[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 11]
[House]
[Pages 16506-16507]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           LET'S GET TOGETHER

  (Mr. CARTWRIGHT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. CARTWRIGHT. Mr. Speaker, we have a couple of things going on 
today.
  Number one, the House will be discharged at the end of the day to go 
back to a district work period, and we know what we are going to hear 
at home. What we are going to hear is: Why can't you people do your 
jobs? Why can't you get together and come together and come up with a 
budget so that American businesspeople can plan, so that Americans can 
decide what to do with their futures, instead of doing what has been 
happening for years on end, these continuing resolutions and things 
like the sequester? The sequester alone is going to cost 1 million jobs 
next year in this country if we don't replace it.
  The other thing that is going on today is the opening of the work of 
the conference committee on the budget. Twenty-nine Senators and 
Representatives from this House are getting together and trying to do 
just that--come up with a budget, come up with something sensible, and 
forge the compromises that Americans expect us to reach.

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  I say, let us speed them on their work. Good luck to them. Let's hope 
they come up with something Americans can appreciate.

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