van hollen. i thank dr. price for his presence here today engay gim -- engaining in this discussion. in a few days, i will be meeting with a number of my clergy along with my small business community, coming from all walks of life. all of us have found in our hearts an minds to recognize that small business is in fact the back bone of this country. so i would ask that as we look at the issue of macroeconomic analysis of this legislation, that we include a well defined concept as to understand what the impact will be on hub zone areas as defined by the small business act. h.r. 3582 would require the congressional budget office to provide a macroeconomic impact analysis for bills estimated to have large budgetary effect. under this bill, there would be analysis that would come about on a number of issues. -- issues that would in fact involve the gross domestic product. the small business administration administers several programs to administration businesses, including underused business empowerment, the hub

van hollen: inc. the record should be clear that every year that the congress has frozen federal employee pay, we have also frozen congressional pay. what we have not done is tried to hold federal employee pay hostage to what we do on congressional pay. we should be very clear that we all on the democratic side support freezing congressional pay in the year 2013. indeed, mr. cummings and i, mr. hoyer and others, have introduced legislation to do just that. it's h.r. 3858. the democratic leadership asked that we bring that up on the suspension calendar today. we were denied that opportunity. and so i now ask unanimous consent that after we complete debate on this bill, we add to today's suspension calendar h.r. 3858 so that we can vote as a body on freezing congressional pay. the speaker pro tempore: is there objection to the gentleman's unanimous consent agreement? >> i do object to the unanimous consent agreement. mr. van hollen: this illustrates the point exactly. we just heard mr. duffy -- the spea

van hollen: thank you, mr. speaker. i yield three minutes to the gentleman from north carolina, mr. price. the chair: the gentleman from north carolina is recognized for three minutes. mr. price: once again, instead of debating a bill that would create jobs and bring this economy back or a comprehensive effort to put our fiscal house in order, we are here on this floor tonight focusing on a so-called budget reform bill. this bill will do nothing to spur economic growth. it will do nothing to bring us closer to a balanced budget, although it could greatly confuse and complicate the budget process. we must be clear what this bill does, mr. chairman. the bill present tends that inflation doesn't occur. it's a pipe dream. by eliminating baseline calculations, it would make it far more difficult to estimate future budget needs. we need to know exactly what it would take to maintain the current level of effort, the current level of services in governmental programs. with that knowledge, we can make realistic decisions, knowin

congressman van hollen? guest: i agree that certainly did the regulation of some of the financial markets that took place -- certainly the deregulation of some of the financial markets that took place helped to accelerate the great recession going forward. if that is one of the reasons congress along with president obama passed the wall street reform bill, often referred to as dodd-frank, and it worries me to hear people say let's get rid of dodd-frank because it is an attempt to learn the lessons from a financial meltdown, and make sure that never again does a financial meltdown hold the entire economy hostage. we do not want to see any government bailouts of the banking industry, and that is why it is so important that we have a transparent process and more accountability to prevent that. with respect to foreclosures, the president just yesterday announced a plan whereby people who are current on their mortgages, who are making their mortgages regularly, on time, and have good credit ratings should be able

van hollen. i appreciate the bipartisanship in which they have worked on this issue but i will tell you, bipartisanship does not make something right which is fundamentally wrong. and this is fundamentally wrong. i also feel a little bit like cuss ter at the little big horn -- custer at the little bighorn. i know this is probably going to pass, without much doubt. but it's still wrong. for 200 years as the gentleman from alaska said congress has been shifting more and more authority to the administrative branch or to the administrative branch of government. we are doing again with this legislation. i keep hearing people talk about earmarks and airdropped provisions in appropriation bills. i would remind the members, in the 2011 appropriation bill there were no earmarks. there were no airdrops. in the 2012 appropriation bills there were no earmarks, there were no aircrops. we have changed the way we -- airdrops. we have changed the way we do business around here. you might have had an argue severa

van hollen, using that as a lead in, what are the state of talks right now? i understand that some of the talks breaking down over the weekend were pinned to length of time and off sets. what can you tell us? >> i don't want to get into a lot of detail other than to say i think you know the democrats proposed a permanent doc fix. we had proposed as part of that that we use some of the war savings. it is not clear whether our house republican colleagues will go along with that. i should point out some of the senate republicans have been supportive of that idea, but house republicans did not take kindly to it in the public meetings, and so we're looking for other alternatives. as you say, you can have anything from a one-year fix to a permanent fix. >> on the war savings, a lot of people say this is not a legitimate offset, this money that wasn't going to be spent anyway. how do you all respond to that? >> why don't you look at this year's budget and what's been happening. the reality is that the war savings budget, the budget that's been put aside for the war

van hollen. >> thank you, mr. chairman, dr. bernanke, thank you for your testimony. you laid out what i think is a very clear two-track strategy for dealing with economic growth as we move forward. the first is recognizing the fiscal and budget tear challenge that we've got, and i think there's agreement on this committee that we need to come up with a predictable stable way to reduce our deficits and debt. we've had disagreements over how we do it, but not whether we do it. and in looking at that, there are two lessons i think from what we see happening in europe, one is the debt crisis. if you wait too long to address these issues, you're right. your borrowing cost also go up. people will lose faith. we should heed that as an early warning and not delay putting in place those predictable changes. but your testimony also pointed out that there's a danger in overreacting to that in the near term in terms of the negative impact it could have on economic growth. and the other strategy that you've l

van hollen: thank you, madam chair. here we are another day on the floor of the house, another day when we haven't taken up the president's jobs bill that he presented right here before a joint session of congress last september. we've had some good news in the economy, some numbers that show that we have a fragile recovery going on. it would be a huge mistake not to do everything we can to nurture that recovery so i hope we will finally take up the president's proposal and i hope that the ongoing conference committee on the payroll tax cut will complete its work in an expeditious manner. now, with respect to this particular bill that is before us, it raises some very serious and very complicated issues regarding budget accounting for credit programs. and i want to commend mr. garrett from new jersey. i want to commend him for raising some legitimate issues as part of this conversation, issues that deserve our attention. but it is totally premature to bring this bill to the floor without having more hearings and more re

chairman, congress machb van hollen and your kind words about cbo. i'm priv lemged to be leading a group of extraordinairely talented and dedicated public servants and we all appreciate it very much what you have shown for our work. we will continue do our very best for this committee and for congress as a whole. i'll be referring as i talk to some charts that i'm told are in your notebooks. it's about a half a dozen slides. they're mostly out of the outlook, but they're collected in this handout to make it easier for you to follow what i say. lenlet me begin by saying the economic projections are considered on current law not because we expect that there will be no changes in law but because this approach provides a benchmark against which potential changes can be measured. what we are presenting is a benchmark, not a forecast. that distinction has a large impact on the budget and economic projections. what is our assessment of the economic outlook? as you know, the pace of the recovery has been slow since the recession ended 2 1/2 years ago, and we

van hollen: inc. the record should be clear that every year that the congress has frozen federal employee pay, we have also frozen congressional pay. what we have not done is tried to hold federal employee pay hostage to what we do on congressional pay. we should be very clear that we all on the democratic side support freezing congressional pay in the year 2013. indeed, mr. cummings and i, mr. hoyer and others, have introduced legislation to do just that. it's h.r. 3858. the democratic leadership asked that we bring that up on the suspension calendar today. we were denied that opportunity. and so i now ask unanimous consent that after we complete debate on this bill, we add to today's suspension calendar h.r. 3858 so that we can vote as a body on freezing congressional pay. the speaker pro tempore: is there objection to the gentleman's unanimous consent agreement? >> i do object to the unanimous consent agreement. mr. van hollen: this illustrates the point exactly. we just heard mr. duffy -- the spea

kent conrad is the chairman of the senate budget committee and chris van hollen is the ranking member of the house budget committee. they spoke to reporters about the white house pose a $3.80 trillion budget. this is about 35 minutes. >> i personally believe this is moving the country in the right direction. i think we need to put in context the circumstances we have faced. first of all the president inherited a fiscal disaster. that was not of his making. that was of the previous administration policy-making and he has had to cope with it ever since. i am encouraged by the trajectory of the deficit under the president's proposal from 8.5% of gdp down to 2.8% of gdp at the end of the budget period. it is important to remember the context within which the president is operating. in 2008 and 2009, we experienced the worst recession since the great depression. economy contracted at a rate of almost 9% in the fourth quarter of 2008. barack obama was not the president of the united states. we lost 800,000 private sector jobs in january of 2009. that was not the result of the policies of ba

in the end, the congress has the final say. >> the comments of representative chris van hollen a democrat from suburban maryland here in the d.c. area, and chairman paul ryan. he will be delivering cpac conference remarks with his remarks to get under way at 7:30 eastern time, and you can check out the scheduling information on our website cspan.org. today, we are looking at corporate tax policy and hearing from a number of executives including fedex and time warner and executives saying they would be in favor of all tax benefits in exchange to lowering the corporate tax rate to 25%. they testifieded on on the panel before the house ways and means committee today which is the chief tax writing committee in the house of representatives all of the witnesses who testified today described the u.s. tax code as something that imposes challenges to businesses, because of the complexity and uncertainty, and michael frit is with fedex and also mark shicktell with time warner school, and also an associate professor joining us from m.i.t., and also, an investor from ernst & young. and diane black is

van hollen and i put forward. that agreement would, as the current agreement would say that the only individuals paying for this bill out of 315 million americans are the two million civilian workers who work for us, who work for all of us, who day after day, week after week, month after month make sure we give the services to the people of the united states, protect the united states, ensure that our food is safe, ensure that we have amphibious agents on the job, -- make sure we have f.b.i. agents on the job, these are all civilian employees. highly skilled. highly trained. highly educated and, yes highly motivated. and every day they give outstanding service to the people of the united states. we talk here and we pass laws here but none of those -- none of that talk and none of those laws makes a difference unless somebody implements what we say and the policies that we set. this congress is on the path to be the most anti-federal worker congress that i have served in. and i'm going to place that in context for

van hollen and i put forward. that agreement would, as the current agreement would say that the only individuals paying for ts bill out of 315 million americans are the two million civilian workers who work for us, who work for all of us, who day after day, week after week, month after month make sure we give the services to the people of the united states, protect the united states, ensure that our food is safe, ensure that we have amphibious agents on the job, -- make sure we have f.b.i. agents on the job, these are all civilian employees. highly skilled. highly trained. highly educated and, yes highly motivated. and every day they give outstanding service to the people of the united states. we talk here and we pass laws here but none of those -- none of that talk and none of those laws makes a difference unless somebody implements what we say and the policies that we set. this congress is on the path to be the most anti-federal worker congress that i have served in. and i'm going to place that in context for yo

republican chairman of the house budget committee, paul ryan, and democratic congressman, chris van hollen. captions paid for by nbc-universal television >>> nine days to go for voters to go to the polls in arizona, and contraception issues back in the news. and rick santorum with a range of issues in what he called a phoney agenda. listen. >> it's not about you. it's not about you. it's not abouter quality of life or about your job. it's about some phoney ideal. some phoney theology. not a theology based on the bible, a different theology, but no less a theology. >> and paul ryan, republican of wisconsin and the ranking member, and chris van hollen. we are in the heat of a presidential campaign here, and a primary fight on the republican side and i want to ask more about the serial issues. rick santorum talked about a phoney theology, as he put it, that the president has, and he went on after that speech to stand by the remarks. here's what he had to say. >> the president has come to owe pressing religious freedom, and it's a position of his values over a church who has very clear theolog

joining us is chris van hollen of maryland.tend just the payroll tax cut without the need to pay for it. is this a deal that you think democrats might be able to live with? >> well, martin, we should move forward on all three pieces. we could extend the payroll tax cut for 160 million americans, and i'm glad to hear our republican colleagues seem to be saying they're willing to do that without offsets that sock it to others in the middle class, but we should also make sure the millions of americans who are unemployed through no fault of their own and have paid into the unemployment system continue to get support. there are millions of seniors on medicare who rely on doctors, and that's why it's important we deal with that piece as well. >> and as you know, sir, one of the things that republicans would like to attach to any extension of unemployment benefits is drug testing. is that something that democrats would accept? >> well, the drug testing is a red herring. it suggests -- >> not according to the republicans, sir. >> yeah,

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we pass it before and chris van hollen's edition. -- leadership. if we speak about this to the public and mr. allison will address that, we believe pressure will be on coz shareholders and employees to know what the political contributions are. now it is my honor to yield the floor to the distinguished gentleman from maryland, the ranking democrat on the budget committee, he has served on the conference, the payroll tax cut, and he is the author of the disclosed at in the previous congress and has reintroduced it today, mr. van hollen. >> thank you for your leadership on the disclose act, as well as making for the american people get a fair shake, and i am pleased to be here with my colleagues, mr. israel and mr. ellison. in announcing to disclose act today, the american people deserve a political system that is fair, transparent, and accountable. if the political system is fair, transparent, and a campbell, we believe that will result and policies that are fair, and as the president said in his state of the union address, the american people deser

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by the way, congressman van hollen is at a budget committee hearing, so he decided to stay there for a bit. i told him i thought he was using wise judgment, because the importance of that, and he'll be here as soon as possible. we need to extend this program to pick up senator casey with your comments. the last year we have the data for, 2010, only one in five poor children were receiving tanf assistance. one in fife. and that's the lowest level since 1965. i think it also should be mentioned that despite the depth of the recession, and these are the figures that i have, that since the summer of 2008, the tanf caseload has increased only rather lightly from 2008 july through 2011 june, the tanf caseload increased 15%, roughly 250,000 families. and this is at a time, as i said, of exceptionally high unemployment. and we're now trying to gather the figures. we don't have them. as to how many people have exhausted their unemployment insurance. but it's far larger a number than those who have become part of the tanf program. so this i think underlines the absolute importance of continuin

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van hollen raised and mr. crapo raised as well. we can dispose the issue of the social security trust fund at the same time. >> i heard his comment. we are trying to stay focused on the issues right now. because of that, i don't feel a need to give a long speech. obviously being from michigan, i understand the importance of unemployment insurance. i hear that we see broad agreeme agreement. i would like to move forward and address the next issue. the issue of unemployment. >> mr. chairman. it is only fair. we are all in agreement. both sides. both bodies. ten more months for the payroll tax for the end of the year. i think in the air, there is a sense that will need to be paid for. >> yes. >> but that raises the next question. will we find enough money that we can agree on to pay for it? i think you appropriately said that it is an issue we will deal with a little later. work on the substance first. if we cannot agree how to pay for it or to the degree we cannot, we may have to look at other options on the payroll tax. that is mayb

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van hollen. >> thank you mr. chairman and again thank you director zients for being here. let me pick up on a couple point the chairman raised. the simpson's-bowles commission set $4 trillion in deficit reduction as their ten-year wind window. and they set something in that range. included in their recommendations was reducing discretionary spending by actually over a trillion dollars. as part of the budget control act we passed we cut discretionary spending by approximately $1 trillion, it seems reasonable and i think ordinary americans watching this proceeding would agree that you should be able to count the effort that we made already towards the $4 trillion, after all it was recommended we do it and we did it. that is a trillion dollars. we also, as you pointed out, put in place this mechanism to achieve another trillion dollars through a sequester, it has across the board cuts to defense and nondefense investments and what you proposed is another better, more balanced way o achieving that $1.2 trillion deficit reduction. just because it's built in that assumptions tha

we've got chris van hollen and paul ryan, paul ryan, of course, the budget chair, and van hollen, ther. we'll talk about the economy as well and leadership in washington and how big of a fight that's going to be into the fall. >> and a pretty entertaining "press pass." >> brian stokes mitchell is a broadway star and did a performance about honoring duke ellington. i thought it was a good time to take a look at arts for a bit. one of the great voices, great broadway stars. >> did you get him to sing? >> i did, actually, i did. it made the people working for me a little nervous, but it was great. he was terrific. >> all right, david gregory. >> that's right after the show. >> tune in. thank you very much. >>> when david got to the set, the first question he asked was what about snow? >> well, then you need to explain this to my kids. >> i've got my cell phone. you can call them directly, tell them what's going on happen. >> the call's going out to david's house and your houses, keep your expectations low, low, low for this sunday event. your detailed forecast is next. >>> welcome back,

van hollen. >> thank you mr. chairman and director zients. the bipartisan commission said $4 trillion in deficit reduction as their window. and they set something in that h range. included in their recommendations was reducing expending by over a trillion dollars. as part of the budget control act we passed, we cut passe discretionary spending by approximately $1 trillion. it seems reasonable and i think ordinary americans watching this understands that you should mera count the effort you made towards the $4 trillion. after all it was recommended we do it and we did it.on that is a trillion dollars. and you have a mechanism to m achieve another trillion dollaro through a sequester. it has across the board cuts to defense and nondefense investments and what you proposed is another better, more reduction. it's just because it's built in that this massive $1.2 trillion cut o that nobody in this room thinks that is the best approach, justd because you came up with a better way of doing it doesn't e mean that your budget should not be credited wi

chris van hollen should agree on that because you know, it's wrong for him to disagree on it. i think salaries should be frozen one more year. thank you. annapolis, maryland. >> i'm calling from college park, maryland. sean duffy is misrepresenting the situation. it turns out that the lower paid federal employees are being paid more than private sector employees. but upper paid federal employees are not. they're paid less than public sector employees. so to treat them all the same and want to freeze their wages is unfair and unrealistic. i think we should have the truth from representative duffy. >> calling from westchester, pennsylvania, my name's michael. and i think that the great idea, in can the fa, i would take it a step further and ask that they take a 10% pay cut when they don't -- when they fail to meet a balanced budget. i think it's ridiculous that think that they should not be penalized for doing their job properly especially when you consider that most of the time they're not even at congress. they're off on other you know, tasks outside of congress instead of foc

of representatives and sponsored by congressman paul ryan, and ranking republican member chris van hollen and let's begin with this debate this hour that continues to percolate here in washington, d.c. and around the country. from the "washington post" seeking to stoke the political ver nublability of the president, the republican lawmakers seeking to ram up the pressure on the white house over a controversial new health care rule that critics say violates religious liberty. it would repeal the legislation unless the white house relents, and dovetailing writes the "washington post" that it is a rule that requires employers regardless of the religious after fill yagtss to provide contraceptive and other birth control provisions as part of the employees health care plans, and it was opposed to by a number of catholics on the president's staff. we will get more background on this with margaret tallen who has a piece with the white house angle from bloomberg news. first the speaker of the house as he went to the floor earlier today with this statement. >> my colleagues, in recent days, americ

that's the main reason why budgets are useful and representative van hollen, can you comment on the house leadership's backup plan that they announced to just pass the payroll tax that's unpaid for? >> i will be happy to answer. >> with respect to the house leadership and i haven't seen the full statement and i saw some of their comments. first of all, we should have what this conference committee work its will, and we should focus on the priority, and the priority is extending the payroll tax cut for 160 million americans, extending unemployment insurance for ten months for millions of americans out of work through no fault of their own and making sure that seniors on medicare have doctors that will participate in the program. we should be able to get that done. i would hope that the house republican leadership instead of issuing threats would make sure that the conference committee moves forward to get the job done for the american people because frankly we saw what happened the last time. the house republican leadership decided to go it alone. their proposal crashed and burned. it put

. >> chir man ryan, ranking member van hollen and other members of the committee, i appreciate this opportunity to discuss my views on economic outlook, monetary policy and the challenges facing federal fiscal policymakers. over the past 2 1/2 years, u.s. economy has been gradually recovering from a deep recession. while conditions have certainly improved over this period, the pace of the recovery has been frustratingly slow. particularly from the perspective of the millions of workers who remain unemployed or underemployment. moreover, this sluggish expansion has left the economy vulnerable to shocks. indeed last year supply chain disruption stemming from the earthquake in japan, a surge in the prices of oil and other commodities and spillovers from the european debt crisis risked derailing the economy. fortunately over the last few months, spending and job market activity have shown signs of improvement. in projections just released, participants indicated they expected somewhat stronger growth this year than in 2011. the outlook remains uncertain, however, and close monitoring of economic de

we pass defender chris van hollen leadership that failed by one vote in the senate. he did not succeed because they didn't have 60 democrats. if we think about this to the public and mr. allison is going to address that, we believe the pressure will be on even without a law because shareholders, employee customers will want to know what the political contributions are to compare. i yield the floor to the distinguished element for maryland the ranking democrat on the budget committee. he serves on the conference for the federal tax cut and he is the author of the disclosed that from the previous conference and has reintroduced it today. >> thank you, leader pelosi and thank you for your leadership on the disclosed that as well as making sure the american people get a fair shake and i am pleased to be here with my colleagues, mr. israel and mr. allison. we are announcing the disclosed that today. the american people deserve a political system that is fair, transparent and accountable and the political system is fair, transparent and accountable, we believe that will re

. >>> on our next washington journal we'll talk with rob woodall and chris van hollen about the latest congressional budget office report. and later, robert jones of the public religious research institute joins us to discuss politics and religion. "washington journal" airs each morning at 7:00 eastern on c-span. >>> republicans have introduced bills in the house and senate that would revamp the federal budget process. the legislation would make it more difficult for congress to pass spending bills without first having passed a budget. some of the bills gop supporters spoke to reporters about the legislation. >> a good group, isn't it. thank you all for coming. the american peopleot happy with how congress and the administration manages their money. and i have concluded that they are basically right. first and foremost, we are borrowing 40 cents of every dollar we spend. that's so irresponsible as to produce no real argument in return that this is legitimate. second, in our budget process, we've known for years it's filled with a whole lot of gimmicks, techniques and methods that have