[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 1682]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           STOP THE SEQUESTER

  (Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to 
address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. THOMPSON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Speaker, it's been almost 300 days 
since the House first acted to replace sequestration with targeted 
reforms that achieve the same level of deficit reduction without 
harming the economy, yet the Senate has failed to act.
  The administration states that the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania is 
set to feel the impact of sequestration more than most States yet has 
offered no constructive plan forward.
  The House has put forward two concrete proposals for a commonsense 
path to deficit reduction that will not harm our national security and 
will not harm our fragile economic recovery.
  We all must make sacrifices in order to reduce the debt and fix 
Washington, for we can no longer spend $1 trillion more than we take in 
each year. Raising taxes to chase after trillion dollar deficits, as 
the President suggests, is a recipe for economic decline. Spending is 
the problem.
  It's time for the President to stop campaigning and call on the 
Democrat-led Senate to act. No more 11th-hour negotiations; no more 
unnecessary harm to families and small businesses. It's time for us to 
come together and work on serious solutions.

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