Maria Cantwell actually said...

I keep thinking, What's the economic impact of this going to be? Because we don't get a budget deal.

I look at this as an immediate impact that my constituents are feeling and our economy is feeling because of the sequester.

So I hope that we will track, as a committee, these gateway communities, the local economic impact as well, of what sequestration is doing.

We have to be careful of how far we expand the government regulation component.