[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 2]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Page 1897]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                          DANGERS OF SEQUESTER

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                      HON. SANFORD D. BISHOP, JR.

                               of georgia

                    in the house of representatives

                      Wednesday, February 27, 2013

  Mr. BISHOP of Georgia. Mr. Speaker, throughout my twenty years 
representing Middle and Southwest Georgia in Congress, I have always 
done my dead level best to work with all of my colleagues, across the 
aisle to find reasonable solutions for the nation's issues.
  Today, I come before Congress to appeal to reason. Without a doubt, 
the across-the-board spending cuts we call sequester will undermine our 
economy and hurt job creation. My district, home to Fort Benning in 
Columbus, the Marine Corps Logistics Base in Albany, the area outside 
of Robins Air Force Base, and thousands of service members, veterans, 
families, and supporting businesses cannot sustain the cuts proposed by 
Sequestration.
  Furthermore, schools and teachers, law enforcement and crime 
prevention, public health and Head Start will be negatively impacted. 
The Second Congressional District of Georgia relies on these funds, as 
do many of your districts. Mr. Speaker, I ask for a balanced proposal.
  We may be in the 11th hour, but we must act. We owe it to our 
constituents, we owe it to our districts, and we owe it to our nation.

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