The gentlelady from tennessee is recognized to close for the majority. Mrs. Black thank you, mr. Chairman. I likewise would like to just say that the Ranking Member, mr. Yarmuth, has just been wonderful to work with and we may have differences of opinion but we can do it in a very Southern Hospitality way. I just so much appreciate his demeanor, his leadership on the committee, the way he honors the members of the committee, both democrats and republicans, and it has just been a joy to work with him. Im going to miss working with him and being able to have lively debate which is good this body and good for america. Is good for this body and good for america. I want to also thank all the member who was participated in the debate today, both democrats an republicans. This is what our democracy is about. Being able to voice our opinions and at the end of the day, being able to come to a conclusion after that debate. I look forward to continuing discussion and voting on the final passage tomorrow and as we finish up, i also want to thank our staff for their hard work and there are many of them, im not going to read all of them to you, but i would like unanimous consent to submit these for the record. I do want to mention some of those that are the leaders of the House Budget Committee staff and have just been great to work with. Rick may who is the staff director, jenna stillman, andy morton, tim flynn, mary who has been here with me at my side the entire time, what would i do thout having somebody like her . Mary has been great. Jim bates. Im going to leave it at that im going to get in trouble if i dont announce all of them. The staff has been tremendous to work with, many hours, weekends, and indeed, even some hol dis that they have been here helping to gather the information both for the Budget Committee hearings and then also for this today. So the chair the gentleladys request is covered under general leave and the names will be included. Mrs. Black and i look forward to more lively debate tomorrow. With that, i yield back. The chair the gentlelady yields back the remaining time for the majority. All time for general debate has expired. Pursuant to the rule, the concurrent resolution shall be considered for amendment thunder the fiveminute rule and is considered read. No amendment shall be in order except those printed in house report 115309. Each amendment may be offered only in the order printed in the report, may be offered only by a member designated in the report, shall be considered as read and shall be debatable for the time specified in the report, equackly divided and controlled by the proponent and opponent. After conclusion of consideration of the concurrent resolution for amendment, there shall be a final period of general debate which shall not exceed 10 minutes equally divided and controlled by the chair and ranking minority member of the committee on the udget. For what purpose does the gentleman it is now in order to consider amendment number 1 printed in house report 115339. For what purpose does the gentleman from arizona seek recognition . Thank you, mr. Chairman, i rise as the designee to offer the congressional progressive caucus budget amendment. The chair the clerk will designate the amendment. The clerk amendment number 1, in the nature of a substitute, printed in house report 115339, offered by mr. Grijalva of arizona. The chair pursuant to House Resolution 553, the gentleman grijalva, and r. A member grijalva, and a member opposed each will control 15 minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from arizona. Mr. Grijalva thank you. I rise to offer this amendment to replace the reckless republican budget thats being considered before this house. Instead of a doomsday budget that presents a future where everything is bleak and opportunity is nonexistent, the progress i caucus is offering a budget that can prove that the future can be bright and prosperous. The republican budget sacrifices everything from Public Education to Social Security to medicare and to medicaid. It does this for one reason and one reason only. It gives the wealthiest few and the corporations more tax breaks and increases their standing and concentration of power and wealth in this country more than it is already. I its been said over and over that the budget that were presenting, we feel, does deal with the values of this country. It deals very directly with something that is important to this nation, and thats the American People. The greatest resource that we have as a nation. And we see it day in, day out. This budget invests in the American People. It invests in jobs. It invests in solid education. And it invests in the greater good. This budget is not narrow. Tilted to a few, the wealthiest and corporations in this country. It deals with the totality of who the American People are, those that are struggling and need opportunity, those that are elderly and need the continued support of this nation through medicare and Social Security. Those that are poor that need medicaid and a good Education System so their opportunity would be better in the future. Our budget speaks to the values of the American People. Our budget speaks to the needs of the American People. And our budget speaks to a future that returns the values to the American People of opportunity, of hope, and a chance. And with that, i reserve the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman reserves the balance of his time. Who seeks recognition . For what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition . Mr. Chairman, i claim time in opposition. The chair is the gentleman opposed to the amendment . I am. The chair the gentleman is recognized. Thank you, i yield myself three minutes. Mr. Chairman, even though i disagree heartly with the budgets advanced by the progress i caucus, they do us an Invaluable Service in the budget debate by bringing into sharp relief the two different visions of governance advanced by the two parties. Mr. Mcclintock the progressive intudget a sincere and bold document. Unfortunately, its also wrong. It would hike taxes by 10. 1 trillion over the next 10 years relative to the republican budget. Now think of every trillion dollars that we throw around here as 8,000 from an average family because thats what it comes. To 10. 1 trillion in new taxes ultimately translates as 1,000 from an average family over the next decade. Taken either as direct taxes or as taxdriven price increases or as lower wages or as lower earnings as businesses pass on their burdens to consumers or employers or investors. Remember, investors are largely your 401k or pension plan. It also runs up 2. 6 trillion more in debt than the republican budget over the next 10 years that means another 21,000 of debt added to that familys obligations that theyll have to pay as future taxes just as surely as if it appeared on their credit card statement this month and they have to pay that back before they pay their credit card statement, the i. R. S. Will insist they do. Dont believe only the rich will pay these taxes. It turns out the socalled rich people arent rich and arent people. Many are struggling Small Businesses filing under subchapter s, Small Businesses that create 2 3 of the jobs in our economy. Were told dont worry, were using that money to create wealth and jobs. The problem is the government doesnt create jobs because it cannot create wealth. The government cannot inject a dollar into the economy until it has first take than dollar out of the same economy. We see the job that government creates when it puts the dollar back in the economy, what we dont see as clearly is the job lost when government first takes that dollar out of the economy. We see those lost jobs as and workers es getting up and leaving the job market. Or as its also known, the obama economy. Heres what government can do and what the profwrezzive and democratic budgets propose. It can transfer jobs from the private sector and workers getting to the Public Sector by taxing one and expanding the other. It can transfer jobs from one sector of the private market to another by taxing one and subsidizing the other. Thats precisely the difference between Apple Computer and solyndra. Its the difference between fedex and the post office, its the difference between the reagan recovery and the obama recovery. Reagan like coolidge and kennedy before him, reduced the tax and regulatory burdens on the economy and produced one they have longest economic expansions in our economy. It truly felt like morning again in america. Thats the republican approach and it works. I reserve the balance of my time. The chair the gentleman reserves. The gentleman from arizona is recognized. Mr. Grijalva i would like to yield to the gentleman from wisconsin, the cochair of the congressional progressive pocan, for three minutes. And let me take this time to thank mr. Pocan and his office staff for the fine work and time they pocan, for put into workin budget that were proposing today. The chair the gentleman is recognized for three minutes. Mr. Pocan thank you, mr. Speaker. Id like to thank the gentleman from arizona also for his leadership within the caucus. Im proud to rise in support of the congressional progressive caucus budget alternative. This is a practical prork agressive vision for our country that provides solutions to counter the republican cuts to vital programs and tax breaks for the wealthy. Let me contrast the house g. O. P. Budget with the progressive caucus budget. First in health care. The republican budget embraces trumpcare by incorporating the housepassed American Health care act which cuts at least 20 Million People from their care this includes up to 1 trillion in cuts to medicaid, threatening care for seniors in nursing homes, children, and struggling families. And it makes 500 billion in cuts to medicare, ending the medicare guarantee and shifting cost risks onto senior. The congressional progressive caucus budget defends and strengthens the Affordable Care act. It lowers Prescription Drug costs and expands access to Mental Health care and addiction treatment. We invest in workers, the g. O. P. Plan slashes investments in workers and programs to help more americans get back to work. Programs like apprenticeships and job training. Yet the peoples budget would create 2. 4 million jobs over its first three years and raise wages for American Workers. E republican budget, their 5. 4 trillion in spending cuts means less funding for roads, bridges and schools. We paw 2 trillion into strengthening the nations infrastructure. This would undermine our ability to respond to disasters and the peoples budget provides 200 billion in emergency disaster funds to rebuild communities devastated by hurricanes. The republican budget guts our Public Education system with cuts that could devastate schools and further disinvest in public university. The progressive caucus budget makes debtfree college a reality and provides for the refinancing of Student Loans and it expands access to prex education and provides childcare for all families. And lets get real. The reason were debating the budget this week, republicans cant wait to get started on their tax breaks for the wealthy. The republican tax plan should be called the trump family tax plan because it enriches the wealthy on the backs of the middle class. The progressive caucus gets it right. Not one more penny in tax breaks for corporations and the wealthiest americans. The progress i caucus budget ensures the top 1 pay their fair share in taxes, we close Corporate Tax loopholes and we expand the earned income tax credit and the Child Tax Credit for working families. We must reject the trump family tax cut and invest in our roads and bridges and our schools, our health care, and our workers. Progressives are proposing bold policy solutions as Clear Alternatives to the cruel budget cuts republicans are proposing. The peoples budget is an investment in the American People and i urge you to support the progress i caucus peoples budget. I yield back. The chair the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. The gentleman from california is recognized. Mr. Mcclintock my friend reminds me of a story, when Ronald Reagan was pushing his tax reductions a generation ago that produced the biggest expansion in our nations history, he was approached one day by a working class fellow on a stop that the president was making. The man looks at him and says trk mr. President , the democrats say you republicans want to cut taxes on the rich, is that right . And reagan says, well thats what they say. And the man says, well you go ahead and do that, the poor person never gave me a job. Mr. Chairman, im now pleased to recognize the gentleman from georgia for four minutes. The chair the gentleman from georgia is recognized for four minutes. Mr. Woodall i appreciate my friend from california for yielding me the time. As you know, hes not just down here as Ranking Member on the Budget Committee, hes the leader of the republican study committees budget and Spending Task force and the leadership hes provided in all those areas means a lot to the entire institution, im grateful to him for it. I want to say im grateful to my friends in the progressive caucus, i disagree with their budget, plan to vote against it but how often do we come down here and folks want to complain about whats not going right but dont want to do anything about it . To my frevends credit in the progressive caucus they laid out a vision. Thats what i came here to congress to be part of. Absolutely any group could offer a budget today and yet we only have four alternatives being considered. That tells you something about how hard it is to put your ideas forward. I thank my friends for doing it. I want to run through a couple of things that their budget includes. 4 pay increase tore federal workers across the board. It includes 500 billion in Green Energy Incentives and imposes a carbon tax to deal with greenhouse gases, it cuts 70 billion from the Defense Department and eliminates all together the spending on the global war on terror. These are all legitimate policy disagreements. These are legitimate policy disagreements. The budget increases receive trillion. , by 10 but spends so much more on american priorities that we continue to end up with almost 1 trillion annual deficit in year 10. Mr. Chairman, this is the kind of debate that we have to have. I want to understand the priorities of my friends. I want to understand where they want to see more investment. And then i want to understand how it is we are going to balance this budget together, because what is lacking in this plan and what frustrates me the most of the progressive caucus plan, it is not the investment in the health care, its the fact that they dont we can do these things while raising taxes by 10 trillion on the American People and balance the budget at all. Mr. Chairman, if folks want to raise taxes in this institution, i think our problem is a spending problem and not a taxing problem. But im willing to have that discussion to understand their point of view. I ask my colleagues to vote no on this budget is not because it raises taxes 10 trillion but it continues to borrow from our children and grandchildren in the form of annual debt and deficit. I think we can do better, but we cannot do better without an honest discussion of the issues. These alternatives that we are going to discuss, there are a lot of talking heads on tv who want to talk about it and dont do anything about it. Look at the progressive caucus hich i disagree with almost on everything. But they put their Vision Forward tonight and they said if we can work together, there is absolutely nothing we cannot do on behalf of the American People. Vote no on this budget but applaud the effort that has gone into it but to find common ground. If we have one i thing to agree, we should pay for those things that are important, whether it is wars or green energy or troops or federal employees. Let us agree we should pay those things with our dollars. With that, mr. Chairman, i yield back. The chair the gentleman from georgias time has expired. Mr. Grijalva what the progressive caucus budget does and does very clearly is that we end the special treatment for wall street buddies of the majority of this congress. Meanwhile, their budget is hitting low and middleincome families with their tax plan. Under their plan, corporations get a 2. 4 trillion cut. And tax cut will get a tax cut next year and many middleclass families will have to pay more. Let me yield a minute and a half to the gentlelady from washington and a valued member of the progressive caucus. The chair the gentlelady is recognized. Ms. Jayapal i thank the Ranking Member and mr. Pocan. I rise in strong support of the congressional progressive caucus budget, the peoples budget and i agree with the the gentleman from georgia there are two budgets being presented here. Let me be clear. The republican budget says we should invest millions of dollars for millionaires, billionaires and largest corporation. Our budget, says we want to invest in people. We believe in working families across this country who are working hard and want to have a decent life and build a better future. I choose in investing in the people. This budget invests in education, jobs, research and science and diplomacy. Let me focus on education as the gateway for opportunity. The people