mr. amash, aye. mr. chairman. >> aye. >> mr. chairman, on that vote the ayes are 21, the noes 9. >> the motion is agreed to. the sequester replacement act is reported to the house of representati representatives. i note a quorm is present. >> thank you. i ask unanimous consent that the chairman be tlorsed to go to conference and file a conference report pursuant to clause 3 of house rule 19 and the staff be authorized to make any ness sar technical and conforming corrections prior to filing the bills and the motion be considered to be reconsidered laid on the table. >> without objection so ordered. that concludes the procedural business required to mark up an order report of the sequester reconciliation act. but before we adjourn, i would be willing to entertain up to four purely procedural motions as long as they do not have the effect of amending the bill as ordered reported, and they relate to the business that we are here to conduct today, as agreed, we will limit the time for debate to each motion to 60 minutes or less. eve

young, mr. amash, mr. okida, mr. ginta, mr. woodall, mr. van hollen, ms. schwartz, cap ms.tor, mr. doggett, blu mr.menauer, ms. mccollum, mr. yarmuth, mr. pascarell, mr. honda, mr. ryan, ms. wasserman schultz,ms. moore, ms. caster, mr. shuler,ms. bass, ms. bonamici, mr. chairman aye. mr. amash? no. under the ,ayes are 21, the no's are 13. >> the motion is agreed to. a quorum is president. ms. schwartz says best for a letter from the bill to be included in the record. i would now recognize the gentleman from new jersey. >> i move that the committee go to conference and the senate. >> without objection, the motion is agreed to. the statute make necessary changes to language. >> i s for the requisite number of days for opposing views. >> this concludes today as markup. -- today's markup. "washington journa[captioning py national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> yesterday, the house budget committee approved $325 billion in new cuts over 10 years. the republicans intend to substitute for the automatic spending sequester that would take p

steve king, and mr. amash, for joining me in co-sponsoring this amendment. mr. chairman, my amendment would ensure that no funds made available by h.r. 5854 could be used to implement, administer or enforce the davis-bacon act requirements for government contracts. mr. chairman, the davis-bacon act is an -- is law that was enacted during the great depression to preventwayfairing contracters from low-balling local construction bids. the sponsors of the of this act were originally to discriminate against nonuniized black workers in favor of white workers belonging to white-only unions. this remnant of the jim crow era has no place in our military construction contracts and should be abandoned. furthermore, the davis-bacon act results in billions of wasted taxpayer dollars every year. the act requires federal construction contractors to pay their workers higher government wages which would be as much as 1 1/2 times greater than their basic pay rate. this results in artificially high construction -- costs of construction, mr. chairman, which are ultimately shouldere

proud to offer with congressman justin amash of michigan, does not affect inherently governmental activities. it allows only for increased private contracting. mr. chairman, the heritage foundation has reported that subjecting federal employee positions which are commercial in nature to a private-public cost comparison will generate on average a 0% cost savings regardless of who wins that competition. our than preventing market competition, it would improve service and lower cost, we should be encouraging agencies to find the best way to deliver services to citizens of the great nation. that's what this amendment does. our nation's unemployment rate stands at .1%. we must allow the private sector the ability to create jobs without an unfair disadvantage and i think we get more results for our money. i urge my colleagues to support this commonsense amendment that would ensure cost savings competition in the federal government. congress should be looking to use all the tools it can to help save taxpayer dollars. with that, mr. chairman, i yield back my time. the chair: the gentleman yields back his time. for what purpose does the gentleman from -