I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to the immediate consideration of S. Res. 58, submitted earlier today. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the resolution by title. The legislative clerk read as follows: A…

I have come today to join the other Appropriations subcommittee chairs to really implore the Senate and this country to take a look at what will happen if sequestration occurs. In just one day, unless Republicans drop their opposition to…

I ask unanimous consent that the Rules of the Committee on the Budget for the 113th Congress be printed in the Record. There being no objection, the material was ordered to be printed in the Record, as follows: RULES OF THE COMMITTEE ON…

one of my colleagues recently said something that, after a week at home with my constituents, I am sure we are all feeling. Referring to the across-the-board cuts from sequestration that are just days from going into effect, he said…

I ask unanimous consent that the Senate proceed to a period of morning business, with Senators permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes each. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered. The Senator from Washington…

Mr. Chairman, I'll just thank Governor Markell for all of his work on this issue and this is an incredibly important hearing.

It's a commitment that I have strongly supported, and I want to thank the chairman for his continued and passionate leadership on this issue.

Emphatically, yes. We, in Utah feel this service is so critical that we decided to divert direct client service money to fund these positions when the Social Security WIPA funding went away.

I think it is important for all of us to step back and remember sequestration was never written into the bill to be implemented.

Negative Impact of Larger Class Sizes

So implementation of the sequestration would not only have a direct impact on the housing programs, but on the job market, the other folks, but the confidence factor at this time, when we are very fragile as well, will have a huge----

To take away stability--the least we could do in tough economic times is give people stability and predictability so they can manage.

For many long-time educators, this is the toughest financial situation they have been in, in 20, 30, 40 years.

I heard from Yakima school district in my State. They have a free and reduced price lunch-rate at 83 percent. They told me it would impact them with a $1.6 million budget cut.

DOD must do its part in resolving these fiscal challenges.

It was put into the bill simply to force us as Members of Congress to come together on a balanced, thoughtful approach on how we deal with our national budget.

Cuts to military and domestic spending will result in significant job losses across our country.

We cannot shirk our responsibility to move forward to replace it with something that is balanced and fair.

Again, other countries aren't doing this. This is not what South Korea is doing. They are investing more.

I ask unanimous consent the Senate proceed to a period of morning business with Senators permitted to speak for up to 10 minutes each. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.

We cannot and should not solve our debt and deficit problems on the backs of our children.

It is opening an economic Pandora's box, literally.

We owe it to all our children to come together to find some fair solutions that help our economy grow.

They oppose any compromise. They have said it on the floor.

If the goal of our budget plan is to strengthen the middle class and work towards broad-based economic growth, finding savings from unfair tax provisions is an opportunity to responsibly reduce our deficit and invest in our future.