[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 4]
[House]
[Pages 4934-4935]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               SEQUESTER

  (Ms. HANABUSA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Ms. HANABUSA. Mr. Speaker, we are back from a 2-week recess in the 
district. Everyone must have been told or seen the impacts of the 
sequester.

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  When the sequester went into effect a little over a month ago, people 
did not see its immediate impact. Now it's different. Many of them, and 
us, were hoping that the continuing resolution would take care of the 
sequester, but it did not. Now many of them, and us, are hoping that 
the President's budget--unlike the Ryan budget, the Republican Study 
Caucus, or the minority budget in the Senate, which kept the sequester 
in place--will repeal the sequester.
  We know for hospitals like those at home that have large numbers of 
Medicare patients a 2 percent cut to Medicare is devastating; we know 
our friends who are still struggling with the recovery from Hurricane 
Sandy will be affected by the $1 billion cut to FEMA; and for our 
Federal employees, the furloughs to cover the sequester will affect not 
only them and their families but our local economies. We need to 
recognize that slashing with the sequester is not the answer, but also 
know that we need to reduce our deficit sensibly.

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