The committee will not come back to order since we decided to roll votes today the committee will resume postpones vote on the following amendments, number 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20 and 21. The committee will now vote on the amendment offered by mr. Yarmuth of kentucky. The clerk will redesignate the minute. Number 15. The clerk will call the roll. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] are there any other members who wish to vote or change the vote . How is mr. Higgins recorded . Mr. Higgins aye. Any other members who wish to vote or change the vote . If not the clerk shall call the roll. Excuse me, if not the clerk shall report. Mr. Chairman, on that note the ayes are 11 and the nos are 20. The nos have it in the amendment is not agreed to. The committee will now vote on the amendment offered by ms. Lee. Okay, were going to the committee will now vote on the amendment offered by ms. Lujan grisham. The clerk will redesignate the amendment. Number 17. We are skipping 16. [inaudible] offered by representative lujan grisham. The clerk will call the roll. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] are there any members who wish to vote or change their votes . Seeing none the clerk shall report. Mr. Chairman, on that vote the ayes are 12and the nos are 20. The nos have it. The amendment is not agreed to. Next we will consider come vote on the amendment offered by mr. Moulton. Amendment number 18. The clerk will redesignate the amendment. Amendment number 1 18 offered by representatives of moulton. The clerk will call the roll. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] are there any members who wish to vote or change their vote . Hearing none, the clerk shall report. Mr. Chairman, on that vote the ayes are 12 and the nos are 20. The agreement is not the man is not agreed to. Mr. Jeffries. The clerk will redesignate the amendment. Amendment number 19 offered by representatives of jeffries. The clerk will call the roll. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] are there any members who wish to vote or change of the vote . Seeing none the clerk will report. Mr. Chairman, on that vote the ayes are 13 and the nos are 20. The amendment is not agreed to. Now we will go back to an minute 16. The committee will vote on the amendment offered by ms. Lee. The clerk will redesignate the amendment. Number 16 offered by representative lee. The clerk will call the roll. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] are there any of the members who wish to vote or change the vote . If not the clerk shall report. Mr. Chairman, on the boat the ayes goes are 16 and the nos are 19. The amendment is not agreed to. The committee will now vote on the amendment offered by mr. Higgins, amendment number 20. The clerk will redesignate the amendment. Amendment number 20 offered by representative higgins. The clerk will call the roll. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] the nos have and the amendment is not agreed to. The committee will now vote on the amendment offered by ms. Delbene, amendment 21. The clerk will redesignate the amendment. Amendment number 21 offered by representative delbene. The clerk will call the roll. [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] [roll call] are there any members who wish to vote or change the vote . If not the clerk shall report. Mr. Chairman, on that vote the ayes are 1 14 and the nos e 21. The nos have it and the amendment is not agreed to. I recognize ms. Lee. Thank you very much, mr. Chairman. I just want to note had a been there for the prior amendment i wouldve voted aye on all of them. Think the gentlelady. Mr. Chair . I recognize ms. Wasserman schultz. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I would also like to record that had a banner i would have recorded an aye vote for the amendment that i miss. Thank the gentlelady. Having been in the appropriations mark about the same time. Understood. The gentleman is recognized. Mr. Chair, i wanted to also reflect that if i wouldve been here for amendment 15 i wouldve voted yes. Its noted for the record. I thank the gentleman. Are there any other amendments . Moving into the second batch of seven in tier two. Tier two. Recognize the gentlelady from tennessee. No, no, no. Who are we up mr. Chairman i have an amendment at the desk. Thank you agenda late has an amendment at the desk. The clerk will redesignate the amendment. Amendment number 20 offered by representative Wasserman Schultz to increase Budget Authority and outlays on Early Childhood programs. The gentle it is recognized for three minutes. Thank you, mr. Chair that i offer amendment to provide Adequate Funding for Early Learning and Early Childhood development programs. Overwhelming Research Shows children benefit from access to highquality world childhood programs and society as whole benefits from targeted investment in making sure every child gets these opportunities. Research shows every public dollar spent on highquality Early Childhood education can equal net payoff update dollars in increased productivity, less reliance on public assistance and other savings. We know that this would reduce the achievement gap is to give every child the right start from the beginning from birth to age five. Childcare is one of the biggest expenses families face. In some families these can exceed the cost of housing, child wishon, transportation food. This provides six ongoing dollars Industry Services is offset by increasing taxes on the top 1 of income earners. I yield one minute to illinois. Thank you. Id like to thank my colleague so much for the amendment. Public with a track record of academic and Emotional Wellbeing in illinois. The lack of estate budgets, we had on the state budget for two years and organization pays 100 million toward federal and state funds all told for an Education Scholarship for american seniors. I was a teacher myself and i know investing in children at an early age is exactly what we need to do and its the most important thing we can do for our own future. A learning focus now will pay great returns in the future and i yield back thank you and i yield 30 seconds to the gentle lady from checker creek. Its often been said that programs like the Great Society never work. But i would argue that there are individuals in the United States congress, some who achieved the status of president of the United States who have been exposed to Early Childhood education. Reminded of the fight to save headstart, listen to the president parents who are devastated that their child would not have a seat in headstart. Headstart is an upstart, it is not a handout, its a hand up. Early childhood education provides theopportunity to be successful in the future, i support the gentle ladies amendment and i yield back. Is there a member who would like to claim their time back with mark. I will see time in opposition. The gentle lady from tennessee is recognized for four minutes. Thank you and i, being a mother and grandmother and having run a Childcare Center myself, believe parents should be able to have access and choose quality Early ChildhoodEducation Services including good parental support involvement. These services will work for those that are working parents that particularly need those kind of services. For far too many of these programs including those providing Early Childhood services, washington measures the success not on the outcomes but how much money we spend. We continue to do that here in this town. The education and Workforce Committee recently held hearings on the Government AccountabilityOffice Report on Early Childhood programs. The gao found there are 44 federal programs offering some level of early Education Services with duplication and inefficiencies, nine of them are for this express purpose and these nine programs cost approximately 15 billion a year. Duplication and inefficiencies. Headstart, headstart has been around, i remember when i was in Nursing School in 1968, i was excited in Nursing School to find out were going to be these programs that would help our children. Its been around for a long time. As a matter of fact its spending a total of 9 billion annually. I personally read the most recent reports, the headstart report was put out by the department of health and Human Services in 2010 there was a followup in 2012. I wasnt surprised because ive seen this over the last four years and that is headstart did not produce lasting positive effects on childrens math, language and literacy skills and on parenting practices. I want to be sure that when we spend this money that absolutely we are taking care of children and giving them the best services weekend. A 2014 study Iv University of california at berkeley , professor use the data from the hhs study and found and start effectiveness really does go up and it varies across Headstart Centers but it goes up. The results go up when they offer more instruction in full days that are also offered with frequent home visits where they were associated with higher effectiveness. So when you measure and you show that things do work, lets put that in place but were not seeing that across the board. On hearing on the gao report, the Committee Also looked at ways states are innovating to improve Early ChildhoodEducation Services in the budget and vision ending needs and inefficiencies and ensuring Early Childhood programs really do produce a lasting education game or kids and their families. The budget also believes that states and localities should be empowered to improve programs that are working in their own areas. The innovation at the states and to show theres measurements and actual process improvement. This amendmentwould increase taxes on the american businesses , our country job creators and the tax code does have special productions and loopholes and thats why we propose pro bono tax reform. Its to clear these loopholes and lower taxes for all taxpayers. A simpler, competitive tax system will encourage investment in privatesector creation. We want to make sure these programs are well done but throwing more money at it is not the answer. Measuring them, making sure they are actually working for these children is the answer. And with that, i yield back. The lady yields back, the gentlewoman from florida is recognized for one to close. The gentle lady seems to think that you could add to the services that headstart provides by expanding to a full day or adding to the Services Without more funding. The home visits cost money. A full day instead of halfday cost money. And the other thing that the majority seems to believe which is inexplicable is that it is more important to provide the wealthiest one percent of americans with tax breaks and to make sure we can add 600 million to ensure that the next generation of our youngest people in america get the best possible start in life. That is an outrageous, unacceptable contrast and if members of the committee what to talk about how much we value ensuring all our children have a shot at success, we must have a budget that reflects that because of the budget is a reflection of our values and this budget tells us loud and clear what the majoritys values are and the American People need to know and thats why we are here shining a spotlight on how egregious and outrageoustheir priorities are, i yield back. Question is to the amendment offered by miss Wasserman Schultz, all those in favor say aye, hold as opposed say no. We continue to care, the nose had. Are there other minutes. Can i ask for a recorded vote. A vote is requested, since the agreement we will postpone the vote until we have finished debating this batch of seven amendments, are there other amendments . Thank you mister, i have an amendment of the desk. Amendment number 23 offered by representative boyd to insert a policy statement on Social Security. Mister boyle is recognized for three minutes. Mister chairman, this amendment states the policy resolution that congress will not cut Social Security benefits now or in the future. And heres why that is important. Because of the move to dynamic scoring, if youre going to add up this budget and you dont believe that 2 2 necessarily equal seven, as the dynamic boring in this budget would suggest, that means there will have to be further very deep cuts over the next decade in order to make this budget at all. Im very concerned that those cuts would come from Social Security. When the 61 million americans receive Social Security, a quarter of those on Social Security, its over 90 percent of their income. This is one of the over the last 82 years really, one of if not the most successful programs. When we consider that free 1935, 46 percent of seniors are mired in poverty, today that figure is a fraction of it. So security isnt the only reason for that success but its a big reason. Now i will yield for one minute to the gentle lady from illinois. Social security is critical to one in four american families. Retirees, disabled workers, women and children and without Social Security benefits, half of women over 65 would live in poverty. In fact, if the only source of income for nearly 3 in 10 women over the five and the older they get, the greater the reliance. 4 million women receive Social SecurityDisability Insurance and yes, Social Security disability is part of Social Security. Americans strongly support Social Security, 88 percent of voters oppose cuts to Social Security benefits and 62 percent of americans think we should consider raising benefits. Its out of touch republican budget takes aim at Social Security and while providing more tax cuts forthe wealthy. Again, this directed priorities. Is this what you really think your constituents want . I yield back. I yield. German yields, is there a member wishing to oppose this amendment . The gentleman from ohio is recognized for four minutes. Thank you mr. Chairman. A problem with this amendment is it assumes a onesizefitsall washington approach to ensuring cuts dont occur. Just say and everything will be fine. Social security is on a dire physical path. According to the recent treasury report Social Security will be insolvent by 2023 and recipients will see a 25 percent cut in benefits. Its a longterm deficit increase from 6. 2 percent of taxable payroll in 2016 to 2. 83 in 2017 and unfunded obligations increased from 11. 4 trillion to 12. 5 trillion. Think about that, the unfunded obligations increased by one. 1 trillion in just one year. This is simply unsustainable. This amendment would make it extremely difficult to make laughing bipartisan reforms to the program by taking any sort of perform such as adjusting the retirement age or even putting benefits for higher income recipients out of consideration but my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, we are committed to protecting Social Security. However, i know reforms and difficult choices will have to be made in order to do so. We must work to address this issue and ensure that this program is solvent and able to operate as designated for the next generations of americans, all policy for reform should on the on the table and we must find a way to Work Together to stop kicking this can down the road that Social Security is around for our children and grandchildren. And now id like to yield some time. I think the gentleman and i would echo his sentiment. I think we have three different considerations. You have a consideration he mentioned in terms of solvency of the trust fund itself you also have a second consideration which is this whole notion of intergenerational work there within the budget. The ideas that apparently as its been cold, more young people are likely to believe in ufos returning to america over the world and to believe they will get the full value of their Social Security over time. The market presently dips down the validity of the political promises in place. There are more than 100 trillion worth of political promises outline and the history of man is that folks in politics are more often than not able to promise a lot more than they can deliver on so i think we have to look at not only solvency in terms of what might happen in 2033 but we have to look at one negative cash flow, the unified budget which works so well when folks are coming into the system and workers are coming in, the knife cuts against you and its 16 million baby boomers march their way toward retirement. And increasingly as more and more retirees indeed retire, there will be heavier drags ultimately to the point of insolvency in the trust fund but more significantly to the point of negative ca