[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 29 (Thursday, February 28, 2013)]
[House]
[Pages H705-H706]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                             SEQUESTRATION

  (Mr. BROOKS of Alabama asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. BROOKS of Alabama. Madam Speaker, in 2011, I voted against the 
Budget Control Act and President Obama's sequester because I believed 
and feared they posed a grave threat to

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national security. That fear has come true. As I stand here today, 
north Alabamians face job furloughs in the thousands because Washington 
would rather spend money on frivolous programs than protect national 
security.
  Madam Speaker, I have voted against sequester at every opportunity. I 
sent a letter to the White House calling on the President to face and 
avoid the horrendous consequences of his sequester. I've escorted 
members of the House Armed Services Committee around Redstone Arsenal 
to help them better understand how our civilian defense workers are 
critical to America's security, and I have repeatedly cosponsored 
legislation to end the sequester.
  For nearly 2 years I have been fighting sequester and the hollowing 
out of our Armed Forces. It's time for the President and the Senate to 
do the same.

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