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
Business administration, which fills our commitment to women entrepreneurs. The sequester has the potential to undermine this very promise by reducing sba funding. As a result, loans to women will be reduced by 250 million, translating to an decrease of 2,500 jobs. This means fewer women will be able to access affordable capital to turn their ideas, their dreams, into reality. When it comes to contracting, we have been fighting for so long we even took the Bush Administration to court to implement a contracting women program, and now that it is up and running, were going to shut the door, preventing a level Playing Field for womens businesses to act as federal contractors. We have not achieved the mandating contracting goal of 5 . This will translate to 1. 3 billion in Small Business contracts that will be lost for women entrepreneurs. This will jeopardize at least 15,000 jobs. When combined with the closure of Business Centers that serve mainly women across america that will provide T
Do. Further delaying this crucial legislation does this congress no credit and leaves state and local Service Providers facing uncertainty about their ability to continue protecting some of the most vulnerable members of our society. The senate voted to reauthorize the violence against women act with a strong bipartisan majority, and i would strongly encourage the house of representatives do the same to support that underlying bill. Vote yes on the underlying bill. Well move the reauthorizing legislation to the president s desk immediately. Its the right thing to do. Its about time we do it. Thank you. I yield back. The speaker pro tempore the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. The gentleman from washington reserves. The gentlewoman from washington reserves. The gentlewoman from california is recognized. Ms. Pelosi madam speaker, im very happy to recognize our distinguished democratic whip of the house, mr. Hoyer. He was there in the 1990s when we worked to pass this legisl
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
Promising phase as we enter the 24th day. These objects being called their most promising lead so far. We have an area within 500 miles which included four orange colored objects. Greater than 2 meters in size each. We cant confirm the origin of these objects. Bright orange all about equal size some six feet in length. Experts say they could be the planes life rafts or the emergency skies. The search zone does mean greater visibility. One of them turned out to be trash. Are these four mysterious objects debris from the plane . I want to bring in Cnn International correspondent, sara, what are you hearing today about what these planes are going to do. Are they going right to these objects . Yeah, you know it will be light in about an hour in the area there where they will be serving off the waters of perth. Their plan is to try to pinpoint these objects. They keep using the word mysterious objects. There are so many pieces of trash in the area and it is difficult to figure out whether o