bills in progress around the country and how you plan to fight them. guest: first off, we are working to expose them to make sure people know about them. folks can certainly read or work -- read our work at www. brennancentre.org. we have newsletters and ways to stay in touch. we have groups on the ground in georgia, like the new georgia project or fair fight led by stacey abrams and others who are working to fight the laws. and we are working to fight the for the people act and the john lewis voting rights advancement act, which would restore the strength of the voting rights act. again, the answer in the end is to make sure that we have one national standard so that it doesn't matter who you are, black or white or latino or

anything else, if you are eligible you have the right to vote. we will make it as easy as possible for people to vote so we all have our voice in this democracy. host: thanks a lot for your time this morning. we take you over to the house of representatives for today's session. have a great day. you are our lord. apart from you there is nothing that we can do or claim that can truly be called good.

forgive us when we part ways with you and pursue other gods. the gods of hower, position, possession. when we taste on our lips the gods of ego, ease, and expertise. remind us that to worship these things will only lead to suffering and sadness for you alone are sufficient. the source of our serenity. you have already provided all that we need and are so privileged to enjoy. so shall we praise you the lord who gives us counsel, who provides us instruction even in the darkest hours of our days. may we keep our eyes always on you. with you alongside us our hearts will be glad our steps sure. make yourself known to us on the paths we trod. fill us with the joy of your presence. we offer this prayer in the strength of your name. amen.

the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to section 11-a of house resolution 188, the journal of the last day's proceedings is approved. the pledge of allegiance will be led by the gentleman from california, mr. mcnerney. mr. mcnerney: blagojevich and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under god, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. the speaker pro tempore: the chair will entertain up to five requests for one-minute speeches on each side of the aisle. for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from california is recognized for one minute.

>> i believe some of my republican colleagues, one in particular, wish harm upon this legislative body. i'm not saying this for shock value, it's the conclusion i drew after a member of congress advocated violence against our peers, the speaker, a and our government. it is what i believed after this chamber was turned into a crime scene just 10 weeks ago. it's how many of us felt sheltering in this room as the capitol was breached. some members called their loved ones to say goodbye, others prayed to their god. mr. gomez: i asked myself if this would be the day our democracy die. i take no joy in introducing this resolution. but any member who is incites political violence and threatens our lives must be expelled. and i-dirble' do everything i can in my power to protect our democracy and keep all my colleagues safe.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? >> rise to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i rise today to recognize a resilient lineman of texas 25 for their outstanding work to successfully provide power to texas homes, businesses, and communities during the catastrophic winter storms. mr. williams: i and many others send our deep gratitude to the workers of the elective cooperative, austin energy, and other providers in texas 25 who worked tirelessly through a brutal winter storm to meet the needs of texans across the state. they put their lives in danger working around the clock in subzero temperatures and in harsh conditions to restore critical power as quickly as possible. due to their fortitude and grit, lives were saved. animals were saved. and communities were restored and on track to recovery. you are our heroes and on behalf of the 25th congressional district of texas, we simply say

thank you. in god we trust. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the the gentlewoman from texas seek recognition? ms. garcia: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman from texas is recognized for one minute. ms. garcia: mr. speaker, i rise today to speak on the horrific anti-asian american sentiment that has been brewing in our country. like all of you, i was heartbroken by this week's shooting in georgia. this violent act of hate has no place in our country. while this tragedy deserves all our outrage and attention, it is important to remember that this was not an isolated incident. the covid-19 has worsened the racism and xenophobia our aapi brothers and sisters face. many elected officials have used the pandemic to fan the flames of hate. and now they refuse to accept the consequences of their

actions. my district is home to over 10,000 asian americans. they make our community whole and they do not deserve to live in fear because of hateful rhetoric that has spread across america. as president biden has said, violence against asian americans is un-american and it must stop. i yield back the balance of my time. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> to request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, mr. speaker. today we take a moment to remember the life and service of sargedge major christopher brownawell a decorated american soldier who died unexpectedly last week. his life was defined by his service both in and out of uniform. for 24 years chris served honorably in the united states

army, deploying to kosovo i. iraq, afghanistan, and kuwait. outside of the military chris kept our community safe as a corrections officer at s.c.i. cole towntown. mr. keller: those who knew him remember him as a quintessential infantry man and purpose driven leader who went out of his way to develop and mentor other soldiers. he set the standard for other soldiers and undoubtedly had a profound impact on so many during his years of service. every freedom we have in this nation was paid for by soldiers for chris. he is a hero, and his legacy of service to our community, state, and country will live on with his family, friends, and our community. thank you. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the the gentlewoman from california seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman from california is recognized for one minute. ms. chu: eight lives were lost

in georgia this week when a gunman targeted three asian-owned businesses. six of these victims were asian american women. i am heartbroken for all these lost souls. and i'm heartbroken because this is just one of the latest in a string of attacks that have created fear throughout the asian american community. since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, there have been over 3,800 reported anti-asian hate crimes and incidents. what started off as dirty looks and verbal assault has escalated into physical attacks that have become increasingly deadly. there was an 84-year-old man who died after being assaulted outside his home. and one whose face was slashed from ear to ear on a new york subway. these attacks have become almost a daily tragedy. and they must stop. we must stand united against xenophobia and slurs like china virus and kung flu which we know put lives at risk.

and we must work together to stop asian hate. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from minnesota seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from minnesota is recognized for one minute. >> mr. speaker, march is kidney cancer awareness month. and, frankly, every month is cancer awareness month. two years ago i was diagnosed with stage four kidney cancer. and ever since i have received treatment and great care from the mayo clinic in rochester, minnesota. two months ago they removed my kidney and i'm very grateful to say just this week my doctor said no cancer detected at this time. but here's the point about this. mr. hagedorn: my cancer was found through a routine physical. i had no symptoms. and in this past year millions of americans have, for whatever reason, coronavirus or otherwise, postponed or canceled

their doctor's visits, aren't getting the cancer screenings they have in the past. i would encourage everyone to make sure you get out there, see your doctor regularly. get looked into. the earliest possible detection of serious illness can literally save your life. i'm someone that can attest to that. to my fellow cancer survivors, hang in there. keep fighting. because cures are coming along every day and as you know, it's uncanny, but the family, friends, medical professionals, total strangers, they rally around us and help us fight. with that, mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? mr. mcnerney: mr. speaker, i seek unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from california is recognized for one minute. mr. mcnerney: mr. speaker, i rise today to honor the life and accomplishments of dr. i.m. singer, one of america's most influential mathematicians. the son of polish-jewish immigrants. he had an unquentionable theirs

for knowledge and graduated from the university of michigan with a degree in physics in 2 1/2 years before joining the united states military in world war ii. upon returning he earned a dock rat degree in mathematics from the university of chicago. later he chaired committees at the united states national academy of sciences, was a member of the white house science council, and co-founded the mathematical science research institute in berkeley. his most prominent contribution was the index they're yum which create add link between mathematical analysis and top polgi and led to a new field of mathematics. for his work he received the most prestigious award in mathematics, the abell prize. as a fellow mathematician i deeply amired his contributions to theor rhettical physics and mathematics which revolutionized the way we understand the une force. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from georgia seek recognition?

mr. carter: ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from georgia is recognized for one minute. mr. carter: mr. speaker, i rise today to remember and honor burke wall who passed away on march 1, 2021, at the age 76. burke was a lifelong georgian who graduated from the university of georgia with a degree in dairy production. he was an avid football fan and an active sportsman. he was also an enthusiastic deep see fisherman aboard his boat called trashman. his talents were recognized in numerous tournaments along the east coast. in 2019, burke won the beach south carolina governor's cup tournament and put a 549-pound blue marlin on the docket at the mid-atlantic 500 the same year, earning him second place. he owned sue superior is tation service, sold that company, and founded atlantic waste services in 1999.

although he grew up with humble beginnings on his family's dairy farm, he lived his life of immense influence through his involvement with the chatham club, rotary club of savannah, a crana yacht club, and several other professional organizations. my thoughts and prayers go out to all who knew him during this most difficult time, especially his son, ben. thank you, mr. speaker, and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the the gentlewoman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized for one minute. >> last week, president biden signed the american rescue plan and although the bill received no republican votes, it has bipartisan support. ms. dean: and will have long lasting bipartisan impact. many constituents in my district have already received relief checks with as many as 90 million stimulus checks out this week. yet this transformative

legislation goes even farther. it expands funding to get shots in arms, kids safely in school, and cuts child poverty in half with expanded child tax credit. additionally, we finally targeted relief to our local restaurants and eatries that have been devastated by the pandemic. let's not forget about our state and local governments. we will finally be sending them much needed aid. my home state of pennsylvania will receive more than $13 billion. my counties of montgomery and burks counties where my district resides will receive a combined $242 million. the american rescue plan and all it provides is the responsible way to fully reopen all of our communities and build back better. mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? mr. thompson: mr. speaker, request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from pennsylvania is recognized for

one minute. mr. thompson: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, last week i introduced the whole milk for healthy kids act with mr. antonio delgado. this bill addresses the importance of providing whole milk in school cafeterias. it's proven milk is the number one provider of nine essential nutrients, as well as a great deal of long-term health benefits, including better bone health, lower blood pressure, reduced risk of cardiovascular disease, and type two diabetes. these benefits are crucial for the healthy development of our nation's youth. . . . over the year, a win, win for growing, healthy children and america's dairy farm families. mr. speaker, it's time to follow the science and allow whole milk back into school cafeterias. with bipartisan support, it's my hope we can bring this bill to

the floor and pass this critical legislation to encourage the healthy development of our nation's youth and support our dairy farm families across the country. thank you, mr. speaker, and i yield back the balance of my time.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from kentucky, mr. yarmuth, seek recognition? mr. yarmuth: mr. speaker, pursuant to house resolution 233, i call up h.r. 1868 and ask for its immediate consideration in the house. the speaker pro tempore: title of the bill -- the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: a bill to prevent across the board direct spending cuts and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the chair and the ranking minority member from the committee on the budget will each control 30 minutes. the chair now recognizes the gentleman from kentucky, mr. yarmuth. mr. yarmuth: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and insert extraneous material into the

record on h.r. 1868. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. yarmuth: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. yarmuth: mr. speaker, because of the american rescue plan, relief checks are already being deposited in americans' bank accounts. furloughs have already ended for tens of thousands of workers, and we averted the unemployment cliff. but we have a loose end to tie up before our work is finish and that's the bill before us. enacting covid relief through budget reconciliation was always plan b, but the american people could not afford any more delays and congress needed a path forward for the american rescue plan and the transformative support it provides. because pay-go requirements cannot be changed in reconciliation bills, we knew from the outset this additional legislative fix was needed to avert painful and indiscriminate cuts to medicare, farm supports and other programs. the language of h.r. 1868 should

look familiar. over the past year, congress has enacted multiple covid relief packages to address the crises facing the american people and our economy. each time we excluded these bills from statutory pay-go calculations because of the dire impacts sequestration would have on our nation's students, farmers, and others. today's bill will ensure the american rescue plan is treated the same as these previous relief measures and treated the same as the last reconciliation bill passed by congress. that was in 2017 when republicans used reconciliation when republicans passed the tax cuts and jobs act without democratic support in either the house and senate, republicans proposed this same legislative fix. buried in a problematic continuing resolution. enough house and senate democrats joined republicans to prevent harmful across-the-board cuts to the critical programs i

mentioned even though we opposed the short-term c.r. this time the situation is flipped but the same nonetheless. house republicans opposed the american rescue plan. i don't understand their position. this bill is supported by more than 70% of americans. either way, a statutory legislative fix for pay-go is now needed and historically that is been enacted with little dispute. even in the wake of contentious legislation, congress has come together to prevent sequestration and to protect medicare, farm support programs, social services, resources for students, and individuals with disabilities and other programs americans rely on. this time should be no different. i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman is recognized, the

gentleman from missouri. mr. smith: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman, mr. smith, is recognized. mr. smith: thank you, mr. speaker. this week the president has been traveling across the country, telling americans how appreciative they should be that washington democrats are spending or have spent $1.9 trillion in borrowed dollars. money they are using to bail out states run by the president's political buddies. and to reward devastating lockdowns that have destroyed hundreds of thousands of small businesses and kept kids out of schools. billions on policies that will reduce private sector employment in this country. billions on foreign aid. and out of all the money, less than 9% goes towards health care spending to crush the virus and to put vaccinations in people's arms. the massive debt-inducing

spending package also threatens billions in cuts to seniors on medicare, including $36 billion starting next year. my guess is that the president is probably not going to be bragging to seniors he meets on the road, that the bill he signed into law is cutting billions of dollars from their medicare. just as i'm sure he won't bother to mention that the economic recovery he wants to take credit for is already under way. that the economy is steadily projected to reach the level of real g.d.p. growth we saw prior to the pandemic by the middle of this year. that we are on track this year, in fact, to have the largest economic growth in more than 15 years. all without one dime used from the nearly $2 trillion bailout

package that democrats passed in the last week. in other words, just as president biden has desperately tried to take credit for the incredible, truly historic work president trump did to ensure that we have vaccines going into the arms to save lives, he's trying to take credit for an economic recovery put in place by the policies signed into law by president trump. don't listen to the words. watch his actions. in fact, it was under president trump's leadership that operation warp speed delivered multiple vaccines in record time and planning to get those shots into the arms of the american people. meanwhile, the biden administration has spent an inorder nate amount of time running afoul of fact checkers meant to dismiss the incredible

work done by the previous administration. nevertheless, we are here today because democrats want to fix one of the many problems caused by president biden and the house democrats. in the $1.9 trillion bailout. those cuts to medicare. and they want to do so by erasing almost $2 trillion in spending from the nation's books. pretending $2 trillion in spending is not going to happen. that, of course, serves two purposes for our democrat colleagues. first, it avoids the immediate cuts which they caused and they chose to happen. and second, it gives them a clean slate on which they are reportedly already planning to add trillions more in spending in the months to come. given all of this, i would ask my colleagues to move forward

with a much better approach. one that stops their medicare cuts and does so in a more responsible way. let's work together to protect seniors and cut waste from their bailout bill. the american people clearly want this to happen. stopping billions in benefits and payments to prisoners and illegal immigrants. billions in benefits and payments to prisoners and illegal immigrants. stopping funds they recklessly jammed into the bailout for the national endowment of the arts. the national endowment of the humanities. stopping special handouts to federal employees. rescinding billions in bailouts that go to state governments who do not need it and reward their continued lockdowns. put people before politics.

put people before politics. put seniors ahead of the democrats' special interests and their political class. this is the responsible way to address the medicare cuts caused by my democrat colleagues. it is a far better approach than to simply pretend $1 is. -- $1.9 trillion in spending is not happening. it's a far more honest approach given the fact that president is traveling the country bragging about the same nearly $2 trillion in spending. $1.9 trillion, such a big number, mr. speaker. it's hard to put in proper perspective. but this year when the american people pay their federal income taxes, every single penny, every single penny of their hard-earned money the i.r.s.

collects will total less than the cost of this $1.9 trillion bailout to their friends, donors, and political allies. let's do the responsible thing, protect seniors by rolling back some of the most wasteful and wrong policies embedded in the democrats' bailout bill. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. yarmuth: mr. speaker, i'm happy to yield two minutes to the gentleman from virginia, the distinguished chairman of the education and labor committee and also a member of the budget committee, mr. scott. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia is recognized for two minutes. mr. scott: thank you, mr. speaker. i rise in support of h.r. 1868. since the start of the pandemic, congress has passed several emergency covid-19 response packages to help our communities get back on their feet. due to technicalities in the

reconciliation process, some of that will be wiped away unless we pass this legislation. so h.r. 1868 is necessary to provent the automatic across-the-board funding cuts that will undermined our recovery, just as the ranking member mentioned, that will happen unless we pass this bill. many will occur in education and labor. it stops students from borrowing. would increase the cost of taking out a student loan. the bill protects teach grants which help recruit talented individuals into the classroom. the proposal preserves funding for many of our colleges struggling to survive during the pandemic. passing this legislation will prevent cuts to grants that go to students whose parents made the ultimate sacrifice serving in -- serving our nation in iraq and afghanistan.

finally, this bill protects the americans' access to affordable health care. during the global health emergency. mr. speaker, congress took bold action to get our action through the pandemic by enacting the american rescue plan. now we must take this final step in the reconciliation process to ensure that we do not undermine critical programs that students and families urgently need. i urge my colleagues to support the legislation and yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from kentucky reserves. the gentleman from missouri is recognized. mr. smith: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield four minutes to the gentleman from virginia. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from virginia is recognized for four minutes. >> thank you, mr. speaker. thank you to the distinguished member from missouri for yielding this time. mr. speaker, i rise today in strong opposition to h.r. 1868, the democrats' attempt to put a band-aid on their out-of-control spending and this bill tries to

remove, as the other speakers have said, the tough consequences of their continued reckless and irresponsible spending. mr. good: last week, the democrats passed their massive $2 trillion blue state bailout package with the intent to burden future generations of americans with yet another layer of crippling debt and inevitably higher taxes for years to come. this was yet another effort to further use the covid virus as an opportunity to fund their leftist expansion of government, climate extremism, woke social justice, and radical progressive agenda. . ed $2 trillion the pelosi bill would add another $6,000 per american citizen. this debt per citizen with the chance for some to receive a $1,400 check is a raw deal for americans. everybody gets an i.o.u. for $6,000. some people get a $400 check in

return. only 9% of the $2 trillion is related to covid relief with the bulk of spending going to fund these democrat pet projects. there is no pressure at all on the teacher as you unions to reopen the schools in return for the additional $130 billion in the bill. the democrats rejected those commonsense amendments to require the schools to reopen. that's how essential it is for covid relief. now democrats are finally acknowledging today that their spending is out of control and unsustainable. instead of seeking a true remedy for the problem, they are once again trying to kick the can down the road and try to exempt this spending from the long-standing pay-go rules. this new legislation would prevent sequestration for mandatory spending which was only triggered in response to the reckless spending bill they passed last week.

their ilconreceivesed bill. the imminent see quester cuts this bill is intended to address came about as a result of the blatantly partisan and irresponsible bill that democrats rammed through last week. our national debt is now nearing $30 trillion. an inconceivable number. it equates to about $90,000 per citizens. this amounts to an economic crisis. a national security crisis, and we can't afford to ignore it any longer, a day of reekonning is coming. but the majority is ignoring it. any semblance of fiscal discipline would have resulted in a covid bill that was maybe 10% to 20% of the $2 trillion that was in h.r. 1319. the pelosi blue state bailout. but instead, the unilaterally on a hyper partisan basis rammed through the $2 trillion to satisfy their left wing and appease poorly run blue state

governors and governments. our country cannot continue to afford to race towards fiscal insolvency and this bill allows the democrats to put the pedal to the metal without consequence as we speed faster towards a fiscal catastrophe. rather than truly helping the country, the bill enables democrats' irresponsibility. actions like this are why congress has such a low, abysmal approval rating. i'll continue to tell my folks back home that i'm fighting for them and their hard-earned tax dollars. while the other side wants to continue to steal those dollars to fund their future pet projects. we find ourselves today truly in march madness. and the democrats are throwing up another air ball with this legislation. and i urge a no vote on this bill. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from missouri reserves. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. yarmuth: i would like to remind gentleman from virginia, in 2017 when republicans passed an almost identical amount of

tax cuts, 83% of which went to the top 1% and major corporations, mitch mcconnell said on the senate floor, sequence tration has never happened, will not happen now, and will never happen. his words were prophetic because it's not going to happen today. i'm happy to yield two minutes to the gentleman from new jersey, the distinguished chairman of the energy and commerce committee, mr. pallone. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new jersey is recognized for two minutes. mr. pallone: thank you, mr. speaker. i want to thank the chair of our budget committee, the gentleman from kentucky. he really makes the point so well which is, look, regardless of what our ranking member says on the other side, america is not in great shape. the economy is not good. many people have lost their jobs. and the reason for the american rescue plan was exactly that. we want to help people. make sure people get direct cash

payments to help them. make sure the state and local governments get help because they don't want to be laying people off and not provide services during the pandemic. we want to help small businesses. the contrast between what we as democrats push in the american rescue plan to help people in this economic and health crisis is so vast compared to what the republicans did with their tax cut which just helped the wealthiest and helped corporate interest. aim going to ask my colleagues on the other side to put partisanship aside to vote for this bill. this legislation includes noncontroversial policies that will truly help all of our constituents. it provides critical support for hospitals and rural health chloroquine in recent weeks, republicans have claimed that any cuts to medicare would be incredibly harmful. but the only way to make sure that these cuts don't happen is halfing this legislation today. in the past we have always been able to come together to prevent

these cuts. when republicans passed their $2 trillion tax law for the wealthiest few, it triggered billions in mandatory cuts and congress ultimately voted to prevent those cuts with democratic support. if republicans truly want to protect medicare and other programs that support our farmers, our students, and the nation's defense they simply should vote for this bill today. i want to remind my colleagues that in addition to averting statutory pay-go cuts, this bill provides additional release specifically to frontline health care providers to increase medicare payments. this is a policy that congress supported multiple times. please support this bill, if you care. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from kentucky reserves. the gentleman from missouri is recognized. mr. smith: i want to remind the gentleman from new jersey that the folks in southeast missouri, a family of four, who makes less than $55,000 a year, under the tax cut and jobs act, had zero in tax liability because of what

the republicans passed. i don't think a family of four who makes $55,000 or less is considered the wealthy. but apparently maybe someone from new jersey might think someone who makes $55,000 for a family of four is wealthy. it's surely not in southeast missouri. i would like to point out that the gentleman from new jersey did not help support in waving this provision back in 2017. i would like to yield five minutes to the gentleman from california. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for five minutes. mr. mcclintock: thank you, mr. speaker. this bill is just the first taste of a bitter brew concongressed by those who pushed through $1.9 trillion of pure deficit spending last week. this measure involves our pay-go rules. you remember pay-go. the current version dates to 2010. those days everyone was worried about a $1.3 trillion deficit

and $13 trillion of national debt. isn't that adorable? pay-go requires across-the-board spending cuts to offset any bill to spend money we don't have. we just spent a lot of money we don't have. as pay-go works, the first installment payment for this biden binge is $345 billion of spending cuts every year for the next five years. and that includes $52 billion in pay-go and b.c.a. cuts to medicare, which is expected to go broke in 2024 as it is. now, that's just to pay for the party the democrats had the other day. so it's time to pay for it. how do you deal with a bill like that? well, it's simple. just forget about it. just wipe it off the books and start planning the next trillion dollar spending spree. in fairness, that's how both

parties have addressed pay-go since we passed it. and the net result is that the deficit has nearly tripled and the debt has more than doubled in less than a decade. at least the trble tax cuts in 2017 helped produce such a strong economic recovery that our revenues went up. they didn't go down. that should have reduced our deficit. but our failure to control spending instead drove that deficit still higher. in short, it's the spending, stupid. no nation has ever spent, taxed, and borrowed its way to prosperity. but many have spent, taxed, and borrowed themselves into bankruptcy and ruin. history warns us that nations that bankrupt themselves aren't around very long. because before you can provide for the common defense and promote the general welfare, you first have to be able to pay for them. excessive debt saps the credit of a nation that is its life

line in times of genuine peril. it consumes the future prosperity of the nation as interest costs swell. it saps the economic vitality of our nation by crowding out capital that would otherwise be available to consumers and home buyers and businesses. it robs the currency of its value, pilfering people's savings and their pensions. and it ailentates capital markets until interest rates rise and interest costs balloon into a debt spiral. once this starts, there is no way to stop it until the whole house of cards crashes down. you want to know what that looks like? it looks a lot like venezuela. in the spring of 1945, there was serious concern whether we could continue the war into 1946. bond sales were failing miserably, war taxes, spending, borrowing, and inflation had

hollowed out our economy, and the nation's credit was nearing exhaustion. consider this, we are carrying a larger percentage of debt today than we were at the very end of world war ii, and i fear how we could respond to a similar sustained national threat today. when a colleague told the great economist, adam smith, that a british defeat would be the ruin of the nation. smith calmly observed be assured my young friend there is a great deal of ruin in a nation. but as i look at the unprecedented and unsustainable debt that these policies are producing, i can't avoid a sense of foreboding that our nation is fast running out of ruin and that a terrible day of reckoning is coming. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from missouri reserves. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. yarmuth: mr. speaker, i now pleased to yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from minnesota,

distinguished member of the energy and commerce committee, mrs. craig. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from minnesota is recognized for two minutes. mrs. craig: thank you so much, mr. chairman. last week we passed the american rescue plan to help our nation get through a covid-19 public health and economic crisis. this historic legislation is already helping millions of americans and hundreds of thousands of minnesotans. when i think about this piece of legislation it is widely on a bipartisan basis supported in a swing district like mine back in minnesota. but if congress fails to take action and we are not going to let that happen, to prevent sequestration, countless federal programs that our constituents rely on could be impacted. if we fail to pass h.r. 1868, cuts to programs at usda could devastate family farmers who are

already reeling after years of trade instability and stupid trade wars. we must act because we cannot allow cuts to medicare. risking seniors' access to care at a time when they need it the most, in the midst of a deadly global pandemic. i urge all of my colleagues to vote yes on this crucial legislation. to ensure that the federal government can meet the needs of minnesotans and the american people during a public health crisis. this body that i joined only just over two years ago, this body has come together numerous times to make sure that we do not allow sequestration to take cuts. for worse, worse ideas than helping the american people through a public idea -- health crisis. with that please support the bill today. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the

gentlewoman yields back. the gentleman from kentucky reserves. gentleman from missouri is recognized. mr. smith: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield three minutes to my good friend from ohio. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from ohio is recognized for three minutes. >> thank you, mr. speaker. i appreciate that. the pandemic was a problem that led some health care providers to close their doors. and in bipartisan way in the previous session of congress, we made an effort to fix that problem. mr. wenstrup: now, because the democrats' irresponsible spending bill, health care providers who are struggling will see decreased payments, which is the last thing they need right now, and it's the last thing we need right now. medicare reimbursement rates are already low. only balanced out by non-medicare payments. the better way is to target the funding to those who need it, and are still working to come out of the pandemic. we can fill the gaps without adding to the deficit. wasn't the ideas of rescue to

improve access to care? yet 9% of the $$1.9 trillion went to address the covid cryries. they failed out failed pension funds without reform and ignored our doctors and health care providers on the frontlines of the pandemic. they cut payments to caregivers. $1.9 trillion, yet cut health care providers during a pandemic. so what democrats are trying to do today is ignore the negative consequences of the bill they passed earlier this month. . the consequences of the bill passed two weeks ago mean there will be payment cuts to providers, $1.9 trillion. someone should be helped in this measure. someone should be helped in this measure, but we can do better. we can do better but we weren't talked to with our ideas. members, mr. speaker, members should ask themselves -- what about all of this, all of this

today? will the next several generations of americans look to us and say thank you for as they get stuck with paying our bills? with that, mr. speaker, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from missouri reserves. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. yarmuth: mr. speaker, i'm happy to yield two minutes to the distinguished member from the agriculture committee, mr. scott from georgia. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for two minutes. mr. scott: thank you very much, mr. chairman. i appreciate that. ladies and gentlemen, this is an important, urgent activity that we're on this morning. now, my republican friends talked about this, but you did the identical, same thing in 2017 with president trump's tax cuts. now, what's good for you is also

good for us. that's the way the rules are. ladies and gentlemen, let me tell you how devastating the damage would be if we do not act. first of all, it will cut $29 billion from badly needed programs and no entity will be impacted or devastated like agriculture. they will cut $29 billion, cut our programs for energy efficiency, rural development. we're working on that together. this bill will cut -- will save our rural development. research, specialty crop development, beginning and veteran farmers development. and it will take out of the $29

billion, it will take $23 billion out of our commodities and credit corporation, limiting our ability to make payments to our farmers, to our food producers at this critical time where we're in a hunger crisis. my friends, you must understand, we democrats and republicans need to send a powerful message to the nation on this bill and let us move hand in hand. mr. yarmuth: i yield the gentleman an additional 30 seconds. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 30 seconds. mr. scott: let us move hand in hand together at a serious time. now, when he all use this -- when you all use this, it was

for the tax cut, most of much went to the wealthy. but this $23 million that will cut our c.c.c. will devastate the american people where it hurts the most, their food, their water, their shelter, and their clothing. we must not do that. i ask you to join us. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from kentucky reserves. the gentleman from missouri is recognized. mr. smith: thank you, mr. speaker. i'd like to remind the body the reason why we are here today is because of the reckless behavior. all these cuts on medicare, all of these cuts are because the house democrats forced through a nearly $2 trillion spending bill. and the reason why we have the pay-go statutory provision is

because president obama signed it into law and the house democrats passed it. so the cuts are the result today of all the policies that democrats have been doing since 2010. i would love to yield three minutes to the gentleman from georgia. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for three minutes, the gentleman from georgia. mr. carter: thank you, mr. speaker. today we're addressing a problem that didn't even exist a week ago. it did not even exist last week. republicans stood on this floor and we argued against a $1.9 trillion partisan package last week. there were many reason to oppose it. one of the most significant reasons is the fact that the bill would trigger cuts to medicare and other essential programs. we argued that it would harm all of our constituents. i argued it would harm my

constituents in georgia. to my friend, my fellow delegation member, this bill penalized the state of georgia more than any state in the united states. more than any state in the nation georgia was punished. we lost $1.3 billion because of the funding formula. because we didn't shut down our state. we didn't destroy our economy. and the funding was based on the unemployment rate and not population. and where did that $1.3 billion go? it went to blue states. it went to california. it went to new york. georgian taxpayers' money went to other states, went to blue states, and what did it do to medicare in the state of georgia? we lost $11.5 billion that would have went to the seniors on medicare in the state of georgia. and where did it go? again, it went to california, it

went to new york, it went to the blue states. it went to the states that shut down their businesses and destroyed their economies. yet, the bill was pushed forward anyway. this could have all been avoided altogether. we could have crafted a bipartisan package that would not have triggered these medicare cuts. instead, those across the aisle resorted to forcing a bill through reconciliation. and in the end, they passed a package filled with political favors on the back of our seniors. again, this could have been avoided. but today we need to fix this for our constituents who are arguing we have a spending problem. now that the largest stimulus bill in our history has been signed into law, our deficit for the year will also break records. we are now projected to have a federal deficit of $3.4 trillion, and debt as a share of our g.d.p. will be over 100% for only the second time in our country's history.

my colleagues have shown little regard for paying for this reckless bill for political favor. that's why i urge my colleagues to find a way to restore the cuts to medicare. and the first place i suggest looking for it is in an over 90% of the last package that will not go to addressing the pandemic. mr. speaker, mr. speaker, this is wrong. my colleagues know it's wrong. let's get this fixed. thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from missouri reserves. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. yarmuth: mr. speaker, i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the gentleman from california, a distinguished member of the ways and means committee, mr. panetta. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized for two minutes. mr. panetta: thank you, mr. speaker, mr. chairman. today, i rise in support of h.r. 1868, to prevent these cuts to

vital agriculture programs that are relied on farmers, farm workers, and food insecurity people in all of our districts. in we doss pass -- don't pass this bill today, $29 billion will be subject to the sequester cuts. those type of cuts would zero out funding for such crucial agricultural programs like equip and the conservation stewardship program and the regional conservation program. in the central coast of california, many farmers, ranchers, forest landowners rely on those type of helpful programs, not just to survive, mr. speaker, but to succeed. they use these products to harvest their products and to be part of the climate solution. they appreciate the old adage which says the land they use now must be kept fresh and fertile, not just for them, but for future generations. and it's these programs that

contribute to their current product and, yes, that type of forward thinking. sequester cuts would also prevent the federal government from purchasing and donating food to food banks through section 32 purchases. after the year we had, in which food banks contributed so much to the food insecurity of so many of my constituents, we should be doing everything we can to protect and bolster our food programs. we should also be doing everything we can to protect the production of food. but sequestration cuts would compromise many parts of the farm bill, like the specialty crop block grants or the agriculture research extension programs at public universities. as the co-chair of the congressional ag research caucus, i know that these type of ag research programs help our farmers meet the challenges of 2021 and will allow them to prepare for challenges of the 21st century. mr. speaker, as the representative from the salad bowl of the world, it's my job

to ensure my farmers and food workers and food insecurity families have all the tools they need to live and lead healthy and productive lives. as representatives of congress in this nation, it's -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for 30 seconds. mr. panetta: as representatives in congress for this nation, it's all of our jobs to ensure the programs for those tools and that food are here, not just today, but for tomorrow. we can live up to that responsibility by supporting h.r. 1868. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from kentucky reserves. the gentleman from missouri is recognized. mr. smith: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield two minutes to the newest member of the budget committee, the gentleman from mississippi. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from mississippi is recognized for two minutes. >> thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, i rise in opposition to h.r. 1868, the bill to prevent across-the-board direct spending cuts. it should come as no surprise to my democrat friends, you were told during the what little process we had of the $1.9

billion -- trillion spending bill that it was going to disproportionately hurt seniors, that it was going to hurt farmers. mr. kelly: you were told this and know that and knowing you would have to fix it later and drive something just as irresponsibly now. it goes to show this $2 trillion goes to urban, poorly run democratic cities and states at the expense of a rural, blue-collar americans who feed, clothe, and protect america every day. we told you this weeks ago and you ignored it. i am deeply concerned that the democrats would enact a bill that adds $1.9 trillion to an american deficit without the support of a single republican. over 200 voting members of this body had no opportunity for input into this massively destructive package. the biden administration

promised the american people bipartisanship and unity. however, they unilaterally drafted and pushed this bill through without any republican support. now the democrats have hastily put together a bill that jeopardizes the standing of our seniors and mortgages the future of our children. a $36 billion cut to medicare beginning in 2022. democrats would rather cut benefits to american seniors and rural america than give up checks to illegal immigrants and prisoners. the democrats have taken advantage of the need of the american people. my colleagues and i are advocating for a more responsible alternative and protect our most vulnerable population. we must cut the billions of liberal state bailouts and ensure the money is spent responsibly. thank you, mr. speaker. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yield it's back. the gentleman from missouri

reserves. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. yarmuth: mr. speaker, i just want to remind the gentleman from mississippi, along with all the other members of this body that his citizens will receive in total $900 million from just the $1,400 checks. that's the average that every congressional district is going to receive. and i hope that at some point they will realize the benefits of that injection of capital in an economy that's struggling. i am now pleased to yield two minutes to the gentleman from connecticut, a distinguished member of the education and labor committee, mr. courtney. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from connecticut is recognized for two minutes. mr. courtney: thank you, mr. speaker. and i want to thank the chairman of the budget committee for him and his committee staff's steady hand over the last couple of months to make sure the american rescue plan was enenacted last week. in that -- was enacted last week. the american people had a chance to listen to the debate and

evaluate what they think of the american rescue plan. a poll that came out yesterday said 72% support. 44% among republicans across the country. and why not? 90 million americans on wednesday received $1,400 checks totaling $242 billion. and for those americans who are not connected digitally to the i.r.s., they are going to get their checks through the mail. for those americans filing their 2020 tax return whose income now qualifies them with the economic impact checks. on monday people who are on unemployment, they will get their benefits. in the commercial real estate sector, those parts of the economy that are still hurting out there, and another vote of confidence happened on wednesday which is the federal reserve board met and they voted to keep

their key benchmark rate at zero, not just for a couple of weeks or months but for the balance of 2021, for all of 2022 and into 2023. so for all the hysterical arguments that we're overheated the economy and inflation is going to go up, jerome powell, donald trump's nominee as chair of the federal reserve who took questions for over an hour on this inflation issue argued accurately with the battalion of economists that they have at the federal reserve that there is still slack in this economy and 10 million folks on unemployment need to get this type of fiscal relief that the american rescue plan responsibly targeted is going to make sure that this country recovers as soon as possible. this is a routine bill today. we've done it over and over again in the last 10 years. vote yes and make sure that this economy, as the chairman of the federal reserve advised us, gets the help it needs.

i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from kentucky reserves. the gentleman from missouri is recognized. . mr. smith: i would like to yield three minutes to one of the leading doctors of the conference and a great member of the budget committee, the gentleman from texas. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for three minutes. mr. burgess: i thank the gentleman for yielding. i am going to speak in opposition to 1868, but i also feel obligated to point out that you may say that the inflation rate is zero, but if you bought a gallon of gas, purchased a two by four at home depot, or a sack of quick krete at lows you know inflation is a real phenomenon. i do rise in opposition to 1868. there was no effort made on the part of the majority party to work with republicans on what should be a bipartisan priority. and that is provide relief. i have heard from physicians, hospitals in texas, who struggled financially throughout the pandemic. the bill we have before us today

is simply an excuse to wipe up the scorecard of the fiscal impact of the $1.9 trillion partisan package passed last week. and last week, republicans warned that this would threaten cuts to medicare, but those warnings were repeatedly ignored. so, look, if the house majority really cared, if house democrats really cared about meaningful health care provider relief, they would have worked to gain republican support, worked with us to build the bill from the ground up. instead, this bill is coming toward us as a hail mary pass right before the medicare sequester cuts go into effect in april. as a physician i have deep empathy for those whose medical practices have been impacted and now struggling to stay open. i know i have helped many doctors, many clinics navigate the provider relief fund over this past year. we need targeted relief for the providers hurting and some are

hurting more than others. i am a co-sponsor of-h 1999 which adds over $12 billion to the provider relief fund and ensures dollars would flow to those doctors who have experienced lost revenue or increased cost. this type of financial relief has already been proven successful. we passed the cares act on the 27th of march last year. we know it's successful. additionally, this alternative bill ensures that the 4% cut to medicare providers that was included in last week's reconciliation bill as a result of statutory pay-go, does not go into effect in 2022. the american rescue plan act gifted $350 billion to state and local governments that simply was not justified. unstate and local communities are worthy of funding and they should specifically benefit from

those state and local dollars that are not necessary to go where they are planned to go. that's why we would like to redirect the state and local funding towards provider relief. maintaining a strong health care work force is critical to the health of this nation during normal times, and especially critical during a public health emergency. we should work together on the right policy solution to deliver this relief to ensure that it stands a chance of actually passing in the other body, and that should be a starting point for those discussions. and i hope we can come to such a sensible solution. i yield back to the gentleman from missouri. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yield back. the gentleman from missouri reserves. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. yarmuth: mr. speaker, i'm happy to yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from illinois, a distinguished member of the budget committee, ms. schakowsky. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized for two minutes. ms. schakowsky: thank you, mr. chairman. i am proud to co-sponsor h.r. 18 68 to prevent arbitrary cuts to

medicare and to ensure that the american rescue plan is treated in the same way as previous coronavirus bills have been treated, including the cares act. this legislation as we all know is needed, the fix is needed, to avoid painful cuts to mandatory spending programs. let's remember hypocrisy is overwhelming here. the democrats voted with republicans in 2017 to avoid medicare cuts as a result of the republicans' tax scam, a $2 trillion bill tax cut that went mostly to the wealthy. noneson over a year fighting this pandemic, they do not deserve a cut in medicare payments for taking care of

seniors and people with disabilities. by removing the see quester, we can ensure that provide -- sequester, that providers keep their doors opened and continue to treat the -- their patients. the republicans voted against the american rescue plan, which they shouldn't have, i sincerely hope that today they will join us and vote to protect these programs that enjoy broad bipartisan public support and ensure that our commitment to our nation's seniors and people with disabilities are met during this public health crisis. especially now we need to be working together, as we did for you when you were giving tax cuts to the wealthiest americans, we were not going to let medicare suffer. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. the gentleman from kentucky reserves. the gentleman from missouri is

recognized. mr. smith: thank you, mr. speaker. i'd like to remind the lady from illinois that actions speak louder than words. and that she did not help the folks in 2017. that she tried to point out the hypocrisy. i'd like to yield three minutes to the gentleman from texas. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for three minutes. >> i thank the chairman. mr. arrington: mr. speaker, to the lady's point about working together. democrats did not offer any hand of bipartisanship in this ram and jam job on the $2 trillion bailout bill. they even lost democrats on it. so they didn't work with us. it was a pure partisan play. and there is a reason for that. it's mostly unrelated to covid. it is bailout galore. it is a wish list of the liberals in this house. and they just pushed it through

and called it in disguise covid relief. the fundamental principle we are talking about today is pay-go. a law passed by democrats. signed by democrat president that says, fundamentally, american people understand this, if you spend beyond your means, you have to find a way to pay for it. you got to offset it. or you go into debt. the american people, they don't pay their bills, mr. speaker, they get their water turned off or electricity turned off. the i.r.s. will hunt them down. put them in jail if they don't pay their taxes. they'll have their mortgage foreclosed. their cars repossessed. that's what happens to the american people when they don't pay their bills. president obama when he signed the law said you can't spend a dollar unless you cut a dollar elsewhere. i agree with him. ms. pelosi, our speaker, gave a speech and she gave glowing points as she embraced wholeheartedly and full throatedly this pay-go. she said, it's important on

fiscal soundness to our children and grandchildren. she said who could oppose this great idea? she went on to say, this is an investment in our children's future must be paid for or else we are heaping a debt on to our children. $30 trillion almost and counting. who is going to pay for that? not us. not you. not us. our kids are going to pay for it. these are ms. pelosi's words, mr. speaker. this pay-as-you-go is part of a blueprint responsibility, subjecting spending to the harshest scruteny. every dollar must be subject to scruteny. bailing out union pensions. giving city and states -- cities and states money who horribly mismanaged their business prior to covid. giving people more money on unemployment than they made in their previous job. paying people who are not economically harmed in this covid disaster. all of these things, there is a litany of wasteful,

irresponsible, and unnecessary spending. hundreds of billions of dollars. and she says every dollar's going to be scrutinized? we are going to stick it to our seniors? we are going to stick it to our kids? that's a profile in courage if i ever saw one. that's the leadership that made this country great, mr. speaker. these are ms. pelosi's words, not fine. but i agree with her. we have an opportunity here. to do the right thing by our children. to offset the spending here in this $2 trillion bailout with the wasteful spending that's in there. i gave you a list, mr. speaker. i plead with you, and i plead with my colleagues, offset this and do right by our kids and their future in this country. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. yarmuth: may ininquire how much time remains on both sides? the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky has 11 magnificent --11 1/2 minutes.

the gentleman from missouri has 1 1/4 minute remaining. mr. yarmuth: i'm happy to yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from texas, a distinguished member of the budget committee, ms. jackson lee. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman from texas is recognized for two minutes. ms. jackson lee: i thank our distinguished chairman. whenever you hear the words speaker pelosi, you know that she is leading, leading us on the fight to protect our seniors. i'm glad to co-sponsor this legislation to be a strong supporter of being on the front seat of protecting our seniors. whenever you hear us being demagogued from those on the other side, using demagoguery, you can be assured when they passed the tax bill it was not having seniors as their priority. but when you hear the word medicare, you know that democrats are standing strong to make sure that not one dime is taken away from our seniors with medicare. open letter to my seniors in my district. open message to my seniors. we will die on this vine to

protect your medicare. that is what we are doing today on the floor of the house. not one dime will come out of your medicare. i am proud to support h.r. 1868 which excludes a budgetary effects of the american rescue plan of 2021 from scorecard established by the statutory pay as you go or pay-as-you-go act of 2010. preventing across-the-board cuts to numerous spending programs. that's what we are doing. we are taking our seniors seriously. seniors have no fear, with all this demagoguery, because we are going to make sure that not one dime comes out of your pocket. in addition, seniors, you are going to be living in cities like houston where it says that houston's share of the stimulus package is $00 million. that is going -- $600 million, that is going to help your city's services going. fire, police, trash pickup. we know you call my office, these are important to you.

let me also indicate your health care will be in good place with this particular program. your grandchildren will be able to go back to school with almost $1 billion to the houston independent school district. stimulus checks. you are not going to be ignored. you are going to be able to get stimulus checks directly into your accounts. your grandchildren. your children will be able to get for them $3,600 for a 5-year-old. $3,000 -- the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman has an additional 30 seconds. ms. jackson lee: i thank the gentleman. $3,000 for children above 9. you'll be able to have enhanced unemployment for the young people in your life that have been unemployed. and then, of course, you may have the ability to have that local restaurant, and i fought for this, local restaurant to be open again with $28 billion. the issue of public assistance, local government assistance was something i was allowed to offer a motion to instruct.

it was something that i fought that we could not abandon. we will not abandon you as seniors. we will not let them catch one dime of medicare as our friends on the other side have. vote for this legislation because we are seniors first. i ask unanimous consent to place into the record the houston article dated march 10, 2021, $600 million for the sitity of houston. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlelady's time has expired. the gentleman from kentucky reserves. the gentleman from missouri is recognized. mr. smith: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. yarmuth: mr. speaker, i'm happy to yield two minutes to the gentleman from texas, a distinguished member of the budget committee, mr. doggett. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from texas is recognized for two minutes. . mr. doggett: 55 years ago president johnson enacted medicare. it's been a literal lifeline for millions. those who suffered without health care before medicare and now have access to a family physician and hospital care when

they need it. former republican speaker newt gingrich in this very room plotted to let medicare wither on the vine. millions of americans would have withered had he been successful. yet, generations of americans have sought to privatize it, cut it, weaken it, and surely some of the strongest evidence of the success of medicare through all of these times is the claim by today's republicans that after so many failed attempts to weaken medicare, they are here quite amazingly, claiming to be its new protectors. of course, this comes following their understandable desperation to justify their inexplicable efforts to deny the relief that was offered by the american rescue plan. the survivor benefits, the unemployment, small business, rental assistance, so vitally

needed. the support for getting our students back in school. the funding to keep state and local employees doing their jobs. these republicans have resisted that rescue plan with the same fervor that they resisted medicare in the first place. so determined were these folks to oppose anything that president biden advances that they claim -- they've come out here and they claim that the rescue plan means medicare cuts, which certainly it does not. most of medicare falls within the jurisdiction of the ways and means health subcommittee that i chair. we do need to strengthen medicare. the latest financial report suggests additional revenues will be needed to sustain medicare beginning in 2026. some of the changes that are needed are largely accounting adjustments and others will require additional revenue. may i have an additional 30 seconds? mr. yarmuth: i yield the gentleman an additional 30

seconds. mr. doggett: what our colleagues should be doing is coming together to work with us to ensure the permanent security of medicare. medicare works, but after 55 years, it needs some updates. it's not provided adequate protection against pharmaceutical pursuant to the order of the house gouging. it does not cover -- pharmaceutical price gouging. too many americans are too young to be in medicare. i believe we need to be working together to make medicare better and more widely available to more americans because health security is american security. and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from kentucky reserves. the gentleman from missouri is recognized. mr. smith: i reserve. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. yarmuth: mr. speaker, i'm happy to yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from illinois, a distinguished member of the agriculture and appropriations committees, mrs. bustos. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized for two minutes. mrs. bustos: thank you, chairman yarmuth, and thank you, mr. speaker.

i rise today to support h.r. 1868. i know we've talked this morning about the importance of that bill protecting medicare. i want to talk with you for a couple minutes here about its protection of farm supports and other direct spending as it pertains to our family farmers. as chair of the agriculture subcommittee on general farm commodities and risk manage. justice, this bill will protect critical resources -- management, this bill will protect farms. there are more than two million farmers across our nation. in the district that i serve, we have close to 10,000 family farms. but throughout our nation, there is no farm that isn't touched by the commodity credit corporation. not one american farmer who wouldn't be impacted by these cuts. in the district i serve, those close to 10,000 family farm -- family farmers, who wouldn't

have more resources if this were to happen and would face challenges as they try to pay their bills and put food on the table. the truth is our family farmers have seen an onslaught of challenges for years, each year worse than the one before it. extreme weather conditions, devastated crops, unstable and uncertain trade markets that held back exports and economic growth. and throughout the past year, a global pandemic that has left many of our farmers ravaged, even as they kept fighting for fellow americans to keep them fed. covid-19 has impacted all of us, but thankfully we have not seen truly empty store shelves. we have our american farmers to thank for that. we have them for the stable food supply and even after years of challenges, even at the height of our worldwide crisis, our american farmers have our backs. now it's time for us to have theirs. a vote against this bill is a

vote to cut farm funding. i urge my colleagues to vote to protect our family farmers and vote yes on this critical bill. thank you very much. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman yields back. the gentleman from kentucky reserves. mr. yarmuth: mr. speaker, i have no other speakers. if the ranking member has no speakers, i'm prepared to close. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from kentucky reserves. the gentleman from missouri is recognized. mr. smith: thank you, mr. speaker. my colleagues and i introduced an alternative, a more responsible approach that protects our seniors and rolls back some of the most wasteful and absurd parts of the democrat bailout bill. i'd urge my colleagues on the other side of the aisle to put america's seniors ahead of their special interest allies. join us to protect the working class. we will offer such a solution as a motion to recommit. if adopted, it will instruct the committee on the budget to consider an amendment to make the sensible cuts in ways

offered in the protect seniors and cut waste act. mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent to insert the text of the amendment in the record immediately prior to the vote on the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. smith: let's put the health care of our seniors ahead of prisoners. illegal immigrants, and the political class. thank you, mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from kentucky is recognized. mr. yarmuth: mr. speaker, i yield myself the remainder of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. yarmuth: thank you, mr. speaker. the last couple of months have been an incredibly busy time. and the work that was done on the american rescue plan from start to finish was extraordinary. we owe our staffs an enormous debt of gratitude that not just the budget committee staff but the staff of the 12 committees that contributed to the drafting of the american rescue plan.

i'd like to read the names of the budget committee staff who pulled all-nighters, all-weekenders, and went way beyond the call of duty on doing the work on the american rescue plan. erica, ellen, samantha, edward, jose, jocelyn, emily, sarah, sheila, diana, layla, kim berly, barbara, scott russell, laura santos, raquel spencer, alexander, kristie, jennifer, sam, ted, and grady. i want to thank all of them personally for their work. and on behalf of the house. in closing, mr. speaker, i just want to say this. we have heard a lot of newly found concern about the deficit and the debt today. we heard it during the debates.

this is the same party that drove up the deficit three years ago, four years ago now with a $2 trillion tax cut. most of which benefited the wealthiest americans. and according to virtually that looked for it didn't come close to paying for itself. what we have done in the american rescue plan is give an incredible boost to the american people. and the american people who need the boost most. not one dollar in the american rescue plan goes to the top 1% of americans. the vast majority goes to middle and lower income people struggling to get by. and i'm kind of amused when people talk about their states being cheated, the gentleman from georgia talked about how georgia was cheated. under this american rescue plan, georgia gets over $8 billion,

twice as much as georgia got under the cares act. that doesn't even count all of the money that's going to the georgia citizens. as i said, in every congressional district in this country on average the people, the citizens we represent will get $900 million. every congressional district. and my friend from missouri talked about his family of four and i know his math is better than this. but a family of four doesn't get $1,400, as he mentioned. a family of four gets $1,400 times four which is $5,600. and then two children, depending on their ages, get at least $3,000 each. so that family of four is going to get $11,000 out of this bill. and to talk about future generations, i love that. i'm sure that when the national debt reached $1 billion under

abraham lincoln there were people saying, wow, we're laying an incredible burden on our grandchildren. and when it reached $1 trillion under ronald reagan i'm sure there were people saying the same thing. and when it gets to $50 trillion, as it probably will in the next couple of decades, people will be saying the same thing. we've been accumulating debt for our entire history and yet no one has ever been asked to pay for that debt. and no one ever will. so all in all, we're very proud of the american rescue plan. the american people love the american rescue plan, and this fix, which we ask for today, is something that, again, is just what the republicans asked to do in 2017. it's a routine measure. nobody wants to cut medicare benefits to our providers and our citizens. i'm sure we'll have a bipartisan vote on this today. i urge all of my colleagues to support h.r. 1868.

with that i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. pursuant to house resolution 233, the previous question is ordered on the bill. the question is on the engrossment and the third reading of the bill. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the ayes have it. third reading. the clerk: a bill to prevent across-the-board direct spending cuts and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from missouri seek recognition? mr. smith: thank you, mr. speaker. i have a motion to recommit at the desk. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the motion. the clerk: mr. smith of missouri moves to recommit the bill h.r. 1868 to the committee on the budget. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to clause 2-b of rule 19, the previous question is ordered on the motion to recommit. the question is on the motion. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. the noes have it. the motion is not agreed to. mr. smith: mr. speaker. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from missouri. mr. smith: i request the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to section 3-s of house

resolution 8, the yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.]

the speaker pro tempore: for

what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? mr. jefferies: as the member designated by congressman brendan boyle, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that congressman boyle will vote no on the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from indiana seek recognition? mr. -- miss with a clor i ask: as the member designated by mr. by shan of indiana, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. bucshon will vote yea on the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona seek recognition? mr. stanton: as the member designated by mrs. kirkpatrick, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house this mrs. kirkpatrick will vote no on the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from illinois seek recognition? ms. underwood: as the member designated by mr. rush, pursuant

to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. rush will vote no on the motion to recommit.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the the gentlewoman from illinois seek recognition? ms. davids: as the member designated by mr. moulton, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. moulton will vote no on the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from connecticut seek recognition? >> thank you, mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. adam smith of washington state, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. smith will vote no on the motion to recommit.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? mr. correa: mr. speaker, as the member designated by congress member vargas, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that congress member var will vote no on the motion to recommit. as the member designated by congress member napolitano, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that congress member napolitano will also vote

no on the motion to recommit.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from rhode island seek recognition? mr. cicilline: mr. speaker, as the member designated by ms. pingree of maine, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that ms. pingree will vote no on the motion to recommit.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? mr. gomez: as the member designated by mr. cardenas, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. cardenas will vote no on the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? mr. evans: as the member designated by mr. lawson of florida, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. lawson will vote nay on the motion for reconsideration.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina seek recognition? mr. butterfield: as the member designated by mr. bishop of georgia, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. bishop will vote no, he will vote no on the motion to recommit. as the member designated by mr. hastings of florida, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. hastings will vote no,

he will vote no on the motion to recommit.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by representative cathy mcmorris rodgers, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mrs. rodgers will vote yes on the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from connecticut seek recognition?

mrs. hayes: ms. wilson -- as the member designated by ms. wilson, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that ms. wilson will vote no on the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? mr. aguilar: mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. bera, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. bera will vote no on the motion to recommit. as the member designated by mr. schneider, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. schneider will vote no on the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? mr. garcia: mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. grijalva, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. grijalva will vote no on the motion to recommit.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee seek recognition? mr. fleischmann: mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. desjarlais of tennessee, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. desjarlais will vote yea on the motion to recommit. thank you.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. gaetz, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. gaetz will vote yea on the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana seek recognition? mr. mrvan: as the member designated by mr. kahele, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. kahele will vote no on the motion to recommit.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? mr. steube: thank you, mr. speaker. as the member designated by mr. timmons of south carolina, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. timmons will vote yes on the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california seek recognition? ms. matsui: mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. desaulnier, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. desaulnier will vote no on the motion to recommit.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by ms. wasserman schultz, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that ms. wasserman schultz will vote no on the motion to recommit.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from virginia seek recognition? ms. wexton: mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. mceachin, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. mceachin will vote no

on the motion to recommit. as the member designated by ms. porter, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that ms. porter will vote no on the motion to recommit.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. peters of california, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. peters will vote no on the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> thank you, mr. speaker. as the member designated by mr. buchanan of florida, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. buchanan will vote yes on the motion to recommit. thank you.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from massachusetts seek recognition? good morning, mr. speaker. mr. lynch: as the member designated by mr. james langevin of rhode island, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. langevin will vote no on the motion to recommit, h.r. 1868. to prevent across-the-board direct spending cuts and for other purposes. thank you.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from michigan seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by miss axne, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house mrs. axne will vote no on the motion to recommit. as the member designated by ms. slotkin, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that ms. slotkin will vote no on the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the the gentlewoman from massachusetts seek recognition? ms. clark: as the member

designated by ms. meng, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that ms. meng will vote no on the motion to recommit. as the member designated by by ms. bush, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that ms. bush will vote no on the motion to recommit. as the member designated by miss bourdeaux, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that bourdeaux will vote no on the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition? mr. beyer: mr. speaker, mr. lowenthal, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. lowenthal will vote no on the motion to recommit. as the member designated by mr. lieu, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. lieu will vote no on the motion to recommit. as the member designated by ms. barragan, pursuant to house

resolution 8, i inform the house that ms. barragan will vote no on the motion to recommit. as the member designated by mr. blumenauer, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. blumenauer will vote no on the motion to recommit. as the member designated by ms. moore, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that ms. moore will vote no on the motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the the gentlewoman from kansas seek recognition? miss daferedse: mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. allred, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house mr. vote no on the motion to recommit. as the member designated by mr. cleaver, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. cleaver will vote no on the motion to recommit. as the member designated by by mr. kim, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. kim will vote no on the motion to recommit.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the the gentlewoman from california seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by ms. williams, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that ms. williams will vote no nay on the motion to recommit.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from new jersey seek

recognition? mr. pallone: mr. speaker, as the member designated by mrs. bonnie watson coleman, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that miss watson coleman will vote no on the motion to recommit. as the member designated by by mr. sires, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. sires will vote no on the motion to recommit. as the member designated by mr. donald payne, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. payne will vote no on the motion to recommit.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. bar dino from new york, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. gar -- garbarino will vote no on the

motion to recommit. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from maryland seek recognition? mr. brown: as the member designated by mr. mfume, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. mfume will vote no on the motion to recommit.

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote, the yeas are 202, the nays are 216. the motion is not adopted. the question is on passage of the bill. those in favor say aye. those opposed, no. in the pip of the chair, the

nays have it -- in the opinion of the chair, the nays have it. the gentleman from maryland. >> i ask for the yeas and nays. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to section 3-s of house resolution 8. yeas and nays are ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? mr. pallone: as the member designated by ms. bonnie watson coleman, punt to h. res. 8, i inform the house that ms. watson coleman will vote yes on h.r.

1868. as the member designated by mr. sires, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. sires will vote yes. as the member designated by mr. donald payne, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. pape will vote yes on h.r. 1868. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. desjarlais of tennessee, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. desjarlais will vote nay on h.r. 1868. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. my fume of maryland -- mfu

me, pursuant to h. res. 8, mr. mfume will vote yes. >> as the member designated by mr. gar bino of new york pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. gar writteno will vote iowa. >> as the member designated by mr. schneider pursuant to house res. luge 8, i inform the house that mr. schneider will vote aye on h.r. 1868. as the member designated by mr. bera, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. bera will vote aye on h.r. 1868.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from illinois seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. rush, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. rush will vote yes on h.r. 1868. as the member designated by mr. moulton, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. moulton will vote yes on h.r. 1868. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california seek recognition? ms. matsui: as the member designated by mr. desaulnier, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. desaulnier will vote yes on h.r. 1868.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from rhode island seek recognition? mr. cicilline: as the member designated by ms. pingree of maine, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that ms. pingree will vote yes on h.r. 1868. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. gonzalez pursuant to h. res.

8, i inform the house that mr. gonzalez will vote aye on h.r. 1868. as the member designated by mr. cardenas, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. cardenas will vote aye on h.r. 1868. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by ms. williams, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that ms. williams will vote aye on h.r. 1868. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from kansas seek recognition? ms. davids: as the member designated by mr. allred, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform

the house that mr. allred will vote yes. as the member designated by mr. cleaver, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. cleaver will vote yes on h.r. 1868. as the member designated by mr. kim, pursuant to h. res. 8, mr. kim will vote yes. mrs. walorski: as the member designated by mr. bucheon of indiana, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. bucheon will vote no on h.r. 1868. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition?

mr. jeffries: as the member designated by congressman boyle, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. boyle will vote yes on h.r. 1868. >> as the member designated by mr. buchanan of florida, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. buchanan will vote yes on h.r. 1868. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition? >> mr. speaker as the member designated by ms. moor i inform

the house ms. moore will vote yes on h.r. 1868. as the member designated by ms. barragan pursuant to h. res. 8, ms. barragan will vote yes on h.r. 1868. as the member designated by mr. blumenauer pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house mr. blumenauer will vote yes on h.r. 1868. as the member designated by mr. lowenthal pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. lowenthal will vote yes on h.r. 1868. as the member designated by mr. lieu, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. lieu will vote yes on h.r. 1868.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> as the member designated by congress member vargas pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that congress member vargas will vote yes on h.r. 1868. as the member designated by congress member napolitano, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that congress member napolitano will also vote

yes on h.r. 1868. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from seek recognition? mr. clarke: as the member designated by ms. bush pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that ms. bush will vote yes on

h.r. 1868. as the member designated by ms. meng pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that ms. meng will vote yes on 1868. >> as the member designated by ms. bourdeaux, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that ms. bourdeaux will vote yes on h.r. 1868.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from virginia seek recognition? ms. wexton: as the member designated by mr. mceachin, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. mks eachin will vote yes on h.r. 1868. as the member designated by ms. porter, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that ms. porter

will vote yes on h.r. 1868.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina seek recognition? mr. butterfield: as the member designated by mr. bishop of georgia, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. bishop will vote yes, he will vote yes on h.r. 1868. as the member designated by mr. hastings of florida, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. hastings will vote yes, he will vote yes on h.r. 1868.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. grijalva, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. grijalva will vote yes on h.r. 1868.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from connecticut seek recognition? mrs. hayes: as the member designated by wilson, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that ms. wilson will vote yes on h.r. 1868. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? mr. evans: mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. lawson of florida, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. lawson will vote yes on final passage.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from michigan seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by by mrs. axne, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mrs. axne will vote yes on h.r. 1868. ms. stevens: as the member designated by ms. slotkin, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that ms. slotkin will vote yes on h.r. 1868.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by by representative kathy mcmorris rodgers, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that representative rodgers will vote no on h.r. 1868.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona seek recognition? mr. stanton: as the member designated by mrs. kirkpatrick, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mrs. kirkpatrick will vote yes on h.r. 1868.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from massachusetts seek recognition? mr. lynch: good morning, mr. speaker. as the member designated by the honorable mr. james langevin of rhode island, pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. langevin will vote yes on final passage of h.r. 1868 to

prevent across-the-board direct spending cuts, and for other purposes. thank you.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by ms. wasserman schultz pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that ms. wasserman schultz will vote yes on h.r. 1868. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from connecticut seek recognition? mr. courtney: as the member designated by mr. adam smith of washington state, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. smith will vote yes on h.r. 1868.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition? mr. kildee: as the member designated by mr. peters of california, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. peters will vote yes on h.r. 1868.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does -- for what

purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. timmons of south carolina, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. timmons will vote no on h.r. 1868.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. kahele pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. kahele will vote yes on h.r. 1868.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. gaetz pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. gaetz will vote nay on h.r. 1868.

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote the yeas are 246, the nays are 175.

the bill is passed and, without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. the speaker: the house will be in order. the house will be in order.

the chair asks that all members in the chamber, as well as members and staff throughout the capitol, to rise for a moment of silence in honor of the victims of the horrific shootings in georgia this week. and in solidarity with all members of the aapi community facing discrimination and violence.

thank you. pursuant to clause 8 of rule 20, the unfinished business is the vote on the motion of the gentleman from new york, mr. meeks, to suspend the rules and agree to house resolution 134 on which the yeans are ordered. -- on which the yeas and nays are ordered. the clerk will report the title. the clerk: house res. -- resolution 134. condemning the military coup that took place on february 1, 2021 in burma, and the burmese military detention of civilian leaders, calling for the release of all those detained and for those elected to serve in parliament to resume their duty, and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: the question is, will the house suspend the rules and agree to the resolution. members will record their votes by electronic device.

[captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from maryland seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. mcfumey of maryland, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that -- mfume of maryland, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. mfume will vote yes on h.res. 134. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina seek recognition? mr. butterfield: as the member designated by mr. bishop of georgia, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. bishop

will vote yes on h.res. 134. as the member designated by mr. hastings of florida, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. hastings will vote yes on h.res. 134. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from indiana seek recognition? mrs. walorski: mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. bucshon of indiana, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. bucshon will vote yea on h.res. 134. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from arizona seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mrs. kirkpatrick, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mrs. kirkpatrick will vote yes on h.res. 134.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from pennsylvania seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by representative cathy mcmorris rodgers, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that representative rodgers will vote yes on h.res. 134. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from california seek recognition? ms. matsui: mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. desaulnier, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. desaulnier will vote yes on h.res. 134. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, mr. speaker,,

mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. timmons of south carolina, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. timmons will vote yes on h.res. 134. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from connecticut seek recognition? mr. courtney: thank you, mr. speaker. mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. adam smith of washington state, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. smith will vote yes on h.res. 134. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from michigan seek recognition? mr. kildee: mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. peters of california, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. peters will vote yes on h.res. 134.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from rhode island seek recognition? mr. cicilline: mr. speaker, as the member designated by ms. pingree of maine, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that ms. pingree will vote yes on house resolution 134. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. cardenas, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. cardenas will vote aye on h.res. 134. as the member designated by mr. gonzalez, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. gonzalez will vote aye on h.res. 134.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from massachusetts seek recognition? ms. clark: mr. speaker, as the member designated by ms. bush, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that ms. bush will vote yes on h.res. 134. as the member designated by ms. meng, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that ms. meng will vote yes on h.res. 134. as the member designated by ms. bourdeaux, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that ms. bourdeaux will vote yes on h.res. 134.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from michigan seek recognition? ms. stevens: mr. speaker, as the member designated by ms. slotkin, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that ms. slotkin will vote yes on h.res. 134. as the member designated by mrs. axne, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mrs. axne will vote yes on h.res. 134. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by mr. gaetz, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. gaetz will vote no on h.res. 134. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from massachusetts seek recognition? mr. lynch: good morning, mr. speaker. as the member designated by the

honorable mr. james langevin of rhode island, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. langevin will vote yes on house resolution 134, condemning the military coup that took place on february 1, 2021, in burma, and for other purposes. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from illinois seek recognition? ms. underwood: as the member designated by mr. rush, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. rush will vote yes on h.res. 134. as the member designated by mr. moulton, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. moulton will vote yes on h.res. 134.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from connecticut seek recognition? mrs. hayes: as the member designated by ms. wilson, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that ms. wilson will vote yes on h.res. 134. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from indiana seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. kahele, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr.

kahele will vote yes on h.res. 134. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from florida seek recognition? >> mr. speaker, as the member designated by ms. wasserman schultz, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that ms. wasserman schultz will vote yes on h.res. 134. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. garbarino of new york, i inform the house that mr. garbarino will vote yes on h.r. 134. >> as the member designated by mr. lawson of florida, pursuant to resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. lawson will vote

aye on house resolution 134. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new jersey seek recognition? mr. pallone: as the member designated by ms. watson coleman, pursuant to h. res., i inform the house that ms. watson coleman will vote yes on house resolution 134. as the member designated by mr. sires, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. sires will vote yes on house resolution 134. and as the member designated by ms. cheryl, i inform the house that ms. cheryl -- sherrill,

pursuant to ress 8, i inform the house that ms. sherrill will vote yes. >> as the member designated by mr. buchanan pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. buchanan will vote yes on house resolution 134. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> as the member designated by congress member vargas pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that congress member vargas will vote yes on h. res. 134. as the member designated by congress member napolitano pursuant to house resolution 8,

i inform the house that congress member napolitano will also vote yes on h. res. 134. tifment for what purpose does the gentleman from illinois seek recognition? as the member designated by mr. grijalva pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. grijalva will vote yes on house resolution 134.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from virginia seek recognition? mr. beyer: as the member designated by mr. blumenauer, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. blumenauer will vote yes. as the member designated by ms. moore of wisconsin, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that ms. moore will vote yes. as the member designated by ms. barragan, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that ms. barragan will vote yes. as the member designated by mr. lowenthal will vote yes on h. res. 134.

as as the member designated by mr. lieu, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that colonel lieu will vote yes on h. res. 134.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from new york seek recognition? mr. jeffries: as the member designated by congressman boyle pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that congressman boyle will vote yes on h. res. 134.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from tennessee seek recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. desjarlais of tennessee, pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. desjarlais will vote yes on h. res. 134. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek

recognition? >> as the member designated by mr. bera pursuant to house resolution 8, i inform the house that mr. bera will vote aye on house resolution 134. as the member designated by mr. schneider pursuant to h. res. 8, i inform the house that mr. schneider will vote aye on house resolution 134.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from virginia seek recognition? ms. wexton: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. mceachin, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. mceachin will vote yes on h.res. 134. as the member designated by ms. porter, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that ms. port already vote yes on h.res. --

porter will vote yes on h.res. 134.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from kansas seek recognition? ms. davids: madam speaker, as the member designated by mr. allred, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. allred will vote yes on h.res. 134. as the member designated by mr. cleaver, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. cleaver will vote yes on h.res.

134. as the member designated by mr. kim, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that mr. kim will vote yes on h.res. 134.

the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlelady from california seek recognition? >> madam speaker, as the member designated by ms. williams, pursuant to h.res. 8, i inform the house that ms. williams will vote yes on h.res. 134.

the speaker pro tempore: on this vote, the yeas are 398, nays is 14 and one is present. 2/3 being in the affirmative, the rules are suspended and without objection, the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. for what purpose does the gentleman from nevada seek recognition? >> i ask unanimous consent to remove congressman clay higgins from h.r. 1346 the hospitality and commerce jobs recovery act. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. the gentlewoman from california seek recognition? ms. lofgren: i send to the desk a resolution and ask unanimous consent for immediate consideration in the house. the clerk: house resolution 257

resolution requiring employee to complete a training of workplace rights and responsibilities each session of each congress and for other purposes. the speaker pro tempore: is there objection to the consideration of the resolution? without objection, the resolution is agreed to and the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek recognition? >> madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to take from the speaker's table the bill h.r. 1276, with the senate amendment thereto and concur in the senate amendment. the speaker pro tempore: the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: h.r. 1276 an anth to authorize the secretary of veterans affairs to issue covid-19 vaccines for -- mr. takano: i ask we dispense with the reading. the speaker pro tempore: without

objection. is there objection to the request of the the gentleman from california? without objection, the senate amendment is agreed to and the motion to reconsider is laid on the table. 6 the speaker pro tempore: the chair will entertain requests for one-minute speeches. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from texas seek recognition? ms. jackson lee: i request unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. jackson lee: i want to take

this brief to salute patrice powell -- i'm sorry. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. ms. jackson lee: i would like to recognize latrice powell. we are humbled by her service. i wear on my jacket lady freedom. i would argue that latrice powell is our some journer truth because she is a pioneer and made an enormous difference in the people's house. she truly is a representative of the people. with that in mind, i thank her very much for all that she's done and take this separate moment again as she knows to honor those who died in atlanta, to honor them for the way in which they lost their lives and the asian-american women were

the victims of hate crimes. why? women gender can be a hate crime. i only say to my colleague, a friend of mine from texas, in the midst of pain to talk about a rope and an oak tree as a tradition of texas, lynching is absurd, unacceptable and denounce and i apoll guys for hurt given to the asian-american . and i urge us to join together against hate crimes. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlewoman's time is up. for what purpose does the gentleman from ohio seek recognition? >> i seek unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> i rise today in memory of mitch stone. he was a university of

cincinnati's football super fan and young man who passed away years after his battle with brain cancer. mr. wenstrup: in 2009 he was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. the football team took him in as one of their own. mitch found strength and from the u.c. bearcats football team and found strength in him. he went on to attend the university of cincinnati and urged a bachelor's agree. he was in the honors program at the college of business. he used his experience to start his own foundation called mitch's mission which helped children overcome their health challenges. his death is a tragedy that we continue to mourn but his life is the testimony of the good in this world. his positive activity will live on. rest in peace, mitch.

and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. for what purpose does the gentlewoman from california seek recognition? >> madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. >> madam speaker, before covid-19, more than 40% of san diego kids were already link in families experiencing poverty. childhood poverty was a problem before covid-19 and we know it's only worse through this pandemic. america's kids deserve better. that's why i was proud to fight for them through the american rescue plan and signed into law last week. it makes historic investments to increase the child tax credit and support our child care infrastructure and help poor families and our care workers. these investments will be transformational. it will lift a heavy burden off the shoulders.

today i celebrate this progress commit myself to support the five million american children who will still experience poverty. let's make the child tax credits permanent and readvise the child care infrastructure and do right by america's kids. i yield back. . . the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognize for one minute. >> thank you, madam speaker. my district in nebraska is home to many native american tribes, including the winnebago in the northeast corner of the state. mr. fortenberry: and it's nestled, madam speaker, along the missouri river bottoms at the beginning of the great plains, and a beautiful setting of rolling hills. this tribal land has been an integral part of nebraska's history and culture but several decades ago land beginning to

the winnebago was appropriated by the army corps of engineers for development. in 1976, a federal court found that the united states and the corps lacked the authority to take this land through imminent -- eminent domain. it's time to make this right. so, the winnebago land transfer act is an important bill to return to the winnebago this piece of land. hunters will be able to continue to enjoy this prime spot along the missouri river through the winnebago tribe, wildlife and parks program, and so i'm appreciative of the effort, the bipartisan effort, here, of our colleagues, darren soto of florida, shah rece davis of kansas, as -- sharice davids of kansas. thank you, madam speaker. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentlewoman from minnesota seek recognition? >> madam speaker, i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute.

>> madam speaker, last weekend i visited women-owned businesses in my area and i had the pleasure of meeting elise stagger who owns chakra yoga and fitness. throughout this past year, elise has done everything she can to comply with covid restrictions while continuing to pay her employees and keep her business open. ms. craig: with the help of the paycheck protection program loans, she's also turned to creative solutions like virtual classes. but she's been able to keep her business going. the paycheck protection program has served as a lifeline to small businesses like elise's. but in less than would weeks it's due to expire. this week we passed legislation in the house on a bipartisan basis to extend this critical program through may 31. we must ensure that that extension becomes law. thank you and i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the

gentlewoman from iowa seek recognition? ax ax thank you, madam speaker. i ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentlewoman is recognized for one minute. >> thank you, madam speaker. i rise today to recognize a local hero in my hometown. this coming wednesday, march 24, mary margaret butler will be recognized as a 2021 hero of the heartland by the american red cross. mary margaret is being recognized for founding whatsoever you do inc., a nonprofit that has worked tirelessly on creating shelters for the homeless in southeastern iowa. for years now, whatever -- whatsoever you do has helped hundreds with basic needs. across the country, the red cross works every day to programs and services related to disaster relief, the military, health and safety, and helping the homeless. mrs. miller-meeks: it recognizes outstanding individuals who

demonstrate encourage, selflessness and work to better and help their neighbors and communities. i'm i'm -- i'm prout to not only represent her in congress but call hear neighbor. thank you for making this a better place to live. additionally i'd like to wish a happy birthday to two other amazing women of integrity, selflessness and compassion and courage. my chief of staff, tracy, and my daughter, taylor. madam speaker, i yield back my time. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from texas seek recognition? mr. green: madam speaker, i desire to address the house for one minute, to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman from texas is recognized for one minute. mr. green: thank you, madam speaker. madam speaker, when you're a son of the segregated south, when you've heard your mother called girl and your father called boy, when you've had to go to the back door, when you've had the klahn to burn a cross on your property -- klan to burn a cross

on your property, you know hate when you see it. you know what a hate crime is when it takes place. what happened in georgia was hate personified, it was a hate crime, i will march with the people who will be opposed to this, i will stand with them, we cannot allow this kind of injustice to go unchallenged. it is better to stand alone than not stand at all. this is a hate crime and we must, we must seek justice for those victims and we must demand that these persons who are calling these viruses by names associated with people, that they ought to stop and we ought to demand it. i do so. i demand that they stop. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from north carolina seek recognition? >> madam speaker, i rise in -- to ask unanimous consent to address the house for one minute and to revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. >> madam speaker, there's

nothing in america -- an american will not do to defend his country. i rise today in defense of my homeland. i am angry. not just for the destruction of american values perpetrated by those on the left, but i am angry because my colleagues simply do not seem to care. mr. cawthorn: they do not care that our border is nonexistence. that 6,000 criminals cross into our country daily. they do not care that 64% of federal arrests are of illegal immigrants and they do not care that america's welfare and infrastructure system simply cannot handle this influx of criminal immigrants. they do not care because to them power is all that matters. i have a message to the power hungry and the partisan. power corrupts. and absolute power cruments absolutely. it is -- corrupts absolutely. it is in the nature of americans to be kind and jeptle and loving. but know this -- gentle and loving. but know this. when it comes to the matter of protecting our friends, our family and our heartland, do not

trifle with this representative democracy. for we the people will not stop. we will never back down. we will give our everything to protect those dear to us. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. cawthorn: this is our republic. finish the wall. the speaker pro tempore: for what purpose does the gentleman from wisconsin seek recognition? mr. grothman: i'd like to speak for one minute. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. grothman: we are now being sent home for three weeks. i don't know that it's a coincidence or not that we're being sent home when we have such a problem at our border and we just got done voting on a few immigration bills. i'm particularly -- we, all of us congressmen, should have a to-do list over the next three weeks. i want to give the press corps a to-do list. right now our border patrol is

under a gag order in which they cannot educate the press or congressmen as to what is going on. this at a time in which we have almost three times as many people trying to get across the border as -- than this time last year. and we have huge numbers of unaccompanied minors down there. the press should be outraged at this gag order. i have been at the border four times so far over the last couple years and it's always very illuminating what the border patrol can say to us. now, like we're in some totalitarian state, they are not allowed to speak to us. i don't care whether you care about the government benefits, the unaccompanied minors, the drug trafficking, the human trafficking, the money that drug cartels are making on the illegal immigration. we should want to know and we can't know unless the border patrol tells us. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. mr. grothman: please wake up, sleeping press corps. thank you. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman's time has expired. for what purpose does the gentleman from california seek

recognition? >> to address the house for one minute and revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the gentleman is recognized for one minute. mr. lamalfa: last year portland, oregon, cut 16 -- $16 million from their police budget. this has led to a 20-fold increase, unfortunately, in deadly shootings. mayor wheeler has been forced to reverse course now and asked for more funding for police. similar to this, the biden administration is having to reverse course due to the crisis on the border. many are getting hung up on using the word crisis, so fema deals with disasters, hence the biden border disaster. less than two months in, the border is worse thans been in two decades -- than it's been in two decades. now biden has helped ask mexico to help control the flow of migrants again after previously dismantling the remain in mexico policy. also on his first day in the new administration, they issued a proclamation to halt all border construction, despite congress funding it and demanding it be built.

now just yesterday, the administration has said it was moving forward with border construction. well, border wall. good. as they're learning in portland, seattle, minneapolis, the biden administration is learning law and order is also required on our border or you get disaster. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: thank you. are there any further requests for one-minute speeches? the chair lays before the house a communication. the clerk: the honorable the speaker, house of representatives. madam, i write to respectfully tender my resignation as a member of the joint economic committee effective immediately. it's been an honor to serve in this capacity. signed, sincerely, darin lahood. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, the chair recognizes

-- the chair announces the speaker's appointment of the following member on the part of the house to the joint economic committee. the clerk: mr. arrington of texas to rank after ms. herrera beutler of washington. the speaker pro tempore: the chair announces the speaker's appointment of the following member to the select committee on the modernization of congress. the clerk: mr. joyce of ohio to rank after mr. latta of ohio. the speaker pro tempore: pursuant to section 4-f of house resolution 8, 117th congress, and the order of the house of january 4, 2021, the following member to the select committee -- subcommittee on the

coronavirus crisis. the clerk: mrs. miller-meeks of iowa. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 4, 2021, the gentleman from south carolina, mr. clyburn, is recognized for 60 minutes as the designee of the majority leader. mr. clyburn: madam speaker, thank you very much, for recognizing me. i ask unanimous consent that all members have five lelingtive days to revise and extend their remarks -- legislative days to revise and extend their remarks and submit extraneous materials on the subject of my special order today. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. clyburn: madam speaker, last march, as a tragic failure of the trump administration's response to the coronavirus pandemic, it was becoming very apparent, the house democratic caucus held a conference call to discuss the crisis.

recalling the lessons of history like the aftermath of world war i and the spanish flu, great depression and world war ii, that it is usually the least of these among us that are the hardest hit during these crises and the last to recover after these crises are over. if they are able to recover at all. i expressed at that time to the caucus that the legislation before us offered a tremendous opportunity to restructure things in our vision. i was referring then, as i often

do, to the vision expressed in our pledge of allegiance to our nation's flag of liberty and justice for all. sortly after -- shortly after the media reported these comments, senator mcconnell, the majority leader of the senate, derided them on the senate floor , referring to me by position, he declared, and quote him here, this is not a political opportunity, it is a national emergency. i wholeheartedly agree with the now minority leader of the senate, that the coronavirus pandemic was and remains a national emergency.

but because the previous administration and senate republicans failed to address it with the appropriate urgency, and a vision of liberty and justice for all, the american people, through the political process last november, entrusted democrats to an opportunity to build back with a better and more equitable vision for the future of our great country. . . the american rescue plan has begun that process and it has bipartisan support across the entire spectrum of the country. and it did not get a single republican vote in the house or the senate.

because of the use of the budget process commonly called reconciliation, republicans were not age to block the filibuster -- to block by filibustering the american rescue plan. and that has proven to be a good thing. but the senate minority leader and several of his colleagues seem to be health bent on using arcane senate procedures to allow the minority in the senate to block any legislation designed to protect the voting and civil rights of our country's minority citizens as we continue our pursuit toward the fulfillment of liberty and justice for all. we have been here before.

during the 1940's and 1950's, the senate filibuster was used to kill civil rights legislation and protect jim crow laws. today senate republican leaders are employing the same tactics to obstruct voting rights and civil rights legislation. their efforts are designed to gain power for their party by suppressing political participation by minorities. minority leaders have threatened that if senate democrats modify the filibuster rules to do to him as he did to president obama , he will -- it will result in

scorched earth tactics. this threat of scorched earth tactics by the senate minority leader in defiance of the american democracy is reminiscent of "mississippi burning." which is highlighted by the lynching of three civil rights workers who were simply registering black voters in mississippi in june, 1964. they were murdered by the k.k.k. with the cooperation of law enforcement officials. to keep them from assisting minority citizens who simply wanted to vote. it was 44 days before their bodies were located and four

decades before anyone faced legal consequences for their deaths. today, republicans using the big lie about the 2020 election as the pretext for a litany of voter suppression laws. they the our liberty and justice for all enjoys majority support among voters so they seek to suppress enough votes so that their oppressive policies and backward ideas can prevail. the minority leader wants to allow a minority of his minority to block a prevention of a

return to bygone days. the senate must meet the 60-vote threshold to block the filibuster on voting rights an civil rights legislation. just as "mississippi burning" was met with the civil rights act and voting rights act, the threat of scorched earth must be met before the people -- for the for the people act and the john r. lewis voting rights act. i didn't march in the streets an spend nights in jail as a young man to find myself fighting the same battles generations later. but it appears the minority leader and his republican colleagues are prepared to retread old ground and i am

prepared to stand my ground. the minority leader -- to the minority leader and his threes i say, this is not a political opportunity. this is a national emergency. since this country's inception, equal rights for people of co-lo -- color have been restricted by those in power who seek to hold on to power by using their power to deny the greatness of this country to those who do not look like them. extending debate on legislative issues is one thing. but when it comes to rights

rooted in the constitution, the filibuster has no place. with that, madam speaker, i yield back the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: under the speaker's announced policy of january 4, 2021, the gentleman from arizona, mr. schweikert, is designated for 60 minutes as the designee of the minority leader. mr. schweikert: thank you, madam speaker. going to do a couple of things right now. one of the first ones is a little conversation about someone we lost in my community that actually was a friend, a neighbor, had impact in ways that are hard to describe, and a -- and i desperately wish the

members of this body could have spent time with him and his wife. it's reverend dr. professor squeaky wright. what was so unique about him, he was a big man. he had a voice that carried. and he would actually have conversations with him and realize just how incredibly brilliant he was. he was born in georgia. he struggled and worked his way up, ended up with a ph.d. in history from boston college. he became a civil rights leader. and yet when you would talk to him about that, reverend wright, dr. wright, actually often wouldn't refer to himself as a civil rights leader. he would say, i want to lead for humanity. he loved people. it was a different view. he actually took his success and

his academic prowess and said, we're going to make people's lives better. why would you focus on the color of their skin? i remember one of the most interesting conversations i had with him where he and i were in the back of the room and talking, he actually saw many of -- actually almost an example of what we just saw on the floor the discussions of politics and race. he said david, it's class. it's opportunity. that divides us. it's not our color. it's our opportunity. dr. wright was just a powerful, brilliant man. and you see his wife there, mary. they were married in 1974. mary was the epitome of love. i mean, how many of us in our life have that one person where,

your little girl, i'm blessed to have a 5-year-old, even when she was younger, she would see mary, mare would scream and the two would run over and hug each other. just the epitome of love that made you incredibly powerful and it felt good knowing reverend wright and mary wright were in your community. another thing, he was a passionate conservative. he was chairman of our clemency board. he was on my community school board. he was brilliant, cared about humanity, he ran charities and foundations to help all people, to help the people in the continent of africa. but even people all through our community. and he was powerful force for good.

because he was good. because he was passionate. because he was caring. and we've lost both mary and dr. wright last year. i'm going to put in a much more detailed, because his c.v., his history, goes on page after page, we'll put that in the congressional record. it's individuals like this that bring us together. but also make us better. and it break misheart that more will not get to spend time with him because both he and mary, after a couple of minutes with them, you felt different. and the last thing i will say, he loved to give the opening prayer at republican meetings. what was also so fascinating is, you'd watch the room and the room ends up standing up, clapping, i was waiting for an

altar call. i'm catholic, i'm not used to the concept of an altar call but watching someone be able to have such energy and vigor and enthusiasm and love for people and love for leading the conservatives, and that's actually how you free free people, made an impact. made an impact on my lifing, my family's lifing, my communitying, my state. i believe he made an impact on this country. madam speaker, i want to do a handful of other thins because with the craziness of our schedule, we haven't had a chance to sort of walk through a lot of policy thoughts. but there's one that's been bugging me. i have the hour, so i was going to share something that's been in my draw for a while. do we all remember a few years ago, ancient history, in politics we seem to have the, shall we say, the attention span

of a gnat, one of the pop culture debates we on the right an left were having was something called net neutrality. the democrats were all into net neutrality even though i would debate most of this body had no idea what net neutrality was. i want to sort of argue that thank hevpbs, thank the internet god, that the democrat's net neutrality push only lasted one year or think about how miserable this last year would have been. we should be held accountable for our policy beliefs. and this is an occasion where i have heard no one get up here and talk about what society would have looked like in the united states during the pandemic if the democrats' net neutrality policy, remember they did it for one year through fiat, through regulatory. the only reason i show this chart, you see the crash here in

spending? it was scheduled to continue to crash in spending. that spending was the internet. the pipe. the robustness. the speed. the carrying exass i have to the internet. crash. during the democratic administration. the f.t.c.'s one year of functionally doing an administrative fiat, net neutrality. if that line had continued, how many of you were educating your kids on zoom? how many of you were holding meetings on the internet? how many of you had to work if home? how many of us in this body were doing committee hearings over the internet? yet the internet in the united states in 2017, 2018, 2019 actually got dramatically more

robust, damatically faster. many communities, particularly on the east coast, oddly enough, there's communities that doubled their speed. the robustness of the pipe. it happened because with a massive investment, because thank heaven, the crazy policy of what was net neutrality was taken away. with eneed to be honest. sometimes being throg walk up and admit, hey -- being willing to walk up and admit, hey, that was a really stupid idea. one reason this country was able to have its disruption and transfer to basically a knowledge-based, web-based, internet-based economy was because the crazy policies that net neutrality were driving in to being able to have a robust internet only lasted one year. and you can actually see, this is what happened. this is us. this is america trying to survive economically and

educationally. when you see these charts, this was not possible if that trend, regularrer toly and then therefore investment-wise -- regular torly and then therefore investment-wise that started in 2015 when the policy shift happened, if it lasted more than a year, this year would have been a lot different. it's just an occasion where four years ago, five years ago, some of us would get up here and try to explain what it would mean to the efficiency, the robustness, the opportunity, even gamers being able to use the internet. and we would get great rhetorical comments back, often having nothing to actually do with how the internetworked. thank heaven another bad policy only lasted a short time.

the other thing i wanted to talk about is why so many of us who own calculators are intensely concerned about the left policy in the last couple of months. and this is one of those -- i genuine believe both sides here passionately care of wanting society to do well, to have opportunity, the working poor to become less pure -- poor. the poor to become less poor. the middle class to be able to thrive. but we just see the basics of economics differently. and i want to spend just a couple moments and walk through what is fact and we have the fact. first off, how many times over and over and over and over do we hear, hey, post tax reform, the rich were getting richer, the poor were getting poorer? you know that's mathematically absolutely not true. it's a lie. it turns out policies like we've engaged in just recently make

the wealthy wealthier. and it's a simple thought. when you pump massive amounts of liquidity into a society, into an economy, those people that own assets get richer. their stocks go up. their house values go up. and the assets they have go up. but if you're part of the poor or working poor, how many stocks do you own? how much real estate do you own? but yet the basic economic principles that you get to look at over and over, and the $1.9 trillion spending bill violated almost all the principles, you'd say, ok, so we're going to deliver actual checks, great. ok. that will have an impact. for several months. it will reduce poverty for several months. but it doesn't change the base that a year later are you being paid more? are there more job opportunities

in -- opportunities? is your labor valuable? because the remarkable thing that happened in 2018 and 2019 is the working poor, their labor became valuable. they became essential to this society. to economic growth. where i sat through joint economic hearings in previous years and the arrogance of the economists, the arrogance of the political class saying, well be they didn't finish high school -- well, they didn't finish high school, they're going to be part of the permanent underclass, we'll find a way to subsidize them and write them off in society, instead of making them -- making them valuable. that's what we've gone back and done again. and the problem is we've done it in a way where we think we have big hearts. look, we're going to send checks. what about the year after? did you make their labor, their skill sets or the lack of skill sets, did you make them desirable in the economy?

so, a simple point, and if i actually even had better data, this would even be more dramatic. 2013, 2016, you see the orange there? that's actually pretty much the wealthy. in our country. do you see that under the previous administration, when i say previous i'm talk obama, the wealthy -- talking obama, the wealthy got substantially wealthier than the poor. and it's because the lack of understanding of what creates economic vitality. this here is almost solely 2018 and 2019. the poor got wealthier. not the rich. the poor. the working poor moved up dramatically faster than the rich. why? well, turns out tax reform moved lots of capital in to making plants and equipment more efficient, meaning you pay

people more. remember, you all remember your basics economics class. what are the two things that raises someone's wages? inflation, which means you get paid more but you didn't get anything more. productivity. when you raise the businesses, the societies, the community -- business', the society's, the community's productivity, people get paid more. that's what's happening here. we made the working poor less poor, to tax regulatory, and something we'll touch on the end, because it's very uncomfortable for a lot of people to talk about, is actually also immigration policy. immigration policy's complex, from an economic standpoint. but if you love and care for those who are just struggling and trying to survive, they may not have had the opportunity to go to grad school or college, they may not have even graduated high school, but they're out there trying to provide for themselves and their families and the people they love and care for, why do we adopt

policies like this that don't make their labor valuable and then we choose to flood the market with similar skill sets to devalue their labor? i just -- there's this weird duplicity that happens here where we claim -- we talk about helping those who need help and then we engage in policies, whether it be immigration policy, regulatory policy, particularly tax and spending policy, that ended up crushing the very people we claim we are trying to help. and look, i know charts are annoying, but the math is the math. if you look at this one, when you start to see percentage of american households that were in poverty, we substantially have plateaued. we weren't getting better as a society. and then all of a sudden over here, you see when we started

doing what was necessary to expand, create opportunity, and, yes, it meant getting businesses to have to compete with each other by putting money into more efficient equipment, but by doing things that lifted americans and created value for labor, even the very low skilled labor. and you start to see 2018, 2019, america hitting its lowest poverty rates ever. income, food insecurity, the lowest ever. the working poor's labor became valuable and if you actually want to go into the subsets which i have chart after chart after chart, you look at -- if you claim you care about african-american females or this subset or that subset, you saw

some of those subsets have movement in the value of their talents and their labor, were remarkable. we had, i think, a quarter where in early 2019 or late 2018, where african-american women had almost a double-digit rise in wages. in an entire year it was like 7.3% rise in wages. i know as a republican we have this bad habit of sounding like accountants on steroids. but these numbers really do mean something. it's people. it's how they feed their family. how they save for retirement. how they have an opportunity. there were amazing things happening. so we talk a lot about income inequality, which i actually have a personal fixation on this. and if you actually look at the first time we had major movement in the drop of income inequality in this society, it was 2018 and 2019. and it wasn't because rich

people got less rich. it's because the poor, the working poor, got dramatically less poor. we adopted policies that made their labor valuable. then the pandemic hit and we have to rebuild. but are we rebuilding in a way that makes their labor valuable? and i'm going make an argument what we just did is we're going to get a nice little sugar high, very short. then the next day, what are their job prospects? here's one that didn't finish high school. but you're willing to work your heart out. you're willing to learn. what opportunities did the last spending bill provide for that person? how many new jobs did it help create? how much economic expansion? how much capital expenditure to make their jobs more productive

so they can be paid more? instead, what we did is we said, here's some money. and oh, by the way, we're going to raise some taxes over here, coming later this year and those things so, your job prospects are, it's a technical -- things, so, your job prospects are, it's a technical economic term, you're screwed in the future. do you think more than just the next election cycle? if we're going to make the poor less poor in this country, you need opportunity. we just spent 1.9 trillion and almost -- $1. trillion and almost not a dial of it -- $1.9 trillion and almost not a dime of it creates opportunity. create what is the future should look like. so we say we care, we both care. the problem is, i have the numbers that show what worked. the other side has decades of doing the same thing in income inequality -- and income

inequality and poverty didn't get better. there's blips, but those blips were from direct cash. so unless the land mr. -- the plan is, hey, we're just going to do direct cash forever and every and ever and that's going -- ever and ever and that's going to be really great for society and the psycho of -- psyche of our society, but look, once again, change in -- i'm sorry to do this and i hate this term, but it's the only one the economists around here will use, is core tiles. here's the -- cortiles. here's the lowest income cortile. look at 2019. if you're willing to embrace math, i always thought that would be the great christmas gift around here is buy everyone a calculator. family joke is, daddy works in a math-free zone. it was a remarkable change in the value of those workers in what they were paid. and it's because their talent, the labor they had to offer became more valuable.

look what happened in 2019. that's what changes the society. because the idea is you build a base and then the next year you build on it. and the next year you build on it. and the next year you build on it. that's one way to remove lots of your society out of poverty. the other is to do what the democrats are doing right now and saying, we're going to send you a check. ok. what happens to the day the check's gone? did you make society more prosperous? did you take the working poor of our country and make it so the value of their labor that they offer is more valuable the next day and the next day and the next day? you didn't. the only way you basically have -- you have to send another check. it's just -- it's societal suicide lunacy and.

look, i understand -- and -- look, i understand pandering of politics but at some point you wish we had a quiet room with some smart smifts and say, how do -- economists and say, how do we have a revolution if our society that we have dramatically less poor and the working poor are dramatically less poor and how do we get there and how do we do this over the next decade? because i'll make the argument, what was happening in particularly 2018 and 2019 were remarkable numbers. so let's go to the next cortile up. turns out the same thing was happening. when you look at the stratfication of these cortiles, i'm sorry, it's geeky. lowest cortile traditionally, very have very low skill set -- very, very low skill set. second one up, some skill set. and you actually see remarkable, i mean, a $2,600 increase in the value of their labor for the second cortile, which is still

poverty, it's working poor, but this cor -- cortile, look at. that it's remarkable. and this is actual -- at that. it's remarkable. and this is actually for tax credit and transfer payments and working through what was economic and temperatures the value of the their labor -- of their labor. once again, for all of us to keep coming behind these microphone, particularly the darkness of this body right now, is we see so much of the debate being about the pigment of someone's skin. instead of the economic circumstances, the class, as you might want to, as dr. wright would often refer to. and what do we do to create opportunity.

and this chart here basically is just pure salary. what happened to the mean weekly real earnings? real earnings, these are inflation adjusted. i do my best to make sure the math is as honest as possible. and we actually start to see the 1/4 tiles of -- the quartiles of african-american wages taking a spike up in 2018-2019. anglos. hispanics really, the growth rate in their wages was remarkable. and this chart that's hard to read, really geeky, it shows here's the level of skill set, education attainment, those things. turns out, we had such a robust economy that those who are often at the tail end of the educational attainment actually

had the fastest growth in wages. so you go back to the earlier chart saying, turns out, the working poor got substantially less poor. the rich got richer. but nothing at the same percentages. that's why the income inequality shrank. that's the honest math. if you don't -- but you don't hear it in the rhetoric here because the retorical divide of our society is so much more powerful desire because it's about winning the next election, than what's important to make society great. so right now, this is a hard one to talk about because we've so politicized it that trying to look at it through an economic lens is really hard. and i will get folks, whenever i walk through these numbers, will

send me things, crazy stuff, trying to say this isn't about ethnicity, this is -- i'm doing labor economics. janet yellen is supposed to be a brailleant labor economist. yet when you hear her speeches recently, now that she's treasury secretary, it rip yours heart out saying, at least take a breath and compliment what happened in the previous couple of years, but that would mean saying something nice to market economics. so right now we estimate, and this is the best number i can get my hands on, that about 4.5% of the labor force is undocumented. in a society right now where if you actually really dive in to labor force participation

numbers, unemployment is probably double the number we post. people who should be in the labor pool and aren't there. the folks who were the miracle of 2018 and 2019, the number of folks who came back into the labor force. remember we actually had some quarters there with some weird numbers where unemployment actually sort of flatlined but the number of workers in the united states exploded. how does that happen? it means you have such a robust economy that you're drawing people back in. the crisis we live today is so many americans, particularly female workers, are now out of the labor force, with almost no intention of coming back in. and what's devastating about that is we just passed legislation here that will reinforce the incentive not to

come back in. because instead of designing the democrat's $1.9 trillion spending bill of saying we're going to incentivize, we're going to help you, you can keep some of this money and we're going to enincentivize an employer to hire you. building that type of economy, it's here's something, you can have it if you work, you can have it if you choose to stay home. there's no incentive there to come back into the labor market. why is this so darn important? why do i fixate on it? post-tax reform if you actually look at the changes in revenues, remember, we had the second and third highest adjusted for inflation tax receipts in u.s. history post-tax reform. post the lower rate. it's because the economy, the pie got so much bigger. what's so special about that is

the trust fund that so many of us had worked on, that we were worried how fast the medicare trust fund was collapse, the social security trust fund was collapsing, the license, the actuarial life popped, it got longer because we had so many more workers paying into it. we have a pay as you go system. when you hear the word trust fund there's really very little cash in those trust funds. if you care about protecting social security. if you care about protecting medicare. if you care about society and these promises we've made, you would think the economics, the policy we're adopting here are about maximizing opportunity employment. not trying to patch over pain that we're suffering right now in a way that makes the next day painful again.

so the last thing, and this is -- it actually does tie in. i'm going to personalize this a little bit. i'm blessed to live in a community with my children, the greatest gift we have ever been given in my life, me and my wife, we have a little girl. we struggled for years and were able to adopt a little girl. it's the greatest joy you can imagine. she's in higher education now, she's in kindergarten. and this summer, for her first month, this is back in august she had to sit at home, behind a little laptop, doing zoom class as a kindergartener. and i, at that time she was 4 3/4, she tested in early, yay. she was miserable.

i had a little girl, i didn't know this could happen, that a child that young could be depressed. she was miserable. daddy, can i go to washington with you? daddy, can i go to work with you? daddy don't make me sit behind the computer. daddy, i don't like this. then after about 3 1/2 week, the school district followed the science. not the politics, they followed the science. not the teachers union, they followed the science. and they started letting the little people into school. and they took the proper precautions and little girl wears a mask and they sterilize their hands, they follow rational precautions. and within just days, it's like i had a different little girl. she was joyful. she was happy. she announce shed had a boyfriend. daddy is not happy about that. that's my personal experience.

what have we done to our society? what have we done to the next generation? i came here last week an did a series of presentations of what we've done to individuals' future earning power, particularly the categories we were just talking about, the working pooring their future earnings. their future income. we crushed them. because today's success builds on the next -- what happens when you take functionally an entire year away from so many people's career paths? from billing their base? now this is international. but we came across this and it's a sense of well being. young people, older people from around the world. we all saw that article from about three weeks, a month ago, about las vegas county and the number of suicides of children.

this one when you look at it, we've devastated our kids. my fear is we're going to spend decades making up for the schools being closed, the access to nutrition, access to counseling, access to just relationship -- human relationship. why would we ever allow our public policy to do this sort of violence to the health and well being and psyche of the children we claim we care about because the teachers union has a different agenda? i hope we as members, i hope america remembers what happened here. i also hope the next time the left comes with a massive spending bill they understand how much that money needs to go

into repairing the damage we've done to our children. to the next generation. and being willing to recognize that we didn't follow the science. we followed the politics. so with that, madam speaker, i wish us all a fine time at home. i hope now the world is getting healthier, we can spend time with our constituents. and maybe when we come back in a couple of weeks, we can still be partisan, we can still duke it out but we actually make policy by rational math instead of the wedge of politics. with that, i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. pursuant to section 11-b of house resolution 188, the house stands adjourned until 11:00 a.m. on tuesday, march 23, 2021.