mr. pascrell: reclaiming my time. mr. wolf: i will do everything we can as we go to conference depending on how the allocation is to see what we can really do. mr. pascrell: we can't be dependent on the allocation, we have to fight for the allocation. we have to fight for what we want. i'll yield. mr. wolf: i'll let you conclude your time. mr. pascrell: i want us all to listen on both sides of the aisle. what is dragging down the economy at this point, when you look at it objectively if you try to look at it objectively, is that we have lost between 600,000 and 700,000 public sector jobs. so we are adding private sector jobs, even though we only hadded -- added 116,000 last year, we've got to do better than that to catch up with people coming into the market, and defend and go after those people who want to drop out and become phantoms and then they don't exist at all on the numbers. that doesn't help us either. but we've got to stop this trend down to the bottom. we're losing teachers, police officers, and firefighters a

mr. pascrell. mr. honda. mr. ryan. miss wasserman schultz. no. miss moore. miss castor, no. mr. shuler, no. miss bass, no. miss bonamici, no. mr. mullvainy, aye. 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 ar

mr. pascrell, mr. honda, mr. ryan, ms. wasserman schultz, ms. moore, ms. caster, mr. schuler,ms. bonamici, mr. chairman -- on that vote, the ayes are 11, the no's are 22. >> i believe we are down to one more amendment. >> thank you very much. i'm trying to speed it up. an amendment offered by ms. mccollum, eliminate the medicare sequester paid for with reductions in the oil fees. is recognized for five minutes. >> president obama son of the budget control act which was not ideal but it shared the burden of production. defense spending took its share of cuts. unfortunately, the version we marked up to that changes the rules of sequestration. it chooses panettiere hardware over america's seniors. the pentagon tribes over poverty programs. the choice was wrong. what i am doing here with this amendment will protect access to vital health care services for seniors and people with disabilities. it will insure that physicians, nurses, home health care aides, hospitals, clinics, and many other health-care professionals will be able to continue to provide critical services to these vulner

mr. pascrell, that clip right there at the end, that came from an interview the congressman did with chrisas talking about there when he said he liked some republican ideas, he was talking about health reform. >> okay. give us some hope. is there going to be some kind of reform this year that's agreeable to both sides? will they do something on portability, on preexisting conditions. let's start with that? is it going to happen. >> yes. i really believe it can happen and i believe the president should try again to reach out to the other side. i know what he tried to do in the beginning. mr. boehner is the leader republican in the house, he chose the path of saying our party's not going to support any of this. it puts the pressure on anybody on the other side who wants to think of ideas. republicans had great ideas. we had bipartisan meetings. i liked some of their ideas. >> but not all of new jersey pascrell. the law instructed states to set up health care. it's where you go to comparison shop to get pricing information, see the features of the plans what they cover, what they don't cover.

mr. speaker, that the committee approved on a bipartisan basis the pascrell w.m.d. bill earlier this month. i look forward to seeing this measure which was endorsed by a bipartisan commission considered on the house floor in the very near future. with that i reserve the balance of my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman from new york. >> mr. speaker, i yield such time as he may consume to representative meehan, the gentleman from pennsylvania, who is chair of the subcommittee on counterterrorism and intelligence. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized for such time as he may consume. mr. meehan: thank you, mr. chairman. i thank you for yielding and i thank you for your kind words and i thank the ranking member for his kind words in support of this important amendment and i support -- i urge support for h.r. 2764 which provides, as has been explained, important guidance for the weapons of mass destruction and intelligence sharing functions of the department of homeland security. now this work has been built on a framework of important work, the