mr. molten? mr. molten aye. mr. chairman? mr. chairman no.

mr. molten aye. mr. garret. mr. garret, no. mr. woodall. mr. sutsman. mr. sanford? mr. sanford no. mr. mooney? mr. chairman. mr. chairman. no. ms. grisham. aye. >> clerk will report. >> mr. chairman on that vote the aye are 13, no's 20. >> the amendment is not adopted. we have completed the tier one amendments and we'll work through the tier two amendments now in numerical order unless

mr. molten, mr. molten, aye. mr. chairman, mr. chairman. no. >> any member wish to vote? the clerk will report. >> mr. chairman, on that vote, the ayes are 12, no's 20. >> the amendment is not adopted. we now move on to amendment 17. amendment 17 and the clerk will designate the amendment. >> amendment 17 offered by mr. van hollan relating to social security benefits. >> the ranking member is recognized for three minutes. >> thank you, mr. pascrow offered an amendment to increase the solvency of social security to put it on a sustainable basis. i agree that with those who commented this was a positive step forward. a constructive solution. what worries many of us given the fact that didn't get any support on the republican side is that the proposals on the republican side would be to cut social security. which we know is a bed rock social security system in the country. i know that the earlier budget proposal had a $4 billion cut to social security. that was an error, i understand. but we want to make sure. that the proposal from our republican colleagues is not to cut so

mr. molten? aye. ms. black? ms. black no.

mr. molten, aye. mr. chairman. mu mr. chairman. no. >> should we vote? the clerk will report in there mr. chairman, on that vote the ayes are 12 the nos are 20. >> the ayes being 12, the nos 20, the amendment is not adopted. we move on to amendment number 17. the clerk will des ig communicate the amendment. >> amendment number 17 offered by mr. van hollen relating to social security benefits. >> the ranking members recognized for three minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman, mr. practices cepascrell the solven for social security to put it on a sustainable basis agree with those that commented, this was a positive step forward, a constructive solution. what worries many of us given the fact that it didn't get any support on the republican side is that the proposals on the republican side would be to cut social security, which we know is a dead social security system in the country. i know that the earlier bug proposal had a $4 billion cut to social security. that was an error, i understand. we want to make sure that the proposal from our republican colleagu

mr. molten? mr. molten aye. mr. chairman? mr. chairman no. mr. chairman on that vote, the ayes are 14 and the nos are 20. >> thank you, so much, mr. the amendment is not adopted. >> amendment number 26 to prevent cyber attacks. >> our federal government has been and still is vulnerable to cyber attacks. last year the massive breaches at the office of personnel management led to the resignation of the then director as well as release of millions of social security numbers of federal employees and over 20 million security clearance data records stolen. these records have been called the crown jewels of american national intelligence, congressman seth and i had our records stolen as part of a breach and a foreign adversary has them. as a recovering computer sipes major the problem is we have outdated systems in our federal government. they need to be upgraded. some of these systems were written in a language, for example, known as cobalt which is simply not equipped for the 21st century hack attacks but the other problem is you have systems that run

mr. molten, aye. mr. racita, no. mr. garrett, no. mr. stutsman, no. mr. chairman, no. >> clerk will report. >> mr. chairman, on that vote the ayes are 13 and the nos are 22. >> the amendment is not adopted. amendment number 8 relating to a policy statement on prescription drug costs. >> the gentle lady from new mexico is recognized for six minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. the prices of some prescription drugs, in fact many, are sky rocketing with no apparent link to the cost of manufacturing, research and development or any other reasonable basis. some pharmaceutical companies are purchasing older drugs that have been reasonably priced for years and then dramatically increasing their cost before others enter the market. in september 2015 the ceo of turing pharmaceuticals, martin shkreli, increased the price of a medication used to treat potentially life threatening pair sittic infections for hiv and cancer patients by 5,000% overnight. $13.50 per tablet to $750 per tablet. last year valeant pharmaceuticals purchased the rights to two life saving heart

mr. molten? mr. molten aye. mr. garrett? no. mr. garrett no. mr. diaz-balart? no. mr. cole? mr. cole, no. mr. guinta? no. mr. mooney? no. ms. moore? >> aye. >> ms. moore, aye. mr. chairman? mr. chairman no. mr. chairman on that vote, the ayes are 10 and the noes are 22. >> thank you, so much, mr. chairman, i should been listed as the co-sponsor of this amendment. ask unanimous consent to be listed as co-sponsor. >> without objection. >> thank you. >> i have a technical amendment that we've discussed with mr. van hollen and minority staff and the clerk will designate the amendment. the staff will -- i think has distributed copies. >> a technical amendment offered by chairman price. >> this amendment simply makes some numerical corrections within the budget document and mr. chairman if i could ask the staff just -- >> the technical correction is to increase the spending levels in function and transfer the reductions to function 930 which is general government and the other is to correct a number in advanced appropriations for v.a. the number that was is in the report was last year

mr. molten? aye. ms. black? ms. black no. mr. guinta? mr. chairman, no. >> clerk will report. >> mr. chairman, on that vote, the ayes are 14 and the noes are 21. >> >> the ayes being 14 and the noes 21, the amendment is not adopt adopted. yes? >>. [ inaudible ] without objection. there's a vote on the floor. actually, three votes on the floor and the committee will stand in recess until following the votes. >>> the house budget committee going through the 2017 budget plan. members asking questions about each section and offering amendments along the way. this meeting could go until midnight tonight once they return from house votes. we'll have live coverage on c-span 3 when it resumes. and tomorrow we'll have live coverage of the house oversight committee's next hearing on the flint, michigan, water contamination. the committee is going to hear from epa administrator gina mccarthy and michigan governor rick snyder. coverage tomorrow morning at 9:00 eastern time here on c-span 3. >> this weekend the c-span cities tour takes you to montgomery, alabama, to explore the city's history and