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




                             SEQUESTRATION

  (Mr. PETERS of California asked and was given permission to address 
the House for 1 minute.)
  Mr. PETERS of California. Mr. Speaker, the sequester is scheduled to 
go into effect in less than 24 hours, and I stand today to call out a 
particularly objectionable concept that this is not taking effect 
today, that this is going to somehow not affect people today, it's 
going to roll out over time; and that's just not the case. Because if 
you're a family who is facing layoffs or furloughs; or if you're an 
admiral or a general who is trying to figure out how to defend the 
country and you've got to be spending your time worrying about what 
jobs you're going to stop and who you're going to lay off; or if you're 
that scientist, that budding scientist, who is thinking about where are 
you going to do your science, whether it's here in a country that 
invests in science or abroad, someplace where it looks like you will 
get better opportunity, those impacts are happening today.
  And that's why, today, we should not adjourn. We should be staying 
here, working on the sequester, avoiding these cuts. Let's stay at work 
and get this problem solved.

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