Your coverage of the road to the white house where you will find the candidates, the speeches, the debates and your questions. This year were taking your questions across our country. Giving students the opportunity to discuss what important issues they want to hear the most. European parliament over volkswagens rule and admissions test. Later House Armed Service meeting meeting on house operations in afghanistan. The House Budget Committee met today to consider the 2016 federal budget. Reconciling measures proposed by three other House Committees. It passed along party lines 2111. The markup is just under two hours. The committee will now come to order. Today we meet to report the recommendation cemented to the Budget Committee pursuant to the reconciliation set forth in title to of the current resolution on the budget fiscal year 2016. Under the congressional budget act of 1974 the Budget Committee has the role of combining the reconciliation summit of the three committees. Reporting the bill to the house without any revisions. After any will follow the customary practice to request changes to the reconciliation bill. At the rules committee which may make in order amendments to reconciliation bill. Under the agreement ive reach with rankin member from maryland, ben holling, the procedure for the markup is as follows. First rankin member follows. First rankin member will each make an Opening Statement, give time constraints with four but schedule later today i ask that members some of their written statement into the record. I will hold the record open later today for that purpose. After the Opening Statement staff will be open for a ten minute q a. Followed by general debate. Well then proceed with a motion to the house pursuant to the reconciliation of instructions. After voting to report the restoring americans freedom reconciliation act of 2015 well then debate up to two motions, one offered by the minority, and one offered by the minority, and one offered by the majority. For each motion theyll be 20 minutes of debate, the member opposed will be recognized for ten. I now recognize the general from indiana. Think mr. Chairman since were scheduled to have four votes i asked that we have unanimous consent for that. Without objection, so ordered. Will now move to our Opening Statements. I want to thank everybody for joining the markup today. We are reporting today a package of legislation cemented by three House Committees pursuant to the reconciliation instructions including in this years concurrent balance budget resolution. This is the next step in an ongoing process theyll give congress the opportunity to move legislation both through the house and senate. It will happen an expedited manner and to the president s desk for his review. This first time in over a decade we passed eight bilateral tenure budget. It promotes job creation and economic opportunity, hold washington accountable to make government more efficient and effective, support key priorities Like National security, as well as health and retirement security, and, and get our fiscal house in order. Because the house and senate reached agreement on the budget we have the opportunity t to pursue this recognition process. The fiscal year 16 states that ought to be use to address obama care. In an effort to help all americans to gain access to the health care and coverage they want, not the Government Forces not to buy. That is is exactly what were doing here today. We are committed to protecting every american from this harmful law and the damage it has done, and will do to patients, healthcare, Healthcare Providers, family budgets, and job creators. Whether its your healthcare choices, less access to care, higher outofpocket costs, or less medical innovation, obama care obama care is an attack on Quality Healthcare in our nation. Last week, the House Committees charged with ways and Means Committee, Education Workforce committee and Commerce Committee held markups on their respective recommendations. I want to think chairman thank chairman ryan, chairman klein, chairman upton for the hard work in the hard work of the Committee Members. This is a team member. They and their committee have showed real leadership in this endeavor. Under the reconciliation process the role of the Budget Committee is to combine recommendation sent over from the three committees into a single bill. We consider that single bill here in our committee before reporting it to the full house for its consideration. A quick review of the policy in this legislation demonstrates the concerted effort to provide relief to the American People. From the damage inflicted by obama care, while focusing resources where they can do the most good. The ways and Means Committee has achieved 37. 1 billion of savings by repealing the individual and employer mandates. The so call cadillac tax, medical device tax, as, as well as independent payment Advisory Board. The 15 unelected unaccountable bureaucrats that are powered by obama care to make decisions will effectively deny care to seniors. The energy and Commerce Committee has a g 12. 4 billion in savings by repealing obama care bun called the prevention and Public Health fun. They have included an additional policy that would prevent for one year, taxpayer dollars for being used to pay abortion providers prohibited in the legislation. This is accompanied by more money and more resources for hundreds of Community HealthCenters Across the country so women would have greater access to healthcare. The Education Workforce committee has achieved 7. 9 billion in savings by repealing the auto enrollment for Health Insurance. When these components are combined in one bill, the total savings is 79. 8 billion. Together this will dismantle many key elements of obama care theyre hurting families, spending taxpayer dollars on programs with little to no congressional oversight. Our goal here is to say the country the country from this disastrous law and start over. With patient centered Healthcare Solutions for patients, families, and doctors were making medical decisions not washington d. C. It allows the job of the Budget Committee told these recommendations it is not within our power under the reconciliation process to make sensitive changes to the legislation before us. As as you see projected, section 310 of the budget act, states that each such committee should promptly make a determination a recommendation and submit recommendations to the committee on the budget of its house, which which upon receiving such recommendations shall report to its house reconciliations carrying out all such recommendations without any substantive revisions. Therefore todays market may not include any amendments. There will be an opportunity for amendments after the legislations address. I want to think this committee and those who helped draft this for their efforts and i look for to the debate. I now now yield the Opening Statement to mr. Van hollen. Think mr. Chairman. Its apsley mindboggling that we are here, on this day, in this place, with this piece of legislation in front of us. We all know that we have a crisis of leadership within the republican caucus, that may be just a matter of political intrigue to some, but the reality is it is causing harm to the country as we speak. We have a huge number of pressing issues facing our country right now. We have the threat of another Government Shutdown in middecember, we have our debt payments on debt ceiling that needs to be address of the United States makes good on the full faith and credit of the United States so we do not put our economy at great risk. We have transportation authorization bill that expires within weeks, yet here we are today, for the 62nd time, by my my count, trying to dismantle the Affordable Care act and on top of that attack Women Health Programs including planned parenthood. Rather than tackling those issues, here we are trying to do the bidding of a faction of this house that just cant come to terms of the fact that the Affordable Care act as the law of the land and upheld twice by the Supreme Court. It it is pretty outrageous that the focus now is on dismantling the Affordable Care act. I draw my colic the tension to the Congressional Budget Offices, analysis of this reconciliation bill. As everyone as everyone here knows, these are the nonpartisan experts, new head of the cbo is here headed by the chairman and the chairman on the other side of the capital. Here is what the Congressional Office says this bill would do, it would reduce the number of nonelderly people in the United States with Health Insurance coverage by about 14 15 million, in most years about 20 of percent of those are estimated to be children. I would like to put up a chart. As you can see, the Affordable Care act has had a dramatic impact in reducing the number of uninsured in this country. It is doing its intended job of providing Affordable Healthcare to 16 Million People, including children. Yet the priority of our republican colleagues in this house, at this time of dysfunction and pressing issues, is to pass a piece of legislation that would take that Health Insurance away from 16 million americans. It is astounding. At the same time we see an attack on womens Health Programs, i would just like to put up another chart here, this house has had three committees investigating planned parenthood. This was the conclusion announced by mr. Chairman on the Government Reform Committee on National Television the other day. Is is there any evidence in your opinion, that planned parenthood has broken the law, answer no, i am not not suggesting they broke the law. Next chart. Please. The the hearing where that committee brought the head of planned parenthood for four and a half hours, it wasnt a question of planned parenthoods wrongdoing, the chart was put up to make the point by the republican chairman of that committee was given the pants on fire rating, meaning the most untruthful statement that you can make by the nonpartisan political act. So here we are today with a piece of legislation designed to deprive 16 million americans from Affordable Healthcare, designed to go after womens Health Programs in a witchhunt against an organization that provides Cervical Cancer screenings and other important Preventable Health measures for american women. That seems seems to be the priority. Mr. Chairman, you said this would actually help reduce the deficit. I also refer our colleagues to the cbo report, just draw your attention, right here to page eight. What it says, if you actually look at the longterm, beef up beyond our artificial tenure window, this legislation actually increases the deficit. All this talk about balance budgets is just nonsense. This actually increases our deficit over the period of time, outside the tenure window. And, interestingly, i think the chairman said inside the tenure window it had 79 billion in cuts but of course those go away, that is just an artificial marker. If i remember the republican budget had almost 4 trillion in cuts. This is your one shot and reconciliation. Your one shot. You are just telling the world that you didnt mean it when you put for that whole budget. You are coming up with a piece of legislation that, in the long run it actually increases the deficit. It doesnt come close to balancing the budget. That was all smoke and mirrors. You are doing it though at the expense of 16 million americans who now have Affordable Healthcare, take that away and launch an attack on womens Health Programs and organizations that the chairman of your own Investigatory Committee has said has not violated any laws. By the way himself, he put forward an argument that got him the most untruthful rating from nonpartisan political effects. So i will offer later a proposal to prevent the Government Shutdown, i hope we can all agree on that. We certainly dont agree with the idea of taking away health care for millions of americans. Thank you mr. Chairman chairman. Thank you. Given the time constraint i say that people have to the end of the day to submit information for the order. We have ten minutes to hear arguments. I urge members to have factual questions. We are here to answer any technical questions regarding recommendations, not to debate the policy and implications of the recommendation. We have ten minutes for this. And if members have questions. Mr. Chairman, i will ask one question. Did you leave in place the provision in the Affordable Care act that requires Insurance Companies to issue insurance policies to anybody, no matter what their healthcare statuses . Thank you for your question sir. The legislation before you reflects submissions of the three instructed committees. For the fy 16 budget resolution. The language before you does not , i believe the provision you are referring to. You believe. It does not. It does not. So it would require an Insurance Company to issue a policy to somebody if they find out they are sick, they would go to the Insurance Company and say i am sick i want to Insurance Company. They would be required to issue one at that point question marks. Yes congressman it does limit leave in place those provisions. Thank you very much. With the Budget Committee let me ask questions that are clearly in the subject matter domain of this committee. Have you had had a chance to review the analysis of this reconciliation reconciliation. Yes congressman, ive had had a chance to review. And is it the case that they have concluded that this legislation will increase the federal deficit, beyond the 10 year window. I believe the submission you are referring to front cbo analyzes the ways and means reported language to their House Budget Committee. According to the budget control act, the decide whether they were in compliance with the directive and relies on cbos estimates. Overall, the ways and means submission does reduce deficit by 31. 7 billion over the period. I understand that, but they they also focused on what we should all care about, which is not the deficit within an artificial window but what is the longterm impact. Im just asking a question. On the Budget Committee. But i dont think, there been a lot of other things going on in the house yesterday, i think its important that we vote on this that we get the analysts from the Budget Committee staff to tell us whats in the budget report. I can address address your question sir. According to cbo, it says that the legislation would not increase the direct spending by more than 5 million either the first two consecutive 10 year periods beginning 2026. However the agencies, cbo are not able to determine whether an acting the legislation would increase net direct spending in the third or fourth 10 year period. By enacting legislation that would increase budgets by at least 5 million beginning in 2026. In fact i have not seen that my cell. It makes the point very clearly that despite comments about trying to balance the budget, this impact makes the budget deficit worse. I think i think it is import people understand that is what they are doing here in the Budget Committee. The budget that passed the house, do you recall how many trillions of dollars in mandatory cuts, mandatory spending cuts that had . With respect, im not sure that as a technical technical question about this reconciliation bill. If you want to carry on that line of conversation during the debate that i think that is appropriate. Again mr. Chairman i am referencing your comments in your opening comments regarding your balance budget. I do think it is important to point out that your balance budget rick choirs i think 4 trillion in mandatory cuts, this has 79 billion that is in a 10 year window. And it actually increases the deficit. We can move move on from there. Let us understand the factual impact of this legislation as well. In terms of the