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Remaining electronic votes will be conducted as fivevotes. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the Unfinished Business is the vote on the motion of the gentlewoman from missouri, mrs. Wagner to suspen pass h. R. 4723 as amended on which the yeas and nays are ordered. The clerk will report the title. The clerk h. R. 4723, a bill to provide forget the imposition of sanctions with respect to foreign persons undermining the dayton Peace Agreement or threatening the security of bosnia or herzgovenia or for otherestion is will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill as amended. Members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a 15minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] i the speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 365 nays are 30. 2 3 being in the affirmative the rules are suspended the bill is passed, and without objection the motion to reconsider table. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, th on the motion of the gentlewoman from missouri, mrs. Wagner to suspend the rules and agree to House Resolution 149 as amended on which the yeas and nays are ordered. The clerk will report the title. The clerk House Resolution 149 resolution condemnin illegal abduction of children from ukraine to the russian federation. The speaker pro tempore the question is, will the house suspend the rules and agree to the r members will record their votes by electronic device. This is a fiveminute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc. , in cooperation with the United States house of representatives. Any use of the closedcaptioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u. S. House of representatives. ] vote the yeas are 390 and the nays 9. The motion to reconsider is laid on the table. Without objection the title is amended. The house will be the house will be in order. The house will be in order. For what purpose seek recognition . Mr. Speaker i remove myself as cosponsor of h. R. 1139. The speaker pro tempor granted. For what purpose does the gentlelady from pennsylvania seek recognition . Ms. Wild i hereby remove myself as a cosponsor of h. Res. 106 the speaker pro tempore the request is granted. For what purpose does the gentleman from california seek mr. Speaker i hereby remove myself as cosponsor from House Resolution 1068. The speaker pro tempore the request is granted. For what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition . Mr. Speaker i hereby remove myself as a the speaker pro tempore the request is granted. For what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition . Mr. Speaker i hereby remove myself as a cosponsor from House Resolution 1068. The speaker pro tempore the request is granted. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. Members are advised to take their conversations outside. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair will now entertain requests for oneminute speeches. For what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania rise and seek recognition . Mr. Speaker request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Speaker the house is still not in order. Onversations elsewhere. Thank you. The gentleman is recognized. Mr. Thompson thank you mr. Spea rise to recognize National Agriculture day. Today is the day for congress to come together and share their appreciation. This day serves to highlight the vital work our Farmers Ranchers foresters and farm workers do to supply us the highest quality food, fiber and fuel in human history. Agriculture touches our lives daily. If youve eaten today thank a farmer. If farmer. Agriculture also provides the Foundation Upon which the entire American Economy rests. Its more important than ever to ensure our farmers, ranchers and foresters have their voices heard in the halls of congress. Its whyts m to represent farm families in Rural America as the chairman on the committee of agriculture. Rural america deserves policies that help, and global competitiveness. Consumers deserve affordable and abundant food, fiber and fuel. Every far across nearly 40 states says the same thing. They want a government to work for them, not against them. Getting a farm bill across the finish and each authorization has its own unique set of challenges. This years farm bill can show the best of american farmers. And we have their backs. With that i thank you and yield back the balance of my time. E the gentlemans time has expired. For what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition . Ind to revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Without objection. Mr. Payne mr. Speaker, i rise today to commitment to American Families. Recently actions in alabama have led a nationwide discussion on the fertilization or i. V. F. Pregnancy treatments. And more than eight million babies have been born through i. V. F. Its helped create parents and families nationwide. But the republicans want to ban i. V. F. Across the country. First, republicans want to force women to have children. Now they want to stop women from having them. It is very confusing and very hypocritical. Democrats want women to choose when they have their children. And we want to protect that right. And with the Womens Health protection act american women should make Reproductive Health choices, not politicians and with that i yield back. Gentleman from tennessee seek recognition . Mr. Burchett i ask to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Burchett id let the people in the back know there are plenty of seats in the front if its too crowded. Thank you mr. Speaker. I rise to honor my dear friend joe landsman retiring from his position of c. E. O. Of the april. Joe started the u. T. Medical center in 1999 and has been the c. E. O. Since 2005. In that time he significantly increased the hospitals patient capacity and services and added clinics and Regional Health clinics across eastern tennessee. He renovated and addedit built parking garages to accommodate those coming to the medical center. He treated his employees well and drove everyone to success. During his time as c. E. O. , the hospitals revenue increased to 451 . Only the most passionate and effective leaders can achieve that. The u. T. Medical center received many awards under his leadership. One of his favorites from the u. S. News world report named it one of the best hospitals in 2012. The news came on his birthday. The u. T. Medical center wouldnt be the great hospital it is today leadership. I wish my dear good friend joe luck in his retirement and heath gray the best as he takes over at position. Thank you mr. Speaker. And i yield back the remainder of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back. For what purpose does the gentlelady from new mexico seek recognition . Ms. Leger fernandez i ask to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. O tempore without objection, the gentlelady is recognized. Ms. Leger fernandez mr. Speaker, i rise to honor new Mexico State Police officer justin hair, a dedicated Law Enforcement officer and protector of our communities. He was known for his kindness and consideration for those who travel new mexicos long roads. Last week, he stopped to help a driver on the with a flat tire. That driver tragically shot and killed officer hair. Officer haire he coached sports and lent a helping hand. His partner their daughters and their unborn child they expected in september. Today, we officer hare and the community he loved so dearly. I send his condolences to the new Mexico State Police. Send them a quiet prayer of remembrance for officer hare. I yield back. Lelady yields back. I ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my the speaker pro tempore without objection the gentleman is recognized for one minute. I rise today to recognize blair county deputy sheriffs kiss to haver hanna and brandon lazure and quick thinking to stop the effects overdose that a blair county woman is still alive today. Deputy hanna and deputy lazure were aware of the signs and symptoms. They did not hesitate to step up and help to save a human being. Upon recognizing that the woman was deputies called an ambulance and delivered the appropriate doses of a drugs to reverse the effects of an overdose. On behalf of people of pennsylvanias 13th Congressional District im grateful for these deputies to serve our community. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition . I request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection. The gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Speaker i rise today to honor the the life of steven masken. He was born september 17, 1960 and graduated in made friends. A hard worker and seeking perfection he worked and e and loved get away to the beach and he was a very proud grandfather, a father and devoted member of a big family. He supported the kids in our western pennsylvania and he was tough and he was always the guy that brought out the best in us. He passed away on march 6 he was 1963. He is missed by his wife ruth and three children and siblings, nephews and grandchildren. To the masken family, our Community Mourns steves passing. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back the balance of his time for what purpose does the gentleman from california mr. Schiff seek recognition . Mr. Schiff i remove myself as cosponsor of h. Res. 1068. Your request isrom georgia seek recognition . Mr. Carter i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection. The gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Carter i rise today to remember the life of arthur ginlett junior. He served and retired as president his remarkable 40year career and elected to serve as eight terms as chairman of theity system of georgia and Georgia House of representatives. Art was appointed and georgia and member of other boards and the metro authority. He was armstrong Georgia International maritime and bethesda union society. A devout member of the price beer tarrian he are as was best known for his devotion to his wife molly two six grandchildren. Thank you. And i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back the balance of hiswhat purpose does gentlelady from state of washington seek recognition . I request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Thank you mr. Speaker i rise today to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the oso that tragic day 43 people lost their lives when a hillside collapsed town and burying it in mud. Washington state was changed. Among the victims w a nurse and Elementary School students and beloved members of their tight knit community along state route 530 and we remember them mark 10 years since this tragedy and it feels like it was yesterday, i extend condolences to the friends and family victims. We need to work tow future. I worked to increase funding for Emergency Communications in support of the National Landslide preparedness act which ensures that we understand what a landslide is likely. People of oso and the vowbding communities, my hard is withou today. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from South Carolina seek recognition . Mr. Wilson i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection mr. Wilson with biden no, maamics American Families have endured the highest inflation costing 12,000 more annually to buy basics including housing and heritage foundat 40year low. The average Monthly Payment has risen from 1500 a month. What mr. Biden fails to recognize, Interest Rate and real income growth. House republicans will continue to fight to reduce inflation and create jobs mike johnson. As a former real Estate Attorney myself i appreciate the industry as it ishe basis for good schools and safe. God bless our troops who are defendeds it moves from afghanistan to america. We do not need new border laws. Safely opened borders for dictators. As warped by the f. B. I. Our prayers today for the family of dan kildee. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentlewoman from ohio seek . I request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. Ms. Kaptur mr. Speaker, during this womens History Month i rise to tell the story of a constituent struggling to deal with our care system. Yesterday, i hosted a round table in toledo with Hakeem Jeffries and norhealth care community. During this round table a constituent told us the story of her niece diagnosed with breadth cancer and employed by a Company Based in texas and works remotely in northwest ohio and takes care of her elderly grandmother and her employer is out of state local ohio facilities would not accept her because she is outside the Carrier Network and delayed treatment for cancer and does bt want to be alone but being squeezed between the size of our Health Insurance system. If members cannot help their own family navigate their own system. This provider failure is unacceptable. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition . I request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Lamalfa thank you mr. Speaker, today the United States is nag ag day. This is the day that food on your table came from somewhere and isnt just a supermarket or taco from the hard work from a farmer, rancher producing for all of us. And one of goals here as a member of the ag committee is to make sure they can keep food on the table. Americducts of the highest quality and responsibility as far as labor environment and the whole works. They still need the tools to be able to do that. We need to pass more immediately another fiveyear farm bill. And we need to have the inputs and water supply thats steady and growing as the population growsnd the water supply. And sustaining agriculture has been so happy national ag day. Food on your plate came from a farmer. If you are going toomplmer, dont do it with your mouth full. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california seek recognition . I request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. In a time when books and libraries are under attack i rise to celebrate National Library week april 7. Libraries begin people together and Foster Collaboration from story timend summer lunches for kids to continuing education and book clubs our libraries are a place for all. In Orange County our Library System served 3 Million People including my family andinstitutions are targets of extremists hateful he sensorship all americans are free to read, learn and read together. During week, recognize the value that libraries bring to all our communities and recommit to supporting these importanti yield. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek reek anything recognition . Mr. Tonko i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute ae without objection. The gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Tonko i recognize the students of south glen f as they celebrate another year of extraordinary commitment to their community and hosted marathon dance a student led event to raise money from dedicated organizations to local families in need. They raised 750,000 adding to a total of raised since 1978 i was honored to join them where i saw firsthand the enthusiasm and compassion keep this tradition alive united by music and dance and spirit of giving these leaders demonstrate the power in a commitment to community to do tremendous good. To the students, i extend my giving and my thanks of filling me with inspiration. Go bulldogs, you are caring and inspirational and strength for our future. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from north carol recognition . I request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection. The gentleman is recognized for one minute. Our nation counts on every single day. Mr. Speaker, i may add theres nothing more exciting than seeing iconic blue jacket in f. F. A. Emblem and a young person wearing it who is interested inure. I can attest firsthand to the talent passion and dedication of our young agricultural leaders who are a lifeline. In north carolina, agriculture is our leading industry and in the east, a big part of our heritage and way of life. Agriculture plays a crucial role in saving the future of our region. No time than now to recognize the significance of our Agriculture Community as we continue cultivating our agricultural leaders of tomorrow. Mr. Speaker, thank you. And i yield back. Mr. Schweikert were going to walk through the borrowing numbers off the treasurys website so theyre up to date on whats happening and i need to do it over and over because i need to get this place to understand how fast the numbers are moving away from us. Number three, were going to do some thought experiments. Im going to showjg you in ideas in technology that could actually fairly substantially change the borrowing and deb ok. First off, for some of the folks last appreciate forbes put up on youtube last weeks floor speech and it has 640,000 people that viewed it. Wonderful. But then you read some of the comments and half the comments ar from russian troll farms or iranian troll farms or theyre bots and its lunacy. But every once in a while you get people, how many people are in the chamber . Theyre not supposed to be here. The work of the day is done andour floor speeches. Theyre still in Committee Late at night. Its 7 30 here in washington. If theyre hanging out their offices reading but one of the reasons you do these presentations i do them is youre probably on a thousands televisions around this campus right now. And maybe theres some staffers who all of a sudden are willing to listen to math. Remember our running joke, this is a mathfree zone . Second thing and im just going to do this one because im tired of peo stop being tight. Being trite. The scale of the debt problem is real. Whether youre on the left or the right, you have to move our mouths saying were going to raise taxes on rich people and you get 1. 7 g. D. At 1. 6 . I can find you 1 to 2 of cuts. But if youre borrowing 9. 6 of g. D. P. Which we are this year, youre not really moving the needle. So one of thend how absurd and how stupid excuse me, thats not fair. I take that back. I apologize. Please take this seriously. So when you have the person that says maybe it was a bot and you see in the0 if you just got rid of congressional salaries. Were probably overpaid for our work product. In an entire year, every u. S. Senator, every member of the house, get rid of their salaries. It would cover 16 minutes of borrowing in an entire year. In a day it would cover 2. 6 seconds of borrowing. But this is what we call just its fun rhetoric and its stupid math. And when you have someone willing to say things like that, it onc shows youre not willing to understand the scale. The scale that is moving against this country. Remember over and over and over, its debt that so lets go through some of the other math and then there are a number of things were going to go through here. Just try to understand how absurd whats going on. I grab the economist magazine, wonderful magazine, a little liberal and european centric. You see their cover. Their cover is trying to make the point we have actually a remarkably healthy economy considering all the stupid thats gone on. Yet, what does it mean to you magazines like this are actually doing covers saying, well the amazing American Economy is still growing and yet at the same time last week i was here and told you we were borrowing 95,000 a second. Now its no longer 95,000 its 98,5 a00 a second. If we try a little harder, maybe well get over 100,000 a second. If you go over the last 365 days as o today were borrow ing over 98,000 a second. And almost every dime of that growth and borrowing is interest and different types of health care. And yet when we look at these i keep trying sorry. I keep trying over and over and over, every dime. So think of this as just this is a updated version. Heres what we call discretionary in the blue or purple whatever color that is. Half of that is defense. About half of that is everything you think of is government, the f. B. I. , the park service you know Everything Else other than mandatory ed benefits. Every dime a member of Congress Votes on is borrowed. All defense is borrowed. All discretionary is borrowed. And were heading towards a time where we may actually see and this is off. If we actually get close 2. 8 trillion and all discretionary is about 2 trillion. Start thinking about that. You have billion of medicare things of that nature, borrowed, shouldnt that actually start to create a little sense of stress panic . Are we going to continue to play the game around here where the left lies, going to raise taxes, and we do stupid things, if we got rid of foreign aid yes, it would take care of a whole week or what im asking for is to think with calculator, we have to change policies in a bigtime way to save this country. Its going to be complex. Its going to be hard. Youre going to have to read and read and read and understand. But there is hope. I can show you over come to the floor and said if you do these things can you crash the price of health care, and if you do this with the government. Yet the hallways are full of people theyre not here to help us cut spending, theyre here to themselves. They want money. They want to either defend their bureaucracies or defend their Business Models and they use congress a barrier to entry. Lets walk through some more of this. Hand that to you. One of my other frustrations is how plan so last may when we were supposed to be building the 2024 budget, a year ago may. And were going to vote on the rest of it this week which shows weve been. But we were too busy trying to get rid of a speaker. And think of this in that time we were fighting over 16 billion, were9 billion a day. So weve gone how many months and we never got around to actually working on the real the theatrics around here. So the Congressional Budget Office last year said hey we may on 1. 744 billion. I like to use gross numbers instead of publicly borrowed, and the trust funds because weve got to pay them back and we pay interest to the trust funds and when you borrow out of medicare or transportation, we do borrow that money right out and goes to treasury and out the door and give them a treasury note i. O. U. s with then o. M. B. , office of management and budget, last june said hey were only going to borrow 1. 988 trillion in the 2024 fiscal year. And that bottom number is just what weve already borrowed to date. Which if you work it out per month, youre looking at a number of 2. 9 trillion. How do we keep missing the number by a trillion dollars . Is that part of the scam . Is that part of the game . You say to give up a number prediction and thats what the talking heads on the newspaper and radios and the press fix eightn because its in their little book and theyre not paying attention to every day, the first board i showed you, go on treasurys wsite and do the math yourself and see where were actually at. And part of one of the drivers is nothing you get to vote on here. Is the continuation of rising Interest Rates. So ive had to adjust this. Todays 10 years, i think it was at 4. 3. This is the blend Interest Rate which means lets see if i can make it make sense. You have a country with about 34. 5 trillionf borrowing but its really closer to 27 trillion is sold to the public. The rest of that is borrowed internally. At is sold to the public has a couple factors on its duratio 10year or a 30year, these are bonds these are notes, these are paper. Theyre just different names for the different duratio were sold years ago when Interest Rates were basically close to zero. This year in the the new issuances of bonds because of our current borrowing and then the refinancing of old theres about 10 trillion that is subject to the new Interest Rates. So bonds are rolling off. Then you saw when we had the stress bond auction last november where the marketmakers had to buy 24 of it . And a couple weeksut and says hey maybe well start selling shorter on the curve so that way we know we have the demand but yes, were paying higher premiums on it. So every couple weeks we get the calculation of what our interest load is andt keeps ticking up on us. And im going to show a couple boards here. Interest on outstanding debt, the nonnegotiable is the debt internally. Publicly held is 3. 259 and may continue to tick up as they go shorter on this is geeky. If you dont like math please go watch something else. But were selling more and short because theres demand there. But that interest, we are paying a premium. And then you want to know why the debt and borrowing keeps going up . Its about how were financing. What that ends up creating is this situation here where my predictions and ill take responsibility if im wrong because understand, my darkness is about 1 trillion over what our Congressional Budget Office says what office of management and budget said but so far ive been right. I also look at it every single day where they put out a number and several months go by. Were right now on track for coming in over 2. 8 trillion borrowing. And remember, i just showed you agazine saying wow isnt it amazing how healthy the u. S. Economy is . How do you borrow close to 3 publicly borrowed and internal borrowing, how do you borrow close to 3 trillion when the economy is good . Need you to think about this because Tax Collections are notff from the historical average when we have had very high marginal rates and low marginal rates 17 1 2 18 1 2 sometimes 19 comes in as taxes. Does this let you know there is something structural out there . And its theittle secret we know but afraid to say because it gets us unelected and tell the truth where the of is borrowing from today for the next 30 years will be interest, health and eight or nine years when the Social Security trust fund is emptied out and let the immorality of doubling senior poverty in america seniors taking a cut or do we backfill it revenues and if we do those three things that is 100 of the borrowing everything is modeled to be flat. General fund and related to discretionary has a slightly positive over the next 30 years. Its demographics. We are not supposed to say that around here because itrt someones feelings. I brought the chart with update, this c has more deaths than births. What are we doing to plan for the reality . Heading towards a have 2. 3, 2. 4 workers for every person on Social Security. Swan. You see it and dont do anything about it because we are too busy knifing each other because its good politics. And now we have done the updates again and our update is no longer this year interest in this we get it accurate. Our latest model says interest in the 2024 fiscal yea win 1 trillion 76 billion. When i came here a couple of months ago i got mocked and i told my, you making things up. Well turns out im right. Mr. Speaker pro tempore why dont we seriously . We sit here and fight its real money we fight over but in the same day we will spe all day a few million here which is important and im willing to cut these things. But we are picking penneys off the ground as the avalanche is crushing us. We borrowed 8 9 billion that day when we are fighting over millions. A has 12 zeros. So i will put up this slide our prediction slide and i make another point. Heres how spending will work this year, how people will understand the highering arcky. And this is an earned you worked in america and worked 40 quarters but if you earned this the next biggest spend in your government isnt from running tax or trust fund, its borrowing. And both net and gross the difference here once again is netted is just the interest we pay out the door that paid out our bonds and and medicare and all the other trust funds both. Are coming in as the second biggest expense. Numbers medicare. Number 4 is defense. Hey, whats the number one spend in u. S. Government and what is number two . And if you think Interest Rates are going to crash down, the decade was a fantasy. We are just now getting back, if you remove the previous decade with the value of money manipulation and remove that and 35year average we arent high enough to be in the 35year average yet. The sanity has to come to an end here. This is reality. And this is one of my continuing frustration, i keep looking at c. B. O. And tried to work with them. They do their best and have to operate h g. D. P. Growth and heres what treasury that receipts are going to come in. And then, but over and over and over we keep missing the numbers. And if you start missingnu trillion dollars . Makes the job a littlericky when the people you rely on, the data you rely on remember last october oh, fed is going to start cutting and inflation hasnt really gone down. We spent too much money and the left wing Academic Studies that wanted to blame supply chain had that as part of it, but some of them said halfy chain and 40 but supply chains are fixed. Here we are a couple years05 we still running hot again . We are paying the price for spending money in ways that did not actually spike productivity. When you subsidize things do you get the best ways to produce it. Doesnt and theres a level of production and the product and reinvestment in your capital. And difference between side and investments and productivity gains. And you seen where you have inflation and the last two months. Sole expect these Interest Rates to continue. If you live in scottsdalephoenix area androm january, 2021 until last month two months ago if you are not making 23. 6 more you are poorer today than you were in that january, to know why people are cranky and brothers and sisters in the working class if you arent making 23. 6 more than that january 2021 date, poorer today. And look, you want to go down the rabbit hole, part. The debt equalizees the entire size of this economy. Just the debt. You are going to pay it off. From an economic standoff. Be joyful if we stabilize it. The debt can only grow if we are being productive. Right now, you have a problem in 2023 at that time and this is publicly held debt, not my gross debt. We borrowed 2. 6 trillion from the public and the estimate the economy grew by 1. 5. But that delta that kills you. So you only grow debt. And maybe get to more discipline and technology and better ways to do things and separate those because the interest doesnt buy you anything. Im not going to have you deal with some of these. Now heres where you light yourself. And i hurt peoples feelings. Remember a mom ago i was trying to explain the drivers of primary u. S. Sovereign debt. Theber was 116 trillion of borrowing and that is from a year or two ago. Our number is close to 130 trillion of borrowing. If you are a decade from retirementnd live another 20 years you have to understand the level of what we have to do to the u. S. Level to your savings. You dont think this isnt going to crush your retirement. I accept im an old dad and i have old and eight old. My little boy when he is 23 years old i believe is the number u. S. Tes tax has to be double of what it has today just to cover baseline spending no pandemic, just baseline. If you plan to be around here in 20 some years a prepared to have your taxes doubled . Thats the math. This is a mathfree zone. m pitching to yourselfinterest . Do you care . There are solutions. But the hard part of is to and medicare, if we back Social Security when the care is gone eight nine years and interest we are paying. The rest of the budget positive balance meaning it comes in under the growth curv going to talk about first understanding one of the key problems in our society and think of thought experiments and can we be creative and be disruptive, what cano to be healthier more produce produce society . Some of the things that are wrong here. The u. S. Is an outliar in disease and disability trends. We are dramatically thicker than much of the rest of the industrialized ok. Its just math. We have the data, you are smart if you punishing yourself to watch an idiot like me talk, you dont have a wrong in the u. S. We are sicker than much of the rest of the world. And the fact of the matter is and Health Care Costs are the primary driver of u. S. Debt. Ok. What are the good things . We do to disrupt that . There are a couple of amazing articles for my democcrati how important taking on income inequality abstract that say, is it education . Turns out health above Everything Else in the disparity of creating incomenequity. Poor, rural poor, and you look at it and when diabetes is 33 of our Health Care Spending in america why doesnt it go nuts . We did something that is absurd. So Inflation Reduction Act gives it to the big phrma that on insulin at the same time 75 miles from here and coop making insulin cheaper than the subsidized price. Why wouldnt we take a fraction of that money we want everyone to give us the best product and best prices. Im going to show a weird technology as part of the thought experiment. They subsidized the very big phrma thatwas gouging people and then you crush the competition and coming in competition because they cant come in the subsidized price. This is the absurdity of this place. We need more ofthis. You start to see the curve finally, you see the breakthroughs in synthetic about a. I. , the Artificial Intelligence is about to have a revolution in bringing cures to market. Atically faster. Dramatically faster. We had the first couple of a. I. Drugs designed to make it through the f. D. A. A couple of six weeks ago we had the First Genetic drug, cures sickle cell anemia. Seexcu sickle cell. And what we learned from that technology theres more coming. How do we make it possible that it doesnt take 00 million or 1 billion to bring one of these drugs to market when we now have the ability to crunchata in ways that we were never able to do before, to understand efficacy and safety and effectiveness. We could do it by policy. Is that republican or democrat . Or is that just sort of joining into this century . This is a wderful point out the Capital Markets are starting to spend money in places to cure people. F the most moral things we can do, and one of the most powerful things we can do for u. S. Sovereign debt, make americans sick. This is where ill get some nasty comments. Almost half, and i brought the charts and the reports and the academic study so if diabetes is 33 of all spending, half of human diseases, so theres 3,000plus human conditions. Half of them are related to obesity do we think about things we could do in farm policy, in nutrition policy, in helping our brothers and sisters live better healthier more prosperous,able to join into the labor force formation, crushing income inequality is that republican or democrat . Yes it will really, really annoy a bunch of need sick people. But even they have souls. Were on cusp of miracles. Why are we doing this . Poor health reduces labor force participation. This is chart except for the fact, this is from Goldman Sachs. And they were just doing this thought experiment. These semiglutides, i think theres a generic one going to be here in may theres a couple of great articles if you want to use your favorite Search Engine about some small molecule versions that will cost dramatically less to make. Its going to be competition. Prices are coming down. These are glp1s. They were doing the thought experiment of what would happen, what would happeet healthier . As a society . Ok. Is that republican or democrat . Be the most powerful thing we could do for u. S. Sovereign debt. Ready to step up and take on the armies of lobbyists here who are upset with us every time we come up with remember when we wer telehealth . Before the pandemic, telehealth was one of the most lobbied against technologies in washington d. C. And then the pandemic hit and it turns out people had figured out how to work their phone. Believe in the american people. Stop treating them like children. But also stop coddling those who make money off of our illnesses. So lets actually tak this was fascinating and i once again, i want to thank joint economic republican staff for being willing to go down the the Goldman Sachs economist and try towns how they got these numbers. The basic pitch here is, they were trying figure out if there was a wider use and accessibility for the semiglutides glp1s these are the this hormone yours gut produces to tell you youre full. They helped reduce help reduce obesity in america. They were coming up with, it actually had a substantial on growing the economy. It increased g. D. P. Its at least worthying about. This is a thought experiment portion of. Think about it. So if i came to you tomorrow, actually today. Lets do it right now. And said, i need something from you, we could roll out and in the next six months, we could have a major effect on reducing u. S. Ing. Ok. I have all sorts of things i could cut my brothers and sisters on the left want to raise taxes on people but i need a policy that you could have a major effect. We have multiple Academic Studies that make it clear of u. S. Health care spending is people actually not adhearing to their i have, can you believe i have high Blood Pressure . As long as i take my calcium inhibitor i dont stroke out. You know. Its a pill that costs in many ways its pepnis. Been off patent for decades and decades. As long drug adherence, 16 of u. S. Health care spending is people not adhearing to their pharmaceutical policy or whatever the right way to say that. You do realize 16 of u. S. Health care spending is to 600 billion . What if you get a third of that. What if i said we can get 200 billion of savings and make our brothers and sisters healthier and maybe fewer of them dieing . Turns out there are crazy simple Little Things like the pill bottle cap that just beeps at you if you dont open it in the morning. And its like 99 cents. How many of us have a phone that the pharmacy, the Doctors Office however you want to do it could beep at you andemember, its that time. You should really do this. Its not the way thi this place thinks about subsidies. Giveaways. So remember. The obamacare. A. C. A. It was a finance bill. It was wh had to pay and who got subsidized and much federal money also went into subsidizing it. It was a financing package. The republican alternative is amedicare for all is a financing bill. How about the revolution of thought. Why dont we change what we pay . By brothers and sisters healthier. Or maybe curing some thins. So this is one of the simplest thought experiments i can give you. If u. Shealth care, 16 of it is people not engaging in adherence whyt republican or democrat . Or is that just the adoption of technology . Is it just trying to be creative . Theres other quirky things. Ersonal fascination. I am blessed to have a couple of staffers doing experiments with some of the different wearables. It actuall use the data to help them stay healthier to find out their bodies. Because the beauty of, you get data off you for 24 days a week, it starts to tell you things. When i ate that my body didnt like it. When i slept this way my body did like it. These have crashed in price. Theres even some Health Insurance Companies Working with you saying will you do a wearable . Look, couple of years ago i came here, i met a material science professor who had come up with a thing we called it was something you blew into, it was a breath biopsy. It could almost tell you within a couple of minute a couple of mo y type, cat girl of virus. It could bang off your health records. And then could order your antivirals. Would that help us . Would that make us healthier . Would that cut down the cycle time so you dont wait in the waitingm . Yes. Except the problem is, in most places that technology would be illegal. Because it would be the algorithm writing a prescription. Every time i say this, i will get someone who says, david were going to try to run ads against you becausee make money writing prescriptions. Im just trying to make america healthier and trying to find a way to take down the debt so we dont crush ourselves. The adoption of technology that if its as accurate and statistically a model like that is more accurate than you and i can be as we promote it . Why dont we allow people the freedom to take care of themselves when using technology . All right. Now heres a crazy one. Im going to do this one because it amused me. Remember how a couple of minutes ago i was complaining aboutdemocrats and the way they approached insulin because it was a Great Campaign issue . But it was technologically vacuous. So heres one. How about if you had take on a couple of dollars or actually just helped this, so it turns out they have succeeded at doing a d. N. A. Tweak to some cattle and the cattle will produce insulin at a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of the price. And you could actually do different tweaks for different types of insulin. Its i mean, im just starting to read the academic article. But it exists. These are quirky solutions. When you have debates around here it becomes a debate of, give a or give away more money. Its not embrace something that disrupts and makes people healthier and actually at the same time doesnt blows. Debt and deficits. You can be moral and also have a fiscal brain around here. It just requires some literacy, maybe being a mathfree zone we dont read things. I subscribe to a of crazy journals so i come up with this stuff. I guess my reason for the thought experiment, mr. Speaker were in real trouble. There is hope. But the hope only works if this body finds to think differently. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore under the speakers announced policy of january 9 2023, the chair recognizes florida, mrs. Cammack for 30 minutes. ] the speaker pro tempore the gentlelady is recognized. Mrs. Cammack thank you, mr. Speaker. I ask unanimous consent that all members h legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and submit extraneous materials. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mrs. Cammack i rise today in honor of a beloved and invaluable neighbor who will be remembered by our community for years to come. His name was alfonso lee gordon sr. , affectionately known as mr. Al. He passed away unexpectedly last year. He was an institution at the Marion County board of county commissioners and a proud army he loved hosting annual banquets bringing in cupcakes for coworkers and providing radio for emergency telecommunicators for Public Safety during emergencies including hurricanes and severe storms of which florida is no stranger. He was a friend to all who knew him as he gave so much of himself every day. He was a true Public Servant and his loss came as a shock to everyone who treasured his friendship. Several members of our team worked closely with him in Marion County and remember him fondly for his smile and helping hand you mr. Al, for having served our community. The lives you touched wont forget and can never repay your hand of friendship. Thank you. Thank you mr. Speaker i rise in celebration of gator nations juan gilbert a professor from the university of florida he has p hd on Computer Science and dedicates name to the society of black engineers and mentors students and has 17 publications and 40 awards and distinctions. Its impressive. His entire career is decorated with works and i would like to recognize dr. Gilbert the National Medal of technology the highest people who have given betterment. Applied for his expertise he is of universal Voting System of elections around the world. This honor is a one not just for mr. Gilbert but the entire university of florida. I have never our beloved university and the talent that it brings to gainesville and the world. This is no exception. Thank you dr. Gilbert for your commitment to serving our country and go gators. Mr. Eaker, rise today to honor mr. Alajuwan vetan of year. Mr. White serves as and he works to help vet lance to compensation and Educational Assistance and so much more. His caree began in the United States navy and he was a surgical technician and worked with the the county as a senior claims counselor working with claims and ling sessions for our veterans. He has experience working with the v. A. As a fieldxaminer in tampa. Outside his capacity, he works hard to engage veterans turning what was once a quiet area for our heroes where veterans know they will receive the attention and support and local level. It was an honor to recognize him in january for his hard work. He is a treasured member of our community and irreplaceable congratulations. Thank you mr. Speaker i rise to recognize two constituents of mine rodney and loretta tyree southern barbecue and thousands of floridians were left without power. The Small Community of jasper is a tightknit community and when disaster struck they struck. They worked to serve using a standby generator providing meals to homes or businesses. They worked out of the kindness of their hearts. And its folks like this family that makes the best place live and work and play. Rode and loretta for everything you do in our community. Thank you mr. Speaker. I rise today to acknowledge an extraordinary student and scholar with ties to floridas 3rd Congressional District gator. Mr. Caleb anderson and recent graduate and fulbright scholar at the National University of chinchee. For his undergrawght degree he Political Science and earned a critical language scholarship. Studying in mandarin and in International Law and cultural political and historical ability ofth our National Security agencies to fa sill it tate conversations between the United States andn. Caleb is using his skills to be a diplomatic problem solver. We are proud of work to continue the great relationship between the United States and taiwan one of our strongest allies. We will need skilled young men like him and im proud to have someone willing to take on the challenge. Congratulations on your scholarship and look forward to your career in service. Thank you mr. Speaker. I rise today in honor of a neighbor who will be remembered neighborhood in our community for his selflessness and goodwill. Charles chestnut the third was a husband, father and friend he searched in the u. S. Army and attended be be thune of more through area science in philadelphia. He was elected to the Alachua School board and represented all students and families and first plaque School Board Member and went on to be a commissioner and he was also recognized as a talented businessman operating chestnut funeral home. He led theua county and Youth Council and member of the met different of gainesville. And he was a believer in education and friend who had the privilege of knowing him. He w married to Cynthia Moore chestnut and father to six Charles Chestnut local businessman and daughters pamela janice, ti and and candace. I am grateful for the example. And he will being missed. Thank you mr. Speaker. I rise today to thank and cannot you late Susan Crowley from the university of florida. She retired in jans assistant Vice President for Community Relations after 17 years serving the gator nation. Her efforts were felt across the last two decades and impact future gator and fostered a community of service and connection through discovery gators volunteer also a program i have been a part of. These programs have educated, and served our neighbors connecting the students with surrounding communities. And a contact between the university of florida local chambers, local governments and spearhead meetings and spearheaded millions of dollars between the tbois and girls club and Lupus Foundation of america and campaign for charities 1 million of effort. Your impact has been monumental bettering the lives of ourneighbors in florida. Thank you for everything you have done and hope you enjoy your well ened retirement and of course, go, gators. Thank mr. Speaker i rise to honor the life and memory of Joseph Eugene friction of Ocala Florida who passed away in december of 2023. He was an aviator. During his life, he had the honor of serving on transporting the president ial press corps of nixon, ford, reagan, bush senior and and he transported critical equipment and fundraising, transporting the president ial press corps or volunteering to clean the bathrooms at the church he continued giving. He was an expert and ari a smiling face to his neighbors a daddy to his children and loving pa to his children and greatgrandchildren. His family, friends and Community Miss him dearly. Joe, you will be missed. Than service. Thank you mr. Speaker. I rise to recognize dr. Scott engel university of florida and author to 300 scientific publications and holder of seven patents. During his time, dr. Engels area of expertise is management of food scien sciences and more. He served as its the senior Vice President before role. As Vice President of he made the university of Florida Institute a excellence and strived to improve the education of each and every student. In this role, he promised education and he delivered. His mentorship and example encouraged students to immerse themselves in mentorships professional internships Leadership Development the and of course a firstrate University Like u. F. Would only have a firstrate leader in the position of leadership to guide the next few years of this top five public university. Congratulations on your new role at the university of florida. It is an honor to know you and worked with you over the years. I have no doubt you will continue to do Amazing Things and its great to be a florida gator. Thank you mr. Speaker. I rise today to honor the life of a tight and in conservative politics and thought in north scott. He graduated with a bachelor of arts in 1966 and master of educationm fro florida. After his studies he became a long time College English instructor f 1969 until 2007 and he served as president of the College Senate fornd returned to santa fe in 2008. Ward served the public in a variety of years including on the city on the Advisory Committee and weed and seed Grant Committee aleuch youa and in 2009 as the city of archers and skier and tennis recently he hosted a podcast live show that he broadcast on facebook to discuss national issues. I was honored to join his show after my election to congress ok with him and hear his passion for our country and issues that mattered the most. His loss is one we will feel for a long time in our Gainesville Community and we send condolences to his wife. Rest in peace ward, we will miss you. Thank you thank you, mr. Hob nor the life and memory of mr. R. O. M. Er west who passed away peacefully at home last month he feel fought against a recurrence of lung cans we are great courage. Roger would say he was a cattle rancher his entire life, learning about raising cattle from his grandfather in county florida. He was the first in his flame to attend college at the university of florida where he focused his studies on the cattleus ind agri science research. While at u. F. He met fellow gator, ellen from miami who would later become his w he earned a bachelors and masters of science in Animal Science and moved his young family to College Station texas, attend texas a m university for his ph. D. In meat science and muscle biology. They returned to gainesville shortly thereafter where roger taught and did vernlg before backing before becoming a professor. He spent his time after with his family and building his cattle ranch. He served with the American Meat association, florida Cattlemans Association and florida farm bureau. He proudly supported f. F. A. And Young Students interested in ranching and agriculture in the sunshine state. Dr. West was an amazing husband father and friend to so many. I certainly considered him afriend of mine. His legacy will certainly live on in those who had the honor of knowing and working alongside him. He wl be may i inquire how much time i have remaining, mr. Speaker . The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman has 11 minutes remaining. Mrs. Cammack ok. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker i rise today to honor theemans. They they are inian teetown a small town on the river in north florida its pre small town to some, the yankeetown community has always rallied in ways that many cannot imagine during times of need. Hurricane idalia was no different. Last august, when power was still not yet restore and were working to pick up the pieces and survey the damage to their homes and businesses heck, while many of their homes and businesses were still under ania opened their restaurant to anyone who needed a meal or place to spend time over the next couple of days. While they were in no way obligated to serve their community, they stepped up to support their neighbors out of the kindness of their hearts, expecting nothing in. They demonstrate the best of floridas third Congressional District and remind me why im so terribly proud ofurand our district, especially our resiliency in the face of a Natural Disaster of this magnitude. On behalf of floridas third Congressional District, thank you to the wakemans for embodying he sport of service that we all strive to represent. We are grateful for everything that you do and the example y for others in the sunshine state. Mr. Speaker i rise today to congratulate the hawthorne hornets on their state championship title in the 2023 class i. With a 2213 defeat of Madison County the hornets took home the top spot in the class. The hornets Varsity Football Team won 13 game before going on to the state tournament where they won far second year in a row. Coach ingram, a former player for the university of florida and the nfl turned the program around the last few years and has led his student athletes to a series of impress i have wins. In the wise words of vince lombardy the measure of who we are is what we do with what we have. These young men gave it their absolute best. And have made their high school, their community and our Congressional District sover this these past two years. Congratulations to the hawthorne hornets and coach ingram for taking home the football state championship. Go hornets. Thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today to congratul the bradford tornadoes on their state qualifying Football Team. This vairs if i ty Football Team coached by jamie rogers won 14 the state tournament where they played their absolute best and showed their school spirit. Bradford county high had and the proud of this Football Team and their hard work. I know i am. Congratulations again to this amazing team of talented young on an outstanding season. Go tornadoes. Thank you, mr. Speaker i rise today bravery and heroism of down k9 deputy, k9 leo, a beloved member of the Sheriffs Office. Leo was shot saturday and died from his injuries on tuesday february 20. He and his handler were responding to a battery and strangulation call when the suspect fired shots as leo and other Law Enforcement officers. The Marion County Sheriffs Office transported leo to the university of florida veterinarian clinic where he was treated but ultimately succumbed to his injuries. Paying the ultimate price k9 leo did exactly what he was trained to do, serve and protect. My thoughts and prayers are with his handler. Corporal justin tutoro. And thearion Sheriffs Office as well as ocala and Marion County communities. K9 leo wont soon be forgotten and we know his legacyri on to the next generation of Law Enforcement canines in Marion County and in the sunshine state. Peace rest in peace k9 leo weve got the watch. Thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today to thank the Villages Woodworkers Club. For over a decade these carpenters have been working to provide their community with hand crafted toys and other wooden products, turning including urns for our veterans. What began as a small group of people making christmas toys for children in floridas third Congressional District grew into what is now an organization of more than 1,400 people making more than 6,000 toys a year. While these woodworkers deliver Christmas Joy throughout the holiday season, they alsoybnt role during other times of year out of respect for our veterans in need of a dignified burial. All too often our veterans are forgotten when they return home. And this sadly is no different when they pass away. Inspired to provide beautifully made urns for veterans who do not have family or the financial means to afford funeral costs our village car penders give veterans a beautiful and final resting the Villages Woodworkers Club work es closely with six semity terries to ensure each 10 urns on hand. They have also donated 50 urns to the missing in america project. These patriots have selflesy given their time, expertise and craftsmanship to ensure that our veterans are remembered and respected. Thank you for taking care of our own. We certainly are grateful for your service. Th that, mr. Speaker, i yield. The speaker pro tempore does the gentlewoman from North Central florida have a motion . Mrs. Cammack i move that the house do now adjourn. The speaker pro tempore the question is on the motion to adjourn. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes have it. The motion is adopted. Accordingly, the house stands 10 00 a. M. Tomorrow for morning hour debate. 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