[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 12]
[House]
[Page 18111]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                                 BUDGET

  (Ms. HANABUSA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. HANABUSA. Mr. Speaker, December 13 is 9 days away. This is part 
of that side agreement when the CR was agreed to and when the debt 
ceiling was suspended. The budget is a statement of the House's and 
Senate's values and priorities, and that is what is to be agreed to by 
December 13.
  One of the things we must say, Mr. Speaker, at the very minimum, is 
that sequestration has to go. The CBO says it will cost up to 1.6 
million jobs if it is allowed to stand. Conversely, it will add 900,000 
new jobs if it is gotten rid of.
  Sequestration has affected programs like Head Start, SNAP, programs 
of the National Institutes of Health, mental health issues--just to 
name a few--as well as our defense industry. There is no longer any 
room in these budgets to accommodate all of these expenses just to pay 
what we need to pay to keep these programs going.
  That is why we have to say that sequestration has got to go. That is 
why, in the next 9 days, you will hear more and more speak about 
sequestration and the fact that we must act on it.

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