[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11570]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                  THE DAMAGING EFFECTS OF DEFENSE CUTS

  (Mr. PALAZZO asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PALAZZO. Madam Speaker, I come before you today not just as a 
Congressman from Mississippi's Fourth Congressional District, but also 
as a Marine veteran of the Persian Gulf War and the only Member of this 
body that is currently serving as a noncommissioned officer in the 
National Guard, simply to say that one of the biggest threats to our 
national security that we face as a nation is the crippling defense 
cuts that would put our men and women in uniform at physical risk and 
more than 1 million Americans out of work.
  It will harm folks like the 857th that I had the privilege to send 
off this weekend as they are about to deploy to Afghanistan, or the 
more than 170,000 warfighters from all across the United States who 
have come through the gates of Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center 
as part of the global war on terrorism.
  Today, once more, I join my colleagues in asking the President and 
the Senate Democrats to come to the table, consider the solutions we've 
already brought forth, or propose your own. The American people deserve 
answers on how these defense cuts will affect them, and American 
soldiers deserve leadership from their Commander in Chief.

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