[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 1683]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




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                        THE INABILITY TO GOVERN

  (Mr. POE of Texas asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, sequestration is a bad idea. I voted 
``no.''
  The idea for the sequester came from White House advisers. The 
President quickly signed the sequester and made it the law of the land. 
Now he has buyer's remorse. The House, in seeing the error of its ways, 
repented, and two times replaced the sequestration with rational cuts. 
The President's siesta Senate, however, ignored the House legislation 
and went missing in action.
  Rather than administer with a smidge less taxpayer money, the 
President blames others for his fate. This is in spite of his power to 
determine priorities in spending, so he says the sky is falling because 
his government cannot operate without more money. He does not have the 
ability to produce a balanced budget or cut back waste, duplication, 
inefficiency, or fluff.
  As the sequester is upon us, it is time for the President to lead 
America and govern with less money, but the President only knows one 
way to rule--tax more, spend more, and scare the people more. This is 
the inability to govern.
  And that's just the way it is.

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