The house is getting ready to come in for the day, to gavel in. Live coverage begins in just a minute and we will see you tomorrow morning at 7 00 a. M. Eastern and 4 00 a. M. Pacific. [captioning performed by the national captioning institute, which is responsible for its caption content and accuracy. Visit ncicap. Org] order. The chair lays before the house a communication. The clerk the speakers rooms, washington, d. C. June 28, 2017. I hereby appoint the honorable mike bost to act as speaker pro tempore on this day. Signed, paul d. Ryan, speaker of the house of representatives. The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2017, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leader leaders for morning hour debate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties. All time shall be equally allotted allocated between the parties and in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. Each member other than the majority and minority leaders and majority whip shall be limited to five minutes. The chair recognizes the gentleman from ohio, mr. Gibbs, for five minutes. Mr. Gibbs thank you, mr. Speaker. Im disappointed to har that the hear that the senate wont be able to take up the Health Care Bill this week but its a toughish shue. Its a tough issue at least on my side of the aisle we want to do the right thing. We want to make sure people can buy Health Insurance thats affordable and accessible and not for people to have issues. In the house bill we did pass a bifment one of the biggest issues is preexisting conditions. We made sure people with preexisting conditions can buy Health Insurance reasonably priced, similar people with nonhe preexisting conditions, then we kicked in billions of dollars to subsidize those premiums to help those people be in the Insurance Market. I think its important for those people are in the Insurance Market have access to thats affordable. And its just i think its unamerican to pull the rug out from people because they got sick. Obamacare, thats it really is imploding. In ohio, this is from the ealth Human Services agency, obamacare in ohio since 2013 premiums have increased 86 . Almost 236,000 families pay almost 44 million in penalties because they couldnt afford their Health Insurance. Then we also there is a myth ut there that price has goon through the roof. Its collapsing because the current administration. Well, if you look at the facts, the average premium skyrocketed by nearly 3,000 through the roof. Across the previous ring the administrations final term. 83 insurers left the market and the average exchange premiums 25 last year alone. Americans living in one roughly 1 3 of previous administrations final term. 83 our nations counties have only one option of health care coverage, precisely because this loss continued to fail. All this has occurred prior to this current administration. I got a phone call last night from a lady that i have known for over 30 years. Shes selfemployed running a servicetype business. She was struggling to pay her health care under the obamacare exchanges. Then she paid all these last few years that she didnt get sick she wouldnt be able to meet the deductible. She works 12hour days. Shes one of those counties, at least 20 counties in ohio, as of now will not have an insurer in the individual market for next year. Shes one of those counties. She has no options to buy Health Insurance next year and called me up and said i dont know what im going to do. Didnt have a good answer for her. Thats why we need to get this done. Previous to obamacare, i dont know if a lot of people realize this, when i was a selfemployed farmer, i bought my Health Insurance through association plans. Obamacare did away with association plans and forced people on the exchanges and mandated what kind of coverage you had to buy. Ironically, as a member of congress, i am required to be on obamacare, i am. The ironic thing about t. Next year if things dont change, i was forced to be on the d. C. Exchange, if i was forced to be in my county exchange back where i live, my county does not have the Health Insurer in the individual market next year. Its ironic as a member of congress if i wasnt on the d. C. Exchange i wouldnt be able to buy Health Insurance next year on my exchange back home because it wont be available. How do we fix this . I think we have to incorporate free market principles. Get the cost down. Then the market will work. How do we get the cost down . We have to have price discovery. How do you get that . Competition. I think Health Savings accounts is one way you get competition and personal responsibility. Brings it back. People will shop around in nonemergencytype basis and helps drive the cost down. You know what . Obamacare did away with Health Savings accounts. Tort reform, we need to make sure that our doctors practicing medicine dont have to worry about having frivolous lawsuits and night that defensive medicine thing. Really important. Buy insurance across state lines. We have it in property and casualty insurance, auto insurance. We ought to have it in the Health Insurance. You ought to have options to buy insurance where you want, it ought to be portable, you have that Health Savings account to take with you. These are. So things we can do. We have to let the market work. Its my hope that the senate, this is a tough issue, they are working through t. They want to do the right thing. They want to make sure that people, americans, have affordable, High Quality Health Care coverage that they can afford and buy. We need to work through that. They are working through that. I think theyll get there. Hopefully well get a bill on the president s desk so people like my friend, i have known for over 30 years, will be able to buy Health Insurance next year and not have to worry about that risk of what happens if i get sick. Will she have to go on medicaid . One out of four americans today are on medicaid. Thats not a good option because you know what . Im seeing some of our physicians are not treating medicaid patients. You know why . Because they are a service business. So many hours in the day. They got to have people with Health Insurance or selfpayers and they cant have too many people on their client portfolio that have medicaid where the reimbursements are too low for the cost of service. Thats what we moved. To thank you, i yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back. The chair recognizes the gentleman from oregon, mr. Blumenauer, for five minutes. Mr. Blumenauer thank you, mr. Speaker. I listened to my friend from ohio and im just kind of wondering how he gets to that position. The Affordable Care act didnt do away with Health Savings accounts. Thats a fact that can be easily verified. The notion that somehow , that it s a negative was expanded, his own governor been arguing here against the republican plans because it would eviscerate medicaid their 49page report Available Online to any member of congress to the public pointed out that the Health Exchanges are not collapsing. They are actually in pretty good shape. They could be made stronger with relatively simple changes. Because what we have seen for the last seven years, the republican plan has been to chip away at the Affordable Care act. To make it worse. To create more uncertainty. Nd recently the administration refused to advertise to help people join it and eliminated enforcement of the mandate making the market even more unstable. How do we have such an alternative universe . I suggest that one of the problems is that my friends on the republican side of the aisle who crafted the house bill and who are working in secret in the senate crafting the senate bill, they listened to the wrong people. They listen the to a small group of people, some of whom benefit from the republican approach because there are extra subsidies that go to them, or people that been fit from massive benefit from massive tax cuts that frankly, they dont need, they listened to people who are all about political talking points and not about the facts of health care in america. In most most of all, they dont talk to real people on the ground who would be affected. 773 universe is a billion cut over the next 10 years to medicaid not a reduction . Tell a 75yearold widow who is looking at being in a nursing home for the rest of her life, 6 of our medicaid funding goes to people in Nursing Homes. Its almost half of the total funding, tell them that thats not going to be a cut. That thats not going to redust services. Maybe not make reduce services. Maybe not make it available at all. 64 of people in Nursing Homes rely on medicaid. There are 15 Million People who are not going to have health care if the republican proposal goes into effect. According to the objective independent score people. But you can look at the calculations yourself as a member of the public. The Kaiser Organization has a calculator that you can figure out whether people are better off under the existing plan or under the republican alternative. Person in utah making person i would pay 400 after tax credits. Deductible. ,000 they are not talking to real people. Situation in baker oregon, a 0yearold, is going to face 128 increase if the republican proposal goes into effect. A 60yearold woman in strong, maine, making almost 45,000 a year, is currently eligible for a credit of about 7,000, which means that she gets a comprehensive policy in 2020 for 4,500. But the Republican Senate plan would result in her cost in 2020 being 15,000 a year. A third of her income. The speaker pro tempore the gentlemans time has expired. Mr. Blumenauer i invite the public to investigate for themselves and see who the republicans arent listening to. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. The chair recognizes the gentleman from pennsylvania, mr. Thompson, for five minutes. Mr. Thompson thank you, mr. Speaker. I rise today to speak about trio programs, which are for more than 50 years helped millions of lowincome students attend college. Often these students are the irst in their family to earn a College Degree. Trio programs have helped lowincome and disabled students who want to pursue a Higher Education but thought College College was unaffordable and out of reach. Children from disadvantaged families often struggle to access important mentoring, tutoring, and other handson Services Designed to help encourage High School Completion and pursue a post secondary education. Sadly these students are often unprepared for College Academics and require remedial course that is add to the challenges of completing a program. Too many disadvantaged students simply give up on even applying college because they are confused by the application process. Overwhelmed by the cost or unaware of the available Financial Aid options despite our best efforts to ensure the information is available and understandable. Recognizing these challenges, the federal government has created several programs to help disadvantaged students access the support necessary to realize the dream of a College Degree. For example, College Preparation retention programs such as trio, upward bound, Talent Search, and Student SupportServices Provide a pipeline of support services and encourage lowincome students to graduate high school and earn a post secondary degree. Mr. Speaker, just last week the house unanimously approved the strengthening career and Technical Education for the 21st century act to reauthorize the carl d. Perkin act and support skillsbased career education. This bill will help close the skills gap that exists today and prepare students for in demand jobs. Trio programs are just as important to help those who want to pursue a College Degree have the resources necessary to do so. As a Senior Member on the house education and work force committee, im a strong supporter of trio. Im also a member of the house trio caucus and because i want all americans to have Higher Education opportunity if thats the path that they choose. The trio Program Dates back to the Economic Opportunity act of 1964 in response to the administrations war on poverty. Thats when upward bound was formed. In 1965, Talent Search the second Outreach Program was created as part of the Higher Education act. In 1968, Student Support service, which was originally known as special services for disadvantaged students, was authorized by the Higher Education amendments and became the third in a series of Educational Opportunity programs. For the late 1960s, the term trio was coined to describe these three federal programs. Over the years the trio program has been expanded and improved to provide a wide arrange of services for more students who need assistance. In 1990, the department created the upward bound math and Science Program to adress need for specific instruction in the fields of math and science. First Generation College students and individuals with disabilities reach their full potential. I support these programs and want to see each american reach his or her educational goals. Thank you, mr. Speaker, and i yield back the balance of my time. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Gutierrez, for five minutes. Mr. Gutierrez mr. Speaker, june is immigrant heritage month in the United States, but to celebrate that House Republicans made this antiimmigration week in the congress. The advocates against Legal Immigration have their annual talk radio festival here in d. C. This week to talk about cutting off immigration. Talk radio hosts talk about why criminalizing immigrants and turning misdemeanors into felonies is a good thing for america. They trade stories while broadcasting on the air about immigrants doing horribly bad things to people in america as if we were in a National Crime spree of brown people killing white people. The goal of talk radio host is to reimpose the antiimmigration fever and allow a subsounding Game Show Host to take over their party. The Main Organization behind the gathering of talk radio host is fair, the federation against American Immigration reform, which we should note is designated as a hate group by the southern poverty law center. Thats the organization in alabama that is responsible for suing the k. K. K. Out of the mainstream. Its like d. W. Griffith might rise up from his grave to film, rebirth of a nation the sequel because they want to take our immigration policies back to the 1920s when the klan marched openly in washington and they want to get rid of anyone here who is deportable or could be deportable by passing new laws to criminalize them. Now, to coincide with talk radio antiimmigration week, republicans are putting on a passion play of their own in the house of representatives by bringing two antiimmigrant bills to the floor. So we have a coordinated campaign for broadcasts, lawmakers and the antiimmigration advocates to Pressure Congress into passing bills to paint immigrants as a threat to our national and Community Safety right out of the trump playbook. And the question is not whether or not these bills will pass the house. They will pass. But whether democrats will be tempted to vote for toughsounding measures because they are afraid to be labeled by conservative talk radio hosts as weak on punishing the quoteunquote murdering, rapists, drugdealing mexicans. They think are lurking in every alley. Of course, these are not what these bills do at all. Truth and talk radio dont normally go together, especially in the era of trump. One bill is h. R. 3004, named for kate steinle, a young woman shot and killed by an immigrant nearly two years ago in san francisco. It happened in july, and as you remember, i was the first person to come to the floor and give a speech denouncing kates killing and calling for laws to keep people like him off the streets. A week later while talking about various immigration issues in spanish in telemondayo, after it was aired right telemundo, after it was aired they said i was speak being kate. I had already spoken specifically about kates death here on the floor. But what is coming to the floor this week