House. Please help those who labor here to recognize how you are present in their service and leadership. Guide them as they seek to be effective for the good of all your people. Loving god, may our leaders be alert to the cares and hurts and challenges of our citizens and our communities. Help these leaders choose well, directions and actions that benefit those likely to be left out and all who express and strengthen our nations values which are our greatest assets. May we hear and pursue your sacred message, merciful god, that we be women and men with the capacity of peacemakers, realistic and also deeply thoughtful and wise. Finally, gentle god, bring to those who serve here a participation in your own gifts, such as rich insight and also joy in their care for the wellbeing of our country and the world. Amen. The speaker the chair has examined the journal of the last days proceedings and announces to the house his approval thereof. Pursuant to clause 1 of rule 1 the journal stands approved. For what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise . Mr. Burgess mr. Speaker, pursuant to clause 1, rule 1, i demand a vote on agreeing to the speakers approval of the journal. The speaker the question is on agreeing to the speakers approval of the journal. Those in favor indicate by saying aye. Those opposed no. In the opinion of the chair, the ayes have it. The journal stands approved. The gentleman from texas. Mr. Burgess mr. Speaker, i object to the vote on the grounds that a quorum is not present and i make a point of order that a quorum is not present. The speaker pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, further proceedings on this question are postponed. The pledge of allegiance today will be led by the gentleman from texas, mr. Johnson. Mr. Johnson please join me. I pledge allegiance to the flag of the United States of america and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. The speaker the chair will entertain up to five requests for oneminute speeches. For what purpose does the gentleman from texas rise . Mr. Johnson mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend. The speaker without objection. Mr. Johnson mr. Speaker by all accounts, president obama seems hellbent on striking a nuclear deal with iran, a deal that would hurt our National Security interests and sell out our proven ally and friend israel. Lets be clear, iran is a foe, not a friend. Just consider last week irans Supreme Leader said death to america. The regime has blood of american soldiers on its hands and iran is working overtime to expand influence in the region. Mr. Speaker, iran is determined to be a nuclear power, period. Unfortunately the president seems intent to ignore the majority of American People who believe this deal would not prevent iran from gaining a nuclear weapon. Mr. Speaker the president s going rogue. Thats wrong. He needs to stop. Nothing less than our National Security is at stake. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back. For what purpose does the gentlewoman from florida seek recognition . Ms. Wasserman schultz i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. Ms. Wasserman schultz thank you, mr. Speaker. It is with great pride that i rise today to recognize the 100th anniversary of the city of miami beach. In floridas 23rd congressional district. Incorporated on march 26 1915, miami beach took its place on the map with only a handful of residents. Now home to nearly 100,000 people, the city of miami beach has not only grown in population but in reputation. This vacation paradise is internationally recognized tourist destination, visited by millions each year. A hub for business fine dining and entertainment. This week miami beach celebrated iths centennial with 100 hours of showcasing its history and all that the city has to offer, culminating in an oceanfront concerts by gloria estefan, barry gibb and andrea bocelli. It is an honor to represent miami beach. I thank the City Commission and the city staff for the many accomplishments thats made miami beach a wonderful place to live work. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman yields back. For what purpose does the gentlewoman from kansas seek recognition . Ms. Jenkins i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. Ms. Jenkins thank you. I rise to congratulate the Wichita State shockers with their victory over the jayhawks this weekend. The shockers and coach Gregg Marshall prevailed just as my friend, congressman pompeo predicted. In kansas, we are proud of our states rich basketball tradition, from James Naismith to dean smith to adolf rupp to jim smithson to wilt chamberlain. I could go on and on and on. However, as two proud kansas schools, the real victor here is the state of kansas. We love the competition, but after the games over were all one big family. My daughter currently attends Wichita State. I attended k. State and i represent k. U. So i know full well the pride we have in all our teams. So as the shockers move on for the sweet 16 for the second time in three years, i wish them the best of luck tonight and beyond. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman yields back. For what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition . I ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. I thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise because the majority is making worse the one issue that can kill humanity as a species, climate change. Mr. Lieu the budget exacerbates our dependence on foreign oil and the unsafe fuels of the 19th century but there is a better way. We need to produce more energysavings appliances and machines that are designed, manufactured and installed by American Workers. We need to invest on things that never go away such as wind and biofuels. It is time to do whats best for america, not whats best for coal companies. Let me end by saying, go ucla. Thank you. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back. For what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition . Mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to speak for one minute. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. Mr. Speaker, i rise today to draw the American Peoples attention to nasa astronaut scott kelly as he prepares to make history tomorrow when he embarks on a Yearlong Mission to the International Space station. As the proud representative of Johnson Space center in houston, texas, i had the pleasure of meeting mr. Kelly several times to discuss his historic mission. This will mark the first time that an american has spent an entire year continuously in space. On the eve of this important moment, id like to thank mr. Kelly for his heroic commitment, leadership and dedication to advancing americas Human Space Flight Program. Mr. Babin his mission to the International Space station provides a tremendous boost to our Human Space Flight Program while furthering our understanding of the effects of the longer term exposure to weightlessness that has on the body. This understanding will pave the way for crude missions to mars. On behalf of a proud american public, scott, we wish you all the best and thank you. Mr. Speaker, i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. For what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition . Mr. Speaker, unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Speaker, this is California Aerospace week. California is rich in our history of flight. In my district alone we have seen the sound barrier broken for the first time the ultimate air speed record set and many other flights from the f80 through our beloved f22. Mr. Knight we have also seen my district build all of the space shuttles, all of the b1s, all of the b2s and most of the fighters that fly over our friendly skies. Our state has had an over 100year history in flight and Aerospace Week culminates that production and that test. Our state and my district have continued to put america in lead over the skies and we will continue to do so in the future. Mr. Speaker, i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back. For what purpose does the gentleman from oregon seek recognition . Mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent 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. Walden we can provide certainty for Health Care Providers and seniors to fix the s. G. R. For seniors and help schools in Rural Counties. I commend my colleagues for their work with me. It is two years funding for the secure rural schools program. Now this is like one of those cans of fix a flat, if you will. Its an Emergency Repair on the side of the road to solve a shortterm problem when what we really need is pearmnant fix for our forested counties. But this is an emergency, and what were doing here today is providing that lifeline to our schoolchildren and the classrooms and our rural in our Rural Counties that are under rural and forested land and make sure the local Law Enforcement have the resources they need. And in my own state of oregon, protecting some counties from going bankrupt because of lack of languagement, lack of activity on our federal lands. So i remain fully committed to working on forestry legislation that puts people back to work in the woods, reduces the threat of wildfire and provide selfsustaining counties and the people in them. I just hope this time with a new senate well be able to move forward and i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. For what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition . I seek unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, i rise to comment on the budget that was passed yesterday out of this house by the republicans. I come from scanton pennsylvania, the birthplace of our Vice President and i Vice President is often heard to say people talk about family values all the time, family values this, family values that, and he says, look, dont talk to me about your values. Show me your budget and ill tell you what your values are. Mr. Cartwright this republican budget was something that i could not support because it will have the effect of cutting over a million jobs over the next year, and even worse than that, it will turn medicare into effectively a Voucher Program. A Voucher Program if youre on medicare and you need treatment and they give you a voucher you better hope that that voucher covers the services you need. Otherwise, youre out of luck. So if your values include increasing jobs and employment in this country and taking care of our seniors, that republican budget was not the one to vote for. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back. For what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition . Mr. Burgess mr. Speaker, by the direction of the committee on rules, i call up House Resolution 173 and ask for its immediate consideration. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the resolution. The clerk house calendar number 18, House Resolution 173 , resolved, that upon adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to consider in the house the bill h. R. 2, to amend title 18 of the Social Security act to repeal the medicare Sustainable Growth rate and strengthen medicare access by improving physician payments and making other improvements, to reauthorize the Childrens HealthInsurance Program, and for other purposes. All points of order against consideration of the bill are waived. The amendment printed in the report of the committee on rules accompanying this resolution shall be considered as adopted. The bill, as amended, shall be considered as read. All points of order against provisions in the bill, as amended, are waived. The previous question shall be considered as ordered on the bill, as amended, and on any further amendment thereto, to final passage without intervening motion except, one one hour of debate equally divided among and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on energy and commerce and the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on ways and means, and two, one motion to recommit with or without instructions. Section 2, on any legislative day during the period from march 27, 2015, through april 10, 2015, a, the journal of the proceedings of the previous day shall be considered as approved, and b, the chair may at any time declare the house adjourned to meet at a date and time, within the limits of clause 4, section 5, article 1 of the constitution, to be announced by the chair in declaring the adjournment. Section 3, the speaker may appoint members to perform the duties of the chair for the duration of the period addressed by section 2 of this resolution as though under clause 8a of rule 1. Section 4, each day during the period addressed by section 2 of this resolution shall not constitute a calendar day for purposes of section 7 of the war powers resolution 50 u. S. C. 1546. Section 5, the committee on Financial Services and the committee on ways and means each may, at any time before 5 00 p. M. On april 6, 2015 file reports to accompany measures. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from texas, mr. Burgess, is recognized for one hour. Mr. Burgess thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, during consideration of this resolution, all time yielded is for the purposes of debate only. I now yield the customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from massachusetts, mr. Mcgovern, pending which i yield myself such time as i may consume. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Burgess mr. Speaker. I further ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Mr. Burgess mr. Speaker, House Resolution 173 provides for consideration of h. R. 2, the medicare access and chip reauthorization act of 2015 under a closed rule reflecting the careful, intricate bipartisan negotiations which brought this legislation to the floor. The rule provides for one hour of debate equally divided amongst the chairs and Ranking Members of the committees on energy and commerce and ways and means. As is customary, the rule allows the minority to offer a motion to recommit on the bill. Finally, the rule provides for the customary district work period authority. This bill h. R. 2, resolves an issue that many of us have worked on for our entire congressional careers. This bill reflects years of bipartisan work, work across committees, and even work across the capitol with the other body. We brought together members of all ideological groups, as well as diverse outside groups. We coalesced around a policy that will help patients, doctors, providers to get out from under the constant threat of payment cuts under the medicare Sustainable Growth rate formula. Everyone agrees, medicare Sustainable Growth rate formula has got to go. Today we are considering a bill to realistically accomplish that goal. The s. G. R. Formula was enacted as part of the balanced budget act of 1976 1997 in an attempt to restrain federal spending in Medicare Part b. We now know that is not working. The s. G. R. Consists of expenditure targets which apply a growth rate designed to bring spending in line. Since 2002, the s. G. R. Formula has resulted in a reduction in physician reimbursement rates. However, even though congress has consistently passed legislation to override the formula, these patches have resulted in hundreds of billions of spent funds that could have gone to improving the medicare system. If congress were to let the formula continue physicians would face a 21 reduction in reimbursement rates on april 1. The Sustainable Growth rates unrealistic assumptions of spending and efficiency have plagued the Health Care Profession and Medicare Beneficiaries for over 13 years. The bill before us repeals the Sustainable Growth rate formula. Avoiding potentially devastating acrosstheboard cuts slated to go into effect next week. We do so at a cost lower than what congress has already spent or is likely to spend over the next 10 years. The Congressional Budget Office has found that enacting h. R. 2 will cost less than if we patch this formula over the next 10 years. The bill before us today provides five years of payment transition that allows improved beneficiary access, and allows medicine to concentrate on moving to b