on the budget committee. but i don't think, there been a lot of other things going on in the house yesterday, i think it's important that we vote on this that we get the analysts from the budget committee staff to tell us what's in the budget report. >> i can address address your question sir. according to cbo, it says that the legislation would not increase the direct spending by more than $5 million either the first two consecutive 10 year periods beginning 2026. however the agencies, cbo are not able to determine whether an acting the legislation would increase net direct spending in the third or fourth 10 year period. by enacting legislation that would increase budgets by at least $5 million beginning in 2026. >> in fact i have not seen that my cell. it makes the point very clearly that despite comments about trying to balance the budget, this impact makes the budget deficit worse. i think i think it is import people understand that is what they are doing here in the budget committee. the budget that passe

. >> the house budget committee met today to consider the 2016 federal budget. reconciling measures proposed by three other house committees. it passed along party lines 21-11. the markup is just under two hours. >> the committee will now come to order. today we meet to report the recommendation cemented to the budget committee pursuant to the reconciliation set forth in title to of the current resolution on the budget fiscal year 2016. under the congressional budget act of 1974 the budget committee has the role of combining the reconciliation summit of the three committees. reporting the bill to the house without any revisions. after any will follow the customary practice to request changes to the reconciliation bill. at the rules committee which may make in order amendments to reconciliation bill. under the agreement i've reach with rankin member from maryland, ben holling, the procedure for the markup is as follows. first rankin member follows. first rankin member will each make an opening statement, give time constraints with four but schedule later today i a

according to the budget, the budget control act, the house budget committee determines whether an authorizing committee is in compliance with its reconciliation directives and relies on cbo's estimates. overall, the ways and means resolution does reduce the deficit over the 2016-25 period. >> no, but -- i'm sorry, i understand that. but they also focused on what i think we should all care about which is, you know, not the deficit within an artificial window, but what's the long-term impact. and it, i'm just asking a question. this is the budget committee. the -- >> the gentleman has the cbo report. >> yeah. but i don't think, you know, there have been a lot of other things going on in the house recently. i do think it's important before we vote on this that we get, you know, the analysts from the budget committee staff to tell us what's in the congressional budget office report. i'm not sure everybody here -- >> i can address your question, sir. >> thank you. >> according to cbo, it says that the legislation would not increase the net direct spending by more than $5 billion in either of the f

the personal cost of the budget is a huge cost, about a quarter of the defense budget right now. it keeps the cost of their personnel, health care, just taking care of soldiers and troops that have been constantly deploying. that number has been going up. at the same time, the number four buying new equipment, that has been going down, particularly with the budget caps. very good point. costs keeps going up with over 10 years of constant war. host: does political infighting amendments drive-up defense and intelligent costs? guest: the reason why president obama vetoed it is because, like a set earlier, the budget control act. congress took the money that the pentagon had requested, which the obama and had requested, s, and put itap in the war budget. the were budget is not subject to sequestration. it took this $38 billion and put it over there. obama administration said, no, you have to come up with a plan to fix the whole federal budget, not just the defense department. also, the administration was angry that they were not given legislation to actually able to close the military

pleasure to send it back to the budget committee for a review pending which pleasure how strong we feel about this at this time i'd like to hear from you commissioners. >> to begin with can we we've approved the other parts of overall i'm not sure we can table one part. >> each item you can vote on each item i don't know but we vote on each item to either table or action or approve that so you can table things and send it by a, to the budget committee we don't want to interrupt their operations it might be necessary if you're not thoroughly satisfied with the answers we're getting today and the skrerpz we have before us from the budget - >> so i'm new to this but that question came up when we reviewed the packet so i know there was the addition to make hold the .8 pegs or positions to one my understanding why two 0 agencies got one fte more than others my understanding was that there was more traffic through the sites and more of a program need that's why it was handles definitely than good evening from point a to point ftes we adde

pleasure to send it back to the budget committee for a review pending which pleasure how strong we feel about this at this time i'd like to hear from you commissioners. >> to begin with can we we've approved the other parts of overall i'm not sure we can table one part. >> each item you can vote on each item i don't know but we vote on each item to either table or action or approve that so you can table things and send it by a, to the budget committee we don't want to interrupt their operations it might be necessary if you're not thoroughly satisfied with the answers we're getting today and the skrerpz we have before us from the budget - >> so i'm new to this but that question came up when we reviewed the packet so i know there was the addition to make hold the .8 pegs or positions to one my understanding why two 0 agencies got one fte more than others my understanding was that there was more traffic through the sites and more of a program need that's why it was handles definitely than good evening from point a to point ftes we adde

is about the budget and about the appropriations process. and as long as we have those budget caps locked in place, we will be at the ragged edge of what we can do to protect our national security. we shouldn't be there. we should lift the budget caps. this ndaa locks in those budget caps, uses the oco dodge which as i pointed out the senate isn't agreeing to the $38 billion isn't going to be there and even worse, what secretary carter has also said is that the oco funding perpetuates the five years of budget cuts and uncertainty of c.r.'s of government shutdown, of threatened government shutdowns, of not being able to plan. secretary carter has been very clear. he opposes this bill because the oco funding is not an adequate way to fund defense because it is one year money, it is a budget gimmick, it doesn't give them the ability to plan and do what they need to protect our country and take care of our troops. opposing this bill because of oco funding is enormously important to our troops and is a substantive part of this. i want to respond a

it will be a way to skirt the budget caps. if we do it this year, we have set a precedent for next year and the following year. in ten years from now, the defense bill could authorize billions of dollars of funding for programs that while meritorious will have little or nothing to do with national defense and should be properly budgeted within our base budget for other departments, and indeed some programs properly funded within the department of defense base budget. simply put, this approach would circumvent the budget control act, if not fiscally responsible or honest accounting. it's time that we come together as a congress before the short-term continuing resolution expires to fulfill our responsibilities to the american people, especially our troops and their families, to fully fund our government by revising or eliminating the budget caps imposed by the b.c.a. on both defense and non-defense spending. in fact, and indeed, if it were not for the o.c.o. issue, i would have likely signed the conference report and have voted

what are the terms of this budget deal? well, in short, what the house of representatives has passed and what the senate is expected to pass shortly is a bill that adds $858 billion in spending increases. $85 billion in spending increases. $85 billion to our national debt. $85 billion to your children and my children that they're somehow expected to pay. i don't know about your kids but my girls don't have $85 billion laying around in their rooms. and it's put together in a way only washington could love. the spending increases, when do they occur? surprise to nobody, $37 billion in 2016, $36 million in 2017, $12 billion in 2018. but, we were told, fear not. there are some spending cuts to offset them. and wonderfully, marry rack husbandly, ostensiblier there oe suppose to be a few spending cuts in at the very end, 10 years from now, when my daughter caroline will be getting ready to graduate high school -- she's 7 now -- 10 years from now we are told $33 billion will be cut in 2025. well, mr. president, if you believe that,

why is this in the war fighting budget? is is supposed to fund the operation there, but they have put in new combat aircraft in re and we are not even flying them. this is a gimmick that the pentagon has used it to get around budget caps. the pentagon asked for $36 billion more in the base budget. no way, even with stretching everything, can you justify more than $30 billion in there. this has nothing to do with the fact that we are involved in the war. this is a way to get around the budget. everybody knows people are doing this. guest: you have made my point again. this is a way to get around the constraints in the budget control act, which nobody likes. the president submitted a budget which blew through the caps. for him to be shocked to that there's gambling going on in the pentagon, you know, he is sort of like a casablanca cop. host: john in china, texas. caller: the hypocrisy of the liberal media and obama is sublimating. the republicans, when they wanted to take up planned parenthood funding, obama vetoed it. republ

revenues into the federal budget. do think it is a bit of a misconception that illegal immigration in general is costing the federal budget a huge amount of money. i do not think that is true. in fact, there is some argument that illegal immigrants, when they are working in the u.s., are actually paying taxes on their wages and they are just not getting credited with the benefits because they are using illegal social security numbers or their employer is taking that money. it does not go anywhere because they are not going to get benefits on the backend from that program. so from a federal budget perspective, comprehensive immigration reform would be a and that is also one way to increase our workforce to make up for the aging of the population. if you add new workers and through immigration reform, you can for a wild at least an to mitigate the worst effects of having the a b boomer generation retire and leaving less work population to work and pay taxes. host: one more call from lake placid, florida. c-span,good morn

out how the bipartisan accord came together. bernie backs budget. donny, who's next up, he's on the independent line in westin, wisconsin. go ahead. caller: this is my personal opinion as an independent. i think they should do away with caucuses altogether and the election of the speaker should be all members of congress so we can get back to the citizens business like immigration, etc. all of this partisanship needs to end. host:le full house will get their chance, donny. 9:00 tomorrow the whole house will vote on the speakership. paul ryan, daniel webster, nancy pelosi. if elected, paul ryan will be the first speaker from wisconsin. fellow congressman from wisconsin, sean duffy, tweeted on msnbc a while ago, in a minute i got my side kick jack duffy, he's in town to witness this historic moment in washington. his son. a lot of g.o.p. members are bringing their children to the house conference to see paul ryan and the speaker vote. back to calls and sue sdemran is on our republican line -- suzanne is on our republican line. she's in lynchburg, vir

this is the budget committee, for pete's sake. this is a bipartisan committee with thoughtful people on both sides of the aisle and our idea of progress is to talk about working together, but then to come back and try to undo the deal we did last time we worked together. folks if we're going to do this, it's going to be hard. it's going to be hard and it's going to gorern's ox. we're getting to the hard part now. voting to do something together in august, 2011, that was the easy part. coming together now and sticking with what we agreed to do in 2011, that is the hard part. and this motion begins the process of unraveling all of that bipartisanship. we can do better than that, mr. chairman. we must do better than that. i urge rejection of this motion and i yield back. mr. price: i thank the gentleman. i'm pleased to yield two minutes to the gentleman from alabama, mr. palmer. mr. palmer: thank you, mr. chairman. contrary to claims that obamacare is compassionate to health care law further entrenches a superstruck their -- structure

>> good morning and welcome to the budget and finance committee meeting and, my name is supervisor mark farrell and i am joined by tang and i want to thank the sfgtv as well as the clerk. do you have any announcements? >> please silence all cell phones, items acted upon today will be appearing on the october, 20th board of supervisors agenda, unless otherwise stated. >> could you call item one? >> resolution, authorizing the sfpuc general manager to accept an additional award through the sfpuc mlu, with the solano county water agency for the implementation for a regional water conservation program, funded in part by the grant funds from the california department of water resources for a total of award up to $1 million. >> good morning. and chair person, and the members of the budget and finance committee, i am amanda and the administrator with the public utilities commission and i am here to present on item one, part of the background, the board of supervisors in 2012, approved the sfpuc expenditures. >> could you pull the microphone closer. >> 863,000, to support the high efficiency re

>> good morning and welcome to the budget and finance committee meeting and, my name is supervisor mark farrell and i am joined by tang and i want to thank the sfgtv as well as the clerk. do you have any announcements? >> please silence all cell phones, items acted upon today will be appearing on the october, 20th board of supervisors agenda, unless otherwise stated. >> could you call item one? >> resolution, authorizing the sfpuc general manager to accept an additional award through the sfpuc mlu, with the solano county water agency for the implementation for a regional water conservation program, funded in part by the grant funds from the california department of water resources for a total of award up to $1 million. >> good morning. and chair person, and the members of the budget and finance committee, i am amanda and the administrator with the public utilities commission and i am here to present on item one, part of the background, the board of supervisors in 2012, approved the sfpuc expenditures. >> could you pull the microphone closer. >> 863,000, to support the high efficiency re

the budget bill is far from perfect. but as the saying goes the perfect should not be the enemy of the good. i believe the pass needs to pass so we can solve these problems, remove many dangerous obstacles in front of us and give ourselves a chance to govern without the cliff, crisis and deadlines all too frequently that dictate what we do around here. i plan to vote yes on this legislation and urge my colleagues to do the same. having said that, finally, i would like to compliment our majority leader. he has one of the toughest jobs on capitol hill. i want to compliment the house as well. i worked closely with the distinguished new speaker of the house. he is a tremendous human being. he does not reject the doable. he is a very strong conservative. one of the strongest spokes people in either house of congress as is our majority leader. we are working together to get important legislation passed so we can get about working on even more important legislation in the future. i want to pay tribute to paul ryan for personally

casco. >> a process on the must we approve the budget separately or on this incorporating the action item was for the resolution the action item not for the budgets. >> superintendent carranza. >> yes. good question so the commissioners are approving the resolution the budgets is not necessarily for you to approve it is informational for your. >> ms. casco roll call vote. >> thank you as amended ms. chin mr. totiano ms. fewer mr. haney ms. mendoza-mcdonnell ms. norton mr. walton ms. wynns and president murase of i's. >> thank you very much and ms. casco if you could please make sure that the vw's are authors it was an oversight thank you to the colleagues for supporting this and members of the public that came out to testify thank you. >> the next item on the agendas is item j request for speak for general matters we have several speakers (calling names). >> please come forward public comment is 2 minutes per person. >> see it but not read it. >> sorry. >> i do have a transcript of what is on here if you like a copy i could. >> please pass the transcript to ms. casco. >> that would b

>> the city of san francisco sfgtv joint meeting of the budget and finance committe occurring oct 14, 2015, will begin shortly. >> >> >> good morning, everybody and welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors, budget and finance committee meeting for wednesday, october, 14, 2014, my name is mark farrell and i am joined by katie tang and i would like to thank sfgtv for covering the meeting for today. >> do we have any announcements. >> silence all cell phones and electronic devices completed speaker cards and any documents to be completed, should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will be appearing on the 2014, board of agenda, unless otherwise stated. >> could you call item one? >> resolution, authorizing designated city and county officials to execute and file on behalf of the city and county san francisco aks necessary for the purpose of obtaining state and federal finance assistance under the various grant programs. >> my name is christian, hogan and i am the manager with the san francisco department of emergency management and the legislation that you have bef

when the budget got cut, the first thing that got cut was a communications budget. started cutting the bonuses that numbers of congress were given to their staff members. they have not seen pay increases. we did a survey of congressional chiefs of staff a few years ago. we asked a question, which of these factors do you think will lead to a staff member leaving your office in the next year? the number one answer was the frozen budgets. without staffer leaving and working as a lobbyist, what does that do to the decision-making on capitol hill? when you are losing that kind of institutional memory? these are dedicated people, congressional staff members. on average, a staff member can make 25% more money in the private sector than as a public servant. when you talk about sheaves of staff, it can be 200% more. and surveys of congressional staff, their levels of engagement as employees are off the chart. responderske first in the know terry in terms of their work ethic, how they care about what they do, their andion as an individual how it relates to the office. it is e

president, of the last budget agreement we had, the ryan-murray budget where there was a provision to very slightly adjust the cost of living increase or active duty military retirees. this is something that the military actually asked us to do because they wanted to take a portion of the savings and put it into other areas of the military, but also it would realize a savings for us. this was a small adjustment for just active duty military retirees who retired before the age of 62. if they made it all the way to 62, they could recover all the savings that were there or the cola adjustment. but after the agreement, three months after the agreement, because of lobbying by one particular small subset of those receiving these benefits, we reversed that change. just three months after we signed the deal, we reversed part of the deal. now, in this case, what we're doing with the crop insurance program is we aren't even waiting three months after the deal. we're not having a separate vote. that vote, by the way, was 97-3 to reverse it just because of some lobbying against it. that was -- i

>> good morning, everybody and welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors, budget and finance committee meeting for wednesday, october, 14, 2014, my name is mark farrell and i am joined by katie tang and i would like to thank sfgtv for covering the meeting for today. >> do we have any announcements. >> silence all cell phones and electronic devices completed speaker cards and any documents to be completed, should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will be appearing on the 2014, board of agenda, unless otherwise stated. >> could you call item one? >> resolution, authorizing designated city and county officials to execute and file on behalf of the city and county san francisco aks necessary for the purpose of obtaining state and federal finance assistance under the various grant programs. >> my name is christian, hogan and i am the manager with the san francisco department of emergency management and the legislation that you have before you today is a governing body resolution, authorizing the city and county of san francisco to apply for this year's home land secu

>> good morning, everybody and welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors, budget and finance committee meeting for wednesday, october, 14, 2014, my name is mark farrell and i am joined by katie tang and i would like to thank sfgtv for covering the meeting for today. >> do we have any announcements. >> silence all cell phones and electronic devices completed speaker cards and any documents to be completed, should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will be appearing on the 2014, board of agenda, unless otherwise stated. >> could you call item one? >> resolution, authorizing designated city and county officials to execute and file on behalf of the city and county san francisco aks necessary for the purpose of obtaining state and federal finance assistance under the various grant programs. >> my name is christian, hogan and i am the manager with the san francisco department of emergency management and the legislation that you have before you today is a governing body resolution, authorizing the city and county of san francisco to apply for this year's home land secu

>> good morning, everybody and welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors, budget and finance committee meeting for wednesday, october, 14, 2014, my name is mark farrell and i am joined by katie tang and i would like to thank sfgtv for covering the meeting for today. >> do we have any announcements. >> silence all cell phones and electronic devices completed speaker cards and any documents to be completed, should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will be appearing on the 2014, board of agenda, unless otherwise stated. >> could you call item one? >> resolution, authorizing designated city and county officials to execute and file on behalf of the city and county san francisco aks necessary for the purpose of obtaining state and federal finance assistance under the various grant programs. >> my name is christian, hogan and i am the manager with the san francisco department of emergency management and the legislation that you have before you today is a governing body resolution, authorizing the city and county of san francisco to apply for this year's home land secu

that is the congressional budget office. it will cause 2.5 million employees to drop out of the labor market. it also created hundreds of's forcing businesses to bend thousands of man-hours compliant with new washington regulations. we should instead look at how we can free up businesses and promote growth and innovation. this bill will help reduce our deficit by over $79 billion over the next ten years and set us on a path of healthcare years and set us on a path of healthcare system that favors cutting costs and higher taxes, force it will create jobs. republicans in our budget and reconciliation process are supporting greater economic freedom and opportunities. i yield back. >> thank you i yield one minute to new jersey. >> i think the chairman. there's there is bipartisan agreement that medical device tax must go. the house represented boated to repeal it back in the 114 congers, 113th and 112th congress. typically they are on next like alcohol and tobacco. but now there is an excise tax on life-saving and life improving

the second aspect of budget stability is the recent history at the national budget level of continuing resolutions and government shutdowns. both components lead to cost and schedule impacts to the programs via continuous replanning, confusion across the entire team and loss of team focus. nasa manages risk, cost and schedule through daily contractor interaction, periodic almost program reviews with details discussed of technical progress, issues and risks. the joint confidence level is a model risk-based approach to assess potential technology -- technical uncertainties and their possible sensitivities and impacts to the cost and schedule of a program. this is proven to be successful in robotic mission programs but is more difficult for the large, longer-term programs such as the space launch system and orion. in summary, the biggest challenge in developing the space launch system, orion, the launch sport infrastructure and commercial crew is budget stability, not the technical issues. managing the programs efficiently and effectively is the result of the dedicated nasa industry team

>> back to the budget. right before the briefing there were reports from the hill that congress was close to a two-year budget deal that would also raise the debt ceiling. it sounds like the white house that agreement to be a little further out. can you tell us a level of involvement the white house has in these conversations that you have heard and can confirm that there is, you know, progress being made and they're close to a two-year deal? and also there are reports the deal would call for cuts on medicare and social security disability benefits. can you tell us where the white house would stand on that? >> well, julia, we have worked to protect the privacy and confidentiality of these discussions. i don't have an update for you in terms of the progress that's being made in those discussions. we have said all along that a budget deal will only be yielded if republicans and democrats sit down on capitol hill and work together in good faith to reach a compromise. the white house has been involved in a subst

that is the congressional budget office. obamacare will cost 2.5 million employees to drop out of the labour market, and create hundreds of rules forcing businesses, thousands of man hours complying with new washington regulations. we should instead look to free up businesses and promote growth, this will reduce the deficit by $75 million and set us on a path toward the health care system that favors cutting costs and higher taxes and create jobs. republicans in the budget in this reconciliation process are supporting greater economic freedom and opportunity supporting families and job creators. >> i now yield want gentleman, mr. garrett. >> there is bipartisan agreement at the medical device act, representative voted to repeal it in the 114th congress and the 112st congress sales on other products like alcohol and tobacco, but this proposes excise tax on manufacturing life-saving and life improving devices. additionally it is a tax on sales, not profits. us on a medical device firm, and disproportionately so the massive cost

. >> good morning, everybody and welcome to the san francisco board of supervisors, budget and finance committee meeting for wednesday, october, 14, 2014, my name is mark farrell and i am joined by katie tang and i would like to thank sfgtv for covering the meeting for today. >> do we have any announcements. >> silence all cell phones and electronic devices completed speaker cards and any documents to be completed, should be submitted to the clerk. items acted upon today will be appearing on the 2014, board of agenda, unless otherwise stated. >> could you call item one? >> resolution, authorizing designated city and county officials to execute and file on behalf of the city and county san francisco aks necessary for the purpose of obtaining state and federal finance assistance under the various grant programs. >> my name is christian, hogan and i am the manager with the san francisco department of emergency management and the legislation that you have before you today is a governing body resolution, authorizing the city and county of san francisco to apply for this year's home land sec

the budget caps were supposed to slow down the rate of growth of spending and they're busting the budgetaps because the right wants more military money and the left wants more domestic money. you scratch my back, i will scratch yours. unholy alliance in washington. it is really kind of a secret, people don't know about this, right and left are both big spenders. they get together and compromise they make is what is busting the budget. melissa: a number of times people made the point last night the real opponent is not anyone on the stage, it's hillary clinton. you think you're the bt person to run against her and what would you do to defeat her? >> when you look at my polling against her in five states won by president obama you find that i attracted independent and youth vote because i'm one of the few candidates on republican side who will say the government shouldn't collect our phone records. i don't think the government should put people in jail for minor offenses like marijuana. i don't think the government should put our young sons and daughters over to another war in iraq. you ad

a no because of the pay-fors in this budget. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from kentucky reserves and the gentleman from maryland is recognized. mr. van hollen: i'm pleased to yelled two minutes to someone who is focused on making sure we keep the full faith and credit of the united states, mr. welch of vermont. mr. welch: there are two reasons why this deserves our support. this is good public policy. this finally unleashes the hackles of the congress. and mr. rogers, you are going to have an opportunity through your appropriation committee, republicans and democrats, to do their job. second, it averts enormous increases in medicare part b premiums. third, it keeps social security disability funds solvent through 2022 and there are a number of other things. but the second major reason why this is so important is this, it is an agreement. we have finally come together through the leadership of speaker boehner and leader pelosi to legislate. and we have been

our budget has declined. in the last 4-5 years, look at where our budget has shrunk -- we are the bill payers. that's why suppressant is critical. is really todone set and affordability ceiling. when you do that, you needo marry up your report ability -- affordability in terms of what you can desigign -- you cannot just try to think of everything you would like to have. don'have the money for that. feel l theyoyou program will be sustained? what is next for the p program f it stays on track? -- there is a gel protest. we will find out by december 23. -- jail protest. vago: o one of the keys for that program that has gotten a lot of the stubbornness with which the requirements we written focost reductions. a very important piece of this expect model -- you you will use that methodology on otr programs as well? >> absolutely. one thing they have done on the junk bond chaptpter, it's something that helps us think things through. how much do you want to pay for that extra capability? we took all the capabilitie and comp

he balanced the budget for a short period of time, right? i think that kasich tonight, i think, made the strongest case for a financial house in order. of course, you're right. he's talking about ohio, and ohio has to balance the budget. he's done that, but he has the numbers at that back him up and the jobs. whether he -- it's because of the natural gas they've got and some of the economic boom they had and trump attacked him for that. nonetheless, kasich can point to some real economic cause and effect and some of the budget matters in his own state that prove logical. he's saying he's going to bring that to the federal government. there's a really big problem with that. the state of ohio is not trying to run a 2 million person military. the state of ohio doesn't have to pay off the national debt. so it's much, much more complicated than this. it's very good to talk about it. i think they're on the right track. they should be talking about and much more of it. that's going to be fascinating when we start to see the republicans and democrats

what was the expected amount that you had budgeted for the aecom piece? what was the -- >> typically the budgets is for the environmental documentation and for the design and the construction support are typically in the range of 25 plus percent of the construction contract. in that regard -- this project is very intense project. in that regard, we are in that 25 to 30% range >> what would that range be h ere? >> the 25% range would be approximately $15 million, 30% range being approximately $18 million. they fall in that range. i completely understand, commissioner campos, it's a large contract at the end of the day. >> it's a large contract but unfortunately has been increased pretty significantly in increments. that worries me because it's the one, two -- it's the fourth amendment to a contract that started as a $2.5 million and now it's a $17 million contract. >> understood. this is the final amendment. we are in a position now that we can complete the project. we've got a compliment -- commitment from them. we understand there's some additional scope

he helped craft the last balanced federal budget as the house budget chairman nearly two decades ago,n. >> i went to a meeting the other way where they said we could do it by 2030. too long. too much debt. within the first 100 days we will have that plan to balance the budget in eight years and to keep it balanced, i will start the process to amend our constitution to require washington to balance its budget every single year like states and like families in america. liz: joined now by fox news's anchor bret baier, he is polling only 1%, and a lot of people on the street say i like kasich, he has a legit massey about him. why the discrepancy. >> welcome to washington by the way. liz: thank you for letting me here. >> it's our set, collective. >> some of the candidates are having success in new hampshire for example, or in iowa. one of the early states, but nationally, not really taking off. he didn't have a great debate last debate in california. he does have obviously the resume, as you talked about, the experience, and has a lot of time balancing a budget, not only on capitol hill b

this is a budget update on our progress on finalizing the update of the budget. it includes a status of the remaining construction trade packages and scope to be awarded and on the-going discussions with mtc on the cost results for phase one. it includes results of the risk assessment that we under dwlt took and update on the funding picture and discussions with mtc and the city and s fta for the funding picture and go over the next steps between now and november. the board is awarded approximately $128 billion in direct construction costs. this includes the issuance of a change order we did early this month for the installation of the column covers and close up panels. we noted at the last meeting we needed to do that in order to maintain the current construction schedule so that was issued earlier this month. this is a listing of the remaining scopes that need to be award. we have $130 million to be awarded which we wish to award once the budget is approved. in order to maintain the current schedule and minimize impact toss the ongoing construction activities we

because we got together in the house with a budget and the senate in the budget, we brought a budget together, we are now in the process of reconciliation which allows us to have the people's will be done. 51 ves in the senate now will move legislation forward as it relates to balancing the budget. you remember admiral mullen, he said, mr. speaker, the greatest threat to american national security wasn't a military threat, he said it was our federal budget deficit. we have done such an amazing job collaboratively in this chamber working on the 1/3 of the budget pie called discretionary spending. that's the spending we have to work on here every year. what we have failed to do together is work on the 2/3 of the pie called mandatory spending. where the real growth in those budget programs occurs. but that failure ends today. with the passage of this rule, we will move to consider the first reconciliation package that has come to congress in the 4 1/2 years that i have been here. made possible by the first balanced budget agreement that congress has come to since 2001. mr. speaker, this