The speaker pro tempore on this vote, the ayes are 199, the nays are 230, the motion is not adopted. The question is on passage of the bill. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The ayes have it. The gentleman from massachusetts is recognized. I ask for a record vote. The speaker pro tempore a recorded vote is requested. Those favoring a recorded vote will rise. A sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. 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 yeas are 246, the nays are 181. The bill is passed. Without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. For what purpose does the gentleman from massachusetts seek recognition . Mr. Mcgovern i move that the house do now adjourn. The speaker pro tempore the question is on the motion. Those in favor say aye. Those opposed, no. The nays have it. Mr. Mcgovern i ask for a recorded vote. The speaker pro tempore a recorded vote has been requested. Those favoring a recorded vote will rise. A sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. 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 epresentatives. ] the speaker pro tempore on this vote, the ayes are one, the nays are 421. He motion is not adopted. The speaker pro tempore the chair will now entertain requests for oneminute speeches. For what purpose does the gentlewoman from florida seek recognition . Ms. Roslehtinen permission to address the house for one minute and revise and extend. The speaker pro tempore without objection. The gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. Ms. Roslehtinen thank you so much. On tuesday, april 9, here berger corporation of america will celebrate its 50th anniversary, a wellknown south floridabased company. It provides many hardworking americans with highquality manufacturing jobs in our south florida community. I commend this navy corporation for its prowess and commitment to Sustainable Business practices and its fairness to its employees and generosity to our community. Since 1963, its focus on quality and innovation has established it as an Industry Leader much to the credit of its founder, herbert wagner. The legacy of success continues with its current president. This exemplary corporation and Community Partner has accomplished much over the years and i am pleased that it calls south florida home. Congratulations to each and wishone at herbigger and i you many more years of success. Thank you, madam speaker. The speaker pro tempore the gentlelady yields back. For what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition . Mr. Thompson request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend. The speaker pro tempore without objection. The gentleman is recognized for one minute. Mr. Thompson the only way to get our economy growing stronger is take an honest account of the fiscal problems we face and put forward policies to address these challenges. Its called budgeting. A fundamental part entails writing and passing a budget, something we havent seen the senate in four years. Four years, thats how long americans have had to wait for the senate to perform its most basic function as a legislative body. Before today, the only thing certain was that the senate would not consider a budget. Today, the Senate Democrats introduced a budget and im glad they did. Its about time. Unform after reviewing their proposal, the only thing certain is that their budget will never balance. We owe the American People a responsible balanced budget. The house budget introduced yesterday, balances the budget in 10 years. The Senate Democrats proposal never balances ever. A balanced budget will foster a healthier economy and create jobs, madam speaker. The American People elected us to lead and put Forward Solutions and not hide from the challenge and posture for the next election. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman from pennsylvania yields back. For what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition . Permission to address the house for one minute and revise and extend. The speaker pro tempore without objection. The gentleman is recognized. I rise to congratulate mauers recognized by Fortune Magazine as one of the best companies to work for. In my home state of georgia we have come to know mars is a great place to work. Since joining the mars family, employees have been benefited from being part of the mars company. Mars employees are given opportunities for growth and advancement and boasts a low turnover rate. And it strengthens its business odel by mentorship and a younger employee introduces an executive to internet. And it places high value on its Human Capital which it demonstrates is a significant investment to its employees. Through innovation and creativity, wrigley has new Growth Opportunities such as a new chewing gum line. I congratulate them for their hard work for building a great company. The millions of americans who enjoy juicy fruits and life savers and your other wonderful products. I wish you continued success. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore are there any other requests for one minutes . Under the speakers announced policy of january 3, 2013, the gentlewoman from new york, mrs. Maloney, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. Mrs. Maloney thank you, madam speaker. And i yield myself such time as i may consume. This week, the House Budget Committee chair, paul ryan, laid out his budget plan. Sadly, its just more of the same. Like a bad record, this years republican proposal is virtually the same document as the one he proposed last spring. It harms the middle class. It harms lowincome americans, and it is especially bad for women and families. Now, they have framed this budget and called it a prosperity one, a prosperity plan. But this budget should be called the road to austerity, because it is a plan that is most noteworthy for the rather harsh austerity it demands of the many and the lavish benefit it extends to the few. It clearly envisions a rising tide of selective tax cuts that would lift all yachts, but leave many dinghies behind. Our republican friends like to talk about making the hard choices, but what they propose here would make it much harder for millions of americans and also make things much easier for a fortunate few. Thats their plan. Now, specifically under this plan, he has this new goal of balancing the budget in 10 years. And to accomplish this, he slashes funding safety net programs that, for seniors, students, children, lowincome families and women. The budget slashes food stamps, cuts funding for infrastructure investments, like highspeed rail. We are falling way behind the rest of the world. We need to invest in our infrastructure to stay competitive. And it does nothing for job creation or to help the unemployed. The ryan plan places medicare and really ends medicare as we know it by replacing it with a voucher system and replaces medicaid by making it a block grant to the states. These cuts hurt tense of millions of america tens of millions of americans who count on medicare for their health care coverage. Dont just rely on what im saying and to quote the washington post, and i quote, the 10year spending plan released tuesday by representative ryan is virtually identical to last years g. O. P. Budget. It would defund president obamas Health Care Initiative and guaranteed Medicare Coverage for future retirees and sharply restrain spending on the poor, College Students and federal workers. End quote. Now, what i find very hypocritical about this budget is that they say that they are going to repeal obamacare or the Affordable Care act. Yet, this bill passed this congress. It was upheld by the Supreme Court. We had an election, which this was the issue that people ran on, and president obama was reelected strongly. And so they keep flipflopping on this issue. They say they want to abolish obamacare, but then rely on the savings of over 700 million in that program. When congressman ryan was Vice President ial candidate ryan, he campaigned against the Health Care Provider cuts of 716 million, the same ones he wants to keep in this budget. The republicans opposed these cuts when they were part of the Affordable Care act. Then they passed two budgets that included these cuts. And then congressman ryan president ial candidate romney campaigned against the cuts in the 2012 election. And now mr. Ryan wants to keep them once again. That is not just an 180degree turn. But 180 degrees times four. It is a change of 720 degrees. But one thing that is completely clear in this budget is that women in particular will suffer because of the choices the republican budget makes. Instead of closing tax loopholes for companies that ship jobs overseas, the budget kicks kids out of head start. Instead of getting rid of tax breaks for the oil and gas industry, this budget cuts for single moms struggling to put food on the table, it cuts food stamps. And it seems to me the budget proposing we are ics tax 3. 1 , but 1. 1 loopholes. So if you just close those tax loopholes, you would be able to significantly reduce the deficit and the debt. Why in the world are we giving tax loopholes for companies that move jobs overseas . If you are going to give a tax incentives, it should be to the companies that stay in america and create jobs for americans. Now, instead of ensuring that women are not discriminated against by Health Insurance companies, this bill would repeal the rights women earned in the Affordable Care act. The republican budget cuts medicare benefits, cuts medicaid services, cuts Health Research funding, so much more all in the name of a new agenda that they have that will cripple our economy and cause real and lasting harm to the women of america. Now, the democratic approach is a more balanced one. Green agrees that we need to reduce the deficit, cut the debt. But its a matter of how you do it and what priorities you have in it and whats your time frame. The democratic plan is balanced. I would call it a threelegged stool. You have cuts, you have receive news and you have investments to help grow and expand the economy and create jobs, investments in education and innovation. Now chairman bernanke has testified before congress that many of the reasons why america is really digging their way out of this recession and bouncing back faster and stronger than europe is that we have had a balanced approach whereas europe has had austerity, austerity, austerity approach. As many economists say, you cannot cut your way to prosperity. And austerity needs to be balanced with receive news and also investment. Now, im joined tonight with representative titus from the great state of nevada and reelected in this session. She was an outstanding member of our caucus and thrilled she has come back to join us and i yield to the gentlelady as much time s she may consume. Ms. Titus thank you for organizing this very important special hour to talk about the republican budget and its unacceptable impact on women. For the third year in a row, chairman ryan has proposed an uncompromising budget plan that is out of touch with my state of nevadas priorities and the countrys vision for the future. Chairman ryan has used a lot of gimmicks in his budget but it will never hide what it means for women. Instead of laying out a fair and balanced plan, as you said, congresswoman, representative ryans budget undermines the health and Economic Security of the elderly and the disabled, most of whom are women and disproportionately harms lowincome women and families they struggle to support. It also would repeal the Affordable Care act. This landmark legislation that we passed increases access to critical Womens Health services, such as prenatal and Maternity Care and it finally ends the longstanding notion that being a woman is a preexisting condition. The proposed budget also threatens a laundry list of vital programs that help women and children, such as snap and w. I. C. , head start, school lunches, tanf and pell grants just to name a few. These are programs that millions of women across the country and their families rely on every day just to get by. Instead of protecting such critical programs, representative ryan and the Republican Party would rather protect tax breaks for the wealthiest folks in our country, for oil companies, and for those companies you mentioned, that ship our jobs overseas. The federal government im sorry, the federal budget, is a blueprint for our nations future. Its a statement of our national priorities. It should reflect who we are, and it should provide a path forward that we can all be proud of. My constituents in las vegas and our constituents around the country deserve better than this old rehashed ryan budget, which slashes programs for children, dismantles health care for women, eliminates the safety net for seniors and defunds education and needed research and development that we should be investing in as part of that threelegged stool. Instead, we instead we need to get to work on a balanced plan that respects women and families. Again, i thank you, ngresswoman maloney, and our congresspeople who have joined us tonight, and urge you to give special consideration to the ryan budget with all those hidden little tricks and old hat policies. Mrs. Maloney i thank you for joining us tonight to share how this impacts nevada, an important state youre representing. I want to express my gratitude that you have come back to congress and youre part of our caucus. Another outstanding woman in our caucus is carol sheaporter from the great state of new hampshire. It is a state thats really unusual now in that all of its elected officials are women. The governor, the legislature, the state and the assembly. Were so pleased that their congresswoman is here today and i know she has a special message from the great state of new hampshire. Ms. Sheaporter thank you for the chance to speak about the damage that the ryan budget would do to women and families. A couple of points. The new ryan budget and the cuts to discretionary programs and the cuts to medicare and medicaid guarantee would disproportionately affect the women and children who are already suffering because of sequestration. The ryan budget would dismant they will snap food program like it does medicare. About 2 3 of the snap benefits fwe to families with children. The ryan budget would roll back Affordable Health care rovision, bringing back gender rating and allowing domestic violence. There are cuts that will force women and children in needs of families in need of programs to help them would kick them off. A special Supplemental Nutrition Program for women, infants, and children, the w. I. C. Program, is one of the most successful programs, it will drop about 100,000 women and children if the program because of sequester, but even more would be kicked off in the republican budget. At a time when women are making unprecedented gains in Higher Education and the work force, a war on jobs is a war on women and their families. A budget is a moral document and the ryan budget fail this basic test of morality. This is wrong for women and it is wrong for families and we must reject this. I thank you for the chance to talk about. About it. Mrs. Maloney i appreciate you being here tonight to talk about this special order, you raised some really relevant points. I want to talk about the special impact the ryan budget has on the pell grant cut. One of the ways women try to climb out of poverty and close the pay gap is through education. Especially Higher Education. But as we all know, College Tuition has far outpaced inflation for years and years. Thats why programs such as the Pell Grant Program are so important and fully 2 3 of pell grant recipients are women. Yet again, the ryan republican budget hurts women hurts Women College student biscuiting nearly 83 billion billion, with a b, from pell grants over the next 10 years. Theyre doing this even though Congress Already enacted and paid for annual mandatory inflationary increases in 2010 and recently cut pell grant benefits and eligibility to control costs. So the ryan republican budget will make it that much harder for women to climb the ladder of opportunity, get a college degree, get a decent job, and start or maintain a family. It just does not need to be that way. And as president obama has said, the math in this ryan budget does not add up. And the math that is there cuts programs helping working women and single moms. The ryan budget will be devastating for working women, low income families and young women trying to afford college, head start, Early Childhood care, food stamps, pell grants for college and so much more would be slashed under this budget. And lets start with Early Childhood education. Many researchers and economists tell us that the very best investment that