[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 2]
[House]
[Pages 1627-1628]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           SEQUESTER REBUTTAL

  (Mr. FARENTHOLD asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FARENTHOLD. Mr. Speaker, I was sitting in the back of the House, 
listening to some of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle, and 
I just had to rise to answer some of the things that they just said.
  The gentlewoman from Texas was talking about sequester and the effect 
that it would have on children. I'd like to remind the gentlewoman from 
Texas that the effect that the millions--or billions and trillions--of 
dollars of debt we are leaving on the backs of our children is going to 
have an equally negative effect.

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  This sequester--we are accused of not doing anything on this side. We 
have passed two bills out of this House doing away with the sequester, 
but they have not been acted on by the President or the Senate. We have 
done our job.
  The President has asked for a balanced approach. He got his increase 
in revenue; it's now time to come up with some cuts. Sequester isn't 
the way to do it, but we cannot give up on getting rid of wasteful 
spending here in Washington.

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