mr. pokane. mr. pokane may. ms. grisham? ms. dingell aye. mr. norcross? mr. norcross aye. mr. molten? mr. molten aye. mr. chairman? mr. chairman no.

mr. pokane, aye. ms. grisham? >> aye. >> aye. ms. dingle. >> aye. >> ms. dingle aye. mr. lou? mr. norcross? mr. more to ross aye. m

mr. pokan. aye. miss louhan grisham. police di miss dingle, aye. mr. lew, aye. mr. norcross, aye. mr. molten. aye. mr. garrett. no. >> stutzman. mr. sanford, no. mr. mooney, mr. chairman. no. miss louhan grisham. aye. mr. chairman, on that vote the ayes are 13, nos 20. >> ayes 13, the nos 20, the amendment is not adopted. we have completed the tier i amendments. we will work through the tier ii amendments in numerical order unless instructed otherwise by the minority. i would remind folks the tier ii amendments get 8 minutes total. and, therefore, 3 'wants to present, 4 minutes of rebuttal and one minute to close for the eight-minute total. amendment number 15 is up and the clerk will designate the amendment. >> amendment number 15 offered by mr. yarmuth relating to the minimum wage. >> the gentleman from kentucky is recognized for three minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. the amendment i'm offering today would help to reinstate a basic human american belief that if you put in 40 hours of hard work a week, you should be able to put food on your family's table every day. sadly, fo

mr. pokan, aye. mr. grisham, aye. miss dingell, aye. mr. lu, aye. mr. norcross, aye. mr. molton, aye. mr. garrett. mr. woodall, no. mr. stutzman. mr. blum. mr. garrett, no. mr. chairman, no. >> clerk will report. >> mr. chairman, on that vote the ayes are 14 and the nos are 20. >> the amendment is not agreed to. for what purposes the gentle lady from wisconsin? >> yes, would like to be -- should have been added as a co-sponsor to this amendment. >> without objection. >> next up is amendment number five. the clerk will designate the amendment. >> amendment number five offered by mr. mcdermott relating to medicare. >> the gentleman from washington state is recognized for six minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. there was a member of congress from massachusetts many years ago who walked on to the floor and said to a new member, you know something you don't know about this place? the guy said, what? he said, this place ain't on the level. well, this budget ain't on the level. this proposal that you have here before us to remove medicare as we've known it is about as likely to

mr. pokane. mr. pokane may. ms. grisham? ms. dingell aye. mr. norcross? mr. norcross aye. 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

mr. pokan, aye. ms. grisham, aye. ms. dingle, aye. mr. lou, aye. mr. garrett, no. ms.heartsler, no. mr. chairman, no. >> the clerk will report. >> on that chairman the ayes are 11 and the nos are 21. >> the amend is not adopted. next amendment is number 7 and the clerk will designate the amendment. >> amendment number 7 offered by ms. lee relating to poverty. >> recognized for six minutes. >> this amendment is very simple. it embodies the proven strategy to reduce poverty in the united states. i want to go back to what my colleague -- and pick up on what my kcolleagues said and what i said earlier. the reason we're here is very clear. we fought wars that we did not need to fight. we spent and wasted trillions of dollars, wars off budget. we had bush-era tax cuts for the very wealthy. and quite frankly, socialism for corporations. we saw that come in the mid 2000s and i ended up founding the out of poverty caucus because we knew that with these economic policies and these war policies in place, we would see increases, unfortunately, in the ranks of the poor. this amendm

mr. pokan. >> i have to disagree with my last two colleagues. i know while it feels like groundhog's day, i think there's about beater day we should be doing this. maybe a couple of weeks on april fool's day, i listened to the comments from everyone on the other side. either they were said tongue in cheek or with a nod and a wink. i can't believe that anyone on the other side of the room actually believes that the public believes a thing that they've said. congress is at 9% approval and our president who they would even give the courtesy of a hearing to, is sat 50% approval, but look at the presidential primaries. they have rejected every single republican office-holder running for office. instead they would rather have a zenophobic billionaire in charge than anyone who spouts the policies that anyone on the other side of the room has. i got to believe there's a better day than groundhog's day, that's april fool's day. if they actually believe this, not just done tongue in cheek, they have to r

mr. pokan. aye. ms. louhan grisham, aye. poli miss dingell, aye. mr. lew, aye. mr. norcross. aye. mr. molten. aye. mr. garrett. mr. woodall, miss hartzler, miss hartzler. mr. blum, mr. mooney. mr. chairman. mr. chairman, no. >> the clerk will report. >> mr. chairman, mr. garrett. mr. garrett. no. >> the clerk will now report. >> mr. chairman on that vote the ayes are 11, the nos are 18. >> ayes being 11, the nos 19, it is not adopted. seeks request to be head of co-sponsor without objection. we're on amendment number 13. the court will designate the amendment. >> amendment number 13, offered by mr. norcross, righting to the paycheck fairness act. >> recognized for six minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i hope the number 13 is the lucky 13, particularly for this one. my simple amendment calls for on the house to pass the payor check fairness which builds on the equal pay act of 1963 by closing the loopholes that have kept it from achieving its goal of equal pay for equal work. my amendment adds $50 million in mentor spending funding to accommodate data collection enforcement by t