Witnessed the deadliest mass shooting. We should be passing the dream act who dreamers call this nation home. Timely, instead of wasting taxpayer dollars and our constituents time, this house should be reauthorizing chip, the bipartisanbacked Health Insurance program which expired over the weekend and which is going to leave children who badly need Health Care Insurance twisting in the wind without it. Congressional republicans have chosen to bring this irresponsible and extreme bill to the floor in stunning ignorance of reality. It assumes trumpcare will still pass. How many times must the majority be reminded trumpcare will not become law . How many times will the majority try to cut medicaid by 1 trillion, cut medicare benefits and raise insurance costs on elderly and lowincome americans. Enough is enough. Instead of to pandering the wellconnected, this bill should embody our best values. This does not reflect mr. Yarmuth i yield to the gentlelady 30 seconds. Ms. Wasserman schultz this budget should embody americas best values. Sadly this legislation does not reflect our responsibility to care for and invest in the American People. I urge a no vote and i yield back. The chair the gentleman from kentucky reserves. The gentlelady from tennessee is recognized. Brac black i yield two minutes to the distinguished member from north carolina, mr. Norman. Mr. Norman i rise in support of a proposed budget resolution which will provide the spending cuts that washington needs and gives a pathway to reconciliation for tax reform. Our National Debt sits at 20 trillion and projected to reach close to 30 trillion within 10 years. Washington out of control spending hinds hinders our economy and puts the financial burden on the backs of our children and grandchildren. Not only is our debt unsustainable but we need substantial resources and taxpayer dollars must go to servicing our debt. The cost to service our debt will rise 219 meaning we will spend close to 800 billion by 2027 simply to pay the interest on our debt. 5. 4 educes spending by trillion and does not expand the federal government or state and local authority. And this will help us accomplish what we came here to do, meaningful tax reform. While i would like to see our government make more wise choices, this budget resolution puts us on the road to achieving that goal. This resolution is a vehicle for updating our tax code, we can accomplish something that has not been done in over 30 years. I urge my colleagues to support this budget resolution. I yield back. The chair the gentlelady from tennessee reserves. The gentleman from kentucky is recognized. Mr. Yarmuth by voting for this budget, he will force 941,000 seniors and disabled individuals to pay more for life saving medicare and the wealthiest person in his state has a net worth of 3 billion can get a massive tax cut. I yield to the gentleman from llinois, mr. Mr. Krishnamoorthi . This sets up a tax plan that would harm hundreds of thousands of working families in illinois and millions across the nation. It has been reported that this tax plan enables a budget that would eliminate the state and local Tax Deduction known as the salt deduction. In my home state of illinois, the salt deduction represents a sizeable portion of taxpayers income accounting for 6 of the average itemizers average gross income. Within my district, the salt deduction allows families in cook county to save 4,000. Page counties, the numbers are greater. Simply put, mr. Speaker, the salt deduction prohibits double taxation on working families. Thats why numerous bipartisan organizations have spoken out in support of the salt deduction, including the National Governors association and the United States conference of mayors. If this budget passes, the tax structure it creates will cause a dramatic increase on the tax burden on working families. No doubt that our tax code needs to be updated but we need to do so in a way that upholds the president s promise that working families would not see a tax increase. I oppose increased taxes on working families. I yield back. The chair the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. The gentlelady from tennessee is recognized. Mrs. Black i yield three minutes to the distinguished the gentleman from illinois, mr. Shimkus. Mr. Shimkus thank you, mr. Chairman. I rise in support of the fiscal year 2018 budget resolution and i thank chairman black. Our National Debt exceeds 20 trillion, while there are many factors are determining our fiscal health, our nations need to dispose of nuclear fuel. We passed the Nuclear Policy act and had a Waste Management program for the federal program and set a 1998 deadline for the department of energy to dispose of nuclear waste. They signed a contract requiring this deadline to be met. The federal government did not meet that deadline and has yet to take title of this material. The federal government has been held liable for not meeting this deadline and the court has awarded damages to utilities. The payments are paid from a specific department of treasury account, an unlimited fund not subject to budget caps or annual appropriations. Since 2009, d. O. E. s total liability has gone to 30 billion and over 2 billion a day for each delay. The costs were onethird of federal payments. Put another way, american taxpayers are paying 2 million every single day in which we neglect our legal and moral obligations to get rid of spent nuclear fuel. Introduced h. R. 3053 which passed out of the committee of energy and commercial by 494. I look forward to continue to work with my colleagues to address this budget challenge and thank you, chairman black, for your leadership and support of this important issue. I urge support of this budget and i yield back my time. The chair the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. Does the gentlelady from tennessee reserve . Mrs. Black yes. Mr. Yarmuth i reserve. The chair the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. The gentlelady from tennessee is recognized. Mrs. Black i now yield three minutes to the distinguished chairman of the ways and Means Committee, mr. Brady. The chair the gentleman from texas is recognized for three minutes. Mr. Brady first let me thank chairman black for her leadership on this remarkable budget. When i asked my constituents from texas about their biggest concerns for their family and the nations future, the overwhelming response is about he debt our country faces. Our National Debt is 20 trillion and without action, our country is facing a terrible correction. We have to do something about it to tackle our nations fiscal challenges head on in a twopart approach. This budget provides real fiscal responsibility and balances within 10 years and preserves medicare and returns power to state and local governments owe so they can what is best. These measures move us in the right direction, but fiscal responsibility is one crucial piece of the puzzle. We want a healthier economy in the longterm and need a growing american economy. This lays the groundwork, the runway if you will for pro growth, pro family promiddle class tax reform. We are delivering a new tax code for a new era of american prosperity. We have released bold ideas to move more jobs and bigger paychecks for the American People especially our middle class family and united in gettings tax reform legislation to the president s desk this year. If we do not pass a budget, tax reform doesnt move forward. I ask my colleagues where do you stand . Are you content with an unsustainable National Debt, slow growth economy and broken prowashington, prospecial interest tax code or do you stand in support of fiscal responsibility and progrowth tax reform a that allows people to keep more of their paycheck. We dont accept a slow growth future. I thank chairman black for her leadership in bringing this budget forward. I yield back. The chair the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. The gentleman from kentucky is recognized. Mr. Yarmuth how much time does both sides have remaining . The chair the gentleman from 4 minutes. S 331 and the gentlelady from tennessee has 37 minutes. Plaque black it is my honor to yield two minutes to the gentleman from new mexico, mr. Pearce. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Pearce mr. Chairman, im pleased to rise today in support of the fiscal year 2018 budget resolution on behalf of chairman hensarling and i would like to talk about the instructions given by the chairwoman of the Budget Committee to Financial Services committee to find savings of 14 billion. Thats what we were sent here to do, to find those places where it makes sense to cut the budget and we dont harm anything and in this case, the Financial Services is going to help people in Rural Communities. The several years ago, the democratic majority passed the doddfrank act and that nshrined too big to fail and earlier this year, the body passeded h. R. 10, the financial choice act. That was trying to prune back the cfpb which were hurting the rural areas. A bank shared with us how it takes them 185 pages to complete a mortgage loan. 185 pages for a small bank for just a simple resolution of buying a home. That is placing many times our Community Banks are simply stopping to offer that service. No one is willing to come into new mexico and lend into these Rural Communities. So we are facing very serious problems. Sometimes Community Banks are having to consolidate. That hits Rural Communities even worse because the consolidation usually moves the banks headquarters outside the state or the community and weakens the fabric of the community. By finding the savings in this budgetries like, we not only save the money, but we also stop the encroaching regulations that cfpb is putting out and harming Rural Communities and hurting rural homeowners. For those reasons i support the budget resolution act and urge its passage and i yield back. The chair does the gentlelady from tennessee reserve . Black plaque i reserve. Mr. Yarmuth we reserve. The chair the gentlelady from tennessee is recognized. Mrs. Black i yield three minutes to the the gentleman from alaska, don young. Mr. Young i thank you and chairman bishop for including the Alaska National wildlife range in the budget process. Im looking forward to this and we contribute money to solving some of our National Debt. The small area of 1002 in the range is an area of 2,000 acres smaller than dulles apet. At potentially, though, we have 20 billion barrels of oil. Think how much money that would bring to this treasury immediately through the bidding process. This is an issue i have been working on for the last 45 years. Its time. We passed it once and went to the senate and president clinton vetoed it because it wouldnt help us with the ell barring we had at that time. Now is the time to make sure this nation is independent. It wont happen overnight but only congress can do this. It was designated to be drilled on behalf of the congress for the good of the nation. It will reduce the debt. Again, i said i expect bids 10 billion to 20 billion with the right toll drill. And with the new royalties coming down from the secretary of interior, we will not only have a large amount going into the treasury but 776,000 new jobs created by the discovery of this oil. We have seen how it controls the opec nations. But this is the area which oil has been developed by god. Its only going to be available to the United States and its time this congress brings this to the people. Now, well hear a lot from the other side of those in Interest Groups that have no knowledge at all about the area im talking about. We hear that it will be affected. Prudhoe bay produces 17 billion barrels of oil. We have about 31,000 caribou so oil didnt disturb them. Oil is not evil. Its the necessity for this nation socially. To create jobs. To make a healthier economy. So im asking my colleagues, again, to consider this legislation. It is necessary for this nation. Its necessary very frankly for the good of this congress. With 20 trillion in debt i havent heard anything that will create new wealth. You can cut whatever you want to cut. Ill cut whatever i want to cut. You have to create new wealth. You have to bring it to the full general budget process and for the economy of this nation. Lets not keep putting our heads in the sand and oh, we dont need to do this. Its not the time to do it. Now is the time, the good of the nation and because we are in debt. I again, mr. Chairman, urge my colleagues to consider this budget. I compliment mrs. Black and her work, her chairmanship on the budget. Its a very difficult process but we have the time to do it and with that, mr. Chairman, i dont have any more time so ill yield back what i have. The chair the gentleman yields back. The gentlelady from tennessee reserves. And the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. Mr. Yarmuth we reserve. The chair the gentleman reserves. The gentlelady from tennessee is recognized. Mrs. Black mr. Chairman, i believe now we will yield time to j. E. C. The chair the gentlelady reserves. The chair the gentleman from ohio, mr. Think beery, and ms. Mali will control on the issue of economic goals and policies. The gentleman from ohio is recognized. Mr. Ty beery thank you, mr. Speaker mr. Tiberi thank you, mr. Speaker. I yield myself such time as i may consume. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Mr. Tiberi we can choose a future of more deficits and more debt piled on to our children or we can continue having a weak economy where people in their primary working years can keep leading the job market. Or we can choose a future where americas job creators, people who go to work every day decide that theyll be better off starting or moving their business overseas. Or we can choose the future of more of the same and its not the wealthy who will suffer more of the same. Its the most vulnerable. Lowincome americans trying to climb out of poverty. Its the middle class, families who find it harder and harder to keep up, to get ahead. People like my dad, a machine operator, whos now retired as a united steelworker. Its and our children and grandchildren will have to pay tomorrow for the mistakes we make today. But we can and ibin stead choose a Better Future, mr. Speaker instead, choose a Better Future, mr. Speaker, where the government learns to live within its means and move forward towards balanced budgets. A future where Small Businesses arent punished by our tax codes where they succeed. A future where we have lower tax rates, where workers can finally get the pay raises they deserve, more money in their pockets and more practices parity is widespread, not just concentrated on our coasts and a few large urban cities. Well be voting soon on a budget that restores fiscal responsibility and paves the way for a worldclass tax code built for growth and a Better Future for our kids and our grandkids. Yesterday at the joint Economic Committee, mr. Speaker, we held a hearing on the decline in business startups. The engines of job growth and innovation in america and the role tax reform could play in reversing this downward spiral. Among other things, heres what we heard yesterday at the hearing. First, simplify the tax code. Entrepreneurs spend way too much time and way too much money complying with the tax code instead of focusing on growing their businesses. Second, lower the tax rates that our companies and employers pay. Thats something that foreign governments around the world, both friends and foes, have already done to attract more jobs, more businesses. Third, let companies of all sizes write off the cost of their growthproducing investments immediately. This is called expensing. Instead of deducting them slowly from the taxes over many years under a very complicated depreciation rules. Fourth, stop punishing our businesses for investing overseas. Profits bringing them back home to america. Move away from the system that double taxes American Companies that do business overseas. These steps will boost Economic Growth, growing markets will give entrepreneurs the confidence the risks starting a business which many wont even do today as weve seen more and more startups not making it to the starting line. More startups create more jobs. An average of six new jobs per startup. And more Economic Growth means continuing to spread that prosperity. Ipe happy to report these recommendations are a large part of our tax reform framework much thats just recently been unveiled. Simplicity, lower tax rates, expensing, stop double taxing our american businesses that do business abroad, reward investment in america and boost Economic Growth. We need a tax code that makes america the best place in the world to do business and grow your business and keep your business. Our job creators who are Corporate Taxpayers now face the highest tax rate in the developed world while other countries aggressively lower their tax rate, mr. Speaker, to attract new businesses, we left our businesses standing still. Mr. Speaker, the tax reform framework would slash our corporate rate from the highest in the world at 35 to a competitive 20 . Instead of the worst, we get much better, a global economy, thats not just a luxury, thats a necessity. Our tax reform framework will not only help American Companies compete with foreign ones, but it will invest and grow jobs here at home. Look at how the taxes are punishing Small Businesses, not with just complex complex taxes but also high tax rates. When main street Business Owners went to sleep on december 31, 2012, their highest ta