Thank you, Congresswoman Beatty. We appreciate your leadership and your hard work. Mr. Speaker, can I just confirm our remaining time, please. The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman has 11 minutes remaining.

Thank you, Congresswoman Bass. Mr. Speaker, to focus on jobs and investing in our future, the fact that this is pro-growth, pro-people, and that 70 percent of the American people support this type of an approach is why the CBC is offering…

Thank you, Congressman Scott. Again, thank you for your very hard work and that of your staff in bringing this forward. To close this out, to lay out the two options and approaches that are before us, we have what I would like to coin as…

These are vital safety programs that save millions of families, many of whom we serve on the Congressional Black Caucus. These programs save them from poverty, like SNAP and TANF--they are enhanced, so that those who are struggling to get…

Continuing on, as the chairwoman of the CBC just talked about, the Congressional Black Caucus budget is an alternative budget for fiscal year 2014. It puts forth a plan that both reduces the deficit by $2.8 trillion over the next decade…

Thank you, Mr. Vice Chairman. As you indicate, 70 percent of the American people agree with the CBC plan to have a balanced approach, one that helps to preserve and protect the very programs that you just mentioned and that gets our…

Thank you. Over the weekend, Speaker Boehner said: We do not have an immediate debt crisis. We have one looming. It's not an immediate problem. Well, what we do have right now is an immediate jobs deficit, and we should be focused on…

Thank you, Congresswoman. As you indicated, in addition to the CBC alternative budget, which focuses on the jobs--maintaining the jobs we have and creating new jobs--the CBC budget also preserves and protects Social Security and Medicare…

The CBC budget refocuses the priorities where it should be, on the middle class. The CBC budget will save up to 2 million public and private sector jobs just from the cancellation of the sequester alone. Bottom line, Mr. Speaker: job…

I will work with anyone from any party who has a good idea for how we can get the American people back to work. Unfortunately, H.R. 803 is not that bill.

Thank you to the ranking member for his leadership and the committee members, as well, for working so hard to try to find a balanced approach and a bipartisan approach to a very important bill, which is job training and developing…

I want to work with anybody that has a good idea for how we can identify targeted cuts in Federal programs that aren't efficient, that can be improved.

It required both sides of the aisle to come together to find a balanced approach to pass a balanced budget, which is what we have done.

And I think, again, this is an important aspect because, again, sometimes people talk about Federal employees as some nondescript bureaucrat that is not performing an essential function.

What about the average American traveler, what are they going to experience?

I believe that the Federal cuts, whether under sequestration, under what occurred in the prior fiscal year, or what may come, needs to be put in context with the cuts that State and local entities have already incurred.

I just want to add that this debate begins and ends with the American people. We want to hear and listen to their views. We want you to know that you can go to # Be Careful What You Cut and tell us the impacts that you are seeing with this…

Thank you, Madam Speaker. To my good friend and colleague, Representative Jeffries, thank you for co-anchoring this special hour, and to all of my colleagues who joined us tonight to discuss the impact of the sequester. You know, far too…

Thank you to my friend and my colleague from New York. And as you aptly noted, the history of how we got to this point needs to not be lost in this debate. And I know there are some who also want to now talk about the cuts that were made…

No woman should have to live in fear of violence in this country. One of my first actions in Congress was to cosponsor the Violence Against Women Act, which was authored by my colleague, Gwen Moore. Her bill took critical steps to…

We now have only a matter of days to prevent serious damage to the U.S. economy by the so-called ``sequester.'' These mindless, across-the-board cuts will hurt the country and my home State of Nevada. There has been a lot of talk that…

I just met with our sheriff in Clark County and, you know, he indicated that in some respects it is very good, in other respects they are not at the table and there are some best practices happening at the local and State level that we…

Thank you, Mr. Chairman. Thank you to our witnesses for being here today.

So let me follow up on one principle in the rule, and that is the compensation structure.

The gentleman from Nevada is recognized.