[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 158 (2012), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13065]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             SEQUESTRATION

  (Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. CONNOLLY of Virginia. Madam Speaker, sequestration--that's the 
bogeyman Republicans created last year when they refused, for the first 
time in American history, to allow a clean debt ceiling vote. So they 
formed a supercommittee which they doomed to failure when they refused 
to consider a balanced approach that included revenue and spending 
cuts. And now they decry the impending $1.2 trillion cuts they 
fashioned and voted for as a crisis for national defense. This gives 
chutzpah a bad name.
  If Senators McCain, Graham, and Ayotte want to resolve this crisis in 
their town hall meetings--that they helped create--join me in calling 
our House Republican leadership to cancel the 5-week August recess and 
solve this solvable problem.

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