[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 2]
[House]
[Pages 2011-2012]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                        IT'S TIME TO GET SERIOUS

  (Mr. STUTZMAN asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. STUTZMAN. Mr. Speaker, President Obama's sequester will take 
effect tomorrow. Because of the President's irresponsibility of cutting 
just pennies of waste for every dollar Washington spends, the men and 
women of the 122nd Air National Guard in my district face furloughs. 
Across the globe, our national security will pay the price for 
Washington's failures.
  How did this happen? It seems that during his Chicago-style 
campaigning, President Obama forgot that his primary responsibility is 
to serve as Commander in Chief. Today, instead of working to replace 
these security cuts with cuts to waste, President Obama and Harry Reid 
are trying to pass a tax hike in the Senate, a tax hike that the 
nonpartisan CBO says will increase our deficit for the next 2 years. It 
seems that instead of solving the problem, President Obama and his 
allies are only making it worse.
  Mr. Speaker, it's time to get serious about the $3 billion we borrow 
every day and cut spending in a responsible

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way that saves the American Dream and keeps our national security 
strong.

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