[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 8]
[House]
[Page 11586]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                               SEQUESTER

  (Mr. CARTWRIGHT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute.)
  Mr. CARTWRIGHT. Madam Speaker, as the House prepares this week to 
vote for the 38th time to take patient protections away from working 
families and to undermine the economic security of the middle class, 
millions of working Americans are struggling to make ends meet due to 
this Chamber's inaction.
  It has been months since across-the-board sequester cuts were 
enacted, devastating so many important Federal programs on which 
Americans rely; and now, as the House leadership refuses to allow votes 
on alternatives to replace the sequester, 18,132 Defense employees are 
currently being involuntarily furloughed across Pennsylvania, resulting 
in a $71 million economic loss for my State. In one place alone, 3,528 
middle class Americans are being furloughed at the Tobyhanna Army 
Depot, which is a facility that provides essential support for our 
warfighters.
  We have to work together to fix this problem and to reduce our 
deficit by growing the economy.

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