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On the recordOctober 30, 2013
We have a couple of things going on today. Number one, the House will be discharged at the end of the day to go back to a district work period, and we know what we are going to hear at home. What we are going to hear is: Why can't you people do your jobs? Why can't you get together and come together and come up with a budget so that American businesspeople can plan, so that Americans can decide what to do with their futures, instead of doing what has been happening for years on end, these continuing resolutions and things like the sequester? The sequester alone is going to cost 1 million jobs next year in this country if we don't replace it. The other thing that is going on today is the opening of the work of the conference committee on the budget. Twenty-nine Senators and Representatives from this House are getting together and trying to do just that--come up with a budget, come up with something sensible, and forge the compromises that Americans expect us to reach. I say, let us speed them on their work. Good luck to them. Let's hope they come up with something Americans can appreciate. ____________________
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Matt Cartwright
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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