It is very clear that the American People want a balanced approach for the deficit reduction. We have to make smart spending cuts. We can do that by closing tax loopholes and asking millionaires to pay a little bit more. That is basically what our proposal is and we will vote on it this afternoon. We want a balanced approach. That is what the American People want. By almost an 80 margin, that is what americans want. Even a majority of republicans want this. It is hard to comprehend. The only republicans in the country who disagree with this proposal are the ones who serve in congress. Today, to make it worse, they once again said they would filibuster any proposal that we ask. I went to the floor. They said a want to have a vote on a new proposal, one says that they want something else. Senator ayotte and senator graham and someone else wanted to cut federal employees among other things. I said im a fine. Lets have a majority vote on all three. Objection. And other filibuster. Unfortun
One, sequestration will cut essential initiatives, including 8 million from the breast and Cervical Cancer Screening Program and 24 million for Reproductive Health services in title x. Two, the National Institutes of health will cut 1. 56 billion, cutting back research in areas such as alzheimers, environMental Health, links to Breast Cancer and Mental Health services. Sequestration hurts mothers. While the United States lags behind other industrialized nations in preventing maternal and infant mortality, sequestration cuts 4 million from the safe motherhood initiative, 50 million from the maternal and child health services, and incredibly, will deny lifesaving in immunization to 30,000 children. Three, sequestration hurts women as caregivers. Women are typically the caregivers, not just to children, but to aging parents. Sequestration would cut 12. 6 million from the National Family caregivers program, reducing services to 700,000 family caregivers. Four, sequestration will hurt the m
Women are suffering from greater rate of Breast Cancer than ever before in our history. And here we go slashing and burning a budget. I dont like to use the term war on women, but, mr. Speaker, as a woman it sure feels like it. And sequestration definitely has that impact. Joining me today, and i will yield just a few moments, my good friend from new york, carolyn maloney, who has been quite a leader on a range of womens issues, and she knows clearly the devastating impact of sequestration on women. Mrs. Maloney i want to thank my colleague for leading this very important special order and to note, too, womens issues that will be introduced next week. One of the Womens Museum, it will cost no extra money and will create a commission to put a Womens Museum on the mall. We have it for postage stamps, flight, it should be there for half the population. Its something we can move forward with in a bipartisan way. Next week im reintroducing the equal rights amendment that we really lag behin
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