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On the recordMarch 4, 2013
Congresswoman Christensen, thank you very much. I think it's important to emphasize a point that you just made as it relates to what we should be doing to jump-start the economy. We should be investing in the American economy, attempting to grow it so we can create prosperity for the greatest number of people possible, not using sequestration, which is a blunt instrument, to beat the economy and give it a pounding when it is already is in an extremely fragile state. We know that objective economists have said that sequestration will have an impact of 750,000 lost jobs. We can't afford that at this moment. We urge our colleagues to come back to the negotiating table. I'm pleased that we've been joined by the distinguished gentleman from Illinois, Congressman Danny Davis.
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Hakeem Jeffries
Democratic · New York

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