On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, this 5- minute vote on the motion to recommit will be followed by 5-minute votes on passage of the bill, if…

I claim the time in opposition to the amendment. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from Arkansas is recognized for 5 minutes.

most politicians don't like to raise taxes. And most politicians don't like to cut benefits that have currently accrued a certain people, but at the end of the day when you have a trillion dollar deficit as far as the eye can see…

There is enough stink on this deficit and debt issue to go around this room and around the Congress and around previous Congresses and previous Presidents, left and right.

the best thing to do is do nothing because it gets cut on its own in about five or six short years.

Make no mistake, if we continue down this reckless path, CBO confirms that we will face the severe threat of a fiscal crisis, which will negatively impact every single American.

So the point of my remarks here is to call on the Congress to do its job.

There is a reason why we are in this fix right now. And we can blame it on taxes.

The money is on the mandatory side of spending.

I believe I have heard from more than one of my colleagues on the other side that it only helped the millionaires and the billionaires.

It should be deeply unsettling to all of us here in this room that Fiscal Year 2020 will be the first year since fiscal 2012 that the deficit will eclipse a trillion.

Republicans and Democrats have to start behaving more like Americans in deciding what we have got to do now to solve the problems today rather than kick those--that can down the road and put it on future generations.

We simply must start making tough budgetary decisions in order to put our country on a responsible fiscal path and deliver on our duty to the American people.

I am saying if we are going to do accounting, I think we should take that into the equation because it is all part of the carbon cycle.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Mr. Speaker, I commend our bipartisan group of Members on this floor tonight to rise on Holocaust Remembrance Day to pay tribute to all those who were affected by the enormity, the calamity, and the…

I am prepared to close, and let me say in closing what a pleasure it is to work with my friend from Guam on this bill to recognize our merchant mariners. I thank my friend from New York (Mr. Suozzi) who has the privilege every day of…

I am very concerned about the environment and how we are good stewards of that.

I think that the bill is shortsighted in that it only looks at one side of the ledger.