Virginia Foxx: “I appreciate the comments of our colleague from Maryland, but I think he needs to direct them to the President, and I am…”

“I appreciate the comments of our colleague from Maryland, but I think he needs to direct them to the President, and I am going to speak to that in my 1-minute. The editorial page of The Washington Post is not known for being critical of the President. This weekend, however, it published an op-ed by one of their most veteran reporters which should establish once and for all that the sequester--arbitrary across-the-board spending cuts that go into effect March 1--was the brainchild of the Obama administration. Woodward writes that at 2:30 on the afternoon of July 27, 2011, White House officials Jack Lew and Rob Nabors brought up the idea of the sequester in a meeting with the Democrat Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. Even more notable is Woodward's assertion that ``Obama personally approved of the plan,'' which was presented. Jack Lew is now the President's nominee for Treasury Secretary, and Woodward reports that in his confirmation hearings in the Senate, when asked about proposing the sequester, Lew went into ``denial mode.'' The American people are tired of denial mode, Mr. Speaker. We need a serious plan to replace the President's sequester, and it needs to come from the other side of the aisle. ____________________”