ms. kaptur. >> aye. >> ms. kaptur, aye. mr. blumenauer, aye. ms. mccole m, aye. mr. yarmouth, aye. mr. pakkarel, aye. mr. hahn donda, aye. ms. moore, aye. mr. schuler, aye. ms. bass, aye. ms. bonamici, ay. mr. chairman. >> no. >> mr. chairman, no. mr. ribble. >> aye. >> mr. ribble, aye. >> are there any other members looking to vote or to change their vote? clerk will report. >> mr. chairman, on that vote, the ayes are 17 and the noes are 20. >> the amendment is not agreed to. next we will recognize mr. van hollen for the purposes of amendment. >> thank you, mr. chairman. i have an amendment at the desk. >> clerk will designate the amendment. staff will distribute copies. >> an amendment offered by mr. yarmouth -- or mr. van hollen. an amendment relating to taxes. >> the gentleman is recognized for nine minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. this amendment is very simple. it's designed to make sure that we don't finance another round of tax cuts for the wealthiest americans by increasing taxes on middle-income americans. as you can see from this chart that's up here, after the first roun

ms. kaptur, aye. mr. dogt, aye. m mr. yarmouth, aye. mr. paskarel, aye. mr. ryan of ohio, aye. ms. moor, aye. ms. caster, aye. mr. shuller, aye. ms. bass, aye. mr. aiken, no. mr. chairman. mr. chairman, no. >> any other members looking to vote or to change their vote. if not the clerk shall report. >> mr. chairman on that vote the ayes are 15 and the noes are 21. >> the amendment is not agreed to. next we ms. schultz will be recognized for an amendment. >> the clerk will designate. >> an amendment offered by ms. schultz relating to medicaid. >> thank you mr. chairman. i offer amendment nine which stops reckless and shameful cuts to seniors. this will ensure that senior citizens will not lose vital medicaid assistance to cover the cost of their nursing home care. this amendment also ensures that low income beneficiaries eligible for medicare receive help paying premiums. in gutting medicaid the republican budget jeopardizes security for 5 million seniors, 10 million individuals with disabilities. these millions at risk represent our conconstituents who are counting on us. unless we

ms. kaptur. the chair: the gentlelady is recognized. ms. kaptur: i thank ranking member van hollen for yielding the time and stand to say that jobs need to be america's number one priority. the republican budget shows once again that the republicans don't have a jobs agenda. you balance family and national budgets by creating jobs and putting people back to work. we still have over 12 million americans looking for work, and that doesn't include those who've fallen off benefits or looking for work but can't find full-time employment. i said when we marked up this bill in committee, and i will say it again, this republican budget completely ignores the president's jobs agenda. instead, republicans incredibly criticize democrats for taking the step that helped save the u.s. auto industry and millions of related high-paying manufacturing jobs. republicans opposed the payroll tax cut extension for middle-class americans which will help keep demand up so that businesses can hire more workers. republicans are pushing for irresponsible cuts that eco

ms. kaptur: mr. speaker, this week the world laid to rest in the egyptian desert a holy and wise spiritual giant, the 117th hope of alexandria and patriarch of all africa of the cop particular orthodox church. he passed on march 17. his holiness presided more than 40 years over a worldwide expansion of the coptic orthodox church and during his papacy he appointed the first ever bishops to preside over nonamerican diocese. when his holiness became hope in 1971, there were only four churches in north america. today there are over 100. . not just with catholic groups, the -- meeting the roman catholic pope of roam for the first time in over 1,500 years in the year of 19 3, but he joined with protestant choices along with islamic leaders and muslim clerics. he was a man for the world. i had the honor of meeting the pope at our local christian church when it was being constructed. he was a man of immense faith, unforgettable. i never will forget his steady, strong, peaceful countenance when i asked him wh

ms. schwartz, aye. mr. kaptur? aye? mr. bloomen nour, aye. mr. mccullum, mr. yarmouth. mr. pascrell? mr. honda? mr. honda, aye. mr. ryan of ohio. mr. ryan, aye. ms. wasserman schultz? ms. wasserman schultz, aye. ms. moore? ms. moore, aye. mr. caster? mr. caster, aye. mr. schueler? mr. schueler, aye. ms. bass. ms. bass, aye. ms. bonamici? ms. bonamici, aye. mr. chairman? >> no. >> mr. chairman, no. mr. garrett? mr. garrett, no. >> are there any other members looking to vote tore change their vote? if not, the clerk sha report. >> mr. chairman on that vote, ayes 13, nos are 20. >> nos have it. the amendment is not agreed to. are there further amendments? it's, ms. kaefcastor, i think. isn't it? yeah, i do, but i just want to get -- yeah. go ahead and offer -- >> thank you, mr. chairman. >> so the amendment offered by ms. castor, amendment at the deck. >> i have an amendment at the desk. gent. lady from florida? >> amendment offered by ms. castor relating to medicare. gentle lady is recognized nine minutes. >> thank you, mr. chairman. mr. chairman, in addition to the republican plan that

ms. kaptur: thank you. madam speaker, ones again republicans in the house have put forward a budget that ends medicare as we know it. this is an all-out republican assault on medicare and our nation's middle class. who benefits from this republican budget? millionaires certainly do. think wall street bonus boys. this republican budget would give them an additional tax cut of $187,000. that's for starters. yet lower and middle class americans, people making $20,000 to $30,000 a year, they get no tax cut at all this. republican budget also gives away $3 trillion in tax cuts to corporations. republicans real priorities? cutting the safety net, ignoring the damage to the deficit. the republicans would end the promise of medicare for both current and future beneficiaries by shifting the program to private insurance financed by vouchers. the nop partisan congressional budget office says says the republican budget would reduce benefits to seniors and force many to spend much more than they do today. why are the re

ms. kaptur. >> i thank the ranking member, mr. van hollen, and wish to state that the best way to balance budgets is to put everybody back to work so we can -- they can pay their bills and the nation can pay our bills. the republican budget before us makes the wrong choices. it will actually blunt economic recovery which has been so hard to get started. and harm job creation in our country. but it's no real surprise that the republican budget is anti-jobs. with more than 400 days in the majority here in the house, the republicans have failed to propose a comprehensive jobs agenda. democrats have been working hard to dig us out of this job deficit hole that the bush administration left us in. as that chart so adequately represents. we can see over the last 24 months the private sector has created 3.9 million private sector jobs in this country. but we know many americans are still out of work and the republican majority has taken little action, including in this budget, to yield two jobs. the republican budget ignores the president