The chair lays before the house a communication. The clerk the honorable the speaker, house of representatives. Sir, pursuant to section 3 of the elliss spotted bear commission on native children act, public law 114244, i am pleased to appoint dr. Dough lore rest big foot to the commission on native children native children commission. Thank you for your attention to this appointment. Signed, sincerely, nancy pelosi, democratic leader. The speaker pro tempore for what purpose does the gentlewoman from tennessee seek recognition . For what purpose does the gentlewoman from tennessee seek recognition . Mrs. Black mr. Speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and includeheir remarks and extraneous material on h. Con. Res. 71, currently under consideration. The speaker pro tempore without objection. Pursuant to House Resolution 553 and rule 18, the chair declares the house in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for the consideration of house concurrent resolution 71. The chair appoints the gentleman from colorado, mr. Lamborn, to preside over the committee of the whole. Is the in he house the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for consideration is the in the committee of the whole house on the state of the union for consideration of house concurrent resolution 71 which the clerk will report by title. The clerk concurrent resolution establishing the congressional budget for the uted States Government for fiscal year 2018. Extending forth the appropriate budgetary levels for fiscal years 2019 through 2027. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the rule, the concurrent resolution is considered as read the first time. General debate shall not exceed four hours with three hours confined to the congressional budget equally divided and controlled by the chair and Ranking Member of the committee on the budget. And one hour on the you subject of economic goals and policies equally divided and controlled by the gentleman from ohio, mr. Tiberi, and the gentlewoman from new york, mrs. Maloney, or their designees. The house will come to order. He committee will be in order. The gentlewoman from tennessee, mrs. Black, and the gentleman from kentucky, mr. Yarmuth, each 90 minutes of debate on the congressional budget. The chair asks members to take their conversations outside the chamber. The committee will be in order. The committee will be in order. The chair recognizes the gentlewoman from tennessee. Mrs. Black mr. Chairman, the house is still not in order. The chair the gentlewoman is correct. Members will please take their conversations outside the chamber. The chair recognizes the gentlewoman fromtown tfpblet mrs. Black mr. Chair, i yield myself such time as i may consume. The chair the lady is recognized. Mrs. Black thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today in support of house con. Res. 71, our budget building a better america. Our budget takes real tangible steps to balance the budget, build a stronger military, unlock tax reform, and support an economy that creates opportunity for all americans. In the past years, our budget resolution was a vision document, but this year is different. With the election of President Trump, our budget goes from being a vision document to being a governing document that outlines how we build a better america for our children and our grandchildren. The opportunity to our promises to the American People. Balancing the budget mr. Chairman, the house is not in order. The chair the gentlewoman from will suspend. Members are asked to take their conversations outside the chamber. The gentlewoman is recognized. Mrs. Black balancing the budget by 2027 is our top priority. Our National Debt stands at 20 trillion with 9 trillion our p American People. Balancing the added over just the last eight years. For too long, both parties in washington have failed to abide by a simple principle that all American Families and Small Businesses do. That we must live within our means. Balancing the budget requires us to make some tough decisions. But the consequences of inactio far outweigh any Political Risk we may face. Unless we take bold steps to bring our excessive spending and debt under control, a sovereign debt crisis is the natural conclusion. Failure to take swift and Decisive Action is not only inexcusable, it is immoral. The budget resolution before us takes real steps to put our country on a sound fiscal path that balancing in 10 years. And will allow us to start paying down our National Debt. Building a better america also assumes bold reforms to strengthening programs that our seniors and our most vulnerable citizens rely on and ensure that these programs can continue to serve them for generations to come. While our budget includes reforms to discretionary spending, we also strongly believe that mandatory spending addressed in this budget resolution and in budget resolutions to come. Mandatory spending is already more than 2 3 of all addressed l spending, and that number will only continue to grow. And thats why our committee felt strongly about addressing mandatory spending programs in this budget through reconciliation. Mr. Chairman, the house is still not in order. The chair the gentlewoman will suspend. Will members please take their conversations off the chamber floor. The gentlewoman is recognized. Mrs. Black thank you, mr. Chairman. Our budget requires 11 authorizing committees to find a minimum of 203 billion in savings and reforms over the 10year budget window. With an expektation that the reforms will result in significantly higher sings. This package of mandatory reforms is the largest since the 1990s through reconciliation, and it is the first step to change the culture of washington and our spending. Our budget also promotes tax reform and Regulatory Reform to get the federal government out of the way and allow our free market economy to thrive. The larger the government, the less freedom for individuals and businesses have to thrive, grow, hire, and innovate. The obama economy left millions with with over 14d Million People leaving the labor work force in just the last eight years. Through reconciliation, our budget specifically paves the progrowth tax reform will reduce taxes for the middle class americans and ee up american businesses to grow and to hire. It will also simplify the tax code, allowing about nine out of 10 americans to file their taxes on a simple postcard. Many of our friends across the aisle and in the media said that a 1. 9 Economic Growth is the new normal. And that were doomed to continue the economic stagnation of the oma years. They have a pessimistic view of our nations ability to create jobs and to build will reduce t middle class americans and free up american businesses to grow and to hire. Our foundation of greater opportunity for all. America has the greatest workers, the greatest innovators, and the entrepreneurial ethos to far surpass the Economic Growth of the last eight years. If only the federal government would get out of the way. In this budget, we put our trust in the American People, but a stronger economy is not enough. Wmust also strengen our military. The number one job of the federal government is to protect its citizens. Over the last eight years, the weak Foreign Policy of president obama has led to an increase in threats from all corners of the glob while the funding for our men and women in uniform has failed to keep pace. Building a better america 621. 5 billion of our on our military, and 75 billion specifically for global war on fiscal year 2018. These resource ao help our men and women in uniform complete the mission with which they have been tasked. Building a better america presents us with an 621. 5 bill to change the trajectory of our country forever. The election of President Trump was a signal to all of us that the American People will no longer accept status quo. This budget is also a very personal one for me as i and my committee have gone through the long and arduous process of getting this budget to the floor. And think o stop about not just what were doing but where were going. I have a picture of and think about my six grandildrenaped to the back of my voting card. I was a nurse for more than 40 ars and still hold my license today. Government and Public Service was never an aition of mine. But when i saw what was ppening in my state and in this country, i couldntit back and do nothing. Every time i put my voting card into a slot, im reminded of why i left the career that love to join the political fray. Itsor them. Its for my children and grandchildren and for yours as well. I grew up in an amrica where a poor girl whose parents only a vision was for her to finish high school could graduate from college, become a nurse, and eventually become a member of the house of representatives. I grew up in an ameca that was the land that is the land of opportunity and was the land of opportunity then of strength and of compassion. But that america is slippingway from us. For too many young people in this contrirk the opportunity to live the American Dream is out of reach in this country, the opportunity to liv in america dream is out of reach. The government of, by, and for the people has left them behind. Building a better erica requires a governme that spends within its means. A military with the resources to complete the mission. And a economy that creates the opportunity r all and a federal bureaucracy that taxpayers. But it also requires an understanding that the greatness of america does not lie in the grand buildings and stone pillars of washington, d. C. The greatness of america lies in the spirit and tenacity of the people. We design building a better america to put this vision into practice, to empowerndividuals to live their version of the American Dream future generations of americans are counti on us and failure is not an option. I want to take this opportunity to thank the members of this committee for their hard work that they have done. For the months that we have worked tirelessly to come a budget thatld reflects o pnciples. It hasnt been easy, but producing a budget that puts our vision for fiscal sanity into practice will be worth it, and i thank each and every one of you r your hard work. A budget that flects our principles. You, mr. I reserve the balance of my ti. The chair the gentlelady thank reserves. For what purpose does th gentleman from kentucky seek recognition . Mr. Yarmuth to eak the time of theinoritin the house. The chairthgentlemans recognized. Mr. Yarmuth yield myself such time as i may consume. Mr. Chair, the republican budget were debating here today is a shockingly extreme document that gives to the rich and takes from everyone else. It calls for more than 5 illion in spending cuts that threaten our economic progress annational surity. And it willfully ignorethe needs and priorities of the American People. This budget isnt about conservative threaten our economic progress and policy or reducing the size of our debt and deficits. Its not even abt American Families. This budget is about one thing, using budget reconciliation to ram through giant tax gave aways to the healthy and big corporations and to do it without bipartisan support. This budget and the taxuts it exists to support are buildon a built on a foundation of lies they are part after dangerous and deceptive threestep process republicans have used before with seriousonseqnces for our nation and the american peop. This is what they do. First, my republican colleagues call r massive tax cuts for the rich. Claiming they will generate so much economic groh that they will pay for themselves. It benefits the weathy at the expense of everyone else. Yes. Said trilonwith a t. For exampleunder this ta plan, millions of familis mang50,000 a year would be subject to a tax increase. Increase. While millionaires get a 230,000verage taxut. Thats notax reform thats a shakedown. In total, individualwill see their taxes go up by more than 450 billion while coorations, wealthy passthrough entities and rich estate get a tax cut totaling 2. 9 trillion. One might justifiably ask why yone uld want to do that. After all, the income disparity in the United Statess greater than most every other country on earth and is getting larg. Just few decad ago the wealthiest 1of americans earned with 4 of all national income. Today its close to 4. Yet, once this plan is fully phased in, 80 o the entire tax cut in this plan goes to just the top 1 . While 45 of all households with childr see a tax increase you could be someoneho gets 1 million salary,wns llions in cporate stockbe a rtner in a hedge fund or just the heir to a massi fortune. No matter the type of millia you are, republicans make sre youll get a x cut. And no matter how many time President Trump,ectary mnuchin or m colleagues across th aisle say it and how muc they hpe the American People will fall for i theseax cuts wont p for themselves. Thsot jusmy argument. Thats the conclusion of the federal reserve, the Congressional Budget Office and specte economists of all strip. Conservate economists and former c. B. O. Director douglas ean said, quote, theres just no evien that the tax cuts actuay pay for themselves, end quote. Even Goldman Sach Goldman ch, secretary mnuchins former employer, says any growth will be minimal. May up to. 2 . Bruce bartlett, the man who td reaganomics congressast week that now thinks its bu. We, thats half of the word he used but you get the idea. The historicarord is clear. We went through this in the early 1980s, the early000s r george w. Bush,nd we recently saw it play out to disastrous effect inansas. Now congressionalepublicans want try it again. Well know the truth. That tax cuts in this plan will inease deficits and debt by proxitely 2. 4 trillion in the first 10 years alone and trillions min the years after. Thisudget will blow enormous holein the federal budget which brings me to the second part of the republican deception. When the growth fails to happen as promised and these tax cuts keep digging our economy down deeper and deeper, republicans will bemoan the horrors of deficits and debt. These cries will lead us to the third and final part of the plan. They will call for ressional action, not to for the wealthy, but to drastic programs that people need, education, health care, research, infrastructure and Veterans Benefits are already threatened in this budget. It includes an astonishing 5. 4 trillion in spending cuts. 1. 5 trillion for medicare and medicaid alone. It even assumes 49 billion in cuts to Veterans Benefits. The enormity of these cuts and the severity of the consequences for American Families cannot be overstated. But more cuts will be coming if my republicans get their way with this budget. We will see more attacks on medicare, medicaid, Social Security, nutrition assistance, on important benefits and services that help American Families get ahead and on key investments that keep our economy and our nation strong. To be clear and with all due respect to my friend and colleague from tennessee, by voting on this budget, for this budget, they are jeopardizing meals and Food Assistance for 515,000 hungry children in tennessee so that the wealthiest person in that state who has a net worth of 8. 8 billion can get a massive tax cut. Democrats have a different bument and a far different budget and a far different vision for our country and our priorities reflect the priorities of the American People. We invest in programs that will grow our economy, create goodpaying jobs and provide real support for working families. Public investments that lead to a Brighter Future such as rebuilding roads, bridges and other vital infrastructure. Retirement security for seniors now and for millions of americans who fear they will never be able to afford to stop working. Affordable education so that young people will be able to compete with the careers of the future. Affordable, Quality Childcare for hardworking parents and affordable, Quality Health care for all americans. We believe in a government that helps individuals with nowhere left to turn and a tax code that helps families get ahead. Those are american priorities, and they should be the priorities of this congress. I therefore urge my colleagues to oppose this budget and support the democratic alternative. I reserve the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady from tennessee is recognized. Mrs. Black thank you, mr. Chair. And it is now my honor to yield two minutes to the gentleman that is the vice chair of the Budget Committee, mr. Rokita. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. Mr. Rokita i thank the chair and i thank the chairwoman. I thank all the members of the Budget Committee who voted for this budget and now its on the floor. And i encourage all members of the house to vote in favor of this budget, and thats because our National Debt continues to grow exponentially every day, every hour, every minute and every second. We cannot afford to have any more time waiting to address the spending crisis that were in. This budget begins to put these irresponsible elitist policies behind us and creates a culture around here that makes sure that our friends and neighbors who really need the help get the help without forcing our nations bills on our children and grandchildren,