The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. The chair lays before the house a communication from the speaker. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. March 5, 2024. I hereby appointhe honorable Claudia Tenney to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, mike johnson, speaker of the house of representatives. Po pursuant to the order of the house of january 9, 2024, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority lea the chair will alternate recognition between the parties with time equally allocated between the parties and each member other t majority and minority leaders and the minority whip limited to five minutes, but in no event shall debate continue beyd 1 50 p. M. The chair recognizes the the gentleman from pennsylvania, mrm speaker. Madam speaker, i rise today to honor and thank and express my sincere gratitude for an Incredible Group of students at penn state university. This group of students has spent the last year
Publicly commit that medicare reductions would not be triggered, given the amount of fear, anxiety, and misinformation that is out there. I wrote to the Senate Majority leader urging that we immediately remove the threat of an automatic cut in medicares funding. In response, i am pleased to say both the majority leader and the speaker of the house released a joint statement that pledged this will not happen. And that is the issue before us tonight. Medicare provides essential Health Care Benefits to our nations seniors. We must remove immediately the threat that an automatic reduction in the programs funding could occur which would affect Health Care Providers and diminish access that beneficiaries, including our seniors and disabled individuals have to the services that they need. Earlier this month, the aarp sent a letter to the house and Senate Leadership alluding and supporting my inquiry and Warning Congress of the potential consequences. The letter says, quote, the sudden cut to
Are secure. And so we believe that we should increase funding for the department of defense, but we should also make sure that our schools have teachers. We should also make sure we have cops on the street. We should also make sure that our bridges arent falling down. Thats National Security as well. And its not too much to ask to make sure that our security is taken care of internationally and domestically as well. Let me give you a perfect example of how you cant just plus up defense spending and leave the rest of the budget unattended to. Okay, we love defense spending in connecticut. Why . Because we make a lot of bigticket items for the department of defense. We make the helicopters at sick tkor i ask. We at sikorsky. We make the submarines. Were proud of all of that. Let me tell you what happens at electric boat if you plus up pt Defense Department if you plus up the Defense Department at the expense of all the other discretionary accounts. Were going to be building a lot more su
Too hard on the banks. In his confirmation hear, he said that he would, quote, continue to consider appropriate ways to ease regulatory burdens. When i asked him if there was a single financial rule he thought should be stronger, just a single provision in one of the feds dozens of rules where there might be an unintended loophole or where an inknow stative product has innovative product has introduced a new risk into the system, he couldnt name a single one, not one. And my questions for the record, i also asked governor powell about a report that the Treasury Department put out last june. Now, this report was really just a cut and paste job of the banking lobbyists wish lists for rule rollbacks. Governor powell do not identify any recommendations in that report that he disagreed with. Again, not a single one. And thats not all. At governor powells confirmation hearing when my republican colleague senator kennedy asked him about whether there are any institutions today that are too bi
Quorum call mr. Thune mr. President . The presiding officer the senator from south dakota. Mr. Thune i ask unanimous consent the quorum call be dispensed with. The presiding officer without objection. Mr. Thune mr. President , i know of no further debate on the motion to proceed. The presiding officer is there further debate . If not, the question is on the motion to proceed. All in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes appear to have it. The ayes do have it. The motion is agreed to. The clerk will report the bill. The clerk calendar number 55, h. R. 636, an act to amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to permanently extend increased expensing limitations and for other purposes. Mr. Thune mr. President , i call up substitute amendment number 3464. The presiding officer the clerk will report. The clerk the senator from south dakota, mr. Thune, proposes an amendment numbered 3464. Strike all after mr. Thune i ask consent that the reading be waived. The presiding officer without ob