Eleanor Holmes Norton: “Because that's how the economy works. The sequester is working that way, I say to my friend, and we can do something…”

“Because that's how the economy works. The sequester is working that way, I say to my friend, and we can do something about it. There are 4 months left in this sequester. Before it becomes more of a rolling disaster with some of the examples I have given as emblematic of the disaster, we could, all of us, decide, let's just do a budget, a budget that I'm sure I would disagree with in many ways--in other words, it's not a budget I would want, because my good friends on the other side would want the things they would want. They would want some cuts. I would want to add some revenue, to WIC--Women, Infant and Children, for example. But together, at least we could stop the sequester and stop the catastrophic sequester cuts that drive down jobs as if we were creating a new recession of our own.”