[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 32 (Wednesday, March 6, 2013)]
[House]
[Page H986]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                          DUMB AND CRUEL CUTS

  (Ms. NORTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. NORTON. Mr. Speaker, snow is keeping Federal workers at home 
today, and Congress will keep up to a million at home with the 
sequester cuts in today's CR.
  No emergency like snow or even the deficit will be responsible. The 
responsibility lies with the House majority, which has abdicated its 
responsibility to govern. The CR on the floor today embeds cuts that 
might be tolerated if spread intelligently and selectively over time.
  But even if the deficit demanded cutting, for example, the Women, 
Infants, and Children program, there could be no justification for 
doing it in only 6 months, guaranteeing that over 600,000 low-income 
women and our most vulnerable children will lose basic nutrition 
assistance.
  Dumb cuts are bad; cruel cuts are much worse.

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