[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 159 (2013), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 13422]
[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 and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. CARTWRIGHT. Mr. Speaker, I rise to remind my colleagues that we 
are still operating this Nation under the ridiculous sequester budget. 
It has been months since these across-the-board cuts were enacted, 
devastating so many important programs that Americans rely on.
  The purpose of the sequestration was to create a scheme of cuts so 
odious that Congress would do anything possible to avoid them. They 
went into effect, and we need to work together now to find a compromise 
to fully reverse these automatic, indiscriminate spending cuts. Leaving 
them in place will continue to hurt our economy. In fact, sequestration 
will cost about 750,000 jobs by the end of this year, according to the 
CBO.
  Remember, budgets are statements of priorities; and we should not be 
asked to place a higher value on airline delays in lieu of Head Start, 
SNAP, Meals on Wheels, FEMA's Disaster Relief Fund, and public safety, 
to name only a few.

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