Speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, john a. Boehner, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 6 2015, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and minority whip limited to five minutes. But in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. 7 the chair recognizes the gentleman from North Carolina mr. Jones, for five minutes. Mr. Jones mr. Speaker, thank you very much. Today the House Budget Committee will reveal the budget for fiscal year 2016. That budget will contain more money for afghanistan, which is why i am speaking on the floor today. Afghanistan is an absolutely waste of taxpayers money. It is a true graveyard of empires. Just two years ago i was speaking on the floor abou
Importers of the brandname drug. Cbo expects that the fee will probably increase the price of drugs purchased through medicare and the prices of the newly introduced drugs purchased through medicaid and other federal programs by about 1 . Those increases will be in addition to those described above. 1 doesnt sound like a lot, but when we are talking about medications that our seniors need and in many cases are costly, just 1 is significant to them. It may be so significant that they need to make that decision about whether they have the dollars for it or whether they just decide not to take their medication. In other words the Health Care Law spent billions of dollars on the provision that will increase drug cost for all seniors. With this being said, i urge a no vote on this amendment. I yield back. The gentlelady yields back. I appreciate that my colleague highlighted the cbo letter and identified that they said a slight increase of about 1 . It also mentioned in that same letter tha
Support reform and i believe we have a moral, economic and National Security mandate to act. I now yield as much time as she shall consume to the gentlelady from california, ms. Lee. Ms. Lee thank you very much. I want to thank the gentleman for yielding and for introducing this amendment. Let me remind you, we do have a bipartisan, comprehensive Immigration Reform bill. Weve had that legislation since 2013, it has the broad support of the American People. Yet once again House Republicans have refused to take it up. Just last month they could barely pass a Homeland Security bill to protect our nation thanks to this antiimmigrant, real antiimmigrant sentiment, i would say. Comprehensive Immigration Reform not only is the morally right thing to do, but as the gentleman from kentucky said its the right thing to do for our economy. Last year the Congressional Budget Office found that passing the senates bipartisan immigration bill would reduce the deficit by 900 billion over the next two d
Want to make sure your child is in Quality Health care, you are going to get a little bit more tax relief or if you have an elderly loved one at home that you want to make sure has quality care you getal little more tax relief. If you are a twoworker family, we scale back the marriage penalties. The democratic budget actually provides more tax relief for working americans while the republican budget provides tax increases to working families. It increases transportation by closing a lot of the tax breaks in the code that actually encourage American Companies to move jobs and capital overseas, we get rid of those loopholes and say lets invest the money here in america. Thats what the democratic budget does. But the rules dont permit us to instruct the conferees to do the right thing and adopt that alternative which does reflect the values and priorities of the people around the country, but there are two Little Things where the Senate Budget is actually min kuhl minusculely better than
,000 in lifetime medicare taxes. Yet receives 250,000 in benefits. So is of taxes for 3 of benefits. Thats how medicare works. Thats for the typical family in ohio ar on the on or around the. When you multiply this, you can see why we have a totally unsustainable program because not enough money goes in to pay for the benefits coming out. Providing 3 in benefits under medicare fo for every 1 paid fr lowincome seniors is one thing. We want to make sure theyre taken care of. For the most part in their working years, those folks probably didnt earn enough to pay large medicare taxes and the program is designed to ensure that they do receive the medical coverage they would not otherwise get. But should upperincome seniors, seniors who are on medicare, receive benefits that far exceed what they pay into the system . Thats what happens now. Is that fair . I dont think so when the program is going bankrupt, when our kids and grandkids are facing massive tax increases to pay for a problem that