[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 29 (Thursday, February 28, 2013)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page E229]
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              SEQUESTER HARM IS ``ABSOLUTELY OVER-HYPED''

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                        HON. JOHN J. DUNCAN, JR.

                              of tennessee

                    in the house of representatives

                      Thursday, February 28, 2013

  Mr. DUNCAN of Tennessee. Mr. Speaker, Mayor Bloomberg says, ``Spare 
me!''
  He said yesterday that the Administration's efforts to scare people 
about the sequester have gone too far.
  He said, ``In all fairness, on Monday, we'll be able to police the 
streets.''
  He said ``there's a lot of posturing'' and that statements about 
laying off employees, closing down hospitals, and letting prisoners go 
``are not good for the country.''
  The Mayor said, ``Spare me, I live in that world. I mean come on, 
let's get serious here.''
  In today's National Journal Daily, Steve Bell, senior director of the 
Bipartisan Policy Center, says the sequester is ``absolutely over-
hyped.''
  He says, ``A sequester will occur and the next day the likelihood is 
that almost no one will know that it started.''
  The choice is simple. We can cut now or crash in the very near 
future.
  The press says the sequester will hurt the economy. Actually, the 
sequester is miniscule in comparison to the harm to our economy from 
the President's tax hikes, Obamacare, and environmental overkill.

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