The cbo. It is very clear that repealing the Affordable Care act will actually increase the deficit and it is acknowledged in here by accepting a point of order on anything that increases the deficit as a result of the Affordable Care act. We need honesty and budgeting. If this budget repeals the Affordable Care act all the services for 16. 4 million men and women children who receive health care for the first time maybe other and we know that repealing miss will increase the deficit and we need to be honest about it. This would strike the exception and continue a point of order as we do for every other part of the budget. I think this will prohibit getting even some efficient use. I would ask or a no vote. I assume a roll call vote is desired. Clerk will call the roll. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] mr. Chairman, the yeas are 10 the nays are 12. Humanities fail. Thank you mr. Chairman. Since 2010, 47 municipalities have declared bankruptcy. Estimates of un
This is outrageous senator crapo is exactly right and im proud to cosponsor. A few seconds left. Senator ayotte. I would like to ask my colleagues comment. Thank you. Rebuttal . As senator crapo mentioned, i suspect many of my colleagues will support this amendment. That i did want to add to it that if we are serious about helping the unsubscribe as i suppose all of us are we would not be voting for a budget that slashes funding to the program. Democrats and republicans across the country have said the acrosstheboard cuts are terrible policy and an absurd way to reduce the deficit that must be replaced. There replaced. There are republicans on this committee who have been vocal about the need to roll back these cuts and have expressed the need to raise some revenue. Last year democrats and republicans were able to reach an agreement that the rollback the worst of these automatic cuts which prevented another government shutdown, moved us away from the crisis and restored critical invest
Has to sidebyside being distributed . Mr. Chairman, can i move my vote after. We are waiting for a ruling from the parliamentarian. I couldnt hear you. Waiting on berlin from the parliamentarian. Okay. Can i move my votes until the end of the tranche . [inaudible conversations] the next one is to widen rural schools and there is a sidebyside which has been handed out already. [inaudible conversations] so on a sidebyside, two minutes of debate. Colleagues, my amendment creates a Deficit Neutral Reserve Fund to protect americas treasures and grow our rural economies in a balanced way. The sidebyside ties the wellbeing of rural economies and our spectacular treasures we all revere to unsustainable logging levels. So i hope we will look carefully at the numbers here because the programs involved already get a significant amount of their funding from logging. This amendment would jack up the logging level far beyond what is sustainable and said this is in effect my amendment that will fund
Additional 9,000 to its credit cards despite owing a whopping 311,000 in debt. Hardworking taxpayers are counting on us to set priorities and to stick to them because a balanced budget will boost our nations economic output and help restore the promise of a government that is more effective. A balanced budget will allow americans to spend more time working hard to grow their businesses or to advance in their jobs instead of worrying about taxes and inefficient regulations. We know it wont be easy by working together we can deliver Real Solutions and Real Progress the American People want and deserve. I look forward to working with each and everyone of you in this crucial task in the days and weeks ahead. Chairman price . I want to thank the chairman and appreciate everybodys participation. I would note that the number of senators significantly outnumbers the number of house members but were fine with that. We think we have equal firepower. So were raring to go with the Conference Commi
Budget. No one in california in the legislature would be able to vote for this document because this is a madeup document with madeup numbers. It is one of the most fanciful things ive seen in all my years as an elected official and youll see through the markup how outrageous these numbers are. I yield back the balance of my time. Thank you mr. Chairman. I just want to thank all my colleagues on the democratic side for putting forward our critique of the republican budget and laying the ground work for the budget well friend present next week. I thank the ranking members and the other members. We will proceed with the staff walk through of the fiscal year 2016 concurrent resolution on the budget. We need staff to move to the witness stable, please. While staff is getting set, let me remind members this is an opportunity for members to ask questions that are factual and technical in nature. The staff is not here to answer questions or defend policy. Thats our job and well have great opp