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On the recordFebruary 18, 2011
I rise in opposition to the amendments. If we really want to deal with getting deficits under control, we have got to deal with entitlements. Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security, that's where we have to go. Secondly, this really will result in the layoffs of several hundred FBI agents at the FBI. We met with Director Mueller on Friday. Can you see the message when Osama bin Laden in a cave in Pakistan hears that the FBI has had a layoff of FBI agents? Thirdly, it would require layoffs at the DEA. Lastly, for anybody interested in NASA--and so many Members came up to say, Please, help NASA--this would result in a $1 billion cut of NASA and the losses of thousands of jobs not only of NASA employees but also NASA contractors in Alabama, in Florida, in Texas, in California, and around the country. I urge defeat of the amendment.
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Tom Wolf
Democratic · Pennsylvania

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The speaker opposes amendments that would cut funding for key federal agencies and programs.

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