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. . . Thank you. You ready? Hey, listen, before you start. Yeah. Thank you. The committee will now come to order. Today we'll proceed with the consideration of the fiscal year 2025 concurrent budget resolution. I want to thank the ranking member, my friend Mr. Boyle, for working with me to develop a structure for this markup that closely follows what we've done in the past.
Our goal is to have a markup in which both sides will have the equal opportunity for debate, to debate the framework this 2025 budget resolution, and I want to thank everybody in advance for their cooperation. Consistent with the agreement that I have with Ranking Member Boyle, who is riding high after the success of his Fighting Irish and the Philadelphia Eagles, we have a list of things that he has not objected to, and these are, again, guidelines that we've used in the past for such hearings. The ranking member and I each have five minutes for an opening statement. Members will then each be recognized for five minutes to make opening statements. After opening statements, we'll have up to an hour for a technical and factual question and answer session with the majority staff on the budget resolution. The document will be considered as read and open for amendment at any point. The amendments considered by the committee will be those submitted pursuant to the agreement I made with Mr. Boyle. The amendments will be organized into two tiers, tier one and two. Debate time for tier one, the tier one amendments will be limited to 15 minutes. Debate time for tier two amendments will be limited to 12 minutes. Debate time will be evenly divided between the sponsor. Only a government, somebody in the federal government could have come up with these rules, Ralph, but I'm going to keep reading them. The proponent of the amendment will have one minute reserved to close. To accommodate floor votes later in the day, the chair may be authorized to declare recess at any time. The committee roll any requests for a roll call vote. Okay. I'd like to thank everybody again for joining us here today as we undergo the most important duty of the committee and in accordance with the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, the consideration of the annual concurrent budget resolution.
Now I'd like to yield myself five minutes for an opening statement. Today we will deliver on the people's mandate by advancing the FY25 budget resolution to restore the fiscal health of our great nation by reining in reckless spending and reigniting economic growth. In addition, we will provide critical resources to our Commander-in-Chief to secure our border, strengthen our military, and provide for the common defense. This budget resolution provides the fiscal framework for what will be one of the most consequential pieces of legislation in modern history, and the principal legislative vehicle for delivering on President Trump's America First agenda. The era of wasteful, woke, and weaponized government is over. This balanced budget resolution will achieve the following objectives. To make America prosperous again, we will provide tax relief for working families and small businesses who've suffered through one of the worst cost-of-living crises in our nation's history. We will reverse the Biden-Harris administration's whole-of-government assault on domestic energy, which will bring down prices for consumers, breathe life back into our economy, and reestablish American energy dominance. We will put an end to the administrative state. and the barrage of burdensome regulations that are crushing our small businesses and compromising our freedoms. We will rein in the reckless spending that lit the fuse on inflation and record interest rates, weakening our economy and pushing our nation to the brink of a debt crisis. We will right-size this bloated bureaucracy. We will root out the massive waste and fraud in the federal government. And to make America safe again, we will provide critical resources to our Border Patrol agents and to our troops to strengthen our military, secure our border, and bolster our Commander-in-Chief in his first and most important job to provide for the common defense.
This reconciliation process is not just an exercise in matching revenues with outlays. More importantly, it's reconciling the difference between the American people's interest, expectations, and values, and a federal government that has lost its way, forgotten who it serves, and too often has failed to faithfully, fairly, and efficiently execute the laws of the land. What we learned from November's election, and I think what is abundantly clear to all, the American people want their country back. They want normal. They want to return to common sense.
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