[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 28 (Wednesday, February 27, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H687]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             SEQUESTRATION

  (Mr. GARAMENDI asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GARAMENDI. I rise today to tell the story of how northern 
California communities that I represent will be harmed by 
sequestration.
  Travis Air Force Base in my district makes sure that the equipment 
and personnel that our military needs are delivered quickly and safely 
around the world. They're the world's first responder when disaster 
strikes. Thirty-two hundred civilians will be furloughed beginning next 
week. They will have a loss of some $30 million of income over the next 
6 months.
  Near Marysville, California, Beale Air Force Base operates an 
intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance mission that supplies 
our Nation's military with timely information to save American lives on 
the battlefield. Fourteen hundred civilians will be furloughed, with 
$13 million in lost wages.
  Families and their income are important. But so is national security, 
which will be compromised by sequestration.
  Yuba City, one of the major places in the United States prone to 
flood problems, will see their critical levee protection that the Army 
Corps of Engineers is working on delayed and not completed for next 
winter's floods.
  The University of California-Davis will similarly be harmed.
  It's time to end sequestration, and I ask unanimous consent that H.R. 
699 be brought up for a vote.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. As the Chair previously advised, that 
request cannot be entertained absent appropriate clearance.

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