specialty care into the state system that is part of the mental health block grant and on. there are 32 states that have programs based upon this. and we are looking to expand it through something called the early psychosis intervention network that will create a learning system that will allow us to have a single electronic health system and coordinated care effort that can incrementally improve as we go. it's a high priority for the institute and the great story of teamwork across agencies as well. >> you refer to the brain initiative. what are the most significant findings and is this part of the overall initiative that doctor collins has talked to us about that he hopes to be able to do? >> yes, it is. doctor collins has become a

born-again neuroscientist and he has discovered how spectacular neurosciences today and this is a place where we have so much attraction. and it has moved forward that we have fun at our second year, about $84 million a we have in this for over a hundred projects across the country. images within your agency? >> there are 10 institutes engaged in this and so it's a partnership with the fda and nsf as well, there are many different federal agencies

involved and lots of private partners. the important thing to talk about is this. i think that in the house and senate there's an ambition to weigh in on this as well. and this is not about specific diseases or brain disorders but developing the technologies to be able to understand how the brain works and we are already being fantastic tools being developed across the country without wanting to say too much about it at this time. but there is a group in seattle that has opened up this field for all of us in a way that gives us the excitement over the next two years we are going to transform the way that we study the brain. >> senator murray? >> bible does follow that up. we have the outlook.

can you tell us what you can about that and some of the other projects, we have the research network there as well that are making amazing strides and we have great hopes for them. >> i could spend all morning bragging about my colleagues in seattle. quickly telling you what these projects, it was funded through the recovery act and so that was a great opportunity with some additional running to build something that did not exist. and it was a way of saying, can we create a map for the human brain of where and when this is expressed. when we find a gene that is associated with autism or is his attorney, the first question you ask this is that even found in the brain and if so when. and the most significant piece of information that has come out of this work is that there are

enormous differences in both space and time for how the genome gets read out in the human brain and that the developing brain looks almost like a different origin than the adult brain. so to our amazement even though we think about schizophrenia and bipolar disorder as neurodevelopmental disorders, it is the genes that we are finding which may not be that significant that are remarkably important in the development. often they do not get expressed together at the same time in development and that is fantastic and we would never know that without this reference. so it has been transformative. the mental health research network, 10 million patients, and it's actually across now 12

different states with 11 different systems to create a single beta framework with all of these people getting mental health care they're using that are using the same electronic health records giving us a platform to move very quickly to ask questions about what is the best all up after a suicide attempt. if someone shows up in the emergency room we know that 2% of the people after an attempt would be dead within a year from suicide and that represents about one in five suicides or people that have been in an e.r. within 12 months. can we figure out who those people are and with greg's help we can begin to look at how to deploy services for those people that we bring down the suicide rating and not population. so it has turned out to be for us and our i don't platform to ask practical questions about how to provide better care. instead of the classic how to we

move the research, they are saying how we take practice and move it into research and make sure that every patient becomes a partner. >> that is an interesting and exciting thing and i think people really open up to that. thank you for that. going back to you in the short time that we have left. we talked about the public health crisis. when i was chair of the veterans affairs committee it is not just veterans that are at risk here but we know that suicide is the second leading cause of death and those that are between the ages of 10 and 34, the cdc reports that it's more than twice as likely to die by suicide as peers. so going back based upon some of the experience we are seeing with veterans, what lessons have we learned about reducing stigma or encouraging individuals to

seek out care. >> they have developed a systematic process for suicide screening assessment and risk assessment and i do think that we have learned that it's quite important to specifically screen from that work and we have also learned the importance of connecting as tom has mentioned, as well as the need to connect people who do express further desire for services with suicide specific services so it's not just enough to connect them with the general mental health services but services that are going to address this in itself. we have seen great progress with these models and we have also seen them deployed outside of

the system into other community systems and tribal communities and it is something that they are building their initiative around. >> is it fair to say that in the past we have thought not to talk about it because it could make it happen to let's be open so we can prevent it enact. >> absolutely. i believe that that is a very insightful comment. >> enqueue, we have 11 senators here in addition to senator murray. and when asked the senator senator and the witnesses if we can keep each q&a to about five minutes so that we can have everybody the chance to join in. i will call each of you in seniority and so the next senators will be senator collins, senator franken, senator murphy, then now we call senator collins. >> thank you, mr. chairman.

one of the things with our current mental health system is that it's often hard to difficult for parents to get help for adult children who are suffering from serious mental illness. over the past few months i have gotten to know joe who has told me of what happened to his family. i would like to share his story with you and with my colleagues from the committee in the hopes that we can work together to come up with some kind of solution as we look to revise the mental health load. it was 24 years old at the time of this tragedy. joe had schizophrenia and yet he was discharged from a

psychiatric hospital without the benefits of any medication. he had a history of serious and persistent mental illness. but he had been advised by federally funded advocates that his parents had no right to participate in his treatment or have access to his medical records. but according to his father in an extensive wall street journal piece, eventually his medical records were released and it showed that the doctors were all opposed at his being discharged it that the advocates had coached him in a way that he was able to secure this and that he could refuse medication and not involve his parents in his care.

well, this ended in a terrible tragedy because wells butchered and killed his mother. he was in a deep psychotic state and ultimately he was found innocent by reason of insanity or not responsible for his action and he was recommitted to the same mental hospital from which he had been prematurely discharged. he is now doing well because he's getting the treatment that he needs but his father put it this way to me. ironically and horribly, he was only able to get the treatment that he needed by killing his mother. now, i would like to make two important points. first of all i understand that only a tiny number of americans with serious mental illness engage in unspeakable acts of

violence either towards themselves or towards others. and second i understand that these federally funded advocates can do some enormously valuable work in preventing the abuse of patients who are institutionalize. but i cannot help but wonder how many tragedies we have witnessed in recent years might have been prevented if those suffering from mental illness had access to treatment had had more roles in their treatment. so how do we address what admittedly is a very difficult challenge. >> thank you for that question, senator. i agree that the circumstances are extremely tragic and the

loss of anyone is too much. the thoughts go out to the family. in the case of the community program we believe that it is important to have a program that protects the rights of people and at the same time we have worked with the office of civil rights that has provided guidance and understanding that physicians are able to listen to parents and that they are able to share information with family members. and so i think that there is more to be understood about this in particular. but i could not agree with you more that the country needs to better understand how to get people with the greatest need connected with the care that

would most likely benefit them and keep them safe and their families save and ensure the greatest chance of recovery as we have seen in this particular situation. >> thank you, senator collins. >> i think the senator from maine for raising that question. that is an important area and i know that in this bill we are addressing that. i thank you, mr. chairman, for this important hearing. ..

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>> supports this training for adults and i am proud number of these recipients are in minnesota can you talk about the collaboration between schools and other community-based organizations to help students and families and how it helps young people? for the services that they need? >> absolutely. figure for the question. what you have proposed an but we have implemented under project aware connects schools in communities and families with shared information what they can do about them but it is meant

to raise awareness with negative attitudes that is barriers for those accessing service. to help them understand these are brain diseases to offer solutions and it is more accessible to get people connected to care more quickly. >> early diagnosis that we are all witnesses and it is so important. i want to ask about your background with health and trauma. we know it reduces the ability of the child to succeed in school what can

we do to build resilience in kids who have experienced with these adverse experiences? that they can overcome them to change the brain chemistry to go through this type of trauma with chemical abuse or illness or child abuse all of that extreme poverty. >> there are many evidence based interventions and through our never give the initiative there are many resources available on-line for technical assistance for

schools to be learned about the programs in the classroom or in partnership with communities with the experience is that they have of social development skills so to understand to have a place were all children can learn well. >> senator cassidy. >>. >> those who are supporting the bill that we have put up the last few questions i only have five minutes please keep your answers brief if i interrupted is not meant to be reared.

>> the gao has replaced jute reports how it has managed mental health issues so my first question will center upon that. hhs is charged with leading the federal government substance-abuse is specifically told to promote coordination through the federal government. with those across the federal government the gao report to have not met since 2009. hhs officials have stated that behavior coordinating council perform some functions the yet that is limited to hhs not interagency. this is important but that doesn't take the place of

leadership the gao has found key with successful coordination. the cassidy has the assistant secretary for mental health specifically charged to do the job of interagency coordination that has not been done since 2009. that being the case do you think hhs should raise the profile to get the interagency coordination that has not occurred since 2009 despite the mandate? >> but to increase collaboration is good. i am happy to agree to a positive opportunity for that collaboration so the

committee hasn't met since committee hasn't met since 2009 but the original committee had 25 people meeting they do still meet on trauma, there are also groups related to employment >> one to hear about mental health and that is what appears to be was lacking. the second report talks about problem of a lack of evaluation for this year's the mentally ill specifically targeting individuals 17 had no evaluation completed it and none planned. i could go through but it is a dismal statistic in the cassidy murphy bill based on

evidence based practices purpose there is need for consistent review what is said to of the better culture of evaluation? >> i agree evaluation is the important issue with program oversight we are continually working to improve. >> give me specifics. >> we have the evaluation committee severe overlooking all programs to identify. >> men were planned or evaluated then why did that ever occur? >> i think there is some challenges in how those are measured switch don't know that is exactly the same thing we are committed to evaluating those programs. >> [inaudible]

q route before that i have been told the more reason money has been put towards mental health that the funds may not be there a better elsewhere. that that is normally the means i have also seen a statistic that for every death and suicide and $420,000 for every death from hiv. but it may be too difficult is that for the issue of suicide can we expect to see some benefits from that?

>> to have both scientific traction to make decisions about investments we have the attraction here where greater investment will give a greater return and we have seen that already with the recovery act dollars as additional money the result is spectacular with a lot of projects that would not have happened if we point to recovery act dollars which is the with the best things they have done over the decades though no question they could have used more funding but the last issue to compare suicide to aid their want to stress the fact that investment in aids could be attributed to the fact we have reduced mortality 50 percents and maybe not spending too much on aids but maybe not enough

>> we try to get all of you over. >>. >> thank you for taking this issue so seriously it thinks senator alexander comments are useful to understand why congress has taken on this issue because it does come across so many agencies in so many different committees and i appreciate the focus to get to our product that can get to the floor. a few of us read a bipartisan briefing from the commonwealth fund talking about the need of the behavioral health systems didn't interesting fact was if he studied the incidence of diabetes alone as a cost

driver they are not that extraordinary by themselves will have a physical and mental health diagnoses together all of a sudden you're now in a small percentage of patients driving cost. >> is this issue not having enough providers or not to be as coordinated as they should be? our bill is focused on the question of coordination. where should our attack be? >> i think it is a combination of the to in terms of primary-care, we have seen incredible interest to increase capacity on site because a

lot of them have share they feel with investments we have made over the last several years we have doubled the health providers that our health centers and by having them it has helped screening in terms of what we do to extend the capacity to do more so we see that as building up of primary-care to be integrated with behavioral health so we see in incredible demand we are only able to fund half of the applications the community health center for 65% is in terms of what they're requesting pc support for coordination but also providers. >> with is this a question

of providers not interpreting the existing statute correctly or do we need clarification of what allows a provider to share information with a family member? senator collins has identified that particularly acute problem that goes to parents and caregivers with a young adult that could be psychotic the needs the help and assistance and a coordination between need to clarify the standards? >> we believe there are more flexibility is the and people understand to clarify the rules that we have to disclose information to family members is the best interest of the patient would be helpful to a lot of people and we're happy to work with people to do that. >> dr., the time your at the

institute roughly corresponds that we have reduced inpatient beds about 4,000 across the country of 15 percent reduction i appreciate what you say to identify early but can we sustain this level of continued reduction of inpatient beds over time? is this something that worries you as you leave to provide short-term acute care stage. >> absolutely it is a big issue there is no place to send patients that is why people are boarded in the emergency rooms we need to look at how you extend capacity is not the answer to all questions but a least i would note over the last 13 years there has been a

reduction but the big came long before that it has been 90% reduction of public bin since the '70s so a huge change in that capacity to help people when they need full-time support. >> in the '60s who took them off of the institutions and within the committee but we did not fund the support and we set up a system that was separate and apart from the rest of the health care system hopefully our discussion will be around those items to bring the two systems back together. >> that would be great. we do have a system called the criminal justice system that is the defacto mental health care system in is if you look at legislation you cannot ignore that in need to ask is this the way we want to train people with a

brain disorder? >> thank you for the time you're spending on this issue. senator isakson? >> thank you for your testimony today. we are participating in a number of hearings on the issue of suicide there approximately 22 per day for the veterans in the crisis we try to deal with memnon a position or technical person but it appears in the emergency room practice there is that golden hour from linda accident takes place to win the have treatment it seems in terms of suicide is that golden minutes with their rubber realizing they can make that call and if there isn't someone when we lose them

with a lack of access to talk to to get them to an intervention in a writer romney? >> i would defer to my colleagues i would say absolutely. the other piece is that early intervention is important we have had much success to do screening in the primary care setting where you can identify children and adolescents and veterans were if they just have that intervention early on and then we can talk about the golden minutes. >> there is the moment someone is reaching out for help that is rarely have the national lifeline party -- perduring with the department of veterans affairs so they can press

one to access that military culturally informed type of support bin get connected with services in the local area available to the network of the phone number. >> have you have any interaction with the veterans administration with peer review? >> we have worked in terms of work force through the day in the other underserved programs and in addition a round of veterans choice act center is a real working on model contract language so they can have greater access >> and realize it is important to improve because right now by calling the when the undercover it takes

of longtime and it occurred to me where there are lot of veterans with not a lot of health care, ed does the veterans administration rely on you? >> we do right now to the community health center to serve about 300,000 veterans and a significant number are in rural communities in the partner with the v.a. with telehealth to make sure they have access that is something we have been working in particular to do more but also through the partnership.

>> with every mass shooting in the country the american people call for action and the u.s. congress does nothing. the does add up with more than 30,000 people there is a lot that we could do but to with thorough background checks the problem of mass shootings as a mental health problem and should be dealt with that way but when it comes time to fund global health research beecher and their backs to study mental health problems but over the past five years the national institute of mental health budget has been capital% in

the adjusted budget has been adjusted. in new to begin research on gang-related violence with language that the is the cdc from any meaningful research to reduce gun violence the author wrote the op-ed three years ago calling for the bay and to be lifted year after year. after nearly taking of life of gaby gifford congress expanded the began to include an age research what

might help us better understand the connection between mental health to help us reduce gun violence because of congress's billion -- bay and? >> obviously a very topical and difficult issue the president has talked about this almost after the day after sandy hook announcing the initiative focusing on just the issue. i understand and appreciate your concern of the cdc language that has been talked a lot in the press as well. at nih our interpretation of

that language puts a prohibition against advocating or perverting any sort of gun control it didn't prohibit us from doing research on firearms and violence in public health issue with a request for application on the consequences of violence and particularly firearm violence put up by the national institute of the call abuse and addiction we have funded grants under means restrictions how to assess risk with a suicide attempt one grant is to understand their access and

the best way to deal with that with projects of pathways looking at people who were concerned having access to weapons and if there is of great to put a scientific understanding on who is most likely to get into trouble? and in a word is entirely a public health issue that is in the sweet spot to understand how science can save lives. >> so you're telling me see date -- cdc is caught by the ban but nih has found ways to work around it so you are still conducting some research? >> i will not speak for the

cdc but certainly at nih we're doing the work trying to serve the public. >> game grateful for the direction that you're trying to go but congress would watch people die by gun violence in refused to take action is irresponsible and a sellout to the bill and lobby but to follow that up with congressional inaction to underfur and mental health research in refusing to support research to help us reduce gun violence to improve the mental health system loses congress from irresponsible to culpable. it is tearing apart of

families in communities. >> thanks to the panelists to discuss a very important issue i have been appreciation of the impact of the mass violence around the country we're looking for ways to help reduce the impact they give for the, - - progress being made in the highly did earlier -- highlighted earlier the local and county jails frankly 20,000 are incarcerated in the least 3,000 have been diagnosed some studies suggest it could be to read three times higher so we're finding folks incarcerated not

because they have the crime but the mental illness is the primary reason. that is something we must address in one of the most expensive ways to have people lose their freedom. dr., you probably know those chronic mental illness cases that by age 14 half of pieces that three-quarters of those have been done with early intervention if they and instead what science to look for. can you comment how you remove that stigma?

then we have had great success to deal with physical illnesses because we have the ability to put a major spotlight to reduce those challenges a appreciate your service to nih as well. >> a wish this was easy to answer in the other areas who don't have the legacy that we do here in which it is considered a moral failing horribly and families or that explanation is that your mother or father did this to you so not surprising they have not been at the forefront to turn the tide. the future is around better

education or better science people need to understand this is like any other disorder like most industry in a star in the young people and makes the more touching that we don't do enough to grapple early to give them the support that they need to understand their real disorders with real treatments but they're not getting to the people that need them. >> thank you for your work to help so many veterans especially in the rural areas of our states to spend a lot of time to focus on the issue the military faces

with the importance to have a sense of urgency and according to reports those areas that are underserved as that panacea had you seen any other innovations that is challenging for some of the rural areas in states like south carolina? the think the challenge is that we face to appreciate any new opportunities for telemedicine. >>. >> that is what we are also

looking beyond that with those providers in the community that needs assistance one of the projects is called project echo where we bring together academia to bring together different communities to basically bring cases for word to talk to someone who has more expertise and they can use that information to provide more care. we're definitely looking at other types of technologies also into meet the needs into rural communities almost 40 percent so it is a combination of physical

presence with those that might need that extra support with that project echo model. >> with the number of ptsd cases have you found fell level of awareness and interest in mental health issues has risen substantially? >> absolutely working closely with the v.a. or the veterans choice act to increase the capacity of some of to treat people with ptsd we have worked with them on a curriculum. >>. >> it access to insurance

coverage but also the affordable care act. with high-quality treatment options but i want to lick eating disorders. i hear from countless people who share their stories relating to seeking treatment and in some cases

after a couple of days of residential care with the general psychiatric hospital where the professionals treat the background about eating disorders. with the number of colleagues to introduced the west in an act that avis to improve care for those with eating disorders that the mental health parity include coverage for residential treatment services. i wonder if you can speak to the consequences which insurance companies fail to treat with eating disorders

with appropriate care settings by professionals in town you what your respective agencies are doing for a comprehensive treatment and access for those suffering from eating disorders. and then also the state of the science. >> 84 the question because so many don't understand eating disorders have the highest mortality rates and start very early in life so that is resulting in average outcome to affect -- a

tragic outcome affecting families from the department of labor to improve compliance as well as coverage for mental disorders including eating disorders where we develop informational materials with the primary integration as well as insure they are carrying for the whole person. >> we have two programs focusing on work force training that increases the capacity to identify it provide additional treatment and support and we can share

that with you if it is helpful but it is a concern. >> let me continue, the adolescent act that would award grants to train primary-care physicians on early identification and intervention of eating disorders in how to properly refer a patient, is sadly as noted those individuals suffering are facing very high risk. the risk of a person with an eating disorder more likely to attempt suicide or engage in self injury in addition to the physical impact of

struggling with the eating disorder. what more can we do to increase awareness of the mental illnesses among individuals? and this certainly invite a conversation of the current state of science on this issue. >> yes people have higher rates of conditions as well as substance abuse and self injuries of their complicated to treat and manage in there is some specific guidance to improve skills and knowledge in this area unfortunately we don't currently have any funding dedicated to improving were raised the floor around eating disorders and is an

area for potential growth. >> the good news there is the treatment called family focus there be that is the opposite of typically we have taken parents out of the scene but today between the parents to make them the focus in the remission rates are 50% after two years ago adolescence this is a good story but the bad news very few people trained to provide that there be with the features that seem to be most effective so there is more we need to do to get the work force. >> thanks to the three witnesses for the testimony. do you have any concluding remarks? >> i appreciate this hearing

in the think we're all learning as we go into a forward to make sure we're making the health care system working for everyone we have to include mental health care. >> i appreciate the attendance of all committee members today we may try to have another hearing before the end of the year i will talk with members of the committee how to do that. the record will remain open 10 days to submit additional information for the record the next hearing exploring issues of mental pope will be open uaw's thursday november 19. thank you for being here today.

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and always every campaign event we cover is available on our website at c-span.org. >> the senate passed a budget agreement between republicans and democrats which increases spending by $80 billion in what extent the debt limit through march 2017. the house passed the legislation wednesday so it now goes to president obama. here's majority leader mitch mcconnell talking about the agreement on thursday before it passed. >> mr. president i said this and would take up the fiscal aggregate after the house acted, and we are. this agreement isn't perfect. i share some concerns of the colleagues have raised, but here's the bottom line. this is a bold offset agreement that rejects tax hikes, secures long-term savings through entitlement reform, and provides increased support for our

military. all this at a time when we confront the threats in multiple theaters. each of these items was a republican goal heading into the negotiation. each of these items was achieved. i am encouraged -- since 1983 resulting in $168 billion in long-term savings. i'm encouraged that would repeal part of obamacare and i'm encouraged would help provide resources to our troops so desperately need an era of diverse and very challenging global threats. when we see isil consolidating gains in iraq and syria, we see the forces of assad marching alongside iranian soldiers and hezbollah militias supported by russian aircraft overhead. colleagues are respect whatever choice you all to make when this

agreement comes up for a vote. there are valid differences of opinion, and that's okay. what i ask every colleague to also consider what this fully offset agreement would mean for the men and women who voluntarily put themselves in harm's way so that we may live free. commanders tell us about additional resources are required. required to ensure their safety and preparedness. this fully offset agreement would help provide that. along with enacting the blessing of his social security reform in over three decades, along with repealing another piece of obamacare, along with refusing to raise taxes by a penny. stylestyle senators will join mn voting for it. allow me to say a few words about the speaker of the house. there's a lot you can say about john boehner. he loves his breakfast every morning at pete's diner.

he's a fan of the how dimpled. is one of the most genuine guys you would ever, ever meet. i know because we fought many battles together in the trenches. he never breaks his word. he never buckles in the storm. and what's amazing is how we've had such a frictionless relationship, especially when you consider that old house saying, the other party, that's just the opposition. but the senate, that's the enemy. that may have been true of house to house and senate leaders but it wasn't true of us. we may not expect it, i'm a little more bourbon, and john is a little more mollo. i will lecture on henry clay, john sings zippity do dah.

but i've always considered john an ally and i've always considered john a friend. it's hard not to like them and it's hard not to admire what john has accomplished in his career. as they concern ohio when he took on a scandal plagued incumbent in a primary and one. as a freshman congressman he took on money-laundering schemes and banking scandals involving powerful members and prevail. as an engineer of the contract with america took on democrats decades long power lock and triumphed your as an ex-member of leadership once considered politically dead, he knew he had more to offer and convinced his colleagues that he did. as the territory of the diminished and dispirited house minority, he dared to believe conservatives could rise again and help grow the largest

republican majority since people were dancing the charleston back in the '20s. john boehner has wandered the valley. john boehner has also been to the mountaintop. john boehner has slid right back into the valley and then ascended to great heights yet again. he does it all with hard work. he does it with an earnestness and an honesty i have always admired. when john talks about struggling to make it it's not self platitude. when john gets choked up about america's reaching for the dreams, it's not some act. this is a guy who went to share a bathroom with 11 brothers and sisters to imagine that. this is a guy whose parents slept on the pullout sofa. this is a guy who worked hard

behind the bar and eventually found his way atop the rostrum. maybe that's why he's so humble. maybe that's why when he orders breakfast at pete's, they don't call him mr. speaker, they just call him john john. well, here's what i know about speaker john boehner. he says the cody lewis by is a simple one. -- the code he lives by -- do the right thing for the right reasons, and the right things will happen. i've always found that to be true. i have found it to be true inner battles fighting side-by-side -- side-by-side for conservative reforms, sometimes a position deep in the minority. we had our share of maalox

moments, that's for sure. but he always strived to push forward your as i said about john boehner the day he announced his retirement, grace under pressure, country and institution before self, these are the things that come to mind when i think of him. i wish speaker been a very best in retirement. i thank him for always working hard to do the right thing. for his family, for his district, for his party, for his country, farewell my friend. though we bid farewell to one speaker dave we know we will soon be saying hello to anyone. the house will vote later on the nomination of congressman paul ryan. i think it's appropriate to wait for that vote to occur before making full comments, but also think it goes without saying

that paul ryan is one of those respected guys around here. everyone knows he's smart. everyone knows he's serious and i look forward to working closely with him in pursuit of conservative solutions for our country. now, trying to understand this ago at the desk do a second reading. -- mr. president,. >> the clerk will read the title of the bill for the second time spent h.r. 597, not to reauthorize the export-import bank of the united states and for the purposes spirit in order to push the bill on the calendar under provisions of rule 14 i would object to further proceedings. >> the objection having been heard the bill will repeat -- the bill will be placed on the calendar. >> democratic leader spent last night house of representatives passed the bipartisan budget agreement that will keep our government funded and free from

default. 100% of democrats and house of representatives voted for this. 68% of republicans voted against it. let's pause a just a minute and understand what i just said. 68% of the republican in the house of representatives voted to default on full faith and credit of our great country. 68% of the republicans voted to close our government. mr. president, this legislation is now before the senate. i urge my colleagues to support the responsible agreement. it's not perfect as my friend, the republican leader said. no legislation is but this budget agreement accomplish two major priorities that democrats have long supported. number one a promotes economic growth by providing relief from sequestration is damaging cuts for two years. at it ensures that we invest equally in the middle class and in the pentagon.

it is good for the middle class, good for the economy and good for the country. thank you i would like to thank the people who worked so hard to make this agreement what it is today. speaker boehner, mitch mcconnell, leader pelosi and i helped. i applaud and command president of the united states. he was firm, resolute and he was a jew shall very smart. i appreciate again i repeat the good work every day to help us get to the point where we are now. to reach these negotiations each of us had discussions directly with each other. we also know that a lot of the work was done by our staffs. our respective staffs. i chief of staff. and senate democratic caucus is aware of his expertise, hardware, fairness and openness.

drew was assisted by gary come indispensable gary myrick who is a democratic floor leader as well as a number of people who are on my team of senior analyst who helped a great deal. kate leon. i don't think there's anyone innocent who doesn't know who kate leon is. she is the expert on health care. and the utilityman all worked literally night and day to get this to the point where we are able to be here with you today, seeking support for it. mr. president, i am so grateful for them staff i have, but there were others involved.

senator mcconnell's negotiate in this was hayes and marshall, a good person. he was resolute and they carried forward what republican leaders wanted but like my staff, you never get exactly what you want but everybody enjoyed working with him. dave stewart. he was a speaker boehner psycho shooter on this. i really cared a great deal about a spirit. is a good man at the outlet by the work that he has done and i hope that the new speaker to be, paul ryan, will use his good, he's very, very good, a talented man. leader pelosi's able, able negotiator, and with the white house, mr. president, let me just say a word about speaker pelosi before i move on.

i so admire this good woman. sheet is a stalwart in the house of representatives. she will go down in history as one of the great, great leaders of that body. i admire her. i appreciate our friendship and extended anyone within the sound of my voice my appreciation for the work that she did on this bill. with the white house, i've already indicated the president did a wonderful job on this but also key a signed to really terrific, good, upstanding, i can't say enough about these two people, one of the white house negotiators, and katie fallon. katie is a woman who we all know in the senate. she worked for senator schumer for a number of years. she worked for the democratic

policy committee for a number of years. we admire her very much and she was so helpful to everything we did in this legislation. is always easy to get hold of, easy to reach. so mr. president, it's now time for this important legislation to pass the united states the senate. i want to say just a few words about speaker boehner. i have to admit that i was skeptical when he said he wanted to clean up the barn before he left, but he found a way to clean out the barn. a two-year budget agreement which would go along with retrieving to the retrieving of oppression process that we should work. i will always consider him my friend and i will miss him. i wish them the very best in everything he does in the future. i listen to his final remarks on the house floor. they were very moving, and it

wasn't only john bennett has shed a tear over there today but many members of the house of representatives and a number of us who watched his final speech shed a tear or two. mr. president, there's a lot of talk about the appropriations process. i've been an appropriate sense akin to the senate and i was very fortunate as a brand-new senator, that was me decades ago, to be on the appropriations committee. what an honor. the appropriations committee work is not as it used to be. we've got to get back to being able to do individual in the appropriations bill. let me say to my friends, my republican friends, it's to the appropriation bills, let's get rid of these foolish writers that stick on the appropriation bills. we need to understand there's a time and place for doing that. there's authorization. do the bills come authorized stop but don't mess up the appropriation process.

we will be happy to support next year individual appropriation bills come to the fore. we don't need motions to proceed. we will be happy to move the bill as long as we get rid of those writers that have nothing to do with the bill brought before us. it we don't need something dealing with women's health in the sense of directly attacking planned parenthood. we don't need on commerce state justice something dealing with doing a way, basically doing away with the environmental protection agency. the are many examples we could use but let's just get the doing oappropriation bills the way we used to. i want to do them. we don't need of motion to proceed. as long as my republican colleagues get rid of this foolish ideological amendments that have nothing to do with the bill before us. >> tnk you very much, mr. president. chairman hatch and that will be

managing the bill and we also would like to say to colleagues that were anxious have everyone have an opportunity to speak up on this extraordinarily important issue. and if they come down and consult with the finance staff matured and minority and our respective cloakrooms come we're going to work very hard to accommodate all of our colleagues on both sides of the aisle. here in my view, mr. president, is what this issue is all about. fiscal battles in the congress, and go, but nothing should ever be allowed to threaten america's sterling economic reputation. and this legislation will preserve it. without this agreement the congress staring at a potential debt default. a debt default and that would be

literally days away, and the treasury would lose its authority to borrow in order to make payment. by now i think a lot of senators understand the disastrous consequences of default. housing costs shooting upwards, retirement accounts shrinking. jobs disappearing. consumer confidence dropping. now, we also understand that no one can get particularly thrilled by the prospect of raising the debt ceiling. yet it is a job that must be done. our country is an economic rock in tumultuous seas. and we certainly have disagreements. disagreement practically come with every new cycle and

election. but what doesn't change, mr. president, is our country pays its debt, and we pay them on time. that's why this legislation is so important. the bipartisan compromise reduces the threat of a potential government shutdown in december. when this becomes law, but then in effect goes back into grenade where it belongs. and that is positive news as we look for some predictability and certainty which we all hear from our businesses and employers and our citizens is so important. congress ought to look at this compromise, in my view, as a supreme court to a full and productive debate over the budget in the upcoming two years. the fact is last minute deals have become too commonplace and they have left a lot of

important policy reforms, policy improvements on the cutting floor. for example, with america's west getting hotter under each year, our broken system of budgeting for wildfire is in drastic need of improvement. the same goes for many programs and services to our lifeline for rural america. fortunately, this legislation lays the groundwork for the congress to go back to having robots budget debates that can actually solve these challenges. now, with my time this morning i would like to address the specific elements of the bill, starting with what i see as several particularly constructive policies. first the legislation states off the full brunt of the automatic

budget cuts known in the corridors of washington as sequestration. -- staves off. this policy was designed in effect to be painful from the get-go, and it would weaken medicare, the lifeline, for older people and other domestic programs. it was supposed to be considered so god awful that it would vanish two years after it began, but he continues to haunt budget debates to this day. it's important that this legislation eases the burden by $80 billion over two years. that means more opportunity invest in education, and medical and scientific research, and housing assistance, and public health, and more. now second, this bipartisan plan is going to prevent a big spike

in medicare costs for millions of older people. several weeks ago the news came down that seniors were facing a hike in premiums and deductibles. and medicare part b, the out portion -- the outpatient portion of medical, potentially more than 50%. that would amount to an increase of hundred of dollars, perhaps more in a year when social security benefits are not expected to grow. from my years as codirector of oregon's gray panthers, i can tell you for many seniors living on a fixed income, that would have really hit them like a wrecking ball. so when we got those initial reports, several of my democratic colleagues and i got together and introduce legislation that would fully shield older people from this huge financial hit.

following our work, the bipartisan compromise before the senate includes a version of this important fix. it is not as generous as the proposal my colleagues and i introduced. there are questions about how it will affect the landscape a few years down the road. but make no mistake about it, mr. president, this approach goes a long, long way to protecting seniors, particularly the dual eligible seniors eligible for medicare and medicaid, this is a very important part of this legislation. third, the budget compromise takes an extraordinarily important step to shore up one of our countries those vital safety net programs, the social security disability insurance program.

without a fix, what's called ssdi, social security disability insurance benefit, but the workers of earned, they would have been slashed by 20%. and a 20% hike would if it those affected very quickly. this proposal is going to follow what has been a frequently used bipartisan approach of shifting funding within the salsa star the program to make sure that those who depend on this program are protected through 2022. i introduced legislation earlier this year, along with 28 of our colleagues, which would have gone further by guaranteeing that the program remained solvent through 2034. but this compromise package i can strengthens the program for several years.

and we will have a chance to come together hopefully on a bipartisan basis and go even further. fourth, the budget package makes real progress on what's called complying with our tax laws, tax compliance. it's important to note, mr. president, these are not tax hikes. this is a question of enforcing tax law. so that when taxes are owed, they are actually paid. and then the tax compliance area there are several important proposals that are going to crack down on taxpayers who seek to dodge the responsibilities and pass the buck to other americans. for example, enforcing the tax laws with respect to large partnerships has been a challenge for some time. there are more than 10,000 of these complex businesses in our country.

more than 500 of them have at least 100,000 partners. so there has not been an effective way to conduct audits under the current rules, because the rules are basically decades old and have not kept up with the times. in my view, the proposal before the senate makes meaningful improvements. more taxpayers will pay what they of instead of using sleight-of-hand approaches to dodge their responsibility. we all understand that the tax code, it almost boggles the mind in terms of its complexity. and i think it would be fair to say that there may be more work that goes in to getting this policy right, as it relates to partnerships and several of the

other issues. and my colleagues and i on the finance committee intend to keep giving the scrutiny that the partnership issue deserves, and ongoing -- those are for specific areas of progress in this compromise that staves off a risky budgetary battle. i do feel it's important to share one of my concerns with the bill at this time, entity provision really has little to do with the budget. it's called section 301, and it allows debt collectors to make robocalls directly to americans cell phones. here's my view. debt collector should not be gifted broad permission to harass people, particularly through robocalls, running up

costly charges in many cases. the federal communications commission has limits on the number and duration of calls, and they are not sufficient. in a healthier budget process, this kind of proposal would get weeded out. so i'd like to say to our colleagues in the senate, both democrats and republicans, i'm going to get of the i can to reverse this action in the weeks ahead. finally, mr. president, in my capacity as ranking member of the finance committee, i want to discuss how these fiscal agreements ought to be financed in the future. medicare and social security absolutely cannot become the honeypots that congress raise whenever it needs to pay for legislation. if you go around the country, to oregon, illinois, to georgia, to

the decoders, to texas, and to ask a typical americans what they want their representatives in congress to do, protecting medicare and social security is right, right up at the top of the list. i hear it in every town hall meeting i've had more than 700 of them in my home state, and i've got to believe many colleagues, south dakota and illinois and elsewhere, hear the same thing. there is a long-standing tradition that says changes in medicare policy should be for strengthening medicare in the future. the same principle goes for social security. yet twice now these vital programs have been used to fund budget deals, and medicare sequestration is sticking around long past its original

expiration date. this legislation preventing a calamitous default is coming down to the wire, and i would tell colleagues this is a must pass bill. i support it and i would urge democrats and republicans to do so as well. i would also say, we talked about where we go from here. it is important recognize that medicare and social security must not be used as atms for other spending in the future. the bottom line has to be that the process of reaching a budget and keeping the lights on in this wonderful institution, the people's branch, keeping the lights on and the process of reaching a budget has to change. congress cannot continue to just go from crisis to crisis to

crisis. it's our job as lawmakers, working in a bipartisan way, to set at the right temperature in our economy with smart, forward-looking policies that help our businesses succeed and get everybody in america, and i want to emphasize about, everybody in america the opportunity to get ahead. pretty hard to do when you lurch from one crisis to another. so let's use this legislation as an opportunity to give back to writing the budget in a bipartisan fashion through the traditional approaches that have been used what's called regular order. pass this bill now so as to ensure that america's sterling economic reputation is intact and then let's look to the future around some of the principles that i have laid out the again, trying to chairman

hatch will be your in a bid. he and i asked managers of the want to make it clear we want to try to accommodate as many colleagues as we can get without to be able to, and i look forward to the remarks of the distinguished senior senator from illinois, and i believe before too long chairman hatch will be here. and with that, mr. president, i yield the floor. >> mr. president, i rise today to speak in support of a bipartisan budget act of 2015, legislation passed announced last night, and i expect will be voted, we will be voting on soon msn. anyone who has been living in a cave for the past few weeks is aware of the controversy surrounding this legislation. however, while the bill is likely no one's idea of an ideal path forward probably the controversy stems more from

political considerations banned from policy or substance. let me say one thing up front. i don't love this legislation. if we were living in the united states of orrin hatch, this bill would look beverage ever. but while i may not like parts of the still very much for other things that unlike much less, including political brinksmanship on important matters an election year posturing on complicated issues. is budget deal, while far from perfect, will help eliminate several hurdles that must be overcome in the near term and hopefully i'll congress to function and actually govern over the next year. that said, there are some very important provisions in this bill that a think will be counted as wins for good government and will help us address some important issues. so i'd like to take a few minutes and talk about some of the specifics of this legislation and widely these provisions are important. first, as we all know the bill would suspend the statutory debt

limit through mid-march 2017. i've heard a number of my colleagues decried this provision, arguing that any increase in the debt limit should be accompanied by fiscal reforms. and on that count my colleagues are right. mr. president, i think you'd be hard-pressed to find many members of this chamber who have spent more time than i have talked about our nation's debt and calling for reforms. i've spoken extensively about the need to rein in our broken and other programs, which are the main drivers of our debt, and unlike most members of congress i've come up with specific proposals that would help stave off the growing entitlement crisis. on top of that as chairman of the senate committee with jurisdiction over the debt limit i've repeatedly called on the obama administration to do a past administrations have done which is to use the debt limit increases as opportunities to re-examine our fiscal situation and work with congress to find a

path toward reforms that will improve our fiscal outlook. unfortunately these calls and similar calls made by other leaders in congress have largely gongone ignored as it measures refuses to consider fiscal changes in the context of a debt limit increase. i am as fostered at anyone here by the refusal of this administration to even engage on this issue. however, the president's refusal to give reasonable and to do his job when it comes to our debt is no excuse for congress failing to do its job and prevent the default. i know some of my colleagues either dealt with a default would be that bad or that the result of getting the debt limit would even be classified as a default. i won't delve into the semantics of the issue. i will just say that hitting the debt limit would prevent the government from eating a large number of its obligations, and nothing good, and many things that are bad, will come from that result. no reasonable person would

dispute that. in addition i don't think any reasonable person wants to see congress pushed up against debt limit deadlines multiple times throughout 2016. the budget bill would suspend the debt limit and spare congress and american people the spectacle of taking debt clocks in the middle of an election season. once again this isn't my preferred result but it is much, much better than the alternative. in addition to raising the debt limit the bill would extend the life of the social security disability insurance, or ssdi, trust fund through a temporary relocation of resources from the retirement trust fund into the disability insurance program. as we all know the ssdi trust

fund is said to be exhausted sometime late next year, which would lead to benefit cuts of around 20% for disabled americans. i am not willing to do that. right now beneficiaries in the disability program faced enormous uncertainty about will only get worse between now and the end of 2016 if congress fails to act. i've been urging action on this issue for quite sometime now and then put forward a number of proposals to reform the various aspects of the disability insurance program. sadly, despite many calls for bipartisan cooperation the administration decided to remain silent, aside from a very simple and overly broad reality should proposal. nonetheless, the budget bill will provide and enter fund reallocation that will add an additional six years of viability the ssdi trust fund

preventing benefit cuts disabled american workers and removing the current uncertainty but that's not all. the bill would also put in place reforms to the ssdi program, including some of the proposals that i put forward earlier this year inflicting a great deal of work between chairman paul ryan of the house ways and means committee, representative sam johnson who chairs the social security subcommittee, and myself. our work led to a number of features that will combat fraud in the program, make it easier for those who can and desire to return to work to be able to do so, and improve the overall administration and integrity of the disability program. mr. president, as i said before, this is not a budget bill that i would have written, and i think there are number of other ways to improve the ssdi program and social security more generally. however, nothing in this bill

prevents us from continue to work to continue to develop and refine ideas and come with additional improvements. given the unsustainability of the social security system generally, we will have to continue to work on reforms to ensure these programs are upgradable to future generations. for now we must be realistic. if we don't act now to prevent next year's benefit cuts, we will create a cliff that will occur right in the middle of an election campaign when fundamental reforms to an entitlement program will be virtually impossible. instead of a real debate over the future of this important program, we would see accusations lobbed back and forth about which side is responsible for the impending benefit cuts. why would anyone want that, mr. president? what good would that accomplish? but also like to remind my colleagues that the ssdi reforms in the -- in this budget to

represent the most significant changes to any social security program since 1983, more than three decades ago. now that's not nothing -- now, that's nothing to sneeze at. while critics may be right that these changes are the only type of long-term fixes the ssdi program needs, they should not be overlooked. i also want to point out this budget that will avert an unprecedented and large increase in medicare part b premiums for millions of elderly americans. under the law there is a complicated interplay between these also security and medicare programs where i'm under what is called the quote hold harmless unquote rule, the majority of medicare beneficiaries cannot see a premium increase greater than the cost of living adjustment under social security. however, due to very low

inflation there will be no cost of living adjustments in social security in 2016, meaning there can be no premium increases for the majority medicare part d participants. this means that the full amount of what america system needs to collect in part b premiums for next year will be charged to the nearly 30% of medicare and fisheries who do not have the premiums deducted from their social security payments. long story short, absent some kind of action, more than a quarter of all medicare part b beneficiaries will see the premiums go up as much as 52% in 2016. this bill is important. with all its waltz, that's a great reason to vote for the legislation before us will prevent this increase, once again on congress to avoid a contentious fight and preventing

many seniors from becoming pawns in the unending liberal political gamesmanship in demagoguery. most importantly it would do so in a responsible manner. in addition to sparing our country some needless political fights over social security and medicare, this bill will also repeal the employer auto enrollment requirement under the so-called affordable care act. this provision of once implemented would require large employers to automatically enroll new employees and health insurance plans, putting the burden on employees who prefer alternative plans to opt out. this provision like many provisions of obamacare never made sense and ultimately had few champions outside left-leaning think tanks that continue to advocate for the government to quote manage unquote citizens into what some technocrats believe our preferred outcomes by removing

certain nonpreferred choices. so with this legislation with bipartisan agreement on the need to remove at least part, and not an insignificant part, of obamacare. that's important. that's a good reason to vote for this. obviously, we need to do more, but in my view, any acknowledgment from my friends on the other side that any part of the president's health law doesn't work is good progress. we haven't been able to get them to admit that in all these years of defending program that's going on. finally, and for many, most significantly, a bipartisan budget legislation would partially lift the budget caps established under the budget control act, both for domestic spending priorities and national defense. and while very few people in congress or elsewhere are big fans of the sequester threat, it

did result in really the only legitimate, measurable spending cuts we've seen in quite some time, and is especially noteworthy given the current administrations seemingly insatiable desire for more debt fueled spending. i sympathize with my colleagues who might be hesitant to let the spending caps. however, i think we need to keep a few things in mind. first, the increase in spending baseline under this bill is fully offset. that's important. and while not all of the offsets are ideal, it's important that the spending cap relief will not result in increased debt or a tax hike. in that -- let me repeat that. it's important to note that the spending cap relief will not result in increased debt or a tax hike. in the sense of the spending caps can even with the relief included in this bill, continue

to be successful. let me repeat that again. in that sense, the spending caps, even with the relief included in this bill, continue to be successful. second, lifting the spending caps will help us ensure our military is properly funded. although many of us would like to do more. with the world and the turmoil it is in. many members of congress, particularly on the republican side, have expressed concern regarding the impact of the spending caps on our men and women in uniform. and our overall military readiness. make no mistakes, these are dangerous times. america the generals and military officials have made clear it at the spending levels under the budget control act are not enough to meet the challenges our nation faces on the world stage. between the threat of crisis in iraq and syria, russian aggression in eastern europe and

unduly prolonged troop presence in afghanistan, now is not the time to underfund our military. we need to be sure our troops have all the resources they need to succeed. as we know, president obama has conditioned any budget cap relief for defense on similarly for other domestic spending programs. while i agree with many of my colleagues that this represents an odd set of priorities for commander-in-chief, is number one duty is to keep us safe, we should not let the president's refusal to do right by our military lead us to do the same. in addition to criticism of the substance of the bill, some of which i agree with, i've also heard complaints about the process that led us here. and on that front as well, i share some of my colleagues concerns. it certainly would've been better to move this legislation through regular order, including committee consideration and an open amendment process.

i can't speak for anyone else, but i would assume that almost everyone involved would prefer to see legislation of this magnitude move through the house and senate in a more collaborative process and a longer timetable. unfortunately, for a variety of reasons that is not what happened. however, much of the time, effective government is about the art of doing what is doable. though republicans control both chambers of congress, there is a democrat in the white house and enough democrats in the senate to sustain a filibuster. that's just a fact. we have to live with that. if we want to get anything done around here we cannot demand perfection, nor can operate in a zero-sum environment where every victory for the other side, however minor, is considered a loss for yours. i get that there are some who sincerely and truthfully believe that compromise inherently means

failure. and i know that there are others with different agendas in mind that leads into a post anything assembling a concession to the other side, no matter what their side they get in return. i've been around here long enough to know that such an approach does not often yield satisfactory results. if you're going to wait for the perfect bill to come around, my experience has taught me that you're likely to wait a very, very long time. mr. president, the budget bill before us is far from perfect. but as the saying goes, the perfect should not be the enemy of the good. under the circumstances i believe this bill needs to pass that we can solve thes these problems, windows many dangerous obstacles that are directly in front of us, and give ourselves a chance to govern effectively without the cliffs, crises, and deadlines that all too frequently dictate what we do around here. for these reasons i plan to vote yes on this legislation. i urge my colleagues to do the same. having said that, finally i

would just like to complement our majority leader. he has one of the toughest jobs ever on capitol hill. i have to say that i want to call them at the house as well. i have worked very closely with the distinguished new speaker of the house. he's a tremendous human being. he does not reject the doable. is a very strong conservative, one of the strongest spokespeople in either house of congress, as is our majority leader. oath of them are doing what has to be done pashtun both of them i couple of my friends on the other side for the successes they consider they have made. and i just want to take to get to our majority leader, the work

he's doing the right here, trying to keep these people together in so many ways, educate important legislation like this past so that we can get about really working on even more important legislation in the future. but i want to personally pay tribute to paul ryan for his election as speaker of the house. we have worked very closely together, as he's been chairman of the ways and means committee. we've met almost weekly ever since he took over as chairman of that committee, and i as chairman of the finance committee. is one of the truly great people in the congress, and a person want to express my view that we're lucky to have him. we are lucky to have our distinguished majority leader as well. i want to complement my friends on the other side who have been working to do the art of the doable, and have worked with both of these leaders to get this done.

mr. president, i yield the floor. >> texas center ted cruz came to the senate floor to voice his opposition to the budget and debt ceiling agreement. senator cruz was critical to majority leader mitch mcconnell and senate democrats for the deal. he spoke for about 90 minutes. >> the senator from texas thank you for many months i've been speaking about what i called the washington cartel. the washington cartel that sits cover politicians of both parties who get in bed with lobbyists a special interest in washington and grow and grow and grow government. the washington cartel is i believe the source of the volcanic frustration american states across this country. and it is difficult to find a better illustration of the washington cartel.

then the charade where engaged in this evening. this deal that we are here to vote on it is both shockingly bad on the merits. and it is also a manifestation of the bipartisan corruption that diffuses washington, d.c. what are the terms of this budget deal? well, in short, what the house of representatives has that than what the senate is expected to pass shortly is a bill that adds $85 billion in spending increases. $85 billion to our national debt. $85 billion to your children and my children that they are somehow expected to pay. i don't know about your kids but my girls don't have $85 billion link around in the ribs. and it's put together in a way

only washington could love -- laying around in the ribs. -- surprise nobody, 37 billion in 2016, 36 but in 2017 and 12 billion in 2018. but, we're told, fear not get the are some spending cuts to offset. and wonderfully miraculously ostensibly they are supposed be a few spending cuts in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024. at the very end, 10 years from now, when my daughter will be tailoring to graduate high school, she is seven now, 10 years from now we are told $33 billion will be cut in 2025. well, mr. president, if you believe that either bridge to sell you in brooklyn. and have some beachfront property in arizona for you. nobody in this chamber believes

that. nobody in the house of representatives believes that. no member of the press release of that. everyone understands this is a lie. it is an agree to live by everyone. we will spend now for a promise that 10 years hence will magically cut spending that will never ever, ever occur. that's on the face of it. but beyond that, you know, it's worth thinking about just how much $85 billion is. it's more than a senate negotiated with the house when harry reid was majority leader. when harry reid was majority leader, orion murray budget agreement in which was a flawed agreement, agreement i voted against, increased spending by 63 billion over two years. now, 20 what does it say to you

that a supposedly republican majority of the united states extended negotiates a bigger spending bill than harry reid and the democrats? when harry reid and the democrats were in charge of this body, they jacked up spending an hour debt $63 billion. when the republicans take charge, oh, baby, we could do it better. 85 billion. not only that, this deal is not content with spending increases. it also takes the debt ceiling and essentially hands president obama a blanket credit card access to the president you can add whatever debt you like for the remainder of her term with no constraint from this body. we are abdicating nfl congressional authority over to the debt that is bankrupting our kids and grandkids. you and i both campaigned, telling the citizens of nebraska, telling the citizens

of texas that if we were elected wwe will fight with every breath in our body to stop the spin and that is bankrupting our kids and grandkids. how, pray tell, does have a president obama a blank credit card for the remainder of his tenure do anything to follow those commitments? and let me note for the remaining 15 months, we are going to see a dance from this president met that makes the preceding six and a half years ago. for six and half years we've seen a solemn will of law, an assault our constitutional rights, a retreat from the world stage, all of which i think will pale compared to what's coming in the next 15 months. the next 15 months abroad i've said before we are essentially -- the enemies of america made a judgment that the commander-in-chief is not a credible threat. and so they are limited only by the limits of their own

strength, like lord of the flies. on the regulatory side we are seeing a press on every front to go after economic freedom, to destroy small businesses, to destroy jobs come to destroy our constitutional liberties. and when it comes to spending, i shudder to think what president obama in 15 months will do with a blank credit card, that the republican majority and the house of representatives and the republican majority in the senate are preparing to send over. american express has whole series of credit card as the green card, the introductory card. i remember when i was a freshman in college, i got an application for an american express card. i was excited. i got in an american express one of 70. the green card, if you spend more and spend more, eventually you can upgrade to golkar, and upgrade to platinum card and a you can upgrade to a black guard about that. i've got to say, a

multi-trillion dollar presidential card, that's got to be an extraordinary card. i assume it is encrusted in diamonds and glows in the dark. that's what republican majorities have just given president obama is a diamond encrusted coal in the dark american express card. and it has a special feature. .. spend it and it's somebody else's problem. but, you know, not only is this bill spending us deeper and deeper in a hole, but it's chock-full of gimmicks. and these are gimmicks that everyone writing it knew were there. for example, it contains a spending gimmick that targets single-employer pension plans while ignoring the oncoming union