[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 1779]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             SEQUESTRATION

  (Ms. BROWNLEY of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend her remarks.)
  Ms. BROWNLEY of California. Mr. Speaker, this Friday, the U.S. budget 
faces a round of indiscriminate and severe cuts that will hurt the 
middle class, compromise national security, and set back our very 
fragile economic recovery.
  I call on all of our colleagues to take immediate action to avert the 
sequester to prevent $1.5 trillion in reckless, unnecessary, across-
the-board cuts. If we fail, my families and businesses in Ventura 
County will pay the price.
  Naval Base Ventura County in my district could be forced to furlough 
80 percent of its civilian workers. Our seniors and our children could 
be severely impacted through cuts to Medicare, Head Start programs, and 
teachers' jobs. We need to stop these arbitrary and reckless cuts now 
and pass a balanced approach with H.R. 699.
  Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to bring H.R. 699 to the floor.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Under the guidelines consistently issued by 
successive Speakers as recorded on page 752 of the House Rules Manual, 
the Chair is constrained not to entertain the gentlewoman's request 
unless it has been cleared by the bipartisan floor and committee 
leaderships.

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