Maybe that is something he wants to do to create well live this washington journal segment here to return to live coverage of the u. S. House. En in the following order. Motions to suspend the rules and 387 to House Resolution and pass h. R. 4508. First electronic vote will be conducted as a 15minute vote. To clause 9 of rule 20, remaining electronic votes will e conducted as fiveminute votes. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, he Unfinished Business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from rhode island, mr. Suspend the rules and agree to House Resolution which the nded, on yeas and nays are ordered. Title. Rk will report the the clerk House Resolution 387, continued condemning violence against civilians by armed groups in the Central African republic and supporting lasting o achieve a political solution to the conflict. The speaker pro tempore the uestion is will the house suspend the rules and agree to House Resolution 387, 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. ] the speaker pro tempore on this vote the yeas are 378. The nays are seven. 2 3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the resolution is agreed to, and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. Pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the Unfinished Business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from rhode island, mr. Cicilline, to suspend the rules and pass h. R. 4508, as amended, on which the yeas and nays are ordered. The clerk will report the title. The clerk h. R. 4508, a bill to expand the number of Scholarships Available to pakistani women under the merit and needsbased scholarship program. The speaker pro tempore the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass h. R. 4508, as amended. 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. ] the speaker pro tempore on this vote the nays are 376. The nays are 16. 2 3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, 373. The yeas are the nays on this vote the yeas are 374. The nays are 16. 2 3 of those voting having responded in the affirmative, the rules are suspended, the bill is passed, and without objection the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. For what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition . Mr. Pallone mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to take from the speakers table the bill s. 1822 to require the federal Communications Commission to issue rules relating to the collection of data with respect to the availability of broadband services, and for other purposes, and ask for its immediate consideration in the house. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the title of the bill. The clerk senate 1822, an act to require the federal Communications Commission to issue rules relating to the collection of data with respect to the availability of broadband services, and for other purposes. The speaker pro tempore is there objection to the consideration of the bill . For what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey rise . Mr. Pallone thank you, mr. Speaker. I have an amendment at the desk. The speaker pro tempore the clerk will report the amendment. The clerk strike all after the enacting clause and insert the following, section 1, short title, this act may be cited as the broadband deployment accuracy and technological availability act or the the speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey rise . Mr. Pallone again, mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to pass the bill. The speaker pro tempore does mr. Pallone i ask unanimous consent to dispense with the reading of the bill. The speaker pro tempore without objection. The amendment is agreed to. The bill is read a third time, passed, and the motion to reconsider is laid upon the table. S the chair will now entertain requests for oneminute speeches. For what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition . Mr. Payne. The gentleman from new jersey. For what purpose does the mr. Payne to address the house for one minute. Revise and extend. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. Without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Speaker, i rise mr. Speake to honor a great Public Servant om my district, denise wilkerson. Shes the Council President for the city of rozelle, new jersey her dedication to our Community Extends far beyond her council city work. She also is the president of the union county National Organization for women. She served as second Vice President of the National Council of negro women in rozelle as well. Shes actively involved in her local naacp chapter, and in addition, she is the executive director of abounding Women Community outreach. This nonprofit is dedicated to empowering women through the Community Events and professional skills training. She is a vibrant part of my community, and im glad to commend her from the floor of the United States house of representatives on this day. She deserves all the accolades we can give her and much more. With that i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the house will be in order. Members, take your conversations off the floor. For what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee seek recognition . I seek unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. Revise and extend my remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today to remember the life of sammy, a respected member of the Nashville Community who reinterly pad away at the age of 86. He led the american dream. Born in palestine in 1933 and immigrated to america in 1953. He returned to palestine in 1956 to marry his wife before they permanently settled in the United States and became american citizens. They lived in arlington, virginia, before making east tennessee their home. In 1972 sammy opened the copper kettle restaurant with his brothers. He worked extremely hard to make the copper kettle a suck sefments his son remembers his fathers work ethic and how he would often work from 6 00 in the morning until midnight. His dedication to his business clearly left an impression on his sons, all own and operate restaurants in the knoxville area. Ete runs petes coffee shop. Sammy will be greatly missed. His life story serves as a reminder anyone who will work ward can be successful. I yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentlewoman from texas seek recognition . Mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for minute. The speaker pro tempore the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. Without objection. Mr. Speaker, im here today the healthy texas women Medicaid Waiver Program than a nothing more reckless attack on reproductive rights. Titled Healthy Texas Women Program blocks edicaid beneficiaries from getting karat providers that offer Abortion Services like parenthood. This does nothing to expand access to Family Planning care. Will harm lowincome women who rely on medicaid for their care. When texas excluded planned parenthood from state funding ago, 45,000 fewer women accessed care. Cannot stand for that. This Waiver Program will hurt color, the most who already experience Health Barriers to nd access. I will not stop fighting to protect a womans right to make about her isions health care, and i urge the congress to do the same. Back. You and i yield the speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition . Mr. Carter i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and remarks. The speaker pro tempore without objection, the gentleman is minute. Ed for one mr. Carter mr. Speaker, i rise recognize beach high chool football head coach Ulysses Hawthorne who is retiring after 21 seasons. Is a stalwart in the savannah athletics scene. Retirement, f his he was dean of all coaches in the area. But most importantly, hes role been an exceptional model to his players. Players he coached remember that he pushed them to become leaders on and off the field. Many of his players are now in ing at the next level college. Were nit, his teams successful from schools across the state of georgia. He took Beach High School to his appearance in the state 1993. Fs since during his tenure, essay ccumulate lated 76 hes accumulated 76 wins. Im proud to have coach in the first Congressional District of georgia shaping the lives of young people. Thank you, mr. Speaker. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman recognition . Seek for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition . R. Thompson mr. Speaker, request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. Withoutker pro tempore objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Thompson thank you, mr. Speaker. Rise to highlight the great work of Special Olympics. I had the pleasure of visiting special olympic athletes from a unified sports school. Pair students with and without disabilities to promote inclusion through a shared love sports. Athlete kevin and his unified john stopped by my office recently to share their experiences with the olympics. Ia special the Special Olympics is a fantastic organization epresenting more than five million athletes that teach the value of good sportsmanship. Olympics, the special people with intellectual disabilities are given only unities to not strengthen their physical itness but strengthen their relationships with fellow athletes along the way. Id like to wish kevin and john the best of luck in their future competitions. And to all the other brave pennsylvania Special Olympics their unified sports partners. Thank you, mr. Speaker, and i yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition . Unanimous ker, i ask 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. Thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today to celebrate the state of florida. On this day in 1845, florida to join e 27th state our union and has had a strong impact on our nation ever since. Spano from producing 70 of our nations citrus to ranking vegetables n harvested, florida is an longulture powerhouse, has been critical in feeding hungry americans. Our tates important to National Security cant be understated. Lorida is home to three of 11 unifighted central command, special operations command. To represent a district home to 57,000 veterans, part of the 1. 5 illion who call the Sunshine State home. Floridas also a major tourism estination as millions from around the world flock to our shores to ensure our njoy our to enjoy our culture. Our food, im proud to be born and raised in florida and i look forward to florida ith the delegation to better the lives of our States Residents for generations to come. The gentleman will yield back. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey rise . Speaker, i ask unanimous 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. R. Van drew i rise in support of h. R. 4104, the negro leagues centennial commemorative coin act. In new jerseys second district, e were home to the backarack giants in Atlantic City. 1926 on two pennants in and 1927. The giants were lucky enough to as john henry ch who babe d, a player ruth himself once called the alltime allplayer of anywhere ever. Pop lloyd would end up retiring nd coaching youth baseball in Atlantic City until the day he died and was inducted into the in 1977. Hall of fame players like pop lloyd would pllay the foundation for future stars such as Jackie Robinson and hank the game would change forever. Yet, players like lloyd and the played in are slowly becoming forgotten to the annals of history. We cannot let that happen. I thank the gentleman from issouri for introducing this important legislation to commemorate and honor those layers and the role they play in shaping americas very pastime. May god bless him. Thank you and i yield back. The speaker pro tempore under announced policy the nuary 3, 2019, gentleman from connecticut, mr. Larson, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the leader. Mr. Larson thank you, mr. Speaker. Speaker, i rise today to address the chamber about one of most important issues that faces and that issue underscored by the issue of the coronavirus and by the issue of inequality exists today in this great wealthiest urs, the nation in the history of the world. Pleased to announce the number of people who have risen to support of social 2100. Ty its called Social Security 2100 the needs of ress ocial security into the next century so that Social Security 75 years lvent beyond nd address the vital concerns american. D every 64 million americans received Social Security benefits totalling over 1 trillion. Third of our elderly beneficiaries, social benefits are 90 of income. Tal 2 3 rely on Social Security for majority of their income. Benefit in 2019 per american was 17,600 for retired workers. Be about orks out to for 00 for men and 14,000 women. On. Enough for most to live 178 million americans are Social Security today. 10,000, mr. Speaker, 10,000 baby boomers a day become eligible security. L Social Security helps lower and middleincome americans the most. More than 90 of benefits go to less than es earning 50,000. Again. Repeat that ore than 90 of all the benefits of Social Security go less than arning 50,000 a year. Hats why the following individuals have supported the act, l security 2100 including Social Security works, the National Committee to reserve Social Security and medicare, the aflcio, the americans, retired america, veterans of vote vets, American Federation of government employees, the association for the advancement of the clerk will a ignate people, latinos for secured retirement, the National Organization of women, sage, the National Education society, the rc of the United States, the International Federation of rofessional and tactical engineers, representing judges, s ve law onsortium of those with disabilities and task force, the ustice of aging, centers on disability, Senior Citizen league, the national rganization of Social Security claimants, the e. P. I. Policy National Retiree legislative network, public credo action, progress the daily her 98, cost, peoples action, the coalition, the National Employment law project, to prosper, move on, nion Veterans Council of the aflcio, just to name a few, speaker. Talkingo start today by mnuchin ing secretary before the ways and means morning. This i reminded secretary mnuchin and the president for union in his state of the message, his last two how he was protecting Social Security. While hes committed to protecting Social Security, his that,s have not reflected which was a point of concern we mnuchin, h secretary especially since to give credit here, p 2016during the campaign of when faced with 16 other who tried to force security that social entitlement, president no, p, to his credit, said, Social Security is an earned benefit. Secretary mnuchin if he security hat social he an earned benefit, and sa said, yes, it was. Asked him, if thats the benefit,its an earned it debunks a long standing by the other side is somehow security an Entitlement Program when in american citizen fica, exactly of is. Social security fica stands for the federal contribution act, but anyone can go to their pay stub at it. K insurance contribution. Contribution . Your contribution. Citizens can contribution. A tax. Ot the tax thats paid by an mployer to your benefit is fully deductible. The employer gets to deduct it. The benefit for your goes directly to the employee, and they get that way of pension guarantee, protection, spousal and dependent coverage, and a death benefit. The wisdom of Franklin Delano roosevelt is always prescient. 1929 aftered back in the Great Depression in this great capitalistic and Entrepreneurial Society that we live in that sometimes through no fault of your own when something as disastrous as a stock market crash or an unanticipated virus were to take place, that disaster can prevail and all of a sudden you would find yourself in a situation where you had not the means. Thus, congress, because of president roosevelt, adopted the Social Security act. And paid for it through the federal insurance contribution. So this contribution every citizen knows that its their contribution that they make. Ed President Trump or having said that debating his other republican opponents. But to date the administration has not produced a plan that will protect Social Security, that will, in fact, expand Social Security the way it needs to be. In fact, the last time Social Security was expanded there was a republican president , there was a republican senate, and there was a democratic house. The democratic speaker was tip oneill, who led that effort. The Democratic Senate was led at the time, the leader of the Social Security movement, was robert dole. The Senate Majority leader was howard wake baker, antipresident was ronald reagan. Howard baker, and the president was ronald reagan. They understood bipartisanly that this is the American Peoples number one insurance program, the number one antipoverty program. You know what, we dont even to go back to 2008 understandto 1929 to the impact and the need for Social Security. Le it historians are replete with the stories of the great crash, but we only have to go back as far as 2008. Because in 2008 this country experienced the great recession. Since that recession in which ny americans saw their 401k , and 90 of the American People have not recovered their wealth and assets that they lost in the recession of 2008. Let me repeat that, madam speaker. Have not ricans recovered their wealth in assets from 2008. During that time when many lost everything and companies turned away from defined benefit contributions and are getting out of the pension business, during that same time period Social Security never missed a payment. Social security never missed a pension payment, never missed a disability payment, never missed a spousal or dependent coverage payment. Because its the full faith and credit of the United States government and the nations number one Insurance Plan and the nations number one antipoverty plan. But most recently our dear colleague, john lewis, reminded us and in june of 2019 he rolled out along with danny davis and Linda Sanchez and terri sewell nd gwen moore, and jimmy gomez and other members of the ways and Means Committee the fact that Social Security is a simple rights issue as well. Is a civil rights issue as well. A civil rights issue that has long gone unaddressed. s been more than 37 years since Social Security was last fixed, and that was under tip oneill, ronald reagan, and howard baker. Its been more than 50 years since Social Security was enhanced. Do you think things have changed or people in 37 years . And in 50 years . Every american listening to this understands that that is the case. They have faithfully paid in to this earned benefit, and have gotten in return a benefit but one that needs to be changed and modified in a way that makes sure its sustainably solvent into the next century and enhanced in the following ways that people like danny davis have advocated. Heres the four ways that we enhance Social Security. Number one, we make sure that no one can retire into poverty. In the wealthiest nation in the world, today, fellow american citizens who have paid all their quarters in to Social Security, who have worked all their lives, receives a Social Security check that is below the Poverty Level. Most of them happen to be women. And most of them happen to be women of color. It is the shame of this country that empty midst in the midst of the great prosperity and wealth, and frankly in the midst of handing out a 2 trillion tax which 83 went to the nations wealthiest percent, the ations wealthiest 1 , that we could not find the will and the way to help out those who have worked all their lives and paid into the program. This is no handout. This is someone who by the sweat of their brow and their work twoed a benefit that hasnt kept pace wo warlely because in 1983 they didnt index it the way they should have. No one who has paid in their quarters should suffer for a mistake made by congress. Congress needs to correct that. So now the new floor for social curity will become a 125 of what the Poverty Level is. So that no one who works their whole life and pays in their quarters can retire into poverty. The second thing we do is make a 2 across the board increase. Nobody gets wealthy on Social Security. On average a male earns approximately 18,000. In Social Security payments. And a female 14,000. Nobodys getting wealthy on Social Security. But yet it is the subsistence amount of money necessitated to make ends meet. Will be st 2 increase spent right back into the very communities that they live in. On average every Congressional District has 145,000 people who receive Social Security. So in each one of our 435 145,000 people will be spending money back in those communities. Recognizing that this is an economic stimulus bill. In fact, most recently josh furman, jason furman coming before the ways and Means Committee talked about this as an economic stimulus as has Larry Summers and other economists who have taken a look at the ways that we need to stimulate our economy by making sure that those amongst us who need the money most and who spend that money directly back in the community on the necessities of life like heating and cooling their home, providing the fuel that allows them to operate their automobiles, like making sure that they have food and nutrition and physical therapy and pays for doctors visits and also prescriptions. These are what we are doing to expand this bill with a 2 increase and then also making sure that there is a cola that reflects peoples actual costs that they incur. How so . Cpie, that the aarp calls e standing for elderly, but i would also say standing for the essential benefits that elderly need. Again, heating and cooling your home. Prescription drugs. Doctors visits, physical therapy , the very food that you put on your table. These are essential for life. Thats what should go into figuring out what your cola is. Thats what this bill reflects. This bill also reflects the idea that a lot of people continue to work beyond retirement age. But most people dont realize that if you are single and make a more than 24,000, your Social Security is taxed. If you are a married couple making more than 32,000, your Social Security is taxed. Because, again, back in 1983 they didnt index this. We change that. We index Social Security now and 12 million americans will get a tax break because of that. So making sure that no one can retire into poverty. Having a modest 2 across the board increase. Having a cola that reflects your actual expenses. And providing a tax break is at the core of this bill. In the new and added improvements of the bill, including those led by danny davis, to make sure that grandmothers an greand parents grandparents, to make sure that students, to make sure that money re getting extra to raise the children that they are responsible for also was included in this legislation. As well as introducing an earned income tax credit so that nobody earning 50,000 and below will have to pay an increase in taxes and in contribution to make sure that the money is going where its needed the most to help people at the lower end of the pay scale to get the kind of benefits that the Social Security 2100 act provides. With that im going to turn yield to the gentleman from the great state of illinois, as i like to refer to him, as i have heard no better voice in congress, the voice of god, danny davis. Mr. Davis thank you, sir. I want to thank you, indeed. As a matter of fact as i was listening i was saying to myself after a good sermon all that you really say is amen. And i want to say amen to you. I say that in all seriousness because the number one advocate for an expanded Social Security in this house of representatives is none other than representative john larson. And i thank you for the diligence, consistency. My office, k in there is a photograph of ranklin Delano Roosevelt, and that photograph has been there ever since ive been here, but i that photograph but i had that photograph before i and here because the work the leadership, the vision that Delano Roosevelt had and passed nsformed on to people like yourself and you, and im so proud to be that i serve with you in this house of representativ the sentatives, on committee on ways and means, and the fact that you chair the and l Security Committee the Social Security effort. The only other thing that i really would need to say and want to say, ive always been told that you can measure effectiveness of a society, make an assessment of how well it treats its young, well it treats its old, and treats those who ave difficulty caring for themselves. I cant help but think of my you, who i listened to was 92 years old when he died, life. E had a good as a matter of fact, he spent the last five years of his life with me on the weekends. And he always wanted to pay for things. Know, wed stop for dinner and hed say to my wife, dear, i treat you to dinner, check Social Security month. 0something a which obviously would not have een enough if he had to live alone and care for himself and all of that. Let him o ahead and pay. I said, ok. If you want to pay for dinner, ahead. T and hed pay. Gasoline, ped to get as the tank was being filled, hed say, here, let me pay for it. And get his money. And we would get gas, and at the was very high. Went up 40. 50. 60. 70. He said, i guess you better go it. D and pay for you dont have to worry. Man. Arson hes a smart mr. Davis but, again, we got to expand it. We got to keep it. Make sure that it rovides for the individuals its designed to provide for. A gift. Its not a giveaway. That people lement work for. Inim proud to join with you saying that weve got to make that security everything it ought to be. I will e you lead, follow, and well help make it happen. So thank you very much. Back and thisield just about ends my day. All, rson well, first of thank you very much. Your ly appreciate efforts, mr. Davis. Love the story about your father because that just dignity and the of work but fetime he still he wanted to pay. To continue to contribute because he knew how important it was. Wasnt no handout. E worked for it all of his life. He contributed into it. Nd now were faced with a ecision in congress on our watch, not some time down the future, but for you up there audience, as we speak, this year, social out ity will start paying in. Money than its taking 37 asnt been adjusted in years. Theres nothing that you can untouched that requires actuarial attention and specifically the attention of left untouched will continue to flourish. And yet, Social Security has missed a payment. Not for disability. Spousal not for spousal or independent coverage a pension. Plan. Americas insurance it is our number one as well. Rty program its why im so grateful that and others have pointed this out as a civil rights issue well, because of the way for so long people of color, black males, have against. Riminated also, when you look at women and for women ofd that receiving 56 re their or every dollar were. Male counterparts 80 cents for white women. 53 cents for hispanic women. Simply unfair, and in correct and age, we can that, and we can do it simply by roosevelt asked us to do. Contribution. What does that contribution go towards . It goes towards a pension, a payment, dependent benefit. And a spousal thats a pretty good deal. You cant buy that anywhere in sector, and i come from one of the insurance capitals of the world where when school, to insurance they taught you about the three stool and the most important leg on that stool, because that y, was the floor. That was the safety net from nothing could fall through. We dont ever want to see crash like 1929, but, understand that since of americans are struggling because they havent their wealth in assets. 68 of all millennials who will eed Social Security, more than baby boomers, have only Social Security to rely on. Hey have no pension or no 401k. And while we should do more hing to make that reality the plausible and what government can do is at hand. First and foremost, make social solvent, and then secondly, make sure its solvent and ore than 75 years addresses baby boomers and illennials and future generations and does so with modest benefits that end the exists but also provides basic economic that our economies can drive. Furman and Larry Sommers and i and secretary in the faced agree, of the coronavirus, which by the is agerelated and will impact the elderly and people in groups of 60 to 70 and to 80 far more than it will impact any other generation and in a way that they with \. Have the where they were wherewithal. Talking about the number one way to stimulate the economy. To stimulate way the economy is to give those modest benefits to the very 145,000 on average in district ressional those modest benefits that are directly right back into the communities that they live with the necessarities of life necessities of life that their ded to sustain existence. Would you agree, dan . Agree is i wholeheartedly. As a matter of fact, if you move want to touch and the economy, make sure that individuals at the very to contribute. You see, i always say that money to a community is like blood to the body. How sophisticated we re in terms of medicine and health, if all the blood leaves in all likelihood die. E going to if in communities that are senior ed low income, citizen villages, places where senior housing, nless those individuals have resources to plow back into the those will then lowincome, no money, business, no no opportunities, no hope. To makef we really want merica be the america that we dreamed about, talked about, but has never been, the way al security is to do it. Works, who who reaches a certain age you can be a good t thing. Mr. Larson exactly. R. Davis if you have enough resource to retire without ondering if youre going to have to cut your pills in half light bill or pay to rent or have enough money purchase the food that you want, not scraping and looking for coupons and looking sales and special opportunities. Hats what happens to many of our Senior Citizens. You know, they have to look and theres an item on sale to hat they will be able acquire it. Isif we make sure that there sufficient resources for people then at my church hey would say youre doing the work at the master. Do it, no ter way to more effective, no more just pleased im that we have this opportunity to now. Is and do it mr. Larson and we do. Its on our watch. Enough. Emphasize this for every member of congress and every member every person out in america thats listening to cspan right now or this program, its on our watch. Responsibility. We cannot continue to kick the can down the road. Doing nothing means a 20 cut to benefits. Doing nothing let repeat that means a 20 cut to peoples benefits. Now, there are some that are but most on both sides of the aisle are not in that. Of and heres what the polling data shows. Shows that Social Security is bipartisan. Americans believe, 84 of republicans, of 76 of independents said they littlee willing to pay a more to make sure that their and that re not cut they are protected and expanded. Of workers and 94 of feel betrayed, workers, 94 of retirees would feel betrayed if they paid into social ecurity was not available to them. And the gallup poll found the one that Social Security ranked fourth amongst keep people up at night and worried with security. Their ourth in importance after education, health care, and their financial security. Lump the financial ecurity and Social Security together. I would just like to close by mentioned jason furman, ho was the former Obama NationalEconomic Council dvisor, and Larry Sommers, the former clinton treasury secretary, both were serving up have written o extensively about the importance an economic e as stimulus and out of necessity the improvements hat should have been done 37 years ago but desperately need only taken up today, not for current generations and baby retiring, but for millennials and future generations. The current director of the center for Retirement Research and former assistant secretary for Economic Policy at the Federal Reserve in boston said look, we have to protect Social Security. Policymakers should fix social ecurity by raising incrementally over time the money necessitated to do it. It doesnt come from heaven. We need to maintain benefits. People dont have anything else other than their 401ks and a significant portion of the population doesnt even have those. Forced ecurity is the savings plan people have paid into and have counted on and as ive said before, its never missed a payment. Monique morrissey, economist from the Economic Policy institute, expanding Social Security ensures steady contributions, keeps costs low and prevents leakage and it pools longevity risk. Moreover, Social Security, pay as you go financing, provides an internal rate of return tied to Economic Growth but without the gyrations. Dean baker, senior economist for the economic and policy research. Social security 2100 becomes law it would improve the programs benefit structure and its financial picture. After adjusting for prices and wages having risen 1. 5 annually over the last five years, Social Security 2100 would only be a small impact on the pay increase of a new fica tax. This was in economy for all on november 12, 2019. And the Congressional Budget Office also reports this. This will be the only bill that we will be able to vote on this year that both reduces the 525 billion by social nds and improves security. Let me repeat that again. C. B. O. Has said that Social Security 2100 is both paygo compliant and because the program is fully paid for, reduces the National Debt by 525 billion over time and enhances the existence of Social Security, making it solvent for future generations beyond 75 years. And with that, i yield back my time unless the gentleman from illinois has a final word. Mr. Davis the final word is only, make sure that Social Security is in your plans and be ready to accept it when we get it. Mr. Larson thanks, danny. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields. Under the speakers announced policy of january 3, 2019, the gentleman from wisconsin, mr. Grthman, is recognize for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. Mr. Grothman thank you. First of all, ill let you know, itll probably be more like five minutes. Easier for everybody. I rise today to talk one more time about the crisis at the border. One more week has gone by. For one more week, donnell trump is out there alone, fighting to preserve the integrity of our border and who are the future sit and who the future citizens of the United States of america are. Donald trump is a fan of immigration. Thats why on his watch we are now up to around 750,000 people being sworn in legally in this country every year. Theres been no effort made to really substantially reduce that number. Nevertheless, we do want to pick our immigrants. We want our immigrants to be people who have come here legally and are appropriately vetted. Donnell trump is doing what he can, without the help of congress, i might add, to make sure that that happens. The first thing that congress has to do is to make permanent the public charge rule. Donald trump has correctly said even for legal immigrants we are not going to take people in this country if we expect they be permanent or close to permanent taking advantage of the programs our government has to offer. Right now, 63 of the noncitizens compared to 35 of the native born are on some sort of government program. We have a hard enough time at this time of trillion dollar deficits of taking care of our own citizens who have fallen on hard times without taking the people who are on hard times from all around the world. Donald trump is putting his finger in the spigot. We all know the day will come when well have a different president and when we have a different president im scared to death the president will go back, new president , would go back to the old method of anybody can come here and if they come to our country for free pell grants if they come to our country for free food, if they come to our country for free medical care if they come to our country for free housing, we will let them back in. I wish President Trump were would always be able to prevent that. Im sure hes going to continue to prevent that as long as hes president. But if you rook at the other people running for a job, i wouldnt bet that even by this time next year, certainly within five years, well be back to the days of being the welfare magnet for the western hemisphere or the entire world. I call on congress to step up and pass legislation that a future president cannot undo stating that we are not going to have more people here as a public charge. Secondly, a couple of weeks ago, i went down to the border one more time. Had a chance to talk to local law enforcement, some of the citizens on the border, as well as the Border Patrol. Theyre appreciative of the things that the Current Administration are doing. I saw 12 miles of wall being built at the arizona border. I saw that while it might be possible to get around the wall, i think it would be very difficult. I dont think most people can climb a 30foot wall much less get over the concertina wire on the top, much less over the other side. But again, i wish in a future appropriation bill congress would fully fund that wall like the Border Patrol who sees whats going on every day wishes they had. President trump has reached an agreement with the Mexican Government so that people coming here seeking asylum pending their hearing can be held in mexico rather than coming across living in this country, having children with birth right citizenship and taking advantage of laws that lawabiding people from other countries dont have again, President Trump has reached an agreement with mexico. Thats why weve gone from 80,000 to 90,000 people at least coming in the border in may of last year to under 2,000 we believe more recently. But again thats another victory that could be shortlived. E heard again of currently could easily be over 90 of the fentanyl thombing emeth and heroin coming across the border. This should be a national crisis. More people are dying on an annual basis from this sturge than died in the entire vietnam war. Nevertheless its still treated as no big deal. Congress is not going out of its way to do anywhere near what it should to prevent the drugs coming across the border which are killing our citizens. Furthermore, the drug cartels who control that border are breaking up families and taking advantage of young people, 14, 15yearolds, to smuggle across the border. Why do they do it . They know in the United States were in the going to incarcerate people who are 15 years old who are sneaking drugs across the border. It amazes the Border Patrol that a few times some potential immigrant commits a crime and theyre separated from their children, meanwhile the drug cartels have thousands of people separated from their parents to do their dirty work and barely a peep from the average American Congressman who is so worry about things otherwise. We also had a chance to look at the nogales border and see whats going on there and the possibility that people are going over the wall. We heard again we could use more dogs on the southern border, not only to detect drugs coming across one way but to detect cash coming across the other way. Something else that if this Congress Really cared about our border they would do something about. We heard again about the dangers of having the drug cartels control our southern border. Rather than our Border Patrol. Wealthy drug cartels. Who may be paying off some american citizens who live on the border and may be paying off mexican maybe mexican military, maybe mexican police. But when they sneak people over the border its not unusual to have these people dehydrate in the arizona desert. Its not unusual to have these people drown in the rio grande river. And the fault is the inactivity of the American Congress to really secure these borders so we dont continue to empower the mexican drug cartels who not only are causing people to die coming here, but are also corrupting our Mexican Government and resulting in the high homicide rates we see south of the border. So again, i call upon congress to act to immediately hire more Border Patrol, to hire more dogs, to make sure we have enough funding for the wall, to permanently cause people trying to come into this country to have to stay south of the border, pending their asylum hearing, to change the asylum laws so that anybody cant just say im in danger in my home country and come here. And above all to change the Public Benefits rule so that our future immigrants are uniformly hardworking people who are going to be an asset to america rather then the Current Situation in which they are disproportionately the type of people who come on the government. Were all willing to take care of the people in the United States who have fallen on hard times, but to the idea, to go back to the days in which people all around the world know that the United States of america is a welfare magnet for anyone is ruining our country. And its hard to imagine people who dont take these actions as people other than as anything other people who want to permanently change our country. I call on congress to take action that President Trump would suggest so that if god forbid anything happened to him wed still be in position to save our border. Thank you for the time. I guess im moving adjournment. Anyone else here. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields his time . Mr. Grthman i yield. The speaker pro tempore does the gentleman have a motion. Mr. Grothman i move adjournment. 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