Well, I just tried to make it so that the zeroes didn't confuse folks. The unfunded liability for Medicare is $63 trillion. This is unsustainable. There's no way to take care of this. We need to shore up Medicare. We need to make sure that…

I thank you for yielding just a moment to me because I want to add to that statistic; 15 percent of hospitals, nursing homes, and home health care will close because Medicare pays less under ObamaCare. That's absolutely true. A lot of…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. My amendment would reasonably reduce funding for the Botanic Garden to the fiscal year 2008 level and transfer more than $3 million to the spending reduction account. This bill funds the garden at $12 million. I'm…

I appreciate that this is a bicameral, bipartisan committee. But as I mentioned during my initial remarks, these functions could be very well performed by other committees. These are duplicative services, and so I urge adoption of my…

My amendment would simply reduce funding for the Office of Compliance to the fiscal year 2008 level and would transfer almost half a million dollars into the spending reduction account. At a time when we are facing such pressing fiscal…

I appreciate my friend Mr. Honda's comments. I offered eight amendments in total. Only three were held to be in order. So I'm not looking at anything specifically, except for the whole bill, to try to cut spending. Because it's absolutely…

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 17, line 25, after the dollar amount insert ``(reduced by $467,000)''. Page 37, line 7, after the dollar…

I demand a recorded vote. The CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Georgia will be postponed. {time} 2040 Amendment No. 7 Offered by Mr. Altmire The CHAIR. It is now…

My amendment would reduce funding for the Joint Economic Committee by 25 percent and transfer more than $1 million to the deficit reduction account. The Joint Economic Committee is tasked with many of the duties of other congressional…

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 12, line 21, after the dollar amount insert ``(reduced by $1,050,750)''. Page 37, line 7, after the dollar…

I have an amendment at the desk. The CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 21, line 14, after the dollar amount insert ``(reduced by $3,192,000)''. Page 37, line 7, after the dollar…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Georgia will be postponed. Amendment No. 27 Offered by Mr. Flores

I appreciate the committee's cutting this program down to the $26 million. But, again, this is corporate welfare to Fortune 100 companies, many that get these funds. We do need to reduce this country's dependence upon foreign oil, but this…

I will try to be expeditious and comply with my friend from Washington's request to not delay this. This amendment simply prohibits the Department of Energy from spending money to implement the Vehicle Technologies Deployment Subprogram…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 62, after line 2, insert the following new section: Sec. 609. None of the funds made available by this…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Georgia will be postponed.

I appreciate the gentleman from Indiana's comments, and I submit that the best way to make sure that we have that national security that my colleague from Indiana was talking about is for us to open up all of our God-given resources of…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: At the end of the bill (before the short title), insert the following: Sec. __. The amount otherwise made…

My amendment eliminates funding to the Department of Energy's Office of Efficiency and Renewable Energy. We should be developing the vast quantities of proven energy resources readily available in this country, but instead the government…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from Georgia will be postponed. {time} 2040 The Clerk will read. The Clerk read as follows…

My amendment would reduce the operating budget of the Office of the Energy Secretary by 50 percent, transferring $2.5 million to the spending reduction account. I've spent a considerable amount of time on the floor of the House during the…

The Southeast Crescent Regional Commission is a Federal-State partnership intended to address the economic needs of the southeastern United States, and the Lord really knows that we have some economic needs in that area. In fact, in my…

My amendment eliminates funding for the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing Loan Program, transferring $6 million to the spending reduction account. Mr. Chairman, I am 100 percent supportive of the automobile industry producing more…

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Page 31, line 21, after the dollar amount insert ``(reduced by $6,000,000)''. Page 62, line 2, after the…

Reclaiming my time, I again want to say that Members of Congress should do what I am doing, and I believe it's very critical for us to do so. I have supported over $5 billion worth of cuts in the appropriations bills that we've seen thus…