendment thereto or (b) POINT OF ORDER IN THE HOUSE OF REP- authorization level of appropriated entitle- conference report thereon, would cause, rel- RESENTATIVES.— ments. ative to current law, a net increase in direct (1) IN GENERAL.—A provision in a bill or SEC. 306. FAIR-VALUE CREDIT ESTIMATES. spending in the House of Representatives, in joint resolution making appropriations for a (a) ALL CREDIT PROGRAMS.—Whenever the excess of $2,500,000,000 in any of the 4 con- full fiscal year that proposes a change in Director of the Congressional Budget Office

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:49 Oct 05, 2017 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00057 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A04OC7.028 H04OCPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with HOUSE H7810 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE October 4, 2017 provides an estimate of any measure that es- (I) the chair of the Committee on the (1) The discount rate shall reflect market tablishes or modifies any program providing Budget of the Senate for all direct spending risk. loans or loan guarantees, the Director shall legislation; or (2) The cash flows shall include, whether also, to the extent practicable, provide a (II) the Senator who is Chairman or Vice classified as mandatory or discretionary, fair-value estimate of such loan or loan guar- Chairman of the Joint Committee on Tax- payments to contractors under the terms of antee program if requested by the chair of ation for revenue legislation; and their contracts, payments to contractors for the Committee on the Budget of the House of (B) in the House of Representatives, a bill other services, and direct savings in energy Representatives. or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or and energy-related costs. (b) STUDENT FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AND conference report thereon— (3) The stream of payments shall cover the HOUSING PROGRAMS.—The Director of the (i) for which an estimate is required to be period covered by the contracts but not to Congressional Budget Office shall provide, to prepared pursuant to section 402 of the Con- exceed 25 years. gressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 653) the extent practicable, a fair-value estimate (c) DEFINITION.—As used in this section, as part of any estimate for any measure that and that causes a gross budgetary effect (be- the term ‘‘covered energy savings contract’’ establishes or modifies a loan or loan guar- fore incorporating macroeconomic effects means— and not including timing shifts) in a fiscal antee program for student financial assist- (1) an energy savings performance contract year in the period of years of the most re- ance or housing (including residential mort- authorized under section 801 of the National cently agreed to concurrent resolution on gage). Energy Conservation Policy Act; or the budget equal to or greater than 0.25 per- (c) BASELINE ESTIMATES.—The Congres- (2) a utility energy service contract, as de- cent of the current projected gross domestic sional Budget Office shall include estimates, scribed in the Office of Management and product of the United States for that fiscal on a fair-value and credit reform basis, of Budget Memorandum on Federal Use of En- year; or loan and loan guarantee programs for stu- ergy Savings Performance Contracting, (ii) designated as such by— dent financial assistance, housing (including dated July 25, 1998 (M–98–13), and the Office (I) the chair of the Committee on the residential mortgage), and such other major of Management and Budget Memorandum on loan and loan guarantee programs, as prac- Budget of the House of Representatives for all direct spending legislation; or the Federal Use of Energy Saving Perform- ticable, in its The Budget and Economic Out- ance Contracts and Utility Energy Service look: 2018 to 2027. (II) the Member who is Chairman or Vice Chairman of the Joint Committee on Tax- Contracts, dated September 28, 2015 (M–12– (d) ENFORCEMENT IN THE HOUSE OF REP- ation for revenue legislation. 21), or any successor to either memorandum. RESENTATIVES.—If the Director of the Con- (d) ENFORCEMENT IN THE HOUSE OF REP- gressional Budget Office provides an esti- (2) BUDGETARY EFFECTS.—The term ‘‘budg- etary effects’’ means changes in revenues, di- RESENTATIVES.—In the House of Representa- mate pursuant to subsection (a) or (b), the rect spending outlays, and deficits. tives, if any net present value of any covered chair of the Committee on the Budget of the (3) TIMING SHIFTS.—The term ‘‘timing energy savings contract calculated under House of Representatives may use such esti- shifts’’ means— subsection (b) results in a net savings, then mate to determine compliance with the Con- (A) provisions that cause a delay of the the budgetary effects of such contract shall gressional Budget Act of 1974 and other budg- date on which outlays flowing from direct not be counted for purposes of titles III and et enforcement requirements. spending would otherwise occur from one fis- IV of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, SEC. 307. ESTIMATES OF MACROECONOMIC EF- cal year to the next fiscal year; or this concurrent resolution, or clause 10 of FECTS OF MAJOR LEGISLATION. (B) provisions that cause an acceleration of rule XXI of the Rules of the House of Rep- (a) CBO AND JCT ESTIMATES.—During the the date on which revenues would otherwise resentatives. 115th Congress, any estimate of major legis- occur from one fiscal year to the prior fiscal (e) CLASSIFICATION OF SPENDING.—For pur- lation considered in the House of Represent- year. atives or the Senate provided by the Con- poses of budget enforcement, the estimated SEC. 308. ADJUSTMENTS FOR IMPROVED CON- gressional Budget Office under section 402 of net present value of the budget authority TROL OF BUDGETARY RESOURCES. provided by the measure, and outlays flow- the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 or by (a) ADJUSTMENTS OF DISCRETIONARY AND the Joint Committee on Taxation to the ing therefrom, shall be classified as direct DIRECT SPENDING LEVELS.—In the House of spending. Congressional Budget Office under section Representatives, if a committee (other than 201(f) of such Act shall, to the extent prac- the Committee on Appropriations) reports a (f) SENSE OF THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTA- ticable, incorporate the budgetary effects of bill or joint resolution, or an amendment TIVES.—It is the sense of the House of Rep- changes in economic output, employment, thereto is offered or conference report there- resentatives that— capital stock, and other macroeconomic on is submitted, providing for a decrease in (1) the Director of the Office of Manage- variables resulting from such major legisla- direct spending (budget authority and out- ment and Budget, in consultation with the tion. lays flowing therefrom) for any fiscal year Director of the Congressional Budget Office, (b) CONTENTS.—Any estimate referred to in and also provides for an authorization of ap- should separately identify the cash flows subsection (a) shall, to the extent prac- propriations for the same purpose, upon the under subsection (b)(2) and include such in- ticable, include— enactment of such measure, the chair of the formation in the President’s annual budget (1) a qualitative assessment of the budg- Committee on the Budget may decrease the submission under section 1105(a) of title 31, etary effects (including macroeconomic vari- allocation to the applicable authorizing com- United States Code; and ables described in subsection (a)) of major mittee that reports such measure and in- (2) the scoring method used in this section legislation in the 20-fiscal year period begin- crease the allocation of discretionary spend- should not be used to score any contracts ning after the last fiscal year of the most re- ing (budget authority and outlays flowing other than covered energy savings contracts. therefrom) to the Committee on Appropria- cently agreed to concurrent resolution on SEC. 310. LIMITATION ON TRANSFERS FROM THE the budget that sets forth budgetary levels tions for fiscal year 2018 by an amount equal GENERAL FUND OF THE TREASURY required under section 301 of the Congres- to the new budget authority (and outlays TO THE HIGHWAY TRUST FUND. flowing therefrom) provided for in a bill or sional Budget Act of 1974; and In the House of Representatives, for pur- (2) an identification of the critical assump- joint resolution making appropriations for the same purpose. poses of the Congressional Budget Act of tions and the source of data underlying that 1974, the Balanced Budget and Emergency estimate. (b) DETERMINATIONS.—In the House of Rep- resentatives, for purposes of enforcing this Deficit Control Act of 1985, and the rules or (c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section: concurrent resolution, the allocations and orders of the House of Representatives, a bill (1) MAJOR LEGISLATION.—The term ‘‘major aggregate levels of new budget authority, or joint resolution, or an amendment thereto legislation’’ means— outlays, direct spending, revenues, deficits, or conference report thereon, that transfers (A) in the Senate, a bill, joint resolution, and surpluses for fiscal year 2018 and the funds from the general fund of the Treasury conference report, amendment, amendment total of fiscal years 2018 through 2027 shall be to the Highway Trust Fund shall be counted between the Houses, or treaty— determined on the basis of estimates made as new budget authority and outlays equal to (i) for which an estimate is required to be by the chair of the Committee on the Budget the amount of the transfer in the fiscal year prepared pursuant to section 402 of the Con- and such chair may adjust the applicable lev- the transfer occurs. gressional Budget Act of 1974 (2 U.S.C. 653) els in this concurrent resolution. and that causes a gross budgetary effect (be- SEC. 311. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FEDERAL RE- SEC. 309. SCORING RULE FOR ENERGY SAVINGS SERVE SURPLUSES AS AN OFFSET. fore incorporating macroeconomic effects PERFORMANCE CONTRACTS. and not including timing shifts) in a fiscal (a) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the Con- In the House of Representatives, any provi- year in the period of years of the most re- gressional Budget Office shall estimate pro- sion of a bill or joint resolution, or amend- cently agreed to concurrent resolution on visions of any bill or joint resolution, or ment thereto or conference report thereon, the budget equal to or greater than— amendment thereto or conference report that transfers any portion of the net surplus (I) 0.25 percent of the current projected thereon, that provides the authority to enter of the Federal Reserve System to the general gross domestic product of the United States into or modify any covered energy savings fund of the Treasury shall not be counted for for that fiscal year; or contract on a net present value basis (NPV). purposes of enforcing the Congressional (II) for a treaty, equal to or greater than (b) NPV CALCULATIONS.—The net present Budget Act of 1974, this concurrent resolu- $15,000,000,000 for that fiscal year; or value of any covered energy savings contract tion, or clause 10 of rule XXI of the Rules of (ii) designated as such by— shall be calculated as follows: the House of Representatives.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:49 Oct 05, 2017 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00058 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A04OC7.028 H04OCPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with HOUSE October 4, 2017 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7811 SEC. 312. PROHIBITION ON USE OF GUARANTEE SEC. 323. ADJUSTMENTS TO REFLECT CHANGES (1) is authorized to provide air traffic con- FEES AS AN OFFSET. IN CONCEPTS AND DEFINITIONS. trol services within the United States air- In the House of Representatives, any provi- In the House of Representatives, the chair space; sion of a bill or joint resolution, or amend- of the Committee on the Budget may adjust (2) sets user fees to finance its operations; ment thereto or conference report thereon, the appropriate aggregates, allocations, and (3) may borrow from private capital mar- that increases, or extends the increase of, other budgetary levels in this concurrent kets to finance improvements; any guarantee fees of the Federal National resolution for any change in budgetary con- (4) is governed by a board of directors com- Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae) or the cepts and definitions consistent with section posed of a CEO and directors whose fiduciary Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation 251(b)(1) of the Balanced Budget and Emer- duty is to the entity; and (Freddie Mac) shall not be counted for pur- gency Deficit Control Act of 1985. (5) becomes the employer of those employ- poses of enforcing the Congressional Budget SEC. 324. ADJUSTMENT FOR CHANGES IN THE ees directly connected to providing air traf- Act of 1974, this concurrent resolution, or BASELINE. fic control services and who the Secretary clause 10 of rule XXI of the Rules of the In the House of Representatives, the chair transfers from the Federal Government. House of Representatives. of the Committee on the Budget may adjust the allocations, aggregates, reconciliation SEC. 402. RESERVE FUND FOR INVESTMENTS IN NATIONAL INFRASTRUCTURE. Subtitle B—Other Provisions targets, and other appropriate budgetary lev- In the House of Representatives, the chair els in this concurrent resolution to reflect SEC. 321. BUDGETARY TREATMENT OF ADMINIS- of the Committee on the Budget may adjust TRATIVE EXPENSES. changes resulting from the Congressional the allocations, aggregates, and other appro- Budget Office’s update to its baseline for fis- (a) IN GENERAL.—In the House of Rep- priate levels in this concurrent resolution cal years 2018 through 2027. resentatives, notwithstanding section for any bill or joint resolution, or amend- 302(a)(1) of the Congressional Budget Act of SEC. 325. APPLICATION OF RULE REGARDING ment thereto or conference report thereon, LIMITS ON DISCRETIONARY SPEND- 1974, section 13301 of the Budget Enforcement that invests in national infrastructure to the Act of 1990, and section 2009a of title 39, ING. Section 314(f) of the Congressional Budget extent that such measure is deficit neutral United States Code, the report or the joint for the total of fiscal years 2018 through 2027. explanatory statement, as applicable, ac- Act of 1974 shall not apply in the House of SEC. 403. RESERVE FUND FOR COMPREHENSIVE companying this concurrent resolution shall Representatives to any bill, joint resolution, or amendment that provides new budget au- TAX REFORM. include in its allocation to the Committee thority for a fiscal year or to any conference In the House of Representatives, if the on Appropriations under section 302(a) of the report on any such bill or resolution if— Committee on Ways and Means reports a bill Congressional Budget Act of 1974 amounts (1) the enactment of that bill or resolution; or joint resolution that provides for com- for the discretionary administrative ex- (2) the adoption and enactment of that prehensive tax reform, the chair of the Com- penses of the Social Security Administration amendment; or mittee on the Budget may adjust the alloca- and the United States Postal Service. (3) the enactment of that bill or resolution tions, aggregates, and other appropriate (b) SPECIAL RULE.—In the House of Rep- in the form recommended in that conference budgetary levels in this concurrent resolu- resentatives, for purposes of enforcing sec- report, tion for the budgetary effects of any such tion 302(f) of the Congressional Budget Act of would not cause the 302(a) allocation to the bill or joint resolution, or amendment there- 1974, estimates of the levels of total new to or conference report thereon, if such budget authority and total outlays provided Committee on Appropriations for fiscal year 2018 to be exceeded. measure would not increase the deficit for by a measure shall include any discretionary the total of fiscal years 2018 through 2027. amounts described in subsection (a). SEC. 326. EXERCISE OF RULEMAKING POWERS. The House of Representatives adopts the SEC. 404. RESERVE FUND FOR THE STATE CHIL- SEC. 322. APPLICATION AND EFFECT OF provisions of this title and title II— DREN’S HEALTH INSURANCE PRO- CHANGES IN ALLOCATIONS AND AG- GRAM. (1) as an exercise of the rulemaking power GREGATES. In the House of Representatives, the chair of the House of Representatives, and as such (a) APPLICATION.—In the House of Rep- of the Committee on the Budget may adjust they shall be considered as part of the rules resentatives, any adjustments of the alloca- the allocations, budget aggregates and other of the House of Representatives, and such tions, aggregates, and other budgetary levels appropriate levels in this concurrent resolu- rules shall supersede other rules only to the made pursuant to this concurrent resolution tion for the budgetary effects of any bill or extent that they are inconsistent with such shall— joint resolution, or amendment thereto or other rules; and (1) apply while that measure is under con- conference report thereon, that extends the (2) with full recognition of the constitu- sideration; State Children’s Health Insurance Program tional right of the House of Representatives (2) take effect upon the enactment of that allotments, if such measure would not in- to change those rules at any time, in the measure; and crease the deficit for the total of fiscal years same manner, and to the same extent as is (3) be published in the Congressional 2018 through 2027. the case of any other rule of the House of Record as soon as practicable. Representatives. SEC. 405. RESERVE FUND FOR THE REPEAL OR (b) EFFECT OF CHANGED ALLOCATIONS AND REPLACEMENT OF PRESIDENT TITLE IV—RESERVE FUNDS IN THE AGGREGATES.—Revised allocations and ag- OBAMA’S HEALTH CARE LAWS. gregates resulting from these adjustments HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES In the House of Representatives, the chair shall be considered for the purposes of the SEC. 401. RESERVE FUND FOR COMMERCIALIZA- of the Committee on the Budget may revise Congressional Budget Act of 1974 as the allo- TION OF AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL. the allocations, aggregates, and other appro- cations and aggregates contained in this con- (a) IN GENERAL.—In the House of Rep- priate budgetary levels in this concurrent current resolution. resentatives, the chair of the Committee on resolution for the budgetary effects of any the Budget may adjust, at a time the chair (c) BUDGET COMMITTEE DETERMINATIONS.— bill or joint resolution, or amendment there- deems appropriate, the section 302(a) alloca- For purposes of this concurrent resolution, to or conference report thereon, that repeals tion to the Committee on Transportation the budgetary levels for a fiscal year or pe- or replaces any provision of the Patient Pro- and Infrastructure and other applicable com- riod of fiscal years shall be determined on tection and Affordable Care Act or title I or mittees of the House of Representatives, ag- the basis of estimates made by the chair of subtitle B of title II of the Health Care and gregates, and other appropriate levels estab- the Committee on the Budget of the House of Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 by the lished in this concurrent resolution for a bill amount of budget authority and outlays Representatives. or joint resolution, or amendment thereto or (d) AGGREGATES, ALLOCATIONS AND APPLI- flowing therefrom provided by such measure conference report thereon, that commer- for such purpose. CATION.—In the House of Representatives, for cializes the operations of the air traffic con- purposes of this concurrent resolution and trol system if such measure reduces the dis- TITLE V—POLICY STATEMENTS IN THE budget enforcement, the consideration of cretionary spending limits in section 251(c) HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES any bill or joint resolution, or amendment of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def- SEC. 501. POLICY STATEMENT ON A BALANCED thereto or conference report thereon, for icit Control Act of 1985 by the amount that BUDGET AMENDMENT. which the chair of the Committee on the would otherwise be appropriated to the Fed- (a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the fol- Budget makes adjustments or revisions in eral Aviation Administration for air traffic lowing: the allocations, aggregates, and other budg- control. Adjustments to the section 302(a) al- (1) In fiscal year 2017, the Federal Govern- etary levels of this concurrent resolution location to the Committee on Appropria- ment will collect approximately $3.3 trillion shall not be subject to the points of order set tions, consistent with the adjustments to the in taxes, but spend more than $4.0 trillion to forth in clause 10 of rule XXI of the Rules of discretionary spending limits under such sec- maintain its operations, borrowing 15 cents the House of Representatives or section 301 tion 251(c), shall only be made upon enact- of every Federal dollar spent. of this concurrent resolution. ment of such measure. (2) At the end of fiscal year 2016, the na- (e) OTHER ADJUSTMENTS.—The chair of the (b) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this sec- tional debt of the United States was more Committee on the Budget of the House of tion, a measure that commercializes the op- than $19.5 trillion. Representatives may adjust other appro- erations of the air traffic control system (3) A majority of States have petitioned priate levels in this concurrent resolution shall be a measure that establishes a Feder- the Federal Government to hold a constitu- depending on congressional action on pend- ally-chartered, not-for-profit corporation tional convention to adopt a balanced budget ing reconciliation legislation. that— amendment to the Constitution.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:16 Oct 05, 2017 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00059 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A04OC7.028 H04OCPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with HOUSE H7812 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE October 4, 2017 (4) As of the spring of 2016, 46 States have (C) increasing congressional accountability (1) requires the President’s budget submis- requirements to annually balance their re- for budget decisions; sion to include an analysis of the costs of spective budgets. (6) improve the transparency of the Fed- complying with current and proposed regula- (5) Numerous balanced budget amendment eral Government’s obligations by— tions; proposals have been introduced on a bipar- (A) modifying the content of the budget (2) builds the institutional capacity of the tisan basis in the House. Currently in the resolution to reflect the budgetary decisions Congressional Budget Office to develop a reg- 115th Congress, 8 joint resolutions proposing that Congress actually makes and enforces; ulatory baseline and estimate regulatory a balanced budget amendment have been in- (B) requiring the Comptroller General to costs; troduced. periodically report to Congress on the con- (3) codifies the Trump Administration’s (6) In the 111th Congress, the House consid- solidated financial report of the Federal regulatory pay-as-you-go requirements, ered H. J. Res. 2, sponsored by Representa- Government; and which require agencies to offset the costs of tive Robert W. Goodlatte of Virginia. Al- (C) restructuring the baseline, as set forth new or revised regulations with the repeal or though it received 262 aye votes, it did not in section 257 of the Balanced Budget and modification of existing regulations; and receive the two-thirds required for passage. Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, to (4) requires Federal agencies to give notice (7) In 1995, a balanced budget amendment treat mandatory spending and revenue on a and allow for comments on proposed guid- to the Constitution passed the House with comparable basis; and ance documents. bipartisan support, but failed to pass by one (7) achieve control over long-term budget SEC. 504. POLICY STATEMENT ON UNAUTHOR- vote in the United States Senate. obligations by— IZED APPROPRIATIONS. (8) Five States, Georgia, Alaska, Mis- (A) establishing declining limits on the (a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the fol- sissippi, North Dakota, and Arizona, have amount of debt incurred by the Federal Gov- lowing: agreed to the Compact for a Balanced Budg- ernment from the private sector as a share of (1) Article I of the Constitution vests all et, which seeks to amend the Constitution to the economy that requires congressional ac- legislative power in Congress. require a balanced budget through an Article tion if such limits deviate from those pre- (2) Central to the legislative powers of Con- V convention by April 12, 2021. viously determined by Congress and the gress is the authorization of appropriations necessary to execute the laws that establish (b) POLICY ON A BALANCED BUDGET CON- President; and agencies and programs and impose obliga- STITUTIONAL AMENDMENT.—It is the policy of (B) codifying limits on the amount legisla- this concurrent resolution that the House tion can increase the deficit beyond the ten tions. (3) Clause 2 of rule XXI of the Rules of the should propose a balanced budget constitu- fiscal-year period of the concurrent resolu- House of Representatives prohibits the con- tional amendment for ratification by the tion on the budget. sideration of appropriations measures that States. SEC. 503. POLICY STATEMENT ON FEDERAL REG- ULATORY BUDGETING AND REFORM. provide appropriations for unauthorized pro- SEC. 502. POLICY STATEMENT ON BUDGET PROC- (a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the fol- grams. ESS REFORM. lowing: (4) In fiscal year 2016, more than $310 bil- It is the policy of this concurrent resolu- (1) Federal regulations are estimated to lion was appropriated for unauthorized pro- tion that the House should enact legislation cost $1.9 trillion per year or approximately grams, spanning 256 separate laws. that reforms the congressional budget proc- $15,000 per household. Such costs exceed 10 (5) Agencies such as the Department of ess to— percent of the Gross Domestic Product of the State have not been authorized for 15 years. (1) reassert congressional control over the United States. (6) The House adopted a requirement for budget process by reorienting the Views and (2) Excessive Federal regulation— the 115th Congress, as part of H. Res. 5, that Estimates that committees submit to the (A) retards job creation, investment, requires each standing committee of the Committee on the Budget, as required under wages, competition, and economic growth, House to adopt an authorization and over- 301(d) of the Congressional Budget Act of slowing the Nation’s recovery from economic sight plan that enumerates all unauthorized 1974, to emphasize congressional rather than recession and harming American households; programs and agencies within its jurisdic- executive branch priorities; (B) operates as a regressive tax on poor and tion that received funding in the prior year, (2) strengthen enforcement of budgetary lower-income households; among other oversight requirements. rules and requirements by— (C) displaces workers into long-term unem- (b) POLICY ON UNAUTHORIZED APPROPRIA- (A) enabling Members of the House of Rep- ployment or lower-paying jobs; TIONS.—In the House, it is the policy of this resentatives to enforce budget requirements (D) adversely affects small businesses, the concurrent resolution that legislation should in a manner that does not jeopardize the primary source of new jobs; and be enacted that— ability of the majority to work its will on (E) impedes the economic growth nec- (1) establishes a schedule for reauthorizing legislation; and essary to provide sufficient funds to meet all Federal programs on a staggered five- (B) permitting members of Congress to de- vital commitments and reduce the Federal year basis together with declining spending termine whether emergency-designated ap- debt. targets for each year a program is not reau- propriations are for unanticipated situations (3) Federal agencies do not systematically thorized according to such schedule; that pose a threat to life, property, or na- analyze both the costs and benefits of new (2) prohibits the consideration of appro- tional security; regulations or identify and eliminate, mini- priations measures in the House that provide (3) increase control over the costs of Fed- mize, or mitigate excess regulatory costs appropriations in excess of spending targets eral activities by— through post-implementation assessments of specified for such measures and ensures that (A) incorporating debt service costs into their regulations. such rule should be strictly enforced; and cost estimates prepared by the Congressional (4) Agencies too often impose costly regu- (3) limits funding for non-defense or non- Budget Office; lations without relying on sound science, security-related Federal programs that are (B) establishing a process for setting limits through the use of agency guidance, judicial not reauthorized according the schedule de- on the amount of debt incurred by the Fed- consent decrees, and settlement agreements, scribed in paragraph (1). eral Government from the private sector as a and through the abuse of high interim com- SEC. 505. POLICY STATEMENT ON FEDERAL AC- share of the economy that requires congres- pliance costs imposed on regulated entities COUNTING. sional action if such limits deviate from that bring legal challenges against newly (a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the fol- those previously determined by Congress and promulgated regulations. lowing: the President; (5) Congress lacks an effective mechanism (1) Current accounting methods fail to cap- (C) transitioning to fair-value accounting; to manage the level of new Federal regu- ture and present in a compelling manner the (D) budgeting for Federal insurance pro- latory costs imposed each year. Other na- full scope of the Federal Government and its grams on an accrual basis; and tions, meanwhile, have successfully imple- fiscal condition. (E) developing and implementing a regu- mented the use of regulatory budgeting to (2) Most fiscal analyses produced by the latory budget as provided in section 503; control excess regulation and regulatory Congressional Budget Office (CBO) are con- (4) achieve greater control over mandatory costs. ducted over a 10-fiscal year period. The use spending by reforming reconciliation proce- (6) Significant steps have been taken al- of generational accounting or a longer time dures and requirements to ensure they are ready by President Trump and the 115th Con- horizon would provide a more complete pic- transparent, objectively applied, and maxi- gress, including the imposition of a regu- ture of the Federal Government’s fiscal con- mize opportunities for deficit reduction; latory pay-as-you-go regimen for new and re- dition. (5) increase the efficiency of the congres- vised regulations by the Trump Administra- (3) The Federal budget currently accounts sional budget process by— tion and the enactment of 14 measures under for most programs on a cash accounting (A) realigning the budget cycle with the the Congressional Review Act that repealed basis, which records revenue and expenses calendar year and the congressional cal- regulations promulgated in the final 60 legis- when cash is actually paid or received. How- endar; lative days of the 114th Congress. ever, it accounts for loan and loan guarantee (B) simplifying the procedures by which (b) POLICY ON FEDERAL REGULATORY BUDG- programs on an accrual basis, which records the Committee on Appropriations adjusts its ETING AND REFORM.—It is the policy of this revenue when earned and expenses when in- section 302(b) suballocations to ensure they concurrent resolution that the House should, curred. are consistent with the Committee’s overall in consultation with the public, consider leg- (4) The Government Accountability Office section 302(a) allocation; and islation that— has advised that accrual accounting may be

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This lack of loan guarantee programs by using a market sight. transparency prevents effective and account- based discount rate. CBO, for example, uses (F) The Credit Reform Act of 1990 placed able Government. fair-value accounting to measure the cost of Federal loans and loan guarantees on an ac- (b) POLICY ON EXPENDITURES FROM AGENCY the Federal National Mortgage Association crual basis. FEES AND SPENDING.—It is the policy of this (Fannie Mae) and the Federal Home Loan (G) Increasing shares of the economy are concurrent resolution that the House should Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac). directed towards compliance with Federal reassert its constitutional prerogative to (7) In comparing fair-value accounting to regulations, which are not subject to the control Federal spending and exercise rig- FCRA, CBO has concluded that ‘‘adopting a limitations applicable to Federal spending. orous oversight over Federal agencies. Con- fair-value approach would provide a more (b) POLICY ON COMMISSION ON BUDGET CON- gress should subject all fees paid by the pub- comprehensive way to measure the costs of CEPTS.—It is the policy of this concurrent lic to Federal agencies to annual appropria- Federal credit programs and would permit resolution on the budget that legislation tions or authorizing legislation and a share more level comparisons between those costs should be enacted that establishes a Com- of these proceeds should be reserved for tax- and the costs of other forms of Federal as- mission on Budget Concepts to review and payers in the form of deficit reduction. sistance’’. revise budget concepts and make rec- SEC. 510. POLICY STATEMENT ON PROMOTING (8) The Department of the Treasury, when ommendations to create a more transparent REAL HEALTH CARE REFORM. reporting the principal financial statements Federal budget process. (a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the fol- of the United States entitled Balance Sheet SEC. 507. POLICY STATEMENT ON BUDGET EN- lowing: and Statement of Operations and Changes in FORCEMENT. (1) Patient-centered health care increases Net Position, may omit some of the largest It is the policy of this concurrent resolu- access to quality care for all Americans, re- projected Federal Government expenses, in- tion that the House should— gardless of age, income, or health status. cluding social insurance programs. The pro- (1) adopt an annual budget resolution be- (2) States are best equipped to respond to jected expenses of these programs are re- fore spending and tax legislation is consid- the needs of their unique communities. ported by the Department in its Statements of ered in either House of Congress; (3) The current legal framework encour- Social Insurance and Changes in Social Insur- (2) assess measures for timely compliance ages frivolous medical malpractice lawsuits ance Amounts. with budget rules in the House; that increase health care costs. (9) This concurrent resolution directs CBO (3) pass legislation to strengthen enforce- (b) POLICY ON HEALTH CARE REGULATION.— to estimate the costs of Federal credit pro- ment of the budget resolution; It is the policy of this concurrent resolution grams on a fair-value basis to fully capture (4) comply with the discretionary spending that— the risk associated with these programs. limits set forth in the Balanced Budget and (1) the American health care system should (b) POLICY ON FEDERAL ACCOUNTING METH- Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985; encourage research, development, and inno- ODOLOGIES.—It is the policy of this concur- (5) prevent the use of accounting gimmicks vation in the medical sector, rather than rent resolution that the House should, in stymie growth through over-regulation; consultation with CBO and other appropriate to offset higher spending; (2) States should determine the parameters stakeholders, reform government-wide budg- (6) modify scoring conventions to encour- et and accounting practices so Members and age the commercialization of Federal Gov- of acceptable private insurance plans based the public can better understand the fiscal ernment activities that can best be provided on the needs of their populations and retain condition of the United States and the best by the private sector; and control over other health care coverage options to improve it. Such reforms may in- (7) discourage the use of savings identified standards; clude the following: in the budget resolution as offsets for spend- (3) reforms should protect patients with (1) Providing additional metrics to en- ing or tax legislation. pre-existing conditions, reward those who hance analysis by considering the Nation’s SEC. 508. POLICY STATEMENT ON IMPROPER maintain continuous health coverage, and fiscal condition comprehensively, over an ex- PAYMENTS. create greater parity between benefits of- tended time period, and how it affects Amer- (a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the fol- fered through employers and those offered icans of various age cohorts. lowing: independently; (2) Expanding the use of accrual account- (1) The Government Accountability Office (4) States should have greater flexibility in ing where appropriate. defines improper payments as any reported designing their Medicaid program and State (3) Accounting for certain Federal credit payment that should not have been made or Children’s Health Insurance Program; programs using fair-value accounting to bet- was made in an incorrect amount. (5) medical malpractice reform should em- ter capture market risk. (2) Improper payments totaled $1.2 trillion phasize compliance with best practice guide- SEC. 506. POLICY STATEMENT ON COMMISSION between fiscal years 2003 and 2016 with a re- lines, while continuing to protect patients’ ON BUDGET CONCEPTS. ported Federal Government-wide error rate interests; and (a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds the fol- of 5.1 percent in fiscal year 2016. (6) States should have the flexibility to im- lowing: (3) Improper payments increased from $107 plement medical liability policies to best (1) In 1965, the President’s Commission on billion in 2012 to $144 billion in 2016. suit their needs. Budget Concepts made a series of rec- (4) The Earned Income Tax Credit, Medi- SEC. 511. POLICY STATEMENT ON MEDICARE. ommendations that were adopted and con- care, and Medicaid account for 78 percent of (a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the fol- tinue to provide the foundation for the Fed- total improper payments, with error rates of lowing: eral budget process. 24 percent, 11 percent, and 10.5 percent, re- (1) More than 57 million Americans depend (2) Over the ensuing 52 years, the Federal spectively. on Medicare for their health security. budget process has undergone major trans- (5) Eight agencies did not report payment (2) The Medicare Trustees Report has re- formations, including the following: estimates for 18 programs that the Comp- peatedly recommended that Congress ad- (A) Congress asserted its Article I ‘‘power troller General deems susceptible to signifi- dress Medicare’s long-term financial chal- of the purse’’ through the Congressional cant improper payments. lenges. Each year without reform, the finan- Budget Act of 1974 in the form of a congres- (b) POLICY ON IMPROPER PAYMENTS.—It is cial condition of Medicare becomes more pre- sional budget process predicated on the adop- the policy of this concurrent resolution that carious and the threat to those in or near re- tion of an annual budget resolution setting an independent commission should be estab- tirement more pronounced. The current forth its priorities independent of the execu- lished with the goal of finding tangible solu- challenges that Congress will need to address tive branch. tions to reduce total improper payments by include— (B) Congress and the President have peri- 50 percent within the next 5 years. The com- (A) the Hospital Insurance Trust Fund will odically augmented the President’s budget mission should also develop a more-stringent be exhausted in 2029 and unable to pay the submission and the budget resolution by es- system of agency oversight to achieve this scheduled benefits; tablishing statutory budget rules and limits goal. (B) Medicare enrollment is expected to in- enforced through sequestration. SEC. 509. POLICY STATEMENT ON EXPENDITURES crease more than 50 percent in the next two (C) The share of Federal spending that is FROM AGENCY FEES AND SPENDING. decades, as 10,000 baby boomers reach retire- not controlled through the annual appropria- (a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the fol- ment age each day; tions process has ballooned from 32 percent lowing: (C) due to extended life spans, enrollees re- of total Federal spending in 1967 to 69 per- (1) Many Federal agencies and organiza- main in Medicare three times longer than at cent in 2016. tions have permanent authority to collect the outset of the program five decades ago;

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:49 Oct 05, 2017 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00061 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A04OC7.028 H04OCPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with HOUSE H7814 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE October 4, 2017 (D) notwithstanding the program’s trust (2) the House, in a bipartisan manner, the world for innovation on its 2017 list of fund arrangement, current workers’ payroll should continue to examine the Federal re- the Top 25 Global Innovators. tax contributions pay for current Medicare sponse to the opioid abuse epidemic and sup- (4) The United States leads the world in beneficiaries instead of being set aside for port essential activities to reduce and pre- the production of medical devices, and the their own future use; vent substance abuse; United States medical device market ac- (E) the number of workers supporting each (3) the House should continue to support counts for approximately 45 percent of the beneficiary continues to fall; in 1965, the initiatives included in the 21st Century global market. ratio was 4.5 workers per beneficiary, and by Cures Act and the Comprehensive Addiction (5) The United States remains a global 2030, the ratio will be only 2.4 workers per and Recovery Act; leader in pharmaceutical research and devel- beneficiary; (4) the House should continue its oversight opment investment, has produced more than (F) the average Medicare beneficiary re- efforts, particularly ongoing investigations half of the world’s new molecules in the past ceives about three dollars in Medicare bene- conducted by the House Committee on En- decade, and represents the world’s largest fits for every dollar paid into the program; ergy and Commerce, to ensure that taxpayer pharmaceutical market, which is triple the (G) Medicare is growing faster than the dollars intended to combat opioid abuse are size of the nearest rival, China. economy, with a projected growth rate of 7.2 spent appropriately and efficiently; and (b) POLICY ON MEDICAL INNOVATION.—It is percent per year on average through 2026, (5) the House should collaborate with the policy of this concurrent resolution peaking in 2026 at 9.2 percent; and State, local, and tribal entities to develop a that— (H) by 2027, Medicare spending will reach comprehensive strategy for addressing the (1) the Federal Government should foster more than $1.4 trillion, more than double the opioid addiction crisis. investment in health care innovation and 2016 spending level of $692 billion. SEC. 513. POLICY STATEMENT ON THE STATE maintain the Nation’s world leadership sta- (3) Failing to address the impending insol- CHILDREN’S HEALTH INSURANCE tus in medical science by encouraging com- vency of Medicare will leave millions of PROGRAM. petition; American seniors without adequate health (a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the fol- (2) the House should continue to support security and younger generations burdened lowing: the critical work of medical innovators with having to pay for these unsustainable (1) The State Children’s Health Insurance throughout the country through continued spending levels. Program (SCHIP) is a means-tested program funding for agencies, including the National (b) POLICY ON MEDICARE REFORM.—It is the that provides health insurance coverage to Institutes of Health and the Centers for Dis- policy of this concurrent resolution to save low-income children and pregnant women ease Control and Prevention, to conduct life- Medicare for those in or near retirement and who do not qualify for Medicaid based on in- saving research and development; and to strengthen the program’s solvency for fu- come. (3) the Federal Government should unleash ture beneficiaries. (2) SCHIP eligibility varies by State, as the power of private-sector medical innova- (c) ASSUMPTIONS.—This concurrent resolu- States decide the income upper limit for tion by removing regulatory obstacles that tion assumes transition to an improved beneficiaries; the current upper limit varies impede the adoption of new medical tech- Medicare program that ensures— from 175 percent of the Federal poverty level nology and pharmaceuticals. (1) Medicare is preserved for current and to 405 percent of the Federal poverty level. SEC. 515. POLICY STATEMENT ON PUBLIC future beneficiaries; (3) SCHIP covered on average 6.3 million HEALTH PREPAREDNESS. (2) future Medicare beneficiaries may se- people monthly in fiscal year 2017. (a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the fol- lect from competing guaranteed health cov- (4) The average cost of a child enrolled in lowing: erage options a plan that best suits their SCHIP to the Federal Government was ap- (1) The Constitution requires the Federal needs; proximately $2,300 in fiscal year 2017, com- Government to provide for the common de- (3) traditional fee-for-service Medicare re- pared to approximately $1,910 for a child en- fense. As such, the Nation must prioritize its mains a plan option; rolled in Medicaid. ability to respond rapidly and effectively to (4) Medicare provides additional assistance (5) The Federal spending allotment for a public health crisis or bioterrorism threat. for lower-income beneficiaries and those SCHIP will expire at the end of fiscal year (2) There is a persistent threat of bioter- with greater health risks; and 2017. rorism against American lives. (5) Medicare spending is put on a sustain- (6) The Medicaid and CHIP Payment and (3) Naturally-occurring public health able path and becomes solvent over the long Access Commission recommends an exten- threats can spread through the transmission term. sion of Federal SCHIP funding, and warns of communicable diseases during inter- SEC. 512. POLICY STATEMENT ON COMBATING that all States are projected to exhaust their national trade and travel. THE OPIOID EPIDEMIC. Federal SCHIP funds during fiscal year 2018. (4) As of April 3, 2016, the World Health Or- (a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the fol- (7) SCHIP should be preserved to assist the ganization reported nearly 29,000 cases of the lowing: Nation’s vulnerable children. Ebola virus worldwide, including 4 instances (1) According to the Centers for Disease (b) POLICY ON THE STATE CHILDREN’S in the U.S. Control and Prevention (CDC), 91 Americans HEALTH INSURANCE PROGRAM.—It is the pol- (5) As of July 12, 2017, the Centers for Dis- die each day from an opioid overdose. icy of this concurrent resolution that— ease Control and Prevention (CDC) reports (2) Nearly half of all opioid overdose deaths (1) the House should work in a bipartisan that the current Zika epidemic resulted in involve a prescription opioid. manner to reauthorize SCHIP funding; over 5,000 cases of the Zika virus within the (3) Since 1999, the number of prescription (2) the authorizing committees should con- United States, with nearly 37,000 more cases opioids sold in the U.S. has nearly quad- sider establishing a Federal upper limit for reported in U.S. territories. rupled. SCHIP eligibility, rather than providing (6) Preventing the spread of disease to (4) Since 1999, the number of deaths from open-ended access to the program for those Americans requires halting threats before prescription opioids has more than quad- at higher income levels; they breach the U.S. border. rupled. (3) the House should target resources des- (7) The United States is a leader in global (5) The CDC asserts that improving opioid ignated for SCHIP toward those most in need public health assistance and orchestrates prescribing practices will reduce exposure to of Federal assistance; and international responses to health crises. opioids, prevent abuse, and stop addiction. (4) the House should require greater report- (b) POLICY ON PUBLIC HEALTH PREPARED- (6) The CDC has found that individuals in ing by States of SCHIP data in order to bet- NESS.—It is the policy of this concurrent res- rural counties are almost twice as likely to ter structure the program to meet bene- olution that— overdose on prescription painkillers as those ficiaries’ needs. (1) the House should continue to fund ac- in urban areas. SEC. 514. POLICY STATEMENT ON MEDICAL DIS- tivities of the CDC, the National Institutes (7) According to the CDC, nearly 7,000 peo- COVERY, DEVELOPMENT, DELIVERY, of Health, and the Biomedical Advanced Re- ple are treated in emergency rooms every AND INNOVATION. search and Development Authority to de- day for using opioids in a non-approved man- (a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the fol- velop and stockpile medical counter- ner. lowing: measures to infectious diseases and chem- (8) The 21st Century Cures Act and the (1) The Nation’s commitment to the dis- ical, biological, radiological, and nuclear Comprehensive Addiction and Recovery Act covery, development, and delivery of new agents; were signed into law in the 114th Congress in treatments and cures has made the United (2) the House should, within available an overwhelming display of congressional States the biomedical innovation capital of budgetary resources, provide continued sup- and executive branch support in the fight the world for decades. port for research, prevention, and public against the opioid epidemic. (2) The history of scientific discovery and health preparedness programs; (9) Bipartisan efforts to eliminate opioid medical breakthroughs in the United States (3) the Federal Government should encour- abuse and provide relief from addiction for is extensive, including the creation of the age private-sector development of critical all Americans should continue. polio vaccine, the first genetic mapping, and vaccines and other medical countermeasures (b) POLICY ON OPIOID ABUSE.—It is the pol- the invention of the implantable cardiac to emerging public health threats; and icy of this concurrent resolution that— pacemaker. (4) the Secretary of Health and Human (1) combating opioid abuse using available (3) Reuters ranks the United States Health Services, the Secretary of Defense, and the budgetary resources remains a high priority; and Human Services Laboratories as first in Secretary of State should collaborate on

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(1) More than 60 million retirees, individ- should promptly submit implementing legis- (9) Work is a valuable source of human dig- uals with disabilities, and survivors depend lation to both Houses of Congress including nity, and work requirements help lift Ameri- on Social Security. Since enactment, Social recommendations necessary to achieve a cans out of poverty by incentivizing self-reli- Security has served as a vital leg of the positive 75-year actuarial balance and a posi- ance. ‘‘three-legged stool’’ of retirement security, tive annual balance in the 75th year, and the (b) POLICY ON MEDICAID WORK REQUIRE- which includes employer provided pensions majority leader of the Senate and the major- MENTS.—It is the policy of this concurrent as well as personal savings. ity leader of the House should introduce the resolution that— (2) Lower-income Americans rely on Social President’s legislation upon receipt; (1) Congress should enact legislation that Security for a larger proportion of their re- (3) within 60 days of the President submit- encourages able-bodied, non-elderly, non- tirement income. Therefore, reforms should ting legislation, the committees of jurisdic- pregnant adults without dependents to work, take into consideration the need to protect tion should report a bill, which the House or actively seek work, participate in a job- lower income Americans’ retirement secu- Senate should consider under expedited pro- training program, or do community service, rity. cedures; and in order to receive Medicaid; (3) The Social Security Trustees Report (4) legislation submitted by the President (2) Medicaid work requirements legislation has repeatedly recommended that Social Se- should— could include 30 hours per week of work, of curity’s long-term financial challenges be (A) protect those in or near retirement; which 20 of those hours should be spent in addressed soon. The financial condition of (B) preserve the safety net for those who the core activities of: public or private sec- Social Security and the threat to seniors and count on Social Security the most, including tor employment, work experience, on-the-job those receiving Social Security disability those with disabilities and survivors; training, job-search or job-readiness assist- benefits becomes more pronounced each year (C) improve fairness for participants; ance program participation, community without reform. For example— (D) reduce the burden on and provide cer- service, or vocational training and edu- (A) in 2028, the Disability Insurance Trust tainty for future generations; and cation; Fund will be exhausted and program reve- (E) secure the future of the Disability In- (3) States should be given flexibility to de- nues will be unable to pay scheduled bene- surance program while addressing the needs termine the parameters of qualifying pro- fits; and of those with disabilities today and improv- gram participation and work-equivalent ex- (B) with the exhaustion of both the Dis- ing the determination process. perience; ability Insurance Trust Fund and the Old- (c) POLICY ON DISABILITY INSURANCE.—It is (4) States should perform regular case Age and Survivors and Disability Trust Fund the policy of this concurrent resolution that checks to ensure taxpayer dollars are appro- in 2035, benefits will be cut by as much as 25 the House should consider legislation on a priately spent; and percent across the board, devastating those bipartisan basis to reform the Disability In- (5) the Government Accountability Office currently in or near retirement and those surance program prior to its insolvency in or the Department of Health and Human who rely on Social Security the most. 2028 and should not raid the Social Security Services Inspector General should conduct (4) The recession and continued low eco- retirement system without reforms to the annual audits of State Medicaid programs to nomic growth have exacerbated the looming Disability Insurance system. This concur- ensure proper reporting and prevent waste, fiscal crisis facing Social Security. The most rent resolution assumes reform that— fraud, and abuse. recent Congressional Budget Office (CBO) (1) promotes opportunity for those trying SEC. 518. POLICY STATEMENT ON WELFARE RE- projections find that Social Security will run to return to work; FORM AND SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRI- cash deficits of more than $1.3 trillion over (2) ensures benefits continue to be paid to TION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM WORK the next 10 years. individuals with disabilities and their family REQUIREMENTS. (5) The Disability Insurance program pro- members who rely on them; (a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the fol- vides an essential income safety net for (3) prevents a 7 percent across-the-board lowing: those with disabilities and their families. benefit cut; and (1) Participation in the Supplemental Nu- According to CBO, between 1970 and 2015 the (4) improves the Disability Insurance pro- trition Assistance Program (SNAP) has number of disabled workers and their de- gram. grown from 17 million Americans in 2001 to pendent family members receiving disability (d) POLICY ON SOCIAL SECURITY SOLVENCY.— 44 million in 2016. benefits has increased by more than 300 per- It is the policy of this concurrent resolution (2) The work support role of SNAP has de- cent from 2.7 million to over 10.9 million. that any legislation the House considers to clined, and the program increasingly serves This increase is not due strictly to popu- improve the solvency of the Disability Insur- as a replacement to work. lation growth or decreases in health. CBO ance Trust Fund must also improve the long- (3) Work requirements were key to the suc- also attributes program growth to changes term solvency of the combined Old Age and cess of the Personal Responsibility and Work in demographics and the composition of the Survivors Disability Insurance Trust Fund. Opportunity Act (Public Law 104–193), which labor force as well as Federal policies. SEC. 517. POLICY STATEMENT ON MEDICAID led to a two-thirds reduction in welfare case- (6) In the past, Social Security has been re- WORK REQUIREMENTS. loads, a reduction in child poverty, and an formed on a bipartisan basis, most notably (a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the fol- increase in work participation. The success- by the ‘‘Greenspan Commission’’, which lowing: ful 1996 welfare reform law provides a model helped address Social Security shortfalls for (1) Medicaid is a Federal-State program for improving work requirements in other more than a generation. that provides health care coverage for im- anti-poverty programs. (7) Americans deserve action by the Presi- poverished Americans. (b) POLICY ON WELFARE REFORM AND SNAP dent and Congress to preserve and strength- (2) Medicaid serves four major population WORK REQUIREMENTS.—It is the policy of this en Social Security to ensure that Social Se- categories: the elderly, the blind and dis- concurrent resolution that— curity remains a critical part of the safety abled, children, and adults. (1) the welfare system should reward work, net. (3) The Congressional Budget Office provide tools to escape poverty, and expect (b) POLICY ON SOCIAL SECURITY.—It is the projects the average monthly enrollment in work-capable adults to work or prepare for policy of this concurrent resolution that the Medicaid for fiscal year 2018 to be 78 million work in exchange for welfare benefits; and House should work in a bipartisan manner to people. (2) SNAP should be reformed to improve make Social Security solvent on a sustain- (4) Of this 78 million people, 27 million – work requirements to help more people es- able basis. This concurrent resolution as- more than one third of the enrollees – are cape poverty and move up the economic lad- sumes, under a reform trigger, that— non-elderly, non-disabled adults. der. (1) if in any year the Board of Trustees of (5) Medicaid continues to grow at an SEC. 519. POLICY STATEMENT ON STATE FLEXI- the Federal Old-Age and Survivors Insurance unsustainable rate, and will cost approxi- BILITY IN SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRI- Trust Fund and the Federal Disability Insur- mately one trillion dollars per year within TION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM. ance Trust Fund annual Trustees Report de- the decade, between Federal and State (a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the fol- termines that the 75-year actuarial balance spending. lowing: of the Social Security Trust Funds is in def- (6) Congress has a responsibility to pre- (1) Spending on Supplemental Nutrition icit, and the annual balance of the Social Se- serve limited Medicaid resources for Amer- Assistance Program (SNAP) has almost curity Trust Funds in the 75th year is in def- ica’s most vulnerable – those who cannot quadrupled since 2001. icit, the Board of Trustees should, no later provide for themselves. (2) Various factors are driving this growth, than September 30 of the same calendar (7) Forbes reported last year on a first-of- but one major reason is that while States year, submit to the President recommenda- its-kind study conducted by the Foundation have the responsibility of administering the tions for statutory reforms necessary to for Government Accountability. It analyzed program, they have little incentive to ensure achieve a positive 75-year actuarial balance data from the State of Kansas, which dem- it is well run.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:49 Oct 05, 2017 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00063 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A04OC7.028 H04OCPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with HOUSE H7816 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE October 4, 2017 (3) In 1996, a Republican Congress and a SEC. 521. POLICY STATEMENT ON SUPPLE- SEC. 523. POLICY STATEMENT ON MOVING THE Democratic President reformed welfare by MENTAL WILDFIRE SUPPRESSION UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE limiting the duration of benefits, giving FUNDING. ON BUDGET. (a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the fol- States more control over the program, and (a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the fol- lowing: helping recipients find work. In the 5 years lowing: (1) The President’s Commission on Budget following passage, child-poverty rates fell, (1) In 1995, fire activities made up 16 per- Concepts recommends that the budget welfare caseloads fell, and workers’ wages in- cent of the United States Forest Service’s should, as a general rule, be comprehensive creased. This bipartisan success offers a (USFS) annual appropriated budget. Since of the full range of Federal activity. model for improving other anti-poverty pro- 2015, more than 50 percent has now been dedi- (2) The Omnibus Reconciliation Act of 1989 grams. cated to wildfire. (Public Law 101–239) moved the United (b) POLICY ON STATE FLEXIBILITY IN (2) Wildland fire suppression activities are States Postal Service (USPS) off budget and SNAP.—It is the policy of this concurrent currently funded entirely within the USFS exempted it from sequestration. resolution that SNAP should be reformed to budget, based on a 10-year rolling average. (3) The USPS has a direct effect on the fis- reduce poverty and increase opportunity and Using this model, the agency must average cal posture of the Federal Government, upward mobility for struggling Americans on firefighting costs from the past 10 years to through— the road to personal and financial independ- predict and request costs for the next year. (A) the receipt of direct appropriations of ence. Based on the successful welfare re- When the average was stable, the agency was $35 million in fiscal year 2017; forms of the 1990s, these proposals would im- able to use this model to budget consistently (B) congressional mandates such as re- prove work requirements and provide flexi- for the annual costs associated with wildland quirements for mail delivery service sched- ble funding for States to help those most in fire suppression. ules; need find gainful employment, escape pov- (3) Over the last few decades, wildland fire (C) incurring $15 billion in debt from the erty, and move up the economic ladder. suppression costs have increased as fire sea- Treasury, the maximum permitted by law; sons have grown longer and the frequency, SEC. 520. POLICY STATEMENT ON HIGHER EDU- (D) continued operating deficits since 2007; CATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOP- size, and severity of wildland fires has in- (E) defaulting on its statutory obligation MENT OPPORTUNITY. creased. to prefund health care benefits for future re- (a) FINDINGS ON HIGHER EDUCATION.—The (4) The six worst fire seasons since 1960 tirees; and House finds the following: have all occurred since 2000. Since 2000, many (F) carrying $119 billion in total unfunded (1) A well-educated, high-skilled workforce western states have experienced the largest liabilities with no foreseeable pathway of is critical to economic, job, and wage wildfires in their State’s history. In 2016 funding these liabilities under current law. growth. alone, there were a recorded 67,595 fires and (b) POLICY ON MOVING THE USPS ON BUDG- (2) Average published tuition and fees have a total of over 5.5 million acres burned. The ET.—It is the policy of this concurrent reso- increased consistently above the rate of in- suppression costs to USFS and other Federal lution that all receipts and disbursements of flation across all types of colleges and uni- agencies for 2016 totaled over $1.9 billion dol- the USPS should be included in the congres- versities. lars. sional budget and the budget of the Federal (3) With an outstanding student loan port- (5) As wildfire costs continue to increase, Government. folio of $1.3 trillion, the Federal Government funding levels for USFS wildfire suppression SEC. 524. POLICY STATEMENT ON THE JUDG- is the largest education lender to under- activities will also continue to constrict MENT FUND. graduate and graduate students, parents, and funding levels for other necessary USFS for- (a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the fol- other guarantors. est management activities focused on land lowing: (4) Students who do not complete their col- management and wildfire prevention. (1) The Judgment Fund (Fund), established lege degree are at a greater risk of defaulting (b) POLICY ON SUPPLEMENTAL WILDFIRE in 1956, was created to pay judgments and on their loans than those who complete their SUPPRESSION FUNDING.—It is the policy of settlements of lawsuits against the Federal degree. this concurrent resolution that Congress, in Government. (5) Participation in Federal income-driven coordination with the Administration, (2) As a result of the Fund’s design, it is repayment plans is rising, in terms of the should develop both a long-term funding ripe for executive branch exploitation. The percent of both borrowers and loan dollars, mechanism that would allow supplemental Obama Administration used the Fund to according to the Government Accountability wildfire suppression funding and reforms on make billions of dollars in payments to Fed- Office. Because these plans offer loan bal- eral agencies and foreign entities. For exam- ance forgiveness after a repayment period, reducing hazardous fuel loads on Federal for- ests and lands that could decrease wildfires. ple— this increased use portends higher projected (A) on January 17, 2016, the State Depart- costs to taxpayers. SEC. 522. POLICY STATEMENT ON THE DEPART- ment announced the Federal Government (b) POLICY ON HIGHER EDUCATION.—It is the MENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS. agreed to pay the Iranian government $1.7 policy of this concurrent resolution to pro- (a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the fol- billion to settle a case related to the sale of mote college affordability, access, and suc- lowing: military equipment prior to the Iranian rev- cess by— (1) For years there have been serious con- olution, of which $1.3 billion was sourced (1) reserving Federal financial aid for those cerns regarding the Department of Veterans through the Fund, without prior congres- most in need and streamlining grant and Affairs’ (VA) bureaucratic mismanagement sional notification; the Obama Administra- loan aid programs to help students and fami- and continuous failure to provide veterans tion’s use of the Fund to make this and other lies more easily assess their options for fi- timely access to health care. payments raises serious concerns by nancing postsecondary education; and (2) Since 2003, VA disability compensation sidestepping Congress; and (2) removing regulatory barriers to reduce and health care have been added to the Gov- (B) in 2016, the Department of Health and costs, increase access, and allow for innova- ernment Accountability Office’s (GAO) Human Services announced its intentions to tive teaching models. ‘‘high-risk’’ list, due to mismanagement and use the Fund for settlements with health in- (c) FINDINGS ON WORKFORCE DEVELOP- oversight failures, lack of a ‘‘unified vision, surers who sued the Federal Government MENT.—The House finds the following: strategy, or set of goals to guide their out- over the loss of funds for risk corridors under (1) 7.5 million Americans are currently un- comes,’’ and the inability to ensure allocated the Patient Protection and Affordable Care employed. resources are used in a cost-effective and ef- Act. (2) Despite billions of dollars in spending, ficient way to improve veterans’ health care (3) Failing to address the lack of oversight those looking for work are stymied by a bro- access. over the Fund annually costs taxpayers bil- ken workforce development system that fails (3) The VA’s failure to provide timely and lions of dollars, as payments exceeded $4.6 to connect workers with assistance and em- accessible health care to America’s veterans billion in 2016 and more than $26 billion in ployers with skilled personnel. is unacceptable. While Congress has done its the preceding 10 year period. (3) The House Committee on Education and OLICY ON JUDGMENT FUND.—It is the part for more than a decade by providing suf- (b) P the Workforce successfully consolidated 15 policy of this concurrent resolution that the ficient funding for the VA, the agency has workforce development programs when Con- House should consider legislation that re- mismanaged these resources, resulting in gress enacted the Workforce Innovation and claims Congress’s power of the purse over proven adverse effects on veterans and their Opportunity Act in 2014. the Fund. Such legislation should— families. (d) POLICY ON WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT.— (1) prohibit interest payments paid from It is the policy of this concurrent resolution (b) POLICY ON THE DEPARTMENT OF VET- the Fund for accounts or assets frozen by the to build on the success of the Workforce In- ERANS AFFAIRS.—It is the policy of this con- Federal Government and listed on— novation and Opportunity Act by— current resolution that the House should re- (A) the Sanctions Programs list of the Of- (1) further streamlining and consolidating quire the VA to conduct an audit of its pro- fice of Foreign Asset Control of the Depart- Federal workforce development programs; grams named on GAO’s ‘‘high-risk’’ list and ment of Treasury; or and report its findings to the Committee on Ap- (B) Sponsors of Terrorism list of the De- (2) empowering States with the flexibility propriations, the Committee on the Budget, partment of State; to tailor funding and programs to the spe- and the Committee on Veterans Affairs of (2) amend sections 2414 and 1304 of titles 28 cific needs of their workforce. the House of Representatives. and 31, United States Code, respectively, to—

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:49 Oct 05, 2017 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00064 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A04OC7.028 H04OCPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with HOUSE October 4, 2017 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7817 (A) provide a clear definition and expla- nomic growth and job creation. The United Mr. GRIJALVA. Mr. Chair, I rise as nation of a ‘‘foreign court or tribunal’’; and States tax rate differential fosters a variety the designee of the gentleman from (B) require congressional notification of complicated multinational corporate prac- Wisconsin (Mr. POCAN) to offer the Con- whenever the Fund makes a settlement or tices intended to avoid the tax, which have gressional Progressive Caucus budget court ordered lump sum or aggregated pay- the effect of moving the tax base offshore, ment exceeding $500 million; and destroying American jobs, and decreasing amendment. (3) require legislative action to approve corporate revenue. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will payments from the Fund in excess of a speci- (6) The ‘‘world-wide’’ structure of United designate the amendment. fied threshold, increase transparency, and re- States international taxation essentially The text of the amendment in the na- quire Federal agencies to reimburse the taxes earnings of United States firms twice, ture of a substitute is as follows: Fund over a fixed time period. putting them at a significant competitive Strike all after the resolving clause and in- SEC. 525. POLICY STATEMENT ON RESPONSIBLE disadvantage with competitors that have sert the following: STEWARDSHIP OF TAXPAYER DOL- more competitive international tax systems. LARS. SECTION 1. CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE (7) Reforming the tax code would boost the BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2018. (a) FINDINGS.—The House finds that signifi- competitiveness of United States companies (a) DECLARATION.—Congress declares that cant savings were achieved by the House by operating abroad and significantly reduce consolidating operations and renegotiating this concurrent resolution is the concurrent tax avoidance. resolution on the budget for fiscal year 2018 contracts. (8) The tax code imposes costs on American (b) POLICY ON RESPONSIBLE STEWARDSHIP and sets forth the appropriate budgetary lev- workers through lower wages, consumers in OF TAXPAYER DOLLARS.—It is the policy of els for fiscal years 2017 and 2019 through 2027. higher prices, and investors in diminished re- this concurrent resolution that— (b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of con- (1) the House should be a model for the re- turns. tents for this concurrent resolution is as fol- sponsible stewardship of taxpayer resources, (9) Increasing taxes to raise revenue and lows: and identify any savings that can be meet out-of-control spending would sink the Sec. 1. Concurrent resolution on the budg- achieved through greater productivity and economy and Americans’ ability to save for et for fiscal year 2018. efficiency gains in the operation and mainte- their children’s education and retirement. (10) Closing special preference carve outs TITLE I—RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND nance of House services and resources, in- AMOUNTS cluding printing, conferences, utilities, tele- in our tax code to finance higher spending communications, furniture, grounds mainte- does not constitute fundamental tax reform. Sec. 101. Recommended levels and nance, postage, and rent; (11) Tax reform should curb or eliminate amounts. (2) the House should review policies and tax breaks and use those savings to lower tax Sec. 102. Major functional categories. procedures for the acquisition of goods and rates across the board, not to fund more TITLE II—ESTIMATES OF DIRECT services to eliminate unnecessary spending; wasteful Federal Government spending. SPENDING (3) the Committee on House Administra- Washington has a spending problem, not a Sec. 1. Direct spending. tion should review the policies pertaining to revenue problem. (12) Many economists believe that funda- TITLE III—MISCELLANEOUS BUDGET services provided to Members and commit- ENFORCEMENT tees of the House, and identify ways to re- mental tax reform, including a broader tax duce any subsidies paid for the operation of base and lower tax rates, would lead to Sec. 301. Point of order against advance the House gym, barber shop, salon, and the greater labor supply and increased invest- Appropriations. House dining room; ment, which would have a positive impact on Sec. 302. Point of order against funding for (4) no taxpayer funds should be used to total national output. certain immigration enforcement ef- purchase first class airfare or to lease cor- (b) POLICY ON TAX REFORM.—It is the pol- forts. porate jets for Members of Congress; and icy of this concurrent resolution that the TITLE I—RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND (5) retirement benefits for Members of Con- House should consider comprehensive tax re- AMOUNTS gress should not include free, taxpayer-fund- form legislation that promotes economic growth, creates American jobs, increases SEC. 101. RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND ed health care for life. AMOUNTS. wages, and benefits American consumers, in- SEC. 526. POLICY STATEMENT ON TAX REFORM. vestors, and workers by— The following budgetary levels are appro- (a) FINDINGS.—The House finds the fol- (1) simplifying the tax code to make it priate for each of fiscal years 2017 through lowing: fairer to American families and businesses 2027: (1) A world-class tax system should be sim- and reducing the amount of time and re- (1) FEDERAL REVENUES.—For purposes of ple, fair, and promote (rather than impede) sources necessary to comply with tax laws; the enforcement of this concurrent resolu- economic growth. The United States tax (2) substantially lowering tax rates for in- tion: code fails on all 3 counts: it is complex, un- dividuals and consolidating the current (A) The recommended levels of Federal fair, and inefficient. The tax code’s com- seven individual income tax brackets into revenues are as follows: plexity distorts decisions to work, save, and fewer brackets; Fiscal year 2017: $2,566,010,000,000. invest, which leads to slower economic (3) repealing the Alternative Minimum Fiscal year 2018: $3,231,053,000,000. growth, lower wages, and less job creation. Fiscal year 2019: $3,754,112,000,000. Tax; (2) Standard economic theory holds that Fiscal year 2020: $3,852,015,000,000. (4) reducing the corporate tax rate; and high marginal tax rates lessen the incentives Fiscal year 2021: $4,011,871,000,000. (5) transitioning the tax code to a more to work, save, and invest, which reduces eco- Fiscal year 2022: $4,197,338,000,000. competitive system of international tax- nomic output and job creation. Lower eco- Fiscal year 2023: $4,295,865,000,000. ation. nomic output, in turn, mutes the intended Fiscal year 2024: $4,405,818,000,000. revenue gain from higher marginal tax rates. The Acting CHAIR. No amendment Fiscal year 2025: $4,617,110,000,000. (3) Roughly half of United States active shall be in order except those printed Fiscal year 2026: $4,840,032,000,000. business income and half of private sector in House Report 115–339. Fiscal year 2027: $5,069,484,000,000. employment are derived from business enti- Each amendment may be offered only (B) The amounts by which the aggregate ties (such as partnerships, S corporations, in the order printed in the report, may levels of Federal revenues should be changed and sole proprietorships) that are taxed on a be offered only by a Member designated are as follows: ‘‘pass-through’’ basis, meaning the income is in the report, shall be considered as Fiscal year 2017: $0. taxed at individual rates rather than cor- read, and shall be debatable for the Fiscal year 2018: $497,484,000,000. porate rates. Small businesses, in particular, time specified in the report equally di- Fiscal year 2019: $920,604,000,000. tend to choose this form for Federal tax pur- Fiscal year 2020: $901,439,000,000. poses, and the highest Federal rate on such vided and controlled by the proponent Fiscal year 2021: $951,960,000,000. small business income can reach nearly 45 and an opponent. Fiscal year 2022: $1,014,422,000,000. percent. For these reasons, sound economic After conclusion of consideration of Fiscal year 2023: $977,949,000,000. policy requires lowering marginal rates on the concurrent resolution for amend- Fiscal year 2024: $943,390,000,000. these pass-through entities. ment, there shall be a final period of Fiscal year 2025: $994,932,000,000. (4) The top United States corporate income general debate which shall not exceed Fiscal year 2026: $1,050,654,000,000. tax rate (including Federal, State, and local 10 minutes, equally divided and con- Fiscal year 2027: $1,111,097,000,000. taxes) is slightly more than 39 percent, the trolled by the chair and ranking minor- (2) NEW BUDGET AUTHORITY.—For purposes highest rate in the industrialized world. Tax ity member of the Committee on the of the enforcement of this concurrent resolu- rates this high suppress wages, discourage Budget. tion, the appropriate levels of total new investment and job creation, distort business budget authority are as follows: activity, and put American businesses at a AMENDMENT NO. 1 IN THE NATURE OF A Fiscal year 2017: $3,558,164,000,000. competitive disadvantage with foreign com- SUBSTITUTE OFFERED BY MR. GRIJALVA Fiscal year 2018: $3,809,501,000,000. petitors. The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order Fiscal year 2019: $3,889,380,000,000. (5) By deterring potential investment, the to consider amendment No. 1 printed in Fiscal year 2020: $4,085,946,000,000. United States corporate tax restrains eco- House Report 115–339. Fiscal year 2021: $4,242,299,000,000.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:16 Oct 05, 2017 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00065 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A04OC7.028 H04OCPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with HOUSE H7818 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE October 4, 2017 Fiscal year 2022: $4,524,849,000,000. (B) Outlays, $611,949,000,000. (B) Outlays, $3,017,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $4,667,232,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: Fiscal year 2018: Fiscal year 2024: $4,840,870,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $637,690,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $57,581,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $5,123,649,000,000. (B) Outlays, $620,850,000,000. (B) Outlays, $54,382,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: $5,359,292,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: Fiscal year 2019: Fiscal year 2027: $5,604,559,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $655,897,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $59,900,000,000. (3) BUDGET OUTLAYS.—For purposes of the (B) Outlays, $632,247,000,000. (B) Outlays, $56,610,000,000. enforcement of this concurrent resolution, Fiscal year 2025: Fiscal year 2020: the appropriate levels of total budget out- (A) New budget authority, $670,145,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $61,645,000,000. lays are as follows: (B) Outlays, $651,864,000,000. (B) Outlays, $58,813,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $3,411,968,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: Fiscal year 2021: Fiscal year 2018: $3,801,027,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $680,394,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $63,511,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $3,859,325,000,000. (B) Outlays, $663,759,000,000. (B) Outlays, $$60,658,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $4,031,449,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: Fiscal year 2022: Fiscal year 2021: $4,190,238,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $690,786,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $65,073,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $4,474,256,000,000. (B) Outlays, $674,679,000,000. (B) Outlays, $62,314,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $4,610,999,000,000. (2) International Affairs (150): Fiscal year 2023: Fiscal year 2024: $4,770,214,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $64,918,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $5,057,717,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $65,918,000,000. (B) Outlays, $62,631,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: $5,301,376,000,000. (B) Outlays, $50,533,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: Fiscal year 2027: $5,545,750,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $65,290,000,000. (4) DEFICITS (ON-BUDGET).—For purposes of (A) New budget authority, $55,508,000,000. (B) Outlays, $63,142,000,000. the enforcement of this concurrent resolu- (B) Outlays, $50,831,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: tion, the amounts of the deficits (on-budget) Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $66,119,000,000. are as follows: (A) New budget authority, $60,425,000,000. (B) Outlays, $64,100,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: -$845,569,000,000. (B) Outlays, $55,384,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: Fiscal year 2018: -$569,974,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $69,437,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: -$569,974,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $64,369,000,000. (B) Outlays, $67,375,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: -$179,434,000,000. (B) Outlays, $59,870,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: Fiscal year 2021: -$178,367,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $70,575,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: -$276,918,000,000. (A) New budget authority, 69,575,000,000. (B) Outlays, $68,547,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: -$315,134,000,000. (B) Outlays, $64,106,000,000. (5) Natural Resources and Environment Fiscal year 2024: -$364,396,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (300): Fiscal year 2025: -$440,607,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $73,547,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: Fiscal year 2026: -$461,344,000,000. (B) Outlays, $69,255,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $40,851,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: -$476,266,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (B) Outlays, $41,010,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $76,986,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (5) DEBT SUBJECT TO LIMIT.—The appro- (B) Outlays, $73,094,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $122,495,000,000. priate levels of debt subject to limit are as Fiscal year 2024: (B) Outlays, $122,147,000,000. follows: (A) New budget authority, $80,697,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: Fiscal year 2017: $20,611,000,000. (B) Outlays, $76,618,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $125,237,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: $21,412,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (B) Outlays, $124,382,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $21,584,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $84,476,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: Fiscal year 2020: $21,734,000,000. (B) Outlays, $80,127,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $128,313,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: $22,490,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: (B) Outlays, $127,136,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $22,950,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $88,702,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: Fiscal year 2023: $23,489,000,000. (B) Outlays, $83,952,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $69,915,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: $24,111,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: (B) Outlays, $68,294,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $24,809,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $92,835,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: Fiscal year 2026: $25,597,000,000. (B) Outlays, $87,887,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $72,613,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: $26,305,000,000. (3) General Science, Space, and Technology (B) Outlays, $70,715,000,000. (6) DEBT HELD BY THE PUBLIC.—The appro- (250): Fiscal year 2023: priate levels of debt held by the public are as Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $74,531,000,000. follows: (A) New budget authority, $31,562,000,000. (B) Outlays, $72,930,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: $15,093,000,000. (B) Outlays, $30,853,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: Fiscal year 2018: $15,752,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $76,400,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $15,985,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $35,239,000,000. (B) Outlays, $74,852,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $16,322,000,000. (B) Outlays, $33,151,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: Fiscal year 2021: $16,693,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $78,455,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: $17,202,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $37,743,000,000. (B) Outlays, $76,818,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $17,794,000,000. (B) Outlays, $35,678,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: Fiscal year 2024: $18,483,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $80,604,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $19,300,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $39,747,000,000. (B) Outlays, $78,839,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: $20,195,000,000. (B) Outlays, $37,880,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: Fiscal year 2027: $21,166,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $82,820,000,000. SEC. 102. MAJOR FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES. (A) New budget authority, $42,204,000,000. (B) Outlays, $81,015,000,000. Congress determines and declares that the (B) Outlays, $40,117,000,000. (6) Agriculture (350): appropriate levels of new budget authority Fiscal year 2022: Fiscal year 2017: and outlays for fiscal years 2017 through 2027 (A) New budget authority, $44,567,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $21,930,000,000. for each major functional category are: (B) Outlays, $42,522,000,000. (B) Outlays, $18,001,000,000. (1) National Defense (050): Fiscal year 2023: Fiscal year 2018: Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $46,123,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $24,023,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $620,810,000,000. (B) Outlays, $44,442,000,000. (B) Outlays, $22,713,000,000. (B) Outlays, $597,390,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: Fiscal year 2019: Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $47,766,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $19,735,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $570,786,000,000. (B) Outlays, $46,120,000,000. (B) Outlays, $18,240,000,000. (B) Outlays, $573,048,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: Fiscal year 2020: Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $49,490,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $18,298,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $581,900,000,000. (B) Outlays, $47,818,000,000. (B) Outlays, $17,479,000,000. (B) Outlays, $575,522,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: Fiscal year 2021: Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $51,349,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $19,431,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $594,087,000,000. (B) Outlays, $49,597,000,000. (B) Outlays, $18,832,000,000. (B) Outlays, $582,924,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: Fiscal year 2022: Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $53,198,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $18,437,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $609,309,000,000. (B) Outlays, $51,390,000,000. (B) Outlays, $17,941,000,000. (B) Outlays, $594,652,000,000. (4) Energy (270): Fiscal year 2023: Fiscal year 2022: Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $18,610,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $623,521,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $5,003,000,000. (B) Outlays, $18,178,000,000.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:49 Oct 05, 2017 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00066 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A04OC7.029 H04OCPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with HOUSE October 4, 2017 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7819 Fiscal year 2024: Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $852,005,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $19,068,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $32,802,000,000. (B) Outlays, $846,941,000,000. (B) Outlays, $18,514,000,000. (B) Outlays, $53,477,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: Fiscal year 2025: Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $897,043,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $19,832,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $34,464,000,000. (B) Outlays, $891,673,000,000. (B) Outlays, $19,180,000,000. (B) Outlays, $41,662,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: Fiscal year 2026: Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $943,870,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $20,105,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $36,469,000,000. (B) Outlays, $938,235,000,000. (B) Outlays, $19,475,000,000. (B) Outlays, $42,830,000,000. (12) Medicare (570): Fiscal year 2027: Fiscal year 2022: Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $19,938,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $38,390,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $598,691,000,000. (B) Outlays, $19,328,000,000. (B) Outlays, $38,016,000,000. (B) Outlays, $598,289,000,000. (7) Commerce and Housing Credit (370): Fiscal year 2023: Fiscal year 2018: Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $39,481,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $599,471,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$2,759,000,000. (B) Outlays, $38,242,000,000. (B) Outlays, $599,092,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$19,274,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: Fiscal year 2019: Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $40,662,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $650,772,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $18,131,000,000. (B) Outlays, $39,177,000,000. (B) Outlays, $650,464,000,000. (B) Outlays, $3,689,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: Fiscal year 2020: Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $41,888,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $676,942,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $21,724,000,000. (B) Outlays, $40,250,000,000. (B) Outlays, $676,705,000,000. (B) Outlays, $11,883,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: Fiscal year 2021: Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $43,244,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $723,379,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $22,714,000,000. (B) Outlays, $41,353,000,000. (B) Outlays, $723,163,000,000. (B) Outlays, $13,516,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: Fiscal year 2022: Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $44,235,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $817,925,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $22,953,000,000. (B) Outlays, $42,428,000,000. (B) Outlays, .$817,695,000,000 (B) Outlays, $12,786,000,000. (10) Education, Training, Employment, and Fiscal year 2023: Fiscal year 2022: Social Services (500): (A) New budget authority, $840,589,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $26,781,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (B) Outlays, $840,371,000,000. (B) Outlays, $15,622,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $266,792,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: Fiscal year 2023: (B) Outlays, $264,242,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $861,276,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $28,145,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (B) Outlays, $861,049,000,000. (B) Outlays, $16,679,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $298,769,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: Fiscal year 2024: (B) Outlays, $295,251,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $963,021,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $29,608,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (B) Outlays, $962,774,000,000. (B) Outlays, $17,099,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $166,530,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: Fiscal year 2025: (B) Outlays, $168,879,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $1,016,987,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $31,576,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (B) Outlays, $1,016,734,000,000. (B) Outlays, $17,836,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $176,656,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: Fiscal year 2026: (B) Outlays, $172,182,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $1,091,254,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $32,416,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (B) Outlays, $1,091,006,000,000. (B) Outlays, $18,772,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $188,094,000,000. (13) Income Security (600): Fiscal year 2027: (B) Outlays, $182,789,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $33,478,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $522,238,000,000. (B) Outlays, $19,628,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $197,237,000,000. (B) Outlays, 512,949,000,000. (8) Transportation (400): (B) Outlays, $192,067,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: Fiscal year 2017: Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $574,926,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $92,730,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $204,174,000,000. (B) Outlays, $554,174,000,000. (B) Outlays, $94,107,000,000. (B) Outlays, $200,177,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: Fiscal year 2018: Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $641,400,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $199,383,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $210,915,000,000. (B) Outlays, $624,323,000,000. (B) Outlays, $199,409,000,000. (B) Outlays, $207,028,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: Fiscal year 2019: Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $691,701,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $201,464,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $216,669,000,000. (B) Outlays, $675,708,000,000. (B) Outlays, $200,565,000,000. (B) Outlays, $212,774,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: Fiscal year 2020: Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, $737,828,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $196,098,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $222,127,000,000. (B) Outlays, $721,824,000,000. (B) Outlays,$202,143,000,000 . (B) Outlays, $218,112,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: Fiscal year 2021: Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, $785,273,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $197,000,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $228,312,000,000. (B) Outlays, $775,704,000,000. (B) Outlays, $203,522,000,000. (B) Outlays, $224,320,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: Fiscal year 2022: (11) Health (550): (A) New budget authority, $819,551,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $197,935,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (B) Outlays, $807,162,000,000. (B) Outlays, $205,038,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $548,466,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: Fiscal year 2023: (B) Outlays, $548,998,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $855,396,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $171,562,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (B) Outlays, $837,727,000,000. (B) Outlays, $179,442,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $578,564,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: Fiscal year 2024: (B) Outlays, $585,289,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $904,334,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $172,521,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (B) Outlays, $887,787,000,000. (B) Outlays, $181,132,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $613,743,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: Fiscal year 2025: (B) Outlays, $612,402,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $947,417,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $173,548,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (B) Outlays, $937,276,000,000. (B) Outlays, $183,231,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $659,060,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: Fiscal year 2026: (B) Outlays, $646,374,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $995,029,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $174,584,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (B) Outlays, $984,004,000,000. (B) Outlays, $185,116,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $687,535,000,000. (14) Social Security (650): Fiscal year 2027: (B) Outlays, $683,765,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $175,633,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $36,132,000,000. (B) Outlays, $187,060,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $726,450,000,000. (B) Outlays, $36,155,000,000. (9) Community and Regional Development (B) Outlays, $721,843,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (450): Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $39,621,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (A) New budget authority, $765,397,000,000. (B) Outlays, $39,621,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $169,950,000,000. (B) Outlays, $761,755,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (B) Outlays, $100,381,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $43,402,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $807,017,000,000. (B) Outlays, $43,402,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $30,864,000,000. (B) Outlays, $802,573,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (B) Outlays, $79,569,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $46,861,000,000.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:49 Oct 05, 2017 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00067 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A04OC7.029 H04OCPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with HOUSE H7820 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE October 4, 2017 (B) Outlays, $46,861,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $95,033,000,000. (B) Outlays, $3,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (B) Outlays, $93,445,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $50,700,000,000. (17) General Government (800): (A) New budget authority, -$1,215,000,000. (B) Outlays, $50,700,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (B) Outlays, -$1,084,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $25,587,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $54,722,000,000. (B) Outlays, $24,500,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $200,000,000. (B) Outlays, $54,722,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (B) Outlays, $291,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $27,332,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $59,082,000,000. (B) Outlays, $26,239,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$200,000,000. (B) Outlays, $59,082,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (B) Outlays, -$168,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $28,023,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, $64,228,000,000. (B) Outlays, $27,092,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $1,018,000,000. (B) Outlays,$64,228,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (B) Outlays, $971,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $28,670,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, $69,774,000,000. (B) Outlays, $28,024,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $1,690,000,000. (B) Outlays, $69,774,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (B) Outlays, $1,565,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, $29,373,000,000. (20) Undistributed Offsetting Receipts (950): (A) New budget authority, $75,499,000,000. (B) Outlays, $28,752,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (B) Outlays, $75,499,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, -$83,167,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, $30,095,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$83,167,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $81,931,000,000. (B) Outlays, $29,512,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (B) Outlays, $81,931,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, -$82,782,000,000. (15) Veterans Benefits and Services (700): (A) New budget authority, $30,804,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$82,782,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (B) Outlays, $30,231,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $175,596,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, -$85,754,000,000. (B) Outlays, $178,660,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $31,369,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$85,754,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (B) Outlays, $30,813,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $185,736,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, -$85,454,000,000. (B) Outlays, $183,609,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $32,195,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$85,454,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (B) Outlays, $31,559,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $204,230,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, -$87,183,000,000. (B) Outlays, $199,677,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $33,041,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$87,183,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (B) Outlays, $32,384,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $213,730,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, -$88,846,000,000. (B) Outlays, $209,577,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $33,873,000,000. (B) Outlays, -$88,846,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (B) Outlays, $33,207,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $223,712,000,000. (18) Net Interest (900): (A) New budget authority, -$89,285,000,000. (B) Outlays, $219,141,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: (B) Outlays, -$89,285,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $358,153,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $243,263,000,000. (B) Outlays, $358,153,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$92,809,000,000. (B) Outlays, $238,540,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (B) Outlays, -$92,809,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $379,086,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $242,677,000,000. (B) Outlays, $379,086,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$101,023,000,000. (B) Outlays, $238,676,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (B) Outlays, -$101,023,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $408,318,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, $241,394,000,000. (B) Outlays, $408,318,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$98,551,000,000. (B) Outlays, $237,627,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (B) Outlays, -$98,551,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $444,136,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, $261,285,000,000. (B) Outlays, $444,136,000,000. (A) New budget authority, -$101,256,000,000. (B) Outlays, $257,403,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (B) Outlays, -$101,256,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, $482,207,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $271,033,000,000. (B) Outlays, $482,207,000,000. TITLE II—ESTIMATES OF DIRECT (B) Outlays, $266,912,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: SPENDING Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, $518,277,000,000. SEC. 1. DIRECT SPENDING. (A) New budget authority, $281,497,000,000. (B) Outlays, $518,277,000,000. (a) MEANS-TESTED DIRECT SPENDING.— (B) Outlays, $277,377,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (1) For means-tested direct spending, the (16) Administration of Justice (750): (A) New budget authority, $554,698,000,000. average rate of growth in the total level of Fiscal year 2017: (B) Outlays, $554,698,000,000. outlays during the 10-year period preceding (A) New budget authority, $64,048,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: fiscal year 2018 is 6.8 percent. (B) Outlays, $57,167,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $588,258,000,000. (2) For means-tested direct spending, the Fiscal year 2018: (B) Outlays, $588,258,000,000. estimated average rate of growth in the total (A) New budget authority, $72,673,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: level of outlays during the 11-year period be- (B) Outlays, $64,686,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $621,248,000,000. ginning with fiscal year 2017 is 4.3 percent Fiscal year 2019: (B) Outlays, $621,248,000,000. under current law. (A) New budget authority, $66,260,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: (3) The following reforms are proposed in (B) Outlays, $66,774,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $654,736,000,000. this concurrent resolution for means-tested Fiscal year 2020: (B) Outlays, $654,736,000,000. direct spending: (A) New budget authority, $69,134,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: (A) The People’s Budget adopts former (B) Outlays, $70,886,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $682,812, 000,000. President Obama’s Earned Income Tax Cred- Fiscal year 2021: (B) Outlays, $682,937,000,000. it (EITC) to expand eligibility, including for (A) New budget authority, $72,276,000,000. (19) Allowances (920): childless workers. Continues enhanced cred- (B) Outlays, $75,047,000,000. Fiscal year 2017: its originally implemented under the Amer- Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, -$886,000,000. ican Recovery and Reinvestment Act to tar- (A) New budget authority, $74,994,000,000. (B) Outlays, $515,000,000. get those most in need. This includes extend- (B) Outlays, $76,549,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: ing the Child and Dependent Care Credit and Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $20,852,000,000. the American Opportunity Tax Credit (A) New budget authority, $77,448,000,000. (B) Outlays, $16,580,000,000. through 2027. (B) Outlays, $77,463,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (B) The People’s Budget includes former Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $9,233,000,000. President Obama’s proposal to boost the (A) New budget authority, $80,013,000,000. (B) Outlays, $9,714,000,000. Child Tax Credit maximum deduction to (B) Outlays, $78,824,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: $3,000. It makes key expansions permanent Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $1,552,000,000. to protect 50 million Americans who would (A) New budget authority, $82,656,000,000. (B) Outlays, $1,804,000,000. otherwise be at jeopardy for losing part or (B) Outlays, $81,269,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: all of their EITC and CTC. Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, -$156,000,000. (C) The People’s Budget creates a debt free (A) New budget authority, $91,519,000,000. (B) Outlays, $69,000,000. college that provides Federal matching pro- (B) Outlays, $90,803,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: gram to support state efforts to expand in- Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, -$223,000,000. vestment in higher education, bring down

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:49 Oct 05, 2017 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00068 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A04OC7.029 H04OCPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with HOUSE October 4, 2017 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7821 costs for students, and increase aid to stu- benefits in high-unemployment states for up priates funds to implement Executive Order dents to help them cover the total cost of to two years. 13767, entitled ‘‘Border Security and Immi- college attendance without taking on debt. (B) The People’s Budget also adopts former gration Enforcement Improvements’’. The program would encourage innovation by President Obama’s reforms to improve Amend the title so as to read: ‘‘Concurrent states and colleges to improve efficiency and solvencies and incentivize job training. resolution setting forth the congressional enable speedy and less-costly degree comple- (C) The People’s Budget improves the Af- budget for the United States Government for tion. By treating higher education as a pub- fordable Care Act by repealing the excise tax fiscal year 2018 and including the appropriate lic good worth investing in, we can once on high-priced health plans. Proponents of budgetary levels for fiscal year 2017 and fis- again make higher education accessible to the provision hoped that this tax would slow cal years 2018-2027’’. all. the rate of growth of health costs, while rais- The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to (D) The People’s Budget allows students to ing revenue. However, in an effort to avoid House Resolution 553, the gentleman refinance their student loans at low rates the tax, employers who traditionally offer and allows private borrowers to shift to more excellent benefits have started offering less from Arizona (Mr. GRIJALVA) and a affordable government loans. Allowing stu- generous plans. This is an ineffective tool to Member opposed each will control 15 dent borrowers to reduce the value of their bend the cost curve. Since the tax is at- minutes. debt will free up income for purchases and tached to premiums instead of coverage it The Chair recognizes the gentleman will create a job-creating ripple effect has the potential to hit plans it wasn’t in- from Arizona. throughout the entire economy. tended to impact. Mr. GRIJALVA. Mr. Chair, I yield (E) The People’s Budget restores cuts made (D) The People’s Budget establishes a rep- myself such time as I may consume. to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance resentative democracy that truly reflects Mr. Chair, I rise to offer this amend- Program (SNAP) and permanently adopts the diversity and values of our nation by ment to replace the reckless Repub- the enhanced levels established in the Amer- providing funding for the public financing of lican budget that is being considered ican Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The campaigns. This gives a voice to small do- vast majority of SNAP recipients are house- before this House. nors that have been drowned out by dark Instead of a doomsday budget that holds with children, seniors and individuals money. Public financing keeps politicians with disabilities, but recent cuts lowered av- accountable to the voters that elect them in- presents a future where everything is erage benefits by $216 in 2014. Providing fam- stead of to special interest money. In the era bleak and opportunity is nonexistent, ilies with basic food security through SNAP of the devastating Citizens United decision, the Progressive Caucus is offering a is one of the most effective ways the Federal big money has taken the reins of our elec- budget that can prove that the future Government can stimulate the economy. tion process. It is now more important than can be bright and prosperous. (F) The People’s Budget provides an addi- ever to provide candidates with effective al- The Republican budget sacrifices ev- tional $10.8 billion for child nutrition pro- ternatives to finance their campaigns. grams including program expansion and im- erything from public education to So- (E) The People’s Budget uses the Experi- cial Security to Medicare and Med- provements for summer meals; essential im- mental Price Index for the Elderly (CPI-E) to provements and expansion funding for pre- icaid. It does this for one reason and calculate Cost of Living Adjustments one reason only: to give the wealthiest school nutrition including increases in meal (COLA) for Federal retirement programs reimbursements to fulfill the new meal pat- other than Social Security. Affected pro- few and the corporations more tax tern, an additional meal or snack for chil- grams include civil service retirement, mili- breaks and increase their standing and dren in long-term care, and expanded pro- tary retirement, Supplemental Security In- concentration of power and wealth in gram eligibility; and investments in school come, veteran’s pensions and compensations. this country more than it is already. meals and school kitchens. CPI-E is the most sensible and accurate It has been said over and over that (G) The People’s Budget replaces the 40 measure of the real costs that seniors face in percent excise tax with a public option to the budget that we are presenting we retirement, current underpricing of costs allow the Secretary of Health and Human feel does deal with the values of this amount to cutting benefits for those on fixed Services to offer a public insurance option country. It deals very directly with incomes. within the health insurance marketplaces. something that is important to this This ensures choice, competition, and sta- (G) The People’s Budget makes a down Nation, and that is the American peo- bility in coverage. The Congressional Budget payment of $1.9 trillion to help close the na- tion’s infrastructure deficit while protecting ple, the greatest resource that we have Office (CBO) estimates the premium costs for as a nation, and we see it day in and Americans under the public option will be 7 against climate change and creating millions of living wage jobs. The budget also helps day out. to 8 percent lower than costs in private ex- This budget invests in the American change plans. The repeal of the excise tax boost private financing for critical state and costs $132 billion while savings from the pub- local projects by creating a public-private people. It invests in jobs, it invests in lic option are $176 billion. infrastructure bank. The American Society solid education, and it invests in the (H) The People’s Budget continues funding of Civil Engineers (ASCE) estimates that the greater good. for the entire CHIP program until 2020. United States will need to invest upwards of This budget is not narrow, tilted to a (I) The People’s Budget protects States $2 trillion above current levels over the next few: the wealthiest and the corpora- programs by fully retaining maintenance of decade just to make required repairs to tions in this country. It deals with the roads, bridges, water, and energy systems. effort requirements and eliminating any totality of who the American people States ability to arbitrarily implement en- TITLE III—MISCELLANEOUS BUDGET are: those who are struggling and need ENFORCEMENT rollment caps. Without action, Federal fund- opportunity, those who are elderly and ing for CHIP will expire jeopardizing the SEC. 301. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST ADVANCE health care coverage of more than 10 million APPROPRIATIONS. need the continued support of this Na- children and pregnant women. (a) IN GENERAL.—In the House, except as tion through Medicare and Social Se- (J) The People’s Budget permits the Sec- provided in subsection (b), any bill, joint res- curity, those who are poor who need retary of Health and Human Services (HHS) olution, amendment or conference report Medicaid and a good education system to negotiate prescription drug prices with making a general appropriations or con- so their opportunity will be better in pharmaceutical manufacturers. Giving HHS tinuing appropriation may not provide for the future. the ability to negotiate prices, as the De- advance appropriations. Our budget speaks to the values of partment of Veterans Affairs currently does, (b) EXCEPTIONS.—Advance appropriations the American people. Our budget will save Medicare $429 billion and will re- may be provided for all programs adminis- speaks to the needs of the American duce costs for seniors. tered by the Department of Veterans Affairs. (b) NONMEANS-TESTED DIRECT SPENDING.— (c) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term people. Our budget speaks to a future (1) For nonmeans-tested direct spending, ‘‘advance appropriation’’ means any new dis- that returns the values, to the Amer- the average rate of growth in the total level cretionary budget authority provided in a ican people, of opportunity, of hope, of outlays during the 10-year period pre- bill or joint resolution making general ap- and of chance. ceding fiscal year 2018 is 4.8 percent. propriations or any new discretionary budget Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance (2) For nonmeans-tested direct spending, authority provided in a bill or joint resolu- of my time. the estimated average rate of growth in the tion making continuing appropriations for Mr. MCCLINTOCK. Mr. Chairman, I total level of outlays during the 11-year pe- fiscal year 2018 that first becomes available claim the time in opposition. riod beginning with fiscal year 2017 is 5.6 per- for any fiscal year after 2018. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman cent under current law. SEC. 302. POINT OF ORDER AGAINST FUNDING from California is recognized for 15 (3) The following reforms are proposed in FOR CERTAIN IMMIGRATION EN- this concurrent resolution for nonmeans- FORCEMENT EFFORTS. minutes. tested direct spending: It shall not be in order in the House of Rep- Mr. MCCLINTOCK. Mr. Chairman, I (A) The People’s Budget allows those who resentatives or the Senate to consider any yield myself 3 minutes. have lost a job through no fault of their own bill or joint resolution, or amendment there- Mr. Chairman, even though I disagree to claim up to 99 weeks of unemployment to or conference report thereon, that appro- heartily with the budgets advanced by

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It would hike taxes by minutes to the gentleman from Wis- Not one more penny in tax breaks for $10.1 trillion over the next 10 years rel- consin (Mr. POCAN), the co-chair of the corporations and the wealthiest Ameri- ative to the Republican budget. Congressional Progressive Caucus, and cans. The Progressive Caucus budget Now, think of every trillion dollars I thank Mr. POCAN and his office staff ensures that the top 1 percent pay their that we throw around here as $8,000 for the fine work and time that they fair share in taxes, we close corporate from an average family, because that is put into working on this budget that loopholes, and we expand the earned in- what it comes to. So $10.1 trillion in we are proposing today. come tax credit and the child tax cred- new taxes ultimately translates as Mr. POCAN. Mr. Chair, I would like it for working families. $81,000 from an average family over the to thank the gentleman from Arizona, We must reject the Trump Family next decade taken either as direct also, for his leadership within the cau- tax cut and invest in our roads and taxes or as tax-driven price increases cus. bridges, our schools, our healthcare, or as lower wages or as lower earnings I am proud to rise in support of the and our workers. Progressives are pro- as businesses pass on their burdens to Congressional Progressive Caucus’ posing bold policy solutions as clear al- consumers or employers or investors. budget alternative. This is a practical, ternatives to the cruel budget cuts Re- Remember, investors are largely your progressive vision for our country by publicans are proposing. 401(k) or your pension plan. providing solutions to counter the Re- The people’s budget is an investment It also runs up $2.6 trillion more in publican cuts to vital programs and tax in the American people, and I urge you debt than the Republican budget over breaks for the wealthy. to support the Progressive Caucus peo- the next 10 years. That means another Let me contrast the House GOP ple’s budget. $21,000 of debt added to that family’s budget with the Progressive Caucus Mr. MCCLINTOCK. Mr. Chairman, obligations that they will have to pay budget. my friend reminds me of a story when as future taxes just as surely as if it First, in healthcare, the Republican Ronald Reagan was pushing his tax re- appeared on their credit card state- budget embraces TrumpCare by incor- ductions a generation ago that pro- ment this month. And they have got to porating the House-passed American duced the biggest expansion in our Na- pay that back before they pay back Health Care Act, which cuts at least 20 tion’s history. He was approached one their credit card statement. The IRS million people from their care. This in- day by a working class fellow on a stop can get very insistent that they do. cludes up to $1 trillion in cuts to Med- that the President was making, and And don’t believe for a moment that icaid, threatening care for seniors in the man looks at him and says: Mr. only the rich will pay these taxes. It nursing homes, children, and strug- President, the Democrats say that you turns out that the so-called rich people gling families. It makes $500 billion in Republicans want to cut taxes on the aren’t rich and they aren’t even people. cuts to Medicare, ending the Medicare rich. Is that right? Many are struggling small businesses guarantee and shifting cost risk on to Reagan says: Well, that is what they filing under subchapter S, small busi- seniors. say. nesses that create two-thirds of the The Congressional Progressive Cau- And the man says: Well, you go jobs in our economy. cus budget defends and strengthens the ahead and do that, Mr. President, be- We are told: ‘‘Don’t worry. We are Affordable Care Act. It lowers prescrip- cause a poor person never gave me a using that money to create wealth and tion drug costs and expands access to job. jobs.’’ Well, the problem is government mental healthcare and addiction treat- Mr. Chairman, I yield 4 minutes to does not create jobs because it cannot ment. the gentleman from Georgia (Mr. create wealth. Government cannot in- We invest in workers. The GOP plan WOODALL). ject a dollar into the economy until it slashes investments in workers and b 1815 has first taken that dollar out of the programs to help more Americans get Mr. WOODALL. Mr. Chairman, I ap- same economy. back to work, programs like appren- preciate my friend from California for As Bastiat warned, we see the job ticeships and job training. And yet the yielding to me. As you know, Mr. that government creates when it puts people’s budget would create 2.4 mil- Chairman, he is not just down here as the dollar back in the economy. What lion jobs over its first 3 years and raise the ranking member on the House we don’t see as clearly is the job that wages for American workers. Budget Committee. He is also the lead- is lost when government first takes The Republican budget, their $5.4 er of the Republican Study Commit- that dollar out of the economy. We see trillion in spending cuts means less tee’s Budget and Spending Task Force. those lost jobs as stagnating wages and funding for roads and bridges and The leadership he has provided in all workers giving up and leaving the job schools. Our budget puts a $2 trillion those areas means a lot to the entire market, or as it is also known, the investment into strengthening our Na- institution. I am grateful to him for it. Obama economy. tion’s infrastructure. I also want to say I am grateful to Here is what government can do and The Republican budget drastically my friends in the Progressive Caucus. I what the Progressive and Democratic cuts Federal funding, which could un- disagree with their budget, and I plan budgets propose. It can transfer jobs dermine our ability to respond to disas- to vote against it. from the private sector to the public ters. The people’s budget provides $200 Mr. Chairman, how often do we come sector by taxing one and expanding the billion in emergency disaster funds to down here and folks want to complain other. It can transfer jobs from one rebuild communities devastated by about what is not going right, but they sector of the private market to another hurricanes. don’t want to do anything about it? by taxing one and subsidizing the The Republican budget guts our pub- To my friends’ credit in the Progres- other. That is precisely the difference lic education system with cuts that sive Caucus, they laid out a vision, and between Apple Computer and Solyndra. could devastate schools and further that is exactly what I came here to It is the difference between FedEx and disinvest in public universities. The Congress to be a part of. Let’s lay out the post office. It is the difference be- Progressive Caucus budget makes debt- our visions. Let’s have some votes. tween the Reagan recovery and the free college a reality and provides for Let’s count those votes and see where Obama recovery. the refinancing of student loans. It ex- we go from there. Reagan, like Coolidge and Kennedy pands access to pre-K education and As you know, Mr. Chairman, abso- before him, reduced the tax and regu- provides childcare for all families. lutely any group could offer a budget latory burdens on the economy and Let’s get real. The reason we are de- today, yet we only have four alter- produced one of the longest economic bating the budget this week: Repub- natives being considered. That tells

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It includes a 4 percent pay ployees, let us agree that we should yield 21⁄2 minutes to the gentleman increase for Federal workers across the pay for those things today with our from Alabama (Mr. PALMER), a former board. It includes $500 billion in green dollars, and the borrowing from our director of the State Policy Network. energy incentives. It imposes a carbon children and grandchildren should be Mr. PALMER. Mr. Chairman, I rise tax to deal with greenhouse gases. It ended forever. in opposition to the Progressive Cau- cuts $70 billion from the Defense De- Mr. GRIJALVA. Mr. Chairman, what cus’ budget. partment and, in fact, eliminates alto- the Progressive Caucus budget does, In his farewell address, President Ei- gether the spending on the global war and does very clearly, is that we end senhower said: ‘‘We cannot mortgage on terror. the special treatment for Wall Street the material assets of our grand- Mr. Chairman, these are all legiti- buddies of the majority of this Con- children without asking the loss also of their political and spiritual heritage. mate policy disagreements. gress. Their budget also increases revenues, Meanwhile, their budget has no prob- We want democracy to survive for all taxes, by $10 trillion, but spends so lem hitting low- and middle-income generations to come, not to become the much more on American priorities that families with their tax plan. Under insolvent phantom of tomorrow.’’ Instead of trying to put America on a we continue to end up with almost a $1 their plan, corporations get a $2 tril- sustainable financial path, the progres- trillion annual deficit in year 10. lion cut, $2.4 trillion, and the richest 1 sive budget seeks to mortgage even Mr. Chairman, this is the kind of de- percent will get a tax cut worth $130,000 more of our grandchildren’s and great bate that we have to have. I want to next year; and many middle class fami- grandchildren’s future, frankly, by understand the priorities of my friends. lies will have to pay more. spending over $57 trillion over the next I want to understand where they want Mr. Chair, I yield 11⁄2 minutes to the 10 years. With the national debt sur- to see more investments. And then I gentlewoman from Washington (Ms. passing $20 trillion just last month, want to understand how it is we are JAYAPAL), a valued member of the Pro- now is the time to rein in reckless gov- going to balance this budget together. gressive Caucus. ernment spending, not explode it. Because what is lacking in this plan, Ms. JAYAPAL. I thank the gen- In addition to these spending in- Mr. Chairman, what frustrates me the tleman from Arizona for his tremen- creases, the Progressive Caucus is pro- most about the Progressive Caucus dous leadership as co-chair of the Pro- posing nearly $9 trillion in tax in- plan is not the investment in green en- gressive Caucus; and our other co- creases over the next decade. These ergy, it is not the investment in the chair, MARK POCAN, for his tremendous enormous tax increases do not come Federal workforce, it is not the invest- leadership. close to covering the cost of the irre- ment in healthcare; it is the fact that Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong sup- sponsible policies proposed. I want to they don’t believe we can do these port of the Congressional Progressive repeat that. Enormous tax increases things while raising taxes by $10 tril- Caucus budget, the People’s Budget. I that don’t come close to covering the lion on the American people and bal- agree with the gentleman from Georgia cost of what they have proposed. ance the budget at all. that there are two different visions As a result, the Progressive Caucus’ Mr. Chairman, if folks want to raise being presented here. Let’s be very budget raises the debt to over $27 tril- taxes in this institution—I think our clear about what those two different lion by 2027. In fact, by fiscal year 2027, problem is a spending problem. I don’t visions are. our deficits would be near $1 trillion. think it is a taxing problem, but I am The Republican budget says we Higher taxes and higher spending willing to have that discussion with should invest millions of dollars into would stifle the American economy and them to understand their point of view. tax cuts for millionaires, billionaires, put our debt on an expedited upward But the reason I will ask my col- and the largest corporations. trajectory. It is time for us to make leagues to vote ‘‘no’’ on this budget is Our budget, the Progressive Caucus tough decisions when it comes to this not because it raises taxes $10 trillion; budget, says we want to invest in peo- country’s budget. The decision to op- it is because it raises taxes $10 trillion, ple. We believe in working families pose the Progressive Caucus budget is yet continues to borrow from our chil- across this country who are working not one of those tough decisions. dren and our grandchildren in the form hard, want to have a decent life, and This budget also makes no effort to of annual debt and deficits. want to build a better future. I choose curb waste, fraud, and abuse. Instead, I think we can do better. But we can- investing in the people. That is what it would expand bureaucratic programs not do better without an honest discus- this budget does. It invests in edu- by trillions of dollars without pro- sion of the issues, Mr. Chairman. Say cation, in jobs, infrastructure, re- posing any oversight measures. For ex- what you want to about the budgets search, and science, and diplomacy. ample, it would spend $41 billion on you are going to see on the floor here, Let me just focus for a minute on ‘‘free college’’ promises, and $1 trillion these alternatives that we are going to education as the gateway to oppor- on childcare and universal pre-K. discuss. tunity. The People’s Budget commits Mr. Chairman, it reminds me of the There are a lot of talking heads on $1 trillion to help families afford shovel-ready programs that were part TV who just want to talk about it and childcare, provides universal access to of the Obama package just a few years don’t want to do anything about it. If pre-K, and upholds our Nation’s com- ago. We all had this expectation that you are looking for a ray of hope mitment to our public schools, which this money would go to rebuild our in- today, look at the Progressive Caucus, are the bedrocks of our communities frastructure, and it turns out just a lit- which I disagree with about almost ev- nationwide, through adequate funding tle over 3 percent of that money actu- erything as it comes to how to peg the and supporting educators with re- ally made it to infrastructure projects; numbers, but they put their vision for- sources that they need to reach every somewhere in the range of $30 billion ward tonight. They said: Let’s take a student. out of over $800 billion. stand tonight. It makes debt-free college a reality That is what I see in the progressive If we can work together across that by investing in college as a public budget. It continues the failed aisle, Mr. Chairman, there is abso- good. It creates apprenticeship oppor- ObamaCare experiment, and even goes lutely nothing that we cannot do on tunities for all of our districts across so far as to allow States to experiment behalf of the American people. the country—red and blue, urban and with socialized medicine. Vote ‘‘no’’ on this budget, but ap- rural. It continues to encourage able-bodied plaud the effort that has gone into it Our country’s success, Mr. Chairman, adults without children not to seek such that we can try to find common lies in that of our children and young work by providing them a government ground going forward. people, not in the Republican plan to paycheck.

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It increases the pres- much more money from the American they need right now. sure on Americans’ pocketbooks by in- people and still feel we have to have The people’s budget would also re- creasing the price at the pump and, significant cuts in our military budget? duce the deficit by $700 billion over the really, at every level. But then you look at what we have to It proposes Washington-centric solu- next 20 years by investing in human spend more on: a 4 percent raise for capital. We would do this while enact- tions to problems that the States are Federal workers. Look, we wish every- better equipped to determine, such as ing comprehensive immigration re- body had a raise, but, really, at a time form, protecting DREAMers, and end- the whole college issue. And it spends when we are approaching $20 trillion in $500 billion on green energy and im- ing funding for family detention cen- debt, is it a priority to give Federal ters. poses a carbon tax. workers a raise? Mr. Chair, I encourage my colleagues Mr. Chairman, we have a moral re- We put more and more people depend- sponsibility to spend taxpayer dollars to support the people’s budget and re- ent on government; a large expansion wisely, and the Progressive Caucus ject H. Con. Res. 71. Let’s stands with of the program providing free college fails to do this in its budget. I urge my the working class, the middle class, to people. At a time when, quite frank- colleagues to vote ‘‘no’’ on this amend- and the immigrants in our country. ly, many people who already have col- ment. This is the right thing to do for our lege degrees can’t get jobs, we are ex- Mr. GRIJALVA. Mr. Chairman, the people and for our economy. Progressive Caucus budget invests in panding that program. And, of course, Mr. MCCLINTOCK. Mr. Chair, I am the American people, invests in Amer- by making it free, people will respect it less. And not only will they respect it prepared to close when the gentleman ica, and still reduces the deficit by $4 from Arizona is finished, and I reserve trillion over 10 years. less, but by making it free, many peo- ple will go to college who perhaps oth- the balance of my time. Mr. Chairman, I yield 11⁄2 minutes to the gentleman from California (Mr. erwise don’t feel it is for them. Mr. GRIJALVA. Mr. Chairman, may I TED LIEU), my friend and a member of They won’t make adjustments to the inquire as to the remaining time each the Progressive Caucus. food stamp program, which is a prob- side has. Mr. TED LIEU of California. Mr. lem. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman We greatly extend the time that you Chairman, I thank Representative GRI- from Arizona has 43⁄4 minutes remain- JALVA for his leadership. are on unemployment, and this is kind ing, and the gentleman from California Our Nation’s infrastructure is crum- of bizarre because it is a time when our has 2 minutes remaining. bling. The American Society of Civil employment is near historic lows. But Mr. GRIJALVA. Mr. Chair, I yield 2 Engineers estimates we have a $4.6 tril- despite the fact that until now we minutes to the gentlewoman from Cali- lion infrastructure deficit. That is why haven’t had such unemployment for a fornia (Ms. LEE), a leader in our caucus the People’s Budget wisely invests $2 long period of time, we want to extend and a leader here in Congress. trillion to fix our infrastructure. unemployment, thereby encouraging Not only will this budget help repair more people to stay on unemployment. Ms. LEE. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for yielding, and I just want roads, highways, and bridges, but it b 1830 will also put broadband all over Amer- to thank the gentleman and Congress- ica, including rural areas, and create I would like to thank my friends man POCAN for their really great lead- millions of good-paying jobs, over 2.5 from the Congressional Progressive ership of the Congressional Progressive million in its first year. Caucus for allowing students to refi- Caucus and for crafting a budget which We are presenting this plan. We are nance their student loans, which shows creates economic growth, a decent asking for support. Donald Trump something or another that there is a standard of living for everyone, and a talks a big game on infrastructure, but heart there, a little bit anyway. I wish strong yet rational national security he has yet to put out a plan. So we I could get my own Conference to put budget. urge the President to support our plan. that in. But in any event, I urge rejec- Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong sup- If he doesn’t want to, then put out his tion of the Progressive budget. port of the Congressional Progressive Mr. GRIJALVA. Mr. Chairman, plan so we can have a discussion on Caucus’ people’s budget. Today, mil- Americans in this Congress do have a how to move forward on fixing our in- lions of Americans are struggling to choice. Our budget is a contrast to frastructure and creating high-paying make ends meet and millions more are what the Republicans are proposing. jobs for Americans. working hard trying to find a job. Pay- We can either cut Medicare to pay for Mr. MCCLINTOCK. Mr. Chairman, I checks for everyday Americans are 1 more tax breaks for millionaires and yield 2 ⁄2 minutes to the gentleman shrinking, while corporations are reap- billionaires as our Republican budget from Wisconsin (Mr. GROTHMAN), my ing record profits. Yet, instead of de- does, or we can close tax loopholes to friend and colleague. veloping a budget to create jobs and to protect essential programs that invest Mr. GROTHMAN. Mr. Chairman, I help American families, the House Re- in jobs. We chose investment. thank the gentleman for giving me an publicans ‘‘balance’’ their budget once Mr. Chair, I yield 11⁄2 minutes to the opportunity to address the Progressive again on the backs of struggling fami- gentleman from New York (Mr. Caucus, their budget. I think the budg- lies. And for what? To protect tax cuts ESPAILLAT). et is unacceptable. It is something the for billionaires and millionaires and Mr. ESPAILLAT. Mr. Chairman, a American people ought to pay atten- corporations. Again, this is totally dis- budget is a moral contract between tion to because the day may come in graceful. which a budget similar to the Progres- elected officials—the government—and sive Budget passes this floor. the people we were elected to rep- The CPC’s people’s budget stands in The first thing to look at is we are resent. That is why I am proud to rise stark contrast to the House Republican increasing maybe by an average of in support of the people’s budget, pre- budget. It creates 2 million good-pay- about a little under—well, around $1 sented by the Congressional Progres- ing jobs and invests $2 trillion in infra- trillion increase in taxes over the next sive Caucus. This budget serves as a structure. It includes a plan to lift 10 years. So you are taking a lot more Progressive alternative to the GPO’s more Americans out of poverty, and it money away from Americans. And de- cruel budget plan, a plan that invests in communities of color, like spite this huge increase in taxes, you prioritizes tax breaks for billionaires expanding computer science education. are looking at about a $70 billion cut in over the need to fund care for seniors It ends the Pentagon’s slush fund, defense. in nursing homes and children and known as the overseas contingency ac- I suggest that the public and the peo- struggling families in places like Puer- count, that for far too long has padded ple who are supporting the Progressive to Rico and the Virgin Islands. the pockets and the wallets of defense

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:16 Oct 05, 2017 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00072 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K04OC7.100 H04OCPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with HOUSE October 4, 2017 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7825 contractors at the taxpayers’ expense. (3) Our budget takes bold action to fight sistance Program (SNAP) and permanently It also tackles waste, fraud, and abuse climate change and rebuild our local commu- adopts the enhanced levels established in the at the Pentagon by demanding audit nities recently devastated by hurricanes. American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. The People’s Budget requires polluters to It also provides an additional $10 billion for readiness. It is hard to believe that the pay for their reckless behavior while elimi- child nutrition programs and allows those Republican budget goes $10 billion over nating tax breaks that incentivize fossil fuel who have lost a job through no fault of their what the Pentagon even requested. energy over cleaner energy. It invests $200 own to claim up to 99 weeks of unemploy- Make no mistake, the people’s budget billion to ensure families in Texas, Lou- ment benefits for up to two years. does what the House Republican budget isiana, Puerto Rico, Florida and U.S. terri- (10) We make veterans a priority by in- does not. It works for the American tories have the immediate assistance they creasing funding for veterans supportive people, not special interests, nor de- need to begin the stable road to recovery. It housing to eliminate veterans homelessness also provides funding for climate change re- and expanding access to mental health care fense contractors, or the 1 percent. for all veteran and service members. Our Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues to do search, mitigation and adaptation to protect those most at risk from future environ- budget also invests in job training opportu- what is best for all American families, mental disasters. nities for transitioning service members and and that is support the Congressional (4) The CPC budget delivers on the promise veterans. Progressive Caucus’ people’s budget. of child care for all and Pre-K for all. It en- Mr. GRIJALVA. Mr. Chairman, I Mr. GRIJALVA. Mr. Chairman, I sures that families will not have to pay more yield myself such time as I may con- yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman than 10 percent of their income for child sume. from Texas (Ms. JACKSON LEE). care, whether that care is at home or at a In the debate on the Republican Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Chairman, child care center. Our budget also expands budget and how it contrasts with the let me thank the gentleman for his pre-k for children across the country. (5) We make debt free college a reality for Congressional Progressive Caucus leadership. It has been more than a all students by overhauling the student loan budget, we heard a lot about needing to pleasure to serve as the vice chair of system which currently leaves college stu- control mandatory spending, that that the Congressional Progressive Caucus dents saddled with unmanageable levels of was the real issue here, runaway man- for the number of years that we have debt. The People’s Budget creates a federal datory spending. had to put forward the people’s budget. matching program that supports state ef- Make no mistake, when my Repub- I simply want to say what a budget forts to expand investments in higher edu- lican colleagues talk about cutting is, Mr. Chairman. A budget is a road- cation, bring down costs for students, and in- mandatory spending, they mean they crease aid to students to help them cover the map for the American people. It is a want to cut Medicare and Social Secu- question of whether America cares total cost of college attendance without tak- ing on debt. rity to pay for the trillion-dollar tax about the most vulnerable and whether (6) The People’s Budget strengthens the Af- scam and creative numbers that are or not, in our caring, we are prepared fordable Care Act, while pushing towards a part of their budget for the wealthy to do deeds to insist upon their success. single payer system. It prioritizes reforms to and for the corporations in America. The Republican budget takes $2 tril- increase access, equity, and affordability. The other issue that we heard a lot lion and provides a big, wealthy tax cut Maintaining the positive reforms from the about is that, by making these major for the rich, and it creates, in essence, ACA are critical as Republicans attempt to cuts for the wealthiest and the rich, a deep hole in affordable care for gut the health care system and leave mil- that somehow their net gain and their healthcare. It does not provide justice lions of Americans stranded without access to critical insurance coverage. The People’s profit and their break on taxes is going and fair elections. It takes away edu- Budget protects Medicare’s integrity and im- to trickle down to the rest of us. Well, cational opportunity from students, proves its long-term solvency. It protects we have seen that movie before in this and, of course, it does not bring the children and low-income Americans and country. That trickle-down theory most vulnerable out of poverty and en- gives states the freedom to transition to a doesn’t work. The money doesn’t trick- hance the lives of the middle class. single payer system. It also makes two sig- le down, and the American people The people’s budget provides for sup- nificant policy changes to reduce the costs of won’t be fooled about that again. porting the Affordable Care Act. It pro- prescription drugs: allows Medicare Part D Our budget invests $2 trillion in in- vides for giving fair working tax cuts to negotiate drug prices and ends ‘‘Pay for frastructure and jobs immediately. Our for others, and it provides fairness and Delay’’ practice which keeps generics out of budget takes bold action to fight cli- the market. justice. (7) The CPC Budget creates a fair tax sys- mate change, and our budget delivers I rise to support the people’s budget. tem for working Americans. In order to on the promise for our children, their It invests in the American people. I ask make these bold, necessary investments in inheritance of this country, the inher- my colleagues to vote for the Congres- working families, we must rewrite the rules itance of the children that everybody is sional Progressive Caucus’ budget. of a rigged economy that favors billionaires worried about a deficit. We are worried Mr. Chair, I include in the RECORD and big corporations. The People’s Budget about their future as well. the top ten reasons to support the Con- closes tax loopholes that corporations use to Our budget delivers on the promise of gressional Progressive Caucus’ budget. ship jobs overseas, and stops CEOs from re- childcare for all, pre-K for all, and a ro- ceiving millions in tax-free bonuses. Our TOP TEN REASONS TO SUPPORT THE PEOPLE’S bust public education system to pro- budget tackles inequality through fair tax BUDGET rates for all Americans, leveling the playing vide all kids with an opportunity to (Supported by over 60 organizations includ- field for working people. succeed in this Nation. ing: AFT, NEA, Planned Parenthood, Com- (8) Our budget protects the right to vote Our budget is about the future, our munications Workers of America, Sierra and supports criminal justice reforms which budget is about emphasizing the values Club, AFSCME, AFGE, Vote Vets, Social strengthen public safety and avoid over- that make this country special and Security Works, NARAL) criminalization. Our budget calls for rebuild- great, and our budget is a contrast. It (1) The People’s Budget invests $2 trillion ing trust in the justice system by funding offers a contrast about what this coun- in America’s crumbling infrastructure while community oriented policing reforms. It also try can be if it invests in its people. promoting job growth and strengthening our strengthens Department of Justice voter The road that we have been on for far commitment to sustainability. This is an in- protection programs, protects voting rights vestment in America which will transform by increasing funding to voter protection too long in which we have disinvested our fossil-fuel energy system, overburdened agencies, and funds public financing of cam- in people, shifted wealth and burden mass transit, deteriorating schools, lead-con- paigns to curb the influence of special inter- onto the middle class and the working taminated water systems, and crumbling ests in politics. Additionally, the budget class in this country, that time has roads and bridges through local hiring and makes key investments in America’s elec- ended. Our budget represents that end. livable wages. toral integrity by upgrading our voting sys- Mr. Chair, I urge a ‘‘yes’’ vote on the (2) The People’s Budget enacts comprehen- tems. people’s budget, and I yield back the sive immigration reform which permanently (9) The People’s Budget creates pathways balance of my time. protects Dreamers and their families and op- out of poverty by expanding proven anti-pov- Mr. MCCLINTOCK. Mr. Chairman, I poses immigration bans on Muslims and ref- erty programs and initiatives and restoring yield myself such time as I may con- ugees. Our country needs an immigration vital programs to our nation to provide pros- system that honors our values of inclusion, perity for all. These include a national strat- sume. diversity, and equality. Our Budget prohibits egy to reduce poverty in half in ten years Mr. Chair, have my friends on the funding to Customs and Border Protection to and $12.8 billion investment to end family left learned absolutely nothing over implement President Trump’s discrimina- homelessness. The People’s Budget restores these past 8 years? If massive govern- tory Muslim and refugee bans. cuts made to the Supplemental Nutrition As- ment spending, higher and higher

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:16 Oct 05, 2017 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00073 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K04OC7.102 H04OCPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with HOUSE H7826 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE October 4, 2017 taxes, and deeper and deeper debt pro- Strike all after the resolving clause and in- Fiscal year 2019: $22,085,529,000,000. duced economic growth, the Obama sert the following: Fiscal year 2020: $22,866,575,000,000. years should have been the golden age SECTION 1. CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON THE Fiscal year 2021: $23,578,811,000,000. of our economy. Instead, we suffered BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR 2018. Fiscal year 2022: $24,291,408,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $24,985,937,000,000. prolonged stagnation. We averaged 1.5 The Congress determines and declares that this concurrent resolution establishes the Fiscal year 2024: $25,599,925,000,000. percent annual growth, only half the budget for fiscal year 2018 and sets forth ap- Fiscal year 2025: $26,248,973,000,000. average economic growth that our Na- propriate budgetary levels for fiscal years Fiscal year 2026: $26,981,444,000,000. tion has enjoyed in the postwar era. 2018 through 2027. Fiscal year 2027: $27,552,527,000,000. The Progressive and Democratic budg- SEC. 2. RECOMMENDED LEVELS AND AMOUNTS. (6) DEBT HELD BY THE PUBLIC.—The appro- ets promise more of the same. The following budgetary levels are appro- priate levels of debt held by the public are as We choose a different path, the priate for each of fiscal years 2018 through follows: Reagan path that produced an average 2027: Fiscal year 2018: $15,515,893,000,000. of 3.5 percent growth year after year, (1) FEDERAL REVENUES.—For purposes of Fiscal year 2019: $16,336,714,000,000. higher wages, better jobs. Not just a the enforcement of this concurrent resolu- Fiscal year 2020: $17,080,338,000,000. tion: Fiscal year 2021: $17,782,001,000,000. Republican policy, John F. Kennedy Fiscal year 2022: $18,543,046,000,000. did the same thing. He reminded us (A) The recommended levels of Federal revenues are as follows: Fiscal year 2023: $19,291,339,000,000. that a rising tide lifts all boats. These Fiscal year 2018: $2,944,569,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: $19,972,026,000,000. are the policies that create prosperity. Fiscal year 2019: $3,089,508,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: $20,739,642,000,000. The government cannot create jobs Fiscal year 2020: $3,274,576,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: $21,579,464,000,000. because it cannot create wealth, but Fiscal year 2021: $3,420,911,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: $22,413,681,000,000. what it can do is create the conditions Fiscal year 2022: $3,596,916,000,000. SEC. 3. MAJOR FUNCTIONAL CATEGORIES. where jobs multiply and prosper or Fiscal year 2023: $3,749,916,000,000. The Congress determines and declares that where they stagnate and disappear. Fiscal year 2024: $3,965,428,000,000. the appropriate levels of new budget author- That it can do very well. We have very Fiscal year 2025: $4,166,178,000,000. ity and outlays for fiscal years 2018 through consistent experience with the policies Fiscal year 2026: $4,361,378,000,000. 2027 for each major functional category are: Fiscal year 2027: $4,619,387,000,000. (1) National Defense (050): that create these conditions. (B) The amounts by which the aggregate Fiscal year 2018: If you increase the burdens on the levels of Federal revenues should be changed (A) New budget authority, $611,786,000,000. economy as the Democrats again pro- are as follows: (B) Outlays, $583,502,000,000. pose, the economy contracts. If you Fiscal year 2018: $211,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: lighten the burdens on the economy, it Fiscal year 2019: $256,000,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $624,900,000,000. grows and prospers. No nation has ever Fiscal year 2020: $324,000,000,000. (B) Outlays, $605,816,000,000. taxed and spent its way to prosperity, Fiscal year 2021: $361,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: but many nations have taxed and spent Fiscal year 2022: $414,000,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $638,087,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: $432,000,000,000. (B) Outlays, $620,966,000,000. their way to economic ruin and bank- Fiscal year 2024: $503,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: ruptcy. Fiscal year 2025: $544,000,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $651,309,000,000. We know what works and we know Fiscal year 2026: $572,000,000,000. (B) Outlays, $634,689,000,000. what doesn’t work because we have Fiscal year 2027: $661,000,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: tried both paths many times before. (2) NEW BUDGET AUTHORITY.—For purposes (A) New budget authority, $664,521,000,000. The House Budget Committee’s budget of the enforcement of this concurrent resolu- (B) Outlays, $652,811,000,000. follows principles that have, time and tion, the appropriate levels of total new Fiscal year 2023: again, consistently and rapidly pro- budget authority are as follows: (A) New budget authority, $678,690,000,000. duced economic expansion and pros- Fiscal year 2018: $3,875,166,000,000. (B) Outlays, $661,612,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: $3,829,543,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: perity. Fiscal year 2020: $3,845,871,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $692,897,000,000. The House Democrats’ budget and Fiscal year 2021: $3,920,549,000,000. (B) Outlays, $670,504,000,000. the Progressive budget before us now Fiscal year 2022: $4,149,670,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: double down on policies that have im- Fiscal year 2023: $4,282,139,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $707,145,000,000. poverished and bankrupted nations Fiscal year 2024: $4,411,746,000,000. (B) Outlays, $689,091,000,000. wherever they have been employed Fiscal year 2025: $4,653,359,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: down through history. Fiscal year 2026: $4,865,876,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $722,394,000,000. That is the choice before us today. Fiscal year 2027: $5,058,527,000,000. (B) Outlays, $703,660,000,000. Let us choose wisely. Our future de- (3) BUDGET OUTLAYS.—For purposes of the Fiscal year 2027: pends on it. enforcement of this concurrent resolution, (A) New budget authority, $737,634,000,000. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of the appropriate levels of total budget out- (B) Outlays, $718,554,000,000. lays are as follows: (2) International Affairs (150): my time. Fiscal year 2018: $3,538,175,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: The Acting CHAIR. The question is Fiscal year 2019: $3,808,907,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $48,264,000,000. on the amendment in the nature of a Fiscal year 2020: $3,890,015,000,000. (B) Outlays, $42,815,000,000. substitute offered by the gentleman Fiscal year 2021: $3,963, 843,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: from Arizona (Mr. GRIJALVA). Fiscal year 2022: $4,167,060,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $46,630,000,000. The question was taken; and the Act- Fiscal year 2023: $4,267,110,000,000. (B) Outlays, $42,945,000,000. ing Chair announced that the noes ap- Fiscal year 2024: $4,373,622,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: peared to have it. Fiscal year 2025: $4,615,778,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $46,563,000,000. Mr. GRIJALVA. Mr. Chairman, I de- Fiscal year 2026: $4,833,878,000,000. (B) Outlays, $42,812,000,000. mand a recorded vote. Fiscal year 2027: $5,032,183,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to (4) DEFICITS (ON-BUDGET).—For purposes of (A) New budget authority, $46,563,000,000. the enforcement of this concurrent resolu- (B) Outlays, $43,970,000,000. clause 6 of rule XVIII, further pro- tion, the amounts of the deficits (on-budget) Fiscal year 2022: ceedings on the amendment offered by are as follows: (A) New budget authority, $45,705,000,000. the gentleman from Arizona will be Fiscal year 2018: -$593,606,000,000. (B) Outlays, $44,635,000,000. postponed. Fiscal year 2019: -$719,399,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: AMENDMENT NO. 2 IN THE NATURE OF A SUB- Fiscal year 2020: -$615,439,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $46,744,000,000. STITUTE OFFERED BY MR. SCOTT OF VIRGINIA Fiscal year 2021: -$542,932,000,000. (B) Outlays, $45,271,000,000. The Acting CHAIR. It is now in order Fiscal year 2022: -$570,144,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: to consider amendment No. 2 printed in Fiscal year 2023: -$517,194,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $47,817,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: -$408,194,000,000. (B) Outlays, $46,175,000,000. House Report 115–339. Fiscal year 2025: -$449,600,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Chair, I Fiscal year 2026: -$472,500,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $48,897,000,000. have an amendment at the desk. Fiscal year 2027: -$412,796,000,000. (B) Outlays, $47,039,000,000. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will (5) DEBT SUBJECT TO LIMIT.—The appro- Fiscal year 2026: designate the amendment. priate levels of the public debt are as fol- (A) New budget authority, $49,539,000,000. The text of the amendment in the na- lows: (B) Outlays, $47,725,000,000. ture of a substitute is as follows: Fiscal year 2018: $21,175,683,000,000. Fiscal year 2027:

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:49 Oct 05, 2017 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00074 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K04OC7.103 H04OCPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with HOUSE October 4, 2017 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7827 (A) New budget authority, $50,634,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $99,348,000,000. (B) Outlays, $48,596,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $51,469,000,000. (B) Outlays, $115,488,000,000. (3) General Science, Space, and Technology (B) Outlays, $50,643,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (250): Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, $100,330,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $52,625,000,000. (B) Outlays, $111,477,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $35,234,000,000. (B) Outlays, $51,731,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (B) Outlays, $33,128,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, $101,381,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $53,866,000,000. (B) Outlays, $110,947,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $33,889,000,000. (B) Outlays, $52,965,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: (B) Outlays, $33,653,000,000. (6) Agriculture (350): (A) New budget authority, $102,441,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: Fiscal year 2018: (B) Outlays, $112,855,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $34,557,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $26,223,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: (B) Outlays, $34,013,000,000. (B) Outlays, $23,691,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $103,514,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: Fiscal year 2019: (B) Outlays, $114,823,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $35,281,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $23,035,000,000. (9) Community and Regional Development (B) Outlays, $34,539,000,000. (B) Outlays, $21,664,000,000. (450): Fiscal year 2022: Fiscal year 2020: Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $36,036,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $21,998,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $41,581,000,000. (B) Outlays, $35,337,000,000. (B) Outlays, $21,211,000,000. (B) Outlays, $34,517,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: Fiscal year 2021: Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $36,793,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $23,231,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $36,840,000,000. (B) Outlays, $36,033,000,000. (B) Outlays, $22,614,000,000. (B) Outlays, $37,726,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: Fiscal year 2022: Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $37,059,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $21,737,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $27,338,000,000. (B) Outlays, $36,498,000,000. (B) Outlays, $21,490,000,000. (B) Outlays, $31,834,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: Fiscal year 2023: Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $37,885,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $21,910,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $24,297,000,000. (B) Outlays, $37,138,000,000. (B) Outlays, $21,549,000,000. (B) Outlays, $25,883,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: Fiscal year 2024: Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $38,717,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $22,468,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $24,806,000,000. (B) Outlays, $37,900,000,000. (B) Outlays, $21,933,000,000. (B) Outlays, $23,354,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: Fiscal year 2025: Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $39,555,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $23,232,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $25,296,000,000. (B) Outlays, $38,703,000,000. (B) Outlays, $22,586,000,000. (B) Outlays, $22,249,000,000. (4) Energy (270): Fiscal year 2026: Fiscal year 2024: Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $23,505,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $25,298,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $8,500,000,000. (B) Outlays, $22,867,000,000. (B) Outlays, $22,080,000,000. (B) Outlays, $4,864,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: Fiscal year 2025: Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $23,373,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $25,839,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $7,468,000,000. (B) Outlays, $22,755,000,000. (B) Outlays, $22,489,000,000. (B) Outlays, $5,614,000,000. (7) Commerce and Housing Credit (370): Fiscal year 2026: Fiscal year 2020: Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $26,384,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $6,876,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $15,050,000,000. (B) Outlays, $23,071,000,000. (B) Outlays, $5,684,000,000. (B) Outlays, $2,075,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: Fiscal year 2021: Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $26,080,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $6,507,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $16,792,000,000. (B) Outlays, $23,400,000,000. (B) Outlays, $5,334,000,000. (B) Outlays, $8,377,000,000. (10) Education, Training, Employment, and Fiscal year 2022: Fiscal year 2020: Social Services (500): (A) New budget authority, $6,459,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $16,445,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (B) Outlays, $5,169,000,000. (B) Outlays, $8,435,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $176,935,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: Fiscal year 2021: (B) Outlays, $142,001,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $5,504,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $14,949,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (B) Outlays, $4,195,000,000. (B) Outlays, $6,120,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $165,585,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: Fiscal year 2022: (B) Outlays, $165,987,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $4,997,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $17,167,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (B) Outlays, $3,712,000,000. (B) Outlays, $7,317,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $158,570,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: Fiscal year 2023: (B) Outlays, $159,597,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $4,926,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $17,731,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (B) Outlays, $3,746,000,000. (B) Outlays, $7,204,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $162,088,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: Fiscal year 2024: (B) Outlays, $160,233,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $7,216,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $18,315,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (B) Outlays, $6,054,000,000. (B) Outlays, $6,672,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $164,843,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: Fiscal year 2025: (B) Outlays, $163,705,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $7,341,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $19,383,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (B) Outlays, $6,248,000,000. (B) Outlays, $6,499,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $156,826,000,000. (5) Natural Resources and Environment Fiscal year 2026: (B) Outlays, $160,066,000,000. (300): (A) New budget authority, $19,195,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: Fiscal year 2018: (B) Outlays, $6,468,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $156,277,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $45,791,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: (B) Outlays, $157,407,000,000. (B) Outlays, $44,939,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $19,244,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: Fiscal year 2019: (B) Outlays, $6,346,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $156,679,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $45,710,000,000. (8) Transportation (400): (B) Outlays, $156,729,000,000. (B) Outlays, $45,911,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: Fiscal year 2026: Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $412,246,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $158,996,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $46,980,000,000. (B) Outlays, $260,375,000,000. (B) Outlays, $157,914,000,000. (B) Outlays, $46,966,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: Fiscal year 2027: Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $309,646,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $146,273,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $46,986,000,000. (B) Outlays, $302,342,000,000. (B) Outlays, $151,875,000,000. (B) Outlays, $47,068,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (11) Health (550): Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $191,199,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (A) New budget authority, $48,107,000,000. (B) Outlays, $246,432,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $573,434,000,000. (B) Outlays, $47,647,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (B) Outlays, $580,091,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $97,422,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (A) New budget authority, $49,257,000,000. (B) Outlays, $162,071,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $602,568,000,000. (B) Outlays, $48,620,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (B) Outlays, $604,320,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $98,379,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $50,280,000,000. (B) Outlays, $129,557,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $646,496,000,000. (B) Outlays, $49,582,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (B) Outlays, $637,447,000,000.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:49 Oct 05, 2017 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00075 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A04OC7.039 H04OCPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with HOUSE H7828 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE October 4, 2017 Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $43,016,000,000. (17) General Government (800): (A) New budget authority, $669,270,000,000. (B) Outlays, $43,016,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (B) Outlays, $666,179,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $27,065,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $46,287,000,000. (B) Outlays, $25,734,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $702,953,000,000. (B) Outlays, $46,287,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (B) Outlays, $696,993,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $27,477,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $49,748,000,000. (B) Outlays, $26,458,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $735,459,000,000. (B) Outlays, $49,748,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (B) Outlays, $728,890,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $28,100,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $53,392,000,000. (B) Outlays, $27,418,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $772,591,000,000. (B) Outlays, $53,392,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (B) Outlays, $763,909,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $28,777,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $57,378,000,000. (B) Outlays, $28,134,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $810,799,000,000. (B) Outlays, $57,378,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (B) Outlays, $801,662,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $29,473,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, $61,764,000,000. (B) Outlays, $28,882,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $849,471,000,000. (B) Outlays, $61,764,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (B) Outlays, $839,223,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $30,156,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, $66,388,000,000. (B) Outlays, $29,575,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $890,688,000,000. (B) Outlays, $66,388,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (B) Outlays, $879,028,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, $30,693,000,000. (12) Medicare (570): (A) New budget authority, $70,871,000,000. (B) Outlays, $30,129,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (B) Outlays, $70,871,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $601,682,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, $31,492,000,000. (B) Outlays, $601,303,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $75,473,000,000. (B) Outlays, $30,848,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (B) Outlays, $75,473,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, $672,626,000,000. (15) Veterans Benefits and Services (700): (A) New budget authority, $32,309,000,000. (B) Outlays, $672,318,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (B) Outlays, $31,644,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $183,573,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, $720,653,000,000. (B) Outlays, $181,049,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $33,111,000,000. (B) Outlays, $720,416,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (B) Outlays, $32,437,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $198,367,000,000. (18) Net Interest (900): (A) New budget authority, $775,853,000,000. (B) Outlays, $195,432,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (B) Outlays, $775,637,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $377,635,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $203,192,000,000. (B) Outlays, $377,635,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $871,247,000,000. (B) Outlays, $201,863,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (B) Outlays, $871,017,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $413,674,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $209,704,000,000. (B) Outlays, $413,674,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $896,829,000,000. (B) Outlays, $207,846,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (B) Outlays, $896,611,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $461,176,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $225,035,000,000. (B) Outlays, $461,176,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $920,920,000,000. (B) Outlays, $223,431,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (B) Outlays, $920,693,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $512,434,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $222,849,000,000. (B) Outlays, $512,434,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $1,028,532,000,000. (B) Outlays, $220,873,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (B) Outlays, $1,028,285,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $560,400,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, $217,808,000,000. (B) Outlays, $560,400,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $1,093,424,000,000. (B) Outlays, $216,712,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (B) Outlays, $1,093,171,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $605,893,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, $235,899,000,000. (B) Outlays, $605,893,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $1,176,028,000,000. (B) Outlays, $234,040,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (B) Outlays, $1,175,780,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, $644,696,000,000. (13) Income Security (600): (A) New budget authority, $243,591,000,000. (B) Outlays, $644,696,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (B) Outlays, $241,380,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $528,718,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, $679,742,000,000. (B) Outlays, $508,933,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $252,030,000,000. (B) Outlays, $679,742,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (B) Outlays, $249,835,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, $541,318,000,000. (16) Administration of Justice (750): (A) New budget authority, $714,720,000,000. (B) Outlays, $538,787,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (B) Outlays, $714,720,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $70,592,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, $554,195,000,000. (B) Outlays, $63,596,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $743,060,000,000. (B) Outlays, $554,966,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (B) Outlays, $743,185,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $62,328,000,000. (19) Non-Allowances (920): (A) New budget authority, $567,182,000,000. (B) Outlays, $64,092,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (B) Outlays, $569,833,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (A) New budget authority, $134,164,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $63,865,000,000. (B) Outlays, $70,964,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $583,720,000,000. (B) Outlays, $66,733,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (B) Outlays, $594,084,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (A) New budget authority, $43,428,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $65,272,000,000. (B) Outlays, $66,529,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $592,625,000,000. (B) Outlays, $69,336,000,000. Fiscal year 2020: (B) Outlays, $598,840,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (A) New budget authority, $18,748,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $65,880,000,000. (B) Outlays, $41,212,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $601,577,000,000. (B) Outlays, $68,965,000,000. Fiscal year 2021: (B) Outlays, $602,988,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (A) New budget authority, $20,859,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $67,534,000,000. (B) Outlays, $29,359,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $621,241,000,000. (B) Outlays, $68,559,000,000. Fiscal year 2022: (B) Outlays, $625,226,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (A) New budget authority, $18,656,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, $69,220,000,000. (B) Outlays, $27,721,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $636,800,000,000. (B) Outlays, $68,916,000,000. Fiscal year 2023: (B) Outlays, $648,216,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $24,602,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, $70,963,000,000. (B) Outlays, $27,491,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $653,208,000,000. (B) Outlays, $70,438,000,000. Fiscal year 2024: (B) Outlays, $664,923,000,000. Fiscal year 2026: (A) New budget authority, $29,548,000,000. (14) Social Security (650): (A) New budget authority, $78,798,000,000. (B) Outlays, $30,587,000,000. Fiscal year 2018: (B) Outlays, $78,991,000,000. Fiscal year 2025: (A) New budget authority, $39,475,000,000. Fiscal year 2027: (A) New budget authority, $32,490,000,000. (B) Outlays, $39,475,000,000. (A) New budget authority, $81,299,000,000. (B) Outlays, $33,268,000,000. Fiscal year 2019: (B) Outlays, $80,655,000,000. Fiscal year 2026:

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:49 Oct 05, 2017 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00076 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A04OC7.039 H04OCPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with HOUSE October 4, 2017 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7829 (A) New budget authority, $43,431,000,000. ities. It fast-tracks tax cuts for the Mr. Chairman, I want to start by say- (B) Outlays, $43,971,000,000. wealthiest Americans and claims that ing that I appreciate the opportunity Fiscal year 2027: unrealistic economic growth will pay to have this discussion today because (A) New budget authority, $47,372,000,000. for these cuts when, in reality, those it is an important one. I know that the (B) Outlays, $47,860,000,000. (20) Undistributed Offsetting Receipts (950): tax cuts will ultimately be paid for by gentleman from Virginia and I both Fiscal year 2018: children, seniors, and those in need. want to address the challenges facing (A) New budget authority, -$82,782,000,000. It cuts $1.5 trillion from Medicaid our Nation and our fellow Americans. (B) Outlays, -$82,782,000,000. and Medicare and also cuts programs We agree that the status quo is insuf- Fiscal year 2019: that support basic living standards, in- ficient to meet the needs of the future, (A) New budget authority, -$85,754,000,000. cluding nutritional assistance, and un- and we share a passion for protecting (B) Outlays, -$85,754,000,000. dermines national security by cutting the vulnerable, breaking the cycles of Fiscal year 2020: diplomatic programs and foreign aid. poverty, and lifting Americans up. (A) New budget authority, -$85,454,000,000. But I must oppose this budget be- (B) Outlays, -$85,454,000,000. The Republican budget also cuts edu- Fiscal year 2021: cation, job training, research and de- cause it will not accomplish those (A) New budget authority, -$87,183,000,000. velopment, and infrastructure. Their things. This budget raises taxes by $4 (B) Outlays, -$87,183,000,000. budget leaves hardworking American trillion, increases spending by $1.4 tril- Fiscal year 2022: families out in the cold and would dev- lion, and it never balances. (A) New budget authority, -$88,846,000,000. astate our economic recovery after It proposes more Washington-man- (B) Outlays, -$88,846,000,000. years of consistent job growth. dated answers to problems that States Fiscal year 2023: The Congressional Black Caucus and communities are better equipped (A) New budget authority, -$89,285,000,000. to solve. It makes no effort to control (B) Outlays, -$89,285,000,000. budget is in stark contrast to the Re- Fiscal year 2024: publican budget. It is compassionate. Federal deficits and debt, and it will (A) New budget authority, -$92,809,000,000. The numbers add up. It addresses the leave our country bankrupt. (B) Outlays, -$92,809,000,000. needs of the most vulnerable and im- I want to be clear what this means. Fiscal year 2025: proves our economy. Unlike the Repub- This budget will double down on gener- (A) New budget authority, -$101,023,000,000. lican budget, the CBC budget uses real ational theft—spending more and more (B) Outlays, -$101,023,000,000. numbers, not overly optimistic growth money that we don’t have today and Fiscal year 2026: projections and assumptions of things leaving our children and grandchildren (A) New budget authority, -$98,551,000,000. that won’t happen. to foot the bill tomorrow. (B) Outlays, -$98,551,000,000. In contrast, the Republican budget Fiscal year 2027: The CBC budget proposes $3.9 trillion (A) New budget authority, -$101,256,000,000. in revenue enhancements, and unlike confronts our Nation’s fiscal challenges (B) Outlays, -$101,256,000,000. the Republican budget, we show ex- head on by requiring mandatory spend- (21) Overseas Contingency Operations (970): actly how Congress can realistically ing reductions of at least $203 billion Fiscal year 2018: reach this revenue target by outlining and balancing within 10 years. (A) New budget authority, $0. almost $11 trillion in revenue options While this budget measures success (B) Outlays, $0. from which Congress could pick and on how much the Federal Government Fiscal year 2019: choose $3.9 trillion. spends, the Republican House budget (A) New budget authority, $0. proposes to measure success by out- (B) Outlays, $0. With the additional revenue, the CBC Fiscal year 2020: budget protects and strengthens the so- comes. If we have learned nothing from (A) New budget authority, $0. cial safety net and commits the Fed- decades of spending on Federal welfare (B) Outlays, $0. eral Government to eradicating pov- programs, it is that more money can- Fiscal year 2021: erty in America. not resolve the complex issues under- (A) New budget authority, $0. Our budget includes a comprehensive lying systemic poverty. (B) Outlays, $0. infrastructure and jobs program, total- We must change our approach, and Fiscal year 2022: ing over $1 trillion over 5 years, and ac- this starts with changing how we meas- (A) New budget authority, $0. cording to the Economic Policy Insti- ure results. (B) Outlays, $0. This budget also fails to address a Fiscal year 2023: tute, it will create 2 million jobs next (A) New budget authority, $0. year. critical piece of the upward mobility (B) Outlays, $0. In addition, the CBC budget elimi- agenda: reforming our broken Tax Fiscal year 2024: nates any further threat of sequestra- Code. Instead, it calls for tax increases (A) New budget authority, $0. tion, eliminating the arbitrary budget that would stifle economic growth that (B) Outlays, $0. caps and across-the-board budget cuts the country so desperately needs. Fiscal year 2025: that are scheduled for next year. America should be the most competi- (A) New budget authority, $0. It allocates $200 billion for hurricane tive place in the world to do business, (B) Outlays, $0. but everything in our Tax Code today Fiscal year 2026: relief, $100 billion to address the loom- (A) New budget authority, $0. ing pension crisis, and additional fund- tells companies to take their jobs and (B) Outlays, $0. ing for our veterans. their investments overseas and to leave Fiscal year 2027: Even with the elimination of the se- them there. (A) New budget authority, $0. questration and strong investment in Higher taxes on job creators and (B) Outlays, $0. programs that we know will create jobs small businesses is the exact opposite The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to and economic opportunity, the CBC of what we need to bring workers back House Resolution 553, the gentleman budget is still estimated to reduce the into the labor force and get our econ- from Virginia (Mr. SCOTT) and a Mem- deficit, when compared to the baseline, omy growing again. Now is the time for ber opposed each will control 15 min- by approximately $2.5 trillion over the comprehensive tax reform that utes. next 10 years. unleashes the entrepreneurial spirit of The Chair recognizes the gentleman Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance America, increases business and per- from Virginia. of my time. sonal investment, and promotes job Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Chair- creation. By failing to move the ball man, I yield myself such time as I may b 1845 forward on tax reform, this budget consume. Mr. FERGUSON. Mr. Chairman, I leaves the American workers and fami- Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the claim the time in opposition to the lies behind. Congressional Black Caucus budget, amendment. Lastly, Mr. Chairman, I want to note which is a more credible and respon- The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman what this proposal does make cuts in, sible alternative than the underlying from Georgia is recognized for 15 min- and that is in our national defense. In Republican budget. utes. a time when we face increasingly com- The Nation’s budget reflects its pri- Mr. FERGUSON. Mr. Chairman, I plex and evolving international threats orities, but the Republican budget con- yield myself such time as I may con- from places like North Korea, Russia, tinues to highlight the wrong prior- sume. and Iran, this budget would cut overall

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:49 Oct 05, 2017 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00077 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\A04OC7.039 H04OCPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with HOUSE H7830 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE October 4, 2017 defense spending and compromise the of poverty, help people achieve the problem, and the CBC budget increases readiness and safety of our service- American Dream, help our children spending above the CBO baseline over members and our national freedoms. dream the impossible dream, and then 10 years, while our budget is under- The first job of the Federal Govern- give them the power so that they can neath the CBO baseline for 10 years. ment is to provide for our national se- go achieve it while we are cutting their Our budget cuts taxes across the board curity. We need to reinvest in our mili- education and we are cutting all the including eliminating the bottom rate tary to deter global threats and protect programs that help them to achieve it? that we suggest in our tax reform plan. our homeland. That is why the Repub- Look, we always hide behind pro- This is a question of American vision lican budget fulfills Congress’ commit- tecting our country and the national and the American Dream. Our vision is ment to ensure robust funding for our defense. The biggest threat to our na- for more capital in the private sector, country’s national defense. tional defense resides on 1600 Pennsyl- more incentives to work, savings, and Mr. Chairman, we will have a lot of vania Avenue. It is a shame when most investment, and more people with ris- conversations today about priorities, people in this country and my col- ing incomes. Their vision is to protect because that is what budgets are: clear leagues wake up in the morning and the government budget. illustrations of our priorities. say: Are we going to war with North Mr. Chairman, so I stand in opposi- We want to leave our Nation better Korea? That is not good for the econ- tion to this particular substitute budg- for our children and grandchildren. We omy, and that is not good for the men- et. all want every person, regardless of tal health of the country. But I think Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Chair- their socioeconomic status or ZIP that the Secretary of State has a great man, I yield 2 minutes to the gentle- Code, to have the opportunity to real- disposition and strategy when it comes woman from California (Ms. LEE), who ize the American Dream. to the national defense and diplomacy. is a member of the Appropriations I oppose this budget proposal because I think the key with what we have to Committee. it will not help us achieve these goals. do with budgets is understand that Ms. LEE. Mr. Chairman, I want to It avoids the tough questions and sub- they are moral documents and they ex- thank the gentleman for yielding. Also stitutes more spending for better re- press our values, and cutting the dis- I want to thank him for his tremen- sults. abled and others is not a true state- dous leadership in continuing to craft It does nothing to promote vibrant ment of American values. the Congressional Black Caucus’ budg- economic growth, and it doubles down Mr. FERGUSON. Mr. Chairman, I et which really does reflect our Na- on bad ideas that stifle ingenuity and yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from tion’s priorities and our values, so I the spirit of entrepreneurism that we Minnesota (Mr. LEWIS). rise in strong support of this budget. need. We have a responsibility to se- Mr. LEWIS of Minnesota. Mr. Chair- As a member of the Budget and the cure our Nation’s fiscal future and im- man, I thank the gentleman from Geor- Appropriations Committees and as prove the lives of our citizens, but this gia for yielding. chair of our Task Force on Poverty, In- budget is not the way forward. Mr. Chairman, I rise today in opposi- come Inequality, and Opportunity, I Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance tion to the Congressional Black Caucus am really proud that the Congressional of my time. substitute budget if for no other reason Black Caucus budget includes $300 bil- Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Chair- that there is a price on work, savings, lion in investments into initiatives man, I yield 2 minutes to the gen- and investment. When you raise that that have proven to lift millions out of tleman from Louisiana (Mr. RICH- price too high, guess what you get? poverty. MOND), who is the chairman of the Con- You get less work, savings, and invest- For example, it restores the cuts to gressional Black Caucus. ment, and you get less economic the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Mr. RICHMOND. Mr. Chairman, let growth. Program, it extends emergency unem- me thank the ranking member of the Look at the growth rates we have ployment insurance, it expands access Committee on Education and the had over the last 10 years under astro- to affordable housing, and it also in- Workforce, BOBBY SCOTT, for his hard nomical debt and deficits. If spending creases funding for job training and work, and the rest of the CBC in put- could create an economic juggernaut, trade assistance programs. ting this budget together. we would have one now. But instead, The CBC budget creates a fair Tax Mr. Chairman, I think that what I we have got 1.5 percent growth, 1.9 per- Code that provides investments in com- am having a hard time doing is wrap- cent growth, and 2 percent growth—no- munities. It boosts GDP by $329 billion ping my mind around the same failed where near what the prospending lobby and helps create 2 million jobs. This arguments that we hear over and over would suggest. budget addresses poverty head on by again that we are going to cut trillions Yet, if you look at the 1920s, if you investing $120 billion in creating jobs, of dollars in taxes so that we can help look at the 1960s, and if you look at the $25 billion to restore our Nation’s pub- the upper middle class and the top 1 1980s—remember JFK in that famous lic housing, and $80 billion to mod- percent really, and that is somehow Economic Club of New York speech ernize our schools. going to benefit the poorest people in said that the surest way to raise reve- Also, our budget employs the 10–20–30 the country; we are going to exacer- nues is to cut tax rates now. formula championed by our assistant bate the deficit saying that we are It worked then, it worked in the leader, the gentleman from South going to create jobs. 1920s, and it will work right now as it Carolina (Mr. CLYBURN), by directing at We know it never happens, and then did in the 1980s as well. least 10 percent of Federal spending all of a sudden we find ourselves with The reason is simple. The reason is into areas with poverty rates of more an increasing debt and deficit, and then very simple. Once you lower the price than 20 percent over the last 30 years. we go to the poorest people in this of work, savings, and investment, you We will make progress toward ending country and we ask them to pay for it. not only get more of that, but you entrenched and generational poverty We cut the programs that are vital to leave more capital in the private sector that hurts families and communities. lifting them out of poverty. where it is put to use. With regard to the Pentagon, yes, we I agree with my colleague on the When you have capital put to use in require that we audit the Pentagon and other side of the aisle. My mother is a the private sector, workers become encourage DOD to implement remain- perfect example that a great education more productive, and they earn more. I ing GAO recommendations that would will lift you out of poverty and that have always said the truck driver is likely lead to tens of billions in costs having a Historically Black College much more productive with the truck, savings. and University that you can go to will and the people who have the capital This is a budget that stands with the prepare you for your future. But the that can buy the truck is what makes American people. It is a message to the problem is we don’t talk about the fact the economy go. American people that we stand with that the Republican budget cuts edu- We don’t have a revenue problem in those who are working hard to find a cation. this country. Last year, we had record job, and we stand with those working So how can we say with a straight tax revenues: $3.26 trillion, yet a deficit hard at a job with low wages. It is a face that we propose to lift people out of $587 billion. We have a spending message to the country that balancing

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We have $1 trillion in spending for yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from from Illinois (Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS), the infrastructure, the same as the Presi- Florida (Mr. GAETZ). co-chair of the Congressional Black dent has promised, but at least we pay Mr. GAETZ. Mr. Chairman, as one of Caucus’ Budget Task Force. for it. the youngest Members of Congress, I Mr. DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois. Mr. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the feel an obligation not only to my dis- Chairman, I rise in strong support of gentlewoman from Texas (Ms. JACKSON trict but to my generation. Right now the CBC alternative budget, and I com- LEE). in America, we are midway through mend Representative SCOTT and his Ms. JACKSON LEE. Mr. Chairman, the greatest wave of generational theft staff for the tremendous work that as a member of the Budget Committee, in all of human history. they have done. I find the CBC budget to be a principled The budget offered by the Congres- The CBC budget provides for all of and thoughtful budget. sional Black Caucus takes the prob- the essentials, including defense and It ends the threat of sequestration, it lems of Washington and makes all of infrastructure, but what I like most will accelerate our economic recovery, them worse by doubling down on def- about it is that it is focused on job cre- it will help eradicate poverty in Amer- icit spending and irresponsible finan- ation, rebuilding our veterans’ hos- ica, and it will reduce the deficit by ap- cial decisions. pitals, rebuilding infrastructure in our proximately $2.72 trillion over 10 years. Mr. Chairman, I tell my constituents communities, and putting people to On the other hand, the tax cut that I am on two of the scariest committees work. our Republican friends are proposing in Congress—Armed Services and Budg- Mr. Chairman, my constituents need will cause a deficit by giving a whop- et—because on the Armed Services jobs and opportunities to work. The ping $2.4-plus trillion in tax cuts, most Committee, I see every day that our CBC budget focuses on jobs. I strongly to the top 1 percent of the American adversaries are closing the capability support it, and I urge all of my col- people. gap. They are able to do more while, leagues to do the same. It will not help the young child as he after 8 years of the Obama administra- Mr. FERGUSON. Mr. Chairman, I grows to seek opportunities and jobs. tion, our military has been left in yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from This will be a bill that is at a price shambles. This budget does nothing to South Carolina (Mr. NORMAN). that is not right. If you work hard, you rebuild the military. It leaves our Mr. NORMAN. Mr. Chairman, I rise troops on the battlefield without the get less. today in opposition to this proposed Our budget, on the other hand, gives tools they need to win, and it is abso- amendment to the budget resolution. $665 billion in immediate investments lutely shameful. I think it is very important, when Mr. Chairman, when we look at the to rebuild our Nation’s crumbling in- discussing spending such as suggested budget today, we absolutely have to frastructure. It is crumbling even more before us, to remember that we do not get back on a path of fiscal discipline. so after the devastating hurricanes. It live in a fantasy world. We live in a This budget, however, doesn’t do that. gives $120 billion to fund a national di- It punishes American workers and world where resources are limited. We rect job creation program and full em- American businesses with new taxes have to make difficult choices. These ployment trust fund program. and more taxes. are the same choices every family The Acting CHAIR. The time of the It pours billions into the failed exper- makes with their budget every day of gentlewoman has expired. iment of ObamaCare. To take things a the year. Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Chair- step further, it would promote a Currently, our national debt rests at man, I yield an additional 1 minute to healthcare system that is a single- over $20 trillion. The entire U.S. GDP the gentlewoman from Texas. payer system. Not only will this bank- in 2016 was only $18.57 trillion. Ms. JACKSON LEE. It provides $80 rupt our Nation, it will bankrupt hard- Should we continue to spend money billion to fund the modernization of working Americans. that we don’t have without restraint? schools, $45 billion to fund an energy How much would premiums go up This proposal never balances. It does infrastructure modernization program, under a State-run single-payer system? raise taxes, though. With the tax in- $20 billion to expand access to $1,000 a month? $2,000? Of course, taxes creases in this proposal totaling $3.9 broadband services, $25 billion for re- would increase, too. The same families trillion, one would expect this budget capitalization, $15 billion for improving in this system would see enormous to balance. and rebuilding VA hospitals, $25 billion challenges meeting their needs because What this does do is add over $1 tril- for HUD’s Choice Neighborhoods pro- they would be funding irresponsible lion in new spending. What is another gram, and $5 billion for summer jobs spending in Washington. trillion when you are only $20 trillion for young people. So beyond making our citizens sick in debt? I can attest to the fact that, in dis- and poor, this budget would gut our de- I challenge the supporters of this pro- cussions with the Federal Communica- fense, weaken our military, and put posed budget to research the poten- tions Commission, the connectivity in more Americans in danger. Everyone tially catastrophic impacts of default- vulnerable neighborhoods and commu- here knows that the threats we face ing on our national debt. We are sad- nities is at an all-time low. Expanding are serious: ISIS, Hezbollah, North dling future generations with an unsur- broadband services is a vital need. Korea, and regional instability and vol- mountable burden. It is a vital need to expand the edu- atility across the Middle East. Yet, When our grandchildren and children cational services for this young man in bizarrely, this budget cuts funding for look back on what we have done here, order for him to be capable of taking a the global war on terror. do we want this work to be that we left job in the 21st century. There are hun- Under President Obama, readiness our country broke? dreds of thousands of jobs that go fell to the lowest levels in a century, I don’t think so. unapplied for because the skill set of GDP growth sputtered, the quality of Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues our young people have been deprived healthcare for the middle class got to not kick the can down the road and because of inadequate education. worse, and our debt skyrocketed. These to not pass this proposed amendment. This budget of the Congressional are not policies we should repeat, and Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Chair- Black Caucus is a people investor. It certainly not policies we should ex- man, can you advise how much time is invests in people. For that reason, I be- pand. remaining on both sides? lieve it is the right way to go. It bal- Instead, let’s vote for the Republican The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman ances our needs for the military and it budget that has the greatest reduction from Virginia has 71⁄2 minutes remain- provides for the American people.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:49 Oct 05, 2017 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00079 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K04OC7.107 H04OCPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with HOUSE H7832 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE October 4, 2017 The Acting CHAIR. The time of the try, the CBC Budget is clearly superior to the the dignity of work to our fellow citi- gentlewoman has again expired. Republican’s ‘‘Work Harder, Get Less’’ Budg- zens. Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Chair- et. The proposed amendment does none man, I yield an additional 30 seconds to The CBC Budget provides for $300 billion of these things. It simply perpetuates the gentlewoman from Texas. for programs that have proven instrumental in the cycle of generational poverty that Ms. JACKSON LEE. It, in fact, pro- lifting millions of Americans out of poverty. has been passed down from parent to vides that roadmap to ensure that the The funding provided will be used to restore child. American people are taken care. cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance I saw the same situation in my home- I want to make mention that it pro- Program, extend emergency unemployment town of West Point, Georgia. In fact, it vides for $300 billion for programs that insurance, expand access to affordable hous- is what motivated me to enter public are proven instrumental in lifting mil- ing, increase access to quality and affordable service and run for mayor. lions of Americans out of poverty. education, and increase funding for job train- We had a community that was dying. Shouldn’t this be what we are doing? ing and trade adjustment assistance pro- Folks were trapped in generational poverty and had been stripped of the Right now, in my district, thousands grams. are online for the disaster Food Stamp Additionally, Mr. Chair, to ensure that fed- dignity of work. Instead of continuing the current program. That program needs to be ex- eral resources are targeted more efficiently to- tended. system, we made changes. We worked wards eradicating poverty and are actually to get the government out of the way This is what we do. We do not make reaching communities most in need, the CBC people dependent. We give them a hand and allow the job creators to innovate budget proposes the codification of the ‘‘10– and grow their businesses to hire more up, not a handout. That is what the 20–30’’ policy for federal spending. budget is supposed to be: a roadmap for workers. We invested in our infrastruc- Under the ‘‘10–20–30’’ policy at least 10 ture and we were able to create over opportunity. percent of the federal funds in certain ac- I support the Congressional Black 15,000 advanced manufacturing jobs. counts are to be directed to areas that have For the first time in a generation, we Caucus budget, for that is what it is: a had a poverty rate of 20 percent for the last saw more people moving into the mid- roadmap for opportunity. 30 years. dle class than moving into poverty. Mr. Chair, I rise in strong support of the Finally, I support the CBC Budget because We made changes to our education Amendment in the Nature of a Substitute it puts an end to the draconian sequester bur- system, working to break through the (ANS) offered by the Congressional Black dening the economy and our people for the generational cycle of poverty and pre- Caucus to H. Con. Res. 71, the House Repub- last several years. pare today’s students to work in a 21st licans’ ‘‘Budget Resolution for Fiscal Year In addition, according to an analysis by the century workforce. 2018.’’ Congressional Budget Office, it will reduce the With all of these changes, we saw our I support the CBC Budget for four principal deficit by approximately $2.72 trillion over 10 community come back to life. People reasons: years. had jobs and opportunity. They took 1. It ends the threat of sequestration; Mr. Chair, it is said often, but is no less true, advantage of it. They had the advanced 2. It will accelerate our economic recovery; that the federal budget is more than a financial manufacturing sector spring back to 3. It will help eradicate poverty in America; document; it is an expression of the nation’s life, and we saw a revitalization of not and most cherished values. only our community, but of our people. 4. It will reduce the deficit by approximately As the late and great former senator and These lessons are from the folks in $2.72 trillion over 10 years. Vice-President Hubert Humphrey said: the Third District. They sent me here Mr. Chair, if we reject the House Repub- ‘‘The moral test of government is how that to push those same type of ideas here licans’ ‘‘Price Is Not Right’’ and ‘‘Work Harder in Congress. to Get Less’’ Budget with its discredited eco- government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the The Republican budget puts us on a nomic gimmicks and unrealistic projections twilight of life, the elderly; and those who path to this type of reform, and I be- and adopt the CBC Budget, we will get in- are in shadows of life, the sick, the needy, lieve my colleagues and I share the de- stead a comprehensive jobs program that and the handicapped.’’ sire to fight poverty in this country. would rebuild our nation’s infrastructure and The Republican budget resolution fails this However, I do not believe that the CBC reinvest in our communities totaling $1 trillion moral test; the CBC Budget does not. budget proposal does us that justice. over the next decade. For these reasons, I urge my colleagues to I look forward to passing the House The jobs created will accelerate our eco- budget. nomic recovery and ensure that it reaches join me in rejecting the House Republicans’ budget and voting for a better alternative, the Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance every community in America, while also mak- of my time. CBC Budget. ing the necessary investments to ensure Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Chair- Mr. FERGUSON. Mr. Chairman, I America’s long-term economic competitive- man, I yield 21⁄4 minutes to the gen- yield myself such time as I may con- ness. tleman from Maryland (Mr. BROWN). sume. Specifically, the CBC Budget will create jobs Mr. BROWN of Maryland. Mr. Chair- I certainly understand our col- by providing: man, I thank my friend from Virginia leagues’ desire to fight poverty. I 1. $665 billion in immediate investment to for yielding. would like to share a little bit of my rebuild our nation’s crumbling infrastructure; I rise in strong support of the Con- 2. $120 billion to fund a National Direct Job experience and what we have done to gressional Black Caucus budget, which Creation Program and Full Employment Trust fight poverty at the local level. is a more responsible alternative than Fund Program; For generations now, we have contin- the GOP budget. 3. $8o billion to fund the modernization of ued to throw more and more money to- A nation’s budget reflects its prior- schools; wards eliminating poverty, with fewer ities, but the GOP budget continues to 4. $45 billion to fund an energy infrastruc- and fewer results. push the wrong ones, catering to the ture modernization program; Yes, we have succeeded in alleviating wealthy and the special interests. 5. $20 billion to expand access to the effects of poverty, but we have The GOP likes to say that a rising broadband services; made very little progress in actually tide lifts every boat, but that is only if 6. $25 billion for public housing recapitaliza- lifting people out of poverty. Instead of every vessel is seaworthy. The GOP tion; giving people a hand up, we are giving budget leaves too many Americans in 7. $15 billion for improving and rebuilding them a handout and essentially telling dinghies, rubber rafts, and rowboats, V.A. hospitals and extended care facilities; them life can’t get any better than subject to being capsized. 8. $25 billion for HUD’s Choice Neighbor- where they are. That is morally wrong, It includes trillions of dollars in irre- hoods Program and for communities that des- and I think that we can do better. sponsible cuts, such as $5.4 trillion perately need revitalization; and The key to solving poverty isn’t just slashed from job-creating programs; $2 9. $5 billion for summer jobs so young per- simply throwing more money at the trillion cut from Medicaid and Medi- sons can save money to attend college and problem. It is to try something dif- care; $5 billion eliminated from invest- plan for their futures. ferent and find innovative ways to fix ments in education, research, and in- Mr. Chair, when it comes to addressing the our welfare entitlement system, im- frastructure that will prevent us from poverty that is still too prevalent in our coun- prove our education system, and return competing globally.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 03:49 Oct 05, 2017 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00080 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K04OC7.109 H04OCPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with HOUSE October 4, 2017 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE H7833 The GOP budget would devastate our cut by $1.3 trillion at the expense of I do not believe that our nation does well by economy by balancing the budget on education, infrastructure, clean energy making massive cuts to social programs while the backs of students, workers, seniors, programs, medical research, and job allowing corporations to hide trillions of dollars the disabled, and vulnerable commu- training. overseas. nities in Maryland and across our These are only some of the reasons I do not believe that our nation does well by country. why I stand tonight with my col- destroying Medicare and Medicaid for our el- And for what? leagues to support the Congressional derly and poor while pushing tax cuts for the To provide tax cuts to the top 1 per- Black Caucus budget to propose an al- top one percent. cent—people who make at least $900,000 ternative to this budget we are facing. This is not the future that I envision for our every year. The CBC’s alternative budget asks country and neither do the American people— In stark contrast, the CBC would cre- those who have done well in our coun- at least not 99 percent of them. ate a fairer Tax Code and provide for try to finally pay their fair share. Mr. Chair, the Republican Budget is not a much-needed investments in our com- Our budget seeks to invest $665 bil- true; reflection of the priorities of the American munities. Our budget would boost our lion to modernize our crumbling infra- people. GDP by $329 billion. structure. This budget serves the interest of a select I, too, Mr. Chairman, served on the The Acting CHAIR. The time of the few at the heavy cost of exploiting millions of House Armed Services Committee, and gentlewoman has expired. others. Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Chair- I stand here to say that the CBC’s We need to oppose the Republican budget man, I yield an additional 15 seconds to budget would end sequestration for our in favor of a viable alternative such as the the gentlewoman. CBC Budget Alternative, which is more reflec- military so that we can improve mili- Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of tary readiness and, at the same time, tive of the values that we treasure in our soci- Texas. Mr. Chairman, our budget looks ety. restore critical domestic programs that to invest $80 billion in our children by support working families and revitalize modernizing our schools and better b 1915 our neighborhoods. preparing our future generations to Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Chair- Rather than giving the top 1 percent compete in a global economy. man, the Congressional Black Caucus a $6 trillion tax cut, our budget would Mr. Chair, the Republican budget is a poor is a more compassionate, fiscally re- call for major investments here at reflection of the values and priorities that we sponsible alternative to the underlying home. We invest $665 billion to mod- hold dear as Americans. Republican budget and does not rely on ernize highways and infrastructure, Once again, Republicans insist on dooming unrealistic growth projections or bi- $120 billion in job-creating programs, the American people to the failed trickle-down zarre suggestions that massive tax cuts $80 billion so that every child learns in economics of the Reagan era. can pay for themselves. It makes our a modern classroom, and $15 billion to The Republican budget shifts the tax burden Tax Code fairer, protects and strength- rebuild our VA. away from the wealthiest Americans and larg- ens the Affordable Care Act, makes col- Perhaps, most importantly, Mr. est corporations and places it squarely on the lege more affordable, and ensures more Chairman, we invest $300 billion over backs of hardworking middle and lower in- Americans are lifted out of poverty. It the next decade to eradicate poverty come Americans. also improves retirement security for and provide basic standard of living to Not only would the Republican budget in- our seniors. all Americans. crease the national deficit by $2.4 trillion over With these targeted investments, our Mr. Chairman, our budget respon- 10 years, but it also foots the bill over to the budget creates 2 million jobs next year sibly pays for all of our investments. most vulnerable segments of our population and reduces our Nation’s deficit by $2.5 Our budget is a credible alternative while cutting other important social safety pro- trillion over the next decade and puts and a real plan for America, and I urge grams. us on a more sustainable path com- For example, the budget proposes to slash my colleagues to support the CBC pared to the CBO projections of our Medicaid by $1.1 trillion and Medicare for sen- budget. budget. I urge my colleagues to support Mr. FERGUSON. Mr. Chairman, I re- iors by $487 billion. Non-defense discretionary spending across the CBC budget. serve the balance of my time. Mr. Chairman, I yield back the bal- the government would also be cut by $1.3 tril- Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Chair- ance of my time. 1 man, I yield 1 ⁄2 minutes to the gentle- lion at the expense of education, infrastruc- Mr. FERGUSON. Mr. Chairman, I ture, clean energy programs, medical re- woman from Texas (Ms. EDDIE BERNICE would like to urge my colleagues to search, and job training. JOHNSON). join me in opposing the budget pre- These are only some of the reasons why I Ms. EDDIE BERNICE JOHNSON of sented by the gentleman from Virginia. Texas. Mr. Chairman, I stand here to stand with my colleagues of the Congressional Black Caucus to propose an alternative budg- This budget does nothing to address talk a little bit about the Republican our mandatory spending challenges. It budget first. It is a poor reflection of et amendment that serves the interests of the greater good, and not just a select few. never balanced. It raises taxes, it in- the values and priorities that we hold creases spending, it cuts funding to our dear in America. The CBC’s alternative budget asks those who have done well in our country to finally military. We can do better, we must do Once again, Americans insist on better, and the House budget is the way dooming the American people to the pay their fair share. Our budget seeks to invest $665 billion to forward. failed trickle-down economics of the The American people sent us here to Reagan era. The Republican budget modernize our crumbling infrastructure. Our budget looks to invest $80 billion in our get our fiscal house in order. This shifts the tax burden away from the children by modernizing our schools and bet- budget does not accomplish that goal. I wealthiest Americans and larger cor- ter preparing our future generations to com- urge my colleagues to vote against it. porations and places it squarely on the pete in a global economy. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of backs of hardworking middle- and low- Our budget looks to bring $20 billion in new my time. income Americans. This has never investment to extend broadband internet to The Acting CHAIR. The question is helped, and it won’t help now. rural areas, so that everyone—not just the on the amendment in the nature of a Not only would the Republican budg- wealthy few—can have access to high-speed substitute offered by the gentleman et increase the national deficit by $2.4 internet and access to information. from Virginia (Mr. SCOTT). trillion over 10 years, but it also foots Our budget delivers $300 billion over the The question was taken; and the Act- the bill over to the most vulnerable next decade for social programs that help pro- ing Chair announced that the noes ap- segments of our community while cut- vide millions of Americans a basic standard of peared to have it. ting other important social safety net- living. Mr. SCOTT of Virginia. Mr. Chair- work programs. This is a reflection of the values and prior- man, I demand a recorded vote. For example, the budget proposes to ities of the American people, not what is em- The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to slash Medicaid by $1.1 trillion and bodied in the Republican budget. clause 6 of rule XVIII, further pro- Medicare for seniors by $487 billion. I, for one, do not believe that our nation ceedings on the amendment offered by Nondefense discretionary spending does well by cutting taxes for the wealthiest the gentleman from Virginia will be across the government would also be Americans while increasing taxes for the poor. postponed.

VerDate Sep 11 2014 05:49 Oct 05, 2017 Jkt 079060 PO 00000 Frm 00081 Fmt 7634 Sfmt 0634 E:\CR\FM\K04OC7.110 H04OCPT1 SSpencer on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with HOUSE H7834 CONGRESSIONAL RECORD — HOUSE October 4, 2017 Mr. FERGUSON. Mr. Chairman, I a request for a recorded vote on amend- Bishop (MI) Griffith O’Halleran move that the Committee do now rise. ment No. 2 printed in House Report Bishop (UT) Grothman O’Rourke Black Guthrie Olson The motion was agreed to. 115–339, offered by the gentleman from Blackburn Hanabusa Palazzo Accordingly, the Committee rose; Virginia (Mr. SCOTT) had been post- Blum Handel Palmer and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. NOR- poned. Bonamici Harper Paulsen Bost Harris MAN) having assumed the chair, Mr. Pearce ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE ACTING CHAIR Brady (TX) Hartzler Perlmutter DUNCAN of Tennessee, Acting Chair of The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to Brat Heck Perry the Committee of the Whole House on clause 6 of rule XVIII, proceedings will Brooks (AL) Hensarling Peters the state of the Union, reported that now resume on those amendments Brooks (IN) Herrera Beutler Peterson that Committee, having had under con- Brownley (CA) Hice, Jody B. Pittenger printed in House Report 115–339 on Buchanan Higgins (LA) Poe (TX) sideration the concurrent resolution which further proceedings were post- Buck Hill Poliquin (H. Con. Res. 71) establishing the con- poned, in the following order: Bucshon Himes Polis Budd Holding gressional budget for the United States Amendment No. 1 by Mr. GRIJALVA of Posey Government for fiscal year 2018 and Burgess Hollingsworth Quigley Arizona. Bustos Hoyer setting forth the appropriate budgetary Ratcliffe Amendment No. 2 by Mr. SCOTT of Byrne Hudson Reed levels for fiscal years 2019 through 2027, Virginia. Calvert Huizenga Reichert Carbajal Hultgren had come to no resolution thereon. The Chair will reduce to 5 minutes Renacci Carter (GA) Hunter Rice (NY) f the time for any electronic vote after Carter (TX) Hurd Rice (SC) Cartwright Issa RECESS the first vote in this series. Roby Castro (TX) Jenkins (KS) Roe (TN) AMENDMENT NO. 1 IN THE NATURE OF A Chabot Jenkins (WV) The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- SUBSTITUTE OFFERED BY MR. GRIJALVA Rogers (AL) Cheney Johnson (LA) Rogers (KY) ant to clause 12(a) of rule I, the Chair Cicilline The Acting CHAIR. The unfinished Johnson (OH) Rohrabacher declares the House in recess subject to Coffman Johnson, Sam business is the demand for a recorded Rokita Cole Jones the call of the Chair. Rooney, Francis vote on the amendment offered by the Collins (GA) Jordan Accordingly (at 7 o’clock and 18 min- Ros-Lehtinen gentleman from Arizona (Mr. GRI- Collins (NY) Joyce (OH) Roskam utes p.m.), the House stood in recess. Comer Katko JALVA) on which further proceedings Ross Comstock Keating f were postponed and on which the noes Rothfus Conaway Kelly (MS) b 2045 prevailed by voice vote. Connolly Kelly (PA) Rouzer The Clerk will redesignate the Cook Kilmer Royce (CA) Ruiz AFTER RECESS amendment. Cooper Kind Correa King (IA) Ruppersberger The recess having expired, the House The Clerk redesignated the amend- Costa King (NY) Russell was called to order by the Speaker pro ment. Costello (PA) Kinzinger Rutherford Sanford tempore (Mr. COLLINS of Georgia) at 8 RECORDED VOTE Courtney Knight Scalise o’clock and 45 minutes p.m. Cramer Krishnamoorthi The Acting CHAIR. A recorded vote Crawford Kuster (NH) Schiff f has been demanded. Crist Kustoff (TN) Schneider A recorded vote was ordered. Cuellar Labrador Schrader HOUR OF MEETING ON TOMORROW Culberson LaHood Schweikert The vote was taken by electronic de- Curbelo (FL) LaMalfa Scott, Austin Mr. WOMACK. Mr. Speaker, I ask vice, and there were—ayes 108, noes 314, Davidson Lamborn Sensenbrenner unanimous consent that when the not voting 11, as follows: Davis (CA) Lance Sessions Davis, Rodney Langevin Sewell (AL) House adjourns today, it adjourn to [Roll No. 553] meet at 9 a.m. tomorrow. DeGette Larsen (WA) Shea-Porter AYES—108 Delaney Larson (CT) Shimkus The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there DeLauro Latta Adams Gabbard Norcross Shuster objection to the request of the gen- DelBene Lawson (FL) Barraga´ n Gallego Pallone Simpson Denham tleman from Arkansas? Bass Gomez Panetta Levin Sinema Dent There was no objection. Beatty Green, Al Pascrell Lewis (MN) Smith (MO) Beyer Grijalva Payne DeSantis Lipinski Smith (NE) f Blumenauer Gutie´rrez Pingree DesJarlais LoBiondo Smith (NJ) Boyle, Brendan Hastings Pocan Deutch Loebsack Smith (TX) CONCURRENT RESOLUTION ON F. Higgins (NY) Price (NC) Diaz-Balart Loudermilk Smucker THE BUDGET FOR FISCAL YEAR Brady (PA) Huffman Raskin Donovan Love Speier 2018 Brown (MD) Jackson Lee Richmond Duffy Lowey Stefanik Butterfield Jayapal Roybal-Allard Duncan (SC) Lucas Stewart Duncan (TN) Luetkemeyer The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursu- Capuano Jeffries Rush Stivers Dunn Lujan Grisham, ant to House Resolution 553 and rule Ca´ rdenas Johnson (GA) Ryan (OH) Suozzi Emmer M. Carson (IN) Johnson, E. B. Sa´ nchez Swalwell (CA) XVIII, the Chair declares the House in Eshoo MacArthur Castor (FL) Kaptur Sarbanes Taylor the Committee of the Whole House on Estes (KS) Maloney, Sean Chu, Judy Kelly (IL) Schakowsky Tenney the state of the Union for the further Clark (MA) Kennedy Scott (VA) Esty (CT) Marchant Farenthold Marino Thompson (CA) consideration of the concurrent resolu- Clarke (NY) Khanna Scott, David Thompson (PA) Clay Kildee Serrano Faso Marshall Thornberry tion, H. Con. Res. 71. Cleaver Lawrence Sherman Ferguson Massie Tiberi Will the gentleman from Michigan Clyburn Lee Sires Fitzpatrick Mast Tipton Cohen Lewis (GA) Slaughter Fleischmann Matsui (Mr. MITCHELL) kindly take the chair. Torres Conyers Lieu, Ted Smith (WA) Flores McCarthy Trott b 2046 Crowley Lofgren Soto Fortenberry McCaul Cummings Lowenthal Takano Foster McClintock Tsongas IN THE COMMITTEE OF THE WHOLE Davis, Danny Luja´ n, Ben Ray Thompson (MS) Foxx McHenry Turner Accordingly, the House resolved DeFazio Lynch Tonko Franks (AZ) McKinley Upton Valadao itself into the Committee of the Whole Demings Maloney, Vargas Frelinghuysen McMorris DeSaulnier Carolyn B. Vela Gaetz Rodgers Veasey House on the state of the Union for the Dingell McCollum Vela´ zquez Gallagher McNerney Visclosky further consideration of the concurrent Doggett McEachin Wasserman Garamendi McSally Wagner resolution (H. Con. Res. 71) estab- Ellison McGovern Schultz Garrett Meadows Walberg Engel Meeks Waters, Maxine Gianforte Meehan Walden lishing the congressional budget for Espaillat Meng Watson Coleman Gibbs Messer Walker the United States Government for fis- Evans Moore Welch Gohmert Mitchell Walorski cal year 2018 and setting forth the ap- Frankel (FL) Nadler Wilson (FL) Gonzalez (TX) Moolenaar Walters, Mimi propriate budgetary levels for fiscal Fudge Nolan Yarmuth Goodlatte Mooney (WV) Walz Gosar Moulton Weber (TX) years 2019 through 2027, with Mr. NOES—314 Gottheimer Mullin Webster (FL) MITCHELL (Acting Chair) in the chair. Abraham Arrington Barton Gowdy Murphy (FL) Wenstrup The Clerk read the title of the con- Aderholt Babin Bera Granger Neal Westerman current resolution. Aguilar Bacon Bergman Graves (GA) Newhouse Williams Allen Banks (IN) Biggs Graves (LA) Noem Wilson (SC) The Acting CHAIR. When the Com- Amash Barletta Bilirakis Graves (MO) Norman Wittman mittee of the Whole rose earlier today, Amodei Barr Bishop (GA) Green, Gene Nunes Womack

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