mr. mulvaney of south carolina. amendment number 9 by mr. mulvaney of south carolina. amendment number 5 -- an amendment by mr. stearns of florida. the chair will reduce to two minutes the time for any electronic votes after the first vote in this series. the unfinished business is a request for a recorded vote on the second amendment offered by the gentleman from iowa, mr. king, on which the ayes prevailed by vose vote. -- voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: second amendment offered by mr. king of iowa. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having arisen, a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. and this will be a 15-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u

mr. mulvaney of south carolina. mr. mulvaney: this is a follow-up to an amendment i offered and once again i thank the chairman for the opportunity yesterday to discuss the issue before the amendment was ruled out of order. as you recall and very briefly $5.6 billion this year that has been moved out of the base defense budget and into the war budget. this violates a policy that we have tried to follow in this house since 9/11 and actually violates a policy that the bill says we should not violate going forward in 2014 and i tried to draw attention to that in yesterday's amendment, which was ruled out of order. this amendment deals with the this amendment deals with the same thing

mr. mulvaney: thank you, madam chair. i thank the chairman and also the ranking member for the opportunity to present this amendment. madam chair, the amendment is something different for me. it is not an amendment to reduce spending and it's not an amendment to increase spending. in fact, this is outlay neutral. similarly, consistent with what the chairman and the ranking member discussed when introducing the bill, this amendment is not a partisan amendment. i do not seek to lay blame on either party or on the president or the congress for the circumstance which we find ourselves. this amendment regards simply a policy, a policy that traditionally has had bipartisan support in this house and that policy is that we keep separate spending on the base defense budget and spending on the overseas contingency operations or the war budget. it has come to our attention and both the c.b.o. and the g.a.o. have confirmed that there are $5.8 -- excuse me -- $5.6 billion in the overseas contingency operation budget, in the war budget

mr. mulvaney, jeff duncan, duncan hunter, steve southerland. i want to thank them for their dedication, hard work and most of all just showing up. and the big winner, madam speaker, is an organization called the first tee because over the last 11 years we've had this competition, over $1.5 million has been raised for the first tee. that's an organization that works with young people to try to touch their lives through educational programs that deal with character and honesty, integrity. they work at all 50 states. they've touched the lives of 4 1/2 million people over the years and they do a lot of work with the inner city and las fortunate. it was a great day. i want to thank everybody for their involvement and certainly yield time to my democratic counterpart, captain of the democratic team, mr. yarmuth. mr. yarmuth: i want to congratulate the republicans on their victory. all great things must come to an end and our five-year winning streak was broken through largely superior play. although i do question some of the strategy that was invoked

mr. mulvaney: thank you, mr. speaker. ivan heard a lot of good reasons to pass this bill and -- i've heard a lot of good reasons to pass this bill and repeal the law. what i haven't heard is we have an opportunity here to help the president keep what of his campaign promises. it's here in bright white letters on a wonderful orange background. i can make a firm pledge under my plan that no family makes less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes. by the way politicians usually speak in language that allows some wiggle room. there's no wiggle room in that particular promise. there's a list here of all the times that that promise has already been broken. already been broken. we got the last one, the most reeble recent addition to that list last week with the supreme court decision that told us what we've been saying from the very beginning which is that this is yet another tax on families that make less than $250,0