[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2517]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                             SEQUESTRATION

  (Mr. TIPTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 
minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. TIPTON. Mr. Speaker, the record is clear: the House of 
Representatives has acted responsibly. We've passed two pieces of 
legislation to be able to deal with sequestration and to be able to 
deal with it in a responsible way. The question yet to be answered is: 
Will the Senate, will the administration rise with us to be able to 
meet that challenge?
  Right now, an American family making $50,000 a year is taking about 
$1,000 less home because of the expiration of the payroll tax 
deduction. That's a mortgage payment, books for school, a couple of 
months' worth of groceries. In fact, they're now under the highest tax 
burden since the year 2008. Families are making sacrifices while 
government continues to increase spending. Many Federal agencies and 
programs will actually receive more in their budgets this year, and the 
government will collect more tax revenue than ever before--$2.7 
trillion.
  One of the major problems with the President's sequester is not that 
it initiates needed reductions in Federal spending but that its 
unwieldy nature casts a broad shadow of uncertainty with regards to how 
those cuts will be implemented. We need responsibility. This House has 
acted. We call on the Senate and the administration to join us.

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