[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 1674]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             SEQUESTRATION

  (Mr. BOEHNER asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. BOEHNER. Mr. Speaker, I hear my colleagues on the other side of 
the aisle complaining about the President's sequester. It is the 
President that insisted that this sequester be part of the Budget 
Control Act a year and a half ago. It is the President who has known 
for 16 months that the sequester was going to happen.
  This is why the House acted twice--twice--over the last 300 days to 
replace the sequester. There are better and smarter ways to cut 
spending. But the President is out doing his campaign event nonstop 
when he could be sitting down with Senate leaders to actually act.
  The House has acted twice. It's time for the President to put his 
plan on the table, and it's time for Senate Democrats to put their plan 
on the table to avert the sequester that's due to go into effect on 
Friday.

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