Your report shows that Medicare will now be bankrupt in 2024. Americans would then be forced to either endure a massive tax hike or an immediate 17 percent reduction in expenditures.

Absent some change in the program, your prediction is that that is where our Nation will be in 2024, that is right?

So that cut, just so I am clear, is not a hypothetical cut. It is not a hypothetical delay.

I thank the gentleman for yielding. My colleague from Connecticut talked about a guarantee. Well, there is one guarantee that is for sure, Mr. Chairman, and that is the guarantee that Medicare as we know it is a pipe dream into perpetuity…

Mr. Speaker, by direction of the Republican Conference, I send to the desk a privileged resolution and ask for its immediate consideration. The Clerk read the resolution, as follows: H. Res. 202 Resolved, That the following named Member be…

Madam Speaker, I demand a recorded vote. A recorded vote was ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 326, noes 91, answered ``present'' 1, not voting 14…

Well, the good news is we all agree on something, and we all agree that the status quo has to change.

Illinois just raised its taxes, right? So the individual rate went from 3 to 5 percent, a 67 percent increase.

Last March, Representative Peter Roskam greeted education officials from the Republic of Georgia.

Mr. Speaker, today the folks on the other side of the aisle are actually arguing in the alternative. We heard the gentleman from New Jersey say, well, Republicans at least are finally getting to it. You don't need this resolution. And the…

Mr. Chairman, I must insist on the point of order. I raise a point of order against the amendment because it violates clause 10 of rule XXI, known as the CutGo rule. The amendment proposed increased mandatory spending without an equal or…