[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 2]
[House]
[Page 2851]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                       LET'S GET THIS DONE RIGHT

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. We passed the CR today. We've seen the sequester go 
through this week, unfortunately. So here we are.
  We ask the President to not scare the country and put everybody on 
notice that he's going to make it as painless as possible, to do the 
positive things that are going to make this thing work. We have to rein 
in spending in the United States. It's going to be for our children and 
our future. So instead of threatening things such as guided tours that 
don't cost anything becoming part of the past, why don't we move 
forward with things that we can agree on and that are going to be 
helpful for balancing our budget and taking the small step towards a 
future. Yes, it's going to be painful. But it doesn't have to be as 
painful as when we hear directives to Federal agencies to make it as 
painful as possible. It's a very disingenuous process.
  So let's stay here and get this thing done right and find real things 
that we can make in reductions to help our country and not threaten it.

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