Bill Lee: “This is unacceptable. We are passing a short- term funding bill that underfunds education and workforce training at a…”

“This is unacceptable. We are passing a short- term funding bill that underfunds education and workforce training at a time that Americans need it the most. Instead, once again, what are they doing? They are taking time to give tax cuts to corporations to send jobs overseas. The American people expect us to create jobs, to strengthen our economy, to provide a basic standard of living for all. With sequester cuts looming, it is past time that we focus on our spending here at home and stop these increases to a bloated military budget, which really does nothing for our national security. Instead of bringing our Nation to the brink of self-inflicted crisis, Republicans should work with us to meet the needs of our Nation and a strong national security, which requires resisting these cuts to our State Department and to our foreign assistance. Unfortunately, this 2- week continuing resolution does just the opposite. Mr. Speaker, I urge my colleagues to vote ``no'' on this rule and ``no'' on the underlying bill, and let's do our job. Let's do what the American people expect us to do, and that is to fully fund the government and look out for them in terms of not giving tax cuts to millionaires and billionaires and raising their taxes, because they deserve better from us.”