[Congressional Record Volume 160, Number 56 (Monday, April 7, 2014)]
[House]
[Pages H2983-H2986]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
BUDGET AND ACCOUNTING TRANSPARENCY ACT OF 2014
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 1(c) of rule XIX, further
consideration of H.R. 1872 will now resume.
The Clerk read the title of the bill.
Motion to Recommit
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I have a motion to recommit at the desk.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is the gentlewoman opposed to the bill?
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, I am opposed in its current form.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The Clerk will report the motion to
recommit.
The Clerk read as follows:
Ms. DeLauro moves to recommit the bill H.R. 1872, as
reported, to the Committee on the Budget with instructions to
report the same back to the House forthwith with the
following amendment:
At the end of the bill, add the following new title:
TITLE IV--EQUAL PAY AND PROTECTING SMALL BUSINESSES AND CONSUMERS
SEC. 401. EQUAL PAY FOR WOMEN AND PROTECTING SMALL BUSINESSES
AND CONSUMERS FROM HIGHER LOAN COSTS.
(a) Equal Pay for Women.--This Act shall not take effect
until the female-to-male earnings ratio of full-time, year-
round workers is at least 100 percent, as reported by the
Bureau of the Census pursuant to the data collected from any
Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic
Supplement.
(b) Protecting Small Businesses and Consumers.--This Act
shall not apply to any loan for a small business, student,
agriculture, or for veterans' housing if such Act increases
the cost of such loan and credit programs for small
businesses and consumers due to the elimination or reduction
of Federal support.
Ms. DeLAURO (during the reading). Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous
consent to dispense with the reading.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the
gentlewoman from Connecticut?
Mr. GARRETT. Mr. Speaker, I object.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Objection is heard.
The Clerk will read.
The Clerk continued to read.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentlewoman from Connecticut is
recognized for 5 minutes in support of her motion.
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, this is a final amendment to the bill. It
will not kill the bill or send it back to committee. If adopted, the
bill will immediately proceed to final passage, as amended.
This amendment works to end pay discrimination against women, and it
helps to ensure a very simple principle, one I hope that everyone in
this body agrees with: men, women, same job, same pay, because it is
true in this body.
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Tomorrow is the dubious milestone of Equal Pay Day, the day a women's
earnings catch up to what a man made last year. We are now over 3 full
months into 2014. Women should not have to work an extra quarter of a
year to be paid what they are due.
My amendment would postpone the effective date of the bill under
consideration until Congress has worked to close this pay gap. It also
ensures that this act does not increase the cost of loan and credit
programs for small businesses, students, farmers, and veterans as a
result of an elimination or reduction of Federal support.
Paycheck discrimination is not a partisan issue. It affects every
women. It affects every family in America. Nearly 60 years ago, a
Republican President, Dwight Eisenhower, told the Congress that
``legislation to apply the principle of equal pay for equal work
without discrimination because of sex is a matter of simple justice.''
Over 50 years ago, Congress came together in a bipartisan fashion to
pass the Equal Pay Act and end what President Kennedy called ``the
serious and endemic problem of unequal wages.''
In 2014, women are still making 77 cents on average for every dollar
made by a man. This wage gap is only closing at a rate of less than
one-half a cent a year. That means we still have 40 more years before
women will get paid what they deserve for the same work.
Families cannot afford to wait that long. They should not have to.
That is why we just saw the Republican-controlled Senate in New
Hampshire pass a paycheck fairness bill unanimously because this is an
issue of simple fairness--same job, same pay--that affects everyone.
Women are half the workforce in America today, two-thirds of the
primary cobreadwinners in American families. The poverty rate among
women is as high as it has been in 17 years. Women have less retirement
security, less protection on their pension, and more reliance on Social
Security, but they receive lower payments because of this continuing
wage gap.
As a result, two-thirds of seniors living in poverty today in the
United States of America are women. These disproportionate financial
pressures that women are facing are very much a product of this wage
gap.
According to the National Partnership for Women and Families, women
lose $11,000 in income every year as a result of pay discrimination.
This pay gap has not budged in a decade. For women of color, it is even
worse. African American women make only 62 cents as compared to the
average White male; Hispanic women, only 54 cents.
The pay gap holds true across occupations and education levels. This
is not just a problem for women. Less pay for women means less income.
That affects an entire family. Two-income households are already
struggling.
This is not a partisan issue. Unequal pay affects families all across
our country. What are they trying to do? Pay their bills, achieve the
American Dream, and they are getting less take-home pay for their hard
work.
We have heard it from AnnMarie DuChon in Massachusetts. She found out
years into her job that the university she worked for was paying men
more for the same work.
Terri Kelly in Tennessee only discovered she was making less than she
deserved because her husband held the exact same job, and she saw his
paycheck.
ReShonda Young of Iowa discovered that her own father was paying
women less when she went to work in the family business. This is real.
Both Republicans and Democrats agree that people doing the same job
should receive the same pay. This amendment reaffirms our commitment to
this basic principle.
It also says that we are not going to force small businesses and
consumers, who are working hard, playing by the rules, and trying to
make a better future for themselves, to pay more because of their
skill.
Mr. Speaker, we made an enormous difference for women and families
when we passed the Affordable Care Act in March 2010. We said to
insurance companies: you cannot charge women more than men.
That is the law of the land today. It is real, it is being
implemented, and it is happening right now. Now, we should build on
that.
Let us make sure that employers cannot pay women less for the same
job. This makes all the difference in their lives and the lives of
their families. I urge all of my colleagues to support this amendment.
I yield back the balance of my time.
Mr. GARRETT. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the motion.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from New Jersey is recognized
for 5 minutes.
Mr. GARRETT. Mr. Speaker, a number of questions come to my mind after
just hearing the sponsor of the motion. They don't necessarily go in
this order.
One is: Why does she want to hide from the American public the actual
facts of what they are doing to the American public, as far as spending
the taxpayers' money?
The second question that comes to mind is: Why, when the opportunity
was given to the other side of the aisle to work with us, to amend the
bill or change the bill on those areas that they disagree with on its
merits, why did they instead come with this proposal, this motion on
the floor totally extraneous to the underlying message and purpose of
the bill?
{time} 1830
Mr. Speaker, many times we come to the floor and people say that the
bill before us is a commonsense piece of legislation. Well, I am going
to say it again because this is a commonsense piece of legislation. The
underlying bill, maybe we should have had a different name to it. Maybe
if we simply called the bill what it is, the ``Knowing What You Are
Spending Bill,'' then the other side of the aisle would have agreed
with us, wrapped their arms around the bill and us and said let's move
forward, because who can disagree with actually know what you are
spending?
That is all this bill does. It doesn't eliminate any programs; it
doesn't cut any programs; and it doesn't diminish any programs. All it
does is allow Congress and the American public to understand what we
are spending and what the costs are to the various programs that both
sides of the aisle support.
The proponent just now of the motion didn't get into the weeds at
all. But let me just, for those just coming to the floor, remind them
of what the major provisions of the underlying bill do. There are a
number of them. I will give you three highlights.
First and foremost, it brings Federal budgeting in line with what the
private sector has already been doing for a long time. It requires the
executive branch and Congress to use something called fair value
accounting when estimating the cost of Federal credit programs. What
does that mean? Again, it just means that, when we spend American
taxpayers' dollars, we have to let the taxpayers know how much it is
actually costing.
This is not just my idea. This is what the private sector has been
doing. This is even what the nonpartisan CBO, Congressional Budget
Office, says we should be doing as well.
The second point is it brings Fannie and Freddie on budget. Why do we
do that? To recognize the enormous and potential budgetary impact that
these housing-related enterprises can and have had on our government. I
don't think I have to remind either side of the aisle that they have
cost upwards to $187 billion in taxpayer dollars to get it done, and we
want to make sure it is on the budget so we can see it clearly.
Thirdly and lastly, this bill would require agencies to make public
the budgetary justification for the materials prepared in support of
their programs. What is that saying? It just means that, if you have an
agency out there that wants to spend your tax dollars, they have to
have the justification for it.
I think those are three honest and fair proposals that the American
public has a right to know. We can continue to help the poor; we can
continue to have ag programs; we can continue to have energy programs;
and we can continue to have programs that facilitate housing in this
country. But as we do on those programs that we both agree on, let's
make sure that we are being honest with the American public and telling
them and knowing what it actually costs.
For that reason, I recommend a ``no'' on this motion to recommit that
would
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eliminate that possibility for transparency, accountability, and
openness, and a ``yes'' on the final passage of the legislation.
With that, I yield back the balance of my time.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Without objection, the previous question is
ordered on the motion to recommit.
There was no objection.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the motion to recommit.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the noes appeared to have it.
Ms. DeLAURO. Mr. Speaker, on that I demand the yeas and nays.
The yeas and nays were ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to clause 9 of rule XX, the Chair
will reduce to 5 minutes the minimum time for any electronic vote on
the question of passage.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 179,
nays 217, not voting 35, as follows:
[Roll No. 165]
YEAS--179
Barber
Barrow (GA)
Beatty
Becerra
Bera (CA)
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Brady (PA)
Braley (IA)
Brownley (CA)
Bustos
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Carney
Carson (IN)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly
Conyers
Courtney
Crowley
Cuellar
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
DelBene
Deutch
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle
Duckworth
Edwards
Ellison
Engel
Enyart
Eshoo
Esty
Farr
Fattah
Foster
Frankel (FL)
Fudge
Gabbard
Gallego
Garamendi
Garcia
Grayson
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Hahn
Hanabusa
Hastings (FL)
Heck (WA)
Higgins
Himes
Hinojosa
Holt
Honda
Horsford
Hoyer
Huffman
Israel
Jackson Lee
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Kaptur
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
Kirkpatrick
Kuster
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Lee (CA)
Levin
Lewis
Lipinski
Loebsack
Lofgren
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Lujaan, Ben Ray (NM)
Lynch
Maffei
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McIntyre
McNerney
Meng
Michaud
Miller, George
Moore
Murphy (FL)
Nadler
Napolitano
Negrete McLeod
Nolan
O'Rourke
Owens
Pallone
Pascrell
Peters (CA)
Peters (MI)
Peterson
Pingree (ME)
Pocan
Polis
Price (NC)
Quigley
Rahall
Rangel
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Saanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schneider
Schrader
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Shea-Porter
Sherman
Sinema
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Speier
Swalwell (CA)
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Titus
Tonko
Tsongas
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velaazquez
Walz
Waters
Waxman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth
NAYS--217
Aderholt
Amash
Amodei
Bachmann
Bachus
Barletta
Barton
Benishek
Bentivolio
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Broun (GA)
Bucshon
Burgess
Byrne
Calvert
Camp
Cantor
Capito
Cassidy
Chabot
Chaffetz
Coble
Coffman
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Conaway
Cook
Cooper
Costa
Cotton
Cramer
Crawford
Crenshaw
Culberson
Daines
Davis, Rodney
Dent
DeSantis
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Ellmers
Farenthold
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gardner
Garrett
Gerlach
Gibbs
Gibson
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (MO)
Griffith (VA)
Grimm
Guthrie
Hall
Harper
Hartzler
Hastings (WA)
Heck (NV)
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Holding
Hudson
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurt
Issa
Jenkins
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jolly
Jones
Jordan
Joyce
Kelly (PA)
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kinzinger (IL)
Kline
Labrador
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Lankford
Latham
Latta
LoBiondo
Long
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
Marchant
Marino
Massie
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McKeon
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
Meadows
Meehan
Messer
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Mullin
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Neugebauer
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Nunnelee
Olson
Palazzo
Paulsen
Pearce
Perry
Petri
Pittenger
Pitts
Poe (TX)
Pompeo
Posey
Price (GA)
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Rice (SC)
Rigell
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Royce
Runyan
Ryan (WI)
Salmon
Sanford
Scalise
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Southerland
Stivers
Stockman
Stutzman
Terry
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Turner
Upton
Valadao
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walorski
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Whitfield
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Wolf
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IN)
NOT VOTING--35
Barr
Bass
Black
Brown (FL)
Buchanan
Campbell
Caardenas
Carter
DeFazio
Denham
Fincher
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert
Griffin (AR)
Gutieerrez
Hanna
Harris
Keating
Larson (CT)
McAllister
Meeks
Miller, Gary
Moran
Neal
Pastor (AZ)
Payne
Pelosi
Perlmutter
Richmond
Schock
Schwartz
Stewart
Visclosky
Wasserman Schultz
Westmoreland
{time} 1857
Mr. FARENTHOLD changed his vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
Messrs. GRIJALVA, DANNY K. DAVIS of Illinois, and Ms. GABBARD changed
their vote from ``nay'' to ``yea.''
So the motion to recommit was rejected.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the passage of the bill.
The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that
the ayes appeared to have it.
Recorded Vote
Mr. KILDEE. Mr. Speaker, I demand a recorded vote.
A recorded vote was ordered.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote.
The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 230,
noes 165, not voting 36, as follows:
[Roll No. 166]
AYES--230
Aderholt
Amash
Amodei
Bachmann
Bachus
Barber
Barletta
Barrow (GA)
Barton
Benishek
Bentivolio
Bilirakis
Bishop (UT)
Blackburn
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Bridenstine
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Broun (GA)
Bucshon
Burgess
Byrne
Calvert
Camp
Cantor
Capito
Cassidy
Chabot
Chaffetz
Coble
Coffman
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Conaway
Cook
Cooper
Costa
Cotton
Cramer
Crawford
Crenshaw
Cuellar
Culberson
Daines
Davis, Rodney
Dent
DeSantis
DesJarlais
Duffy
Duncan (SC)
Duncan (TN)
Ellmers
Farenthold
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Fleming
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gallego
Gardner
Garrett
Gerlach
Gibbs
Gibson
Goodlatte
Gosar
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (MO)
Grayson
Griffith (VA)
Grimm
Guthrie
Hall
Harper
Hartzler
Hastings (WA)
Heck (NV)
Hensarling
Herrera Beutler
Holding
Hudson
Huelskamp
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurt
Issa
Jenkins
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jolly
Jones
Jordan
Joyce
Kelly (PA)
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kingston
Kinzinger (IL)
Kline
Labrador
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Lankford
Latham
Latta
Lipinski
LoBiondo
Long
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
Maffei
Marchant
Marino
Massie
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul
McClintock
McHenry
McIntyre
McKeon
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
Meadows
Meehan
Messer
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Mullin
Mulvaney
Murphy (FL)
Murphy (PA)
Neugebauer
Noem
Nugent
Nunes
Nunnelee
Olson
Owens
Palazzo
Paulsen
Pearce
Perry
Peters (CA)
Petri
Pittenger
Pitts
Poe (TX)
Pompeo
Posey
Price (GA)
Quigley
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Rice (SC)
Rigell
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rohrabacher
Rokita
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Royce
Runyan
Ryan (WI)
Salmon
Sanford
Scalise
Schrader
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sensenbrenner
Sessions
Shimkus
Shuster
Simpson
Sinema
Smith (MO)
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Southerland
Stivers
Stockman
Stutzman
Terry
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Turner
Upton
Valadao
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walorski
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
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Wenstrup
Whitfield
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Wolf
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Yoho
Young (AK)
Young (IN)
NOES--165
Beatty
Becerra
Bera (CA)
Bishop (GA)
Bishop (NY)
Blumenauer
Bonamici
Brady (PA)
Braley (IA)
Brownley (CA)
Bustos
Butterfield
Capps
Capuano
Carson (IN)
Cartwright
Castor (FL)
Castro (TX)
Chu
Cicilline
Clark (MA)
Clarke (NY)
Clay
Cleaver
Clyburn
Cohen
Connolly
Conyers
Courtney
Crowley
Cummings
Davis (CA)
Davis, Danny
DeGette
Delaney
DeLauro
DelBene
Deutch
Dingell
Doggett
Doyle
Duckworth
Edwards
Ellison
Engel
Enyart
Eshoo
Esty
Farr
Fattah
Foster
Frankel (FL)
Fudge
Gabbard
Garamendi
Garcia
Green, Al
Green, Gene
Grijalva
Hahn
Hanabusa
Hastings (FL)
Heck (WA)
Higgins
Himes
Hinojosa
Holt
Honda
Horsford
Hoyer
Huffman
Israel
Jackson Lee
Jeffries
Johnson (GA)
Johnson, E. B.
Kaptur
Kelly (IL)
Kennedy
Kildee
Kilmer
Kind
Kirkpatrick
Kuster
Langevin
Larsen (WA)
Lee (CA)
Levin
Lewis
Loebsack
Lofgren
Lowenthal
Lowey
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Lujaan, Ben Ray (NM)
Lynch
Maloney, Carolyn
Maloney, Sean
Matheson
Matsui
McCarthy (NY)
McCollum
McDermott
McGovern
McNerney
Meng
Michaud
Miller, George
Moore
Nadler
Napolitano
Negrete McLeod
Nolan
O'Rourke
Pallone
Pascrell
Pelosi
Peters (MI)
Peterson
Pingree (ME)
Pocan
Polis
Price (NC)
Rahall
Rangel
Roybal-Allard
Ruiz
Ruppersberger
Rush
Ryan (OH)
Saanchez, Linda T.
Sanchez, Loretta
Sarbanes
Schakowsky
Schiff
Schneider
Scott (VA)
Scott, David
Serrano
Sewell (AL)
Shea-Porter
Sherman
Sires
Slaughter
Smith (WA)
Speier
Swalwell (CA)
Takano
Thompson (CA)
Thompson (MS)
Tierney
Titus
Tonko
Tsongas
Van Hollen
Vargas
Veasey
Vela
Velaazquez
Walz
Waters
Waxman
Welch
Wilson (FL)
Yarmuth
NOT VOTING--36
Barr
Bass
Black
Brown (FL)
Buchanan
Campbell
Caardenas
Carney
Carter
DeFazio
Denham
Diaz-Balart
Fincher
Gingrey (GA)
Gohmert
Griffin (AR)
Gutieerrez
Hanna
Harris
Keating
Larson (CT)
McAllister
Meeks
Miller, Gary
Moran
Neal
Pastor (AZ)
Payne
Perlmutter
Richmond
Schock
Schwartz
Stewart
Visclosky
Wasserman Schultz
Westmoreland
{time} 1904
Mr. ELLISON changed his vote from ``aye'' to ``no.''
So the bill was passed.
The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
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