On the recordMay 19, 2015
Let me just point out that the chairman is right: we do have to lead by example. Leading by example, as we have in the past, like last fiscal year-- after the President submitted his budget, we certainly could have and should have, as a Congress, sat down with the President and negotiated an adjustment to the sequester, which we were able to successfully do last year, and that was to the betterment of making sure that people who are simply trying to succeed have the opportunity to do so in this country instead of living under the severe cuts and caps that sequestration forced us into. That is Congress' job, which we abdicated. That was not the choice of the minority; it was the choice of the majority. With that, Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Price), the ranking member of the Transportation, Housing and Urban Development, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee.
