Bob Filner: “Did you know that the bill cuts millions of jobs from our economy, the cuts to the Clean Water Act, the cuts to the…”

“Did you know that the bill cuts millions of jobs from our economy, the cuts to the Clean Water Act, the cuts to the High-Speed Intercity Passenger Rail Program, and other infrastructure cuts? In my State of California, we are losing, just on this bill, almost 50,000 jobs; the total jobs around the country, almost 300,000. Come on. This is not a way to both cut the deficit and keep our economy going. I happen to represent a border district. I represent the whole Mexican border with California. Madam Chair, I'm sure Mr. Flake knows very well the border in Arizona, and he knows that in this bill, the GSA construction and acquisition funding line has been eliminated-- eliminated--$894 million worth. I don't know about in the State that Mr. Flake represents, but I'll tell you, in California, you are eliminating the several-hundred-million-dollar modernization of two of the biggest border crossings in our country and the biggest one in the world. In my district, 300,000 people cross the border every day legally-- legally--and they're crossing mainly for jobs and for shopping. We all know we need to make that far more efficient, that crossing, so people can spend money in our country and create jobs. You have eliminated the whole modernization moneys out of this budget, and I'm sure it affects Arizona. The Otay Mesa crossing where we have all the commercial crossings in California, gone. The biggest border crossing in the world in San Ysidro, gone.”