[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 27 (Tuesday, February 26, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H640]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             SEQUESTRATION

  (Mr. GUTHRIE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. GUTHRIE. Mr. Speaker, I'm pleased to see that President Obama now 
recognizes his proposed sequester is a meat-ax approach to cutting 
defense. Just a few months ago, in the third Presidential debate, he 
told the American people that these cuts were a well-thought-out plan 
to modernize the military. He said these cuts were nothing more than 
the equivalent of no longer spending money on horses and bayonets. He 
was wrong.
  He was correct in the State of the Union in saying some in Congress, 
meaning House Republicans, want to replace these cuts to our defense, 
but he wants to replace other spending, as well. My colleagues in the 
House have offered two replacement bills which the Senate has yet to 
act on.
  Let's not use our brave men and women in uniform and civilian workers 
who serve them as leverage for other spending. The Constitution states 
that Congress is to provide for our national defense and the President 
is Commander in Chief.
  I ask the Senate and President Obama to join the House in doing its 
constitutional duty and replace these devastating defense cuts now.

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