[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11043]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                         REPLACE SEQUESTRATION

  (Mr. CICILLINE asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. CICILLINE. Mr. Speaker, Washington's failure to replace 
sequestration is imposing real penalties on families all across our 
country. This week, in my home State of Rhode Island, more than 3,000 
civilian Department of Defense employees at the Naval Undersea Warfare 
Center and the U.S. Naval War College were furloughed, imposing the 
equivalent of a roughly 20 percent pay cut through the end of the 
fiscal year. And it doesn't stop there.
  Sequestration is expected to cost the American economy 750,000 jobs 
this year alone, according to the Congressional Budget Office. 
Americans have had enough of dysfunction, gridlock, and political 
posturing between Republicans and Democrats in Washington. It's time 
for Congress to start getting things done for working families, and 
that's why I'm calling on the House Republican leadership to 
immediately bring H.R. 2060 to the House floor for an up-or-down vote 
so we can replace sequestration with smart, targeted spending cuts and 
new sources of revenue by eliminating subsidies for big oil companies 
and closing tax loopholes for corporations that ship American jobs 
overseas, commonsense solutions that all of us in this Chamber should 
agree on.

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