mr. becerra. >> thank you, jim. i think the speaker made -- the leader, our leader made a very important point. we were addressed this morning by five americans, five americans who are fasting. in some cases some fasting for over nine days. as the leader said, their message was act fast. there's no reason why we should leave in december and not have completed our work. and so the message should be to our colleagues who have a do-nothing agenda, and it's now. we can act now. we know we can do a number of things that will help us create more jobs, that will help us grow our economy, that will help us build up and not tear down the middle class. we can do something for this budget that will help us reduce our deficits. those fasters know it very well. it is passÉ fixed or broken immigration system because everyone including her congressional budget office, our fiscal nonpartisan referee has told us you to immigration reform you reduce the deficit at the federal level by close to a trillion dollars. y

mr. becerra. >> thank you, jim. leader made a very important point. we were dressed this morning by fasting,icans who are in some cases, for over nine days. as the leader said, their message was -- act fast. they know what we know. there is no reason why we should leave in december and not have completed our work. the message should be to our colleagues who have a do-nothing agenda, act now. now.n act we know we can do a number of things that would help us create more jobs that would help us helpour economy, that will us build up and not tear down the middle class. we could do something for this budget conference that would help us reduce our deficit. those fasters know it very well. broken to fix the immigration system. everyone including the congressional budget office, our fiscal nonpartisan referee has told us you are doing immigration reform and you reduce the deficit at the federal level by close to $1 trillion. you do immigration reform, you help the budget conferees come up with $150 billion worth of reductions and deficit by including it in y

mr. clyburn. are we ready? xavier becerra joined by nancy .elosi, steny hoyer we just completed a very good meeting. a very very good meeting. extremely well attended meeting discussing with the administration how we move forward to continue to improve our health security law. we were pleased to have several representatives from the administration further outline what the president announced to the american public earlier today on how we will move forward to make sure people can hold on to their insurance and people can continue to secure good quality health insurance through the marketplaces as well. the good news, there are some 500,000 americans today who will have health insurance that gives them access to doctors and hospitals, that helps them have the relief of knowing their children can go visit a physician when they get sick, which they did not have before the affordable care act became law. 500,000 people. among those, someone i would like to mention, andrew, who i hope i get to meet. i mention them all the time. he

mr. speaker. i yield one minute to the gentleman from california, the hair of the democratic caucus, becerra. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized. r. becerra: thank you. people included in my folks of california, like aaron who said the old -- erin who said the old plan she had had all sorts of deductibles and out-of-pocket costs. at the end of the day, what did she say on going to cover california marketplace, she will be saving $18,900 per year by having shopped on the health care website. and another passed on a plan that would cost him $500. he qualifies for a plan that charges $176 a month. allen says, my wife would not have insurance coverage at all as of january 1. they shopped on the website, they are now saving $8,000 a year for, as he said, a very much better plan. and andrew striker from los angeles, california, 34 years old, lives in -- as i said, in my city of los angeles, had to wait three hours to enroll. $6,000 savings. let's improve this plan. let's not destroy it. it's time to move forward to give americas what they need, health security. the

mr. speaker. i yield one minute to the gentleman from california, the hair of the democratic caucus, becerra. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from california is recognized. r. becerra: thank you. people included in my folks of california, like aaron who said the old -- erin who said the old plan she had had all sorts of deductibles and out-of-pocket costs. at the end of the day, what did she say on going to cover california marketplace, she will be saving $18,900 per year by having shopped on the health care website. and another passed on a plan that would cost him $500. he qualifies for a plan that charges $176 a month. allen says, my wife would not have insurance coverage at all as of january 1. they shopped on the website, they are now saving $8,000 a year for, as he said, a very much better plan. and andrew striker from los angeles, california, 34 years old, lives in -- as i said, in my city of los angeles, had to wait three hours to enroll. $6,000 savings. let's improve this plan. let's not destroy it. it's time to move forward to give americas what they need, health security. the