[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 28 (Wednesday, February 27, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H685]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




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                             SEQUESTRATION

  (Ms. FRANKEL of Florida asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. FRANKEL of Florida. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to talk about Ruth. 
She's 91 years old, from my hometown. And Ruth, like many of my 
constituents, through the years, she's lost her network of family and 
friends.
  After coming home from the hospital, she was unable to shop or cook 
and could barely get out of bed. According to Ruth, her life was 
literally saved by a Federal program called Meals on Wheels that 
delivers more than a million meals to seniors in need each day.
  On Friday, as a result of mindless, indiscriminate budget cuts known 
as sequestration, folks like Ruth, across this country, will be in 
jeopardy of going hungry, and that is wrong. So I urge my colleagues to 
do what is right, come together, stop the sequestration, and implement 
a long-term, balanced approach to reducing our national debt.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to bring up H.R. 699, a balanced 
bill to replace the sequester with spending cuts and revenues.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Bentivolio). Under the guidelines 
consistently issued by successive Speakers, as recorded on page 752 of 
the House Rules Manual, the Chair is constrained not to entertain the 
gentlewoman's request until it has been cleared by the bipartisan floor 
and committee leaderships.

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