the r.s.c. budget turns us promptly and safely. it builds on the house budget committee's work but within the budget passed by the house last year, as adjusted by the sequester. i've heard the descriptions, it's draconian, it's radical, it's extreme. it returns us to the spending levels before the obama-pelosi spending bing began in 2008. that might sound extreme to my friends across the aisle but i assure them, many families have been working within flat or diminished family budgets since then and they have every right to expect that their government over the next five years does what they have already been doing over the past five. work hard, waste not, and live within your means. if we were to do so, this nation cowl see a balanced budget again within five years and redeem its rightful place as the respected financial leader of the world. we know the challenge. we see the american dream at risk. and we know that we have but a fleeting moment in history to avoid the hardest times our nation has ever known. we still have a chance t

we're in this situation and this is the only budget being presented along with one other later, the r.s.c. budget, that actually treats this problem seriously. that treats it with the seriousness it deserves, that actually has a plan to get out of it. so i commend the house republicans for putting it forward and i plan to support it and i yield back. the chair: the gentleman yields back. the gentleman from maryland. mr. van hollen: thank you, madam chairman. i would point out again, just in response to my friend, mr. flake, this is the chart that was used by the chairman of the budget committee, mr. ryan, showing the president's plan on medicare and the republican plan on medicare. both which have cost containment over the next coming decades. the difference is how you achieve that cost difference and the difference is that the republican plan offloads all the risks of what they probably to be increasing health care costs -- project to be increasing health care costs onto seniors because unlike the plan that members of congress have which is -- providing a constant 42% premium support sha