Sheila Jackson Lee: “Sometimes this is a complex debate when we hear words like ``CR'' to a lot of our voters and others who are paying…”

“Sometimes this is a complex debate when we hear words like ``CR'' to a lot of our voters and others who are paying attention to the work that they have sent us here to do. And a lot of times they try to ensure that we use vernacular that, what does it mean? We're in the budget year of 2012 or budget year 2011 or we're doing a CR. I think the plain and simple of it is we're trying to ensure that what you are getting now if you're on a job, if you're a police officer, that we don't turn the lights out on you. And my concern is to let you know that we have been steadily improving. The private sector has been creating jobs under the Democratic policies under President Obama's guidance and, frankly, under this new budget that we'll debate--that is not what we're debating today--that speaks about competitiveness and speaks about infrastructure rebuild, putting Americans to work. So my gripe with the CR that my friends on the other side of the aisle have now put forward is that they originally came up with a $60- to $74 billion--maybe a thoughtful analysis of what we could cut. Remember, this is in the middle of you working and all of a sudden somebody comes and gives you a pink slip.”