mr. yarmuth, each will control 20 minutes. the chair recognizes the gentleman from indiana. mr. messer: mr. speaker, i ask unanimous consent that all members may have five legislative days to revise and tend their remarks and include any extraneous materials on the bill under consideration. the speaker pro tempore: without objection. mr. messer: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman is recognized. mr. messer: thank you, mr. speaker. first, i apologize for my voice today. my son hudson and i attended the patriots-colts game on sunday night, and unfortunately the colts were not successful by a touchdown but i lost my voice in the process of rooting them on. i'd like to thank budget chairman tom price and ranking member van hollen for bringing h.r. 1315 to the floor. i rise today in support of this small but important measure. h.r. 1315 requires the president's annual budget submission to congress to include the cost per taxpayer of any budget deficit in a given fiscal year. this bill is based on a simple principle, each hard

mr. yarmuth. mr. yarmuth: thank you, mr. van hollen. i'm glad the chairman mentioned that. this is getting to be a groundhog day debate and the good thing about that is you don't have to prepare for those kind of debates, you're done them so many times. rhyme happy to repeat the impact of the affordable care act in kentucky. under the a.c.a. in kentucky, more than 520,000 individuals have acquired coverage they didn't have before. we have reduced the uninsured rate in kentucky by more than 50%, one of the best impacts in the country, in my district in -- in the country. in my district new york louisville, kentucky, three, we've reduced it by 81%. there are fewer than 21,000 people in my district without health insurance. that's a phenomenal record. more importantly than that -- maybe not more importantly but equally important is the governor of kentucky asked the deloit accounting foirm do a study of the impact of the a.c.a. on kentucky between 2015 and 2020. they came back and said it would create 42,000 new jobs, $38 billion in increased economic activity and would have a

mr. yarmuth. >> thank you, mr. chairman, and i think all the witnesses for their testimony. i'm not going to talk about rainbows and unicorns. in kentucky we prefer to talk about thoroughbreds. i'm kentucky has had one of the truly successful and mostly kentucky has had one of the truly successful and mostl entucky has had one of the truly successful and mostly problem-free experiences with the affordable care act in our exchange called connect. and our governor and his team deserve an awful lot of credit. we had a glitch the first morning of the operation of the exchange for about two hours, and access was limited. beyond that, we've been pretty much problem free. and our experience is that we have insured now more than 500,000 people under the affordable care act through our exchange and expansion of medicaid. in the two years of operation. and that's in a state of 4.4 million. we've reduced the uninsured rate by 50% statewide. in my district, we've reduced the uninsured rate by 81%. there are only slightly less than 20,000 uninsured citizens in my community of 750,000, wh

mr. yarmuth from kentucky what they've done a fantastic job. mr. lee, congratulations since opening exchanges. california has provided a lifeline to so many families in california to cover california, medicare. 170 uninsured rate in california and? >> the uninsured rate company on census figures, has dropped about 12% in future direction. one of the largest reduction nation but it's also a for me, you know it's also for people that have insurance or sing the benefit of lower rates to 1 million californians individual market that don't lie to us benefit from our two years holding rates down. your note on those benefits are not just for the uninsured but it's also for insured people that are in jobs that have insurance that have rates kept in check spent i'm glad ms. capps came in at this point so she turned directly after she worked so hard on the affordable care act and passage. how are you working to ensure that coverage remains affordable from this point forward? and meaningful for families spent one of the things we're doing is we're working wit

mr. yarmuth from kentucky. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you for appearing, mr. horn. i should be feeling a sense of schadenfreuden here today, because ford escapes and lincoln mkcs are made in my district and presumably will be selling some more of those while you're out of the marketplace, but i'm not really taking any joy in any of this. i just have a couple quick questions. the article i read said that there were about 11 million vehicles worldwide affected by this? >> yes. >> so they contain the defeat device. i guess there's no added cost to put it in since it's just a line of computer code, would that be right? it would be -- >> it seems very logical, sir, yes. >> so, my question is, how many countries that these 11 million vehicles were sold in have emissions standards that would have been defeated by this device? i mean, if it's -- if the united states were talking about a half million cars roughly out of 11 million, what are germany's emission standards, for instance? are they stricter than the united states? >> i mean, there's many countries affected. all th

mr. yarmuth from kentucky. >> thank you. i suspect that i should be feeling a sense of shame fried freud because fords are made in my district. i'm not really taking any joy in any of this. i have a couple quick questions. the article i read said there were 11 million vehicles worldwide affected by this. they contain the defeat device. cost tothere's no added put it in since it is just a line of computer code. would that be right? mr. horn: seems very logical, yes. >> my question is, how many countries that these 11 million vehicles were sold in have emissions standards that would have been defeated by this device? in the united states, we are talking about roughly a half million cars. what are germany's emissions standards? are they stricter than the united states? mr. horn: there's many countries affected. all the countries in europe are affected. emissions standards in europe are different from the u.s. nitrogen oxide is much more stringent here, five grams i think per mile. in europe, it is 30-40. this is quite higher in

mr. yarmuth. >> thank you very much for you or i want to address the planned parenthood issue for me because we did this in energy and commerce committee and i think there's some important points to be made. one is a this congress had disagreed with the issue of fetal tissue research, then they probably would not have authorized it about 20 years ago. if congress wants to reconsider that decision as to whether fetal tissue research is appropriate or not, we should do that. but we should not throw the baby out with the bathwater, and that is a plan that is intended. 97% of planned parenthood clinics don't you fetal tissue research, don't make tissue available for fear research. i am a former board member of the planned parenthood in my district. my clinic in legal kentucky doesn't do abortions. so what this provision would do to my district is basically to provide 5000 people a year of their health care. i know the item is they can go to community health centers. our community health centers already have waiting list. those 5000 people would have nowhere to go. so let's talk about the issues